Boris and the Elephant Trap

[@zubairshah1612]

Biggest trick Boris played was that he made people think he's a harmless goof

[@TheDandonian]

The irony, is that it was shows like this which gave him the platform to do it.

[@mrman2415]

Only simpletons fell for it. It's such a transparent act.

[@NotoriousWhistler]

When he was, in fact, an incredibly dangerous moron.

[@ethzero]

* on fucking idiots; all the evidence to the contrary was there.

[@chriswatson7965]

Goofs are harmless unless you give them power, and then they become quite malignant despite any possible intentions to the contrary.

[@helipeek2736]

It’s impressive how Harry Enfield manages to stay in character all the way through this clip.

[@msradclyffe7460]

Harry Enfield isn’t in this clip.

[@JackRascal]

@@msradclyffe7460 He was making a JOKE.

[@Luminoth-il1yt]

Don't you mean Paul Whitehouse?

[@martinmurray6378]

Maybe he's referencing "Panel Show" from "Story of the Twos" Well worth a watch BTW! "oh my god the daily mail" "boyish coy look"

[@hakc97again]

Which character would this be?

[@Grz349]

It’s incredible how acting like a fool allows a person to get away with conspiring to beat up a journalist.

[@Jim-de4dj]

And now a few years later we find out he wasn't acting.

[@colinp2238]

The state of today's journalism, we all want to beat them up.

[@michaelbaker7499]

Admitting to conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm on TV. And no one cares. Shameful

[@ljs185]

Whats wrong with that? Isnt every activist/political person today talking about fighting people with opposing views and theyre seen as heroes? Sometimes lumping someone up is the right thing to do, infact a lot of the time it is

[@Asocialite__]

To be faiiir, talking blue skys about beating up someone you don't like with a friend on the phone isn't exactly conspiring to beat up a journalist. If he'd actually tried to beat up a journalist, then it definitely would be.

[@jakegodfrey4320]

The fact that the recording of that phone call isn't played to him during every interview is frankly mind boggling.

[@Sundae_Times]

Well said, Ian. It's illegal to have people beaten up. Boris should be in jail.

[@susannamarker2582]

No he should not. When did this fictitious assault take place ? When was Boris charged ? Typical Tory bashing. A massive non-story, just like Partygate.

[@jonnysupreme]

"Hit him!" "I might do...no I won't" 😂😂😂😂

[@wildsurfer12]

Who else is here before he becomes Prime Minister?

[@KNIGH7]

I’m not, sadly.

[@captainroger]

Your mum

[@KNIGH7]

Props to her for her punctuality.

[@captainroger]

@@KNIGH7 owwww

[@petermills542]

wildsurfer. 'I'm here ' just after his near landslide Victory ..... the 'Great British public ' have struck again ....sigh !

[@yungfaas6688]

'Haha richly comic, yes yes eydybbys' whahahahaha

[@moluther2826]

Can't stand how he gets away with practically anything by joking about it. He still does it today.

[@jaymercer4692]

A year on from your comment and it seems like every week he’s done another deplorable thing that would have gotten anyone in any profession sacked immediately but because it’s Bojo it takes about a hundred of these offences before we even consider doing something about it.

[@ZK-wz8jw]

He was better as a comedian than a PM

[@Morning404]

He was a shit comedian too.

[@neilpemberton5523]

No he f*cking wasn't. Never laugh at a politician's joke. Blank him or her in all circumstances.

[@gg0u1239]

I believe this was circa 98/99 when the tories were basically unelectable and it was the new Labour wave. I think Boris is late 30s here. I remember watching this at the time and subsequent episodes with Boris. He seemed to stop when he became mayor. If you’d have said he’d be future PM I don’t think I’d have bet anything on that. I can’t think of a more accidental PM in U.K. history

[@fatherofdragons4880]

It doesn't matter how you climb the hill.......

[@gg0u1239]

The greasy pole

[@Da1Dez]

He wouldn't have even been an MP either then.

[@user-bo3mp8un6c]

Not accidental at all, completely calculated

[@bartholomewdan]

Now I bet you can...

[@mohammedjelloo8023]

Angus Deayton. We miss you here.

[@hwv73dwc]

Perhaps this should be the format for PMQs

[@enthrallingusername]

Look at Ian getting overexcited with his pen 2:42

[@bigtombowski]

...is

[@saxa21]

Major warning signs to the public but hey lets have a laugh infact lets elect him PM what harm would that do.

[@nevillegarland1314]

"It's thanks to me he didn't get beat up." "Because you didn't do what you'd tell your mate you'd do."

[@susannamarker2582]

Exactly. So what crime was actually committed here ? None at all. When did this fictitious assault take place ? It didn't.

[@katesullivan9270]

Assault is just the threat of violence. Battery is the physical attack. So planning to attack someone is definitely assault.@@susannamarker2582

[@minkstar9021]

@@susannamarker2582you don’t find it a bit concerning a politician has mates asking him to beat up their critics?

[@susannamarker2582]

@@minkstar9021 That's not the fault of Boris. I remember John Prescott smacking some geezer in the mouth back in 2001 or so, who had just thrown an egg at him. Thug Prescott was in Blair's hard-left cabinet. They're worse.

[@davidjones4762]

That's prime minister material right there

[@ssh1487]

This comment aged well...

[@thoughtsonfitness3249]

I loved this then and I love it now.......

[@steveluckhurst2350]

How about now? 😊

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

When people ask my nationality these days I say "laughing stock and ashamed"

[@j7ech402]

How embarrassing for you, you should definitely be ashamed of yourself

[@Tiwaz81]

Scotland?

[@daquaviousbingleton9763]

imagine there's kids starving in countries race wars slavery and your ashamed to live in one of the best countries in the world your so first world it hurts

[@markc8956]

@@Tiwaz81 We Scots won't thank you for that. Get lost.

[@TheDiirtySpartan]

This is why he hid in the freezer and from all the press before the election hahaha elephant trap

[@johnmcgovern5372]

So the only Military hero Boris mentioned was Rommel....

[@josephtownsend7481]

@Sean Sheep Very far from it. Rommel is vastly overhyped by the Werhaboos today. He was a good brigade commander but a shoddy field marshal, he could be find directing traffic at El-Alamein instead of actually doing his job.

[@slinkyvagabond2991]

Because he was cut off some OJ’s fuck off with the nazi insinuating

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@josephtownsend7481 I think it has more to do with the fact that he tried to assassinate Hitler. (was involved in the plot) And the fact that he refused orders to execute prisoners of war. He treated prisoner relatively well.

[@lotuseater7247]

Boris represents one of the weaknesses of HIGNFY which is that his many appearances only improved his popularity, even with the constant lambasting.

[@jeanlind7540]

Although to be fair when Boris looked like becoming PM Ian stated in interview he was horrified!

[@susannamarker2582]

That's right.

[@beijingbond]

That Stewart Lee has let himself go.

[@hickster222]

He'll go far I reckon.

[@weswheel4834]

Yeah, as we've since learnt, too far.

[@garyturner5739]

If only we'd taken warning of what this man really was then today people lot more people would be alive.

[@M1kelCccHello]

Don't they all look young?

[@adamgrimsley2900]

‘honestly, I can’t remember” pathological

[@jeanlind7540]

Darius Guppy was best man at Earl Charles Spencer’s first wedding. All at Eton together!!

[@susannamarker2582]

So what is your point ?

[@barrybigballs6339]

Future leader right there.

[@jakegodfrey4320]

Astonishing that people are laughing at this. That tape shoukd be played to Alexander anywhere he goes.

[@CrystalShip8899]

Street Porter laughing her socks off, wonder if she would be laughing so much if it was a woman they were planning to beat up?

[@leviclinton8627]

2:42 Hislop gets so nervous with his pen, does not need to be worried Boris is not working class

[@Anon-.-]

Look I don’t know old bean you’ll have to ring him up. Ha

[@psycoticmonkey666]

Such a shame 'Boris' was ever normalised by this show

[@ethanhenwood4474]

Cry 😢

[@jaymercer4692]

Why the quotes. Is he not really Boris?

[@hakc97again]

@@jaymercer4692 He's Alexander

[@MrBobthened]

​@@jaymercer4692 His real name is, “Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson”.

[@mike-wi8wm]

How lovely that the ruling classes allow us to watch their tiffs and games on TV.

[@thatguy3718]

He sounds like Tim nice but dim

[@roxammon5858]

this man will be our next prime minister!

[@petergreen2552]

🤢

[@TOM-os9rk]

And the KZbin intellects shall cry in anguish

[@petergreen2552]

@@TOM-os9rk No. We are in tears of laughter. The man needs sectioned. If you asked an ordinary bloke what their hobby was and they told you what he did,you'd be ringing for the van and the men in white coats. Britain is sunk with this imbecile in charge

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@petergreen2552 whats his hobby? (besides reading ancient Greek poetry in the original ancient Greek)

[@petergreen2552]

@@tylerdurden3722 His hobbies are committing adultery,avoiding difficult TV interviews and generally acting like a buffoon. Not once have I heard of him taking up a serious cause and lending his support to it. Remember the time he said he'd lie down in front of the bulldozers in order to stop Terminal 5 at Heathrow? Well he lied all right but not on the ground.

[@TheWaveGoodbye-Music]

Turns out literal fascism is great prime time telly in the UK. And we wonder why nothing works and everything's crap all the time

[@mikew608]

2:24 someone needs do some tweaking and have the government advisors superimposed on the panel 'Boris saying 'he's been completely stitched up'

[@michael6255]

0.08, Ian knows he has him dead to rights and there is no escape.

[@AICabal]

Yet Boris managed to endear himself to the public even more, complete backfire.

[@SwingRiots]

@@AICabal Says more about this joke of a country than it does about him, sadly.

[@beverleykorte1832]

Soooo funny ,boris Johnston 🤔🙄👋😳😮✌️

[@aden4420]

BUTTER

[@monstersince]

i was looking for radical hairstyles; boris, trump and merton

[@steveross8326]

We were told his bumbling persona covered a great intellect ........turns out it doesn't.

[@marcy3127]

Boris, once a prat always a prat.

[@benney452]

I understand that Boris is very charismatic, he's funny and likeable which sadly are the qualities for a celebrity not a Prime minister. And sure when he didn't really have all that much power he was charming and having him around was entertaining. But now he has weaselled his way to the top spot in the land with nothing literally nothing but charisma. He's had like 50 affairs ffs. He threatened to beat up a journalist. but he's funny old Boris on his funny old bike

[@petergreen2552]

Don't forget as Foreign Secretary he totally forgot about that poor woman in Iran. His trap ensured her sentence will be served in full . Twat.

[@lennylaa1686]

Her being on a BBC activist course did not help though, did it...shit really hit the fan when they saw that.

[@rmc57uk]

You forgot the word 'Actor'. Alexander Johnson (Al or Alex to his friends) has created an affable public personality called Boris to claw his way to the top, and the Great British public have been taken in by it and his admitted lies.

[@petergreen2552]

@@rmc57uk Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson_ full name courtesy of HIGNFY

[@sallydeb]

He probably beat up the journalist that exaggerated about him having 50 affairs.

[@peterrhodes9209]

Does anyone know who hacked Boris Johnson's phone?

[@razer259]

The job is now his. God help us all...

[@DannyMiami09]

Prefer him to Corbyn

[@smithpm81]

if his many gfs/wives and kids cant trust him why should we

[@susannamarker2582]

Well said, Boris. It is illegal to tape people's telephone calls. Piers Morgan should be in jail. Not Boris.

[@johnobrien8398]

Boris has become a fucking

[@TedCornish]

Back when we all loved bumbling Boris

[@johnhanson5943]

Never loved him!

[@zzsmile1]

UK, we're screwed if he becomes prime minister! Praying he doesn't!

[@whovianfan7589]

@@azark101 by casual racism, lies and more.

[@equipoise-sailing]

@@azark101 He is incompetent: He has only held one govt post and constantly gaffed while in it. As a journalist he lied and made stuff up constantly (her was sacked for lying about a quote by his own godfather). He is the source for making up a multitude of utter lies about the EU such as them banning bendy bananas, etc. while working at the Spectator. He is a racist who referred to Commonwealth residents as 'piccaninnies with watermelon smiles'. He said Liverpool overreacted about the death of Ken Bigley who was beheaded by Islamic fundamentalists and that they wallowed in their grief of the 96 Liverpool FC fans killed at Hillsborough. He was utterly useless as London mayor: wasted £55 million of taxpayers money on the failed garden bridge project. Undersold the cycle hire scheme by allowing Barclays bank to sponsor it for a pittance (especially when it was when we hosted the Olympics) and then failed to collect what they did owe. Buried reports about pollution being worst around the capitals poorest kids schools. Wasted money on water cannons he had no authority to use. Refused to return from holiday when there were full blown riots happening in London. He is a philanderer: he cheated on his first wife with the woman who would be his second, then constantly cheated on her. He is now dating a woman that is only 2 or 3 years older than his oldest daughter and she cheated on her husband with him. He is an odious over-privileged shitbag that will burn this country to the ground in pursuit of his political ambitions.

[@leeball4585]

Don't pray, act!

[@kylenetherwood8734]

@@equipoise-sailing He was a terrible foreign secretary but a good mayor of London.

[@Nasty619foxdrankthewine]

I can’t wait for him to be Prime Minister and I’m going to smugly smile at all you poxy snowflakes.

[@rosweaver70]

Boris Johnson a THUG

[@djbethell]

Oh how we laughed... Like having Mussolini on just for a laugh!

[@djbethell]

Ryan Cafferty but I made no comparison to you.

[@CDbiggen]

He's not wrong, that is a pretty thick comparison.

[@djbethell]

@Ryan Cafferty get over yourself saddo.

[@djbethell]

@@CDbiggen ah bless, it's trying to think.

[@CDbiggen]

@@djbethell , I can't believe you're doubling down on something so stupid. Well if you don't mind making a twat of yourself, more power to you I suppose.

[@Karen1963Yorks]

Interesting to see the smug face of posh boy Deaton as posh boy Hislop rip Boris to bits for his indiscretions. What ever happened to Deaton?

[@ronaldburns7877]

@James F he was a hypocrite ,plus he was caught out lying ,plus he done the dirty on his long term girlfriend

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@ronaldburns7877 How was he a hypocrite? Because he had a personal life?

[@ronaldburns7877]

@@cockoffgewgle4993 read up about him,then get back to me...OK

[@ronaldburns7877]

@James F they let people like him host the show so that they can have a dig at them

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@ronaldburns7877 There's nothing to read. I know the story. You think that because his job was to host a satire show, he was supposed to live like a monk.

[@alexairconditioning1581]

Who is here after brexit?

[@steveluckhurst2350]

We all are.....

[@davidcarter6938]

Rommel? His military hero

[@jacksonblitzkreg9774]

Rommel was an incredible military leader for the German army. He was later killed by hitler for disagreeing with him. He was a man who was in the military way before the nazis came to power, he was doing his job and he was damn good at it.

[@meetrasurrik6982]

@@jacksonblitzkreg9774 Very far from it. Rommel is vastly overhyped by the Werhaboos today. He was a good brigade commander but a shoddy field marshal, he could be found directing traffic at El-Alamein instead of actually doing his job.

[@emm_arr]

Johnson's nose is now bent to the right of his face. Sniff. Sniff.

[@jo18533]

Do you know who I work for?

[@emm_arr]

@@jo18533 You know I know who and what you are! #ShitpostQuean

[@jo18533]

@@emm_arr Don't you forget..

[@emm_arr]

@@jo18533 You know I know who and what you are! #ShitpostQuean You are skum for roubles!

[@emm_arr]

@@jo18533 Do you know who you work for? I do!

[@wez4517]

I always wondered how Ian Hislop got hold of a recording of a private telephone conversation? All his comments today about phone hacking seem a tad hypocritical now when you think about it...

[@equipoise-sailing]

So it never occurred to you that Darius Guppy made the recording himself?

[@wez4517]

chris zanf dunno, not sure why he would do that, I mean I have no idea who the man is but surely he would just be incriminating himself he did record it?

[@Alexmarr14Blogspot]

@@wez4517 Nah it came up in court I'm sure.

[@wez4517]

Alex Marr fair nuff! That makes more sense! Isn’t this where Paul Merton points out that Ian went to school with Darius Guppy and does his posh “I wasn’t of his acquaintance don’t you know!” Lol

[@equipoise-sailing]

@@wez4517 Because they are both unscrupulous people who would sell each other down the river as soon as they could. Guppy had made the recording and then released it to undermine Johnson.

[@martinobrien7110]

LORD KNOWS WHY HE IS PRIME MINISTER .

[@aden4420]

CRUYFF 👍

[@andyacreman]

Because the audience was laughing

[@Fredders88]

Ha ha ha, good old Boris was trying to collude in getting a journalist beaten up. Oh, priceless..

[@labibbidabibbadum]

Was that the young Donald Trump? Before his aneurysm and unfortunate dementia of course.

[@kylenetherwood8734]

Neither of them got either of those

[@lennylaa1686]

Boris will soon get us out of the EU dictatorship...….his time in office will be harmless compared to the disastrous shit left behind by Cunt Blair and Cunt Brown and that nasty shit of a political party called New Labour, an evil bastard party! A WICKED CUNT OF A PARTY!

[@sjm2752]

Watched this just 11 days after he won the December 20019 General Election. Love Boris. He's gonna be a great PM. X

[@petermills542]

great ? We all need some practical Policies , not his endless blustering BULLSHIT ! and please don't reduce it all to " get Brexit done " ! What substance is there to his " One Nation Toryism" mantra for instance ?!

[@greyraven444]

Well this aged like 100 tonnes of fish stuck at the border

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Not aged well.

[@woollyhat8536]

Major Goof

[@Tht1Gy]

American here. From clips on MTW and others, I had no idea BoJo had such a good sense of humor.

[@susannamarker2582]

He has an excellent sense of himour because he is very well educated.

[@JackPackaage]

@@susannamarker2582or because he’s trying to brush off what he did wrong being brought to light. After the show he had a go at Hislop for this as he wasn’t best pleased.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@JackPackaage You're forgetting that Boris was paid well to appear. They just got their money's worth.

[@CrystalShip8899]

​@@susannamarker2582The two dont always go together, i am working class comprehensive and i am as funny as fuck.

[@man-who-sold-the-world]

Ian hislop should be pm.

[@man-who-sold-the-world]

@Valerie O'Brien anyone that went to elite schools is entitled to be PM in the UK. Ian did go to Ardingly College. He can speak latin too. Paul Merton upbringing is unsuitable for pm.

[@petergreen2552]

Serious fraudster_ yeah,Bojo the clown has some great mates.

[@Kons213]

Boris, what a legend

[@premirralucie5856]

What a pathetic clown !

[@steeltuff1]

By far the best politician! Top chap and if he was Tory leader he'd be the only reason I'd vote for them.

[@Kons213]

Wouldn't go that far, but he's definitely entertaining as hell

[@Emma-yq7pk]

Medication102 *plonker

[@andrewcalder]

@@steeltuff1 You're obviously a fool then.

[@fatherofdragons4880]

Looks like trump in the thumbnail

[@jeanmyers1787]

Very worrying trend 2020

[@thegrandmuftiofwakanda]

Back in the days before the BBC thought police deemed it not OK to like Boris.

[@alipanroosendaal9503]

We, the undeluded, made up our minds about this spiv chancer toff at the time.

[@blissfulharmony4252]

Best prime minister ever!

[@handsdown3514]

If you hate poor people, yes he probably is

[@markford1638]

@Harvey Smith comedy gold

[@oscar1994alex1999]

Boris for PM!

[@stephenforrow2333]

This man is despicable. Truly a national embarrassment. God help us

[@ds1868]

And about to become Prime Minister.

[@Lolp821]

Why? Please inform us. It's Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson; Jeremy is a stiff blank of wood that will do a shit job and be boring as hell. Boris will do a shit job as well, but the chances of it actually being entertaining are very high. Never been more excited for a new PM.

[@slinkyvagabond2991]

This was the moment I decided if he ever becomes PM he will have my full support

[@steveluckhurst2350]

And how do you feel now?

[@slinkyvagabond2991]

@@steveluckhurst2350 that I was right, he’s probs going to resign soon due to Xmas party scandals and thb fair enough he did make a fuck up on that one but I’m glad he was the pm for the time he was otherwise the gov would still be giving themselves extensions on leaving the EU and we may have even had a new referendum, I think he is still a better option than anything labour has to offer both in terms of leaders and policies and he is still one of the better choices in the conservatives which says a lot about how shit our political party’s and candidates are

[@steveluckhurst2350]

@@slinkyvagabond2991 😂😂😂😂

[@slinkyvagabond2991]

@@steveluckhurst2350 it’s ok don’t worry if you can only respond with emojis I’m sure you’ll learn to debate in the future when your all grown up take care little boy

[@steveluckhurst2350]

@@slinkyvagabond2991 Does hiding behind a stupid login make you think you're tough?

[@johnbunyan5834]

Well, its 2020 and we all know what happened to that chairman; and Hislop and Merton are still doing the same jobs. Meanwhile Mr Johnson , having served 2 terms as the Mayor of London, has been grappling with achieving Brexit and running the country as Prime Minister, through convid-19 , which put him in intensive care , because he went round the country trying to rally the population. And Hislop and Merton are still in the same jobs, earning a fortune by taking the piss out of politicians; but not having progressed to jobs needing them to assume responsibility.

[@MrCalypso2]

They are doing the same job because they are really good. Boris on the other hand …..

[@johnbunyan5834]

@@MrCalypso2 . Come on. In any organisation, people who carry on doing the same job usually are recognized to have reached their level and have not got the ability to take on greater responsibility. I fact the chairman , of HIGNFY lost his job as chairman of that , and Would I Lie To You, and was replaced by people who did a much better job, Hislop and Merton repeat the same old performances of criticising others like medieval fishwives,

[@johnbunyan5834]

@gnu_andrew . But the rest of my comment is valid. Now about intensive care beds. Boris, and the people that he shook hands with, might have been covering their hands with 70+ alcohol gel, for all we know. As for his 3 days , in intensive care , would you have had him die. To imply that he "did not actually need it " is stupid, wicked or what you will. How many people , who spent time in intensive care had acted irresponsibly ? For instance, how about those that had been grossly overweight, for years ? Should they have been occupying beds that could have been used by others ?

[@smithpm81]

nobhead

[@stephenmason5682]

Hislop is such a creep. He's happy when he thinks he's on top, but cringes when he's not!

[@IHardlyNoah]

Watching this in 2023 isn’t funny at all. Like I can’t even see the funny side here. “Alls well that ends well”

[@Sundae_Times]

*All's