A similar example is the Politician's syllogism, satirized on the television show Yes Minister:

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" It is believed he was the intended target of the Yes, Minister joke where Jim Hacker, upon being asked for the political implications of becoming an E. U. commissioner, replies: " you're reduced to forming a new party if you ever want to get back in ".

Novel approaches to the situation can be seen in Blackadder and Yes Minister, moving what is often a domestic or workplace genre into the corridors of power.

Other hits included the political satire Yes Minister ( 1980 – 84 ) and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ( 1986 – 88 ), Esmonde and Larbey's suburban sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles ( 1984 – 89 ) and the sci-fi-comedy Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99 ).

In the 1980s, India's national stations Doordarshan showed Fawlty Towers, Yes, Minister and Mind Your Language.

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She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.

He also appeared as Commander Forrest in the Yes Minister television episode " The Death List ".

* Yes, Prime Minister: The diaries of the Right Honourable James Hacker are published.

Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who had also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister and Only Fools and Horses created the theme for the show.

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Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series.

The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988.

The first series of Yes, Prime Minister introduced Dorothy Wainwright ( played by Deborah Norton ) as a highly-able special political adviser to the Prime Minister.

Sir Humphrey often discusses matters with other Permanent Secretaries, who appear similarly sardonic and jaded, and the Cabinet Secretary ( whom he eventually succeeds in Yes, Prime Minister ), Sir Arnold Robinson ( John Nettleton ), an archetype of cynicism, haughtiness and conspiratorial expertise.

The Yes, Prime Minister episode " A Victory for Democracy " lampoons the Foreign Office bureaucracy's control of Britain's foreign policy.

Another Yes, Prime Minister episode, " The Bishop's Gambit ", parodied liberal Christianity and politics in the Church of England.

Almost all the episodes ( the exceptions chiefly being the earlier ones of the first series ) end with one of the characters ( usually Sir Humphrey ) saying " Yes, Minister " or " Yes, Prime Minister " accordingly ( or " Mais oui, Prime Minister ," in " A Diplomatic Incident " which centred on negotiations with the President of France ).

In popular language, old boy network or old boy society has come to be used in reference to the preservation of social elites in general ; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the British Broadcasting Corporation's satirical comedy series Yes Minister.

His nephew, Jonathan Lynn, is a filmmaker and script writer known for satirical BBC shows Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

On the track, the Yes keyboardist at the time, Rick Wakeman, provides a satirical voice-over parodying Healey.

In the satirical British television programme Yes Minister, Jim Hacker MP is told an old joke by his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley about what the various post-nominals stand for.

Yes, its decision to focus on the pornography business in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s and 1980s is nerviness itself, but more impressive is the film's sureness of touch, its ability to be empathetic, nonjudgmental and gently satirical, to understand what is going on beneath the surface of this raunchy Nashville-esque universe and to deftly relate it to our own ... Perhaps the most exciting thing about Boogie Nights is the ease with which writer-director Anderson ... spins out this complex web.

The satirical magazine Private Eye once published a memorable cartoon depicting his answering machine with the outgoing message " Yes, I'll do it!

Ji Mantriji ( literally " Yes Minister " in Hindi ) is an Indian adaptation of the British satirical sitcom Yes Minister.

The Yes Men often deploy a satirical approach: they pose as a powerful entity ( typically a corporate or government representative or executive ) and make ridiculous and shocking comments that caricature the ideological position of the organisation or person.

One of the Yes Men's first pranks was the satirical website www. gwbush. com, established for the 2000 US presidential election to draw attention to alleged hypocrisies on Bush's actual website.

In 2009, Israeli sitcom Polishook, explicitly modelled on Yes Minister, aired for a two seasons on Channel 2's Keshet Broadcasting.

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE ( 5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001 ) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.

After leaving public office, Davis appeared on several shows, such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as a cameo on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear.

( This argument is made by the wordplay-prone Sir Humphrey Appleby in the BBC sitcom Yes, Prime Minister ).

The first programme announced as part of the investment is a reboot of classic BBC sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister, to be based on the popular 2010 stage show and is to be written by original writers, Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Flynn.

Unusually in a democracy, this gives the unelected Cabinet Secretary some authority over elected ministers ( a situation satirised in the BBC sitcom Yes, Prime Minister ), although the constitutional authority of the Code is somewhat ambiguous.

Yes, Dear is a television sitcom that aired from October 2, 2000, to February 15, 2006, on CBS.

* Yes Minister, political sitcom on BBC2 ( 1980-1988 ).

He appeared in the 2000s sitcom Yes, Dear as a recurring character, " Big Jimmy ," the father of Jimmy Hughes.

* The way in which the teaching staff and Principal Skinner divert Lisa from her program by introducing several " public appearances ", and the way in which they trick her to sign a document mirrors the ways of government secretaries in the British sitcom Yes Minister.

Essentially, it was an attempt to create a Canadian version of the British sitcom Yes Minister.

It set viewing records for a sitcom at the time, regularly topping the UK TV ratings, and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1986 alongside Only Fools and Horses, Yes, Prime Minister, ' Allo ' Allo !, Ever Decreasing Circles, and lost out to the winner, Just Good Friends.

John Nettleton in the sitcom Yes, Minister

In 1981, Keating appeared in an episode of the BBC sitcom Yes Minister entitled The Death List, playing the role of Police Constable Ross.

) is a fictional character in the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.

The main figures of the fictitious Department of Administrative Affairs in the British sitcom Yes Minister.

Sir Bernard Woolley, MA ( Oxon ) GCB is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.