How to Irritate People is a 1968 British mockumentary sketch comedy television special recorded in the UK at LWT on 14 November 1968[1] and written by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Cleese, Chapman, and Brooke-Taylor also feature in it, along with future Monty Python collaborators Michael Palin and Connie Booth.

This sketch bears some resemblance to Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses and was originally performed on At Last the 1948 Show, with Marty Feldman having played the interviewee.

The television special never aired in the UK but was broadcast in the United States on 21 January 1969 as part of David Frost Presents [2] on KYW-TV.

[5] The 1990 UK video release was overseen by Michael Palin, who explained: "I thought it had a few strengths and weaknesses, so we made a few cuts here and there and we put it out".