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[@arthurthomas-gramaglia6388]

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

[@helenswan705]

sadly, does not go out of date

[@kevinbibb3893]

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

[@erdalonurhan8056]

Same here...

[@daisyhobbs7500]

Me too. Never tire of watching this.

[@Dr_Wrong]

It's absolutely horrifying

[@bycromsbeard]

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

[@Myrddin1955]

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

[@CasperScott-qq6ip]

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]

​@@Myrddin1955 who told u that he did m

[@velmamcmurray8834]

I wish I could watch your an episode of yes minister or yes prime minister instead of the football

[@rhysiartthaniel2366]

⁰k​@@CasperScott-qq6ip

[@CONNELL19511216]

"One of the seven Dudley sins." 😂

[@TheGrenadier97]

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

[@soniavadnjal7553]

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

[@ZATennisFan]

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

[@blackknight2556]

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

[@alfredthegreat9543]

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

[@donnadong5837]

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

[@kamcg1049]

It feels more like a documentary these days........

[@chriskelly4894]

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

[@zoranocokoljic8927]

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

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

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

[@admiralfruitcake1109]

😂😂😂 one if my favourite quotes

[@DailyClassicsDC2022]

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

[@Gavin-kj4bb]

Select size bed 😢costan faire

[@Tomgood1984]

Classic line...😂

[@Leonf123]

Some properly hilarious bits in this series 😂

[@iwasglad122]

'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]

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

[@CaptainHoodC]

Excellent comedy.

[@niceviewoverthere4463]

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]

🔴 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]

We were so very lucky indeed

[@TheQueenRulesAll]

Very!

[@TimL1980]

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)!

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

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

[@vincentsaia6545]

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

[@axeman2638]

And most educational.

[@lindaburns2568]

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

[@jpa3930]

Just the finest of Britisch humour.

[@belindamay6720]

This is timeless. Never been bettered.

[@gregstephenson594]

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.

[@DeirdreMcNamara]

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.

[@daveherbert6215]

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

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

"So its honest and accurate?" "It comes from the ministry of defence" "So it COULD be honest and accurate" Lol

[@debbieramsey-hanks3757]

So much fun. Intelligent, sharp. Thank you.

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

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]

🔴 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.

[@manaski5689]

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.

[@thisisit9829]

Love it! British comedy! Greetings from Sweden!

[@mack8488]

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

[@olulakun1]

"one of the 7 Dudley sins" 🤣🤣🤣

[@armanhadi777]

This show will go in time as a timeless classic.

[@alisonmcshannon1196]

Best scripts and acting ever 😂

[@agent_meister477]

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

[@anthonyrose8136]

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

[@TheSpiceyHistorian]

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

[@rjathar]

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

[@michaelmontagu3979]

I started my working life in the Foreign Office in the seventies. This could have been a training course.

[@rjathar]

@@michaelmontagu3979 amazing!

[@TimL1980]

"Go away Bernard please!"😂😂😂

[@tenou213]

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

[@jimspink2922]

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.

[@colindowd9756]

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

[@JJONNYREPP]

🔴 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.

[@pauldelcour]

Simply outstanding in every way.

[@rjathar]

Tha appraisal of British newspaper readership... Brilliant!

[@justindoonerwind6076]

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

[@sandralibeau4795]

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

[@stephenlane9168]

Brilliant writing and brilliant acting, classic 👌

[@HorneATL]

25:29 Wonderful breakdown of the press!!

[@HolgerKuhrts]

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

[@sharky8577]

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

[@titu600]

They really dont make shows like this anymore... such brilliant writing and acting

[@huwpatt3817]

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

[@nicky611]

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

[@KennethRichards-df3pk]

On a bad day just watch this for 1 hour with a glass of Chablet. Day is soon better

[@ClausHélix-Nielsen]

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

[@cajintexas7751]

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

[@52robbo]

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

[@devonseamoor]

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?

[@irenestevenson1576]

Genius love it ... such amazing writing...

[@robertpurcell5711]

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

[@MyloshEK]

I love it so much!!!!

[@adriennefuller4984]

thanks for the laughs gentleman.

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

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

[@aladdinzwawi794]

In particular Bernard assessment of the SUN

[@russell631]

So Brillant .

[@iancoles1349]

Timeless brilliance

[@noelwilde]

Writing and acting at its best.

[@765kvline]

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

[@michaelhughes7458]

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

[@axeman2638]

It's the same everywhere.

[@crypticTV]

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

[@SandeepKulshrestha]

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.

[@OlivierMosimann]

Timeless, brilliant 👌🏼

[@movarvo1217]

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

[@toreon1978]

„Yes, the English speaking nations can be said to include the united states.“ 😂😂😂 16:45

[@ngiallag2792]

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

[@carolwaller9605]

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]

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

[@carolwaller9605]

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

[@WiseOwl-hi5pg]

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

[@David-cl3du]

Brilliant indeed

[@idanceforpennies281]

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

[@sperissila]

41:24 I enjoy this origin of "actually, it's quite easy, barely an inconvenience"😄

[@TheEmpressMouse]

The universities, both of them. LOL!

[@interloper8029]

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

[@loneprimate]

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

[@harrymoulton4358]

"I've just seen this order of service, it's deeply embarrasing" "On Jordan's bank, the baptists cry, why?" "Don't you know the Jordan bank went bust yesterday?" Love that bit!

[@beckymccreary592]

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

[@THINKincessantly]

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 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@winnerwinnerchickendinner-y4w]

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

[@winnerwinnerchickendinner-y4w]

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

[@devonseamoor]

@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?

[@iandhr1]

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

[@HorneATL]

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

[@tmhood]

That was pretty daring for the time!

[@marykate2336]

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

[@akshaykulkarni3813]

Classic!!

[@thomasmount3530]

This is sick. Where can i get more?

[@Keith-s3j]

Even though Thatcher endorsed this show it was very reflective of the machinery of government. Universally.

[@TimelordShepherd]

I am looking for the episode of Yes, Prime Minister in which Sir Humphrey explains to Bernard why he is not supporting the current administration because of past administrations' policy changes.

[@b3ans4eva]

25:58 - holding that laugh in. I wonder if they got it in one take.

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

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

[@orgesballa6136]

It's one of the seven Dudley sins 🤣

[@aman201156]

Hahaha. Interesting episode.

[@Raymond_Cooper]

0:29 is what is acting🎉

[@hildia5439]

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

[@THINKincessantly]

More YPM/YM unseen collages, please!

[@foldedspace2391]

Lossiemouth looks quite nice, actually.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

they had a laugh with the paper joke

[@eugenedreyer4805]

5:21 😂😂😂

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

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

[@Shankarnathmazumder123]

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

[@trevoremery7111]

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

[@InshushaGroupie]

And here we are, 40 years later. The Arts are dead, we're ruled by absolute cretins and we're going to build a tunnel under Stonehenge.

[@samdumaquis2033]

This is awesome

[@JJONNYREPP]

🔴 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!!!

[@shezh9597]

25:14 youre all welcome :)