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

First off, sorry about the poor video quality. This came from an old Betamax tape, recorded at the slow speed and not stored in the best condition over the years...

In this segment, John discusses the evolution of Python writing and touches on Terry Gilliam's being "very visual" before Dick shows a clip from one of his business training films. Dick then asks John if he'd like to run the BBC.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[henrah1981]

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

[galenatt]

Dick Cavett was a really good talk show host here.

[dancingdiplodocus]

check out cleese's hilarious poetry on keith olbermann

[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.

[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.

[helgaapeldoorn]

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

[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.