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Have I Got News for You - Season 54
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...
11 February 1959, England, UK
13 July 1970, Hackney, London, England, UK
17 November 1960, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
10 April 1972, Swords, Dublin, Ireland
22 September 1966, Bridgend, Wales, UK
17 May 1962, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
6 July 1958, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
4 June 1975, Grays, Essex, England, UK
11 July 1962, Sligo, Ireland
6 October 1939, Wigton, Cumberland, England, UK
1969, West London, England, UK
1954, Fulham, London, England, UK
12 June 1961, England, UK
29 January 1971, Kingsclere, Hampshire, UK
