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Have I Got News for You - Season 63
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...
15 June 1946, Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK
11 November 1958, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
9 November 1959, Stonebridge, London, England, UK
29 January 1939, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
28 March 1935, Cudworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
30 March 1965, Newick, East Sussex, England, UK
1973, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
3 December 1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1968, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
14 April 1949, London, England, UK
13 December 1949, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
28 November 1961, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
March 9, 1987 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
19 June 1947, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
7 March 1957, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
May 31, 1978 in Westminster, London, England, UK
26 July 1961, St. Kitts, British West Indies [now Saint Kitts and Nevis]
