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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...
23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 May 1933, Paddington, London, England, UK
10 July 1972, Liverpool, England, UK
29 January 1939, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1967, Malta
14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
3 May 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
13 July 1970, Hackney, London, England, UK
13 November 1986, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1 August 1958, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
May 31, 1978 in Westminster, London, England, UK
January1979, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
31 October 1963, Ealing, London, England, UK
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
5 April 1968, Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK
11 February 1959, England, UK
April 20, 1938 in Dublin, Ireland
