Universities both of them brilliant Followed by Blackadder three great English universities Oxford Cambridge and Hull. The reply was definitely Oxford is a complete dump
Sometimes I regret getting old, but we were so lucky to have had this programme, Dad's Army, Monty, Spike, Morecambe & Wise and clear(ish) roads with the freedom to use any of them as we desired. How lucky were we?
'Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits!' has to be one of the most unexpected and yet funniest lines in the whole genre of tv comedy! Delivered faultlessly by the late, great Derek Fowlds.
I met both Derek and Nigel, both incredibly encouraging about my dramatic works, both incredibly lovable. Derek is just a darling man. They were brilliant together...total opposites in character and using that to create brilliant sparks and an amazing show. RIP dear friends.
When Sir Humphey told the PM that his "straightforward honest statement" was putting unreasonable epistomological strains on the forth epithet I almost wet myself! 😂 I dare say it'd be hard today to even find an actor who could memorize that line (let alone understand it)!
It’s one of the seven Dudley sins is one of the greatest throwaway lines. And the PM’s stare. World class comedy. And all 3 of these fine men are no longer with us.
🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1008am 23.05.23 it gets done........................... if you do it yerself. or set the wheels in motion... with your trusted confidantes in tow.
Love it, love it, love it. Neither my wife or myself could believe the accusations. Great rebuttal by the BBC and thank you for bringing these absurd accusations to light
Sir Humfrey! That wasn't you was it? Yes Benard. How could you say such things? Is there any more? Yes Benard! As damaging as what we've just heard? More damaging. How could you be indiscrete? The interview was over we were just chatting HARMLESSLY! HARMLESSLY?? It was off the record. IT WAS ON D TAPE! Love From Nigeria 🇳🇬. My Dad initiated Me Into British comedy. You Guys Are D Best. RIP to these 3 Gentlemen and May The Grace Of God Be With Their Families Left Behind.
🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1019am 23.5.23 strange that you cant get decent and well-known actors and actresses to do comedy, these days. perhaps the scripts are just too shit!? as for politics per se - the health service's desire to keep you all under lock and key and have you scrutinized by well-meaning and professional oppos - give me a break!!! - has come another step closer as they, the health service, "strike" to allow governmental institutions to implement such draconian measures. all those guys needed to do was request a pay rise just below the threshold wherein they would be taxed to the hilt and perhaps would have found themselves better off...as it is they're asking the world ie: demanding a large pay rise and will be penalised for it... ie: they wont be any better off than when they began as they'll be taxed to the hilt.
Agnes Moorhouse: Animals have rights too, you know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with six hundred other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Certainly not. That's why I never stood for parliament.
Brilliant. Nothing has changed since these witty, and brutally truthful lines were spoken. A supreme, and hilarious humour in Britain, is the common people watching these TV series, plus the government with its overdose of burocracy, knowing the facts of corruption in parliament and parties, the use of woolly, wordy statements and speeches, while, to this day, those skills are honed, bringing the practitioners into an almost full hypnotic state of selfmade belief. What kind of change on that island, the Seat of Mars, has made life easier, to this day? Anyone?
A prime minister trying his best to his best job, the mental anguish just genius, the civil service working to their own agenda whilst seeming to support the government.. definitely still applies 50years later. Just brilliant. Bbc should rerun the whole lot of these series.
@Becky McGreary. It was in the past, unfortunately 😌 Life for the many who live on the breadline is now too grim looking. Due to the protocols thrown at the population, without consent. No one is asked about them, and they pop up like from a mitrailleur. Not much time for laughs when choice flies out of the window, see what I mean?
9:24 falsify minutes 9:36 luxury 10:47 purpose of minutes 14:56 15:26 hang your head 16:06 USA English speaking 16:32 Argentina anthem 17:25 Ireland world war 3 18:34 puppy file 19:23 french bomb 20:18 the tunnel 21:13 Jordan bank 22:06 frech politics vs french police Vs UK 23:57 talk 25:32 uk newspapers 26:06 the sun readers 27:01 get behind before stabbing
41:10 is basically what the government did to English National Opera in real life. Most of the jokes on Yes Minister become government policy sooner or later
They should recreate a modernised version of this show, perfectly displays the ridiculous challenges the civil service give to the ruling government party, no wonder nothing gets done!
They tried. You can look it up. It's absolutely miserable, an abject failure. The original show is perfect, lightning captured in a bottle, never to be repeated.
The Civil Service you see here has been all but destroyed. These days there are political advisers (think Dominic Cummings) who wield the power; older civil servants have retired; there have been years of cuts, tremendous hostility from Tories and the media ('lazy civil servants working from home' etc), and a lot of low morale.
Even though these clips are hilarious, you can clearly see that Paul was already sick here, not standing up at the Theater conference for instance. And sitting down in almost every scene. So sad that he had to go through that, he was really an excellent actor.
"One of the seven Dudley sins." 😂
i've watched and rewatched this show dozens of time over twenty years and I still find it to be hilarious. timeless
sadly, does not go out of date
For sure, gets even better with time. Best humour is based on truth.
Same here...
Me too. Never tire of watching this.
It's absolutely horrifying
"Universities...both of them" always gets me : )
there were 7 I believe, until that fool Bliar totally screwed the whole thing up and dumbed down the degree system!
Universities both of them brilliant
Followed by Blackadder three great English universities Oxford Cambridge and Hull. The reply was definitely Oxford is a complete dump
@@Myrddin1955 who told u that he did m
I wish I could watch your an episode of yes minister or yes prime minister instead of the football
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R.I.P. Eddington, Fowlds, and Hawthorne, masters at remembering such elaborate and memorable lines
"A clear conscience? When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?"
LOL.
That is an absolutely brilliant line.
One of the finest written TV Series of all time. Intelligent, witty, pertinent, and beyond satire.
There's no better group acting and no more contemporary series than this one. Supreme masterpiece of british comedy.
But Paul Eddington should have won the BAFTA at least once. They kept on giving it to "Humphrey,"
It's not a comedy. It's a documentary disguised as a comedy 🤣🤣
Bernard was given some wonderfully funny lines, and he delivered then brilliantly.
In 2023 this show is still relevant, such a genius show
It feels more like a documentary these days........
- " Illegally smuggling explosives?"
- "We tried everything, but we just couldn't find a way to smuggle it legally."
Sometimes I regret getting old, but we were so lucky to have had this programme, Dad's Army, Monty, Spike, Morecambe & Wise and clear(ish) roads with the freedom to use any of them as we desired. How lucky were we?
🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1004am 23.5.23 even anarchists need to vac up, m'lud.
We were so very lucky indeed
Very!
'Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits!' has to be one of the most unexpected and yet funniest lines in the whole genre of tv comedy! Delivered faultlessly by the late, great Derek Fowlds.
You can see him bowing his head to hide the fact that he is trying not to laugh. Brilliant timing
Excellent comedy.
Just the finest of Britisch humour.
"I want to have a clear conscience". "And when did you develop this taste for luxuries?"
😂😂😂 one if my favourite quotes
even better is when Sir Humphrey asks Sir Bernard Woolly after he has advised him-“HOW IS YOUR CONSCIENCE?”😂😂😅😂😂.
Select size bed 😢costan faire
Classic line...😂
Some properly hilarious bits in this series 😂
I met both Derek and Nigel, both incredibly encouraging about my dramatic works, both incredibly lovable. Derek is just a darling man. They were brilliant together...total opposites in character and using that to create brilliant sparks and an amazing show. RIP dear friends.
When Sir Humphey told the PM that his "straightforward honest statement" was putting unreasonable epistomological strains on the forth epithet I almost wet myself! 😂 I dare say it'd be hard today to even find an actor who could memorize that line (let alone understand it)!
Bernard's line about Sun readers must be my favourite in the whole series 😆
The acting capabilitys of these actors are ( apart from the humor) a great joy to watch💌
It’s one of the seven Dudley sins is one of the greatest throwaway lines. And the PM’s stare. World class comedy. And all 3 of these fine men are no longer with us.
So much fun. Intelligent, sharp. Thank you.
This show will go in time as a timeless classic.
I hope these people knew just how wonderful they were and that long after they had left us, we would still be loving what they did.
🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1008am 23.05.23 it gets done........................... if you do it yerself. or set the wheels in motion... with your trusted confidantes in tow.
One of the greatest - and funniest - TV shows of all time.
And most educational.
Thank you for playing this again. So relevant even though it was broadcast decades ago
Love it, love it, love it. Neither my wife or myself could believe the accusations. Great rebuttal by the BBC and thank you for bringing these absurd accusations to light
Sir Humfrey!
That wasn't you was it?
Yes Benard.
How could you say such things?
Is there any more?
Yes Benard!
As damaging as what we've just heard?
More damaging.
How could you be indiscrete?
The interview was over we were just chatting HARMLESSLY!
HARMLESSLY??
It was off the record.
IT WAS ON D TAPE!
Love From Nigeria 🇳🇬.
My Dad initiated Me Into British comedy.
You Guys Are D Best.
RIP to these 3 Gentlemen and May The Grace Of God Be With Their Families Left Behind.
Probably the best political show of all time....the comedy, the absolute brilliance in writing, and acting, just brilliant....
Every line was delivered by top actors and not a dud line or actor❤
🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1019am 23.5.23 strange that you cant get decent and well-known actors and actresses to do comedy, these days. perhaps the scripts are just too shit!? as for politics per se - the health service's desire to keep you all under lock and key and have you scrutinized by well-meaning and professional oppos - give me a break!!! - has come another step closer as they, the health service, "strike" to allow governmental institutions to implement such draconian measures. all those guys needed to do was request a pay rise just below the threshold wherein they would be taxed to the hilt and perhaps would have found themselves better off...as it is they're asking the world ie: demanding a large pay rise and will be penalised for it... ie: they wont be any better off than when they began as they'll be taxed to the hilt.
Who runs the country according to newspaper readers - simply stunning dialogue.
This is timeless. Never been bettered.
I can only recommend to watch the complete series, the writers were briefed by a contemporary politician and nothing has changed.
They really dont make shows like this anymore... such brilliant writing and acting
"Inspector Plod of the Special Branch".
😂😂😂
"one of the 7 Dudley sins" 🤣🤣🤣
Incredible how prescient this is in today's world... Either ahead of its time or then some things never change
I started my working life in the Foreign Office in the seventies. This could have been a training course.
@@michaelmontagu3979 amazing!
Love it! British comedy! Greetings from Sweden!
Best scripts and acting ever 😂
25:29 Wonderful breakdown of the press!!
Simply outstanding in every way.
"So its honest and accurate?"
"It comes from the ministry of defence"
"So it COULD be honest and accurate"
Lol
"Go away Bernard please!"😂😂😂
Absolutely priceless - such a great inspiration for how to cope in your daily work
I don't think this is what "LIVE" really means but I'm into it.
The series was done before a live audience. The reason was so that the critics could not say that it was not funny as they were using a laugh track.
Tha appraisal of British newspaper readership... Brilliant!
Crystal ball & transport in time ....
comedy & candour indeed
are servants to conscience
Agnes Moorhouse: Animals have rights too, you know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with six hundred other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think?
Sir Humphrey Appleby : Certainly not. That's why I never stood for parliament.
22:10 I think the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour 10 July 1985 comes to mind... :)
Yeah the French bombed the ship in New Zealand waters while calling themselves our ally!
On a bad day just watch this for 1 hour with a glass of Chablet. Day is soon better
33.00 just one steely gaze from his boss is enough for Bernard to completely reverse his opinion 😂
Brilliant. Nothing has changed since these witty, and brutally truthful lines were spoken.
A supreme, and hilarious humour in Britain, is the common people watching these TV series, plus the government with its overdose of burocracy, knowing the facts of corruption in parliament and parties, the use of woolly, wordy statements and speeches, while, to this day, those skills are honed, bringing the practitioners into an almost full hypnotic state of selfmade belief.
What kind of change on that island, the Seat of Mars, has made life easier, to this day? Anyone?
This was Margaret Thatcher's favourite TV series. Because its all true.
25:25 One of the best bits in the entire show.
Brilliant writing and brilliant acting, classic 👌
„Yes, the English speaking nations can be said to include the united states.“ 😂😂😂 16:45
The comedy show that proved that this is the real way England operates
It's the same everywhere.
hahahahahaa one of the seven dudley sins! and the look Hacker gave him. 😂😂😂
sadly the mold for this format is broken. this was brilliant and it somehow still stands the test of time amazingly.
A prime minister trying his best to his best job, the mental anguish just genius, the civil service working to their own agenda whilst seeming to support the government.. definitely still applies 50years later. Just brilliant. Bbc should rerun the whole lot of these series.
@@carolwaller9605 agreed !! sadly the actors playing the parts seem more canny and savvy than the real ones we got !!!
@@ngiallag2792 you mean the script writers, yes. Unfortunately we don’t vote for civil servants so I guess we are doomed..
Paul Eddington was suffering from a rare form of skin cancer during season 2.
He was quite sick at the time.
Rip 🙏
In particular Bernard assessment of the SUN
Writing and acting at its best.
I remember this show being taken off the air waves since it told too much truth.❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you utube❤we love you❤
Brilliant actors. The British do it best don't they?
Tough to beat British comedy...Tough to beat the British period, such a unique culture to have been forged over 2k years of inter-island struggle 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@THINKincessantly We certainly did....not anymore I'm afraid in this grotesque "woke" era
We certainly did....not anymore I'm afraid in this grotesque "woke" era
@Becky McGreary. It was in the past, unfortunately 😌 Life for the many who live on the breadline is now too grim looking.
Due to the protocols thrown at the population, without consent. No one is asked about them, and they pop up like from a mitrailleur.
Not much time for laughs when choice flies out of the window, see what I mean?
The writing on this series of fabulous..govt word speech as t it's finest. How the kept straight is a miracle.
"--I know lying is a difficult concept to get across to a politician . . . but . . ."
This is sick. Where can i get more?
8:35 Something tells me that Humphrey should lecture anyone about coming to the point.
9:24 falsify minutes
9:36 luxury
10:47 purpose of minutes
14:56
15:26 hang your head
16:06 USA English speaking
16:32 Argentina anthem
17:25 Ireland world war 3
18:34 puppy file
19:23 french bomb
20:18 the tunnel
21:13 Jordan bank
22:06 frech politics vs french police Vs UK
23:57 talk
25:32 uk newspapers
26:06 the sun readers
27:01 get behind before stabbing
41:10 is basically what the government did to English National Opera in real life. Most of the jokes on Yes Minister become government policy sooner or later
Brilliant indeed
"...You mean they'll block it."
"Yup."
Hilarious, brilliant; esp the newspaper round up at 25 mins!
😂
😂
Genius love it ... such amazing writing...
Even though Thatcher endorsed this show it was very reflective of the machinery of government. Universally.
More YPM/YM unseen collages, please!
Loved the content...the last segment reminded me of the entrance to cottagers cove !
Took me a while to realise that's Blaketon from Heartbeat 😮😮
thanks for the laughs gentleman.
Timeless brilliance
So Brillant .
Lossiemouth looks quite nice, actually.
And here we are, 40 years later. The Arts are dead, we're ruled by absolute cretins and we're going to build a tunnel under Stonehenge.
I need to know everything! Otherwise how can I judge if I need to know it?
💯 how I feel in my everyday life.
I love it so much!!!!
“It weighed in at three and a half pounds this morning.”
“The puppy?”
“No, the file.”
Dead.
Timeless, brilliant 👌🏼
31:48 Great acting...and damn good looking!
The universities, both of them. LOL!
26:02 Best. Quote. EVER! LOL!!!
That was pretty daring for the time!
It's one of the seven Dudley sins 🤣
The question is, is Sir Humphrey married? Probably, half a pound of margarine... Or is it butter? Shall I be mother?
I have sbscribed to my BBC license for fifty years which paid for these programmes.
they had a laugh with the paper joke
Classic!!
25:58 - holding that laugh in. I wonder if they got it in one take.
5:21 😂😂😂
They just don't make shows like this anymore these days!!
25:14 youre all welcome :)
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Hahaha. Interesting episode.
They should recreate a modernised version of this show, perfectly displays the ridiculous challenges the civil service give to the ruling government party, no wonder nothing gets done!
They tried. You can look it up. It's absolutely miserable, an abject failure. The original show is perfect, lightning captured in a bottle, never to be repeated.
The Civil Service you see here has been all but destroyed. These days there are political advisers (think Dominic Cummings) who wield the power; older civil servants have retired; there have been years of cuts, tremendous hostility from Tories and the media ('lazy civil servants working from home' etc), and a lot of low morale.
Even though these clips are hilarious, you can clearly see that Paul was already sick here, not standing up at the Theater conference for instance. And sitting down in almost every scene. So sad that he had to go through that, he was really an excellent actor.