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SEASON
Have I Got News for You - Season 61
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...
14 December 1972, Torquay, Devon, England, UK
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
15 July 1931, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK
30 November 1960, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
23 December 1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
4 June 1975, Grays, Essex, England, UK
September 12, 1982 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
19 April 1953, Evanston, Illinois, USA
1972, Tehran, Iran
16 April 1933, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
