*Watch even more Yes Minister right here: **bit.ly/ComedyGreatsYesMinister*
@TheAnig1408954 жыл бұрын
Is there any way to watch the whole series?
@g2macs2 жыл бұрын
Jim Hacker's 'Churchill' impression makes me laugh every time.
@harrydixon84444 жыл бұрын
Got me laughing when Hacker questioned about the hospital with no patients and found out if was in the running for the best run hospital.
@danielk57803 жыл бұрын
Well, the productivity in that hospital was probably at an all-time high, while the fatality-rate was near 0. On paper, that makes it a pretty well run hospital.
@Chaosmage42 Жыл бұрын
@@danielk5780 and wasting loads of money doing only minor work which could be done anywhere, hacker is in the right completely on this hes pointing out that its a complete waste of money all that hardware not being used at all, instead of in a hospital that needs it. and the union rep complaining about the jobs lost is why a lot of people have a negative perception of unions, i think we need them but that kind of mind set and behavior is what allow companies to keep workers from unionizing which they need to do
@enjoyerofcontent Жыл бұрын
@@Chaosmage42Except he's really not right. Hospitals are vastly more than doctors and patients. Suppose none of the ancilliary staff are there: who procures equipment? Who installs it? Who maintains it? Who organises its use so there aren't arguments in the corridors with doctors demanding it's THEIR patient's turn? Who takes care of making sure the doctors and nurses and everyone else are paid timely and correctly? Is this something doctors should be doing too? Get rid of the office admin. Make the doctors take time away from patients to order pens and paper and clipboards too, shall we? All of these things don't just happen. Healing patients takes more than declaring "this building is a hospital" and putting doctors inside; which was essentially what Hacker's plan is. Even more: who cleans? who takes out the bins? Who changes the lightbulbs? Who makes sure the computer systems are working? Who settles the hospital's accounts with equipment providers? Who makes sure ventilation is working? Who changes the bedsheets? Who cooks? Ancilliary staff, of course. If doctors had to do even an eighth of that stuff the hospital would be considered an enormous scandal. But all of it requires people whose job it is to do it. As an analogy: Hacker's idea of good film making is a famous movie star and a camera in an otherwise empty room.
@danielk578027 күн бұрын
@@Chaosmage42 Well, Unions are made of and represent the workers. It's only natural that they don't want to be sacked. The issue here is with the government, that is not willing to provide the funding to hire nurses and doctors to be able to open that hospital.
@jkolorath4 жыл бұрын
"Every stone will be left unturned in a search for settlement" Ha ha 😂😅
@thomashogan91964 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Antifa. The riot is it's own reward.
@Turha1014 жыл бұрын
@@thomashogan9196 Most of the world was antifacist in 1940-1945, but in 2020 facists are trying to paint being antifacist as a bad thing. Some people actually fall for it and are useful idiots for the facists.
@jkolorath4 жыл бұрын
Chill out guys. The pun is on trade unionists(on similiar lines with "Morning star readers hope that the country will be run by another country" joke). And moreover this was produced in the time of cold war.Its madness to compare commies of Cold war with those in present time. And one more thing. Soviets had to establish alliance with Nazis mainly because Chamberlain refused to have alliance with them. U may ask who said? CHURCHILL himself in his book- History of second world war.
@Turha1014 жыл бұрын
@@thomashogan9196 What are you even talking about? Antifacists does not mean communist, nor anything else. "Anti-fascism has been an element of movements holding many different political positions, including social democratic, nationalist, liberal, conservative, communist, Marxist, trade unionist, anarchist, socialist, republicanist, pacifist and centrist viewpoints." Someone being anti facist or anti nazi which is the same thing does not mean they are communist or whatever else you seem to ascribe to it. Im happily anti nazi, are you pro nazi? Also I dont see how some criminals looting stores has anything to do with the protest, some reports claim there were neo-nazis doing it, some claim it was some other group be it anarchist or even antifa if you get your news from right-wing sources. Im all for arresting looters, dont see what it has to do with being anti nazi?
@Noobsaibot214 жыл бұрын
@@Turha101 I am anti-Nazi. And I am anti-antifa. Equally so.
@ShahidKhan-lf6mg4 жыл бұрын
I don't know why this show isn't held in higher esteem compared to other sitcoms of the time. The writing was sublime and a lot of the issues discussed are still relevant today! It's definitely in my personal top 5 of greatest sitcoms of all time
@1946nimrod4 жыл бұрын
You must be very young!
@ShahidKhan-lf6mg4 жыл бұрын
@@1946nimrod 38, so young enough that I was a kid when it first aired. Caught the repeats in the 90s as a teenager and just fell in love with it. I would never have imagined watching middle-aged men sitting in boring rooms simply talking could be so funny. But people always seem to remember Only Fools or Blackadder more (not that those aren't classics too but Yes Minister is right up there with them)
@magnetospin4 жыл бұрын
Maybe because it was aired during Margaret Thatcher's reign and she wasn't quite like this caricature.
@2159ianmilne4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It was held in high esteem, but by a smaller than deserved number of people at the time. It’s definitely aged better than it’s contemporaries and is now rightly recognised as a classic. I think “the thick of it” is comparable - in my opinion it should have been more widely appreciated at the time, but seems to grow in popularity as time goes by.
@awesimo46844 жыл бұрын
@@magnetospin And she claimed to be a big fan
@NorybDrol824 жыл бұрын
God what an amazing show and I wasn't even born when it first aired.
@PTCello4 жыл бұрын
Classics are forever
@SaintierSet3 жыл бұрын
Kinda sad to see comedy peaked before we were born.
@whzpoor3 жыл бұрын
Dont forget to watch 'the good life'
@Leonf1232 жыл бұрын
@@whzpoor My family is another good one
@perherbert2 жыл бұрын
Check out, Last of the summer wine. 👍
@dreamer_49373 жыл бұрын
My god he sounded identical to Churchill on ‘necessary one’ 😂😂 fantastic
@waltermlane96644 жыл бұрын
Another example of Hacker's Churchill moments!
@DrawnInk14 жыл бұрын
Never gets old. Just love it.
@akib25424 жыл бұрын
Lol.. delusions of grandeur 🤣🤣🤣
@nightw4tchman4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of some other politician...
@sarmadkashani58754 жыл бұрын
I just love it when he plays Churchill.
@gurbindersekhon82403 жыл бұрын
Economise...on the beaches!!!
@Eyyoh7553 жыл бұрын
"It was a tough decision, but a necessary one...!" LOL
@dorkmax70734 жыл бұрын
Why is no one talking about the fact that Hacker thought this up before Humphrey
@abhijitoka3 жыл бұрын
2:16 Damn How could he not get a BAFTA seriously? Its really hard to express such an emotion.
@bugsbunny50924 жыл бұрын
Real civil servants say this is more of a documentary than a fictional show.
@benbarker81544 жыл бұрын
I am a civil servant. NONE of it is fiction. We use clips from the show to train new hires.
@BBCComedyGreats4 жыл бұрын
We're not sure if that's meant to be funny or scary 😬
@RadTechFred4 жыл бұрын
@@BBCComedyGreats Both
@raphaelalexandreyensen62914 жыл бұрын
Things ain't that different in America, I've seen what passes for "leadership" in government departments
@diwanumam15074 жыл бұрын
Has anything really changed since all this?
@ian_b4 жыл бұрын
When a thousand refugees sounded like a lot.
@blafoon934 жыл бұрын
To say that the British government has no money for a 1000 refugees. Some countries in Europe took hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Syrian war with relatively low repercussions and yet we are still squabbling every time such a situation arises. Certainly there should be limits even for charity but a lot of EU members and the UK are downright xenophobic in their refugee policies.
@DilbertMuc4 жыл бұрын
@@blafoon93 ...hundreds of thousands? More like a few million! And still the political left parties want even more: open borders, unlimited immigration, full benefits for everyone... (until one day money runs out).
@jerryjantola4 жыл бұрын
"relatively low repercussions"
@argadargad91284 жыл бұрын
@@blafoon93 the refugees accepted by Europe is 0.2% of the total Syrian refugees that are mostly in Turkey, Jordan, Lenanon, and other parts of the ME, not to mention the internally displaced in Syria. All this hubris is for 0.2% of the total refugees says alot about Xenophobia in Europe
@Leon_der_Luftige4 жыл бұрын
@@DilbertMuc They don't "want" more, it's a matter of still being able to look in the mirror when weighing saving human lifes against some green numbers in the end of the financial year. Anyone who isn't a moral wreck would save as many refugees as possible. Why? Because this isn't about how we treat foreigners but how we treat human beings in general and how much we value them equally. Any of you who is against picking up literally dieing refugees... You should have to sign a paper that should ever he or she become a refugee in a dire, life threatening situation some time in the future as well they shall be left behind dieing as they wouldn't return the favour to others either. The idea of some guy in England with all his health insurance and all being against saving human lives because he fears his wealth might be threatened, sickens me.
@johndoyle47234 жыл бұрын
Still brings a smile to my face, one of the best comedy progs ont the Beeb. Thanks for posting the video.
@HariMehtaKarunesh4 жыл бұрын
Was he trying to speak like Churchill at the end?? 😂
@Sir_Budginton4 жыл бұрын
Whenever he goes into "speech mode", he tries to sound like Churchill.
@HariMehtaKarunesh4 жыл бұрын
@@Sir_Budginton i remember once he said "we shall economise the beaches" 😂
@Balt21Raven2 жыл бұрын
This is one of those relatively rare incidents where everybody actually pulled together and got what they wanted fairly unequivocally.
@drunkenwhiskeyeu2 жыл бұрын
Jim channelling his inner Churchill - brilliantly played! 🙂
@frobbit304 жыл бұрын
This was a great show, love watching it as a primer on bureaucracy.
@fgn12324 жыл бұрын
Humphrey singing "We Shall Not be Moved" in the previous scene lol
@akib25424 жыл бұрын
1:24 who knew Katie Hopkins was a BBC reporter back in the 70s 🤣🤣🤣
@nickhanlon93314 жыл бұрын
Looks pretty old for a 5 year old.
@alex-E7WHU4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I thought it was her too.. 🤣
@anagramconfirmed17173 жыл бұрын
Every stone will be left unturned 😆
@ryanalving37853 жыл бұрын
It came to me that the simplest solution to this would be a press conference where the Minister said "The Union is striking against job loss in a hospital with no medical staff that treats no patients. They are putting the sick people of London at risk over a necessary trim down so the hospital may begin treating patients." And then it would all be over.
@laurentdrozin8123 жыл бұрын
The only issue is that the department desperately want to avoid any publicity concerning the empty hospital.
@ryanalving37853 жыл бұрын
@@laurentdrozin812 I think that the publicity of being stonewalled from government spending cutbacks by a union would be good for the department, wouldn't it?
@throwaway92263 жыл бұрын
That is an admission of guilt, which the electorate always punishes. However unwisely. Also the cutbacks were done by his government (that year's budget) so he would be blamed for it. Unions also had much more public sympathy at that time as the population as a whole was very unionised. Nowadays when bus drivers strike, almost none of the passengers sympathise with the picketers.
@ryanalving37853 жыл бұрын
@@throwaway9226 I would think that getting elected on a platform of open government and slimming down the beaurocracy would be well served by being open about something unpleasant (which their administration didn't originally do) and taking a hard-line against the callous beaurocrats putting the public at risk. Come reelection time, you could always say "we fulfilled our election promises, and we fully intend to continue to do what we promise to do." There might be some short term heat to deal with for a couple weeks, but the news would pick something else up soon enough and forget about the whole thing. Maybe I'm naive, but I actually think that the public would be persuadable to see that they were doing the right thing.
@throwaway92263 жыл бұрын
@@ryanalving3785 a A couple of weeks is oodles of time for a PM to sack a minister. Which is what Hacker cares about more than anything. The media never actually follow up on whether something has been fixed unless another scandal happens. Their job is to get their party elected at the next election.
@jesseberg32714 жыл бұрын
And everybody wins, except Jim's conscience, but Jim's conscience always seems to lose out.
@andrewjones-productions7 ай бұрын
As probably do many politicians' conscience, until they get tarnished with the culture of politics at the Palace of Westminster and forget all about their ideals and not becoming what they all mostly end up as. Some, well a few, recover that conscience when they enter the House of Lords or after reaching what they perceive to be the pinnacle of their political careers. Baroness Warsi is one that comes to mind that seems to be a better Baroness than she ever was a MP.
@yi26744 жыл бұрын
This is the most interesting tv series of it's kind...... Great sarcasm and accurate insight , interpretation and prediction of modern politics. Sir Appleby kanda help me with my bureaucratic english expression. 😂
@Larkstream2 жыл бұрын
Genius writing. Works so well because it's timeless. So funny but when you think about why it's hilarious because you can apply it to things that happen today in government it's a bit unsettling that this was written so long ago
@DilbertMuc2 жыл бұрын
You can be assured that this kind of politics is way older and even the old Romans practiced it the same way. It's human nature.
@xr6lad2 жыл бұрын
Billy Fraser is a prime example why Thatcher walked into office. 👍. Hacker could have demolished Billy with a few chosen words.
@DanielSilkowski4 жыл бұрын
>1000 The days when numbers of importance weren't replacement levels.
@roguedrones4 жыл бұрын
thin edge of the wedge.
@Westkane114 жыл бұрын
This is really relevant today. Here in Denmark, we have one of the most complex tax-systems in the world, that it feels like, that there are officials workers in the system, for the sake of the appearing good to the public, but there isn't a real value. AKA job for the sake of the job and nothing else.
@ethanstump4 жыл бұрын
And what woud happen if you got rid of that position? That person would have to enter the job market, which would reduce the scarcity of labour. And while I'm not an economist, I hear that's a bad thing for the average worker. So whether or not that position is of any value, there would be even less value of getting rid of it!
@walesdoesntsuck66354 жыл бұрын
@@ethanstump A job in the free market has value, a job for the government has none
@ethanstump4 жыл бұрын
@@walesdoesntsuck6635 even a FDA food tester, who makes sure there's no DDT in your food? I mean have your ideology by all means, but please don't be a mindless ideologue.
@walesdoesntsuck66354 жыл бұрын
@@ethanstump I'm not American but the FDA are a bunch of bureaucrats who's job would be done a lot better if it was private. Anyone who works for the government is on welfare in my eyes.
@ethanstump4 жыл бұрын
@@walesdoesntsuck6635 would you like to have no government?
@MD-rd7bn2 жыл бұрын
I used to see it when I was younger and thought it was funny. But now I think it was genius!
@henrysevern11 ай бұрын
Every time I watch these Yes Minster clips I realise how good this comedy series was, in many ways I suspect it is a documentary of what actual occurs.
@rezimonavardisashvili3934 жыл бұрын
In this episode when Humphrey met union representative and settled matter. Started singing we shall we shall not be moved, Union is behind us we shall not be moved. splendid bit.
@sylviaelse50864 жыл бұрын
Can't remember his name, but he was a real BBC news presenter at the time.
@bugsbunny50924 жыл бұрын
Robert Dougall.
@sylviaelse50864 жыл бұрын
@@bugsbunny5092 Yes, indeed. Thanks.
@JustABoringAsianGuy2 жыл бұрын
This show is now extremely popular amongst younger generations in China.
@RahulKumar-ng2gh4 жыл бұрын
A show with such verbal eloquence and BBC committing a typo in the title of the video.
@peterfreeman66774 жыл бұрын
Hahaha! "Hosipitals" - I missed that.
@kgd97254 жыл бұрын
The show was the old respectable and talented BBC. The hosipitals is the new left wing activist BBC .
@droceretik4 жыл бұрын
It's not the BBC posting these clips, it's a third party. Get your facts straight.
@thiagodeandrade70814 жыл бұрын
@@kgd9725 Do you need a safe space?
@ogribiker85354 жыл бұрын
@@thiagodeandrade7081 LOL, best reply of the day !
@7ajhubbell4 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@synthonaplinth59804 жыл бұрын
Of course they're 'striking', there's many janitors employed and no patients to clean up after! ;)
@dhirajshah49338 ай бұрын
This episode should be aired every hour for next 6 months
@andylec58792 жыл бұрын
When the BBC could still make funny comedies.
@RhiannonFan Жыл бұрын
Politicians being 'persuaded' to vote in a particular way on the promise of a peerage. Couldn't happen in real life, could it?
@laurentdrozin8122 жыл бұрын
Every stone will be left unturned in search of a settlement.
@simoncaufield79224 жыл бұрын
Best show ever
@guguigugu4 ай бұрын
every stone will be left unturned!
@jtrenoweth4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@adegbeyekayodecoadegbeye80773 жыл бұрын
All's well that ends well, yes?
@KURDinEXILE4 жыл бұрын
1:25 😂👍
@darylcheshire161810 ай бұрын
In the Victorian Public Service, The Director-General of Education said he and the Minister liked “Yes, Minister” but laughed at different places.
@TheGlassman144 жыл бұрын
Is this 2020?
@jasbarsoph4 жыл бұрын
Excellent nothing could replace this..
@bappamukherjee60162 жыл бұрын
This is one serial that will outlast all politicians and political sysrems
@Mr.Patrick_Hung4 ай бұрын
These days with Britain's homeless epidemic and long waits for medical care she can no longer pretend to be any kind of compassionate society.
@peterdowdall8972 Жыл бұрын
Dear me how things become ture we now need accommodation for a 1000 refugees per day 😂😂
@josephdragunov3742 жыл бұрын
I seriously hate that guy who wanted to strike. I would have squashed that with the military if I was in charge.
@gasparchilingarov40184 жыл бұрын
Hey @BBC Comedy Greats - can you decipher what specifically Sir Humphrey says at 3:04? "against the department? But that is ......... ? " .
@zarabada61254 жыл бұрын
"against the department?" "But that has got n..." It is clear he was about to say, "But that has got nothing to do with [it/the current situation]."
@countingcards12082 жыл бұрын
Is that Katie Hopkins doing the interview
@dickdastardly6352 жыл бұрын
We haven't got the money to rehouse these refugees. Fast forward to 2022.
@John-Smith-99911 ай бұрын
The comedy is still relevant today. In 2023 refugees are a major news story and at the same time the hospitals are on strike
@christianweibrecht6555 Жыл бұрын
This story shows how people will gladly defend a horrible system when their personally benefiting from it
@the.parks.of.no.return2 жыл бұрын
Classic! Who would there be 1000 refugees turning up every day now. Who would have thought ?
@thiagodeandrade70814 жыл бұрын
Hacker, British politics' Wile E. Coyote.
@danieldickson8591 Жыл бұрын
There are many things Jim Hacker doesn't know or understand, but politics isn't one of them.
@thomassherwood50613 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't they still need medical staff
@sebastiaanvandoorn3223 Жыл бұрын
Junior doctors making 14£/hr, how awkwardly this show remains!
@chrisweidner47683 жыл бұрын
Not a comedy. Greatest expose of the criminals in government. Ever.
@stuartwilliams73713 жыл бұрын
So very true, brilliant show, stopped as too near the truth, can’t say anything now as it will “offend” people, such a shame.
@grimupnorth2 жыл бұрын
'We haven't got the money to house these refugees'. Bet you couldn't say that now in a comedy (or anything else for that matter).
@critter300020013 жыл бұрын
So what happened to the 1,000 sick British citizens?
@yochaiwyss38432 жыл бұрын
In the episode it's made clear that the hospital in question had no patients in the first place, or much actual medical staff for that matter. It was originally closed as per government policy to furfill election promise of cuttting down on tax spending.
@johnnywhite584 жыл бұрын
Anyone know who the actor playing the reporter is ? She looks like that right wing columnist ?
@vincentconti36334 жыл бұрын
The algorithm always throws comedy my way after I've abused someone whining about their miserable life on their I phone!!!!
@MonaMarMag4 жыл бұрын
Z całym szacunkiem ale jeśli rzeczywiście polityką zajmują się tacy ludzie to nie dziwi mnie bałagan panujący na świecie . Czy ci ludzie mają i wiedzą co to jest rozum ?
@duckmeat46744 жыл бұрын
Wrong video
@gurra63able4 жыл бұрын
It's scary how little we take in on the fallen democracy of this dysfunctional world when we sit and laugh at ourselves for all the idiotic political decisions which we let business organizations lobbyist decide for us.
@kicapanmanis10602 жыл бұрын
lol sure, always business's fault isn't it?
@yochaiwyss38432 жыл бұрын
And you decide to comment it *just* under the video where a *Union* is actually in the wrong?
@gurra63able2 жыл бұрын
@@yochaiwyss3843 Yes I did but you do not have to use so much imagination to understand that I meant the series as a whole concept. In this video it is clear to me that both sides use the same crazy lobbyists/ think tanks and as usual for the last 40 years it is the worker who loses regardless of which side wins the debate here.
@rolydio3 жыл бұрын
Back when UK wasnt Pakistan 2.0 xDDDDDDDD
@ally114884 жыл бұрын
Probably the worst Scottish accent I've heard.
@1946nimrod4 жыл бұрын
Most of them aren't pleasant to listen to!
@MrNinjaFish4 жыл бұрын
it's not that bad actually
@AudieHolland3 жыл бұрын
Glasgow and Edingburgh have very distinct, different sounding Scottish accents.
@ally114883 жыл бұрын
@@AudieHolland Certainly nothing like the actor in this clip, who sounded like an amalgamation of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Geordie and Mongolian. There's a variety of accents in Scotland from Falkirk to Fife, Aberdeen to Arbroath, Glasgow to Glenrothes.
@ally114883 жыл бұрын
@@MrNinjaFish No, it's bad.
@oghuvwublessing7053 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ is God.
@nicholashylton68572 жыл бұрын
No, it's Sir Humphrey Appleby. He's the one who pulls the strings in that comedic universe.
@carljohanrydberg357 Жыл бұрын
LOL! Such an issue over 1000 refugees. I wonder when this will be pulled for being non-PC.
@DhanurBalagere2 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile...Nothing's changed in the 40 yrs since this episode. Bureaucratic and inefficient governments, labour and pay inequities and the politicians trying to appease their vote bank! No wonder this show is timeless...
@kicapanmanis10602 жыл бұрын
I mean, fairly sure politicians *should* appease their vote banks. How else will they get relected? If they don't win the votes, someone else will.
@BillCarrIpswich3 жыл бұрын
Why is every Scottish accent on this programme so bad?! 😂
@igimyoume15154 жыл бұрын
American humor
@colonelkk4 жыл бұрын
@CashApp imyoume1 What?
@warweezil28024 жыл бұрын
CashApp imyoume1...... is generally poor with occasional bursts funny..
@igimyoume15154 жыл бұрын
@@saturnv2677 The Office
@warweezil28024 жыл бұрын
CashApp imyoume1 Oh dear.... wrong AGAIN! How about before you post you check your facts ? The Office was originally a BRITISH show screened on BBC2, 5 years before the American copy - in fact it finished its run here 2 years before the copy aired en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(British_TV_series)
@DoomsdayR3sistance4 жыл бұрын
@@igimyoume1515The office? Which was written by English Comedians, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant? Or are you on about the US version that was based off of it?
@igimyoume15154 жыл бұрын
Sad
@warweezil28024 жыл бұрын
CashApp imyoume1 you clearly have no idea of the humour involved here...
@igimyoume15154 жыл бұрын
@@warweezil2802 very very sharp.and Dry I believe very Common
@guguigugu3 жыл бұрын
i am so glad the unions are no longer a relevant factor