Proof The Thick Of It is only fiction:

"Paxman isn't interrupting him".

“Just let me finish there”
“He’s not interrupting him?”

Underrated Gold!

One of the greatest unanswered questions in TV history. Did Glenn ever finish white washing his sister's cottage?

I wished they had more episodes with Malcolm and Jamie every scene they were in was a foulmouthed Pinky and the Brain episode

"...you're devoted to her again..."

"Yes, it will be on vibrate!"

The delivery of that line is priceless.

"What the fuck is he talking about?"
"He looks like he's going to shit himself! Is he going to shit himself?"
"I'm going to have to phone in a bomb scare..."

Ben's appearance on News Night is fabulous.

"Well that implies his home secretary is a drug taking homosexual."
"that's not...bad....is it?"

"not playing a game here, i actually f'king hate you" - walks in disgust
....
"he trained as a priest"

I love Peter just... letting Stewart completely finish insulting his wife before responding. Peter is such a great character.

7:06 check Sams face in the background XD

"Every department's got a computer fuckup, what are they buying, a piece of shit from Blake's Seven??" HAHAHA BEST REFERENCE EVER

Jamie is so terrifying lmao you actually feel like he would physically assault someone whereas you don't have the same feeling with Malcolm

"He trained as a priest" -- even funnier when you know the actor who played Jamie actually did train to be a priest

funny thing is Jamie (Phil Higgins) really trained for a priest as a kid.. you gotta love peter's improvs :)

"You never told us you had epilepsy... of the eyes."

OMFG, I just sobbed with laughter.

"Churchill probably ate hummus"

Fun fact: Paul Higgins, the actor of Jamie McDonald, actually trained as a priest until the age of 17, but gave it up when he began dating. Nice little nod in the writing there. It's a shame that scene was deleted, it's one of my favourites from Jamie.

Roger Hallam just HAS to play Christopher Hitchens when they get round to doing a biopic.

love Sam lolling in the background @ 7:09