Humphrey Sets Up A Dinner | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

peace but i was a little bit worried about this idea of your ministers linking honours to economies and all that oh that you've heard about that a lot of nonsense ah good you mean it's not true well not exactly that is he did just mention it but um but what well i i can't find any effective arguments against it humphrey this is the thin end of the wedge that's what i said a benight solution i said that yeah that's what i said it's intolerable but um irresistible yes well i'm not in any sense reprimanding you i don't know the facts well enough but as head of the service i would like your assurance that he won't be putting it into practice i certainly hope he won't be i'm not sure that hopes are quite good enough suppose he did apply it to your department the contagion would spread throughout the government every department so presumably we can count on you well i should certainly try but um it's rather tricky well i'm sure you know what you're doing but this could cause people to reflect on your soundness of course i have no doubts about you myself but um anyway i thought it might be useful to have a little chat oh absolutely thank you arnold oh by the way i had the master our old college on the phone just now he said you dined at bayley last week that's right i told him i was sure you'd get your minister to treat them as a special case i hope i was right yes yes but anyway um i got the minister coming down to a benefactor's dinner good sound man well i must be getting over to number 10. thanks for dropping in humphrey oh pleasure arnold [Music] i gather sir humphrey saw the cabinet secretary yesterday and got the most frightful wigging really yes really tore him off a strip because of your brilliant scheme linking economies to honours you're scaring me man uh i think we've been through all that before sorry my scheme how does the cabinet secretary give a wigging to someone as high as humphrey well normally i gather it's pretty civilized but this time apparently it was no holds barred so arnold told sir humphrey he wasn't actually reprimanding him how does that was it yes he actually suggested that some people might not think so humphrey was sound a real punch-up yes indeed but what has sir arnold affair anyway he's got all the honours he could want surely well naturally he has his g g yes you get your g after your k you speaking riddles bernard well take the foreign office first you get the cmg and the kcmg then the gcmg the commander of the order of michelins and george knight commander of michelins and george knight grand cross of sir michael and sir george of course in the service cmg stands for call me and uh god kcmg for kindly call me god what does gcmg stand for god calls me god well worship sir arnold worry he's got his full quota of honors hasn't he certainly not nowhere near there's a peerage the ch the om the order of the garter the knight of the thistles there's a thistle who gets that scotsman and donkeys there is a distinction minister you evidently haven't met the scottish nationalists how do they award the thistle a committee sits on it you

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Length: 4min 13sec (253 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 27 2020