Fawlty Towers offering further comedy lessons in communication

The characters here are priceless and the scene is so beautifully scripted and constructed, but what does it tell us about successful communication?

Everyone here arrives with their own set of expectations and their mind full of their own issues.  We all do this all the time.  When these individual vectors collide we get fabulous comedy here but in real life there is just misunderstanding, and feelings of being badly served and/or misunderstood.  This is a real issue as most of us have a deep desire to be understood, and when we are put into situations where this occurs emotion usually flares, and the Flight/Fight response usually dictates that we either withdraw or get angry.

We have to make time to set expectations, to understand the other person’s position and needs and to communicate our desire to help, but within the parameters that we set.

Other comedy lessons:

1. Morecombe & Wise
2. Two Ronnies
3. Rowan Atkinson

Tags: comedy, Communication, fawlty towers, misunderstanding, video

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