Funny / The Queen

• The opening conversation with the Queen and her portrait artist during Blair's election.
  Portrait Artist: You may not have a vote, ma'am, but it is your government.
  HM Queen Elizabeth II: Yes, I suppose that's some comfort.
• Courtesy of the Queen Mum:
  If there is a photographer out there, he could be the first kill of the day.
• The first Blair/Queen meeting:
  HM Queen Elizabeth II: Have we shown you how to start a nuclear war yet?
  Tony Blair: Er, no.
  HM Queen Elizabeth II: First thing we do apparently, then we take away your passport and spend the rest of our time sending you around the world.
  Tony Blair: You obviously know my job better than I do.
  HM Queen Elizabeth II: Yes well, you are my tenth Prime Minister, Mister Blair. My first of course was Winston Churchill, he sat in your chair in a frock coat and top hat. And he was kind enough to give a shy young girl like me quite an education.
  Tony Blair: I would imagine.
• Cherie Blair's Establishing Character Moment after the Queen has to cut their meeting short for something implied to involve Diana. Observers of British politics called her portrayal the most accurate.
  [Impersonating the Queen] Thank you so much for coming, now fuck off!
• A very, very dark example, but funny if you can remember the real Princess Margaret:
  Prince Philip: I've just come off the phone to your sister.
  The Queen: Well I hope you told her to come back and cut her holiday short.
  Prince Philip: Of course.
  The Queen: I imagine she wasn't best pleased.
  Prince Philip: That's putting it mildly.
  The Queen: What did she say?
  Prince Philip: Something about Diana managing to be even more annoying dead than alive.
• The Queen's corgis manage to be both adorable and funny.
• This conversation between Blair and Campbell:
  Alistair Campbell: You seen the papers?
  Tony Blair: No, I thought I'd give them a miss today. Of course I've seen the bloody papers!
• The Queen getting her jeep stuck in the mud.
  The Queen: Oh bugger it.
• The Queen steps into the kitchen at Balmoral to take a call, but her corgis are being a nuisance so she snaps at them with a loud "Out!" Cue the entire kitchen staff leaving thinking she was talking to them.

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