Malcolm straight up turned up to the place of work he got fired from, ruined his successor’s career, got his old job back, got the prime minister to call a snap election and stopped a senior minister from quitting in four minutes all whilst dressed like he was going for a pleasant walk around Hampstead Heath
Props to David Haig, who has been in hundreds of movies, plays and TV shows, is great in everything he does, is recognised by millions, his name largely unknown.
There's something I find oddly cathartic about Malcolm getting back in his suit. It's all so subtle but he goes from a guest in Steve's office to running the show in about 5 minutes. Honestly one of my favourite sequences in the entire show.
The thing I find funny here is that Nicola must have known Malcolm was going to screw her over considering she watched Malcolm get fired in the first place and refused to even acknowledge she was there. She played with fire and got burnt lol
Notice through the whole series Malcolm is always polite to his secretary Sam ?never swears at her never abusive like in this scene when she hands over his suit he thanks her
I'd forgotten all about that, the same goes with Jamie, even when reaming out politicians and their advisors, is polite to "ordinary people", it's such a shocking contrast and something you never expect.
Tucker saves his rage for the Politicos, because he despises them. He's consistently nice to Joe Public. Dominic Cummings was modelled on Tucker I think. What's that? Dominic Cummings was a real person? Sweet Jesus.
He’s polite to all the normal people. The cleaner, the nurse when he visits Olly, Sam, the Metric Martyrs woman, the police officers when he tried to get arrested, the BBC producer when he’s been sacked etc. He saves his rage for the self serving pricks he has to spin for.
He is but then so is Malcolm to a certain extent and have you met Cal Richards? Point is they are good or usually excellent at spin/controlling the story. So yes Dan would rather have him in his tent than out.
Presumably the situation was similar to how it was in season 4 when Nicola ended up resigning; anyone who's willing to de-stabilise the leader would have been welcome even if they are obnoxious and think saying someone's face is gaunt is a compliment. Not sure why Dan would particularly want to launch a leadership bid at that point being as an election would have needed to be called within a few months and he'd been in a prominent Cabinet role since Spinners and Losers (it seems unlikely that him replacing Tom would have come across as anything other than obnoxious given the apparent state of the economy at the time too).
Steve certainly wasn't intended to be perceived as incompetent. Unhinged, most definitely, but so is virtually everyone we meet in this line of work - compared to Jamie or the Fucker Malcolm is actually level headed.
As reality transcends fiction and the UK plunges into insignificance as a global player... this glimpse of a time when we felt important enough to parody our government is almost touching. Text book example of pathos.
Your logic is inherently flawed, the UK is no less significant today than at that time. The UK lost its real significance in the 50's with the end of ww2 and the collapse of empire. Still holds the same importance today as a nuclear power and economic trade centre as it did in the 00's I think you are upset today over something that happened 80 years ago.
@@acksawblack It's a laughing stock the world over mate. 3 PM's in year shows we have little staying power in government. 7 Foreign Ministers in 7 years also means that our diplomatic efforts are screwed
I think Nicola had a million more percent in the self-awareness column -- she knew she was rubbish at the job and just sort of plodded on with it. Liz Truss seems to think she was great and was forced out by the mandarins.
The Doctor: "I've come back to the 1990s to save Gasforth from a Dalek invasi----" Inspector Grimm: "Oh, give it a rest you bloody hoity stick-it-up-your-toity high-and-mighty namby-pamby dib-dib-dob sun-dried-tomato-eating lah-di-dah-di LAH-DI-DAH!! I will NOT have you FANNYING ABOUT in Gasforth, with your TARDIS and your INTERGALACTIC TAMPON DISPENSER! It is my arse, and I will not have you STICKING your nose in and SNIFFING ABOUT!!!"
No, this was the New Labour days. Unfortunately while the people currently running our country are as bastardous they are nowhere near as competent. (Honestly they never were as competent as Tucker was, you're only this much of a magnificent bastard in fiction)
@@Ch1pp007 Campbell was part of New Labour. So of course elements will be there. However Tucker was actually based on a few Hollywood agents and PR types that Capaldi had encountered over his career. Of course Campbell was very eager to perpetuate the rumour that Tucker was based on him because, well, who wouldn't want to take credit for character that cool?
@@NateSean which one? Choo trains or zero accountability? Cos right now the Thick of It is actually more sane than the UK govt and that's saying something.
Well actually allegedly the basis is as follows: Tucker is Campbell, Pearson is Hilton and Fleming here is Mandelson. Nicholson is Lord Adonis. PM is GB. Dan Miller (DM) is David Miliband. Of course very very loosely based.
Both him and Steve were under investigation for a screw up in the numbers at Dosac. He then leaked a rumor steve was going to get destroyed in the report which caused Steve to go running to bald guy with glasses to confirm or deny the rumors while Malcolm has a reporter hiding in the bushes taking photoes so it looked like Steve was leaning on the bald guy with glasses to influence the report in his favour in the media. So in the end had to get the sack or look like he did influence the report.
@@CommissarKane Julius claiming he had to come down on Steve like a ton of bricks to preserve his own reputation for fairness amused me (in his defense he did at least refuse to give Steve any information, but he had told Malcolm that the objective was to clear both him and Steve of any wrongdoing so it would have been a white-wash despite any issues the 2 of them caused, which admittedly seemed limited to Steve being unclear when telling Ollie and Glen to print crime stats).
@@jamesbarnardo Not necessarily. Malcolm is a symptom of the toxic environment he gestated in but by the end he'd abandoned any pretense of moral decency. He had to go. Watching him fall was bittersweet but in a way satisfying.
I'm a Londoner. My kids are adopted and not white. What exactly is your problem with that? They have been saying this about newcomers to London for a 1,000 years. And guess what? London just keeps on making Londoners of them.
It's Grim's backside on the line and he's up to his neck in it. The overacting, forced drama and "fly on the wall" camera work. I know this is supposed to be a dramatization but nobody is this dramatic irl. Maybe I'm wrong
That's the joke. Until UK govt plc ruined it by out thicking the Thick of it. Literally. I'm sure Ianucci is on record as saying one of the reasons he can't make a comeback is how can you satire a govt that is already an object of satire? You'd have to make it even more ridiculous than this which as you've pointed out is pretty much on the line as it is.
What is this? And why do all actors think that improvising requires F bombs and different forms of the word “sh@t”. Do you think people really swear that much LOL.
Once again some non Brits think foul language is something squeamish, when really it's part of an evolved wordplay. Shakespeare himself coined several novel curses and insults and sometimes a heartfelt fuck is the only fucking word that will do the bloody job properly. It's the non swearers I worry about. What kinda shit are they bottling up? Start banning words it's a slippery slope to burning books and the thought police. The freedom to swear enables the freedom not to swear. In the context of this show it's actually correct (many insiders of the culture it's parodying alleged it was too tame) and bloody funny. Besides it wasn't all eff bombs across the whole episodes. This is just the highlights. Don't take life so seriously it's shit enough as it is and you ain't getting out a fucking live and once you are dead the odd bollocks ain't going to be pissing you off any more. I would leave you with some of Shakespeare's finest, but trust me, whilst not as blunt as the above liberally littered litany of louche words they are actually far worse in many aspects and definitely cut to the quick with much more of a venomous sting. So that's another classic you would abhor!
Malcolm straight up turned up to the place of work he got fired from, ruined his successor’s career, got his old job back, got the prime minister to call a snap election and stopped a senior minister from quitting in four minutes all whilst dressed like he was going for a pleasant walk around Hampstead Heath
Think that’s more where Julius is going not Malcolm 😉
and plunged the party into opposition until Daniel Radcliffe is advertising stand up baths in The People’s Friend
George Costanza ain't got shit on Malcom.
That's politics!
it’s very cosy. 40 tog
"Life is just a succession of 5 minuteses" is a really great quote
It's not technically wrong either.
If you’ve ever worked at a job where you’re stuck watching the clock, it hits the nail on the head
I knew him from the thin blue line :)
Very Time Lordy too lol.
Can’t beat ‘take you down to fffffunky town’
That first “choo” at 1:09 is a thing of beauty.
stēllātus lupus canis the sounds of a broken Lego policeman
It's now my ring tone
Reminded me of one of the inspector Grim's tantrums.
They're always looking for cleaners at the Foreign Office 😂😂
Props to David Haig, who has been in hundreds of movies, plays and TV shows, is great in everything he does, is recognised by millions, his name largely unknown.
I always know him as Inspector Derek Grim. "It's my ass on the line...and I don't want a cockup!"
@@SMAXZO "no I'd imagine you wouldn't " 🤣
@@SMAXZO No more fannying about! 😂
@@SMAXZO That's brilliant.
I'm searching for that chooday
He's one of my favorites. As is Peter Capaldi.
This is probably my favourite scene, aside from the car rant. Malcolm getting his revenge really sums up his character
There's something I find oddly cathartic about Malcolm getting back in his suit. It's all so subtle but he goes from a guest in Steve's office to running the show in about 5 minutes.
Honestly one of my favourite sequences in the entire show.
@@LabradorIndependent absolutely agree!
@@LabradorIndependent Just remember that life is just the succession of 5 minutes'
The Thick Of It is just a succession of favourite scenes.
I also so enjoyed the scene where Glenn went into meltdown; "F**k Tinky Winky!"
"They're always looking for cleaners there" lmao
"He's off to Brazil to spend the rest of his day as the world's scariest dentist"..
"Choooo Chew! I'm not biting"
Fair play to Rebecca front. She has to react to all capaldis acting and she does it so well
Will forever be why The Zygon Invasion is my favorite moment in DW. “It’s not paranoia if it’s real.” and “Yes, we know who you are.”
the "bye bye" from Malcom at 1:29 is brilliant
Fire up the mid-range saloons.
The thing I find funny here is that Nicola must have known Malcolm was going to screw her over considering she watched Malcolm get fired in the first place and refused to even acknowledge she was there. She played with fire and got burnt lol
And when he says "stay" it's basically "don't make me do this" I'm gunna make you do this" "okay."
obsesed with Malcome saying being nice at 2:20
He's always so kind to Sam
We are going to take you down.
WE ARE GOING TO TAKE YOU DOWN TO FUNKY-TOWN
CHOO, FUCKING CHOO!
@@TheNikoBellic2008 Is this what you're threatening me with; fucking disco lights and a choo-choo train?!
Can watch this series over and over again and it's still hilarious. Classic comedy. 😂😂😂
David Haig is so good at being immediately loathsome.
Obsessive repulsive disorder
@@jordank1489
Unforgettable line that one.
Like a Lego policeman
While, by all accounts, being an absolutely lovely person in real life. ☺️
Mind my gaunt face.
"the world's scariest dentist"
Also known as *The Eyebrows*
They are always looking for cleaners there 😂😂😂
"yeah if buddha was on the cover of GQ magazine" has to be my favourite line from this show.
is it?
“Life is just a series of five minuteses” - M. Tucker
0:59 this could be him as Inspector Grim in Thin Blue Line.
Malcolm Tucker is an evil genius 😂
Notice through the whole series Malcolm is always polite to his secretary Sam ?never swears at her never abusive like in this scene when she hands over his suit he thanks her
Such a great minor detail. He obviously isn't a rage-filled tyrant when dealing with normal people outside the political bubble.
I'd forgotten all about that, the same goes with Jamie, even when reaming out politicians and their advisors, is polite to "ordinary people", it's such a shocking contrast and something you never expect.
Tucker saves his rage for the Politicos, because he despises them. He's consistently nice to Joe Public.
Dominic Cummings was modelled on Tucker I think. What's that? Dominic Cummings was a real person? Sweet Jesus.
That behavior actually reminds me of Gordon Ramsey. Screaming at chefs and then some other woman arrives, and its 'alright m'darling?'
He’s polite to all the normal people. The cleaner, the nurse when he visits Olly, Sam, the Metric Martyrs woman, the police officers when he tried to get arrested, the BBC producer when he’s been sacked etc. He saves his rage for the self serving pricks he has to spin for.
I'm really shocked they let the cameras in.
This reflects very poorly on the government.
@@cormacmacsuibhne2867 Ever heard of a joke, duh?
The only time Steve Fleming swears in the entire show. Malcolm, the prince of darkness!
He also swears when he tries the New Era Speech, "will you PLEASE FUCKING well"
@@thetributingstrober552 the funniest moment in the show for my money
So Prepare to *stay* in government - pack an overnight bag 😂😂
The time when the Doctor, Neil's dad and Detective Inspector Derek Grim converged
Neil’s dad is also the Master.
@@jamesvanitas The guy makes the bhaji go away! Alex MacQueen is a legend.
@@shanaellis4553
I’ve looked at his activity. He’s got quite a repertoire
@@jamesvanitas Unhand me Priest!
@@shanaellis4553
Where is that quote from?
Malcolm really set fire to tears!
1:40 "that's a complete disaster. there'll be nothing else on television for weeks"... Well, here we are, general election.
Tucker just couldn't let Fleming leave quietly! He was like Alan Wells out of the door to give him a send off.
This is comedy gold... 😂😂😂
“Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me”
One of the greatest things ever produced. Ever.
"Veep" from the same creator as "The Thick of It" is great too.
The speed malcolm gets up from the desk.
The Doctor and the Master working together.
Oh so you're Buddha now, are you?
- Yea, if Buddha would be on the cover of a GQ magazine 💅🏻
"Fire up the mid-range saloons!"
Pimp the ministerial rides!
This is top class writing
3 am laughing 😂 hope mum doesn’t hear
dont worry shes at mint
Strong language indeed. The f-word, the bad f-word, worse than “fannying.” You know the one I mean.
(apologies to Inspector Grim and Mrs. Doyle)
Arse biscuits!
“Inspector Grim come on doooown!!!!”
Effing this effing that, wall to wall with the feck....yes thank you Mrs Doyle
We are going to take you down to funky town!
Is Steve really Nigel Mansell?
No but his cousin Inspector Grim is a close relation.
"World's shittest Dad mug" crying
Funky town center choo choo 🚉 😂😂😂❤❤❤
1:09
To think I never heard of this!! Really heady stuff. I bet it happens like this all the time in politics.
@Dots Grey I believe it. I couldn't bear it either if I were him.
Why would Dan Miller take in Steve? He comes across as incompetent and frankly wildly unhinged.
He is but then so is Malcolm to a certain extent and have you met Cal Richards? Point is they are good or usually excellent at spin/controlling the story. So yes Dan would rather have him in his tent than out.
Presumably the situation was similar to how it was in season 4 when Nicola ended up resigning; anyone who's willing to de-stabilise the leader would have been welcome even if they are obnoxious and think saying someone's face is gaunt is a compliment. Not sure why Dan would particularly want to launch a leadership bid at that point being as an election would have needed to be called within a few months and he'd been in a prominent Cabinet role since Spinners and Losers (it seems unlikely that him replacing Tom would have come across as anything other than obnoxious given the apparent state of the economy at the time too).
Because to be a spin master you have to be. Nobody would call Malcolm or Cal Richards particularly well balanced in their sanity.
Steve certainly wasn't intended to be perceived as incompetent. Unhinged, most definitely, but so is virtually everyone we meet in this line of work - compared to Jamie or the Fucker Malcolm is actually level headed.
I’m gonna put in a word for you about the foreign office job… they’re always looking for cleaners there.
Leafletting in Neasden yeah!
My favorite scene
Steve is a scary character.
As reality transcends fiction and the UK plunges into insignificance as a global player...
this glimpse of a time when we felt important enough to parody our government is almost touching.
Text book example of pathos.
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@@Tidalx I'm very sorry to hear that. Being gay isn't easy. Good luck mate!
@@charlesnelson5187 I thought your comment was pretty interesting
Your logic is inherently flawed, the UK is no less significant today than at that time. The UK lost its real significance in the 50's with the end of ww2 and the collapse of empire. Still holds the same importance today as a nuclear power and economic trade centre as it did in the 00's I think you are upset today over something that happened 80 years ago.
@@acksawblack It's a laughing stock the world over mate. 3 PM's in year shows we have little staying power in government. 7 Foreign Ministers in 7 years also means that our diplomatic efforts are screwed
Art imitating life Liz Truss is a real life Nicola Murray
I think Nicola had a million more percent in the self-awareness column -- she knew she was rubbish at the job and just sort of plodded on with it. Liz Truss seems to think she was great and was forced out by the mandarins.
@@defragsbinNicola at least gave a toss as well Liz is purely about Liz and Nicola accepted when she'd been ousted and why Liz doesn't.
Great - does it remind anyone of the current craziness - Cummings etc
Nah. Tucker actually knows what he's doing
Cummings thinks he’s Malcolm but he’s so definitely Steven.
Cummings thinks he’s Malcolm but he’s so definitely Steven.
At least it's better than KSI's version
Doctor Who VS Inspector Grimm. Why haven't I seen this before?
*Inspector Grimm
Grimm, not Rowan Atkinson
Don't we hate all that fanning about
The Doctor: "I've come back to the 1990s to save Gasforth from a Dalek invasi----"
Inspector Grimm: "Oh, give it a rest you bloody hoity stick-it-up-your-toity high-and-mighty namby-pamby dib-dib-dob sun-dried-tomato-eating lah-di-dah-di LAH-DI-DAH!! I will NOT have you FANNYING ABOUT in Gasforth, with your TARDIS and your INTERGALACTIC TAMPON DISPENSER! It is my arse, and I will not have you STICKING your nose in and SNIFFING ABOUT!!!"
Life is just a succession of 5 minutes's
Very satisfying knowing the shit Steve Fleming pulled the episode before!
12th Doctor vs Pangol
Points for everyone who gets the reference.
This is such a weird clip from Doctor Who.
I thought it was from The Thin Blue Line.
@@b3ans4eva r/wooooosh
@Ralof Of Riverwood ok
SSSSSSSSSTEVE
Unfortunately, people like this are indeed running our green a pleasant land.
J Bix I believe it!
No, this was the New Labour days. Unfortunately while the people currently running our country are as bastardous they are nowhere near as competent. (Honestly they never were as competent as Tucker was, you're only this much of a magnificent bastard in fiction)
@@ArtemisScribe Wasn't tucker based on Alistair Campbell though?
@@Ch1pp007 Campbell was part of New Labour. So of course elements will be there. However Tucker was actually based on a few Hollywood agents and PR types that Capaldi had encountered over his career. Of course Campbell was very eager to perpetuate the rumour that Tucker was based on him because, well, who wouldn't want to take credit for character that cool?
@@ArtemisScribe he was suddenly less keen about inspiring Tucker when In the Loop came out 😂
choo
Fucking choo
I like to pretend that P Cap is playing the doctor in this show
How would this show work in the current era of zero accountability?
Has the UK ever been in that scenario?
@@NateSean which one? Choo trains or zero accountability? Cos right now the Thick of It is actually more sane than the UK govt and that's saying something.
steve fleming is what english people are actually like
"Choo f***ing choo!"
Him or Julius Nicholson.
I suppose all Scots are like Malcolm and Jamie then?
@@joeloates1685
No, just all those round Glasgow.
Which is half of them.
@@anonUK Sounds about right
Angry, bitter, impotent, and indeed amusing as england fades into the tier of a fourth-rate power ...
Ironic ...
Oh god , i'd forgotten about funky town
I wanted Malcolm Tucker to lose.
Steve Fleming = Dominic Cummings
Well actually allegedly the basis is as follows: Tucker is Campbell, Pearson is Hilton and Fleming here is Mandelson. Nicholson is Lord Adonis. PM is GB. Dan Miller (DM) is David Miliband. Of course very very loosely based.
@@TheWPhilosopher David Miliband was quite a scruffy man
@@georgeohunt2263 was he really though?
KSI
HE. LOOKS . EXACTLY . THE . SAME
Garcia Thomas Johnson Donna Miller Ronald
Hoity Toity Lardy Dardy. Needs to kiss a chicken nugget.
Inspector Grim always felt inferior to his in laws the Fleming's especially Steve.
I’m off leafleting in Neasden
And that's the end of S
TEVE
I’m confused. How did he get his revenge?
Both him and Steve were under investigation for a screw up in the numbers at Dosac. He then leaked a rumor steve was going to get destroyed in the report which caused Steve to go running to bald guy with glasses to confirm or deny the rumors while Malcolm has a reporter hiding in the bushes taking photoes so it looked like Steve was leaning on the bald guy with glasses to influence the report in his favour in the media. So in the end had to get the sack or look like he did influence the report.
@@CommissarKane Julius claiming he had to come down on Steve like a ton of bricks to preserve his own reputation for fairness amused me (in his defense he did at least refuse to give Steve any information, but he had told Malcolm that the objective was to clear both him and Steve of any wrongdoing so it would have been a white-wash despite any issues the 2 of them caused, which admittedly seemed limited to Steve being unclear when telling Ollie and Glen to print crime stats).
2024 attack!
Shitting Henry
I didn't Inspector Grim was in this show.
Malcolm Tucker for PM.
Make Britain great again.
ELECTION TIME 🎉🎉🎉
I love that Malcolm got what was coming to him in the end
I think you might have missed the point of the character
@@jamesbarnardo probably
What’s your interpretation
@@jamesbarnardo Not necessarily. Malcolm is a symptom of the toxic environment he gestated in but by the end he'd abandoned any pretense of moral decency. He had to go. Watching him fall was bittersweet but in a way satisfying.
The dark Scottish Knight batman the dark Knight
I'm a Londoner. My kids are adopted and not white. What exactly is your problem with that? They have been saying this about newcomers to London for a 1,000 years. And guess what? London just keeps on making Londoners of them.
It's Grim's backside on the line and he's up to his neck in it.
The overacting, forced drama and "fly on the wall" camera work. I know this is supposed to be a dramatization but nobody is this dramatic irl. Maybe I'm wrong
The Truth I know, it’s a bit OTT really - I could never get into this series, it always seemed to be trying too hard to be edgy.
@@tjfSIM Nailed it on the head there my friend
@@tjfSIM Yet here you are watching clips ...
That's the joke. Until UK govt plc ruined it by out thicking the Thick of it. Literally. I'm sure Ianucci is on record as saying one of the reasons he can't make a comeback is how can you satire a govt that is already an object of satire? You'd have to make it even more ridiculous than this which as you've pointed out is pretty much on the line as it is.
@@tjfSIM you think TTOI is trying to be edgy haha? That's just about the opposite of what my perception is that it's trying to be
What is this? And why do all actors think that improvising requires F bombs and different forms of the word “sh@t”. Do you think people really swear that much LOL.
Yes. In government, every 5th word is a swear word. That’s why it’s so realistic
As someone who worked in retail, and now in a warehouse, I can assure you, people swear a lot more than this in everyday conversation!
It's such a shame when they think they have to rely on bad language. Such a turn off.
Oh Joy, this series is wasted on you I'm afraid 😅
It's called realism. If you don't like it watch some repeats of Terry and June.
oh piss off karen
Real politicians said it wasn’t realistic because they weren’t swearing ENOUGH.
I think you'll find they actually rely on razor-sharp writing and genius characterisation
Once again the Brits think foul language is soooo funny..when really it's sooo tedious.
This is how we talk. The swearing isn't funny, it's what he's saying and how he's saying it
If you had added a swear word, your comment would have been funny, instead of fucking tedious.
1/3 of my fucking language is swearing
Once again some non Brits think foul language is something squeamish, when really it's part of an evolved wordplay. Shakespeare himself coined several novel curses and insults and sometimes a heartfelt fuck is the only fucking word that will do the bloody job properly. It's the non swearers I worry about. What kinda shit are they bottling up? Start banning words it's a slippery slope to burning books and the thought police. The freedom to swear enables the freedom not to swear. In the context of this show it's actually correct (many insiders of the culture it's parodying alleged it was too tame) and bloody funny. Besides it wasn't all eff bombs across the whole episodes. This is just the highlights. Don't take life so seriously it's shit enough as it is and you ain't getting out a fucking live and once you are dead the odd bollocks ain't going to be pissing you off any more. I would leave you with some of Shakespeare's finest, but trust me, whilst not as blunt as the above liberally littered litany of louche words they are actually far worse in many aspects and definitely cut to the quick with much more of a venomous sting. So that's another classic you would abhor!
once again a non brit fails to understand our humour