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SEASON
Have I Got News for You - Season 54
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...
18 October 1968, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
19 June 1947, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent, England, UK
December 10, 1967 in Brisbane, Australia
29 April 1952, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
25 January 1958, Erith, Kent, England, UK
6 July 1958, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
23 July 1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
