FUNNIEST MOMENTS of Yes, Minister Series 1 | Yes, Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
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- Here are the best bits from Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley in a compilation of the first series from Yes, Minister. Want more Yes, Minister? Let us know in the comments below.
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“Urgent, Humphrey? What a lot of new words we’re learning.”
Watching Hacker improve his game at managing Humpy, over the course of the series, never gets old.
politican are generaly most effective around mid to near there end of term the first year were pretty much spent on understanding how the whole system works the next year are spent on getting use to getting what you want and only then you will start getting the hang of it but the window on effective governance is closing fast since you know have to worry about re election.
@@patthonsirilim5739 That sounds like life in general.
“my wife's wedding anniversary”
😂🤣😂🤣
France has the paintings, Italy has the statues, Germany has the gothic architecture, and Great Britain has Yes, Minister.
Germany doesn't really have a big amount of gothic architecture, make it classical music, the second German language 😉😂
Germany has dark trance and house music, beer and bayern munich
Great Britain does not have only Yes, Minister. The list of pretty good British comedy series is VERY long indeed.
Every single element of this series is done so ridiculously well. Brilliant writing, distinct characters, perfect delivery and lovely interaction..
The Shakespeare of British comedy series.
Mrs Thatcher's permanent secretary said he used to watch it with her, and added that they laughed at different times. Everything about it is actually brilliant, starting with the casting.
Let's not forget the scriptwriters and their spies. They ensured that realism was as accurate as the laws of slander and libel would allow.
Hours of real entertainment.
Heartfelt thanks to everybody concerned with the production of this absolute masterpiece.
This is the most brilliant series ever produced. Humour with intelligence. Hard to beat.
Economise...on the beaches... Killed me! Even the bulldog would have smiled.
probably my favourite bit of all
Hacker is famous for his Churchillian moments.
Hacker: Humphrey isn't God, you know!
Bernhard: Would you like to tell him or shall I?
😅😅😅
‘The public don’t have a clue about wasting government money. We’re the experts’
Lol 😂
It's "the public doesn't know anything about wasting government money. We're the experts." (pause) "That's not what I meant."
Possibly the most intelligent carefully scripted series ever produced by the BBC.
The late Sir Anthony Jay and the still alive Jonathan Lynn - two brilliant writers, who had access to the secrets of Whitehall through Bernard Donoghue and Lady Falkender.
No - I think you’re confusing it with BBC News 😉
@Kelly Arthur Mrs. Thatcher considered it to be a documentary.
Arguably by anybody. Utter brilliance.
Best tv programme in history. Peerless.
Not just briliant writing, but well depicted too. What amazing sentences, "it takes time to do things quickly". What a brilliant line. "It is more expensive to things, cheaply". Another jewel.
Greetings from India 🇮🇳. We tried doing our version based on this, and that got cancelled, because our politicians had problems with it.
But the book, ji mantri ji was quite good. However i thought they did make the show? I've not heard anything about it though so I maybe wrong.
"It takes two to QANGO". Sublime!
So much comedic wordplay, timing & writing, Paul Eddington as Hacker could use his facial expressions to convey 10 lines of dialogue, Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey could verbally tapdance & Derek Fowlds as Bernard was the filament which bound it all together. Sadly these 3 are no longer with us, but in reality they are - Yes Minister/Prime Minister lives with us yet.
Filament? Cement, maybe.
@@Ndlanding no, filament sounds right. A thin part that shines brightly ;)
Long time no see … I still giggle thinking about it.
Paul’s was an outstanding performance, first as Minister and later as PM. He should have won the award hands down !
19:20 'It's my wife's wedding anniversary tomorrow' 🤣
“I don’t want the truth, I want something I can tell parliament”, sounds familiar.
Anything you say, Matt.
I don't want the truth, I can't take the truth!
One of the best British comedy series ever. I grew up with this watching repeats in the 90s. Everyone always talks about Only Fools and Fawlty Towers and Blackadder which were also brilliant but why do so few people talk about this gem?
It’s over their heads. They do not care about our real government problems so they don’t get this. Too bad really. This is brilliant comedy.
@@krautnation well I'm an American..... And I and my late mother ABSOLUTELY LOVED all the British comedies and dramas.
She especially loved Eastenders and Doc Martin.
We watched thses and many more (when we were able to) on PBS.
Great TV to be sure!
krautnation is 100% right, and I must admit I'm guilty of being one of those who's heads this comedy is above. I can, and always have been able to watch Only Fools, Fawlty Towers and Blackadder until the cows come home, but I've never found YM/YPM funny in the slightest. Don't get me wrong, nowadays, I can absolutely appreciate and enjoy the excellent acting and superb and outstandingly clever writing, (as opposed to just finding it devastatingly boring when I was growing up), but I'll still never be able to hold it in the same high regard as the other much more humourous, heavy on the comedy and less on satire, lower-brow examples.
A fairly easy way to answer this.
Look at the popularity of the "comedy show" Little Britain, and compare that to the level of intellect shown in PM and YPM.
Comedies like this either go above people's head or requires them to think, which a lot of people don't want in their TV shows.
If you get Blackadder you definatly get Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Fawlty Towers while brilliant is not a play on current/past life events like the formentioned.
British Politics from the 1940's to present day in a nutshell, Absolutely timeless.
Probably another 100 years as well
The best way to appreciate this show is to understand that it is a documentary rather than a comedy.
The gravitas Hacker puts into "Heads will roll" is chilling.
Hilarious, I love it when Jim Hacker manages to turn the tables on Humphey
"We're all agreed, then, that the mountain should go to Muhammad."
"No, no, no--Jim's going."
God, that's fantastic.
"May I come in minister?? Well, you can try!!"
Lost it at that
Hacker is so cute when he fights back :)😀
We'll economize on the beaches - LOL his Churchill moments are fantastic!
The most well written show of all time.
I emailed JL some 20 years ago, thanking him for such a wonderful series and commenting on how relevant it was today. (20 years ago). I was surprised and very happy to receive a reply. Among other things he spoke of, he mentioned that when they wrote it, they were recycling things that had happened in the 60's and kept coming back. (and seem to repeat every 20 years?)
Lady Falkener and others were the "insiders" although none knew of any of the existance of any others. Masterful, "fiction based on fact". Loved it then, still love it today.
Hawthorne is absolutely immaculate and a lot of fun to watch… but the reason I come back and stay is for Eddington’s performance. He IS Yes Minister to me.
I love all three main actors. Derek Fowlds did an excellent job as well.
One of the amusing things that comes up a couple of times in this video is when Jim Hacker ignores Sir Humphrey's advice and goes ahead and does something ("I'm sorry Humphrey but my mind is made up.") then when it blows up in his face Jim says to Humphrey "Humphrey you're meant to advise me, well, advise me".
Blows, not bows.
@@droceretik Well spotted, now corrected
BBC, please remake this for the modern age! Oh wait….it stands up perfectly.
It was compulsory viewing in political studies in Oz 1986. So much to learn.
Whats funny is that after 40 years this is still relevant today
Funny or scary?
@@knititwearit we need to laugh at scary things cause nothings going to change even if were scared
This show was beyond brilliance.....unbelievably awesome....
Watching these clips just makes me want to get a box set & savour every one again!!
The best comedy ever! Still highly relevant even decades later.
As long as there are governments with a civil service, it will be relevant.
Watching Paul's measured change of expression - upon the news of his predecessors demise - in seconds from pure ecstasy to profound sadness is truly one of the greatest moments of this series AND a master-class in acting. 👍
I know it has nothing to do with the utter brilliance of this series but after watching all of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister it came almost as a shock to see Humphrey having anything but grey hair during the first series! It felt like he never aged
It's an utter travesty that Paul Eddington didn't win a single BAFTA for his peerless performances in this timeless and joyous political romp, whereas Nigel Hawthorne won four. Great as he was Hawthorne was not better or funnier than Eddington, and Eddington's role was if anything more challenging. To watch his face change in stages from confident incomprehension to panic-stricken full understanding is to witness a master comedic actor at work. They should have been bracketed together and won jointly.
Hear hear!
To his credit, Nigel Hawthorne was fully in agreement with that view, and was somewhat embarrassed by BAFTA's voting.
@@domainofthesun4400 here, here 😉
I could't be more agree, sir.
What and unbelievable awesome show. Here, in Barcelona, was a complete success. Everybody love it.
Were nicer times.
All I'd like to say is, the show is such a priceless gem, that each and everybody is an equal cough in the final outcome of the production.
When Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey work together- you don’t want to go against them.
A sophisticated comedy! And pure British humour at its very best! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!
During the 80's PTV used to air it, I remember the show as the people with big noses.
One of the best documentaries on how a govt and bureaucracy functions. It is still valid to this very day.
@@redbaron9029 Not on Pakistan Television my friend but on the only private network television in the 90s by the name of Network Television Marketing) or NTM later known as STN ( Shalimar Television Network)
I concur, from India.
Did they ever do a Pakistani version? We did a brief Indian one. Got a decent cast too but I think Indian audience didn't appreciate it well enough.
Funniest moments? Surely not, they were all the funniest moments. A true classic and more than just a few home truths.
Best comedy series I've ever seen, it actually helped me improve my English speaking.
Nearly each sentence of this could make a great quote... 😂😂😉
I don't think the whole series had a worse or poor moment or bit, it was all genius...
Possibly the best comedy series ever written. It will never stop being relevant and therefore funny.
It's an incisive insight into human nature no matter what system changes are made.
You can count on humans to be proud, arrogant, self-interested, defensive, selfish, deceitful when considered necessary, lazy, careless and all the other things that are funny when it's fiction. A welcome release from the scary reality of how horribly ubiquitous it is in real life.
The best I have ever seen in my life and still actual by today's standards. Our worst politicians have seen this gem for sure
This show taught me everything I needed to know about politics
This is absolute comedy gold. Sublime acting.
peter ustinov was being interveiwed once and talked about a trip to soviet russia. he said that one of the most popular western items sold on the black market next to blue jeans and rock n roll were episodes of yes minister. they thought it was absolutely wonderful.
Given the USSR had few methods to sell and/or view cassettes, I find it dubious.
But as someone from the postsoviet sector, the show does show useless communist party numenklatura quite well.
A common nest of useless do-nothings always seem to find their way into government.
I don't want the truth... I want something I can tell Parliament! Best documentary at the time, and today
Always a super comedy!
Absolute gold...just brilliant, brilliant!
That wife of his is like the Best bloody character in it. She takes Zero guff and gives it back in spades, even with so few lines.
The power behind the throne so to speak
What have I got?
Rhythm.
🤣🤣🤣
All in cut glass....
How true even today in 2021, that governments all over the world seem to have studied at the same school and graduated in mediocrity, galvanized into total inactivity and incompetence, this series is so well written a big thank you to the writers and actors.
"We will economize... on the beaches."
my fav bit of the whole show
One of the most intelligent comedies ever written/produced. I watched it at an early age because it was My parents favorite.
First show I binged after lockdown. What a hilarious blessing.
Why isn't this timeless and oddly current show being repeated??? Better than any so called comedic dross on today
That’s a fact 👏👏👏
ah very droll my friend
"Comedies" now are barely funny. Just being "political correct". Painful to watch. Such "Yes Minister" contents will NEVER appear in the box these days.
Free BBC iPlayer app - all on that. I have so much enjoyed watching it.
We live in the age of political correctness. Even PBS is reluctant to show British comedies from the 70's and 80's these days, 20 years ago they would run pledge drives with all night marathons of these shows, no more. Too many cancel culture pressure groups would be triggered. Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Yes Minister, all the British staples of American public broadcasting for decades (they even showed Monty Python's nude skits without censorship) today would be labeled racist, sexist, homophobic etc. etc. etc.
Minister, I must request that on the basis of elevating the standard of humor in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as providing much needed light entertainment in these unusual times and enhancing the training of new members of the civil service that more of the material shown in the video above be provided.
Edit: It would appear that I not the only civil servant interested in seeing further uploads of the above material. We now have the numbers to form an interdepartmental committee to explore the possibility of obtaining it.
Here here
Very succinctly put.
Wh-What?
Brilliant a correct!
They should be able to provide results within about 12 years.
So well written, so well acted.🤣🤣🤣
Never fails to squeeze a guffaw out of my constant depressive existence.
Hopefully it's not as bad as all that, are you doing alright?
Bernard: It's awful, isn't it?
Humphrey: What is awful, Bernard?
Bernard: Well, all these jobs going. Interest rates. Repossessions. Fear of inflation. Foreclosures.
Humphrey: Oh yes. Terrible.
Bernard: You don't sound terribly worried, Sir Humphrey.
Humphrey: Bernard, I am not being sacked, repossessed, inflated or foreclosed. Neither are you.
Bernard: Nor's the Prime Minister. But he's worried stiff.
Humphrey: So he should be.
Bernard: You don't sympathise with him?
Humphrey: That's the deal. That's how Prime Ministers' careers go. They get to be on the front page every day for 3 years, which they love. They travel the long parh from euphoric triumph to ignominious failure and then make way for the next saviour of the nation. It's called democracy.
Bernard: It beats me why anyone would want to be Prime Minister.
Humphrey: lr's the only top job that requires no previous experience, no training, no qualifications and limited intelligence.
Yes, Prime Minister. (Play)
Once he has a clear view, Hacker is an exceptionally good shot.
I vividly remember this show in Norway. Such a gem in British comedy history.
Actually several years ago our politic scene overcame Hacker's place in the Guiness book of records, when we had a defence minister for only eight days.
Any person who one, does not think this is comedy, or two misses the irony of the storylines, does not deserve to be a television watcher. One of the best written tv series ever and all three main characters were performed brilliantly. I bet you, all the Doctor Who fans wish these writers were still on the job!
More than you could ever imagine 😭
The train cabin scene must have been inspired by the Marx Brothers.
My two boys unbeknown to me have watched every episode of Minister, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Steptoe and Son and a whole host of other 70/80 and the odd 90s comedy programmes foregoing all the current offerings. Quality is never out of fashion.
You must be proud!
Blackadder surely?
@@bruhmoment1835 Oh yes done the Adder.
What a great actor Paul Eddington..
Great in The Good Life for sure but this is his greatest work.
He actually wanted to get the part of Humphrey Appelby.
@@lezlezman1843 Link.
My dear fellow, if the public doesn't know what we're doing, they don't know what we're doing wrong! 😅😅😅
I really would like a list of Sir Humphrey's best explanations..... :)
They would fill several volumes.
Subtle joke at 29:59 when Humphrey takes Jim's exclamation of "Backbenchers! Leaks!" to be "leeks" and assumes he means the St Davy's Day leeks Welshmen traditionally wear.
St.David, not St. Davy.
That smile when Jim looks at Humphrey when he first hears him called “Humpy”.
4:20. For how long have you been a minister? Week and a half.
Watching this in 2022 October, it looks like that week and a half is longer than the current cabinet's tenure!
When this series aired, I already found it too close to reality for entertainment. No the fabric of decency in politics have been shredded so completely, you might actually wish for the depicted conditions to return...
fantastic, timeless.
Of course we want more!
Honestly I can't help but always agree with Sir Humphrey.
Absolutely brilliant.
I miss this show.👏👏👏
Same here but all three characters are dead!
@@mikesstrippeddowncovers.2384 RIP to all three! Great actors!
"economize, on the beaches" haha
never get tired of watching this series
21:19 You're the MINISTER dum dum, you can do anything you like!
WHAAAAAT?
Best documentary series
Hacker: Humphrey, I've been thinking ...
Humphrey: Gooooooood ....
😅😅😅
39:17 "It takes two to quango" 🤣
Fantastic series although I can't help but be disappointed with the selection of clips here as there were far funnier ones you could have shown.
@@ar1016 43:11
A wonderful series, thoroughly enjoyable
Nice to see Patricia Shakesby, the actress that plays the role of Jim's secretary and who also played Polly Urquhart in 'Howard's Way'.
Funniest moments of Yes Minister and it's only 46 minutes long.... there must be hundreds missing.
what a coincidence that they both have a marriage anniversary on the same day
Wikipedia.
Yes Minister: Documentary series detailing the politics of the 1980's
Yes Prime Minister. Documentary series of the work of the British Prime Minister of the 1980's.
Are you guys seeing this "the more we learn, the closer we get" ad? Ngl I'm a big fan of it, thoughts?
-Bill s got Europe
-Lucky Europe😂😂😂
The script is priceless!
This is a gift from God, plain and simple
Are they going to remake this series again. it is so good and exposes how government really works
Welcome to standing committee 😂
10:08
Sir Fredrick was a gem; too bad they couldn’t include him more.
This was a truely awesome show
Wonderful-dry wit is beyond so many.
Wife is charming elegant gorgeous adorable and just silly enough to be perfect.
Just came across this. “All my letters are written by an Under Secretary “ The reality is that Ministers correspondence is written at a lot lower level. I know as I did it at Health for over 30 years!
“ This seems be the close season for an open government.”
One of the great series