John Cleese on the Dick Cavett Show, 1979, part 5 of 6

[ExodusPessoa]

Cleese does a great Terry Gilliam lol.

[comanchio1976]

That's so true about 'meetings', many a time have I nearly lost the will to live...for precious little benefit.

[galenatt]

Dick Cavett was a really good talk show host here.

[dancingdiplodocus]

check out cleese's hilarious poetry on keith olbermann

[xleper17]

hmmm.... you know, Michael Palin came up to the dead parrot sketch because he had an experience with a garage that kept telling him his new car breaks down because it's new "they do that."

and Gwen Dibley wasn't Palin's music teacher, but a name he read in a magazine "with musical accompaniment by Gwen Dibley"

come on, Cleese! get it right.

[helgaapeldoorn]

I don't know why you got thumbs down because you are absolutely right

[YannickTheJoker]

@xleper17 Hmmm... you know, John Cleese and Graham Chapman came up with the Dead Parrot sketch. It was inspired by a skit they'd done (with Palin) on How to Irritate People about a car dealer who denied the car was broken while everything fell apart, which in turn was inspired by Palin's car dealer. But John and Graham wrote the dead parrot sketch.

Come on, xsleper17! Get it right.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Ahahaha, poor Terry Gilliam. It's semi true, Gilliam is extremely intelligent but initially compared to the very eloquent British pythons you'd think he was an oaf or something. Which is of course very wrong though it does have a basis in truth.

[ACNC1]

at 05:50

In the late 70s early 80 John Cleese did a lot of infomercials in England for corporate companies. Which where funny but a very informative way to train staff.

I think thats where Rick Gervais got his ideas from for producing The Office.

[EminemBase]

No Ricky Gervais got the idea of The Office because he worked in an office for seven years lol.

He worked as an Entertainments manager.

It also came out of the late 90's, early 00's (and still continuing) awful reality TV-Series and desperate fame-grabbers.

Then he wrote Extras as he'd been in media for seven years. He writes what he knows.

[EminemBase]

And the training episode is just commonplace office practice.

All offices even way back when, before Cleese came on the scene train their staff in patronizing mannors on certain watered down versions of human behaviour lol.

[henrah1981]

@EminemBase You type 'lol' at completely inappropriate times. lol.