Note. It's not a claim; it was simply the name of the program: www.imdb.com/title/tt0395381/ At any rate, Yes (Prime) Minister didn't win; it"only" came in 5th...
As a Spaniard, and not having a particular interest in British politics, all I can say is that this is the best comedy I have ever enjoyed. Actors are brilliant and so are the scripts, a wonderful job indeed.
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And politics in Spain work pretty much the same way. Because they pretty much work that way everywhere.
I was going through some of the episodes for the first time; in a sense, it is nice to know that the world has not changed that much. Somewhat reassuring but also saddening that, in reality, nothing has fundamentally changed.
“The only thing I can contribute to politics is making fun of politicians.” Yes sir, you not only made your contribution to politics, but made ever more contribution to humankind.
The summary of newspaper readers generally is actually very good. You can infer the Brexit position of each of them from the description given, as an example. At the moment, the average Telegraph reader is convinced that the EU is running the country at the moment, and the courts have no power. Until the supreme court reaches a finding, of course, then they have too much power.
@Liz Roberts Thats3how it's been since the beginning of the Empire, and it seems to have been successful. Moreso than the modern practice of government by media personality. Lol
I think Yes Minister ( and Prime Minister ) is some of the most intelligent and brilliant humor ever written. Then again, I find the majority of English humor a bit back in the days, to be brilliant.
The best sit coms were written in the 70's and 80's. The Good Life, Some mothers do 'av em, Faulty Towers, Rising Damp, Porridge, Dad's Army, Allo Allo, The Young Ones, Blackadder, House of Cards. After this things weren't the same. Most comedy now thinks too hard about not wanting to offend one group of people. Humour now is far too pc for its own good.
Hence alover the world. Nevertheless not just a commonwealth-issue as this particular way of gouvernment goes back to the sophists and not to forget Machiavellis Grand Master.
Very True and how sad is that but Jonathan Lynn is still with us but excuse my stereotype, based on working with Jewish people since 1971, but he will have " long life" as they say. Incredibly resilient and intelligent people...
It was said at the time that the Australian Prime Minister and the head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet watched it together, both laughing, but at different lines. It also speaks of the times that they were able to set aside half an hour to do that. Setting aside half an hour is something that should be done more often by people who want to keep perspective, taking themselves at least a little bit less seriously than they take life.
It's amazing how accurately it foretold Brexit. Not to mention the NHS with its empty hospitals and the young people needing a comprehensive education to get over their comprehensive education.
As a young child born in 1980, I would watch this and Red Dwarf in my bed, when I should have been sleeping. Loved it then still love it now, will always watch it if it's on.
IMHO Derek Fowlds should have also been awarded a CBE, for his equal contributions as Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington were. A shameful omission in my view!!
Boris yes but every prime minister labor or tory does it Tony Blair or Boris. The difference that Donald didnt go through the normal jobs or politcal positions before running. Although he was public about politics for decades as a tv star and was a card carrying democrat for 35 years that donated money to pro abortion causes. Then ran as a republican who was anti abortion. So he got the idea of politcs right from the start. Plus our system is slightly diffrent than the UK's even if you can apply yes minister to it. Our founding fathers came from Britian and didnt trust goverment and hated goverment doing anything but in emergency. Kind of 101 for why the reveloution was fought agianst the british king. So they tried to form such a govemrnet that would never get any thing done besdies in emergency. And one reason out of about ten for the 2nd amendment was to protect private citizens from corrupt goverments taking away private citizens rights. So our founding fathers created goverment that has not one but two parliments (and a president and a supreme court) the senate and the house to make it even less likely any thing gets done unless of emergency. We have two prime ministers and a president. The two prime ministers are the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and the Senate majority leader (Mitch Mcconell) Both are basically prime ministers. And then they can screw up anything a president ever wants to do. And block anything the other parliment/prime minister wants to do. And the supreme court can reject anything they want to do together. And even state courts can reject executive orders from the president. So the goverment can barely get anything done so it wont ruin the country. But Trumps whole thing is we should publicaly say all the things yes minister exposes about goverments to the public in public speeches for everyone to know. And then still contiue to do the same things usa goverments have done for decades that yes prime minister exposes while he tells you that he is doing those things. Which in reality many of the actions trump takes are no diffrent than Obamas or what Hilary Clintons wouldve been. The diffrence is Clinton wouldve made the right speeches and covered up things that happen in goverment that yes prime minister exposes while trump wants to tell everybody about them. And the media spin of a Trump action is startkely negative while the media reaction to the same action taken by Hiliary woulve been posotive. Because Trump is willing to expose the game and that terryfies the media so they spin it. And while Biden will take similar actions to trump. His speeches will go back to flat out cover ups and will pretend that after doing the same action he will spin it to be an anti trump position. And when he does the 1 out of 10 actions that are diffrent than trump he will procalim how diffrent he is to trump. While in reality its the same idea just said in a diffrent way.
One of the best comedy series ever made . I was studying in those days in england and I thoroughly enjoyed this programme. It is great to see yes priminister. on utube it really bring back the good old memories.
I remember when this was a fresh import via my local public broadcasting station, much as I was introduced to Monty Python 20 years before... different comedy, but the same basic ethos; brilliant writing, superb timing and direction, and a real chemistry between the cast members. Paul Eddington could reduce me to tears simply using his face and zero dialogue.
I remember being shocked when I realized that my own town was being administered according to the same scheming tactics that had been featured on "Yes, Minister."
It would have been so easy to take Hacker into number 10 and ruin what had, until that point, been a classic comedy but they did it beautifully and the whole thing just went from strength to strength. Masterful writing and acting :)
Yes Minister is more documentary than comedy. It's also a great example of how comedy isn't just about the great writing, it's about serendipitous coming together of exactly the right cast, with exactly the right chemistry to make the whole thing iconic. This was demonstrated by the attempted revival a couple of years ago. Same writers, mostly the same jokes, but the cast just couldn't pull it together and it fell flat on its face.
Why is Hacker considered to be an inept minister? Compared to who? His cabinet colleagues? The civil servants , journalists, political lobbyists& activists that surrounded Hacker? The crooked business men doing shady deals? They were all a total joke.
Paul Eddington should have a two BAFTA awards for his performance in the "A Victory for Democracy" & "The Key." And Derek Fowlds should have won something, especially for his performance in "A Victory for Democracy,"
I'm not being picky because this programme was wonderful and all 3 Actors were magnificent but it would have carried more clout if Nigel's Partner had said that as Paul's wife would admit to a degree of bias...:)
THE WHOLE SHOWS WERE WRITTEN BY GENIUS WRITERS, WHO HAD TO HAVE INSIDE INFORMATION FROM WHITEHALL. BUT THE ACTORS DELIVERY REALLY WAS HOW THINGS ARE DONE!!!
hazza harris Indeed they did. It came out, after many years, that not just MPs, but cabinet ministers would leak to the writers (off the record) after meetings!!
@@richardlloyd2589 Also many of the stories were based on actual events. The one about the hospital with hundreds of staff, no patents except the Hotel manager who had injured himself, was a true story.
@@dnmurphy48 And in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government of the day built the "Nightingale hospitals". Events proved them to be a total waste of public money (but hindsight is a *wonderful* creation).
My politics tutor at Oxford told me to watch Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister to cut the chase. I still had to go to lectures at Nuffield and write essays based on Erskine May, Walter Bagehot, etc, but she represented that the essence of British politics was contained within this sitcom.
Rocky M i think we would ruin it. Politics over here isn’t clever. It’s either mean or stupid. And Americans don’t seem to like word play. There is a true story that the movie, “the madness of King George, “was originally called “the madness of George the third” but they had to change the title for American audiences because Americans thought it was the third movie in a series.
@@PTCello I think you have a point. People nowadays laugh when someone gets hurt-and not often otherwise. But a show might work if it's carried out right. That is another question mark: whether the entertainment industry could do it right for the audience to ever see it.
The show really was amazing. It found a rich source of humour in the realities of government, and at the same time, educated viewers about the functioning of government and a wide range of public policy issues if the day - many of which are still quite relevant. But it did so with humour, rather than by way of dull and earnest lecturing or through a documentary. Should be required viewing for students of politics, public policy and government.
Oh come off it ... surely a bumbling idiot will never become PM, I mean he'd have to loose every vote brought forth in Westminster for the first several weeks of his premiership to be as bad as Hacker! ... Oh, wait!
The service to humanity, for freedom, brilliantly executed by the writers of this masterpiece, deserves international gratitude and recognition. Take care of one another. Awaken the naive to the sociopaths who have been poisoning the well for generations.
They should bring this series back .....the topic being the last 3 years since the 2016 brexit referendum.......they wouldn’t even need a script!........the true facts would be enough to have us rolling on the floor
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister taught me alot about politics. I worked in the Government education system and was always thinking of these shows and how similar work and these show were. Funny to watch but painful to work in.
"both sides of center, with leanings to the left and right" pure gold. I love this show and share clips of it as often as I can to as many people as I can, this is a comedy, but an essential codex to politics and bureaucracy.
Great clip! Loved the selections (the newspapers bit was hilarious), great fan of Iannucci, and this is the first time I hear Jonathan Lynn. I think a lot of us will fully identify with what he says. Pity that such people don't actually become politicians and we are left with the clowns we have, but I can fully understand it too: politics would be utterly soul-destroying for such people.
As the citizen of a former british colony, i'd say the people who inherited my country from the brits are following in their footsteps down to the last letter, often by being exponentially more incompetant than the british civil service is and driven by a far more uneducated and dogma driven class of politicians some of whom wouldnt even qualify for a job within the service even after accounting for minimum requirements and reservation based relaxations, something i doubt the the brits would ever get themselves into. Aside from Singapore and Malaysia no other former british colony has been able to reform its bureaucracy to make it competant or functional let alone efficient.
Superb series. Most enjoyable. I return to watch and enjoy regularly. Come on you clever script writers...nothing beats British humour in my opinion. We need something to cheer us all up.
This comedy could be re-run again today and it would still be current. Politicians never change their power lust is insatiable and Hacker is the prime example of them all
The Paxman /Michael Howard interview is absolute gold dust. It’s a scene straight out of Yes Minister or Prime Minister. It’s also why I really miss Jeremy Paxman as a political interviewer. I’d bet most politicians don’t. The problem with tv news journalism now is that everyone wants to be the next Paxman.
WHAT? watched this crying tears with laughter and rememberance but when they got to the brilliant speeches from Sir Humphrey.....the bloody video ended....
I love both Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. As a Canadian, one of the many things I love about the show is it parallels the Canadian, as well as the Australian and New Zealand, system of government which is based on the British Parliamentary system. Canada has a House of Commons, the British have a House Commons. Canada has an appointed Senate, the British have an appointed House of Lords. You can take every scenario on that show and superimpose it on a Canadian government scenario. There's no difference. It's brilliant.
That is the precise reason why we need democracy, liberty and civil society. Once you realize what happened you will know how to do the right choice when you are voting and listening to the politicians' debates. This is the reason that why I love Yes Minister Yes Prime Minister and The House of Cards.
There should be a Yes Minister's old watchers club ....we might have a good laugh and would be funnier than most and very congenial to civilised living!...W.hen all is said and done , taking into account the likely outcomes which can be reasonably expected to arise , given the contingencies on which such projects may be based from time to time and having regard to the law which had it's genesis in the corporate legislation of the early 1900s further amplified by the various acts passed by parliament in the early post war years and given specific definition where necessary in the various ministerial orders which were necessitated by our entry in to the EU which , as we know was then referred to as the EEC, it can be reasonably inferred that on balance given the hostility likely to arise from the various vested interests , that at this time any course of action which can be evaluated by the public as a complete failure would be best avoided in view of the forthcoming by-election in Greater Middling Piddle by the sea. Is that a no?
yes, it exposed plenty. but that's not why it's good. it also showed the logic of necessity behind the actions, an aspect that has been explained away. overexposure led to cynicism and the deterioration of beliefs.
2019 and I look forward to moments every day. "Better than any series of documentaries." Indeed. Better late than never. Oh that we could find true servants of countries as opposed to servants to their psychopathic bankster masters. Brilliant choices of music as well.
"All the main debaters in the Union Society were the most self-satisfied, self-important bunch of clowns I've ever clapped eyes on and they were all behaving as if they were on the government front bench and 20 yrs later they all were...and I thought the only thing I could ever contribute to politics was making fun of the politicians" ... and what a huge contribution that was!
I thank God for these actors. The best laughter in the world. I'm up 1:00 & 2:00AM cracking up. Bernard you are so ingenious. Humphrey you are so savvy, treacherous in a good way, perfectly in place and love your speech commandment. PM Hacker no one could ever replace you. Just the best in your relationship with your cabinet. RIP, heaven is truly entertained. Love. Peace and Harmony
M8, not even close, say whatever you want about johnson but hes not inept. Noone sane would believe a word from a politician, so i dont understand why you would trust johnson he actualy is what he acts to be.
As a Spaniard, and not having a particular interest in British politics, all I can say is that this is the best comedy I have ever enjoyed. Actors are brilliant and so are the scripts, a wonderful job indeed.
And politics in Spain work pretty much the same way. Because they pretty much work that way everywhere.
This comment is so yes minister
This show has not aged. It’s as relevant today as it was when written. That is what is most incredible to me. All time best show in the world.
I was going through some of the episodes for the first time; in a sense, it is nice to know that the world has not changed that much. Somewhat reassuring but also saddening that, in reality, nothing has fundamentally changed.
Cleverest script writing of all time. British comedy is a gift to humanity and without equal
THERE IS NOTHING FURTHER TO ADD
Here here 👍
Amen to that
Amen to that
Rest In Peace, gentlemen. This world is less funny without the three of you.
and that's the truth!
Hopefully their lessons are absorbed so the world can rise above government as it is currently structured.
RIP? The world is less funny?
@@johnkuipers7829 yes it is, no decent comedy now
Yes Minister will never be out of date. Its closest to reality as anything can be.
Im often worried by that very fact....
And I’m sorry to say that that particualr issue is not an exclusive Brittish one. Sweden and Spain are -if possible- even worse!
@@elligue canada is like this also.
It's become "the thick of it" now 😭
Aptly put!
“The only thing I can contribute to politics is making fun of politicians.”
Yes sir, you not only made your contribution to politics, but made ever more contribution to humankind.
I cried when I read that: do you do poetry?
Bernard's line about Sun readers is simple, crude and remarkably well placed. Great piece of comedy.
Not to mention, true.
Yes, it is genius! Just wonderful - and as with all great comedy, so true!
The summary of newspaper readers generally is actually very good. You can infer the Brexit position of each of them from the description given, as an example. At the moment, the average Telegraph reader is convinced that the EU is running the country at the moment, and the courts have no power. Until the supreme court reaches a finding, of course, then they have too much power.
That scene with its brilliant punch line by Bernard has to be one of the greatest and funniest in BBC comedy history.
It is possibly Bernard's funniest punchline in the entire series.
"not a comedy, it's a bloody documentary." That's exactly how govt works.
@Liz Roberts Thats3how it's been since the beginning of the Empire, and it seems to have been successful. Moreso than the modern practice of government by media personality. Lol
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I think Yes Minister ( and Prime Minister ) is some of the most intelligent and brilliant humor ever written. Then again, I find the majority of English humor a bit back in the days, to be brilliant.
You may very well think that. I simply couldn't possibly comment.
Yes and no it depends.
I think if you knew then you could find a way to comment :)
yup - 100%
The best sit coms were written in the 70's and 80's. The Good Life, Some mothers do 'av em, Faulty Towers, Rising Damp, Porridge, Dad's Army, Allo Allo, The Young Ones, Blackadder, House of Cards.
After this things weren't the same. Most comedy now thinks too hard about not wanting to offend one group of people. Humour now is far too pc for its own good.
I used to work under a senior public servant in Victoria-Australia who used to watch Yes Minister for ‘Professional Development’. 😱😀😀😀
It is a classic for all Westminster influenced civil services.
The Queensland public service is just a byzantine and contorted.
BBAAAAHAAAA AHAHAHA HAAAAHAAAAA... OOOHHHH STOP IT!! ... SSSTTTTTOOOOOPPPPP I SAY!
Mrs Thatcher used to love it.....
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Most politicians did and do because of how well it parodies public life and dealing with the civil service
Hence alover the world. Nevertheless not just a commonwealth-issue as this particular way of gouvernment goes back to the sophists and not to forget Machiavellis Grand Master.
The cleverest comedy ever written. RIP all concerned.
Those who are about to...
No, never mind.
Very True and how sad is that but Jonathan Lynn is still with us but excuse my stereotype, based on working with Jewish people since 1971, but he will have " long life" as they say. Incredibly resilient and intelligent people...
It was said at the time that the Australian Prime Minister and the head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet watched it together, both laughing, but at different lines. It also speaks of the times that they were able to set aside half an hour to do that. Setting aside half an hour is something that should be done more often by people who want to keep perspective, taking themselves at least a little bit less seriously than they take life.
It's amazing how accurately it foretold Brexit. Not to mention the NHS with its empty hospitals and the young people needing a comprehensive education to get over their comprehensive education.
"Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" should be required viewing.
Beautifully written and performed.
As a young child born in 1980, I would watch this and Red Dwarf in my bed, when I should have been sleeping. Loved it then still love it now, will always watch it if it's on.
The gold standard. Immortal.
Bernard always had the best one-liners
IMHO Derek Fowlds should have also been awarded a CBE, for his equal contributions as Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington were. A shameful omission in my view!!
@@alexscott7226 Obviously an autocorrect error, that I didnt notice when posting - but thanks for picking it up. 👍
This comedy series reached stratospheric heights. As funny and politically relevant then as now. i.e Boris and Donald.
Boris yes but every prime minister labor or tory does it Tony Blair or Boris. The difference that Donald didnt go through the normal jobs or politcal positions before running. Although he was public about politics for decades as a tv star and was a card carrying democrat for 35 years that donated money to pro abortion causes. Then ran as a republican who was anti abortion. So he got the idea of politcs right from the start. Plus our system is slightly diffrent than the UK's even if you can apply yes minister to it. Our founding fathers came from Britian and didnt trust goverment and hated goverment doing anything but in emergency. Kind of 101 for why the reveloution was fought agianst the british king. So they tried to form such a govemrnet that would never get any thing done besdies in emergency. And one reason out of about ten for the 2nd amendment was to protect private citizens from corrupt goverments taking away private citizens rights. So our founding fathers created goverment that has not one but two parliments (and a president and a supreme court) the senate and the house to make it even less likely any thing gets done unless of emergency. We have two prime ministers and a president. The two prime ministers are the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and the Senate majority leader (Mitch Mcconell) Both are basically prime ministers. And then they can screw up anything a president ever wants to do. And block anything the other parliment/prime minister wants to do. And the supreme court can reject anything they want to do together. And even state courts can reject executive orders from the president. So the goverment can barely get anything done so it wont ruin the country. But Trumps whole thing is we should publicaly say all the things yes minister exposes about goverments to the public in public speeches for everyone to know. And then still contiue to do the same things usa goverments have done for decades that yes prime minister exposes while he tells you that he is doing those things. Which in reality many of the actions trump takes are no diffrent than Obamas or what Hilary Clintons wouldve been. The diffrence is Clinton wouldve made the right speeches and covered up things that happen in goverment that yes prime minister exposes while trump wants to tell everybody about them. And the media spin of a Trump action is startkely negative while the media reaction to the same action taken by Hiliary woulve been posotive. Because Trump is willing to expose the game and that terryfies the media so they spin it. And while Biden will take similar actions to trump. His speeches will go back to flat out cover ups and will pretend that after doing the same action he will spin it to be an anti trump position. And when he does the 1 out of 10 actions that are diffrent than trump he will procalim how diffrent he is to trump. While in reality its the same idea just said in a diffrent way.
Are we not calling them toerag and pussygrabber anymore?
"It is possible that sometime in the future someone as inept as Hacker might become Prime Minister"
*Boris Johnson has entered the room......*
You must write a script to change the comment for every new Prime Minister, as I can not recall one that failed to meet this criterion.
One of the best comedy series ever made .
I was studying in those days in england and I thoroughly enjoyed this programme.
It is great to see yes priminister. on utube it really bring back the good old memories.
The script and the delivery is so awesome 🤗😂
I remember when this was a fresh import via my local public broadcasting station, much as I was introduced to Monty Python 20 years before... different comedy, but the same basic ethos; brilliant writing, superb timing and direction, and a real chemistry between the cast members. Paul Eddington could reduce me to tears simply using his face and zero dialogue.
Yes minister lords over monty python
I remember being shocked when I realized that my own town was being administered according to the same scheming tactics that had been featured on "Yes, Minister."
Even now, how close to the truth.
R.I.P Derek Faulds
Yes a really great TV actor.
VERY SAD, AS ONE BY ONE THEY FALL
It's "Fowlds"!
Truly but sadly they are all gone now.
It would have been so easy to take Hacker into number 10 and ruin what had, until that point, been a classic comedy but they did it beautifully and the whole thing just went from strength to strength. Masterful writing and acting :)
He did become prime minister.
@@ukporkpie7829 It was done well
@@seabass8154 Yes, Prime Minister.
I'm sorry - I have a cold.
Yes minister
Bernard’s one liners were incredible
Yes minister and yes prime minister were the best non fiction tv shows
David Abulafia Right to say that, it is the best English comedy ever produced and it is a French who says that.
Everything is brilliant writing/acting etc Best of everything.
That comment by Sir Humphrey about why the Germans joined the E.E.C. is so true, as is Bernard's comment about The Sun readersip...Thanx for the vid!
exactly! it really hit home with brutal honesty
Almost every word of every episode rings true, mon ami :)
Yes Minister is more documentary than comedy. It's also a great example of how comedy isn't just about the great writing, it's about serendipitous coming together of exactly the right cast, with exactly the right chemistry to make the whole thing iconic. This was demonstrated by the attempted revival a couple of years ago. Same writers, mostly the same jokes, but the cast just couldn't pull it together and it fell flat on its face.
If Machiavelli were alive today, he would study Yes Minister.
If Machiavelli had been alive when the series was created he'd have had to up his game to get a job as a co-writer.
R.I.P. Derek Fowlds.
Sadly reassigned to less vital obligations commensurate with his existential reclassification.
Hear, hear!
I LOVED His character. May he R.I.P
BOOM BOOM Mr Derek
Greatest show in the history of humanity
Why is Hacker considered to be an inept minister? Compared to who? His cabinet colleagues? The civil servants , journalists, political lobbyists& activists that surrounded Hacker? The crooked business men doing shady deals?
They were all a total joke.
They are a tragedy, a poison to freedom.
definitely the best series I've seen
I agree. Yes Minister showed us how government was run.
It was the number one over here in Ireland while 'last of the summer wine' was number one in England at the same time.
Paul Eddington should have a two BAFTA awards for his performance in the "A Victory for Democracy" & "The Key." And Derek Fowlds should have won something, especially for his performance in "A Victory for Democracy,"
I believe even Pauls’ wife said Nigel had the best lines.
I think Paul had the best facial expressions. .
Should have been joint awards for both.
I'm not being picky because this programme was wonderful and all 3 Actors were magnificent but it would have carried more clout if Nigel's Partner had said that as Paul's wife would admit to a degree of bias...:)
Why "The Key"? That was very much a Sir Humphrey showcase.
Party Games
THE WHOLE SHOWS WERE WRITTEN BY GENIUS WRITERS, WHO HAD TO HAVE INSIDE INFORMATION FROM WHITEHALL. BUT THE ACTORS DELIVERY REALLY WAS HOW THINGS ARE DONE!!!
hazza harris
Indeed they did.
It came out, after many years, that not just MPs, but cabinet ministers would leak to the writers (off the record) after meetings!!
@@richardlloyd2589 😃😅😅 Brill!!
@@richardlloyd2589 Also many of the stories were based on actual events. The one about the hospital with hundreds of staff, no patents except the Hotel manager who had injured himself, was a true story.
@@dnmurphy48 And in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government of the day built the "Nightingale hospitals". Events proved them to be a total waste of public money (but hindsight is a *wonderful* creation).
My politics tutor at Oxford told me to watch Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister to cut the chase. I still had to go to lectures at Nuffield and write essays based on Erskine May, Walter Bagehot, etc, but she represented that the essence of British politics was contained within this sitcom.
We very much need a version of this for our side of the pond.
Rocky M i think we would ruin it. Politics over here isn’t clever. It’s either mean or stupid. And Americans don’t seem to like word play. There is a true story that the movie, “the madness of King George, “was originally called “the madness of George the third” but they had to change the title for American audiences because Americans thought it was the third movie in a series.
@@PTCello I think you have a point. People nowadays laugh when someone gets hurt-and not often otherwise. But a show might work if it's carried out right.
That is another question mark: whether the entertainment industry could do it right for the audience to ever see it.
It was the lack of crude profanity that made it excellent. The urbanity of sir Humphrey. It didn't need Malcolm tucker.
The show really was amazing. It found a rich source of humour in the realities of government, and at the same time, educated viewers about the functioning of government and a wide range of public policy issues if the day - many of which are still quite relevant. But it did so with humour, rather than by way of dull and earnest lecturing or through a documentary. Should be required viewing for students of politics, public policy and government.
Probably the best sitcom of all englisj speaking countries.
"To those who say that Hacker couldn't possibly become Prime Minister..."
I don't think anyone'll ever say that again. xD
Oh come off it ... surely a bumbling idiot will never become PM, I mean he'd have to loose every vote brought forth in Westminster for the first several weeks of his premiership to be as bad as Hacker! ... Oh, wait!
It reminds me of this czcams.com/video/zT0Rjc6jKCg/video.html
@@SardonicALLY at this point, Hacker for N° 10 looks unrealistically good.
@@nikolaus2688 He has our full support.
I must say is a really great and very clever show .
Maybe it helped some people to open their eyes .
The best political show of all time.
None better in sitcom, but West Wing represented reality in American politics.
The service to humanity, for freedom, brilliantly executed by the writers of this masterpiece, deserves international gratitude and recognition. Take care of one another. Awaken the naive to the sociopaths who have been poisoning the well for generations.
I absolutely LOVED YES Minister/Prime Minister! I miss the actors and the shows...!!!
They should bring this series back .....the topic being the last 3 years since the 2016 brexit referendum.......they wouldn’t even need a script!........the true facts would be enough to have us rolling on the floor
That would also be hilarious, I agree!
They showed their viewers exactly how the sausage is made. Brilliant.
I see what you did there! Yes Minister Season 2, Episode 1.
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister taught me alot about politics. I worked in the Government education system and was always thinking of these shows and how similar work and these show were. Funny to watch but painful to work in.
Fantastic show. Very relevant to our current situation with government and the eu.!
"both sides of center, with leanings to the left and right" pure gold. I love this show and share clips of it as often as I can to as many people as I can, this is a comedy, but an essential codex to politics and bureaucracy.
SURPRISINGLY , MARGARET THATCHER LOVED IT, SHE PROBABLY RECOGNISED SOME OF THESE CHARACTORS AND DODGEY BEHAVIOUR
The newspaper analogy is Chef’s kiss😅
Great clip! Loved the selections (the newspapers bit was hilarious), great fan of Iannucci, and this is the first time I hear Jonathan Lynn. I think a lot of us will fully identify with what he says. Pity that such people don't actually become politicians and we are left with the clowns we have, but I can fully understand it too: politics would be utterly soul-destroying for such people.
absolutely wonderful,Bernard's one liners the icing on the cake!
I remember being shocked to discover that my own town was being run according to tactics, strategies, etc., of "Yes, Minister".
That who reads what passage is brilliant - and Bernard's remark just caps it. Wonderful stuff.
Didn't realise it was a comedy I thought it was a history lesson
As the citizen of a former british colony, i'd say the people who inherited my country from the brits are following in their footsteps down to the last letter, often by being exponentially more incompetant than the british civil service is and driven by a far more uneducated and dogma driven class of politicians some of whom wouldnt even qualify for a job within the service even after accounting for minimum requirements and reservation based relaxations, something i doubt the the brits would ever get themselves into. Aside from Singapore and Malaysia no other former british colony has been able to reform its bureaucracy to make it competant or functional let alone efficient.
Three super actors !!
So sad that these classics are no longer. Not like the crap today
YES BUT----WE HAVE THE RECORDING'S (well I have) AND CAN INDULGE OURSELVES , WHENEVER.
Philip Croft good on you. I’ll look on utube 😂
Imagine Dian Abbot as Head of Education
Compared to the current incumbent Gavin Williamson she's bloody competent.
Perfection in every aspect.
Love this show.
Superb series. Most enjoyable. I return to watch and enjoy regularly. Come on you clever script writers...nothing beats British humour in my opinion. We need something to cheer us all up.
put it back on TV
And while at it, it should be put into school curriculum.
Ah but this is Brexit season and they can't have this on, it might reveal too much.
Goggle box is on.
This comedy could be re-run again today and it would still be current. Politicians never change their power lust is insatiable and Hacker is the prime example of them all
The Paxman /Michael Howard interview is absolute gold dust. It’s a scene straight out of Yes Minister or Prime Minister. It’s also why I really miss Jeremy Paxman as a political interviewer. I’d bet most politicians don’t.
The problem with tv news journalism now is that everyone wants to be the next Paxman.
One wonders what Sir Humphrey and Sir Arnold would think of the current mess.
Well Brexit is in the hands of the politicians, showing political control... They would be mortified!
My favourite for years. Reminiscent of Shakespeare and Voltaire.
Goverments still work like this,it's so funny because it's treu
Exquisite 🙏🙏 nothing else ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Need this series in HD on Netflix
The fact that more people watch TOWIE says all you need to know about modern Britain.
WHAT? watched this crying tears with laughter and rememberance but when they got to the brilliant speeches from Sir Humphrey.....the bloody video ended....
It continues on Best Sitcom - Yes minister 3
I love both Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.
As a Canadian, one of the many things I love about the show is it parallels the Canadian, as
well as the Australian and New Zealand, system of government which is based on the
British Parliamentary system.
Canada has a House of Commons, the British have a House Commons.
Canada has an appointed Senate, the British have an appointed House of Lords.
You can take every scenario on that show and superimpose it on a Canadian government
scenario.
There's no difference.
It's brilliant.
That is the precise reason why we need democracy, liberty and civil society. Once you realize what happened you will know how to do the right choice when you are voting and listening to the politicians' debates. This is the reason that why I love Yes Minister Yes Prime Minister and The House of Cards.
There should be a Yes Minister's old watchers club ....we might have a good laugh and would be funnier than most and very congenial to civilised living!...W.hen all is said and done , taking into account the likely outcomes which can be reasonably expected to arise , given the contingencies on which such projects may be based from time to time and having regard to the law which had it's genesis in the corporate legislation of the early 1900s further amplified by the various acts passed by parliament in the early post war years and given specific definition where necessary in the various ministerial orders which were necessitated by our entry in to the EU which , as we know was then referred to as the EEC, it can be reasonably inferred that on balance given the hostility likely to arise from the various vested interests , that at this time any course of action which can be evaluated by the public as a complete failure would be best avoided in view of the forthcoming by-election in Greater Middling Piddle by the sea. Is that a no?
So beautifully written
yes, it exposed plenty. but that's not why it's good. it also showed the logic of necessity behind the actions, an aspect that has been explained away. overexposure led to cynicism and the deterioration of beliefs.
This show should be always in syndication to re-educate the old and expose the young to the mindset of politicians!
2019 and I look forward to moments every day. "Better than any series of documentaries." Indeed. Better late than never. Oh that we could find true servants of countries as opposed to servants to their psychopathic bankster masters. Brilliant choices of music as well.
When is the team of genius writers going to crawl out of the woodwork and send up the current situation in both the EU and the UK.
@@bloggsie45 never; the country is too pc.
All characters awesome, lucky to have watched while growing up.
Wonder if Boris Johnson handlers watch this genius programme ? 😂😂
My most favorite serial really wonderful amazing I have exhausted words Pls feel my emotions
Documentary, clear and simple.
Absolutely brilliant
Ik heb er geen woorden voor lang leven het britse Engels!
Amazing music taste by the people who made this ;)
"All the main debaters in the Union Society were the most self-satisfied, self-important bunch of clowns I've ever clapped eyes on and they were all behaving as if they were on the government front bench and 20 yrs later they all were...and I thought the only thing I could ever contribute to politics was making fun of the politicians" ... and what a huge contribution that was!
The Section from 10:23 of Jim Hacker not answering a question and forgetting what it actually was is genius.
Ohh, how I miss "Yes (prime) minister"
I thank God for these actors. The best laughter in the world. I'm up 1:00 & 2:00AM cracking up. Bernard you are so ingenious. Humphrey you are so savvy, treacherous in a good way, perfectly in place and love your speech commandment. PM Hacker no one could ever replace you. Just the best in your relationship with your cabinet. RIP, heaven is truly entertained. Love. Peace and Harmony
Bernard was my favourite... Innocent and witty 😀
2004: Someone as inept as Hacker could never be Prime Minister
2019: Boris Johnson
M8, not even close, say whatever you want about johnson but hes not inept. Noone sane would believe a word from a politician, so i dont understand why you would trust johnson he actualy is what he acts to be.
@@marekctvrty It's an act?
@@tx5190 ofc it is