You did rob them, Joe. Yet they robbed you as well.

Sir, I guess you can still get those from the BBC though.

Same thing happened to me a few years ago here in the US. About $15. Slapstick comedy is great...but there's something special about political comedy that could just as likely be a documentary.

The question is not if you robbed Tesco ... but rather if you intend to actually DO SOMETHING about the REAL POLITICIANS ... and most importantly BUREAUCRATS who actually do this exact garbage every day! The ENTIRE british bureaucracy has been infiltrated by REBRANDED COMMUNISM at this moment, just look at all the underage girls who never got help from police after being "forcefully culturally enriched" ... while the government agencies say that THEY CONSENTED / MADE BAD LIFESTYLE DECISIONS ... and so on. Look at the Dinghy-people ... drag Queen story hour for 6-8-year-olds in schools ... and so on. DO SOMETHING ... and let yourself be inspired by 1989 ... and how the countries of the Warsaw Pact GOT RID OF COMMUNISM!

@@veroniquendambo3242 BBC Player doesn't have them all in their archive, sadly

One of the best lines ever lol.

And woud never admit it

Should be a comedy for the public, documentary for the Civil Service and tragedy for the politicians.

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NHS these are prothetic words.

sooooooo... being in the sleight of public service, i take notes, laugh and cry at the same time. maybe i take his honour too seriously xx

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What u think u are only 1

This was sureal

@@markwilliams7461 - its simply brilliant.

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What's thr joke I couldn't understand?

Lol, "We shall reform on the beaches" and the touch on his coat!!😂😂😂👌👌

@@atikshagarwal5147 YES! Kills me every damned time.

I love your reviews on Steam, I'm a long time subscriber!! And you like Yes Minister, that makes you an all round awesome person.

@@asvarien Oh wow thank you so much! Well met!

"Economize... on the beaches" (grabs lapel)

He is my favourite character. Very subtle and smooth

What they should do is secure loyalty to conscience,not towing the line to benefit their career!

That's exactly what I said to myself. But I think I have watched all videos before in their short form.

This simply does not age. These three guys were magnificent. (Of course there were the writers, producers, directors and crew). But the delivery is just perfect. I could watch this endlessly. Not just hilarious but I suspect a very accurate depiction of government workings 😁

@@antoniomatassa5247 I am a Private Entrepreneur. I wouldn't know what happens in Government. But I have spoken to our Country's former Cabinet Secretary, former Head of Service and Former Defence Minister, and other Permanent Secretaries and they do tell me that yes, the Yes Minister's depiction is very close to reality. And indeed it is even Worse than that in the true sense. Do you work in Government?

Mahmud Gadauji - I do work in Government, so I see some of this in real life 🙃

@@antoniomatassa5247 it makes me fancy working for Government. I think I might someday.

I think the fact that the writers had 'Inside Moles' feeding them tidbits, certainly helped with the scripts.

Sad that the "Race to the bottom" has swept away this type of erudite comedy. "Love Island" etc is just the latest in an endless conveyor belt of trashy pap for the masses. No content, just airheads. Very sad.

@@stephenphillip5656 100%

This stuff is absolutely true ... but are YOU BRITS ... going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? GET RID OF THE BUREAUCRATS and ban them from "public life" ... tell them to "learn to FARM". The "how to get rid of them" is EASY ... just follow the examples from 1989, when lots of Warsaw Pact countries GOT RID OF COMMUNISM ... through *PERSISTENT ... PEACEFUL ... MASS PROTEST!* Just DO IT!

The grim reaper must not have liked the Monty Python sketch about Death arguing with Britishers on vacation! You Brits have the worst luck sometimes! You lost New York, which turned into a major economic center, London was flatten by bombs in WW2, the IRA went on a bombing campaign and the European Union turned out to be a dud. Plus getting ousted from Afghanistan a second time. And Hong Kong! Oh well, sometimes it is better to count your blessings, Scotland hasn’t left the UK yet and Wales is still too drunk to even consider itself it’s own country and Cornwall will likely drop into the North Atlantic. 😂😂😂😂

To be fair, I’m sure at one point EVERY British political figure tried to pretend to be Churchill.

@@samuelfawell9159 makes a change from the chuckle brothers I guess

Me too.

@Nic Berni you need a very particular face to properly get the Churchill rumble

@Nic Berni that and drinking constantly.

It's predictive programming, the TV and BBC are there to sanitiser what evil plans they have.

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Aa

Is this part of a PM curriculum?

The pl p

It was actually from Yes, Prime Minister

Cambridge produces spies. Oxford produces prime ministers. I prefer Cambridge.

@@lomax343 In America's case they have neither so they simply produce both in one.

He also said "I'm not one of them, I'm a married man".

@@jennymckenzie5304 We mostly produce Israeli spies, excuse me, "dual citizens", and populate the highest echelons of government with them.

My favourite line EVER😂😂😂😂 Suggesting only Oxford and Cambridge are the only 2 worth considering👏👏👏

Finding it hard to focus on this as a comedy.

It's both

It certainly made me laugh!!

always been a doco.

Great well researched satire. I love this show even though it's a bit dated in some aspects. Someone once bought me a serious set of casette tapes by the writer called "how to beat Sir Humphrey" 'advising how to take on officials.

Did you ever watch Special Branch?

you know who the sick are without a doubt in this backwards funny farm where the animals are in charge of the zoo.

I agree, Nigel Hawthorne was a genius xxx

Magnificent

TLDR: This show is a documentary.

Funny how you had to go to Uni and study law and politics to watch and watch this again lol....you and me are the same age....though I too studied at Uni (engineering)....I realised way earlier how politics worked....but I guess as my family were from outside the UK, I could see how politicians here and the press spread lies ....thing is , now I’m as old as or maybe a tad older than you, my entire working life has been in the public sector, in both Central and Local Government and precisely nothing has changed over the decades since this was aired....aside from the fact that ‘race’ is now a political bargaining chip and used to get votes.....that and the fact that each generation seems less tolerant compared to those who came before....one only has to look at how big the extreme wings of the political bird has become when, back then it was the ‘centre’ who had the numbers and the extreme Left and Right who were in the minority....... United we stand....Divided we fall...and what better way to manipulate a population from the outside than have them infighting amongst each other

Indeed!

I was working at HP at the time and had several Government Departments as my Customers. I suggested to my boss and my colleagues who were selling to Gov't, this should be mandatory viewing, and it was fun, great fun comparing notes with the Real Govt Department Heads...

the politics of europe is exactly the reason europe is getting behind on the rest of the world

This series was broadcast in 1981, so it´s just 40 now in 2021.

Nothing offered now comes close in quality of writing, acting and presentation.

Yet we don't revolt whilst believing we are actually better than Russia..🙄

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"I'm sure you know what your doing. But this could cause people to reflect on your soundness". "Anyway I thought it might be a good idea to have a little chat". Civil Service speak for we are not very happy with your running of the Dept perhaps a transfer to another Department of minor importance could be on the cards

The books had the additional layer of Bernard's, as Sir Humphrey's succesor, annotations which were an utterly sublime addition to the magic!

@@carnivaltym penoty vsirehhh, love me this nite donnt love me 2 morrow!.

Donnt love me 2morrow come back again zomeothrr day 2 love me.

They even adapted to Indian context in Ji MantriJi with Farooq Sheikh as the minister but can't find any episodes. However the books are available

One of the few things us Brits are good at is satirising ourselves, and in this show's case with beautiful writing and acting. There's even the odd bits of coarse humour for all us plebs to enjoy, my favourite one is about the newspapers: Hacker: "What will the papers say?" Humphrey: "Well the Mirror is read by people that think someone else should run the country, the Guardian is read by people who think they should run the country, the Financial Times is read by people who own the country, the times is read by the people who do run the country, the Telegraph is read by people that think another country should run the country and the mail is read by people who think that another country does run the country". Hacker: "What about the Sun" Bernard: "The Sun is read by people who don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits" I mean in fairness it's pretty accurate.

Inestimably so

Not just good but still extremely relevant, could be about the current mod.

and accurate too , as recent events have shown and indeed do show.

@@johndavies-gay813 well brexit made it relevant

If you really want to watch the best bits, you have to watch the entire series. 😆

@@TheFtocFactor Very true. No scene is wasted.

A very VERY powerful man!

My favourite character

The mechanisms of politics and governance are unchanging.

This is why I love this series. It's not just busytalk, there is an actual coherent logic in what he says.

Can you give any example of it. All he says is that nothing has to been done so do nothing.

@@johnwolf6082 Sir Humphrey: The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite 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. Hacker: I beg your pardon? Sir Humphrey: It was... I.

@@joncooper2036 Yeah, it is not an unintelligible combination of words; just more orotund than usual. Devoting close attention indeed renders these sentences comprehensible.

@@joncooper2036 How is the British Empire under the rule of Humphreys and Arnolds?

"Go!" *Snap*😆

Their job. ; )

I read your comment and Graham Greene was in a scene! Haha

@@rosycandyhaven Graham green or Graham garden from the goodies. Garden played a secret service man when hacker got the death threat.

@@ericmraustralia1252 at he 18 min mark... i was on ebay and heard his voice... and thought - that is graham from the goodies... looked at it and yes..!!!

These series are the best. The writing The acting Are absolutely the best, dear anyone to any offer other comedy as close to this program. They are still relevant after do many years.

I'm with you on that.

Yes Minister is brilliantly written, yet in my opinion Fawlty Towers is and will always be number one.

What's OFAH?

@@JobiWan144 Only Fools And Horses, 😊👍🏻

@@JobiWan144 It's an Italian expression of incredulity

Jay and Lynn said that Eddington would often say "Do I have to say this bit ? I can do that with my face"..... he could replace lines of script with a series of facial expressions as thoughts followed each other through Hacker's mind.

There was one swear word about the Sun newspaper 😂

Unfortunately…

Nice try, but I could still make out what you meant.

@@jdrancho1864 Well done man. U can almost be a civil servant yourself. 😅

"You *COULD* do Sir Humphrey's job...!"

@@stephenphillip5656 ha ha😂

"but there are NO patients!"

The first guy, is Nigel Hawthorne, Sir Humphrey Appleby. His ability to memorise such large pieces of script is legendary.

Sir I am from India and we have inherited the bureaucratic system from UK. Everything in the series + what you said is very relatable to us. Civil Services exam of India is the most competitive exam in the world because people want the power to run the country in real way ;)

I agree with you Sir

I don't doubt that the civil service is most responsible for running the country - but consequently they're also most responsible for running it into the ground.

There is a scene with Sir Humphrey getting very red in the face saying, parliaments may come and go, bureaucracy lives forever. I still cannot find it. Have you ever seen that scene?

Good post Sir Cornelius

Nigel Hawthorne was an stage actor, so memorizing scripts was something he had long experience in.

Graham Garden from "The Goodies".

only full episodes

i grew up on this. unfortunately.

Political practice*

We love lemmings..

Not defunct (as of yet) but the government is planning to stop funding it (as much? Correct if wrong) at some point

And the Australian government also,sorry to say.

Pretty much any government or large organization.

:-)

But it is in control, not by them we assume, but still.

Oh come on, viewers found the series funny because we knew what the public service were up to.

The greatest episode!!!

As an American, I'm sure you will carry on enjoying the complete box set of the Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister. ENJOY.

Nope ... THE gem of British Television.

That doesn't mean no retakes.

Theatre actors

Totally Agree!!

Eddington was great in Yes Minister. One of the best comedic actors ever

Eddington was great in everything. A Good Life, he was brilliant as Jerry. And he was a thorough decent man as well.

Paul Eddington and Richard Briers were true gentleman and their comic genius will never be seen again.

...And the writers deserved a Nobel! ;-)

I wanna answer on his behalf with something like “we are privileged to have the honour of continuing in the greatest and grandest conditions of British government.” But let’s be honest, I am not at the level of the writers or actor.