The review of Yes, Minister(novel version) Yes, Minister is a satiricial British sitcom-adapted novel written by Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. With simply three main characters and scenes mostly set in a small office, the TV version of Yes, Minister has been favoured by audience around the world for over thirty years. One reason to this success is its ingenious scripts, which are included in this novel. Compared with the TV version, the novel shows more detail about the characters' thoughts, which could only be implied by the actors' body language and facial expressions in the former version. It gives me a further understanding of the plot and the characters' varied characteristics. Thanks to this, I find the punch-lines even more amusing. Among the three characters, there's no doubt that Sir Humphrey has won the most popularity due to his manner as a classic English gentleman, eloquence as a Civil servant, wisdom as a high official and of course, the deep understanding of the whole government system. He is probably the very few of the "villians" who are even more popular than the decent. He could come out with a sentence of hundreds of words just to confuse the minister; he could put a straightforward opinion in a rather vague way; he could think of thousands of reasons to stop a new policy being carried out...He is what we called "the barrier of democracy", but his words are so true. We can see the reality that governments always have their excuses for delaying, wasting and so on through the behaviour of Sir Humphrey. The ironic thing is, when it comes to the real life, we don't often realise these "tactics" of the authority. Yes, Minister is not only regarded as a great fiction, but a training manual for politicians and the Civil servants, a general documentary writing of modern politic world. Even one does not have much interest in politics, he or she can still enjoy a good laugh through the classic great humour.