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Yes, Minister

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Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

ComedyWar & Politics

FeaturingPaul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott, John Nettleton, Neil Fitzwiliam, Edward Jewesbury

Review snapshotJonathan Lynn & Antony Jay have created what has to be one of the sharpest, wittiest comedies ever written. The hugely entertaining characterisations alongside the masterly manipulation of the English language make for a terrifyingly worrying observation on the true nature of "democratic" government and of the chronic ineptitude and incompetence of some/many of our elected representatives. Paul Eddington is superb as the politically naive Minister ("Jim Hacker MP") in the fictional, but perfectly plausible, Ministr…

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