So, Malcolm is a Zygon who shape-shifted into the Doctor, has the pottiest mouth in the whole universe and tries his blobby hands at politics? I can accept that.
i don't know what's worse. seeing him rumble slowly towards you like pancreatic cancer or appearing suddenly out of nowhere like a massive stroke - Hugh Abbott
The air crash investigators line was more clever. Haha the wearing the skin thing is just some Jeffrey Dahmer shit... so pretty standard Malcolm Tucker!
Can we just appreciate, beyond the performance profanity, that this was a truly genius move by Malcolm: roping someone in to the latest scandal against their will and setting them up as the scapegoat purely out of spite, just to keep them in line.
Unfortunately for Malcolm he didnt anticipate that the story about the bullying had already leaked to the Tories, without him and so all he did was confirm that the rumours were true.
I love how it’s clear Ollie didn’t know that Phil was gonna say “you’re like the man who fucked monkey who gave us aids” because he looks away from Phil at the production team like “wtf did he just say?!” I think I read somewhere that other cast members didn’t know some of the lines that other characters were going to say
Yes, there was room for improvised lines and it was encouraged by their creator Armando Iannucci. There was a bedrock of a script, but some room allowed for improv lines.
There's a deleted scene where Phil says he was so shocked he walked to Greenwich, meaning Malcolm scared him so much he just kept walking for several miles. I'd feel sorry if it was someone less reprehensible.
The very first line of this scene is underrated. Chris Addison's delivery of "there's a complete fucking PENIS in my building" gets me every time for whatever reason
I love how Malcolm always appears out of nowhere like one of the three ghosts from A Christmas Carol..."Hello, I'm the ghost of Malcolm Yet to Stab you with your shinbone".
I don't think it was a matter of him having Ollie's back. It was a matter of him squashing another Nicola fuck up that the government didn't really need.
@matthewgray-ql7hr you left out the fact he is ready and willing to chuck any of them to the mob if it saves his own skin. He existed in a job that isn't really possible to get fired from
@@Rob-gp6ybOllie is nowhere near as intimidating as Malcolm. Ollie had some of the best rants, some Malcolm-wise (calling Peter Mannion a Robert Palmer look-alike), but Malcolm's presence is way rougher
The best part is Phils reaction afterwards. He walks to his boss Mannion in a complete shock he actually says "We can't use it because Malcolm will kill me." And in the scene after that Malcolm comes up to Mannion, they make some quibs at each other, both smiling but when Malcolm walks past Phil he has that "I wasn't fucking joking, son." expression on his face. AND in the deleted scenes Phil apparently was in such a shock that he walked back to the oppositions head quarters without Mannion. You'd feel sorry if Phil wasn't a dick.
The best part of this scene is the expression on Malcom's face at 2:10, it's the look a serial killer gives a prom queen before pulling her lungs out and wearing them as mittens.
It's nice to watch it happen to others but you'd have to be fifty flavors of fucked up to ever want it to happen to you. That'd be like paying your masseuse for a happy ending and expecting it to be a barbed-wire flogging.
I love how earlier in this episode Phil was making jokes about Malcolm in a stereotypical comedy Scotsman voice. Now that he's actually met him face-to-face I doubt he'll be doing that again.
I really miss TheThick of It, so sad they won't make more episodes. :( The good news is that right now our politicians are fucking things up so much it's every bit as funny. :)
VEEP is like The Thick Of It with all the intelligent humour drained out of it until the jokes devolve into ... "ha ha so funny the VP pissed herself". Or in other words it's an American version. (Yes I'm aware its was also written by Armando Iannucci, but the network must have had a tight grip on his balls with their sharp fucking talons to make him write such shit )
Actually the team of writers on VEEP is an impressive line up of talent and as you may note many of them are British. VEEP is simply a more refined version of Thick with Ianucci using the experience of Thick to produce something similar but better. He no doubt enjoyed getting this second opportunity. The acting in VEEP is also superior as is the direction.
As I said in the previous comment, I'm aware that some of the writers are British etc. but it's still an American style comedy, so clearly the network exerted lots of control over them.
Well you mentioned Ianucci and said he wrote it, but in fact it seems a large team of writers are involved and the majority are British. When you say it's an American style comedy, which comedies are you thinking of? Always Sunny? Archer? Family Guy? None of those give the impression of being influenced by 'suits'. The fact is that VEEP is as good as Thick and in many ways superior as it has learnt from the latter and refined the comedy and makes Thick look a little crude now.
Just the thought of him wearing that guys skin, with perfect eye contact of the dudes mom and low whispers of:" is this real life, is this just fantasy..." priceless.
I have no idea on why RUclips recommended me this now, but here I was, asking myself "is that James McAvoy?", when, out of nowhere, comes one of my favorite Doctors. 😎
it was certainly like that when I first started in London Offices 50 years ago this Summer in 1971 :) I always remember The Deputy Managing Director warmly grabbing me by the throat and telling me and I quote verbatim from 28th May, 1981 : "If you drop me in the shit I will kick the shit out of you!". My colleagues told me they thought the Boss was "straightening my tie". Happy Dayz :)
0:56 - 1:11 I haven't seen much of this show, only clips, but is that the nicest you ever see Malcolm? That quiet little "off you go" with no fucks or anything, it's very adult
he's generally really nice to people who aren't in 'the game' ie politicians, journalists etc.. for example when he visits ollie in hospital he's genuinely nice to the nurse
What makes this funnier, is that earlier in the episode, Phil was making fun out of Malcolm and hoping to see Malcolm yell at Ollie. Instead, this happens.
there's about 25 quotable lines here in 2 minutes of prima English comedy, from Jensons Buttons magnum of piss to mothers bohemian rhapsody ball rub, it would be a dull world without Armando Iannucci, we are blessed.
@@diveinnjim should you have? Even after its pointed out to you, your arrogance prevents you saying the right thing. No worries, I'll have forgotten about this soon enough, you have to be you forever.
I love how they had to cut away from the wearing your skin comment because the guy being threatened was about to laugh his ass off, hats off to Peter Capaldi A true Fucking G
The true God (or Satan) of spin right here. Spin-doctor, Doctor Who, weird doctor of octopus-faces, I don’t care what... Peter Capaldi is the glorious master of intimidation on all fockin’ levels ❤️
I so wish they would get together again and do a Tory version of "The Thick of It". There would be so much material it could make "War and Peace" look like a comic, They could do an entire season with a Bo Jo type character.
I love how Malcolm appears from nowhere
He's a shape-shifter.
So, Malcolm is a Zygon who shape-shifted into the Doctor, has the pottiest mouth in the whole universe and tries his blobby hands at politics? I can accept that.
He's here, he's there, he's fucking everywhere. He's the eggman!
Tar. dis.
i don't know what's worse. seeing him rumble slowly towards you like pancreatic cancer or appearing suddenly out of nowhere like a massive stroke - Hugh Abbott
“I’ll reign down on you so hard you’ll have to be re assembled by air crash investigators” might be the greatest threat I’ve heard
"rain"
I dunno, man. That skin thing tops it, don’t you think?
The air crash investigators line was more clever. Haha the wearing the skin thing is just some Jeffrey Dahmer shit... so pretty standard Malcolm Tucker!
Yeah, its fantastic. Defo a quote I'll be stealing. :)
Tucker owns May.
1:45 Gotta love Ollie's "somebody's getting tuckered and it isn't me" face.
More the point it's the same twat who works and lives with Ollie's girlfriend
Like watching your mum yelling at your brother
"Shitehead Revisited" the writing on this show was absolutely stellar.
The person who came up with the rubbing flayed balls up an old woman's leg to the tune of a Queen song scenario has one heck of a beautiful brain
It sounds like one of Iannucci's
I found out it was written by Iannucchi and 'shitehead revisited' (above)
on her birthday
I am sure there is an app for that...
It's hard to tell because its part improvised but Capaldi is a scot and they are angry so...
Can we just appreciate, beyond the performance profanity, that this was a truly genius move by Malcolm: roping someone in to the latest scandal against their will and setting them up as the scapegoat purely out of spite, just to keep them in line.
Unfortunately for Malcolm he didnt anticipate that the story about the bullying had already leaked to the Tories, without him and so all he did was confirm that the rumours were true.
"Wipe away the precum" always makes me laugh. 😂
This is a weird episode of Doctor Who.
Wow, it's still not funny the 135th time either.
Do you know what else is old? Responding to people by using as many swear words as possible in a lame attempt to be a wannabe Malcolm Tucker.
you've triggered a lot of Whovians. I salute you.
Pyrrhic Victory I believe it is the opposite way around.
+Greg Mane 'I've triggered a lot of whovians, you salute me'?
Malcolm's icy calm before he delivers the C Bomb is a masterclass in power play.
Mm
The c word isn't even an insult in Glasgow. It's genuinely used regularly as a synonym for "chap".
I love how it’s clear Ollie didn’t know that Phil was gonna say “you’re like the man who fucked monkey who gave us aids” because he looks away from Phil at the production team like “wtf did he just say?!”
I think I read somewhere that other cast members didn’t know some of the lines that other characters were going to say
Yes, there was room for improvised lines and it was encouraged by their creator Armando Iannucci. There was a bedrock of a script, but some room allowed for improv lines.
There's a cut when the camera pans to Malcolm as well.
Will Smith (Phil) was one of the writers on the show and, according to Wikipedia, the only one to also be a cast member.
There's a deleted scene where Phil says he was so shocked he walked to Greenwich, meaning Malcolm scared him so much he just kept walking for several miles. I'd feel sorry if it was someone less reprehensible.
ahahaaaha
"I've accidentally run to Windsor."
@@AAARRRGGGHHHHHH that's in Scotland isn't it?
@@sibadityapal1493 It's just that the endorphins kicked in and, er, I couldn't stop...
Sibaditya Pal Windsor is just west of London
the delivery of "james FUCKING may" is iconic and i will remember it forever
Ok
"Do not fucking interrupt me, son. Ever."
The very first line of this scene is underrated. Chris Addison's delivery of "there's a complete fucking PENIS in my building" gets me every time for whatever reason
Tucker is rubbing off on Ollie
@@oz_jones While whistling Bohemian Rhapsody.
I love how Malcolm always appears out of nowhere like one of the three ghosts from A Christmas Carol..."Hello, I'm the ghost of Malcolm Yet to Stab you with your shinbone".
Fuck, that actually sounds like something he'd say as well.
Nobody bullies Ollie except for Malcolm, it's so cute to see him step up and have Ollie's back like that.
I don't think it was a matter of him having Ollie's back. It was a matter of him squashing another Nicola fuck up that the government didn't really need.
@@bigdrew565why not both?
@@marty2090 I believe it could be both. But Malcolm values loyalty, he is mostly a lone wolf but will protect his pack, no one f*cks with his cubs.
@matthewgray-ql7hr you left out the fact he is ready and willing to chuck any of them to the mob if it saves his own skin. He existed in a job that isn't really possible to get fired from
This scene is all the proof you need that Malcolm's speech to Ollie about never being able to replace him, in the final episode, is completely true.
So true. When Ollie tries to insult Phil (James Fucking May) it sounds absolutely pathetic.
@@user-jl8yn7og7bI thought it was a great insult, something Malcolm himself would say. What's pathetic about it?
@@Rob-gp6ybOllie is nowhere near as intimidating as Malcolm. Ollie had some of the best rants, some Malcolm-wise (calling Peter Mannion a Robert Palmer look-alike), but Malcolm's presence is way rougher
The Doctor doing what he does best, ending battles without violence. A true hero.
Diiiid you and I see the same doctor?
Capaldi's acting at 1:38 is absolutely genius - he's totally terrifying.
His little laugh at 1:34 xD
That's to cover him baring his teeth before going in for the kill.
Apex predator, that Malcolm Tucker.
I love how at 2:03 they cut it because its so obvious the other actor burst out laughing as soon as Capaldi finished talking 😂
The best part is Phils reaction afterwards. He walks to his boss Mannion in a complete shock he actually says "We can't use it because Malcolm will kill me." And in the scene after that Malcolm comes up to Mannion, they make some quibs at each other, both smiling but when Malcolm walks past Phil he has that "I wasn't fucking joking, son." expression on his face. AND in the deleted scenes Phil apparently was in such a shock that he walked back to the oppositions head quarters without Mannion. You'd feel sorry if Phil wasn't a dick.
More than that; IIRC, he went drifting in a park for a daze for about half an hour before returning to Opposition HQ. According to the DoSAC Files.
Kyle Tekaucic knowing Phil it was probably Hampstead Heath and he wasn’t drifting he was cruising.
In the deleted scenes, Phil said that he walked all the way to Greenwich.
Man, this stuff still feels fresh. A brilliant show and an awesome character
None of it could be said now.
@@Momusinterra Ofcourse it could.
@@user.--.this series is considered extreme right wing propaganda now, so no it couldn't
@@CamusSCWhat in the actual fuck are you talking about
@@MomusinterraObviously it could
The best part of this scene is the expression on Malcom's face at 2:10, it's the look a serial killer gives a prom queen before pulling her lungs out and wearing them as mittens.
What a delightful image!
Always nice to be given a good bit of Tuckering.
It's nice to watch it happen to others but you'd have to be fifty flavors of fucked up to ever want it to happen to you. That'd be like paying your masseuse for a happy ending and expecting it to be a barbed-wire flogging.
Malcolm's entrance cracks me up LOL
“It’s like a swine flu pandemic”
Hmmm I wonder why this was in my suggested videos right now...
@Neil Mo Malcolm would have had the entire GOP in a body bag by now.
Still can't believe it's been a year since the pandemic started... it still feels rather recent.
You're like the man who ate the bat that gave us Covid!
Gotta love Ollie trying to go full Tucker on Phil
Shitehead Revisited: that's genius.
Have you ever heard the word 'cunt' issued so violently? I love that Malcolm genuinely despises the ruling elite.
Phil does look a bit like a young James May.
He looks like Jonathan Pie's older brother.
Zulu Romeo yes 😂
Just without the impeccable dress sense ;)
I love how you can just scroll down and find basically find the entire script of each scene. Fantastic writing.
"Mama, I just killed a man..."
"I peeled off his skin, those are his bollocks on your shiiinnnn"
@@stevenhaas9622 massively underrated comment
and it can b traced to gov ops in unedited format
A Tucker masterclass of verbal annihilation
The eyebrows, may they rain hell upon the Earth.
0:16 - You know, Phil's not wrong.
0:35 - Scratch that. Phil is incredibly fucking wrong.
Ah, Capaldi, the epitome of Scotland
Robyn D got balls.
Not so much Scotland as Glasgow. He'd be right at home in a punchup down Gorbals.
love the way Malcolm says bullying @1:18
Everyday in everyway, I strive to be more and more like Malcolm Tucker. What an incredible human being
Malcolm yelling the C word still gets me EVERY time. Genius.
The look Capaldi gives at 2:10 is fucking terrifying
I just love how Phil looks like a primary school kid about to cry as he walks away because he got a bollocking from the teacher.
I love how earlier in this episode Phil was making jokes about Malcolm in a stereotypical comedy Scotsman voice. Now that he's actually met him face-to-face I doubt he'll be doing that again.
i like how he is laughing as he watches
Ok, binging this tonight!!!
"Right, Shitehead Revisited..." may well be one of the best insults I have heard. Love it!
Still the best writing I have ever heard in a television show... Hell probably some of the best writing I've seen in most movies too!
I really miss TheThick of It, so sad they won't make more episodes. :(
The good news is that right now our politicians are fucking things up so much it's every bit as funny. :)
Well VEEP is similar, and I think even better.
VEEP is like The Thick Of It with all the intelligent humour drained out of it until the jokes devolve into ... "ha ha so funny the VP pissed herself". Or in other words it's an American version.
(Yes I'm aware its was also written by Armando Iannucci, but the network must have had a tight grip on his balls with their sharp fucking talons to make him write such shit )
Actually the team of writers on VEEP is an impressive line up of talent and as you may note many of them are British. VEEP is simply a more refined version of Thick with Ianucci using the experience of Thick to produce something similar but better. He no doubt enjoyed getting this second opportunity. The acting in VEEP is also superior as is the direction.
As I said in the previous comment, I'm aware that some of the writers are British etc. but it's still an American style comedy, so clearly the network exerted lots of control over them.
Well you mentioned Ianucci and said he wrote it, but in fact it seems a large team of writers are involved and the majority are British. When you say it's an American style comedy, which comedies are you thinking of? Always Sunny? Archer? Family Guy? None of those give the impression of being influenced by 'suits'. The fact is that VEEP is as good as Thick and in many ways superior as it has learnt from the latter and refined the comedy and makes Thick look a little crude now.
Malcom tucker is my spirit animal
Dang, and I thought Capaldi was tall.
HindsightPOV And yet he's still the scariest one in all the shots.
DiomedesIsHit
Oh, so true. Capaldi is intimidating AF!
Capaldi is bloody 6 foot
Akbar Ahmed
Six feet is tall in my book.
He's 1.83 m. That's quite tall already o.O The other actors are giants.
Showed my friend this show and this was the first episode she had ever seen. She's exploded in the absolute joy/horror of this scene.
Just the thought of him wearing that guys skin, with perfect eye contact of the dudes mom and low whispers of:" is this real life, is this just fantasy..." priceless.
Fun fact: his reaction when Capaldi shouts “cunt” was not rehearsed.
How do you know that?
Goddamn. What is it about Peter Capaldi cursing that is so utterly sexy??
"Oi! Oi! James fucking may!"
The woman who appears at 0:44 just fucking portals out of existence.
Brilliantly written with some exceptional acting - it’s wonderful stuff
"I will wear your skin to your mothers birthday party"
Love the little puff puff puff punches by Malcolm.
The look on his face at the end as scary as the actual bollocking just fantastic
I have no idea on why RUclips recommended me this now, but here I was, asking myself "is that James McAvoy?", when, out of nowhere, comes one of my favorite Doctors. 😎
The Jenson Button reference always makes me laugh
Probably my favourite moment of this superb series. But there's a lot of competition!
Imagine this show came out now, all the cast would be getting cancelled on the 10 o clock news and social media
it was certainly like that when I first started in London Offices 50 years ago this Summer in 1971 :)
I always remember The Deputy Managing Director warmly grabbing me by the throat and telling me and I quote verbatim from 28th May, 1981 :
"If you drop me in the shit I will kick the shit out of you!". My colleagues told me they thought the Boss was "straightening my tie". Happy Dayz :)
One of the greatest acting passages of all time.
Malcolm's stare at the end gives the whole thing a great payoff.
Finally, a boss who just tells you what they expect.
When capaldi takes over doctor who completely and tells chibnall to do one 😂
Poor ol Chinball.
0:56 - 1:11 I haven't seen much of this show, only clips, but is that the nicest you ever see Malcolm? That quiet little "off you go" with no fucks or anything, it's very adult
Alex Cooke He's usually nice enough to some people unless they give him a reason not to be.
+MrLethalShots Also he and Ollie were confronting Phil. Couldnt make Ollie or the party in general look bad.
You haven't seen much of the shoes?!!?? Fucking beg, borrow, steal, sell yourself, pimp family members, etc..
he's generally really nice to people who aren't in 'the game' ie politicians, journalists etc.. for example when he visits ollie in hospital he's genuinely nice to the nurse
It happens several times, just briefly, so a lot of viewers don't notice, but Malcolm is very kind in his interactions with 'Working Class' people.
They must have had sooooo much fun writing Malcolm Tucker's dialogue. It's just brilliant.
What makes this funnier, is that earlier in the episode, Phil was making fun out of Malcolm and hoping to see Malcolm yell at Ollie.
Instead, this happens.
I never saw an episode but now ima go binge watch, thanks
It available on the BBC iplayer right now, the whole lot
0:43 I like how that woman just walked through the doors and then disappeared.
Well spotted! XD
there's about 25 quotable lines here in 2 minutes of prima English comedy, from Jensons Buttons magnum of piss to mothers bohemian rhapsody ball rub,
it would be a dull world without Armando Iannucci, we are blessed.
And you'll happily claim it as English, despite it being written by a Scotsman and performed by another one.
@@hamishmunroe9906 my apologies.
as regard to the writer and main actor I should have said "prima Anglo/Italian comedy"
@@diveinnjim should you have? Even after its pointed out to you, your arrogance prevents you saying the right thing. No worries, I'll have forgotten about this soon enough, you have to be you forever.
@@hamishmunroe9906 what a crushing bore you must be,
Don't ever call them f@£king Anglo again
I love how they had to cut away from the wearing your skin comment because the guy being threatened was about to laugh his ass off, hats off to Peter Capaldi A true Fucking G
Absolutely love this series.
Do not interrupt me son
*E V E R*
The most satisfying moment of the whole programme.
Possibly my favourite scene in all of “The thick of it “
Seen this a million times and I've only just noticed Phil taking pictures in the background.
1:37 - 2:03 That escalated quickly.
Spectacularly handled 😂
Dr who's taken a darker turn...
This is the first ive came across this show. Its 2 great minutes of insults 😄
The true God (or Satan) of spin right here. Spin-doctor, Doctor Who, weird doctor of octopus-faces, I don’t care what... Peter Capaldi is the glorious master of intimidation on all fockin’ levels ❤️
How terrifying would Peter Capaldi be as the Master?
That is literally the best insult I've ever heard in my life. Ever.
Which one? There are quite a few in here.
Malcolm Tucker... because not all heroes wear capes
Ahhh yes my favorite Doctor
The noise he makes at the end 😂😂 "unh"
The end gets me every time
I love the subtitle captions for this lul
I so wish they would get together again and do a Tory version of "The Thick of It". There would be so much material it could make "War and Peace" look like a comic, They could do an entire season with a Bo Jo type character.
Series 4 already was. The coalition government was the focus of about half of the series.
Ben Swain ruclips.net/video/ALNjevGdB5g/видео.html
The best scene ever in many best scenes.
Motivational Malcolm. Love it
Probably my favourite Malcom Tucker moment ever
This really is top notch stuff 🍀😂💙
"..whilst whispering Bohemian Rapsody." That was properly over the top.
Malcolm Tucker, you are like so many of my old teachers