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SEASON
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...
7 July 1988, Putney, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
26 December 1957, Devon, England, UK
September 12, 1982 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
17 February 1944, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
18 August 1972, London, England, UK
