"We're only getting six breadsticks?! How do they expect us to have our soup, as it were, with only six?" "I assure you, I find it just as appalling, but unfortunately the vast majority of breadsticks has been sent to the table where the military and intelligence services are seated. They seem to have gotten it into their heads that this particular restaurant is adjacent to a 24-hour bakery."
In the diary version of Yes Prime Minister, Sir Humphrey states in his private diary that this meeting took place at a "discreet" restaurant near St Paul's Cathedral in London, where civil servants could dine discreetly with members of the arts and entertainment.
@@blandedgear9704 Yes there were diary versions published of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, where it is recorded as the diary of Jim Hacker, along with extracts from the personal papers and diary of Sir Humphrey. Bernard also wrote summaries to elaborate on events. They are great books, a great read, and you can get them on eBay or Amazon. They are very old, published in the 1980s.
John Bird, who plays Sir Humprey's protagonist in this clip, first appeared on TV in That Was The Week That Was (commonly known as TW3) in 1962! His last appearance was apparently in Midsomer Murders in 2017 - a career of 55 years with, according to IMDB, 127 credits.
Sweeetie, you dont go to places like that for the food. You go there to have private conversations such as this one, to "leak" information etc, just as celebs go to nightclubs fashion shows and awards ceremonies in expensive dresses cosmetics and jewellery to be seen
Humphrey being his Machiavellian and cunningly manipulative best as he stirs the pot and doesn't tell the director of the national theatre anything to help give jim a black eye over the arts grant.
The guy playing opposite Nigel Hawthorne went on to play the lead in a strange sort of sit-com set in a lawyer's office. I can remember his charater was Mr Fuller-Carp (a subtle anagram by TV's standards) but I can't recall his name or what the series was called. Anyone know?
John Bird - he appeared in the sitcom "Chambers" which I actually saw getting recorded in BBC Television Centre back in 2001. John Bird is a very well known satirical comedy performer. He worked with impressionist Rory Bremner and his best friend John Fortune at the BBC in the early 1990s, and then at Channel 4 with "Bremner, Bird and Fortune" for the rest of the 1990s and right up to 2008. John is still alive (as of March 2022) retired, aged 85.
@@johnking5174 Thanks for that John. (I'll dig around on You Tube see if there are any clips of Chambers). Kind of reassuring to know he's still chugging along somewhere.
Humphrey's using one breadstick to represent 1, 000 000 £. Out of the 6-million-pound Arts Council grant, the National Theatre would receive 1, 500 000 nett.
"I don't know where you got that figure from..."
It's not Clive Anderson - it's John Bird.
"We're only getting six breadsticks?! How do they expect us to have our soup, as it were, with only six?"
"I assure you, I find it just as appalling, but unfortunately the vast majority of breadsticks has been sent to the table where the military and intelligence services are seated. They seem to have gotten it into their heads that this particular restaurant is adjacent to a 24-hour bakery."
I don't know about you but I like my soup with a bread roll
In the diary version of Yes Prime Minister, Sir Humphrey states in his private diary that this meeting took place at a "discreet" restaurant near St Paul's Cathedral in London, where civil servants could dine discreetly with members of the arts and entertainment.
diary version?
@@blandedgear9704 Yes there were diary versions published of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, where it is recorded as the diary of Jim Hacker, along with extracts from the personal papers and diary of Sir Humphrey. Bernard also wrote summaries to elaborate on events. They are great books, a great read, and you can get them on eBay or Amazon. They are very old, published in the 1980s.
@@johnking5174 Thanks, I didn't know that!
@@blandedgear9704 Well that gives *you are not alone* a whole additional dimension.
The 1980s are not old!
Gross breadsticks or Net breadsticks? LoL.
Greatest of all time.
Always remember... He never told him any figures
John Bird, who plays Sir Humprey's protagonist in this clip, first appeared on TV in That Was The Week That Was (commonly known as TW3) in 1962! His last appearance was apparently in Midsomer Murders in 2017 - a career of 55 years with, according to IMDB, 127 credits.
Best television show of all time. God Bless Jim Hacker.
Not quite sure where Clive Anderson was... Maybe you mean John Bird of Bird & Fortune?
Bwahaha! That's an embarrassing mistake for the BBC to make... I mean, they kind of look a bit similar I guess, but damn, that's quite the error.
I think I remember eating in a place that looked exactly like that, years ago. The food wasn't all that great 😅
How many breadsticks did the meal cost?
Sweeetie, you dont go to places like that for the food. You go there to have private conversations such as this one, to "leak" information etc, just as celebs go to nightclubs fashion shows and awards ceremonies in expensive dresses cosmetics and jewellery to be seen
It's England; of course the food wasn't all that great!
PERFECT 👌👌👌
Next line is my favourite:Hardly, I think it is the Enemy of the People.
"There was that play by Ibsen - what was it?" "The Master Builder?" "Hardly - I was thinking An Enemy of the People"
Brilliant 👏
What's a breadstick ? A bread stick ?
what is the meaning of
a million tons of whim?
and fining tabs? at 3:12
Vim not "Whim" - a cleaning (scouring) product. Filing tabs not "fining tabs" - stationery items used to order and categorise files.
@@nickbeer2658 thanks 👌🏻
30 million is huge in 1980s
Hilarious
Grimm Fairy Tale 006 "Faithful Johannes" translated by Margaret Hunt
Balancing the Breadsticks | Yes, Prime Minister | BBC Comedy Greats 1820pm 14.3.22 ohhhh... i should know my grim but i dont...
Well... He is surely won't mention them by mistake!
Humphrey being his Machiavellian and cunningly manipulative best as he stirs the pot and doesn't tell the director of the national theatre anything to help give jim a black eye over the arts grant.
The guy playing opposite Nigel Hawthorne went on to play the lead in a strange sort of sit-com set in a lawyer's office.
I can remember his charater was Mr Fuller-Carp (a subtle anagram by TV's standards) but I can't recall his name or what the series was called.
Anyone know?
John Bird - he appeared in the sitcom "Chambers" which I actually saw getting recorded in BBC Television Centre back in 2001. John Bird is a very well known satirical comedy performer. He worked with impressionist Rory Bremner and his best friend John Fortune at the BBC in the early 1990s, and then at Channel 4 with "Bremner, Bird and Fortune" for the rest of the 1990s and right up to 2008. John is still alive (as of March 2022) retired, aged 85.
@@johnking5174 Thanks for that John.
(I'll dig around on You Tube see if there are any clips of Chambers).
Kind of reassuring to know he's still chugging along somewhere.
Oh yes, the character called "Simon" - who (in real life), wished he'd been in so many more episodes, or even become PM?
Was that Rowan Atkinson as the waiter ?
No.
Great clips on this channel 😆😆😆 BUT-Video's are frequently blurry 👎
We are so sorry that this show was created 35 years ago and it is not available in 4K.
I don't think that's Clive Anderson. Isn't it John Bird?
Yes it is
The greatest triumph of Jim Hacker. But you need to watch whole episode. fmovies is your friend ;)
A side dish for an education sectretary, surely not
nothing changes really
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Can someone explain the gross breadstick part?
Humphrey's using one breadstick to represent 1, 000 000 £. Out of the 6-million-pound Arts Council grant, the National Theatre would receive 1, 500 000 nett.
@@ashharijaywardena Thanks, I thought it was 6 breadsticks net.
@@fool7491 6 breadsticks (i.e. million) nett for the whole Arts Council, yes. But only 1.5 nett for the institute directed by the man in question.
@@ashharijaywardena Now I get it!
I should point out that the net breadsticks is not the total funding. It's an increase of 1 and a quarter breadsticks
Clive Anderson has let himself go.
He’s only in the comments
Unfortunately in 2024 this trout is the shape of things to come
Appalling
What is?...
@@georgebuller1914 the lack of an explanation as to why this person had used the word "appalling" without clarification. That's what
I'm appalled.