HIGNFY S04E08

[@Rhianalanthula]

On Paul and Ian's commentary on the DVD, when clips of this episode were shown, Paul said the suit was more of a burgundy or maroon colour but looked brown under the studio lights.

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@tjoantaylor11]

Yes, forgive and forget. Bring back Angus🎉

[@vortex63]

It just wouldn't work. Just for starters the subjects they couldn't include would be huge - drugs,prostitutes,cheating,infidelity,3 somes,tabloids,hotels.pregnant wife/girlfriend etc etc. Can you imagine the opening from either Hislop or Merton..." So,what happened to you then Angus...?"

[@thisravenhasflown010]

Jo Brand, like wine, gets better with age, I love her

[@Caroleonus]

Kinnock is actually really funny, his "nobody came" joke was completely underrated

[@TheKillingJoker1980]

Ian Hislop got him on the show after meeting him and thinking he was a funny guy

[@SassiLassi]

Friggin Paul!! Always jumps in to steal Ian's answer. P's me off big time. I like Ian.

[@mossy642]

That’s why it’s so funny. Paul will always be aggressive but ignorant and Ian submissive but informed. Multiply that dynamic by 30 years and you have the greatest comedy duo to grace the small screen.

[@TheKillingJoker1980]

@@mossy642 and a winning streak of about 20 years

[@Smudgie]

@@mossy642 "the greatest comedy duo to grace the small screen" woah boy, woah!

[@mossy642]

@@Smudgie I don’t see anyone else still relevant and funny after 30 years!

[@lauriesicardaskey]

Just to add, Kinnock then went on to become a leeching MEP to earm megabucks and so did his family. Well done boyo.

[@YouTubemessedupmyhandle]

Actually he became a commissioner, not an MEP.

[@annother3350]

This isn't just old school, it's pre-school

[@JohnMercer-v4p]

Miss angus 2:14

[@exodiasmith7276]

You can returns on busses. I know because I've done it many times myself. What's Paul talking about? Is this from a different time when bus returns didn't exist?

[@solarpower7581]

Absolutely correct Ex

[@alexmckee4683]

You could definitely get returns on a bus in the area I live in at that time. Perhaps you couldn't in London at the time, but it doesn't seem very likely (I know they were available in the 60s).

[@decodolly1535]

Never known returns to be available on London buses in my lifetime. Allowing for me to become old enough to be aware of bus fares, that's at least 50 years.

[@jeanmyers1787]

Bring back Angus

[@klaythoring1326]

Jo is so young! They all are. But Jo! Wild.

[@exodiasmith7276]

I know, at first I didn’t recognise her though I had a vague inkling

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

Before she was agreeing with throwing acid in people.

[@vortex63]

@@owenfitzgerald3219 She immediately retracted it and only said it as a demonstration of when a thought should not be expressed. More importantly, why is it that when a woman makes the tiniest error it is dragged up forever and ever? I'll tell you why: some men just cannot stand women having any agency so just attack attack attack - i.e.they're scared of them.

[@mark000888]

I wonder where Gavin Nash is now?

[@SoundsVintage]

1992 November

[@thenodfather]

Funny Ian not knowing how Gary Numan was but yet has to know about grime "music" now.

[@anonUK]

You know he plays up the old fogey act for the camera, just like Jeremy Clarkson plays up the Tory bigot act? They take a slight tendency of theirs and exaggerate it for the comedy value. Ian Hislop picked up the out-of-touch judge routine from the late Peter Cook, who referred back to the Private Eye story in the 60s of a barrister who explained to the judge that the Beatles were "a well known beat combo", using an even then obsolete term for a pop group.

[@lmm2103]

Agree with reply to this but also remember Ian has kids, his knowledge of Pokémon was astonishing

[@antster1983]

@@lmm2103 Or indeed the meaning of the song "Jenny from the Block" by Jennifer Lopez.

[@sophiee.h]

5 June 1992

[@RIXRADvidz]

aw, the 90's, when most of you were just starting load your diapers, we Oldies look back with nostalgia to a kinder gentler time when you could tell jokes and poke fun without getting canceled. aw, nostalgia.

[@teganhunter9977]

What from this episode do you think would get canceled today?

[@Caroleonus]

Yeah, we don't have a single topical panel show these days

[@APRCraig]

Yeah, its such a shame HYGNFY got cancelled in 2000 and hasn't shown since..... sarcasm mate.

[@RIXRADvidz]

@@APRCraig I love some good Sarky, we really need a font or some kind of quote marks so Nobody Gets Offended. (sic)

[@1grantharper]

@@teganhunter9977 Nothing. He's just attention-seeking.

[@slatibaadfast]

done

[@cooldude1547]

5.27 funny