"This is the greatest disaster this century, Bernard" "There were two world wars"

@zhaoxinwang3333

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated line

@gurbindersekhon8240

3 жыл бұрын

British humour at its best

@lawjef

3 жыл бұрын

Putin: hold my beer

@nemrody7828

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawjef aged like cheese in the sun

@Delightfully_Bitchy

2 жыл бұрын

If Putin does top the first two world wars, at least we'll have the smug satisfaction of knowing that no one we'll be around to confirm it to him.

"Is she pleased with the publicity I got... hum, for her ?" that short pause itself has more comedy in it than many comedians can muster in a whole show :-D

@jameskaruga6730

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thanks for noting that great timing by Paul.

@offBeatRock777

2 жыл бұрын

Gebius

Unfortunately, that is impossible. Or very difficult. Or highly inadvisable. Or would require legislation. One of those.

@guguigugu

5 ай бұрын

a prepared set of excuses for any situation

An underrated joke in this to me is Desmond referring to the Minister's trip to the farm as a "jolly good wheeze." Shows that nobody took it particularly seriously

@aryaaswale7316

Жыл бұрын

He read it in the financial times too

"Well, I was reading this morning in the--" pauses and looks at Humphrey "--in the Financial Times about your visit" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@thomasb.5643

3 жыл бұрын

The funniest thing is that this is certainly not something the financial times would report, especially back then. That's a reference to a scene where he says he never reads the financial times 😂

@jeffhubbard4688

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasb.5643 I think it is somewhere in this episode that Sir Desmond tells Sir Humphrey that he never reads the FT, just carries it under his arm as part of the 'uniform'. That's the reason for the look to Sir Humphrey who almost certainly cooked up this situation in order to get Sir Desmond the extra floors on his building depite Hacker having stated that high rise skyscrapers were no longer to be allowed, or some such.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the warden; the only human being ever to make Sir Humphrey recoil with a look.

@karangill6787

2 жыл бұрын

Only human being after Arnold.

@CarrionCrow993

2 жыл бұрын

@@karangill6787 does Arnold count as a mere mortal?

@BudDylan

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarrionCrow993 God calls him God after all.

@Delightfully_Bitchy

2 жыл бұрын

There's also Agnes, who came in the office and insinuated that she'll take Humphrey's office.

3:53 Brilliantly delivered. Hacker may be talking about the bank, but his look threatens to throttle Bernard.

JUDAS 🤣🤣🤣🤣Tomorrow morning your name will be manure 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely brilliant stuff

@notthatyouasked6656

2 жыл бұрын

After she said he would be "roasted in the press", I was sure Bernard would chime in with a comment about how one doesn't generally roast manure...

@f0urstr1ng

Жыл бұрын

What a great clip. She was superb

1:41 The reaction of Sir Humphrey was hilarious

This has to be one of the funniest clips from YM. I love the way Sir Desmond looks back at Sir Humphrey again after suggesting the cuddly animal sanctuary name 😆

one look and humphrey shuts right up..HAHAHAHA

@FaultlineSurfer

3 жыл бұрын

And just... quietly shuffles away pretending he doesn't exist lol

It's good to see great comedy about a governmental department that's better run than some major countries nowadays...

@cgi2002

2 жыл бұрын

Or as Sir Humphrey would put it "almost all government policies are wrong, but frightfully well executed".

The world really does need the Jim Hacker Cuddly Animal sanctuary, along with stunning view of the rice pudding bank.

I love how the women in this series are generally so strong and intimidating.

The only criticism of brilliant Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister I can think of, apart from not having more episodes/seasons of course, is that the makers didn’t give much airtime to this breathtakingly idiot Sir Desmond Glazebrook.

@hoilst

3 жыл бұрын

Watching him completely shut down Humphrey's brain with "I'm sure there's a Milton Keynes...?" is indeed breathtaking. Not even Humphrey can figure out how to deal with him.

@Lorgar64

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I'm not a fan of the laugh track.

@invictus7736

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lorgar64 It's not a laugh track it's a live audience

@Lorgar64

3 жыл бұрын

@@invictus7736 Wow. Just looked that up. Amazing how they can make normal people sound like low quality recordings.

@invictus7736

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lorgar64 It's almost as if this show wasn't made today

i love how humphrey has a prepared set of excuses for every situation

The way Mrs Philips just turns around and gives Humphrey the glare of death that silences him........priceless!

The fact that hacker did not get awards as much as humfrey was a real shame.

@johnking5174

3 жыл бұрын

Paul Eddington always lost out to Nigel Hawthorne, as Nigel's character had the edge and best lines.

@mithrandir491

3 жыл бұрын

Bernard was quite good too, I loved his explanation on greek tags.

@anuradhajoshi7389

3 жыл бұрын

Ministers come and go but civil servants are for long run. They need to be kept happy. I bet out of 4 bafta atleast one was given out of some inner agenda

@perperson199

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnking5174 Hardly. Paul Eddington is by far the better actor in Yes Minister and Yes PM. Sir Nigel Hawthorne is a brilliant actor yes, but he is better in his other roles. The BAFTA award is just not a good judge, nor are any of the half a million other such awards

@Shadowman4710

3 жыл бұрын

@@perperson199 I think it really had more to do with the part itself. Sir Humphrey got the best lines and moments of the show, and Hawthorne was ideal in the role. Eddington, who probably was a more subtle actor had the harder job but it was also far less flashy and organizations are drawn to flashy performances. Even Hawthorne said that Eddington should have won at least half the awards and I think most fans of the show would agree with that.

The James Hacker Cuddly Animal Sanctuary has a better ring to it, doesn't it?

Classic, classic stuff. Brilliantly written, timeless comedy.

Timing is everything.

Reading in FT about cuddly farm :D.....Desmond and Humphrey have cooked up the story in a hurry.

@yodude832

3 жыл бұрын

... cause he said earlier never read it, can't understand it, it's just part of my uniform.

@TheNefastor

3 жыл бұрын

@@yodude832 One of my favorite lines in the show :-D

If they had written more episodes Glazebrook would have been a great regular character. Great actor, he was in Goldfinger as the banker as well

@xr6lad

2 жыл бұрын

And he never seemed to age. He looks the same in both. Old.

@billkeaveney1526

2 жыл бұрын

@@xr6lad yep just slightly matured like a fine whiskey

Can I vote in Humphrey? Honestly he might be corrupt but he's extremely effective and reliable XD

@edipires15

3 жыл бұрын

No, he's a civil servant, not a politician

@landochabod7

3 жыл бұрын

You can't though. He's just a humble vessel into which ministers pour the fruits of their deliberations :)

@puddles20mike31

3 жыл бұрын

humphrey isn't corrupt he always works within the rules that he writes

@tolep

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of achievements you'd expect from Humphrey?

@bernardthedisappointedowl6938

2 жыл бұрын

He is meant to be the villain of the piece, but somehow it's hard not to admire his considerable skills, ^oo^

Dear Lord Jim, this one is easy: “I had nothing to do with this, I’ve only just heard about it and I’m completely shocked! It must be some kind of clerical error but whatever it is, I WILL fix this!

I'm surprised to see this was only just uploaded

I don't remember having seen this particular incident before, but it's perfectly brilliant of course ;)

This is so good it`s scary!

This is GREAT

Wonderful

I LOVE IT

Really weird seeing poor deceased Blaketon looking youngish

Judas!😡 I say, look heahr! 😂

The good old day's 👍❤️ A more sweary version would be,, the thick of it series on iplayer ironically 😂

@mejsmith1

3 жыл бұрын

Both are great shows.

Wow! She shut old Humphrey right up, didn’t she?

It seems ladies in Britain also boast on the power of their husbands !! 🤣🤣

@scottwhitley3392

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I was in the military. When I was gate duty a woman never had the proper Identification so I told her very respectfully that I can’t let her in (I worked on an establishment that housed the UK’s Nuclear Submarines). She then went mental at me telling me that her husband is a lieutenant commander and that I will pay for this. It was pissing down with rain so i told her that she can either stand inside in the warm and wait for me to help her get clearance or she can stand outside in the pissing rain all night 🤣

@arrows8367

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottwhitley3392 hahah

No. I mean no. Yes, I mean no. No, yes I mean, uh, well, definitely not. No. Yes. I mean no.

Genial then, genial now !!!!

Humphrey is having too much fun here

Didn't realise until this video Sir Desmond was in both series

There will be politicians watching this thinking its a normal day at the office. Not saying who...just saying.

@RJSRdg

6 ай бұрын

In fact, a lot of what's covered in the series (like the new hospital that had loads of administrators but no medical staff or patients, or the "emergency communications room" actually happened!)

Humpy had problems dealing with women😂

Humphrey's eyes at 1:26 min O.O

😂😂😂😂😂

Ha lol

The good old days: where a western tv show could say Judas and not face a &&*^ storm

3:10 He reads the Financial Times now?

@TheRip72

11 ай бұрын

That was a joke referencing another part of the episode. He doesn't understand anything in the FT but as a banker, he buys it as part of his uniform anyway. Priceless!

Jim never did well in Episode 6, no matter which season he was in?

@RJSRdg

6 ай бұрын

S1E6 he did - it was the one where he found out Sir Humphrey had made big mistake 20 years earlier!

Yes i mean no

The best thing here I see & fail to see no one pointing it out , there are favors done to get a job done , however there is never a word like cut backs , paying a minister money to get a contract , General basic corruption

@joyghosh8610

21 күн бұрын

Ip address check pls

Back when politicians were still held to account...

@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, they were never truly held to account (in a strict and consistent way at least). It's just more obvious these days. Back in _ye olden days_ our dear leaders just didn't have as many eyes & ears on them or as many mouths yapping at them. Perhaps it's the case that because of that increased scrutiny the ones with something resembling shame left and the ones we have left are the most shameless drama queens. (Not being specific to any one country here.)

@CuFhoirthe88

3 жыл бұрын

It is at this point you should be reminded that this is fiction.

@lexvstee

3 жыл бұрын

@@CuFhoirthe88 From an era in which politicians were still held to account.

@CuFhoirthe88

3 жыл бұрын

@@lexvstee You must be living in a fantasy to believe that politicians in the eighties were held to any account. They were sleaze-balls and degenerates even then.

@lancechimese1715

3 жыл бұрын

You missed the point 😂 go watch again

This is the greatest disaster this century!

Sir Desmond Glazebrook AKA Boris Johnson.

What does "both St. Francis and St. Joan" mean, exactly? Of course, St. Francis is for his fondness for animals, but the rest? Joan of Arc?

@justinshannon559

2 жыл бұрын

St. Joan was famously burned alive by her English and Burgundian captors, Hacker is to be roasted by the press.

@CarrionCrow993

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, I wondered who St Francis was.

@MrDavidkaplan

2 жыл бұрын

St. John the Baptist, I suppose, who was executed by the Romans.

@vincentsmit1935

2 жыл бұрын

St. Francis of Assisi vs St. Joan of Arc

@fwpm7662

7 ай бұрын

St. Joan of Arc, one of the most inspiring lady in French history led the French army on battle and was s heroine. Later she was burnt at the stake.

God, what a Battleaxe. 🤢

This is exactly how governments work 😮

Judas

The farmer's appearance was a rare incursion of bad acting.