* Yes Minister, a satirical sitcom about a generic British government, widely described by politicians as accurate

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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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 ).

The answer is, `` Yes ''!!

`` Yes, sir '', she said, `` is that definite ''??

Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Yes, this is she??

`` Yes, what is it ''??

Yes, and as tension mounts in this world, fear is increasing.

Yes, Arlene is her name ; ;

Next to each name is a checkbox, or another similar way to mark ' Yes ' or ' No ' for that candidate.

Yes it is caused by God.

The Christmas ceremony is accompanied by a reading of A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church.

However, interim President Kabila urged Congolese to vote ' Yes ', saying the constitution is the country's best hope for peace in the future.

The asks for an algorithm that takes as input a statement of a first-order logic ( possibly with a finite number of axioms beyond the usual axioms of first-order logic ) and answers " Yes " or " No " according to whether the statement is universally valid, i. e., valid in every structure satisfying the axioms.

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

* Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, Star Trek fandom is not really like that.

Paul heard him out and said merely, " Yes, pray for me ; because of my weaknesses, the Church is badly governed ".

Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one ; this is a process improvisers refer to as " Yes, And ..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique.

Yes, Antichrist is near whom the Lord Jesus Christ “ shall consume with the spirit of his mouth .” “ Woe unto them ,” he cries, “ that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days .”... Savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun all parts of Gaul.

The saying " Let your Yes be Yes and your No be No " from James 5: 12 is interpolated into a sayings complex from Matthew 5: 34, 37.

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.