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Have I Got News for You

"Have I Got News For You" is a long-running, satirical panel quiz, poking fun at the news stories of the past week. Each week two guests join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, with a guest host presiding over the points.

 

Have I Got News for You (1990)

Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs. Hosted by Deayton, with team captains Hislop (magazine columnist) and Merton (comedian) joined by, typically, a comedian and a politician, journalist or news figure - although an absent Labour politician was once famously replaced by a tub of lard! Regular rounds of Caption Competition, Odd One Out, What Happened Next and Missing Words are interspersed with running jokes: Deayton's senile mother, Hislop's Jimmy Somerville impersonation, the firm belief that all politicians are crooks...

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Running Time : 30 minutes
Premiered : September 28, 1990
Number of Episodes : 280
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Language : English
TV Station : BBC-1
Country : United Kingdom
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Genre : Comedy, Game Show

Tags : Non-Fiction, Satire, Quiz Show, Based on Radio Show, News