“Urgent, Humphrey? What a lot of new words we’re learning.” Watching Hacker improve his game at managing Humpy, over the course of the series, never gets old.
politican are generaly most effective around mid to near there end of term the first year were pretty much spent on understanding how the whole system works the next year are spent on getting use to getting what you want and only then you will start getting the hang of it but the window on effective governance is closing fast since you know have to worry about re election.
Every single element of this series is done so ridiculously well. Brilliant writing, distinct characters, perfect delivery and lovely interaction.. The Shakespeare of British comedy series.
Mrs Thatcher's permanent secretary said he used to watch it with her, and added that they laughed at different times. Everything about it is actually brilliant, starting with the casting.
Let's not forget the scriptwriters and their spies. They ensured that realism was as accurate as the laws of slander and libel would allow. Hours of real entertainment. Heartfelt thanks to everybody concerned with the production of this absolute masterpiece.
One of the best British comedy series ever. I grew up with this watching repeats in the 90s. Everyone always talks about Only Fools and Fawlty Towers and Blackadder which were also brilliant but why do so few people talk about this gem?
@@krautnation well I'm an American..... And I and my late mother ABSOLUTELY LOVED all the British comedies and dramas. She especially loved Eastenders and Doc Martin. We watched thses and many more (when we were able to) on PBS. Great TV to be sure!
krautnation is 100% right, and I must admit I'm guilty of being one of those who's heads this comedy is above. I can, and always have been able to watch Only Fools, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder until the cows come home, but I've never found YM/YPM funny in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, nowadays, I can absolutely appreciate and enjoy the excellent acting and superb and outstandingly clever writing, (as opposed to just finding it devastatingly boring when I was growing up), but I'll still never be able to hold it in the same high regard as the other much more humourous, heavy on the comedy and less on satire, lower-brow examples.
A fairly easy way to answer this. Look at the popularity of the "comedy show" Little Britain, and compare that to the level of intellect shown in PM and YPM. Comedies like this either go above people's head or requires them to think, which a lot of people don't want in their TV shows.
If you get Blackadder you definatly get Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Fawlty Towers while brilliant is not a play on current/past life events like the formentioned.
"It takes two to QANGO". Sublime! So much comedic wordplay, timing & writing, Paul Eddington as Hacker could use his facial expressions to convey 10 lines of dialogue, Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey could verbally tapdance & Derek Fowlds as Bernard was the filament which bound it all together. Sadly these 3 are no longer with us, but in reality they are - Yes Minister/Prime Minister lives with us yet.
Not just briliant writing, but well depicted too. What amazing sentences, "it takes time to do things quickly". What a brilliant line. "It is more expensive to things, cheaply". Another jewel. Greetings from India 🇮🇳. We tried doing our version based on this, and that got cancelled, because our politicians had problems with it.
The late Sir Anthony Jay and the still alive Jonathan Lynn - two brilliant writers, who had access to the secrets of Whitehall through Bernard Donoghue and Lady Falkender.
I emailed JL some 20 years ago, thanking him for such a wonderful series and commenting on how relevant it was today. (20 years ago). I was surprised and very happy to receive a reply. Among other things he spoke of, he mentioned that when they wrote it, they were recycling things that had happened in the 60's and kept coming back. (and seem to repeat every 20 years?) Lady Falkener and others were the "insiders" although none knew of any of the existance of any others. Masterful, "fiction based on fact". Loved it then, still love it today.
Watching Paul's measured change of expression - upon the news of his predecessors demise - in seconds from pure ecstasy to profound sadness is truly one of the greatest moments of this series AND a master-class in acting. 👍
Possibly the best comedy series ever written. It will never stop being relevant and therefore funny. It's an incisive insight into human nature no matter what system changes are made. You can count on humans to be proud, arrogant, self-interested, defensive, selfish, deceitful when considered necessary, lazy, careless and all the other things that are funny when it's fiction. A welcome release from the scary reality of how horribly ubiquitous it is in real life.
It's an utter travesty that Paul Eddington didn't win a single BAFTA for his peerless performances in this timeless and joyous political romp, whereas Nigel Hawthorne won four. Great as he was Hawthorne was not better or funnier than Eddington, and Eddington's role was if anything more challenging. To watch his face change in stages from confident incomprehension to panic-stricken full understanding is to witness a master comedic actor at work. They should have been bracketed together and won jointly.
During the 80's PTV used to air it, I remember the show as the people with big noses. One of the best documentaries on how a govt and bureaucracy functions. It is still valid to this very day.
@@redbaron9029 Not on Pakistan Television my friend but on the only private network television in the 90s by the name of Network Television Marketing) or NTM later known as STN ( Shalimar Television Network)
Hawthorne is absolutely immaculate and a lot of fun to watch… but the reason I come back and stay is for Eddington’s performance. He IS Yes Minister to me.
Bernard: It's awful, isn't it? Humphrey: What is awful, Bernard? Bernard: Well, all these jobs going. Interest rates. Repossessions. Fear of inflation. Foreclosures. Humphrey: Oh yes. Terrible. Bernard: You don't sound terribly worried, Sir Humphrey. Humphrey: Bernard, I am not being sacked, repossessed, inflated or foreclosed. Neither are you. Bernard: Nor's the Prime Minister. But he's worried stiff. Humphrey: So he should be. Bernard: You don't sympathise with him? Humphrey: That's the deal. That's how Prime Ministers' careers go. They get to be on the front page every day for 3 years, which they love. They travel the long parh from euphoric triumph to ignominious failure and then make way for the next saviour of the nation. It's called democracy. Bernard: It beats me why anyone would want to be Prime Minister. Humphrey: lr's the only top job that requires no previous experience, no training, no qualifications and limited intelligence. Yes, Prime Minister. (Play)
I know it has nothing to do with the utter brilliance of this series but after watching all of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister it came almost as a shock to see Humphrey having anything but grey hair during the first series! It felt like he never aged
How true even today in 2021, that governments all over the world seem to have studied at the same school and graduated in mediocrity, galvanized into total inactivity and incompetence, this series is so well written a big thank you to the writers and actors.
One of the amusing things that comes up a couple of times in this video is when Jim Hacker ignores Sir Humphrey's advice and goes ahead and does something ("I'm sorry Humphrey but my mind is made up.") then when it blows up in his face Jim says to Humphrey "Humphrey you're meant to advise me, well, advise me".
Minister, I must request that on the basis of elevating the standard of humor in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as providing much needed light entertainment in these unusual times and enhancing the training of new members of the civil service that more of the material shown in the video above be provided. Edit: It would appear that I not the only civil servant interested in seeing further uploads of the above material. We now have the numbers to form an interdepartmental committee to explore the possibility of obtaining it.
"Comedies" now are barely funny. Just being "political correct". Painful to watch. Such "Yes Minister" contents will NEVER appear in the box these days.
We live in the age of political correctness. Even PBS is reluctant to show British comedies from the 70's and 80's these days, 20 years ago they would run pledge drives with all night marathons of these shows, no more. Too many cancel culture pressure groups would be triggered. Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Yes Minister, all the British staples of American public broadcasting for decades (they even showed Monty Python's nude skits without censorship) today would be labeled racist, sexist, homophobic etc. etc. etc.
Any person who one, does not think this is comedy, or two misses the irony of the storylines, does not deserve to be a television watcher. One of the best written tv series ever and all three main characters were performed brilliantly. I bet you, all the Doctor Who fans wish these writers were still on the job!
My two boys unbeknown to me have watched every episode of Minister, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Steptoe and Son and a whole host of other 70/80 and the odd 90s comedy programmes foregoing all the current offerings. Quality is never out of fashion.
peter ustinov was being interveiwed once and talked about a trip to soviet russia. he said that one of the most popular western items sold on the black market next to blue jeans and rock n roll were episodes of yes minister. they thought it was absolutely wonderful.
Given the USSR had few methods to sell and/or view cassettes, I find it dubious. But as someone from the postsoviet sector, the show does show useless communist party numenklatura quite well. A common nest of useless do-nothings always seem to find their way into government.
Subtle joke at 29:59 when Humphrey takes Jim's exclamation of "Backbenchers! Leaks!" to be "leeks" and assumes he means the St Davy's Day leeks Welshmen traditionally wear.
39:17 "It takes two to quango" 🤣 Fantastic series although I can't help but be disappointed with the selection of clips here as there were far funnier ones you could have shown.
Actually several years ago our politic scene overcame Hacker's place in the Guiness book of records, when we had a defence minister for only eight days.
When this series aired, I already found it too close to reality for entertainment. No the fabric of decency in politics have been shredded so completely, you might actually wish for the depicted conditions to return...
Wikipedia. Yes Minister: Documentary series detailing the politics of the 1980's Yes Prime Minister. Documentary series of the work of the British Prime Minister of the 1980's.
Thank you so much for these compilations of hilarious memories of an epic programme. I miss it terribly given how Kafka-esque parliamentary government has become today. :(
Because just about everyone gets so easily offended these days. I honestly hate this generation. I wish I was alive in the 70s and 80s. It sounded so much better in those days.
@@adrianbailey468 less PC sure, also way more sexism, racism and homophobia. If you were a straight white male fun times, but rather more sucky for everyone else. PC came about originally as a response to the prejudice, even if its gone too far today. Not that I have any tolerance for the modern trend over people being oversensitive and constantly offended, often on behalf of someone else. Let's loose the nostalgia googles through. Plus there was the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation and the AIDS epidemic.
Sir Humphrey is absolutely correct: the Civil Service exists to implement government policy and programmes. So when a government talks about slimming down a bloated service, they need to think hard.
Compare this to the feminist, leftist, woke ****** they put out now. I no longer watch any BBC output, on principle, and it sickens me that I must pay a license fee
@@sillysausage4549 Agree, I have not watched a single BBC programme in about 10 years. Even before the WOKE rubbish pervaded the schedule it was rubbish anyway. When I decide not to buy a product on Amazon, I am not then expected to pay for it anyway. Absolutely scandalous. Defund the BBC.
Yes Minister is not a Situation Comedy. It is almost reality of the tussle between Politics and Civil Service. It has shown the vulnerability and insecurity of Politicians and Politics. It is the Civil Services that really run the Country ...Millions of Mandarin who are trained meticulously do perform an excellent job of keeping the country in order saving it, otherwise, from chaos.
YM and YPM were among the best BBC series ever. A really timeless peace of political farce and brilliant acting and writing. It was funny and to the point then just as it is now. Just imagine what they could have done with the circus of the current BJ cabinet😄
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“Urgent, Humphrey? What a lot of new words we’re learning.”
Watching Hacker improve his game at managing Humpy, over the course of the series, never gets old.
politican are generaly most effective around mid to near there end of term the first year were pretty much spent on understanding how the whole system works the next year are spent on getting use to getting what you want and only then you will start getting the hang of it but the window on effective governance is closing fast since you know have to worry about re election.
@@patthonsirilim5739 That sounds like life in general.
Every single element of this series is done so ridiculously well. Brilliant writing, distinct characters, perfect delivery and lovely interaction..
The Shakespeare of British comedy series.
Mrs Thatcher's permanent secretary said he used to watch it with her, and added that they laughed at different times. Everything about it is actually brilliant, starting with the casting.
Let's not forget the scriptwriters and their spies. They ensured that realism was as accurate as the laws of slander and libel would allow.
Hours of real entertainment.
Heartfelt thanks to everybody concerned with the production of this absolute masterpiece.
This is the most brilliant series ever produced. Humour with intelligence. Hard to beat.
“my wife's wedding anniversary”
😂🤣😂🤣
One of the best British comedy series ever. I grew up with this watching repeats in the 90s. Everyone always talks about Only Fools and Fawlty Towers and Blackadder which were also brilliant but why do so few people talk about this gem?
It’s over their heads. They do not care about our real government problems so they don’t get this. Too bad really. This is brilliant comedy.
@@krautnation well I'm an American..... And I and my late mother ABSOLUTELY LOVED all the British comedies and dramas.
She especially loved Eastenders and Doc Martin.
We watched thses and many more (when we were able to) on PBS.
Great TV to be sure!
krautnation is 100% right, and I must admit I'm guilty of being one of those who's heads this comedy is above. I can, and always have been able to watch Only Fools, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder until the cows come home, but I've never found YM/YPM funny in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, nowadays, I can absolutely appreciate and enjoy the excellent acting and superb and outstandingly clever writing, (as opposed to just finding it devastatingly boring when I was growing up), but I'll still never be able to hold it in the same high regard as the other much more humourous, heavy on the comedy and less on satire, lower-brow examples.
A fairly easy way to answer this.
Look at the popularity of the "comedy show" Little Britain, and compare that to the level of intellect shown in PM and YPM.
Comedies like this either go above people's head or requires them to think, which a lot of people don't want in their TV shows.
If you get Blackadder you definatly get Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Fawlty Towers while brilliant is not a play on current/past life events like the formentioned.
"It takes two to QANGO". Sublime!
So much comedic wordplay, timing & writing, Paul Eddington as Hacker could use his facial expressions to convey 10 lines of dialogue, Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey could verbally tapdance & Derek Fowlds as Bernard was the filament which bound it all together. Sadly these 3 are no longer with us, but in reality they are - Yes Minister/Prime Minister lives with us yet.
Filament? Cement, maybe.
@@Ndlanding no, filament sounds right. A thin part that shines brightly ;)
Long time no see … I still giggle thinking about it.
France has the paintings, Italy has the statues, Germany has the gothic architecture, and Great Britain has Yes, Minister.
Germany doesn't really have a big amount of gothic architecture, make it classical music, the second German language 😉😂
Germany has dark trance and house music, beer and bayern munich
Great Britain does not have only Yes, Minister. The list of pretty good British comedy series is VERY long indeed.
‘The public don’t have a clue about wasting government money. We’re the experts’
Lol 😂
It's "the public doesn't know anything about wasting government money. We're the experts." (pause) "That's not what I meant."
Paul’s was an outstanding performance, first as Minister and later as PM. He should have won the award hands down !
Not just briliant writing, but well depicted too. What amazing sentences, "it takes time to do things quickly". What a brilliant line. "It is more expensive to things, cheaply". Another jewel.
Greetings from India 🇮🇳. We tried doing our version based on this, and that got cancelled, because our politicians had problems with it.
But the book, ji mantri ji was quite good. However i thought they did make the show? I've not heard anything about it though so I maybe wrong.
The best comedy ever! Still highly relevant even decades later.
As long as there are governments with a civil service, it will be relevant.
This show was beyond brilliance.....unbelievably awesome....
Possibly the most intelligent carefully scripted series ever produced by the BBC.
The late Sir Anthony Jay and the still alive Jonathan Lynn - two brilliant writers, who had access to the secrets of Whitehall through Bernard Donoghue and Lady Falkender.
No - I think you’re confusing it with BBC News 😉
@Kelly Arthur Mrs. Thatcher considered it to be a documentary.
Arguably by anybody. Utter brilliance.
Best tv programme in history. Peerless.
Economise...on the beaches... Killed me! Even the bulldog would have smiled.
probably my favourite bit of all
Hacker is famous for his Churchillian moments.
I emailed JL some 20 years ago, thanking him for such a wonderful series and commenting on how relevant it was today. (20 years ago). I was surprised and very happy to receive a reply. Among other things he spoke of, he mentioned that when they wrote it, they were recycling things that had happened in the 60's and kept coming back. (and seem to repeat every 20 years?)
Lady Falkener and others were the "insiders" although none knew of any of the existance of any others. Masterful, "fiction based on fact". Loved it then, still love it today.
Watching these clips just makes me want to get a box set & savour every one again!!
The gravitas Hacker puts into "Heads will roll" is chilling.
"We're all agreed, then, that the mountain should go to Muhammad."
"No, no, no--Jim's going."
God, that's fantastic.
Watching Paul's measured change of expression - upon the news of his predecessors demise - in seconds from pure ecstasy to profound sadness is truly one of the greatest moments of this series AND a master-class in acting. 👍
Possibly the best comedy series ever written. It will never stop being relevant and therefore funny.
It's an incisive insight into human nature no matter what system changes are made.
You can count on humans to be proud, arrogant, self-interested, defensive, selfish, deceitful when considered necessary, lazy, careless and all the other things that are funny when it's fiction. A welcome release from the scary reality of how horribly ubiquitous it is in real life.
“I don’t want the truth, I want something I can tell parliament”, sounds familiar.
Anything you say, Matt.
I don't want the truth, I can't take the truth!
It's an utter travesty that Paul Eddington didn't win a single BAFTA for his peerless performances in this timeless and joyous political romp, whereas Nigel Hawthorne won four. Great as he was Hawthorne was not better or funnier than Eddington, and Eddington's role was if anything more challenging. To watch his face change in stages from confident incomprehension to panic-stricken full understanding is to witness a master comedic actor at work. They should have been bracketed together and won jointly.
Hear hear!
To his credit, Nigel Hawthorne was fully in agreement with that view, and was somewhat embarrassed by BAFTA's voting.
@@domainofthesun4400 here, here 😉
I could't be more agree, sir.
What and unbelievable awesome show. Here, in Barcelona, was a complete success. Everybody love it.
Were nicer times.
All I'd like to say is, the show is such a priceless gem, that each and everybody is an equal cough in the final outcome of the production.
The most well written show of all time.
Best comedy series I've ever seen, it actually helped me improve my English speaking.
Hilarious, I love it when Jim Hacker manages to turn the tables on Humphey
"May I come in minister?? Well, you can try!!"
Lost it at that
First show I binged after lockdown. What a hilarious blessing.
We'll economize on the beaches - LOL his Churchill moments are fantastic!
British Politics from the 1940's to present day in a nutshell, Absolutely timeless.
Probably another 100 years as well
The best way to appreciate this show is to understand that it is a documentary rather than a comedy.
A sophisticated comedy! And pure British humour at its very best! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!
During the 80's PTV used to air it, I remember the show as the people with big noses.
One of the best documentaries on how a govt and bureaucracy functions. It is still valid to this very day.
@@redbaron9029 Not on Pakistan Television my friend but on the only private network television in the 90s by the name of Network Television Marketing) or NTM later known as STN ( Shalimar Television Network)
I concur, from India.
Did they ever do a Pakistani version? We did a brief Indian one. Got a decent cast too but I think Indian audience didn't appreciate it well enough.
This is absolute comedy gold. Sublime acting.
Hawthorne is absolutely immaculate and a lot of fun to watch… but the reason I come back and stay is for Eddington’s performance. He IS Yes Minister to me.
I love all three main actors. Derek Fowlds did an excellent job as well.
Hacker is so cute when he fights back :)😀
19:20 'It's my wife's wedding anniversary tomorrow' 🤣
Absolute gold...just brilliant, brilliant!
Bernard: It's awful, isn't it?
Humphrey: What is awful, Bernard?
Bernard: Well, all these jobs going. Interest rates. Repossessions. Fear of inflation. Foreclosures.
Humphrey: Oh yes. Terrible.
Bernard: You don't sound terribly worried, Sir Humphrey.
Humphrey: Bernard, I am not being sacked, repossessed, inflated or foreclosed. Neither are you.
Bernard: Nor's the Prime Minister. But he's worried stiff.
Humphrey: So he should be.
Bernard: You don't sympathise with him?
Humphrey: That's the deal. That's how Prime Ministers' careers go. They get to be on the front page every day for 3 years, which they love. They travel the long parh from euphoric triumph to ignominious failure and then make way for the next saviour of the nation. It's called democracy.
Bernard: It beats me why anyone would want to be Prime Minister.
Humphrey: lr's the only top job that requires no previous experience, no training, no qualifications and limited intelligence.
Yes, Prime Minister. (Play)
The best I have ever seen in my life and still actual by today's standards. Our worst politicians have seen this gem for sure
Funniest moments? Surely not, they were all the funniest moments. A true classic and more than just a few home truths.
I don't want the truth... I want something I can tell Parliament! Best documentary at the time, and today
I know it has nothing to do with the utter brilliance of this series but after watching all of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister it came almost as a shock to see Humphrey having anything but grey hair during the first series! It felt like he never aged
It was compulsory viewing in political studies in Oz 1986. So much to learn.
How true even today in 2021, that governments all over the world seem to have studied at the same school and graduated in mediocrity, galvanized into total inactivity and incompetence, this series is so well written a big thank you to the writers and actors.
One of the amusing things that comes up a couple of times in this video is when Jim Hacker ignores Sir Humphrey's advice and goes ahead and does something ("I'm sorry Humphrey but my mind is made up.") then when it blows up in his face Jim says to Humphrey "Humphrey you're meant to advise me, well, advise me".
Blows, not bows.
@@droceretik Well spotted, now corrected
Minister, I must request that on the basis of elevating the standard of humor in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as providing much needed light entertainment in these unusual times and enhancing the training of new members of the civil service that more of the material shown in the video above be provided.
Edit: It would appear that I not the only civil servant interested in seeing further uploads of the above material. We now have the numbers to form an interdepartmental committee to explore the possibility of obtaining it.
Here here
Very succinctly put.
Wh-What?
Brilliant a correct!
They should be able to provide results within about 12 years.
"We will economize... on the beaches."
my fav bit of the whole show
Of course we want more!
Honestly I can't help but always agree with Sir Humphrey.
One of the most intelligent comedies ever written/produced. I watched it at an early age because it was My parents favorite.
BBC, please remake this for the modern age! Oh wait….it stands up perfectly.
Always a super comedy!
I don't think the whole series had a worse or poor moment or bit, it was all genius...
That wife of his is like the Best bloody character in it. She takes Zero guff and gives it back in spades, even with so few lines.
The power behind the throne so to speak
What have I got?
Rhythm.
🤣🤣🤣
All in cut glass....
Why isn't this timeless and oddly current show being repeated??? Better than any so called comedic dross on today
That’s a fact 👏👏👏
ah very droll my friend
"Comedies" now are barely funny. Just being "political correct". Painful to watch. Such "Yes Minister" contents will NEVER appear in the box these days.
Free BBC iPlayer app - all on that. I have so much enjoyed watching it.
We live in the age of political correctness. Even PBS is reluctant to show British comedies from the 70's and 80's these days, 20 years ago they would run pledge drives with all night marathons of these shows, no more. Too many cancel culture pressure groups would be triggered. Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Yes Minister, all the British staples of American public broadcasting for decades (they even showed Monty Python's nude skits without censorship) today would be labeled racist, sexist, homophobic etc. etc. etc.
I vividly remember this show in Norway. Such a gem in British comedy history.
fantastic, timeless.
Hacker: Humphrey isn't God, you know!
Bernhard: Would you like to tell him or shall I?
😅😅😅
When Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey work together- you don’t want to go against them.
So well written, so well acted.🤣🤣🤣
Any person who one, does not think this is comedy, or two misses the irony of the storylines, does not deserve to be a television watcher. One of the best written tv series ever and all three main characters were performed brilliantly. I bet you, all the Doctor Who fans wish these writers were still on the job!
My two boys unbeknown to me have watched every episode of Minister, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Steptoe and Son and a whole host of other 70/80 and the odd 90s comedy programmes foregoing all the current offerings. Quality is never out of fashion.
You must be proud!
Blackadder surely?
@@bruhmoment1835 Oh yes done the Adder.
Absolutely brilliant.
never get tired of watching this series
A wonderful series, thoroughly enjoyable
Whats funny is that after 40 years this is still relevant today
Funny or scary?
@@knititwearit we need to laugh at scary things cause nothings going to change even if were scared
Amazing this is still so current and thease videoes are still being made. And are so popular.
Love it.
These videos were made in the 1980s. Proof that nothing changes in the corridors of power.
Nearly each sentence of this could make a great quote... 😂😂😉
peter ustinov was being interveiwed once and talked about a trip to soviet russia. he said that one of the most popular western items sold on the black market next to blue jeans and rock n roll were episodes of yes minister. they thought it was absolutely wonderful.
Given the USSR had few methods to sell and/or view cassettes, I find it dubious.
But as someone from the postsoviet sector, the show does show useless communist party numenklatura quite well.
A common nest of useless do-nothings always seem to find their way into government.
Subtle joke at 29:59 when Humphrey takes Jim's exclamation of "Backbenchers! Leaks!" to be "leeks" and assumes he means the St Davy's Day leeks Welshmen traditionally wear.
St.David, not St. Davy.
39:17 "It takes two to quango" 🤣
Fantastic series although I can't help but be disappointed with the selection of clips here as there were far funnier ones you could have shown.
@@ar1016 43:11
I really would like a list of Sir Humphrey's best explanations..... :)
They would fill several volumes.
Actually several years ago our politic scene overcame Hacker's place in the Guiness book of records, when we had a defence minister for only eight days.
I miss this show.👏👏👏
Same here but all three characters are dead!
@@mikesstrippeddowncovers.2384 RIP to all three! Great actors!
When this series aired, I already found it too close to reality for entertainment. No the fabric of decency in politics have been shredded so completely, you might actually wish for the depicted conditions to return...
This show taught me everything I needed to know about politics
Never fails to squeeze a guffaw out of my constant depressive existence.
Hopefully it's not as bad as all that, are you doing alright?
Absolutely incredible. True British Film by True British People and enjoyed by every True British Person.
One of the great series
This was a truely awesome show
Once he has a clear view, Hacker is an exceptionally good shot.
The train cabin scene must have been inspired by the Marx Brothers.
Best documentary series
Nice to see Patricia Shakesby, the actress that plays the role of Jim's secretary and who also played Polly Urquhart in 'Howard's Way'.
What a great actor Paul Eddington..
Great in The Good Life for sure but this is his greatest work.
He actually wanted to get the part of Humphrey Appelby.
@@lezlezman1843 Link.
Wikipedia.
Yes Minister: Documentary series detailing the politics of the 1980's
Yes Prime Minister. Documentary series of the work of the British Prime Minister of the 1980's.
My all time favorite!
Back then we could laugh about the career political classes - now we have to cry!
-Bill s got Europe
-Lucky Europe😂😂😂
This is a gift from God, plain and simple
10:08
Sir Fredrick was a gem; too bad they couldn’t include him more.
Thank you so much for these compilations of hilarious memories of an epic programme. I miss it terribly given how Kafka-esque parliamentary government has become today. :(
Wonderful-dry wit is beyond so many.
what a coincidence that they both have a marriage anniversary on the same day
When the BBC used to make funny tv.
Those were the days.😆
Couldn't agree more!
Because just about everyone gets so easily offended these days. I honestly hate this generation. I wish I was alive in the 70s and 80s. It sounded so much better in those days.
@@adrianbailey468 it was.
@@adrianbailey468 agreed, I grew up in the 70s and 80s and they were much more fun times. Political correctness is now destroying the western world.
@@adrianbailey468 less PC sure, also way more sexism, racism and homophobia. If you were a straight white male fun times, but rather more sucky for everyone else. PC came about originally as a response to the prejudice, even if its gone too far today. Not that I have any tolerance for the modern trend over people being oversensitive and constantly offended, often on behalf of someone else. Let's loose the nostalgia googles through.
Plus there was the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation and the AIDS epidemic.
Sir Humphrey is absolutely correct: the Civil Service exists to implement government policy and programmes. So when a government talks about slimming down a bloated service, they need to think hard.
21:19 You're the MINISTER dum dum, you can do anything you like!
WHAAAAAT?
Ah, The days when the BBC were fit for purpose, how the good and great have fallen 😥😥
I agree, the corporation lost its way years ago! Totally rudderless and clueless in this day and age!
Compare this to the feminist, leftist, woke ****** they put out now. I no longer watch any BBC output, on principle, and it sickens me that I must pay a license fee
@@sillysausage4549 Agree, I have not watched a single BBC programme in about 10 years. Even before the WOKE rubbish pervaded the schedule it was rubbish anyway. When I decide not to buy a product on Amazon, I am not then expected to pay for it anyway. Absolutely scandalous. Defund the BBC.
What happens when the wages keep going up, the ones that care or make great art get pushed out and replaced
@@sillysausage4549 you think they're leftist? The reason they're shoveling shit out atm isn't because they're left on the political spectrum.
My dear fellow, if the public doesn't know what we're doing, they don't know what we're doing wrong! 😅😅😅
The script is priceless!
Yes Minister is not a Situation Comedy. It is almost reality of the tussle between Politics and Civil Service. It has shown the vulnerability and insecurity of Politicians and Politics. It is the Civil Services that really run the Country ...Millions of Mandarin who are trained meticulously do perform an excellent job of keeping the country in order saving it, otherwise, from chaos.
Are you guys seeing this "the more we learn, the closer we get" ad? Ngl I'm a big fan of it, thoughts?
YM and YPM were among the best BBC series ever. A really timeless peace of political farce and brilliant acting and writing. It was funny and to the point then just as it is now. Just imagine what they could have done with the circus of the current BJ cabinet😄