"One of the seven Dudley sins." 😂

"Universities...both of them" always gets me : )

@Myrddin1955

11 ай бұрын

there were 7 I believe, until that fool Bliar totally screwed the whole thing up and dumbed down the degree system!

@CasperScott-qq6ip

6 ай бұрын

Universities both of them brilliant Followed by Blackadder three great English universities Oxford Cambridge and Hull. The reply was definitely Oxford is a complete dump

@jacksmith-mu3ee

2 ай бұрын

​@@Myrddin1955 who told u that he did m

In 2023 this show is still relevant, such a genius show

"A clear conscience? When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?" LOL. That is an absolutely brilliant line.

i've watched and rewatched this show dozens of time over twenty years and I still find it to be hilarious. timeless

@helenswan705

10 ай бұрын

sadly, does not go out of date

@kevinbibb3893

8 ай бұрын

For sure, gets even better with time. Best humour is based on truth.

@erdalonurhan8056

6 ай бұрын

Same here...

@daisyhobbs7500

6 ай бұрын

Me too. Never tire of watching this.

@Dr.JustIsWrong

5 ай бұрын

It's absolutely horrifying

R.I.P. Eddington, Fowlds, and Hawthorne, masters at remembering such elaborate and memorable lines

There's no better group acting and no more contemporary series than this one. Supreme masterpiece of british comedy.

@soniavadnjal7553

11 ай бұрын

But Paul Eddington should have won the BAFTA at least once. They kept on giving it to "Humphrey,"

@ZATennisFan

4 ай бұрын

It's not a comedy. It's a documentary disguised as a comedy 🤣🤣

One of the finest written TV Series of all time. Intelligent, witty, pertinent, and beyond satire.

"I want to have a clear conscience". "And when did you develop this taste for luxuries?"

@admiralfruitcake1109

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 one if my favourite quotes

@DailyClassicsDC2022

Жыл бұрын

even better is when Sir Humphrey asks Sir Bernard Woolly after he has advised him-“HOW IS YOUR CONSCIENCE?”😂😂😅😂😂.

@Gavin-kj4bb

Жыл бұрын

Select size bed 😢costan faire

@Tomgood1984

11 ай бұрын

Classic line...😂

@Leonf123

10 ай бұрын

Some properly hilarious bits in this series 😂

- " Illegally smuggling explosives?" - "We tried everything, but we just couldn't find a way to smuggle it legally."

'Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits!' has to be one of the most unexpected and yet funniest lines in the whole genre of tv comedy! Delivered faultlessly by the late, great Derek Fowlds.

@jimspink2922

3 ай бұрын

You can see him bowing his head to hide the fact that he is trying not to laugh. Brilliant timing

@CaptainHoodC

Ай бұрын

Excellent comedy.

Just the finest of Britisch humour.

When Sir Humphey told the PM that his "straightforward honest statement" was putting unreasonable epistomological strains on the forth epithet I almost wet myself! 😂 I dare say it'd be hard today to even find an actor who could memorize that line (let alone understand it)!

Writing and acting at its best.

Bernard's line about Sun readers must be my favourite in the whole series 😆

It’s one of the seven Dudley sins is one of the greatest throwaway lines. And the PM’s stare. World class comedy. And all 3 of these fine men are no longer with us.

"one of the 7 Dudley sins" 🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes I regret getting old, but we were so lucky to have had this programme, Dad's Army, Monty, Spike, Morecambe & Wise and clear(ish) roads with the freedom to use any of them as we desired. How lucky were we?

@JJONNYREPP

11 ай бұрын

🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1004am 23.5.23 even anarchists need to vac up, m'lud.

@carolwaller9605

8 ай бұрын

We were so very lucky indeed

Incredible how prescient this is in today's world... Either ahead of its time or then some things never change

Best scripts and acting ever 😂

I can only recommend to watch the complete series, the writers were briefed by a contemporary politician and nothing has changed.

One of the greatest - and funniest - TV shows of all time.

@axeman2638

19 күн бұрын

And most educational.

So much fun. Intelligent, sharp. Thank you.

The acting capabilitys of these actors are ( apart from the humor) a great joy to watch💌

Every line was delivered by top actors and not a dud line or actor❤

@JJONNYREPP

11 ай бұрын

🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1019am 23.5.23 strange that you cant get decent and well-known actors and actresses to do comedy, these days. perhaps the scripts are just too shit!? as for politics per se - the health service's desire to keep you all under lock and key and have you scrutinized by well-meaning and professional oppos - give me a break!!! - has come another step closer as they, the health service, "strike" to allow governmental institutions to implement such draconian measures. all those guys needed to do was request a pay rise just below the threshold wherein they would be taxed to the hilt and perhaps would have found themselves better off...as it is they're asking the world ie: demanding a large pay rise and will be penalised for it... ie: they wont be any better off than when they began as they'll be taxed to the hilt.

I hope these people knew just how wonderful they were and that long after they had left us, we would still be loving what they did.

@JJONNYREPP

11 ай бұрын

🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1008am 23.05.23 it gets done........................... if you do it yerself. or set the wheels in motion... with your trusted confidantes in tow.

Paul Eddington was suffering from a rare form of skin cancer during season 2. He was quite sick at the time. Rip 🙏

This show will go in time as a timeless classic.

This is timeless. Never been bettered.

I remember this show being taken off the air waves since it told too much truth.❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you utube❤we love you❤

"Go away Bernard please!"😂😂😂

Thank you for playing this again. So relevant even though it was broadcast decades ago

Bernard was given some wonderfully funny lines, and he delivered then brilliantly.

"Inspector Plod of the Special Branch". 😂😂😂

Who runs the country according to newspaper readers - simply stunning dialogue.

I met both Derek and Nigel, both incredibly encouraging about my dramatic works, both incredibly lovable. Derek is just a darling man. They were brilliant together...total opposites in character and using that to create brilliant sparks and an amazing show. RIP dear friends.

The comedy show that proved that this is the real way England operates

@axeman2638

19 күн бұрын

It's the same everywhere.

Tha appraisal of British newspaper readership... Brilliant!

25:29 Wonderful breakdown of the press!!

This was Margaret Thatcher's favourite TV series. Because its all true.

Probably the best political show of all time....the comedy, the absolute brilliance in writing, and acting, just brilliant....

I don't think this is what "LIVE" really means but I'm into it.

@jimspink2922

3 ай бұрын

The series was done before a live audience. The reason was so that the critics could not say that it was not funny as they were using a laugh track.

Simply outstanding in every way.

25:25 One of the best bits in the entire show.

sadly the mold for this format is broken. this was brilliant and it somehow still stands the test of time amazingly.

@carolwaller9605

8 ай бұрын

A prime minister trying his best to his best job, the mental anguish just genius, the civil service working to their own agenda whilst seeming to support the government.. definitely still applies 50years later. Just brilliant. Bbc should rerun the whole lot of these series.

@ngiallag2792

8 ай бұрын

​@@carolwaller9605 agreed !! sadly the actors playing the parts seem more canny and savvy than the real ones we got !!!

@carolwaller9605

8 ай бұрын

@@ngiallag2792 you mean the script writers, yes. Unfortunately we don’t vote for civil servants so I guess we are doomed..

33.00 just one steely gaze from his boss is enough for Bernard to completely reverse his opinion 😂

Agnes Moorhouse: Animals have rights too, you know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with six hundred other desperate, squawking, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Certainly not. That's why I never stood for parliament.

Absolutely priceless - such a great inspiration for how to cope in your daily work

Love it, love it, love it. Neither my wife or myself could believe the accusations. Great rebuttal by the BBC and thank you for bringing these absurd accusations to light

hahahahahaa one of the seven dudley sins! and the look Hacker gave him. 😂😂😂

"--I know lying is a difficult concept to get across to a politician . . . but . . ."

Brilliant actors. The British do it best don't they?

@THINKincessantly

Жыл бұрын

Tough to beat British comedy...Tough to beat the British period, such a unique culture to have been forged over 2k years of inter-island struggle 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@dontbewoke

11 ай бұрын

@@THINKincessantly We certainly did....not anymore I'm afraid in this grotesque "woke" era

@dontbewoke

11 ай бұрын

We certainly did....not anymore I'm afraid in this grotesque "woke" era

@devonseamoor

10 ай бұрын

@Becky McGreary. It was in the past, unfortunately 😌 Life for the many who live on the breadline is now too grim looking. Due to the protocols thrown at the population, without consent. No one is asked about them, and they pop up like from a mitrailleur. Not much time for laughs when choice flies out of the window, see what I mean?

9:24 falsify minutes 9:36 luxury 10:47 purpose of minutes 14:56 15:26 hang your head 16:06 USA English speaking 16:32 Argentina anthem 17:25 Ireland world war 3 18:34 puppy file 19:23 french bomb 20:18 the tunnel 21:13 Jordan bank 22:06 frech politics vs french police Vs UK 23:57 talk 25:32 uk newspapers 26:06 the sun readers 27:01 get behind before stabbing

"...You mean they'll block it." "Yup."

22:10 I think the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour 10 July 1985 comes to mind... :)

@sandralibeau4795

10 ай бұрын

Yeah the French bombed the ship in New Zealand waters while calling themselves our ally!

Brilliant writing and brilliant acting, classic 👌

The writing on this series of fabulous..govt word speech as t it's finest. How the kept straight is a miracle.

Crystal ball & transport in time .... comedy & candour indeed are servants to conscience

8:35 Something tells me that Humphrey should lecture anyone about coming to the point.

Hilarious, brilliant; esp the newspaper round up at 25 mins! 😂 😂

Took me a while to realise that's Blaketon from Heartbeat 😮😮

26:02 Best. Quote. EVER! LOL!!!

@tmhood

Жыл бұрын

That was pretty daring for the time!

Brilliant. Nothing has changed since these witty, and brutally truthful lines were spoken. A supreme, and hilarious humour in Britain, is the common people watching these TV series, plus the government with its overdose of burocracy, knowing the facts of corruption in parliament and parties, the use of woolly, wordy statements and speeches, while, to this day, those skills are honed, bringing the practitioners into an almost full hypnotic state of selfmade belief. What kind of change on that island, the Seat of Mars, has made life easier, to this day? Anyone?

Brilliant indeed

This is sick. Where can i get more?

Timeless brilliance

So Brillant .

41:10 is basically what the government did to English National Opera in real life. Most of the jokes on Yes Minister become government policy sooner or later

thanks for the laughs gentleman.

Loved the content...the last segment reminded me of the entrance to cottagers cove !

The universities, both of them. LOL!

I need to know everything! Otherwise how can I judge if I need to know it? 💯 how I feel in my everyday life.

They should recreate a modernised version of this show, perfectly displays the ridiculous challenges the civil service give to the ruling government party, no wonder nothing gets done!

@lightyagami1752

7 ай бұрын

They tried. You can look it up. It's absolutely miserable, an abject failure. The original show is perfect, lightning captured in a bottle, never to be repeated.

@lovesarita

7 ай бұрын

The Civil Service you see here has been all but destroyed. These days there are political advisers (think Dominic Cummings) who wield the power; older civil servants have retired; there have been years of cuts, tremendous hostility from Tories and the media ('lazy civil servants working from home' etc), and a lot of low morale.

Lossiemouth looks quite nice, actually.

It's one of the seven Dudley sins 🤣

Classic!!

Sir Humfrey! That wasn't you was it? Yes Benard. How could you say such things? Is there any more? Yes Benard! As damaging as what we've just heard? More damaging. How could you be indiscrete? The interview was over we were just chatting HARMLESSLY! HARMLESSLY?? It was off the record. IT WAS ON D TAPE! Love From Nigeria 🇳🇬. My Dad initiated Me Into British comedy. You Guys Are D Best. RIP to these 3 Gentlemen and May The Grace Of God Be With Their Families Left Behind.

More YPM/YM unseen collages, please!

I love it so much!!!!

Hahaha. Interesting episode.

The question is, is Sir Humphrey married? Probably, half a pound of margarine... Or is it butter? Shall I be mother?

31:48 Great acting...and damn good looking!

5:21 😂😂😂

they had a laugh with the paper joke

Query: If British consumers are only interested in cod and haddock, why are our retail fish markets offering such a range of species? Why would marketeers offer mackerel, turbot, pollack, coley, bass, wrasse etc if noone wants to buy it?

They just don't make shows like this anymore these days!!

Yes, the English-speaking nations can be said to include the United States 😂😂

LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 0948am 23.5.23 STILL FUNNY... YES.

Vim!!! Does any country still use them?

This is awesome

@JJONNYREPP

11 ай бұрын

🔴 LIVE: Yes, Prime Minister Best of Series 2 LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats 1010pm 23.5.23 big tits or no - that's not running the country!!!

the best of how heco could change himself into characters of what he thought

5:56

This was an outstanding programme with insightful writing and peerless acting. It's pace was key to its success - this rapid succession of clips loses context and pace and doesn't serve the programme well.

Never stops being funny! {:o:O:}

One of the seven Dudley sins..... ha ha ha ha

Tough to beat British comedy...Tough to beat the British period, certainly a unique culture to have been forged over 2k years of inter-island tribal struggle 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@helenswan705

10 ай бұрын

If only the govt was up to the standard of the comedy

8:11 minutes

If it was a joke then I dread to think what it is like now... I know (i am a teacher) it got worse.

25:14 youre all welcome :)

I have sbscribed to my BBC license for fifty years which paid for these programmes.