The Thick Of It - Deleted Scenes (The Specials)
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- The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of British government. Written and directed by Armando Iannucci, it was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast. These characters continued when the show switched channels to BBC Two for its third series in 2009. A fourth series about a coalition government was broadcast in 2012, with the last episode transmitted on 27 October 2012.
The series has been described as the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister. It highlights the struggles and conflicts between politicians, party spin doctors, advisers, civil servants and the media. In similar fashion to Yes Minister, the political parties involved are never mentioned by name, although the context makes clear which is which particularly during Series 4 when the real life government coalition between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems is reflected in the show. Iannucci describes it as "Yes Minister meets Larry Sanders". Journalist and former civil servant Martin Sixsmith was an adviser to the writing team, adding to the realism of some scenes. The series became well known for its profanity and for featuring storylines which have mirrored, or in some cases predicted, real-life policies, events or scandals.
A feature film spin-off, In the Loop, was released in the UK on 17 April 2009. A pilot for a U.S. remake of the show was not successful, but Iannucci was subsequently invited to create Veep for HBO, a programme with a very similar tone and political issues, with the involvement of some The Thick of It writers and production members.
‘He trained as a priest”....hilarious.
Funny thing is that Paul Higgins, the actor who played Jamie, was indeed trained as a priest until he picked up acting.
Be fantastic, I'd confess everything to him...😂
@@SouthernFriedCyanide Well you would
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"You're obviously devoted to her,again" brilliant! !!
"Who doesn't like people? Some of my best friends are people..." 8:10 Love it.
I love how we went some of my best friends are people, some of my best friends are money grabbing wankers in the next season
I mean he’s not wrong ahahaah
😂😂😂😂
"Do you want a splintered glass facial?" Incredible writing, I love it.
Jamie's morals kick in when in the presence of a non-politico. Psychotic but honourable til the end
Non politico? You mean muggle.
@@davestar4718 ah yes, my mistake!
@@davestar4718 Pack it in Phil!
Malcolm has incredible sympathy towards Sam. Their relationship is really sweet
20:46 by far my favourite tucker and Jamie moment. Taking the working persons side and especially when Jamie says he’ll kill Ben so she doesn’t have to get her hands dirty
u have no idea how much you've improved my quality of life by posting all of these.
I second that sentiment 👍
Absolutely. They're just as good as the rest of the show.
“Fight, fight, fight, fight.” Jamie taking me right back to the playground in my 1970s Glasgow secondary school. Then trying to help them take their jackets off. 😂😂😂
Looking around for hauners.
It’s weird how these deleted scenes almost give more context to things
no fucking idea how any of the actors at 22:44 didn’t immediately crack up laughing that shit has me crying
“I bet she’s got some paninis down there though” Mannion couldn’t hold it together 😂
It's such a genuine laugh as well!
I'm pretty sure that's Roger Allam corpsing - that's a feat, breaking a member of the RSC
would have been Phil’s best line in the entire show
12:22 Even someone as harsh and morally dubious as Malcolm has standards, just shuts Ollie down
Jamie should've appeared in this more often.
No he shouldn’t have. He was cringe
"SHUT IT" love actually
@@JM19649love how you completely ballsed up the quote marks there, fat man who’s name I can’t remember.
@@AerostarmI found him a bit much
Jamie tends to be the character favoured by those people who miss much of the subtlety of the show.
In fairness, I can see how a blind toddler in a minefield would be funny in a South Park kind of way
I love how Phil brings Queen and Freddie Mercury into any conversation. I didn’t realize my first time watching this that the actor playing him (Will Smith) wrote many of the episodes and also wrote for Veep
When he says he hopes the large woman doesn't have a thong on but wouldn't be surprised if she has a couple of paninis down there I die every time.
Showing off your googling skills. Cool story
Unless I googled wrong, I think he first got in there as an actor, and started writing later. Maybe he wrote some stuff uncredited though
@@janisauzins4103 A lot of the lines are totally improvised too. In a show like this, it's kind of hard to tell where the script ends and the actor's improv begins.
Malcolm's scarily young in the first shots
6:20 scene is probably one of the funniest scenes in the whole show, cannot fathom just how they could get rid of it.
I guess it doesn't drive the plot forward really, same with the panini line,which is my favourite here. Agree it's a shame though. Would love an extended ep with all these scenes.
"banging your head against the table, the sound of oak against fucking willow" has to be my favourite thing ever
I think 3:43 is the first time I've ever seen Malcolm laugh
He has a slight snigger in the episode Olly starts going out with Emma and says "he's a lover not a fighter"
8:48 "don't joke, you are not funny Julius, you're about as funny as a blind toddler in a fucking minefield" 💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣
Poor Glen. He had such a good relationship with Hugh, and then he had to start over with Iam Bent.
16:26 one of the best insults of the show!
Why were any of these deleted? An extended edition of The Thick of It with all these scenes would be a dream come true
One day I’ll put it together and send you the link.
I love the father/son thing between Malcolm and Jamie lol, he 's Malcolm's minime!
5:44 Ben Swain uses an interruption line when the interviewer isn't interrupting him
Always gold
"Do you feel lucky, punk?"
"No. Honestly, no"
7:05 Sam trying so hard not to laugh on camera and utterly failing
I always find Jamie extremely attractive. Wish could see more of him!
If you like the actor, I recommend 'Utopia' if you haven't seen it, he plays pretty much the opposite of Jamie, and it's one fo the greatest series i've ever seen
@@christopherdavies1759 Utopia is on my list! Thanks for the recommendation!
@aquaries206 he's also in Line of Duty, with a posh English accent, which is hard to take seriously because it sounds like Jamie mocking Ben Swain.
"She's a lovely woman - gorgeous, and you're obviously very devoted to her again."
I've seen every episode and most of the deleted scenes. I think that is the funniest line, just the simplicity of it.
@@sirisaac2000 The writing was so sharp, truly excellent.
The actress playing the cleaner is brilliant! 🤣
“You’re gonna have to call the police cause I’m gonna kill him!”
7:06 Love how that lady in the background broke when Jamie flips out lol
I think that might be Malcolm's PA, Sam
I could happily work with people like them and would look forward to arriving at work everyday.
It'd be therapeutic to be able to shout at people like that
"Everything's fine and... calm."
"Calm?"
"YES, EVERYTHING'S FUCKING CALM, D'YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CALM?!"
hahahahha
It is a *crime* that that hummus scene didn't make it in.
Churchill probably did eat Hummus.
Is there a reason Malcolm is so concerned about whether Claire's partners are blindfolded or not?
Probably if everybody else was also blindfolded then its complete anonymity so it’s not that big of a deal😂 idk?
@@aquaries206 Yeah, that's how I understood it. Nobody can prove anything if they're all blindfolded 😄
Yes everything's fucking calm do you have a problem with calm!?
In an alternate reality Mannion is our first Cypriot prime minister
Brilliant! A true Cypriot crook at that!!!
"Blinky Spamfuck" - Ben Swain
“You’re devoted to her..again”
"dark one, you go. blonde one, you stay" lol
I love these deleted scenes they are great, I need to find the two 1 hour specials, I got all the episodes of the show, and in the loop...I just need to track down the specials
bit late but they’re on bb iplayer
Phil is me trying to explain a geek stuff in normal conservations and people just not getting it.
"Jazz hands, feeling you up under the table!" All the Newsnight tricks
I’ve only come to realise how small our community is of people who absolutely praise the show. It’s got that underground vibe. Fucking best thing ever made and there ain’t nothing like it. I’m probably watching this video for nth time and it still hits. Also all the love to us guys. Greetings from India. If anyone of you flies into the country, I would love to meet y’all someday.
"You’re like the man with the Midas touch…"
So…Midas?
Midas was a greedy king who given the power to turn anything he touched to gold by Dionysius. (he chose the reward)
Ben: I'm the heavyweight of hope
Ollie: Well what if they say, hey, he's just a blinky dork.
Contrasts make good writing.
The situation with the janitor, I'm literllay the bloke when it comes to someone getting bullied.
"I'll do it for you, since I'm bored and in a bad mood"
Jamie and Malcolm great Scots schooling the English with bad language❤❤❤❤
I like that Malcolm says "...undoubtably.." at 11.42
That tucker guy swears a lot.
Even the out takes are fucking brilliant.
That third eye joke....
I see the cleaner is well adjusted to them
How did they cut that scene with Ben, Jaimie and Malcolm? 😂
I laughed more than I should at the Irene Handl reference
"Nonono, he needs to do it. He should do it. I WANT him to do it"
For some reason ‘who is Peter O’Doherty?’ Gets me everytime
epilepsy of the eyes is such a good line
"He's not interrupting him. Paxo is not interrupting him!"
1:33 “… verifiable”
I swear these aren't deleted scenes
Same
Yeah I'm fairly sure most of these were in the series
It’s different dialogue from the same scenes in the show
Some of them are scenes that are in but a bit longer where they probably had to cut for time
When Stewart says to Peter about his wife "You're obviously devoted to her.... again" 😂😂
2:44 it’s so bang on
"That...could just be...somebody who likes walks."
Practically Non of these should of been deleted
Genius show
21:39 I cry every time Jamie randomly takes her jacket off
goat character
7:37 without context
3:09
6:23 Epilepsy of the eyes 😂😂😂
0:18 you can see a boom mike briefly
"Cannabis and wanking?"
I got the thick of it complete collection on dvd and I can't wait too watch at of Downton Abbey see going too be good too watch at we'll be good too watch at my name see Gregbouchard
Claire's reason for not running for leader is a bit different in the out-takes than it is in the actual show... I mean.....
Not just here, at Waitrose and other places...
I fucking love Ben Swain
6:13 the opposite of the midas touch is, the kowalski touch.
12:22
Not all of these were deleted tho?
some had slight changes these ones weren’t used i think
some scenes are extended on here, so they add the bit they kept in for the context.
The last of the last bus home...?
15:44 I feel personally attacked
12:25 😂
aaahhh what goes on behind the doors of the tories and labour in 2021....
14:19 for the Fatty joke
In the 3rd season Peter Manion is shown to meet Terry for the first time... Are the specials not canon?
Presumably some of the deleted scenes aren't canon, plus technically Peter and Terri DID meet prior to the show but only she remembers. I wouldn't really say the deleted scene contradicts much either way tho.
So good.
I really enjoyed 1:58
12:00
🤣
No surrender popes a bender 🤣
"fight, fight, fight, fight"
"Sauron"
People seem to like Jamie but I can't stand him. He was just nasty without the funny part.
J NJ
J NJ
Funny how most of this just has not survived.
It is not on a par with Yes Minister by any stretch of the imagination.
"Like a blind toddler in a minefield"...Howling!!
"cannabis and wanking?"
ah, a fellow man of culture
Jamie was a killer!