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SEASON
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...
16 August 1954, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
6 June 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
30 November 1975, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
11 July 1962, Sligo, Ireland
3 May 1965, Swansea, Wales, UK
10 December 1952, Middlesex, England, UK
28 October 1938, London, England, UK
22 February 1933, Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK
9 August 1952, Milltown of Rothiemay, Scotland, UK
14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
