The Thick Of It - Deleted Scenes (The Specials)
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The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of British government. Written and directed by Armando Iannucci, it was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast. These characters continued when the show switched channels to BBC Two for its third series in 2009. A fourth series about a coalition government was broadcast in 2012, with the last episode transmitted on 27 October 2012.
The series has been described as the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister. It highlights the struggles and conflicts between politicians, party spin doctors, advisers, civil servants and the media. In similar fashion to Yes Minister, the political parties involved are never mentioned by name, although the context makes clear which is which particularly during Series 4 when the real life government coalition between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems is reflected in the show. Iannucci describes it as "Yes Minister meets Larry Sanders". Journalist and former civil servant Martin Sixsmith was an adviser to the writing team, adding to the realism of some scenes. The series became well known for its profanity and for featuring storylines which have mirrored, or in some cases predicted, real-life policies, events or scandals.
A feature film spin-off, In the Loop, was released in the UK on 17 April 2009. A pilot for a U.S. remake of the show was not successful, but Iannucci was subsequently invited to create Veep for HBO, a programme with a very similar tone and political issues, with the involvement of some The Thick of It writers and production members.
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‘He trained as a priest”....hilarious.
@aquaries206
3 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is that Paul Higgins, the actor who played Jamie, was indeed trained as a priest until he picked up acting.
@SouthernFriedCyanide
3 жыл бұрын
Be fantastic, I'd confess everything to him...😂
@thephoenixsystem6765
2 жыл бұрын
@@SouthernFriedCyanide Well you would
@pipo7440
2 жыл бұрын
P
"Do you want a splintered glass facial?" Incredible writing, I love it.
"You're obviously devoted to her,again" brilliant! !!
"Who doesn't like people? Some of my best friends are people..." 8:10 Love it.
@pcrana1
3 жыл бұрын
I love how we went some of my best friends are people, some of my best friends are money grabbing wankers in the next season
@joliecollier7937
2 жыл бұрын
I mean he’s not wrong ahahaah
@guibredacalixto9086
2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
12:22 Even someone as harsh and morally dubious as Malcolm has standards, just shuts Ollie down
It’s weird how these deleted scenes almost give more context to things
20:46 by far my favourite tucker and Jamie moment. Taking the working persons side and especially when Jamie says he’ll kill Ben so she doesn’t have to get her hands dirty
u have no idea how much you've improved my quality of life by posting all of these.
@bobsmudger3979
3 жыл бұрын
I second that sentiment 👍
@bartholomewdan
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. They're just as good as the rest of the show.
“Fight, fight, fight, fight.” Jamie taking me right back to the playground in my 1970s Glasgow secondary school. Then trying to help them take their jackets off. 😂😂😂
@acm1137
Жыл бұрын
Looking around for hauners.
Jamie's morals kick in when in the presence of a non-politico. Psychotic but honourable til the end
@davestar4718
3 жыл бұрын
Non politico? You mean muggle.
@samlasley798
3 жыл бұрын
@@davestar4718 ah yes, my mistake!
@clarkmannen8789
3 жыл бұрын
@@davestar4718 Pack it in Phil!
@flygonfiasco9751
2 жыл бұрын
Malcolm has incredible sympathy towards Sam. Their relationship is really sweet
no fucking idea how any of the actors at 22:44 didn’t immediately crack up laughing that shit has me crying
“I bet she’s got some paninis down there though” Mannion couldn’t hold it together 😂
@jamiestewart48
2 жыл бұрын
It's such a genuine laugh as well!
@AlsatiaZevo
2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure that's Roger Allam corpsing - that's a feat, breaking a member of the RSC
@sambrown2126
Жыл бұрын
would have been Phil’s best line in the entire show
I’ve only come to realise how small our community is of people who absolutely praise the show. It’s got that underground vibe. Fucking best thing ever made and there ain’t nothing like it. I’m probably watching this video for nth time and it still hits. Also all the love to us guys. Greetings from India. If anyone of you flies into the country, I would love to meet y’all someday.
I love how Phil brings Queen and Freddie Mercury into any conversation. I didn’t realize my first time watching this that the actor playing him (Will Smith) wrote many of the episodes and also wrote for Veep
@jamiestewart48
2 жыл бұрын
When he says he hopes the large woman doesn't have a thong on but wouldn't be surprised if she has a couple of paninis down there I die every time.
@monkeytennis8861
Жыл бұрын
Showing off your googling skills. Cool story
@janisauzins4103
Жыл бұрын
Unless I googled wrong, I think he first got in there as an actor, and started writing later. Maybe he wrote some stuff uncredited though
@gregoryborton6598
11 ай бұрын
@@janisauzins4103 A lot of the lines are totally improvised too. In a show like this, it's kind of hard to tell where the script ends and the actor's improv begins.
Malcolm's scarily young in the first shots
16:26 one of the best insults of the show!
Jamie should've appeared in this more often.
@Aerostarm
10 ай бұрын
No he shouldn’t have. He was cringe
@JM19649
8 ай бұрын
"SHUT IT" love actually
@themadplotter
7 ай бұрын
@@JM19649love how you completely ballsed up the quote marks there, fat man who’s name I can’t remember.
@fairsaa7975
5 ай бұрын
@@AerostarmI found him a bit much
@Jackdaw5
4 ай бұрын
Jamie tends to be the character favoured by those people who miss much of the subtlety of the show.
In fairness, I can see how a blind toddler in a minefield would be funny in a South Park kind of way
"banging your head against the table, the sound of oak against fucking willow" has to be my favourite thing ever
5:44 Ben Swain uses an interruption line when the interviewer isn't interrupting him
@THESILVERNARUTO
Жыл бұрын
Always gold
"Your wife is gorgeous and you're obviously very devoted to her...again" 🤣
I love the father/son thing between Malcolm and Jamie lol, he 's Malcolm's minime!
7:06 Love how that lady in the background broke when Jamie flips out lol
@ellwill5709
2 жыл бұрын
I think that might be Malcolm's PA, Sam
6:20 scene is probably one of the funniest scenes in the whole show, cannot fathom just how they could get rid of it.
@francainable
5 ай бұрын
I guess it doesn't drive the plot forward really, same with the panini line,which is my favourite here. Agree it's a shame though. Would love an extended ep with all these scenes.
I think 3:43 is the first time I've ever seen Malcolm laugh
@Theseamus2000
Жыл бұрын
He has a slight snigger in the episode Olly starts going out with Emma and says "he's a lover not a fighter"
7:05 Sam trying so hard not to laugh on camera and utterly failing
Poor Glen. He had such a good relationship with Hugh, and then he had to start over with Iam Bent.
8:48 "don't joke, you are not funny Julius, you're about as funny as a blind toddler in a fucking minefield" 💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣
"She's a lovely woman - gorgeous, and you're obviously very devoted to her again."
@sirisaac2000
Жыл бұрын
I've seen every episode and most of the deleted scenes. I think that is the funniest line, just the simplicity of it.
@gingerg85
Жыл бұрын
@@sirisaac2000 The writing was so sharp, truly excellent.
It is a *crime* that that hummus scene didn't make it in.
I could happily work with people like them and would look forward to arriving at work everyday.
@barryhomeowner9293
Жыл бұрын
It'd be therapeutic to be able to shout at people like that
Why were any of these deleted? An extended edition of The Thick of It with all these scenes would be a dream come true
@GustawK
10 ай бұрын
One day I’ll put it together and send you the link.
“You’re devoted to her..again”
I always find Jamie extremely attractive. Wish could see more of him!
@christopherdavies1759
3 жыл бұрын
If you like the actor, I recommend 'Utopia' if you haven't seen it, he plays pretty much the opposite of Jamie, and it's one fo the greatest series i've ever seen
@aquaries206
3 жыл бұрын
@@christopherdavies1759 Utopia is on my list! Thanks for the recommendation!
@gchecosse
6 ай бұрын
@aquaries206 he's also in Line of Duty, with a posh English accent, which is hard to take seriously because it sounds like Jamie mocking Ben Swain.
"dark one, you go. blonde one, you stay" lol
Churchill probably did eat Hummus.
"Everything's fine and... calm." "Calm?" "YES, EVERYTHING'S FUCKING CALM, D'YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CALM?!" hahahahha
I love these deleted scenes they are great, I need to find the two 1 hour specials, I got all the episodes of the show, and in the loop...I just need to track down the specials
Phil is me trying to explain a geek stuff in normal conservations and people just not getting it.
I like that Malcolm says "...undoubtably.." at 11.42
In an alternate reality Mannion is our first Cypriot prime minister
@edpatel6929
2 ай бұрын
Brilliant! A true Cypriot crook at that!!!
I laughed more than I should at the Irene Handl reference
"Jazz hands, feeling you up under the table!" All the Newsnight tricks
"Blinky Spamfuck" - Ben Swain
Even the out takes are fucking brilliant.
Ben: I'm the heavyweight of hope Ollie: Well what if they say, hey, he's just a blinky dork. Contrasts make good writing.
"He's not interrupting him. Paxo is not interrupting him!"
Is there a reason Malcolm is so concerned about whether Claire's partners are blindfolded or not?
@aquaries206
3 жыл бұрын
Probably if everybody else was also blindfolded then its complete anonymity so it’s not that big of a deal😂 idk?
@laserpanda94
Жыл бұрын
@@aquaries206 Yeah, that's how I understood it. Nobody can prove anything if they're all blindfolded 😄
The situation with the janitor, I'm literllay the bloke when it comes to someone getting bullied. "I'll do it for you, since I'm bored and in a bad mood"
Yes everything's fucking calm do you have a problem with calm!?
For some reason ‘who is Peter O’Doherty?’ Gets me everytime
So good.
"Nonono, he needs to do it. He should do it. I WANT him to do it"
1:33 “… verifiable”
Genius show
The actress playing the cleaner is brilliant! 🤣 “You’re gonna have to call the police cause I’m gonna kill him!”
"You’re like the man with the Midas touch…" So…Midas?
@c.l.u
2 жыл бұрын
Midas was a greedy king who given the power to turn anything he touched to gold by Dionysius. (he chose the reward)
I see the cleaner is well adjusted to them
That tucker guy swears a lot.
That third eye joke....
2:44 it’s so bang on
0:18 you can see a boom mike briefly
"That...could just be...somebody who likes walks."
15:44 I feel personally attacked
6:23 Epilepsy of the eyes 😂😂😂
"Cannabis and wanking?"
How did they cut that scene with Ben, Jaimie and Malcolm? 😂
6:13 the opposite of the midas touch is, the kowalski touch.
7:37 without context
Practically Non of these should of been deleted
Not just here, at Waitrose and other places...
Jamie and Malcolm great Scots schooling the English with bad language❤❤❤❤
The last of the last bus home...?
I fucking love Ben Swain
I swear these aren't deleted scenes
@ciaranmcguinness8900
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@Eliteerin
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm fairly sure most of these were in the series
@callumstringer1946
3 жыл бұрын
It’s different dialogue from the same scenes in the show
@francainable
Жыл бұрын
Some of them are scenes that are in but a bit longer where they probably had to cut for time
I don't know when I don't know how but I know tinder kicked me out.
Not all of these were deleted tho?
@seankelly378
Жыл бұрын
some had slight changes these ones weren’t used i think
3:09
"fight, fight, fight, fight"
I really enjoyed 1:58
In the 3rd season Peter Manion is shown to meet Terry for the first time... Are the specials not canon?
@AzelfandQuilava
Ай бұрын
Presumably some of the deleted scenes aren't canon, plus technically Peter and Terri DID meet prior to the show but only she remembers. I wouldn't really say the deleted scene contradicts much either way tho.
12:25 😂
"Sauron"
I got the thick of it complete collection on dvd and I can't wait too watch at of Downton Abbey see going too be good too watch at we'll be good too watch at my name see Gregbouchard
"Like a blind toddler in a minefield"...Howling!!
12:22
Jane Seymour was the third wife of Henry the 8th and the prettiest and his most beloved who died coincidentally of maltreatment and dehydration after the birth of Henry the 8th only son Edward who died at the age of 12 from maltreatment and dehydration then me old mum bloody Mary the 1st of England became Queen. Who was then succeeded by my son's most feared ghost Elizabeth 1 who haunts his dreams. He saw her picture in a history book and said "Mommy she is mean I have nightmares about her."
12:00
🤣
aaahhh what goes on behind the doors of the tories and labour in 2021....
No surrender popes a bender 🤣
J NJ
People seem to like Jamie but I can't stand him. He was just nasty without the funny part.
Funny how most of this just has not survived. It is not on a par with Yes Minister by any stretch of the imagination.
"cannabis and wanking?" ah, a fellow man of culture
Jamie was a killer!
J NJ