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Mobile phone shot outside the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Waiting to go in to see this week's 'Have I Got News For You' being recorded for broadcast on TV tomorrow night.
Ian Hislop - journalist, satirist, writer, wit, editor of Private Eye since 1986, and ubiquitous television presenter.
Photographed at the National Theatre in London, celebrating the Eye's 50th birthday.
Included in an "odd one out" round on one of their supplemental webisodes in September 2009.
"What’s supernormal? Don’t you need to have super returns or normal returns? What’s a supernormal return? One would rather expect the honourable member to be more precise in his use of language [shrugs].”
Rev Richard Coles (pictured with Dog Collar) talking about a quote from Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, 'Have I Got News For You', BBC 1, April 10 2020.
Supernormal returns/profits are actually not that impressive in economic terms but the term does exist and has been used by economists, for some time.
If you are going to get up on a high horse, first make sure you know how to ride it. One would rather expect more humility and better judgment from a Minister of the Christian Church. Either that or that he sticks to the maxim “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s…”
However, it is not the first time in the last few decades that the BBC has had someone on talking nonsense.
However, the programme threw up (in so many ways) the many shortcomings of the BBC in the face of disruption. The quality of the programme still looked five years behind the standard achieved by independent creators of media content, despite the BBC receiving billions in funding each year. The show, stripped of its usual willing audience, had its ‘jokes’ fall flat. The veneer is peeling off Aunty.
I might try a joke of my own. Did anyone else feel the panellists just phoned in their performances? (I’ll get my coat).
#AbolishTheBBC.
In an exciting evening out, even by pre-pandemic standards, Nick and I headed into Hammersmith to watch the filming of this week's episode of Have I Got News For You (a programme that we've both enjoyed for pretty much the full 30 year run). Riverside Studios, and indeed that whole area of Hammersmith riverside, is almost unrecognisable from my memories of it. Hammersmith Bridge is currently completely out of action - deemed too dangerous for even pedestrians to cross, and even unsafe for boats to go under. However, it still looks very pretty from a distance, especially lit up at night. During my secondary school years, I crossed it twice a day, and it's sad to think that it is so far from useable at the moment.
We joined the HIGNFY queue just too late to make it into the actual studio audience (only 40 socially distanced places) and consequently watched it live in the attached cinema, still a very cool experience. Really interesting to see how much material (2 1/2 hours worth) is filmed each week in order to be edited down to the half hour show.
"Four men with sharpest minds – or rather tongues – in England ganged up and tore to pieces a woman Conservative MP, Louise Mensch, who suggested in a popular satirical programme 'Have I Got News for You' that 'occupy' protesters at the City of London were not steadfast enough in their anti-capitalist action because they a: formed the longest queue in the world for Starbucks coffee; b: had fancy tents; c: used iPhones to tweet about the protest" (Anon 2011 np).
"Louise Mensch serves as a reminder to us of the astonishing beliefs of rich Tory politicians. It was Mensch who made herself look completely foolish on the BBC current affairs comedy programme, Have I Got News For You, by saying that the anti-capitalism protesters “should not enjoy the good things” that it brings. This in response to the news that the protesters from St. Paul’s Cathedral were causing massive queues in the nearby Starbucks. It was Ian Hislop who voiced dissent by saying that he thought it was not necessary for such people to “want return to a barter system and the Stone Age to complain about the way that the financial crisis affected large numbers of people in the world"" (Source: Page 2012 np).
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Legoing by Sabrina Skau
"This week as it's our last episode features something of an International flavour as we fill in the missing words round" and Paul Merton has a dream about him and Ian skipping through a field in Happy Land where news doesn't exist. From HIGNFY (Have I Got News For You)
(C) BBC & Hat Trick Productions
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Spotted in an air con engineer's toolbag. I sure hope that the Government is listening to the experts.
www.heat-pumps-today.co.uk/ details their seminars, with talks like “Heat pumps – the next generation”.
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We got reasonable seats for HIGNFY last night.
Anna Ford was presenting. Guests were David Mitchell and Bob Marshall Andrews MP.
You won't see us on screen tonight, despite the good seats, we were just a little too far back.
Tonight I went to see 'Have I Got News for You' being recorded at the London Studios on South Bank.
HIGNFY is a show that should need no explaining for someone in the UK, and people out of the UK won't care. This is a quick sketch I made in my moleskine of the set whilst waiting for the show to start. I used a pen for the basic sketch, and coloured with pencil later.
The recording was roughly 2 hours long, and will be edited down to about half an hour for broadcast.
The lettering shown spins around at the start of the show to reveal a montage of newspaper headlines.
When good dogs go bad... when ignorance is no excuse:
Louise Mensch MP gets a good kicking for her ignorance on HIGNFY
Prince Harry 'drugs slur’ puts BBC in the line of fire @Telegraph Two Brands make a FUP #Newsnight #Hignfy #bbcsp ow.ly/qd9cr BBC faces pressure to apologise after Jo Brand insinuated on Have I Got News For You that Prince Harry took cocaine
On Sunday, 6 different chapel choirs united to sing a joint service in the University Church. Amazingly, amongst a couple of hundred people, I ended up right at the front (i.e. able to see the conductor, which many couldn't) - right under the pulpit. Which meant I couldn't actually see the preacher, who was the Rev Richard Coles, a quasi-well-known name here from his occasional appearances on Radio 4 (and I think he was on HIGNFY once). But never mind. Trying to sing decently in such a massive group was rather more important...
Helen, Alyssa, Alex and I went to see Have I got News for You being filmed last. A bit of a life's ambition for as Paul Merton is just the funniest guy in the world and I've watched the show ever since I can remember.
It didn't disappoint, Tom Baker hosted (Tom freakin' Baker!) and if you saw the show earlier this year with Brian Blessed he was equally as mad - but in a genius way. I took a few illicit pics and some video, but I don't know how to get the video from my smelly Nokia N95 onto Flickr.
As you can see, usually the website bumbles along doing it's own thing, but this week there was a big spike in traffic, most of which was due to my HIGNFY post.
I hope some of these folks stick around! (Yeah, right)
Friday 28 November 2014: HIGNFY The Aftermath
Had a really brilliant time in London seeing HIGNFY being recorded. It will be broadcast tonight in the UK and later in Australia. The friend I went with runs an appreciation account for Alexander Armstrong on Twitter and she had arranged for us to meet him after the show, but boy did we ever get so much more than that. He had arranged 'Hospitality Passes' for us so we got taken through to the bar before the show and to the Green Room after the show. Alexander came and greeted my friend and me and opened a bottle of Champagne for us to enjoy. I couldn't actually drink any as I'm diabetic, but I made sure I took the cork! We saw all of the other stars in the Green Room and as we were leaving we both got two kisses from Xander. I didn't get back to my hotel 'till about 12.45, but it was well worth the late night... I could get used to all this 'Star' treatment!