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Richard Wilson (II)

  • Producer and executive producer

Press clippings

HIGNFY exec producer dismisses left-wing bias claims

Have I Got News For You's executive producer Richard Wilson, who admits that he himself is right-wing, defended the organisation saying the problem isn't BBC bias, but a lack of Conservative comics.

Victoria Bell, Yahoo, 6th September 2020

The future of jokes

With the threat of social media outrage seemingly ever-present, what we will laugh at in the future and where we will do it?

Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 3rd September 2020

'We'll have Clarkson back on HIGNFY when he's ready'

Executive producer Richard Wilson on why he would like to book Jeremy Paxman as a guest host on Have I Got News For You - and not marking 25 years of the show.

Tara Conlan, The Guardian, 12th April 2015

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