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SEASON
Have I Got News for You - Season 62
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...
1956, Whitechapel, London, England, UK
17 August 1949, Cairo, Egypt
18 October 1968, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
3 February 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
10 October 1982, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
12 June 1961, England, UK
February 5, 1985
14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
9 June 1931, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
28 April 1978, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
22 September 1969, East Dulwich, London, England, UK
