Have I Got News For You
- TV panel show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1990 - 2024
- 610 episodes (68 series)
Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Also features Angus Deayton.
- Continues on Friday 27th December on BBC1 at 10pm with Series 68, Highlights Special
- Catch-up on Series 68, Episode 10
Streaming rank this week: 113
Press clippings Page 13
The 20 best Have I Got News For You presenters - ranked
Now approaching its 500th episode, the satirical news quiz has clocked up an impressive 110 hosts. In reverse order, here's our top 20.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 6th April 2018Women are too 'modest' to host a comedy quiz show?
From the late 16th century, the word 'modest' when applied to women has meant 'not forward or lewd' - a quality so often policed by men.
Steven Poole, The Guardian, 5th April 2018Hislop should ask why women are too modest for HIGNFY
If HIGNFY has created an environment that women are reluctant to enter, that is not on women - that's on Hislop and friends.
Tracy King, The New Statesman, 5th April 2018So female politicians don't want to host HIGNFY?
The implication that women are too cowardly to host the quiz show is ridiculous - they're busy in a ceaseless battle against trivialisation.
Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 4th April 2018Left-wing - not gender - bias is ruining a hit BBC show
If you think women aren't able to cope on TV comedy panel shows, then have I got news for you: you're wrong.
And so is Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, who has turned down all requests to appear on the BBC panel show Have I Got News For You since her one and only appearance in 2012 because, she claims, it is "too vicious" for most female guests.
Julia Hartley-Brewer, The Telegraph, 4th April 2018Women too modest to host HIGNFY, Hislop claims
BBC show's team captains say low number of guest slots given to female politicians is because they refuse to appear.
Caroline Davies, The Guardian, 3rd April 2018It's not funny being the only woman on a TV panel show
If Have I Got News For You has problems finding female guests, maybe it's because the potential pitfalls are all too obvious.
Natalie Haynes, The Guardian, 3rd April 2018Is it all over for Have I Got News For You?
In its 28-year history, HIGNFY has had 109 guest presenters, of that number 25 have been women.
Kate Stone, Funny Women, 3rd April 2018Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2017 have been announced. 60 programmes are in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2018Odd to reflect that not so long ago there were mutterings HIGNFY had run out of steam. Then came Brexit. And Trump. And who knows what lies ahead next year? That said, it can still seem a little stale on those nights when Merton and Hislop rest too heavily on our familiarity with their respective personas. Tonight's episode gathers highlights, including, presumably, Jo Brand's silencing-the-boys admonishment moment.
Jonathan Wright, The Guardian, 22nd December 2017