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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...
9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
28 May 1964, Troy, New York, USA
15 June 1946, Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK
18 April 1961, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
8 May 1960, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
29 January 1939, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 June 1975, Grays, Essex, England, UK
18 May 1949, Perivale, Middlesex, England, UK
30 March 1965, Newick, East Sussex, England, UK
4 February 1977, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
3 December 1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
5 November 1971, Cardiff, Wales, UK
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
March 9, 1987 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
19 June 1947, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
