Have I Got News For You
- TV panel show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1990 - 2025
- 620 episodes (69 series)
Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Also features Angus Deayton.
- Returns on Friday on BBC1 at 9pm with Series 69, Episode 1
- Series 60, Episode 4 repeated tomorrow at 2:50am on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 1,785
Press clippings Page 9
The best of British satire: 7 vintage shows
Spitting Image is returning. Some are expecting the new series to represent the welcome, and long overdue, rehabilitation of British satire. Others fear a toothless, joyless effort. Either way, it will face some tough comparisons - most notably with itself. The satire boom of the 60s precipitated a long line of insightful, scabrous, satirical shows. So here, in no particular order, are seven of the best.
Tim Dawson, The Spectator, 27th August 2020Is it time for canned laughter to return to TV?
An artificial laugh track hasn't been used for decades, but with Covid making studio audiences impossible it could be a useful tool.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 15th August 2020Have I Got News For You producers suggests studio audience plan
The producers of Have I Got News For You have suggested to the BBC an idea that would see them record the next series of the topical comedy show with a studio audience located in an adjacent room.
British Comedy Guide, 14th August 2020HIGNFY: BBC dismiss complaints over Hislop and Cummings
'No one is exempt from satire,' said the corporation in a statement.
Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 4th June 2020HIGNFY: viewers praise Hislop for ripping into Cummings
Presenter said advisor's press conference was 'utter twoddle'.
Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 30th May 2020How shows are coping without a studio audience
If somebody tells a joke, and nobody is around to hear it, was it actually funny?
Steven McIntosh, BBC, 28th April 2020Stephen Mangan: Filming HIGNFY from living room weird
Stephen Mangan says filming Have I Got News For You during lockdown was like a "horrendous Skype call".
Female First, 21st April 2020Making HIGNFY via video
Jimmy Mulville discusses how Hat Trick is learning a new grammar for BBC One's flagship topical quiz.
Desiree Ibekwe, Broadcast, 17th April 2020What happens when a joke is followed by silence
Now, I'm not the funniest person in the world. (Maybe the fourth, or fifth? I try to stay humble.) But when I started doing live comedy, I was even worse than I am now. Nothing teaches you how to generate a laugh--or makes you more keen to get one--than ending a sentence and being greeted with the howling sound of absolute silence.
Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 8th April 2020Have I Got News For You and The Mash Report reviewed
Many people have had to get used to working from home in recent weeks, and purveyors of topical quips are not exempt, with both Have I Got News For You and The Mash Report returning last night.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th April 2020