johnfowles
08-20-2009, 11:36 AM
I was going to add this to the original thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=16950
but it is full of lengthy diatribes by myself and geodetic Steve so thought it better to start a supplementary new thread on the same subject
I have just spent two very busy weeks back in the UK (My first visit "home" since embarking on the QE2 for our honeymoon cruise to New York in June 2000)
I found hardly any time to watch UK television, except for attempts to glean a weather forecast demanded by Susan., not made very easy because since I left the UK has defected to the degrees Celcius camp so I had to constantly battle with the arithmetic of converting to degrees Fahrenheit.
One progamme I did fortuitiously catch was an old favourite that I was somewhat surprised to find is still being produced. A comedy discussion based on topical news stories called "Have I Got News For You"
Originally this had a regular cast of the genial Angus Deayton as the chairman with comments by Ian Hislop,aBritish (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/United_Kingdom)satirist (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Satirist), writer (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Writer), broadcaster (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Presenter) and editor (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Editor) of the magazine Private Eye (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Private_Eye_(magazine)). (he has appeared on many radio and television programmes, most notably as a team captain on the BBC (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/BBC)current affairs (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Current_affairs)quiz (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Quiz) Have I Got News for You (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You)) aided and abetted by the comedian Paul Merton
(who a 2005 Channel 4 poll of fellow comedians, saw him voted among the top twenty greatest comedians in history)
Hislop is the only person to have appeared in every episode of Have I Got News for You (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You)'s nineteen-year history,
the edition I watched had as chairman Michael Aspel (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Michael_Aspel) togrther with Ian and Paul and two guest panellists and I now know that Angus Deayton was fired in October 2002 after scandalous revelations about his ptrivate life were published
the episode immediately after those revelation is on youtube:-
YouTube - HIGNFY - angus deayton - scandal best bits
My reason for bringing this up is that it reminded me that I once spoke albeit briefly and peremptorily to Mr Hislop who at the time had a retreat near to my home town in Dorset ,where for several years I was the honorary treasurer for the Sherborne branch of the UK's Cancer Research Campaign, which in 2002, merged with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Imperial_Cancer_Research_Fund) to form Cancer Research UK (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Cancer_Research_UK).
one day a year we held a fund raising "Flag Day'. and one year I was on duty with my collecting can outside a local supermarket when up strolled the unmistakeable figure of Mr Hislop
I made some lame joke about him putting some dosh in my can, which he did.
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=16950
but it is full of lengthy diatribes by myself and geodetic Steve so thought it better to start a supplementary new thread on the same subject
I have just spent two very busy weeks back in the UK (My first visit "home" since embarking on the QE2 for our honeymoon cruise to New York in June 2000)
I found hardly any time to watch UK television, except for attempts to glean a weather forecast demanded by Susan., not made very easy because since I left the UK has defected to the degrees Celcius camp so I had to constantly battle with the arithmetic of converting to degrees Fahrenheit.
One progamme I did fortuitiously catch was an old favourite that I was somewhat surprised to find is still being produced. A comedy discussion based on topical news stories called "Have I Got News For You"
Originally this had a regular cast of the genial Angus Deayton as the chairman with comments by Ian Hislop,aBritish (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/United_Kingdom)satirist (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Satirist), writer (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Writer), broadcaster (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Presenter) and editor (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Editor) of the magazine Private Eye (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Private_Eye_(magazine)). (he has appeared on many radio and television programmes, most notably as a team captain on the BBC (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/BBC)current affairs (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Current_affairs)quiz (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Quiz) Have I Got News for You (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You)) aided and abetted by the comedian Paul Merton
(who a 2005 Channel 4 poll of fellow comedians, saw him voted among the top twenty greatest comedians in history)
Hislop is the only person to have appeared in every episode of Have I Got News for You (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You)'s nineteen-year history,
the edition I watched had as chairman Michael Aspel (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Michael_Aspel) togrther with Ian and Paul and two guest panellists and I now know that Angus Deayton was fired in October 2002 after scandalous revelations about his ptrivate life were published
the episode immediately after those revelation is on youtube:-
YouTube - HIGNFY - angus deayton - scandal best bits
My reason for bringing this up is that it reminded me that I once spoke albeit briefly and peremptorily to Mr Hislop who at the time had a retreat near to my home town in Dorset ,where for several years I was the honorary treasurer for the Sherborne branch of the UK's Cancer Research Campaign, which in 2002, merged with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Imperial_Cancer_Research_Fund) to form Cancer Research UK (http://www.corfid.com/wiki/Cancer_Research_UK).
one day a year we held a fund raising "Flag Day'. and one year I was on duty with my collecting can outside a local supermarket when up strolled the unmistakeable figure of Mr Hislop
I made some lame joke about him putting some dosh in my can, which he did.