Dealing with difficult deponents

So you think you’ve dealt with difficult witnesses?  Ha!  Not compared to this lawyer.  Check out these video clips from a deposition of Larry Flynt.  Before you watch these clips, ask yourself how you would respond to the following situations:

• The lawyer asks the witness if he “swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”  The witness says, “No.” 
• The lawyer asks the witness, “What is your full name?”  Rather than giving his real name, the witness says, “Christopher Columbus Cornwallis IPQ Harvey H. Apache Pugh” and “Jesus H. Flynt, Esq.”
• The witness picks his nose and throws a booger on the floor.
• The lawyer asks the witness if “You know who I am, don’t you?”  The witness says, “Yup.  You’re an a$$hole.”

Deposition Clip #1
Deposition Clip #2

If those links don’t work for you, visit http://www.courttv.com/video/archive/ and scroll down to the section, “Flashback: Flynt Hustles Falwell.”