5 Lessons from Sir Humphrey | Yes, Prime Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

Back when bbc made quality instead of left wing indoctrination

Wonderful hearing Humphrey tell Bernard that HE never comes to the point!

Merry xmas

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister was an education in politics

Sir Humphrey is so patient with Bernard

The sad thing is that this is still relevant today. In Sir Humphrey’s words “Historical facts are todays policy”

"If the right people don't get the power, the wrong people will get it"

That sounds right.. And yet somehow i am sure that i will get beaten if i used it as campaign slogan

"The official secrets act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials."

One of the best written, best acted, best researched comedy's of all time.

Sir Humpy is beyong amazing chatacter 😂his domina is Everything!!

I was 8 years old when I watched this show and I had such a crush on Sir Humphrey?? Is this wrong?? I don't know!! LOL!!

Absolutely 💯 timeless.

the universities，both of them...rofl

Frighteningly accurate! More now than then!

This is british democracy Bernard!

Hiding behind the brilliant comedy are the beautiful and concisely expressed designs and purposes of the administrative state. Beware.

Still a masterpiece.

Was this series a documentary or a comedy?

After all this time I still love Humpy.🎉🎉❤

Brilliant absolutely Brilliant

This must have been before WOKE had made it to a womb.

Not to be surprised but Dame (and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Margaret Tatcher was a big fan and loyal watcher of both series and: 1)By 1984 she made sure write a sketch which you can see here/Yt named"Yes Real Prime Minister AKA The Thatcher Sketch"(performed on the National Viewers and Listeners Awards in 1984)with herself. Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne involved in it. and 2) When the producers asked persmission to tape a segment outside the real Downing Street 10 facade (part of Season 1 of Yes Prime Minister, Eppisode 4"The Key"(1986)), she allowed it to happen.

I’m crying - subtitles for sir Humphrey is ‘hungry’ and ‘Batman’ for Bernard 😂😂😂

Bernard: (anxious, worried) "But you only need to know things on a need to know basis!" Humphrey: (emphatic, jowls quivering, gritted teeth): "I need to know EVERYTHING! How else would I judge whether or not I need to know it?" Unparalleled brilliance in both writing and delivery - satire at its best!

learned ALOT watching this. Managers use similar tactics as shown in this moccumentry, double talk and implied favours for promotions.

Quality

This is Gold! 24 karat Gold!

I think the main lesson we can learn from Sir Humphrey and Jim Hacker is that just because you are the leader, that doesnt mean you are in control. It is the person with their hand on the wheel who steers the ship, and while they ostensibly dont have a say in where the ship goes, with enough engineering they can make it so that they inevitably steer in the direction that they are most comfortable with, even against the captain's wishes.

Bernard is quite brilliant and underrated.

A timeless masterclass acting and how bureaucracies all over the world operate. Superb quality in every aspect!

❤ Could we have some new episodes...have watched these hundreds of times,still laugh my heart out.😂🎉

I dont think BBC will ever be able to make show like this ever

The production is by highly cultured proud British. 😂

Spot on for senior civil servants. Corrupt, self-serving and vile.

This show is perfection.

The more things change the more they remain the same!

We run a civilized aristocratic government machine occasionally tempered by elections. This definition of British democracy has aged better than one would've expected in the light of how democracy has been taken advantage of by ideologues and opportunists in the age of Brexit and migration scares

Brilliant!!!!!

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

The need to know speech is brilliant, because it makes such sense. The person who wrote that has to have an IQ of 200.

classic tv id love to see the out takes on this i bet they had fun and laughs

The best ever documentary about British politics.

Wow

Bbc makes great documentaries.

Nothing's changed! Still the same UK, still the same politicians with different names. Even Jim Hacker, however, is more intelligent than the current lot.