Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil

First Broadcast on 9th June 1995.
#HIGNFY

[@nazb33]

To the channel admin...... You absolute legend. I've been hoping someone would have Angus Deayton's HIGNFY. Thank you for saving my sanity 👍🏽

[@belbrighton6479]

This is cool because Ian Hislop has just opened a new play about Spike Milligan! X

[@abitmoredeayton]

Yes!!!

[@billkingston4402]

Good news

[@reelspilltv]

If there was a British Mount Rushmore of comedy, Spike Milligan's face would be on it. Can Angus come back for just one episode, please?

[@MrTonyHeath]

Actually he is Irish. 'Milligan' is the clue.

[@jestermoon]

😂❤

[@reelspilltv]

@@MrTonyHeath ...the more reason his face would be on it. Get it?!?

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Paul and Ian both looked chuffed beyond belief to be in the same room with Spike, who was unusually subdued. Spike started a 'Dick Small' running gag and Paul took it and ran with it.

[@martenw757]

The whoopee goldberg playing queen victoria joke turned out prophetic ... now that anne boleyn has been played by a black actress ... ; )

[@anniewilliams9939]

Spike Milligan. Comedy genius.

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

Spike Milligan! Didn't know he'd been on HIGNFY. Woot!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil 257am 1.3.22 i know, i was scratching my head as to when he'd been and done it... though it is a dayton fronted episode so it was a fair few years ago.. i never did find out what the big fuss was about... can ian enlighten us, sir? was spike milligan amusing? dunno.. i know the crazy lady will come seeking folk out who even mention him as everything according to her emanated from him - he was the epicentre of comedy - allegedly.

[@dzonbrodi514]

@@JJONNYREPP He was very funny in his day, it's a hard job being funny. He was a bit past it here

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@dzonbrodi514 Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil 1627pm 2.3.22 are you discussing peter cook? indeed. excellent dinner guest, i feel. as i am assuming it wold have been a case of just pass the bottle and not much in the way of food would be interacted with. then there's his alleged insistence re: getting into character ie: allegedly renowned for just putting on cruddy accents eg: yorkshire man accent and talking us through various banal routines eg: like passing the bottle round the table... allegedly that was tedious after while but i think he would rate as top of the dinner guest list which is cool as it will mean i have thought about something for once... even if it's only who would be yer fav dinner guest. as for being funny per se - dunno. some people have a natural affinity for being it, for being funny or droll. he's as step up from the christmas cracker range of dubious aside, put it that way.... next question: have you ever made anyone laugh, yerself. and if so - when? n.b seance with peter cook probably in the offing.

[@CrazyInsanelikeafox]

Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana

[@JJONNYREPP]

Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil 1.3.22 0306am and the fookin' retard will run out and slam his door(s)..cos someone said the words: spike miligan.

[@markfox7764]

Crazy,insane, hey!

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@markfox7764 Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil 2.3.22 crazy like a fox. the T is silent as in fox!!!

[@Ology3121]

Subtle homophobic xenophobic racism. How times have changed. Spike is My hero.👀👌

[@RolanTheBrave]

I went to see this episode recorded! Lee Hurst (who remembers him lol?) was the warm up act. Spike was very funny.

[@darthkek1953]

I remember him, "the bloke for whom Chemo didn't seem to be working out."

[@RolanTheBrave]

@@darthkek1953 what was really weird was a while later I saw Lee Hurst on TV and he did pretty much the exact same routine that I'd seen live in the warm up.

[@dismith73]

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE 16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

Really? He died exactly twenty years ago? Gee.

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

@@matthewlamont9515 I didn't upload these.

[@georgielancaster1356]

Love Spike, but he is past his best, here. But it is lovely to see him at all.

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

He was excellent. But I read your comment before I saw the episode, so I was prepared for the worst. (Andrew Neil, on the other hand, was almost not there until the end.)

[@SerendipityChild]

They made a very wonderful trio to watch

[@MultiVince95]

Friday 9th June 1995

[@peterjones596]

I've watched a few of these old episodes of HIGNFY, the last one has Peter Cook and Douglas Adams, I'm in the uK and don't know how I missed them first time around, although these things were only broadcast once in those days, so I guess the answer was, I was busy.. But, even with this episode, with another comedy hero, Andrew Niel, whoops, I meant Spike Milligan, god, they're tame! Tbf though, Spike wasn't at his best, gawd bless 'im.

[@dzonbrodi514]

Doesn't Andrew Neill look shiny and young in this episode. Yeah, Spike was a bit over the hill at this point, bless his cotton socks

[@darthkek1953]

Andrew didn't do too badly in this one.

[@pauledwards8275]

Too busy with The Rag Trade. I'm old.Every body out.

[@peterjones596]

@@pauledwards8275 Omg, I'm old enough to barely remember The Rag Trade.. Another Peter Jones, who later went on to HHGTG... As the voice of the book..

[@RIXRADvidz]

Spike Milligan = Uhru J. Saville = Skeksis both have been sat with the Podling, Ian. niche enough?

[@JJONNYREPP]

Have I Got News For You S09E08 - Spike Milligan & Andrew Neil 310am 1.3.22 where these gay fruit flies can currently be heard slamming their car doors... in the hope that someone will rush out of their home in irate fashion so they can have a gander at what's on offer... after which gay fly door slammer drives off in a huff exclaiming he's not in a huff and he's not a puff though he may be the world health organisation.

[@jackybraun2705]

Angus is brilliant - this is so old but had me laughing all the way through.

[@lieslwilliams]

18:43 - classic Paul

[@pauledwards8275]

What happened to that Neil chap ?

[@dzonbrodi514]

lol

[@darthkek1953]

He failed to make it at News GB. Or GB News. Or whatever.

[@pauledwards8275]

@@darthkek1953 Yes. It was an attempt at humour.

[@pauledwards8275]

@@matthewlamont9515 You what ? You think I'm god ? You care ? Dear me.

[@pauledwards8275]

@@matthewlamont9515 Well ! Heavens to Betsy Matthew you do seem to have a problem there. I did wonder ,about 15 years ago, why there was the first 10 years available on Pirate video. There is a being out there who enjoyed this so much they have the lot. Hislop, Merton or An(g)us ? Hmmm !