Some times those 1st 2 are kinda true. If you rush things through they do tend to have unforeseen consequences. If you cheap out you need to replace and redo it.

@@troystaunton254 education, particularly literacy for example?

Absolutely valid all 3: 1. Things done quickly are rushed= of a low quality, done without taking everything into consideration, etc. So most of the time someone will have to come and fix the problems or start the whole thing over. 2 when you want to economise and buy cheap things, you discover they don't work, so you have to pay more to get them fixed or to buy new ones. 3. All democracies work like that...

First two are universally true in industry...

😁I was there.

Is it a sitcom? Based on my experience in the Foreign Office in the seventies I would say it's a documentary or training course.

Mr Bean is brilliant

This was being made during an era of very well written british sit-coms and comedy shows in general. Before our tele got americanised, we made some great shows.

Indeed it is!

@@mscott3918100% my job was to basically block every good idea from the cabinet. The most intelligent people I met were on a quiz team from Rotherham.

I just emailed my sister that exact explanation of my love for this show now vs my apathy as a teenager. Diversity quotas were never a good idea!

It's not light years ahead of its time, it's just politics never change.

All of you sound emotionally and intellectually immature. I immediately appreciated it from the age of 5. I am now 7.

Real life is more dramatic than operas

You took the words right out of my mouth Beena. As a now 46 year old I remember my Dad watching this and I didn’t get it. Oh no! I think I’ve become a discerning old person. 😉

The old ones are much more funny. They are all in black & white. Most of the actors are probably dead now. The Brits comedy is classy.

Only “ Blackadder” can match it.

IT Crowd

I reckon Dad's Army tops the bill

Yes Prime minister is on par as well

and VERY very accurate ey?

So you mean you are like the rest of them

Just started watching it 😃 it is genius totally inappropriate dumfoolery that works suberbly . Just like real politics . I will try to watch them .

A civil servant?! Into the sea

Yes this program has done its job well done the the bbc and yes ive sussed what u are doing 👏👍😀

I'm happy for the government to promote the best person (who is free to apply for whatever job they desire) for the job. Not in favour of discrimination by sex though (ie so called _positive discrimination_ ), only on merit. The way Margret Thatcher got the top job, yrs before this program was made.

@@carlhartwell7978 ah yes, no comment section is free of men who really take it seriously and repeat the sketch completely unironically

@@goldenstilettos3166 Usually the best person for the job will be a man though, not necessarily because a woman couldn't do it, but because women are less likely to want to do it. So Humphrey isn't entirely wrong.

@@carlhartwell7978 The problem with the idea that it should be based only on merit is that it's impossible. You will in the end always need someone that has to evaluate who should get employed or promoted, and these people will inevitably have their own prejudices and biases that will affect their judgement. This doesn't change if you let an AI do it either because at some point a human will have to decide what the AI should look for which will once again be decided based on prejudices and biases. The point of positive discrimination is to account for these factors.

@@blitcut9712 But it still rests on the idea that there definitely is prejudice. Bottom line is, life isn't fair to begin with, we should not make even more unfair by positive discrimination, we should merely aim to make it as fair as we possibly can in a meritocracy. You say positive discrimination is to account for certain factors. But you can't know for certain whether those factors exist or how much affect they have, so you cannot know how much positive discrimination is 'needed' One can't simply treat human beings like some kind of laboratory experiment, they have individual desires, skills and goals...I'm for liberty, and there is no liberty if people aren't free to pursue their goals because of arbitrary identity quotas. It's basically communism, it's been tried and there was a lot of death, I wish people would wake up to that.

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Hahaha😂

I think they call "whoosh" now.

@LIM PEH KA LI KONG. Yes, I agree with you, the facial expressions are superb, the actors must've been in their element combined with good memories in order to speak quite a number of sentences that are shaped by rather abstract content. The scenes flow by as if it's normal daily business. Hilariously, to me, a Dutchy, the actors don't show any sliver of shame, or caution, presenting the painful sad state of affairs in Britain's political system, where legislation is said to be totally corrupt. I wonder, if this sitcom would be ON AIR now, just like when it showed up a few decades ago. Imagine, a production with the government's pandemic-management as subject, shaped a la Monty Python style. The state of affairs within the British legislation system was revealed to me by a professor in Britain, a week after I arrived as a new member of the village community. During visits, to meet the locals, I was sitting at a picnic table with the husband of the villager who left 6 eggs of her hens for me on the terrace table, the first morning after I woke up in my new rooms. Kindness is a treat without borders, isn't it? As an interested social observer, I asked this husband, who worked in London during his career as a professor, a few questions. At some point, he looked at me over his glasses, professor-like old-fashioned style, and said " You must know that many people live on the bread line in Britain, and the legislation system is fully corrupt". That remark is engraved in my memory, and I've witnessed evidence of the truth in that remark. Apart from goodwill, and an inventive attitude, making the best of circumstances, in those I've met during my 5 years in the S.West of UK.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

@JamBar1873. As a Dutch observer, in praise of the British sense of humour, I believe that this sitcom is "so funny" due to its resemblance to reality 🤭🙋

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I was thinking that, based on my experience in the Foreign Office in the seventies.

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lucky you. I work with a bunch of philistines who don't get the references!

@@andrewdavidson6495 hahahaha, do they have the intellectual calibre of Winnie the Pooh? I've made one of my brothers and a friend/work colleague watch

"The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is NOT quite shrouded in such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume, but, not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is - it may surprise you to learn - one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun."

I suggest you also buy both Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (all series are included) on Audible - then you get to listen when you're not able to watch. It never dates and can remember watching it in the 80s with my Mum!

@@Juggler4071 AKA It was you...

Humphrey is visibly afraid of Bernard after that speech. He looks like he genuinely couldn't keep up.

Humphrey’s reaction during and after it to Bernard’s pedantic little explanation to try to make it crystal clear what he’s saying and knowledge of the language is just hysterical a sort of “where did that come from?” And “stay away from me I don’t want whatever you’ve got”

@@CRiley-zx1ws What Bernard says sounds complicated to a layman but to a classicist it is elementary knowledge and there is no way that any of it would have been above Sir Humphrey's head. Timeo (Latin, I fear) and timao (Greek, I honour) are both extremely familiar verbs.

@@ABC_DEF nice try.

@@meandshe735 I started learning Latin in 1972 and Greek in 1977 and have been teaching both since 1988. A student learns timeo in the first month of two of Latin. Timao is trickier because it is a "contracted" verb, meaning that all its forms are contracted (timao > timo), but even so it is the most common contracted verb and students will learn it in the first year of Greek.

Totally agree. Shakespeare was my fav tv writer too!

@@basilmagnanimous7011 Learn to spell, then I might care about your opinions.

@@basilmagnanimous7011 The fact that you've responded to my comment disproves your own assertion.

It will still be equally relevant in four senturies, as it's about power, bureaucracy and corruption, and those things never change.

This show will entertain our children and our children's children.

Which is now!!

Politics doesn't change.....

You don't predict this series much future....😂

Hopefully, in 2000 years, summer theaters will use scripts from this series as basis for dramedies, to alternate between Aeschylus, Goldoni, Brecht and EMH...

Even more now but this program is brillent i still say less is more

Given the recent events in the world seems more relevant then ever.

I agree. LOL

I'm quoting you. Love it. Worthy of Sir Humphrey.

Disgraceful that Paul Eddington was so little regarded when the honours were dished out, would love to know who made that sorry and ill-considered decision. He was a lot more than a foil for Sir Humphrey and Derek, as a first-class actor.

67 not 76

That line sort of rings true concerning Covid and the anti maskers and vaxers

@@jimspink2922 Also rings true for the vaxxed.

@@jimspink2922 your comment sure didn't age well 😂😂 dummy

“No equal?” Clearly you have never watched Family Guy

It's not funny anymore. the present government are beyond parody. oh, and as you say, the BBC sucks.

I m glad I can find these treasures on UKposts. My teenage son tried to tell me of the great new concept I needed to be more involved with -about 10 years later-I finally paid attention to him.

Timeless. and pretty accurate. I'm not sure we can make such sharp observational comedy on mainstream TV these days. It would have to have all the minorities, and none of their foibles could be illustrated, and they would have to be oppressed or victorious in every episode. Man, that would be fun..... (not)

@vitalsparks08. This quality can be copied by the team of UK Column, or the Bernician, both fervent critics of the present sitcom called "Pandemic" or, as I use to call it "The Emperor's New Clothes". The day they join forces, will be the day we watch a Monty Python style Pandemic (in retrospect), with curled toes.

Nigel Hawthorn did not excell himself. He was just being him...

Can I speak with mr. John Walker or mr. Justin Brooks? Hahaha

50 odd yrs ago my father was a high end up public servant he Often said this show was brilliant too true to be funny superb show still true today in 2021

The whole conceit of the show is how the civil service really run things and keep the staus-quo, shouldn't really be surprising that nothing has changed, it's only been 40 years...

Yes, it was funny when I first read it in a student rag magazine many years before this programme was aired. The original also included references to the Mirror, Guardian and Expresss.

Which is hilarious because Margaret Thatcher was the PM at the time.

Bernard really shines through in the yes prime minister episodes but that line from him makes me cry 😂

Brilliant quote and hilarious!

why have you written all that out for, we all heard it

I can spot at least Hertford (maroon with thin white stripe, though it may be a thin yellow stripe, in which case it's Teddy Hall), Magdalen (equal white and dark blue stripes), St John's (black with thin yellow and red stripes).

@@CA-ee1et What you’ve identified might just as easily be St John’s, Tit Hall and Trinity, respectively, at the other place, think it’s done quite deliberately to confuse - with only a micron or two difference in stripe-width between the two ancient universities usually. My favourite is that the plainly Guards tie is, naturally, _not_ being worn by the Permanent Secretary to the MoD!

@@Number9s I stand corrected, sir, I’d merely assumed it simply must be Balliol. Don’t be too hard on the show’s writers being filthy ‘tabs... Jonathan Lynn, as the younger of the pair, knew many who came to be in the Cabinet contemporaneous to it being broadcast. Knowing these Conservatives from uni he was quite contemptuous of them. The dynamic he had with Anthony Jay was quite combative too which is why sparks fly so beautifully. Also, the then strictly secret once Cabinet insiders who were the pair’s sources were conversely from Labour governments. Though with consummate skill, political parties are never named in the show; one underlying theme of which is, surely, a non-Tory minister trying to effect change and coming up against a heavily entrenched establishment: someone “only” from the LSE and the former editor of a partisan publication called _Reform._ It’s the sheer complexity of the interweaving of this fabric all done with the lightest and most effortless of apparent touches that makes it an absolute fekin’ masterpiece to me.

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@@michaeljames4904 word

ESPECIALLY TODAY

Oh look, a park!

other than a few good stand ups we have no comedy anymore....

@@ishaannag4545 What culture?

Love from India!

@@jimneil2458 The culture of being the frontrunners when it comes to taking the pis* out of one's self, whit and timing. All of which seemed to be lost on you

They are telling allot of truth, because it is ''just comedy'' it is usually not taken seriously but in my opinion they are telling how things really work to a certain extend.

Not to mention the line about women and Prisons.

Again i see the satire in all this again the well done the bbc but be for u get the liquid grapes out good try but ive enjoyed what u have tried to do but from now on i will try to calm my comment down only if u keep sending these vids on make me smile ok result for u

But at least the BBC has never given in to government pressure!

Politics doesn’t change

Much British comedy is derived from the Irish.

Indeed, these scripts are Wildean through and through.

yes! Also the way they need to show the others that YOU KNOW without actually saying that you know. it's so fucking juicy

Hacker could be slow at times, but when he had the right information, and especially when Humphrey backed him, he could be a very good shot, lol.

Is it 50 lashes....or 100? 😂

Cheers, never knew there was a break between YM and YPM recordings.

@@DreamteamCarlo Yes, the break was there, as the writers originally had no intention of making any more episodes after the third series of Yes Minister. They felt they had run out of stories. However the BBC loved the show, and suggested they continue, it was Sir Anthony Jay, the co-writer/creator who had the idea of Jim Hacker becoming Prime Minister, with Sir Humphry as the new Cabinet Secretary. This would mean a huge amount of new stories and situations could be explored, which would have been impossible of Hacker remained simply a minister. So, the BBC suggested a linking episode of a Christmas Special in 1984 to make Hacker Prime Minister, then film a new series in the autumn of 1985, for airing in the New Year season of 1986 on BBC 2.

Thank you for that snippet of interesting information.

From the Scotch office.. lmao!

Good

Diversity had me in stitches

And here in Australia!!😂❤

Don't be daft. It would need to be funny and clever, and the snowflake box tickers wouldn't like that. No, they'll stick to shyte like Strictly.....where no brain power is needed.

Absolutely no chance there would have to be gays blacks transgenders therfore no room for comedy times have changed sadly