HIGNFY S40E03 John Bishop, Miles Jupp & Andy Hamilton

28 October 2010
Have i got news for you

[@granthurlburt4062]

Thanks for posting.

[@hullinstruments]

31:30 As someone who grew up with my dad being the oldest and longest practicing Taxidermist.… The comment about the tea towels is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. It’s shit like that why Paul is one of my favorite people who’s ever lived Someone send help I’m dying from laughter.

[@kevinw712]

I can't believe I'd never heard that joke of "damn, she must've been running pretty fast when she hit the wall" before

[@peterlyall8846]

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[@achjetzt]

"...to finally lay to rest Balamory" aw, poor Miles

[@owenyork3075]

I disagree, he's done many puns based on foreign names over the year. I think they laid in to John Bishop here. Justice for Bishop

[@datgrrl5698]

thank you so very much for the upload :)))

[@lindahart6049]

My weekend entertainment! Thank you so much.

[@marywood8794]

Watching this in January 2023 in the U.S., I think it's interesting that the British politicians wanted to take care of old people to keep their vote. Here the Republicans now want to take away social security and Medicare for the elderly after they spent their entire working lives paying into them. Since there is a decimated middle class here, I wonder who they think will have the ability to take in all of these elderly people. Weird part is the elderly tend to vote conservative, so screwing them is crazy.

[@odman69]

The Conservatives keep raising the age of retirement (they're currently proposing at 70) so that there are fewer people to pay. They really don't care about the elderly; witness their sending to care homes, thousands of old people from hospital during the first year of the pandemic, thereby wiping out thousands more. They're a burden on the government.

[@sgtmajvimy]

More of Andy H is a good thing 🤔🥃

[@jeffnettleton3858]

O"Donnell almost seems sane, in retrospect. Ian called it when he once explained to a guest that the US has a conservative party and a VERY CONSERVATIVE party, since we haven't had a true Liberal party in a couple of generations, and it wasn't that liberal.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

ps I think O'Donnell read too many Animorphs books and thought they were non-fiction.

[@lewisgreen6722]

Im old but I have always used the axim that " if the road is starting feel a bit narrow, I need to slow down". 56 years and counting. Nil crashes so far

[@mireilledavidson9427]

Thank you 🙏

[@jeffnettleton3858]

The bit about the racks (bunks, to civilians) on the submarine is a bigger deal then they make out. Because of the crew required to man a submarine and the space limitations, it was not uncommon on earlier classes of submarines for sailors to have to "hot rack," share a bunk. They didn't literally sleep together; rather, they were on opposite shifts and one was sleeping while the other was on watch, then swapped out.

[@timmellor2599]

I guess they couldn't resist that hoary old cliché about sailors.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Fried-A isn't quite so crispy when you come home to a fresh HIGGY in the feed. Thanks Large!! Bowman Hath done it Again !!

[@keithm.404]

That screaming Republican is channeling his pastor.

[@sytytyslankha]

note to self Andy doing Mandelson 17:35 Miles doing NDubz 37:00

[@Butterbean32]

Truly highlights of that episode

[@donrobertson4940]

Well, I hope the economy picked up.

[@marywood8794]

Wow! $25,000 is middle class in Britain?! Here in the U.S., you'd have to earn twice that to even approach what we call middle class.

[@odman69]

That's because the Conservatives are determined to keep the working class in their place.

[@marywood8794]

@@odman69 They are here too. You just can't afford to live in most of the U.S. on $25,000. I thought that the U.K. was similiar, so if that's true, $25,000 is the top end of the poor, not middle class.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

25,000 pounds, not dollars; roughly (as of April 2023) $31,000 USD.

[@marywood8794]

@@jeffnettleton3858 Okay. Still $31,000 isn't middle class in the U.S. by at least $19,000 a year.

[@zomgbat]

The episode is from 2010

[@thenodfather]

Don't say anything about Greece, but xenophobia against the Germans and French, (as the English take every opportunity to do), is fine.

[@Adombom]

@35:24 Isn't that just Pinky & the Brain?

[@georgegunnell6319]

I’ve had my fill of Ian.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Then don't watch.

[@mickmickymick6927]

Ian being a hypocrite again. They very often make jokes about people's names, foreign and domestic. John didn't even make a joke, he just said 'that's a funny name'. Before he lightened up Ian could be a real gobshite.

[@truecentral718]

I suspect it had more to do with his annoyance at having to communicate with someone as unremittingly thick as John Bishop. Merton seemed equally unimpressed. Don't seem to see Bishop on panel shows much any more. Funny that.

[@papagarth]

Those writers know bugger all about Kazakhstan - it's what you might call a modern nation, with rock bands and all sorts of thing.

[@owenfitzgerald3219]

So don't make fun of the Greek but the Greman's are fair game.

[@comedycomedy6888]

I think it's bc he and his wife have spent a lot of time in Greece. His wife has written a novel set in Greece, and maybe the screenplay for the novel.

[@patharasown]

In fact the show, and Hislop have made fun of Gree e many times.

[@TJ-el5tm]

I mean the Germans don’t really get to complain about being made fun of for another two or three centuries

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Yeah, committing genocide will to that to you. Mind you, the US has got a few more centuries to go to live down the slaughter of the Native Americans and slavery. So, ye, we get to be the world's punching bag, too.

[@granthurlburt4062]

Making fun of the Greeks is fair game here. What is not is making repeated fun of a name which is quite a usual greek name and something the owner of the name can't change.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@Smudgie]

I lasted until the wokest of the woke competition started.

[@EdwardLindon]

And then you finished?

[@owenyork3075]

Which part was that you dribbler?

[@odman69]

​@@owenyork3075 😂

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Well, "wake up" and try again.

[@mickmickymick6927]

It's a good way to get rid of the filth

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.