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@ABanimationLtd 2 года назад

"Your word is my co-operation" - as always Bernard has the best line

@Varksterable 2 года назад

Bernard is possibly the most genuine, relatable, and 'nicest' character in the show. While all around him contrive and scheme and plot, all he tries to do is a good job. To not give him the very best lines would be like kicking a puppy. 🐕🥾😲 His best lines follow his character too. Never overly oritorical like Sir Humphry, or political/self serving like Jim Hacker. Just insightful and clever and witty, and a little bit naive. It's a shame in a way he wasn't given more to say. But then why would he be? He's just trying to do a good job...

@richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

Humphrey = best speeches. Jim = best facial expressions. Bernard = best one-liners. And very rarely the writers flipped this around to great effect.

@SueLyons1 2 года назад

brilliant

@sharadindusaikia Год назад

Fell out of my chair

@rogermouton2273 2 года назад

Yes, as the series went on, Hacker began to get Appleby's number. It was an excellent way to grow the characters, and was also possibly a quite realistic portrayal of how ministers grow into the job.

@theylivewesleep.5139 2 года назад

…then the next election comes and they’re out.

@zachjones6944 2 года назад

I practice Sir Humphrey’s lines to overcome my speech impediment.

@guguigugu 2 года назад

thats fascinating and wholesome

@ironsideeve2955 2 года назад

Excellent

@tommo258 2 года назад

Has it helped?

@sampuatisamuel9785 2 года назад

Lol, doing so will probably worsen it

@samuelbaugh5975 2 года назад

Same in all honesty

@mahmoodrazakbahman 2 года назад

"Well notwithstanding the fact that your proposal could conceivably encompass certain concomitant benefits of a certain marginal peripheral relevance, there is a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude involving your personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance with the consequence that the taint and stigma of your former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate your position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible character." Appleby in his finest. 🤣

@jy3n2 2 года назад

Translation: "You've worked with the people you're now working against, and if people find out you're in trouble."

@gyanishkakati 2 года назад

"I foresee all sorts of unforeseen problems." Ahh something for me to use during meetings when things are not going my way.

@Delightfully_Bitchy 2 года назад

But it didn't work...

@danieldickson8591 2 года назад

@@Delightfully_Bitchy It didn't work because Hacker is acclimated to Humphrey's tactics by now. But this show is a gold mine of witty, piercing lines to undercut whoever you're arguing with.

@gilliankingspeaks 2 года назад

'I foresee all sorts of unforeseen problems'😂😂😂

@jy3n2 2 года назад

But then, unforeseen problems always happen. That there will be an unforeseen problem is foreseeable; what's unforeseeable is the details, and that's what trips you up every time.

@blazypika2 2 года назад

it might sound funny, but it's a perfectly logical way of thinking. fir example, i work in quality assurance, when we discuss implementing a new feature in our product we are prepared for issues to arise in certain areas that are affected by this feature, even if we can't predict what those issues might be.

@samroberts7404 2 года назад

We can handle the known unknowns, it's the unknown unknowns that will trip us up...

@sebastianbonnet1492 12 дней назад

🤣

@starguy321 2 года назад

I really like how Hacker has the edge over Sir Humphrey here. For once, he’s on the front foot and in control of the situation

@Delightfully_Bitchy 2 года назад

At this time this is probably the third or fourth time he's had Humpy on the ropes, but probably the first without help.

@billkeaveney1526 2 года назад

Sir Humphries monologues were wonderfully delivered

@brucewilliams8714 2 года назад

Oh dear. I actually understood every word of Humpy's long speech I'm doomed!

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

One has to take a break every so often, to avoid being Humphrenized.

@vulpes7079 2 года назад

My sincerest condolences. It seems that, in the course of your advancements in comprehension of the formal speech of aristocrats, born and made, you have sent yourself on a path that could be considered destructive to the mind and body, one that requires forsaking all friendship and maidens. You may, in time, and with much despair, be launched into that career which is odious to any pretensions of loyalty and, conversely, secrecy; that of the civil servant.

@danieldickson8591 2 года назад

Humphrey has total command of his word vomit. There's always a logical point in it if you pay attention.

@brucewilliams8714 2 года назад

@@vulpes7079 You're absolutely right, Arnold, as always.

@CricketEngland 2 года назад

It’s amazing how Nigel Hawthorn leaned those long complex speeches and could rattle them off in one take

@Diego-zz1df 2 года назад

The producers of the show later claimed those convoluted speeches left him almost insane. Which was wonderful because he went on to play King George III afterwards.

@grimupnorth 2 года назад

Doesn't quite get it right at 2:40. Then again, the right words don't always come out of everyone's mouth all of the time, so it could just be put down to another piece of superb 'acting'.

@JobiWan144 2 года назад

@@grimupnorth As I understand it, that slight stutter is intentional. Sir Humphrey is taken aback by how his opening attack is parried with such ease -- he expected it to have some effect at least. It takes but a moment for him to compose himself once again and launch into his second point.

@sampuatisamuel9785 2 года назад

@@grimupnorth Indeed

@oneproductivemusk1pm565 2 года назад

I foresee all sorts of unforeseen problems! Just love the sentence structure! Great! Really great!!!

@fawziekefli2273 2 года назад

Love the way Sir Humphry drolls out the words "Prime Ministaahh..!"

@12alocin 2 года назад

Why did I need years and years to pass to realise just how good this comedy was?

@Fetguf 2 года назад

With age our understanding of humor gets more sofisticated.

@robertmoore2527 2 года назад

Because you're thick?

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

@Robert Moore Socrates was dense I guess.

@baardkopperud 2 года назад

Hacker may not have Sir Humphry on the run in this clip, but he certainly got him on a brisk walk!

@colindowd9756 2 года назад

Baffles me why the BBC aren't showing this like they show Dad's bloody Army. This would be a ratings winner

@slots1407 2 года назад

Bloody hell, the Woke would have a fit.

@kuigghu 2 года назад

@@slots1407 why? I’m pretty woke and I think it’s hilarious. Just to be clear this is a genuine question.

@dewiowen1 2 года назад

@@kuigghu You have my deepest sympathies

@MrBannystar 2 года назад

@@kuigghu *"I’m pretty woke"* Was the lobotomy painful?

@kuigghu 2 года назад

@@dewiowen1 thank you but that does not answer my question.

@NicNacSM 2 года назад

Sir Humphrey is my role model; he's mastered the art of saying a lot that actually means very little, how to obfuscate everything On second thought, I'd rather be Bernard who still seems to have a conscience

@KosherCookery 2 года назад

When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?

@NicNacSM 2 года назад

@@KosherCookery 😀👍

@danieldickson8591 2 года назад

The thing is, if you follow Humphrey carefully everything he says is coherent and logical. Unlike so many people who throw out meaningless word salad to try to confuse people, Humphrey always knows exactly the point he's making.

@jeremy1860 2 года назад

Nobody did big speeches better than Hawthorn 😊

@pizzaguardian 2 года назад

Ah yes, the unforeseen problems. I have foreseen those. They are very very... unforeseeable..

@pondgazer1 2 года назад

How on earth did Nigel Hawthorne remember the lines for those complex long-winded comments? Brilliant stuff

@johnking5174 2 года назад

Nigel was a superbly trained actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, so he had a vast experience of learning copious amounts of complicated dialogue.

@user-kf9cx1wl2r 9 месяцев назад

And isn't it curious how this gag, no matter how long the show ran for, somehow never stopped being funny?

@Someguyhere111 2 месяца назад

Love how Humphrey really wasn't expecting Hacker to be okay with it. So satisfying to see him speechless XD

@jm15xy 2 года назад

_"I mean 'obey my commands!'...That's what "cooperate" means when you're Prime Minister."_ Indeed. But...not _solely_ when one is Prime Minister.

@GoodFish1985 2 года назад

For 30 years I still don't understand what Sir Humphrey was saying but I still love it

@redrackham6812 2 года назад

What he was saying was that notwithstanding the fact that Hacker's proposal could conceivably have encompassed certain concomitant benefits of a certain marginal peripheral relevance, there was a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude involving Hacker's personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance with the consequence that the taint and stigma of his former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate his position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible character. Perfectly clear.

@dhk7986 2 года назад

Could I have a precis of that?

@redrackham6812 2 года назад

@@dhk7986 There's nicotine on Hacker's hands.

@g2macs 2 года назад

Humpy had contrived for Hacker to go to a sports event paid for one of the big tobacco companies.

@SamvedIyer 2 года назад

I am perhaps amongst the rarer chaps who could understand what he was on about.

@agape777 2 года назад

Sublime writing!

@12alocin 2 года назад

When ever I think of this show I think of the episode where "Wiesel" and weisel " came into play.

@wozslater7695 2 года назад

That actor who portray's Sir Humphrey, large intellect, probably a real beast when it came to English literature at University too...

@adamowen6226 2 года назад

I can see that Boris has learnt a word or two from Sir Humphrey!

@stephencrossland2493 2 года назад

Surely the funniest/ learning TV program in the history of mankind ? Does anyone know of any comedy in the world that can touch this? It's teaching about the British political machine with laughs. Oscar winners should watch these actors with the jaws dropping on the ground.

@robertmoore2527 2 года назад

Yes Minister?

@mavisemberson8737 2 года назад

The British Civil Service and the way they govern whatever the Political party in power

@arthurpewtey 2 года назад

I have a feeling that Sir Humphrey might have been a better adviser to the Scruffy Liar than Dominic Cummings ever was.

@josepha8415 2 года назад

Funniest Political show ever.

@Telcontarnz 2 года назад

More a documentary!

@mscott3918 2 года назад

@@Telcontarnz I began my career in the Foreign Office in the seventies. I'd call this a training video.

@roderickfemm8799 5 месяцев назад

"I foresee all sorts of unforeseen problems" reminds me of the "unknown unknowns" from our side of the pond a few years later.

@LennyCole96 2 года назад

Jim really had the cards here

@SaintDre7 2 года назад

more yes minster clips please

@Ladynipchick2 2 года назад

Well if I. ... could see the unforeseen problems, they wouldn't be unforeseen.

@gilliankingspeaks 2 года назад

Indeed, one could argue that the problems are not unforeseen, because I have foreseen them. However, they remain unforeseen as I cannot foresee what they are, thereby remaining unforeseen though I can still foresee that they are unforeseen.😜

@Ladynipchick2 2 года назад

@@gilliankingspeaks 😁😁💕

@bbgun061 2 года назад

@@gilliankingspeaks it's obviously easy to foresee that there will inevitably be unforeseen problems

@DUCATEA 2 года назад

The Iron Lady loved this programme

@andreashaynes3346 2 года назад

PERFECT 🤣🌟🤣🌟🤣

@xanderanderson6673 2 года назад

"perhaps I could have a priest" - why does that get a big laugh

@michaelmcdermott1624 2 года назад

The line is "perhaps I could have a precis" - a summary.

@callumhardy5098 2 года назад

Funny i watched this episode last night

@monsters8730 2 года назад

did you foresee this YT video?

@callumhardy5098 2 года назад

@@monsters8730 certainly did

@stephenphillip5656 2 года назад

...and 20 years later, all this came *true.* ... Smoking banned in enclosed spaces, no tobacco sponsorship (sorry, *advertising)* at/of sporting events, plain cigarette cartons, huge rise in tobacco taxes, cigarettes locked in shuttered cabinets at point of sale.....

@steveosborne2297 Год назад

And one of the unforeseen problems was that it caused hundreds , probably thousands of pubs to close their doors permanently . My takings halved virtually overnight because people do not want to stand out in the cold to have a cigarette . We were all told there were hordes of non-smokers waiting to go into our pubs , in actual fact many of them left because their friends , the smokers , weren’t coming . So many pubs then ceased being economically viable .

@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810 2 года назад

And 20 years later Donald Rumsfeld gave us this little beauty, the similarities are ridiculous.: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns-the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.[1]

@Soup_Fish Год назад

Donald Rumsfeld - "There are known knowns and known unknowns. Then there are the unknown unknowns". If only Sir Humpty had forseen this, then the USA wouldn't have had to deal with the unforseen in 2003, but alas the unforseen forseen descended on the unforseen unforseen.................what am I talking about? I forsee now that I think I need a unforseen nap.

@adamabbas1487 2 года назад

Sir Humphrey is one of my favourite characters and love to watch his mastery of machiavellian techniques, but I would have despised him if I had to work with him.

@danieldickson8591 2 года назад

Indeed. Someone may be reprehensible, but we can admire how effectively they go about it.

@DevilDogDen1775 2 года назад

And, this is a prime example as to why most British comedy is far superior to American "comedy"... In so many ways....

@trooperdgb9722 2 года назад

A TV series made in 2013 is evidence of that...today? Really?

@sevenpolar3483 2 года назад

@@trooperdgb9722 'yes, minister' is from the 80s

@annawright4545 2 года назад

Is there a written (on-line) edition of these VDOs or conversations, please?

@nandanm3826 Год назад

Very nice!

@alastairjinks6966 2 года назад

Nigel Hawthorn did these long-winded nonsensical speeches so well

@Chaddlee 2 года назад

They are not nonsense. If you see the script and context there is an internal logic to them. It is just mangled and then hidden in puff and language. It is exquisite writing.

@alastairjinks6966 2 года назад

@@Chaddlee sorry poor choice of word brilliantly written and acted which ever term you prefer

@mavisemberson8737 2 года назад

Not nonsensical. Listen carefully :-)

@rogink 2 года назад

Surely the most important 'unforeseen' problems are that Sir Humphrey might lose out on hospitality from tobacco companies :)

@jamesfowler415 2 года назад

Can you imagine a modern actor delivering these lines? No, didn't think so

@mikeodera3128 2 года назад

Jim Person

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

"Well, depends on how big the tax raise is.." Quite subtle but a touche nonetheless.

@tomdumb6937 Год назад

Cutting taxes almost always INCREASES revenue.

@johnmc3862 2 года назад

Much more functional than Boris & Co.!

@helpfulcomrade 2 года назад

"Does every tax rise represent a blow against freedom?" Why don't you ask the colonies that question - their answer may surprise you~

@gratius1394 2 года назад

When entire nation has mentality of petty peddlers, any attempt at taking away even the slightest portion of their earnings will be perceived as a heinous crime. If you really think about it, the good old US of A were conceived because of dispute over money and their birth nearly bankrupted two superpowers of the age.... Fate certainly possesses twisted sense of humour.

@kreb7 2 года назад

@@gratius1394 if it wasnt for the French the Americans still would have the queen

@gratius1394 2 года назад

@@kreb7 True, on the other hand if not for the Americans, the French would retain their monarchy for substantially longer than they did. Every coin has two sides, I guess...

@kreb7 2 года назад

@@gratius1394 France would be France but USA would be a colony. Plus that was by coincidence.

@gratius1394 2 года назад

@@kreb7 In politics something like a coincidence doesn't exist, my friend. War expenses had to be covered by new taxes, levied mainly on the middle and low classes of French society {aristocracy was perfectly happy to wage wars as long as they didn't had to pay for them} which was one of the main causes for French Revolution.

@explorer47422 2 года назад

what does the PM say in response to Humphrey's speech? 'Can I get an appraisee of that'? Is that the line?

@captainloggy140 Год назад

a précis, that is a summary

@roadwarrior144 2 года назад

But you CAN foresee them Humphrey, because you’ve just stipulated that you CAN foresee some unforeseen problems!

@blackbird5634 2 года назад

Humphrey is so loathsome.

@danzigvssartre 2 года назад

In Australia, the government realised taxing cigarettes was an excellent way to tax the poor.

@juliosalgado956 2 года назад

The Aussi government realise nothing but delivery legislation from outside investors, or bribers, to change your life in their benefit. Go protest brother Danzig, against those drones seeing your face in the streets, you are few that still have a voice.

@Chris-hx3om 2 года назад

You could always choose not to pay that particular 'tax'... Stop smoking, like the heavy tax is trying to get you to do!

@danzigvssartre 2 года назад

@@Chris-hx3om I don’t smoke. I prefer cocaine, like most politicians.

@juliosalgado956 2 года назад

@Kirrily - remember the future You should have the right to be an Idiot. The right to be lunatic or the right to be what you see fit to your own mindset. Who decides where the line goes? Most people will never use DMT, mushrooms or Ayuaska and keep being sad humanoids, aren't these restrictions enought?

@Chris-hx3om 2 года назад

@@juliosalgado956 This 'line' you refer to, it should be drawn when your actions negatively affect other people. And smoking, using mind-altering drugs, drinking (ESPECIALLY driving under the influence of alcohol) and a myriad of other things do have an adverse effect on other people. Thus, in my opinion, they shouldn't just be heavily taxed, they should be outright banned! You may think it's your right to smoke and drink, but what about MY right to breath clean air, and not get killed by some drunk dickhead running a red light!

@Eitner100 2 года назад

In the end.....civil servants are in power.

@richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

In the beginning as well - they run the elections process!!

@richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

@Johann Sebastian Bach So that would be civic servants then? Are the rules made centrally or locally?

@richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

@Johann Sebastian Bach Well if we are being that way on a comment thread about a comedy program, then I would say my comment was too short to be able to provide a full and complete answer on the matters in question, how ever while it’s accuracy can be questioned nor was it fully inaccurate. Or if the first question in my 2nd comment is correct then my 1st comment may merely be a typo.

@richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

@Johann Sebastian Bach Merely a typo.

@walterstafford3053 2 года назад

Greatx

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

Gentke mustakes quick down to equal but timebmustakes is hapoiness

@matthewlloyd3255 2 года назад

At 2 minutes and 3 seconds there's a glitch in the sound where a female voice quickly chirruping "hello" can briefly be heard.

@thesmilinggun-knight9646 2 года назад

lol

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

If systems are obvious to nit when truth to water is denied then check wifi

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

Not cpu screem but wifi

@Saraseeksthompson0211 2 года назад

I always hated how they changed his hair to match his Star Wars look. Still one of my favourite shows of all time

@johnking5174 2 года назад

Paul Eddington's hair style did change especially in series two of Yes Prime Minister. This was down to his illness. He had been suffering from skin cancer for many years, and by 1987 when he was recording the second series of Yes Prime Minister, he had to restyle his hair due to problems with the skin on his scalp starting to become infected with the cancer. It would eventually spread to all of his face by around 1994 and when he appeared on his final TV interview in 1995 he looked very very different to what we see here.

@Blackcomanche 2 года назад

Did Paul Eddington appear in Star Wars? I don't think so...

@johnking5174 2 года назад

@@Blackcomanche Hi, I only just noticed this problem with that comment from Melody. You are right, he never appeared in it. I just commented on his hair style, due to his poor health and cancer treatment.

@samdumaquis2033 2 года назад

Haha

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

Agaha

@federalisticnewyorkians4470 2 года назад

Subtle humour

@gantulgaganhuyag717 2 года назад

what jibirish 😅

@willforest5302 2 года назад

"does every tax raise represent a blow against freedom?" me: YES!

@RainbowSunshineRain 2 года назад

That’s what they are also implying in the clip.

@alan-sk7ky 2 года назад

Dont you like roads then? public order, water supplies, food standards... 😊

@willforest5302 2 года назад

@@alan-sk7ky of course i like roads, there are private roads but thats besides the point. you can recognise that the more money you take from the public, the less money they have to spend freely, while still recognising that some level of taxation is necessary. taxation is theft but its a necessary evil.

@jasonchui6350 2 года назад

The sudden dessert microscopically clear because dragon preferentially bang besides a equal sponge. cautious, alive teaching

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

The green is need but the army away time to alliw errors ensuee they tax thier joy esoecialky in wilds. Thw insects ryebriws raise to the rifht left riggt and tgere itgers

@peterkavanagh64 2 года назад

Try uae the wsll pplug for devjces we in okld need to kniw foe criss refweence