Editing Yes Minister (section)

==In popular culture==
In 2005, [[BBC Four]] launched ''[[The Thick of It]]'', described by director [[Armando Iannucci]] as "''Yes Minister'' meets ''[[The Larry Sanders Show|Larry Sanders]]''{{-"}},<ref>{{cite web|title=The Thick of It: Interview: Armando Iannucci, Chris Langham & Peter Capaldi |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/thickofit/armando-iannucci.shtml | publisher=[[BBC Four]] |date=19 April 2005 |access-date=7 September 2006}}</ref> and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' called it "a ''Yes, Minister'' for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] years."<ref>{{Cite news|first=Rachel |last=Sylvester |title=New TV satire puts Labour in the thick of it |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1489020/New-TV-satire-puts-Labour-in-the-thick-of-it.html |format=Reprint on telegraph.co.uk |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=30 April 2005 |access-date=7 September 2006 }}</ref> The style shows many identifiable hallmarks of ''Yes Minister'', namely the blundering politician virtually entirely dependent on those whose presentational and political [[nous]] greatly eclipse his own limited abilities.

As an adaptation of ''The Thick of It'', Armando Iannucci also created and directed ''[[Veep]]'', an American political satire comedy television series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/04/armando-ianucci-hbos-veep.html |title=Armando Iannucci talks political satire and new HBO series 'Veep' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=April 20, 2012 |access-date=May 11, 2016 |archive-date=June 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604144049/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/04/armando-ianucci-hbos-veep.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As the United States [[Presidential system|has a different political system]] from United Kingdom's [[parliamentary system]], the show instead focuses on a fictional female Vice President of the United States and her staff. Both ''Yes, Minister'' and ''Veep'' feature a Prime Minister/President that is never depicted on-screen, but nevertheless highly influential in the plot; and in both series, the unseen Prime Minister/President eventually resigns, with the result that both protagonists later become the Prime Minister/President themselves.

In a 2006 poll, British MPs voted ''Yes Minister'' as the greatest political comedy of all time.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Inman|first1=Nick|title=Politipedia: A Compendium of Useful and Curious Facts about British Politics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eODYFUbjqIcC&pg=PA52|access-date=11 September 2013|edition=<!--illustrated--> |year=2007|publisher=Harriman House|location=[[Petersfield]]|isbn=978-1-905641-33-8|oclc=166356399|pages=52–3|chapter=Comedies}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Yes Minister is top|url=http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/leisure/1066885.Yes_Minister_is_top_/|newspaper=Barry & District News|location=[[Barry, Vale of Glamorgan]]|date=11 December 2006|access-date=11 September 2013}}</ref>

In January 2025, the British government announced that a new collection of artificial intelligence tools aimed at helping civil servants with their work would be called Humphrey, named after the ''Yes Minister'' character Sir Humphrey Appleby.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-21 |title=Government digital document app launching in summer |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48vl3p0nyo.amp |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=BBC News |language=en-gb}}</ref>