Jamie from The Thick Of It: A Tribute

[SunLightShine]

Please be in series 4!

[TheMunchfan]

Hahahaha How Jamie starts taking off their jackets while chanting "Fight, Fight, Fight!" (3:32)

[MrKeepitunderyourhat]

He is essentially just Malcolm's attack dog.

[halloweenfan92]

love how jamie is more polite to the maids then his co workers

[05fingaz]

you fucking baldy pussy!!

[DoctorDodge]

"Answer the question, you fat fuck!"

"Eat your fucking cheese!" Lol, Jamie's the best!

[rocknrolllives]

why was jamie only in series 2

[AshLuvsJonnyStew]

OMFG I love the "Walk" sequence where Malcolm finishes "My wife and I walk!" Those two are too fucking funny!!!

[MrsHolala]

"Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight" LMFAO !!!

[joyceytheman]

"you couldn't organise a bum-rape in a barracks"..........."oh contrare". Brilliant

[bruzzy77]

Justin Edwards?

[tannfann05]

2:57 You don't deserve to LIVE.

[TheIronhide34]

This is hilarious! Does anyone know if it comes on BBC America? I need to start watching it.

[MACCURRIE1]

@TheIronhide34 dont know about bbc america but you should download it or get the dvd. Also, check out the movie done called 'the thick of it;, its most of the same people and characters, writers, malcolm is amazin in it. and there is a fourth series coming out too.

[sean9234]

0 Dislikes, kinda says it all really.

[rugbyvagrant7]

"you're david fucking niven" haha

[WatMcWatley]

"I'll tell you, if he thinks he's leaking now, wait 'till you see when I'm finished with him! He'll look like fucking Mel Gibson's Jesus! FUCK! "

[frenchkids]

I like the way Julius trys to lay one on Jamie, just before running out the door. Hilarious.

[Sascopa]

Are you a horse? ARE you a fucking horse?

[ACinDorset]

Excellent job Brazillianairess.... I really hope Armando Iannouci gets as much of Jamie, Malcom & Steve Fleming in the next series as possible- there are the best characters on TV... and ALL in the same comedy- this is legendary stuff. Seriously- how about writing Malcolm in to becoming an MP in cushy by-election seat and fast tracked straight in to being a minister... with Jamie & Steve fighting behind the scenes to destroy him.... I cant wait for the new series...

[shonakeir]

were u raised by scottish wolves!! sublime, shona from motherwell.

[mcbawsack]

'from now its a proper fight, a pub fight, motherwell rules..........and tom is gonnae get a pint glass in his fuckin eye..........and a pool cue up his arse..... and another pool cue in his other fuckin eye'

quality. i wonder if he added the motherwell rules bit in as he is from motherwell, either way its as funny as fuck

[Brazilianairess]

@mcbawsack Yes, it was an adlib, the original line was "Caledonian rules". Love your username.

[ILoveBorisJohnson]

YOU'RE A FUCKING NUTTER!

[1CCHH1]

"Oh answer the question you fat fuck!" hahaha

[xColinMc1888x]

Love Jamie's delivery of "You don't deserve to live!" Lmao phenomenal line, second only in my opinion, to the delivery of "Och fuck off Cliff!"

Genius show.

[Raedan23]

"oh, i'm terribly sorry..."

see, he's not all bad. just 99% fucking terrifying!

[mikeyfff]

you're as secure as a hymen in a south London comprehensive!! Genius!!

[CK29Foo]

hahaha, ur th worst james bond evr! ur david niven! hahaha

[DOO1]

"are you a horse?" that made me lol :D

[CaptainRhoo]

"fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight. fight."

[paulmacca88]

1:28 heyyyyyyyyyyyy DlCK head

[iamadamsusername]

you couldnt organise a bum rape in a barracks!

[tinyrebellion]

@iamadamsusername au contrare!

[CK29Foo]

@iamadamsusername au contraire :D

[jamiecrottyEFC]

if will remove you ipod from its tiny nano sheif and push it up your cock!

[spenny19]

quality , I wish he worked for me.

[labour77]

"There are lots of shades of grey you know"

"I know i'm looking at 15 of them right now"

F'ing hilarious line!

[tinghaling]

The unsung hero of "In The Thick Of It"

: )

[16691232]

jamie and malcolm are the best characters i ever saw

[MrBgavalas]

I hate that we only got a bit of the first season in the US. Malcolm & Jamie are a way better political science lesson than I ever got in school.

[anonbeliever1]

No Surrender, eh? I take it Paul Higgins is a Rangers man and Peter Capaldi is a Celtic man. He he.

[EvilUmpire]

@anonbeliever1 According to the Guardian, Higgins was born to an atheist father and a Catholic mother and spent 5 years training to be a priest. I doubt if he's a Rangers man.

[BRITISHSASTHEBEST]

I would love to see nick griffen vs jaime

[LilSerenity1983]

Are you a fucking horse?

[hancia11]

greatest tribute ever.

[BRITISHSASTHEBEST]

I LOVE JAIME

[antisall]

"fight, fight, fight, fight,..." lol

[MongTheMerciless]

EAT THE CHEESE NICHOLSON

[utterbeastage]

@MongTheMerciless I say that ALL the time hahah

[PaperSoapCompany101]

The whole i-pod bit is fucking brilliant writing. Wish I could curse as well as him

[owdl114]

'Are you a horse?...'

[joliecide]

oh enough of the pleasantries, let's just get oiled up... lol

[zatoichi12345]

jamie and malcolm were the greatest double act ever,there should be a programme that consists solely of jamie and malcolm bollocking people for an hour straight. i hope the fucker stays in the next series.

[Pepotamo1985]

@zatoichi12345

Jamie is my favourite TTOI character by a country mile...marvellously well played by Paul Higgins. I love how there was no yang to Malcolm's Yin - at the start of episode 4 of season 1 you think he's going to be an altogether nicer breed of shouty Scot but he's so much worse.

[kmhutchy]

i love how he is so polite to the cleaner

[captain07234]

Jamie he's a cross between a hyperactive 12 year old and a rabid pitbull.

[DodgyKen06]

What episode is 3.39 to 3.55 from please? I might have missed an episode, I hope so!! :)

[Brazilianairess]

It's another deleted scene from Spinners and Losers. The last clip is from an outtake. I thought Malcolm and Jamie's "little discussion" deserved to go in...

[captaintom25]

'I love you...FUCK OFF!'

[oliverrawlings123]

where did jamie go?

anyone know i'm sure he just disappeared...

[tkmcooper]

He refused to go nutter.

[AbraCadaverArson]

you don't deserve to live.

[rozzie677]

Does anyone know what episode the fight scene between Robyn and Terri is?

[Brazilianairess]

It's a deleted scene from Spinners and Losers

[Pepotamo1985]

Win.

All those deleted scenes are fucking beautiful, the alternate pisstake version of the Claire Ballentine (?) confession is absolute wonderment - Jamie smacks it again. Any chance of an up?

[Blatch643]

brilliant

hysterically funny

[cheekyboy5000]

He's like a human rotweiller

[bos31220]

The Scottish brogue just takes the profanity to a whole new level of awesomeness.

[bazsmyth]

yeah the scottish brogue is addictive for some reason

[jimbobjimminy]

EAT THE CHEEEEESSSEEEE!!

Anyone just think 'Smell my cheese'?

[readtherightbooks]

whoever put this together = hats off!

X

[Pepotamo1985]

I love how boyish Jamie is, he's like this feral child who's running roughshod over a load of incompetent adults.

[adamthebaddun]

3:32 fuckin brilliant!

[Jenie0van0DenHaag]

I know...

[icecrystal2k]

We never got to see Malcolm and Jamie's "little discussion later". But we can imagine. Bow-chicka-bow-wow.

[PasscookBabtridge]

"Ohhhhhhhhhh answer the question you fat fuck!"

Classic

[chrisbell86]

I enjoyed Malcolm's response to Jamie's statement "I sh*t a lot" excellent!

[Brazilianairess]

Me too, I love it when he acts like Jamie's concerned older brother! They were such a great double act... *sigh*

[akib123456]

Aaaaaahhhhhhhh man!!!!!!!! i am missing this show so bad....... i wish bbc did another christmas special this year..

[Jezetha]

Classic.

[utterbeastage]

YOU DONT DESERVE TO LIVE

[bloodynorris]

Eat the fucking cheese Nicholoson! What a double act!

[tristanba]

On Paxman:

"He will eat you up, sick you out and grout his fucking wetroom with you"

is also one of my favourite Jamie lines

[david552]

My mum grew up in Motherwell...

[edaines]

Blatantly the best character in the series

[lambie1985]

i love the bit where terri is giving robyn a bollicking and jamie is saying right agreeing with it and he goes to take off robyn's jacket sooo funny

i think im completely in love with jamie at this stage, i hope he's this year's christmas special, if there is one and of course series 4

[lambie1985]

i got that wrong he says fight, fight, fight ,which makes alot of sense, sorry

[Pepotamo1985]

Oops, sorry, didn't notice this, my use of 'tit' was benign anyway...I just cannot stop laughing at the blowjob motions he's doing behind Julius' head...CLEARLY the best character in the series. I just love the fact that he's just such an irredeemable cunt.

[Pepotamo1985]

He's saying 'fight'...tit.

[meesterlowe]

Didn't have the bit about Jamie wearing kid gloves - "made out of real kids"

But brilliant nonetheless. Shut it, Love Actually!

[sianisit]

"EAT THE CHEESE!"

Dear God the first time I saw that scene I thought my sides were going to split open.

[laughatmeimnasty]

3:53

[saleri]

whats that word he says at 3:05? Sounds like "mother wool rules"

[SirDanChuckle]

It's 'Motherwell rules', as in the area near Glasgow. Although this Mother Wool you've spinned (as it were) sounds like a fucking crazy fairytale character.

[elementabuse]

Motherwell Rules.

[b3njamin1989]

He says 'Motherwell rules'

[samjappy]

Motherwell; it's a town in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow. (Possibly where Jamie is from.) Could be considered a bit of a rough place, so a pub fight with "Motherwell rules" would be a bit rough too. Hence the pool cue/pint glass talk.

[supersoulls]

Paul Higgins, who plays Jamie McDonald, is from Motherwell originally

[mavrick0ck]

motherwell rules,, motherwell is a town in scottland,, guessing thats where he is from

[andyrob1978]

It's "Motherwell rules", refering to the rough wee town, just south of Glasgow

[LiekaQueenofDarkness]

Eat the cheeeeeeese!

EAT the CHEEEEEEESE!

One of my favourite scenes. Just totally ridiculous in hindsight, but with the lead up, it all feel perfectly understandable and always hilarious! 8D

[GettingWhiggyWithIt]

'Oh answer the question you FAT F*CK!'

I think it's official then: Jamie is totally awesome! His character gives the show some great energy and he gets some brilliantly funny lines. His scenes with Malcolm are also some of the very best in the show, and he's not too hard on the eyes either!

The new series is great, but how I do miss my favourite psychotic Scot!

[neoPelagian]

Just another layer of tongue sticky-outness to Campbell, Jamie is a McDonald.

I am sure it is a coincidence from Ianucci, must be. :-D

[Brazilianairess]

Only in the film! In the series he was just plain Jamie...

[SnorkyO]

When I met you this morning I thought were the nice scot!

[dixy10]

"yoo couldnt organise a bumrape in a barracks..."

haahahah!

[Brazilianairess]

"Au contraire..."

One of Malcolm's least sweary and most menacing lines.

[aliceinsoundgarden]

"you're about as secure as a hymen in a south london comprehensive!"

lmao!!

[yordel2]

BRILLIANT!

[mcjazzwagon]

YESSS Thank you for 5 minutes and and 48 seconds of genius!

[SnorkyO]

Jaime is the best character apart from Malcolm.

[Perki]

Aw, what are we gonna do without the little bastard?

[readtherightbooks]

well this is one of the best things i've ever seen. i just had one last gasping bout of laughter to end my Saturday. well done Brazilianairess!

x

[jackanderton]

'You don't deserve to live'

That applies to the people who have removed him from this series! Bastards!

[SimonFoston]

A newspaper article did say he'd be in the series, but another post here said maybe only for one episode. I doubt they wanted to write Jamie out.

[Brazilianairess]

Chris Addison said he wouldn't be in the new series, via Twitter... I live in hope of a spin-off series...

[SimonFoston]

Then I hope it's because Paul Higgins had other things he wanted to do, they'd have to be mad to actually not want to have Jamie in the new series. Incidentally, I think 4:02's brilliant - makes it look as if he's horrible to his equals but unfailingly courteous to people lower down in the pecking order. Nice little touch, that.

[Brazilianairess]

I love that scene: it's interesting to note that Malcolm and Jamie have little respect for MPs and civil servants but are nice to cleaners and secretaries. They may be bastards but only to the people who genuinely deserve it. They do have a moral code of sorts...

[cakeandfinewine]

I interpreted that more as Jamie not wanting to risk pissing off anyone whose career doesn't depend on having to lick Tuckers arse. Indeed, later in that episode Malcolm finds himself having to mollify the cleaner after Ben is inadvertently rude to her and she threatens to go to the media about it. Jamie would be far too shrewd to make the same mistake, hence the "politeness". Nice edit btw.

[capaldicorporations]

But Iannuci said part of the point of the programme was to actually show politicians in a good light, and to show how massively media driven modern politics is. Its actually quite sympathetic towards politicians, and Malcolm + Jamie are completely unscrupulous bastards. Hence the reason Alastair Campbell fucking hates it.

[msprissy2288]

haha yeah, i noticed that. and in the movie malcolm is also pretty polite to his assistant sam. and jamie is surprisingly gentle (i had to rewind it... i thought it was paul going out of character or something) to the cleaner in the one seen where he bumps into her.

[waynecarr949]

Biblical. The man will be missed.

[SimonFoston]

Actually read an interview Paul Higgins gave, he said he was quite surprised Jamie made it into more than one episode because it was quite unusual to have a "bad cop/other bad cop" scenario. Thought it made the show even funnier, personally. A friend said he liked Jamie because he looked nicer than Malcolm but was in fact even more psychotic, and I must say I see his point.