I would have watched this live. And it was as renowned then as it is now. But it's so pedestrian in comparison to current shows.

Wow, comparing Frank Sinatra to Woody Allen? Sure there was a massive age difference BUT Mia was a legal adult, and Frank had NOT been her stepfather for twelve years!

them Sins of the Nineties were far more F U N -tastic!

Briliant this one!!!! Royal pounder of ...ears ...Triangular beard..... trouble leaving ...... new ride..... Brilliant!!!! Thanks!

Meera - so charming and sharp: Brian - the reactive negativity; personal favourite this episode,Thanks PS ...Hugging the heir to Thrown... on Friday night prime- time - Good Old Times..

The ...mmmmmmmmonger bit is just FUN-Tastic!!!!!

Great Legacy - and they never managed to replace him; Some of the Witticisms will last very long time. Thanks but many of his suits sheer rubbish

Merry Christmas!!! good company over them years - Thanks!!!!

Never seen her in her younger period, she’s quite stunning! & believe me.... I love gimme gimme gimme!

Edward Pears Stobart (18 April 1929 - 25 November 2024)

Be easier calling jimmy saville a nonce! (The bbc knew at this time!)

That ignorant gay/hamster reference is so dated and bigoted.

Paul Merton isn’t wasn’t at his best.

I can't help but love that final moment, 'I thought we needed a point.'

Thank you for posting these. Angus was a great host.

23:44 Clive attacks Piers perfect, Piers stunned then confused, Angus attacks 😂😂

1:23 5:29 13:19

I am loving how sharp Christine Hamilton is here!😊 Definitely got the best of Angus with that "cheating" shot😊

Does anyone know that strawberrys song?

As a huge latter-day Beatles fan, I got sick of the endless applauding, lauding & awarding in my teens. I love their albums but I'm lucky to have been entertained & edified by much better, more "important" music in my life. I am intrigued by the Get Back film. Any documentary showing the rehearsal stage of production is fascinating to me.

I always watch when Charles is on.

Angus was a great host. Very funny and quick.

Helen Atkinson Wood was very good in both this and Radio Active sat next to her at the Edinburgh Festival Radioactive (she was waiting for her cue to go on stage) -very big hair !

They laugh when a telephonebox gets destroyed 🤔

One of the best I've seen..

Waow, Paul Merton hates it when someone gets more laughs than him.

Whenever I see Livingston I remember the historic pigeons that he trashed, what an ignorant little twerp..

I'd seen clips from this episode, but I hadn't realised that Piers started attacking the rest of the panel almost immediately. Talk about showing up to a battle of wits unarmed...

Thank you for posting. 25 years ago tonight I met Paul Merton in a pub in London (it was Halloween '99) and I just read my trip diary from that day and I mentioned I'd seen "a local chef in London called Gordon Ramsay" on the HIGHFY that had just been on a few days earlier).

Angus Deyton has always been missed by myself, I thought he was a superb presenter and very witty..such a shame he was treated so badly at his so called downfall by two individuals who should have known better than behave in such a cowardly way towards him..

Will Self having referred to someone else as sanctimonious is, uh, quite a thing

You got to admire Neil Kinnock in this episode. Took jokes about him on the chin and laughs about himself

10:10 if anyone is curious the Aussie version of HIGNFY is called Good News Week. Ross is brilliant on there as he is on here

When is Elton gonna talk, already 10 minutes in?!?

*Angus in trouble for coke and brasses. Quick, get on England's most boring comedian, whose schtik is being unkempt, making childish comments as a grown man, and telling everyone he is teetotal*

Paul: Was it you (who SAed Ulrika)? Audience: ha ha ha ha ha! Angus: *unmarried, having had consensual intercourse with prostitute*

Honestly, Angus was by far the best at that job. Not his jokes, but his delivery was perfect. Years of guest hosts who couldn't do it later, surely thry realised their judgemental mistake.

3:55 best line of the show 😂 😅 I miss Angus being on the show

What did the parrot say?!?

Little annoyed I wasn’t around then, cos I’ve never voted in my life! (Tax me on something that doesn’t happen!)

Amazing he is still alive in 2024.

"Ych a fi" is the Welsh equivalent of "Yuck" (disgust).

Ah thanks for the better sound

Whatever happend to Tony Slattery? Last I saw him was on Whose Line back in the 90s

Stephen Fry is a rare gift to humanity. Wonderful man!

Sir Anthony Trollop was certainly a spoof of the awful little shit conservative Quintin Hogg known as Lord Hailsham.

"The Angus Deayton Agency" is such a good line!!!

Anyone know the "dead" joke Ken refers to at 7:21?

Good episode

6:15 The show actually starts. Also 7:50 and 8:10 Alex Horne has two lefts??