Hey there! Thanks for the feedback and we appreciate your point! As montages like this simply portray snippets of what we would deem the funniest or best bits of our content, they often tend to show more of what not to do rather than what to do! For a more in depth look at our full library, we would always encourage people to book a free demo via our website, or follow us on social media where we post clips of our more recent content and new releases :)

Part of the reason for some many celebrities, is that Video Arts is (or at least was), very much a business i think started and ran By john Cleese. Secondly, you tend to learn more when you are emotionally engaged - and laughter is one of the easiest (and most pleasant) ways to achieve this. Most "training" consists largely of boring people telling boring facts & figures to more bored people. The ability to learn when you find the subject desperately desperately drab awful and dull is limited. However. If you can take a sprinkling of popular comedians and illustrate something with humour (usually showing how NOT to do something first), then you allow people to engage far more readily - as the pervasive boredom has been replaced by a relaxed, receptive group of people laughing, smiling and even exchanging thoughts of their own. Which would you remember more readily - a very funny 3 minute comedy skit (with a 5 minute good humoured chat afterwards) or 8 loooong minutes of some crushing bore in a polyester suit, banging on about something while you doodled pictures of flying earwigs with your pencil? So, in a globule, it is perhaps, not so much "celebrities" as "comedians" - because we learn more while we are happily emotionally engaged. Sadly, i have not seen their video on "How to be Succinct".

@@guyteigh3375 very informative, I wish they would release all the old videos for people to watch. You never know they might just learn something :)

At least one of the 15 died suicide

It is the late Joan Sanderson, yes

I'm pretty sure a young June Whitfield (who sadly has just passed) was in one of these training videos?

Probably because John Cleese made it.

I was at Data General during the same time frame and we used them too.

***** These have long been my fav training vids, since I was trained with them, when I joined DEC as an engineer in the early 80s

Really a pretty decent bit of acting.