HIGNFY S42E01 Jo Brand, Victoria Coren & Graham Linehan

14 October 2011
From series 1 (1990) until series 10 (1995) the show was chaired by Angus Deayton, with team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton and a guest on each team. For series 11 (1996), Merton - aside from the first episode where he appeared as Hislop's guest - took a sabbatical, and so his team comprised two guests. Clive Anderson, Alan Davies and Eddie Izzard were all assigned 'guest captain' status in their appearances, although there were two episodes where Hislop's opponents were considered a 'double act' and neither was referred to as captain. The original line-up was restored for the following series, and remained that way until series 24 (2002).
Following tabloid newspaper revelations about his private life, Angus Deayton was sacked after two shows of series 24. His spot has been taken since by many different guest hosts. Due to the suddenness of Deayton's dismissal, and with no time to book a seasoned replacement, Merton himself filled the position for the first programme after the departure (with Ross Noble filling the vacant captain's chair).
For its first 19 years, the show was recorded on Thursdays and broadcast the following evening. For the two series in 2010, the show was moved back a day to Thursday (recorded on Wednesday), with the exception of the episode after the 2010 general election, but returned to the original setup the following year.[1]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 59th series was not recorded in a studio, but with the participants filmed from home and composited into a virtual set. Due to the extra editing time required, this series was also recorded on Wednesdays (although broadcast on Fridays).[2] The 60th series returned to a studio, but with a reduced capacity audience split across the studio, another room and a virtual audience watching over the Internet, and the panellists shielded from each other by perspex screens.

[@lindahart6049]

Thank you BH for another upload.

[@videosfromelsewhere926]

Thank you Kind Uploader!!

[@sabrinayasmin5323]

Am I the only one here madly in love with Victoria Coren? No? Okay so I'll just join the back of this line of millions of drooling nerds then, gotcha.

[@peterhepburn4648]

You are not alone. ha ha

[@allanf9355]

Oh God, no. She. Is. STUNNING.

[@mrgrumpy75]

Definitely not alone. She's gorgeous.

[@DamoMcDermott]

She's married

[@honordefon610]

@@DamoMcDermott And done David And had a huge baby... Bargepole comes to mind....

[@Jimothy10]

Jo Brand's delivery is just superb.

[@happivaras]

@Jim You are the lucky one. Did you ever think being completely blind would become a superpower¿‽¿

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@markdawson-smith1950]

Loved this episode. Time reveals/unravels many things, but this episode does contain some brilliant moments (unravelling my mivi among them!). Many thanks for sharing, Bowman. May your quiver be ever full of arrows!

[@daveroche6522]

... and "May the fleas of a thousand camels never infest your armpits"....

[@ArtGirl82]

It is funny watching this 12 years later and thinking how they had no concept of the kind of political incompetence the UK is about the be hit with.

[@hayreddinbarbarossa661]

I would say David Mitchell is a lucky man but he and Victoria are equally as brilliant as each other.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

Yeah that gene pool is going to be ridiculous, future politician for sure or lawyer

[@wesleyhales7097]

Very much agreed

[@JC-qc5yh]

@@TonyHavenMusic first Englishmen to become an American president

[@Getpojke]

@@JC-qc5yh I say, becoming the leader of a former colony, especially that one seems like setting the bar awfully low given the last few! 😉

[@thebolsta]

She's sweet, demure, intelligent... And I could also see her as a dominatrix... Perfect...

[@mariacarter6954]

Thank you for this one 😚😚😎

[@monkeyspankerful]

Tears of laughter actually coming out of my eyes. All 5 of them, simply brilliant.

[@thedepthsofrepair]

You have 5 eyes? Impressive!

[@kevinpitt2203]

On the subject of Victoria Coren. Did anyone notice she came up with an exceptionally good point about Liam Fox, and was dismissed and steamrollered by Ian Hislop. She made the point about the corruption of the arms industry, and the fact that weapons are sold abroad that are used against our own troops, and she asked why are they concerned with Liam Fox's relationship with a guy. Very sad.

[@granthurlburt4062]

I didnt see that happening at all. He obviously heard and listened to what she said. He was not dismissing her point. Did you expect him to go on and on and say isnt that terrible?

[@DennisMoore664]

I wouldn't go so far as dismissed and steamrolled, but I get what you are saying. Ian does nod along and briefly agree with the very serious problem Victoria is describing, but he's also trying to keep the show humorous and bring the conversation back to the topical corruption that was in the news at that point in time. All that being said, I have seen similar moments before happen on other episodes. Someone brings up a larger societal problem in relation to what's being talked about and the rest of the panel just leaves it be and moves on with the rest of the game. An example is when the media gets obsessive and catty about ladies fashion at a wedding and Victoria (I think) pointed out the double standard and how men aren't judged that way. There was a brief joke in agreement from Ian and everyone got back to making fun of the hats.

[@kevinpitt2203]

@@DennisMoore664 To me the annoying thing about HIGNFY is that it is just superficial sneering. Satire can be great at cutting through to the heart of the matter and exposing the absurdity of a situation in a way that conventional current affairs programs cannot. I think my frustration is not only that they could have done a lot better, but they never even tried to make something of it, instead just going for the easy rather childish route. I suspect it is beyond them tbh. It is why I rarely watch it now.

[@itsokay7989]

Because he was right and she didn't make a good point. There was no double standard or ignorance regarding arms trade, because it had absolutely nothing to do with the case of Fox paying for his butt buddy with tax money. She simply said something completely out of context.

[@gaskellr44]

Maybe the lawyers had a panic attack and got word to I H. She would not have been shut down, it's just that we don't always see the full edit.

[@legaltechinnovations1594]

Loved this, one of the best

[@asterix811]

“The only bit of Fox news worth watching” lol

[@charlespeterwatson9051]

38:30 The raunchy joke that Victoroa said made her literally helpless in "30 Years Of 'Have I Got News For You'"

[@gerardoneill1513]

It's funny the way Victoria tries to cover her mouth when laughing at a risky innuendo.

[@Retrobeemer]

*Great episode. I absolutely love Victoria. Clever, witty and beautiful. I was lucky enough to meet her (very briefly) at a later recording of HIGNFY and I was utterly smitten. I could barely speak to say hello.* 😂

[@CharlieKnobcheese]

Brilliant episode this with Linehan and Coren. Unfortunately I have been traumatised and still wake up thinking about Jo Brands Mivvi,

[@gaskellr44]

What do you think she means by her mivvi?

[@CharlieKnobcheese]

@@gaskellr44 When I was growing up there used to be an ice lolly in various flavours. It was vanilla ice cream on a stick with a water ice coating say raspberry flavour. This was called a Raspberry Split. Forward several years and split was replaced by mivvi. I shall leave it to you to decide what Jo is referring to. One other observation is that I would prefer Victoria's Mivvi ;-))

[@gaskellr44]

@@CharlieKnobcheese Thanks for the info...I knew the first bit you said, I was just being provocative for an answer to the euphemism.

[@anonUK]

Nobody needs to contemplate that.

[@johndelaynie7411]

Vicky Coren who keeps going back to the morality of Fox's position as the secretary of defence is rarely seen on the BBC, you can see the other panellists quiver and redirecting every time Vicky brings that up and she refuses to play into the Werritty controversy.

[@Gunman610]

No mention that Victoria Coren's a great poker player? She'd won an EPT Main Event before this show and became the first person to win a second EPT Main Event a few years later.

[@DeanMoxley87]

On a later Ep as host she mentions how men are intimidated by her poker skill 😜

[@honordefon610]

Pokers her hobby not her job She's a presenter and author... Who plays poker David also plays poker with Victoria But not with cards...

[@gaskellr44]

@@honordefon610 ooh, bring back The Carryons.

[@thefilmandmusic]

This was a good one...

[@omadjourney]

I miss Angus Deaton...and Victoria being me at that very moment regarding the man in the wheelchair 😂😂.

[@BridgeToGantry]

Watching this back - and with the bonus of the lovely Victoria - makes me lament the demise of the show in it's current guise. What a sad sad loss 😞

[@linrob1312]

So agree with Vic about the cat stuff...😆 And grubby Tindall was all over the woman...Zara had to fly out to give him a slap.

[@eyerstrix]

Why does it say “glow-cat?” in the background? I feel personally attacked.

[@reveivl]

Not that I haven't seen it before, but brilliant, thanks.

[@alexriches3050]

What year was this, elephant and castle is like 500k now 😭

[@rogergriffiths207]

I roared with laughter watching this

[@icarusandtherabbit]

If anyone can find an episode where Paul laughs? I’ve seen him grin, but I’ve been watching a heap of these and at most it’s a smile. It has me mesmerised. Ironically i saw him doing improv with a group in London on 2007. Although I enjoyed it I never laughed out loud.

[@LPKelly380]

The lates series 65 ep 10 they play a clip of Trump and Paul cracks up. Edit: and just like you, I thought “Wow, I think it’s the first time I’ve seen Paul laugh”…😂

[@icarusandtherabbit]

@@LPKelly380 thanks for that, this was earlier In to my HIGNFY KZbin binge. There has been a few times where he did have a jolly good titter. It’s rare but always good to hear and see.

[@profjohnston]

Interesting. Jo Brand turned out to be an exceptionally good host! She would make a decent regular presenter... Angus Deayton style... er ... without the... well you know where that's going.

[@rootpotato]

240p . . . Mr Ambassador, you are really spoiling us.

[@papasy3748]

You woulda lost a lot of money if you put down Paul for "Who's gonna make a T.S. Eliot joke?" lol

[@kevinw712]

40:24 caption: "I do NOT remember eating THAT!!"

[@doublin35]

Never seen Paul & Ian laugh so much with a guest as with Graham's jokes! He is a legend

[@laurav.7241]

Yes, legend is another word for bigot and racist

[@MrTimdriver]

Awesome.

[@gordoncharles741]

1:08 minutes into video and interrupted mid sentence by a 15 second advertisement that can't be cancelled - youtube have become pathetic!

[@imbatman2868]

Greedy money grabbing Google.... I watched a 5 min video with 5 ads strategically placed in divisions of the segments Then at the end trial no ads 4.99pw for koff

[@charcolew]

Get an adblocker!

[@kevinw712]

actually Agatha Christie being the odd one out just because she's dead would be a nice double-bluff, Christie sort of twist

[@roystonlodge]

Two best men? The rich really do live in a different universe than the rest of us! ;-)

[@Tao_Tology]

Well they were tories, so it takes at least 2 to have a combined total of anything approaching 'best'.

[@suzandemir4958]

Join Brand looks soo good. Great as a blond. Love the glasses

[@imbatman2868]

Who Join Brand Is that Jo's smaller sister.....???

[@roscoewhite3793]

I turned on the subtitles/closed captions to see what it made of the Ann Widdicombe analogy howler; what appeared was "she was talking about something being an analogy that came up as anal it glory once a year."

[@RaysTrack]

why is 240 the highest resolution available?

[@imbatman2868]

That's Gloucestershire for you.....

[@RaysTrack]

@@imbatman2868 😉 close.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Waaaa, it's free......suck it up.

[@MxMattyB]

7:46 cameron had two best men? he couldn't even form a majority for his wedding, had to have a coalition

[@stephenmurray2851]

The cat was a factor. It wasn't the only one but it was a factor

[@lorofcb3]

Perfect guest/host choices!

[@M1kelCccHello]

The man turning off the gas was foresight.

[@MultiVince95]

Friday 14th October 2011

[@zapfanzapfan]

"The Telegraph Pole Appreciations Society"? My, the Brits are weird... or is it wired ;-)

[@markcarrington8380]

Graham Linehan. The reluctant genius. Sitting there looking all coy and nervous when he knows he’s totally responsible for making the nation piss itself countless times. Take a bow Graham you’ve long since earnt it.

[@JoQeZzZ]

Too bad he's also a vocal and purposefully hurtful bigot

[@COM70]

Love Jo.

[@lokischildren7862]

David Mitchell is one lucky man

[@vinayaka93]

What is the mivi joke ? What's a mivi ?

[@pablosquared4868]

It's a 1970s ice cream . Popular at the time.

[@Broadercasting]

It's being used here as a double entendre, because the first two letters sounds like the first two letters of a slang word for a body part as well as an ice cream.

[@elleryeggen9678]

Ha, I had no idea either (American), I just looked it up on Google!

[@MB-dg3lr]

36:35 🤣🤣🤣

[@granthurlburt4062]

17:34 "The wobber who cannot be removed". Hmmn. Why not "Wewease Woger!"?

[@thedolphin5428]

Jo's sarcastic deliveries are so beautifully dry.

[@slowmo9642]

Is VCM a tory?

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Uh......no......but, she has plenty of experience with how the British media operates and throws it back at them, regardless of party. Still, don't care about alleged affairs; but, lobbyists living and travelling with you falls under conflict of interest. That is Ian's point, not to mention access to classified material, without security vetting.

[@joanjackson7373]

Love her too especially with David

[@rukeyser]

Of course love Victoria, but Jo ❤❤❤❤ I want to read all the news : no vocal attitude is more appropriate as an affirmation of How We Live Now.

[@BenjWarrant]

Warning: inappropriate comment follows: Victoria Coren looks _really_ pretty in this video.

[@drwatsonca6945]

I remember when Dwarf tossing first started and the short people who were involved told everyone to mind their own business. If short people did not want to be tossed they would not be and they did not mind it since no one forced them to do it.

[@kevinpitt2203]

Drwatsonca - I totally agree about your view on Dwarf Tossing, but I think we should draw the line at Dwarf Throwing.

[@gaskellr44]

It's not what you think you dirty beast,. They are actually throwing them...8-)

[@stewartclark7190]

38:24 XD

[@DragonwithaGirlTattoo]

One of the best lines of the series.

[@slatibaadfast]

Cor8n is brilliant, she's very smart and she doesn't suffer stupidity. But it looks as though she isn't interested in mindless gossip.

[@CD-db1zo]

Jo went blond and got new glasses. I see. This is an old episode. Jo’s also thinner. Victoria isn’t v c Mitchell. Ian has hair. Paul has short hair.

[@chriswilliams9798]

14th October 2011 google is a many splendored thing （╹◡╹）

[@LeofromFreo]

Jo doesn’t have those glasses on where only one part of the top is white. These are much more normal!!! 🥸

[@imbatman2868]

Time and People move on...

[@staninjapan07]

Victoria Coren-Mitchell, surely?

[@carelesswhisper1113]

Not at the point married to David Mitchell.....

[@oddball7483]

Its rare indeed to find a woman that thinks as well as she looks. One found me but Cancer got her at 36 years. An utter waste of a life given the garbage that surrounds us. Best wish to them for long partnership.

[@distantcoff7391]

Every worthwhile investigator will tell you there is NO such thing as coincidence. Add that to the fact that every politician IS a Professional liar. And there's your answer.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Bowman Hath Gimme Brekky. mmm Tasty goes with Coffee and Cannabis. I'm in Colorado, it's all legal, almost required

[@RIXRADvidz]

the whole Werritty Fox thing is like a skit out of Little Britain.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

I don't see what's so great about her. once again, Mark Crorigan impulsively jumped into thinking she's the one.

[@Paleos1000]

Hmm, Tuilagi - Samoan, and the accent needs some work, Paul.

[@LoneKharnivore]

I think BCE and CE are actually worse than BC/AD - they imply that the Christian calendar is common to everyone.

[@django3422]

Whereas BC and AD just assumes that the everyone is using the Christian calendar. Odd logic you're applying.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

victoria is the best :)

[@fatfrreddy1414]

come back, Theresa; all is forgiven...

[@AllIsWellaus]

I think Victoria was stoned that night. Don't believe me? 33:40

[@gaskellr44]

she asks a funny q, why does that make her look stoned? Seems normal enough to me.

[@andyneate3323]

For adultery?

[@xXKirkSoloXx]

Having such a progressive pro-trans fundraiser like Linehan on is really brave for 2011. Good job HIGNFY!

[@gaskellr44]

This ep was years before whatever he did or said I think.

[@kevinkeran695]

❤❤❤❤ Victoria

[@MultiMolly21]

The only reason he'd be hiding it is because it's a stigma to be gay, no matter what age you're in,. He should be able to say "Mind your own business, we're lovers. so what? "

[@colinstewart1432]

Best episode ever. Like if you agree 👍

[@gaskellr44]

not one like yet.

[@colinstewart1432]

@@gaskellr44 🤣

[@slatibaadfast]

Done

[@jajacapo7006]

As deedee watts a parcel

[@Paleos1000]

You need to work on that NZ accent Paul. Tuilangi, PI. Jo.

[@351yt]

Bit of a sh1t sandwich this one. VC and GL are the bread.

[@TMPreRaff]

Unpopular opinion, I know, but gawd... Paul Merton can be tedious.

[@falfield]

How so? From my perspective he has one of the fastest-working, most original brains in existence. You try making connections at the velocity he does. Of course at that speed not reverything he comes up with is gold (like Monty Python) but much of it is.

[@granthurlburt4062]

Dubai isnt a bad place to visit for a few days in the winter. The "Arabs" show what they can do with a bit of money and Old Dubai recreates a lot of what it was like before oil wealth. But after a few days of shopping and shiny bars it's a little dull. A good idea is to visit nearby Oman which has retained a lot more of the culture of a real Arab country and where the Omanis actually work as taxi drivers and in other jobs where'd you not find Emiratis working, because Oman hasnt the oil wealth. Much better scenery than any other country of the Arabian Peninsula too!

[@2excel]

T

[@davidpilling1623]

whole programme out of sync

[@Broadercasting]

Anyone else here for the Mivi moment?

[@hardlines5472]

Graham Linehan ... legend!

[@hermatred572]

Legendary twat

[@jonhohensee3258]

I honestly have no idea why Jo Brand gets as much work as she does.

[@dangrahamdrums]

lol. Oh dear.

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@dangrahamdrums Oh darling.

[@dangrahamdrums]

@@jonhohensee3258 cracking try.

[@jonhohensee3258]

@@dangrahamdrums Oh Danny.

[@dangrahamdrums]

@@jonhohensee3258 you still annoyed that women are funny?

[@MxMattyB]

9:50 arms dealers don't need charity but transgender youth do

[@friedrichvolkmann]

The laugh tracks are so annoying. How could people watch this for more than a minute?

[@kateoc8]

Live audience

[@friedrichvolkmann]

@@kateoc8 No way can this be live audience. The laughs start suddenly and stop suddenly. Live audience wouldn't do that. Live audience also wouldn't laugh on jokes that aren't funny. And live audience laughing wouldn't come into the microphones louder than the voice of the persons who have them on their shirts. Of course, a sound engineer can move the levers up and down to switch back and forth between moderators and audience. Then it is hard to distinguish from laugh tracks. But still, some jokes would fall flat with real audience.

[@Broadercasting]

@@friedrichvolkmann No, it really is a fairly large live audience. The performance is longer than is shown, but edited down to thirty minutes. In fact there is an audible groan at one point to some wordplay.

[@CaptainBlood2010]

She’s so smug. 🤮

[@Mousy677]

shame about linehan. at least this was pre-shriveling.

[@RO8s]

I come onto this for Victoria, but she obviously wasn't enjoying it, and I didn't either. HIGNY is getting to be an awful endless rant. I didn't make it to the end.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

I love this program; but, that animation of President Barack Obama is pretty much a racist caricature.

[@thedolphin5428]

I know that Victoria is VERY smart, and I usually like her TV appearances, but she struck me as rather aloof, serious, condescending, and not so much into the humour and frivolity of this episode. Her smile seemed a bit frozen and, at times, insincere.

[@RO8s]

She's funnier than them! No, she didn't look like she was enjoying herself, and I don't really blame her - it used to be hilarious, but now it's mostly a rant, and she doesn't really do that.

[@lynnenormandeau318]

This was in 2011 I think. I really wish all videos had the date embedded. Too easy to mislead people.

[@honordefon610]

Ian talks too much for both of them So what do you expect.... She's fairly reserved on panel shows Wilty for example

[@linrob1312]

Old Tosspot Hislop kept his mouth going and barely pays any attention or interest in anything she said.She is so much brighter and funnier than him.

[@honordefon610]

@@linrob1312 She was the only one to find Jo's ice-cream joke hilarious.... Altho Paul added a bit... Her laugh is beautiful and the way she tries to hide it.... She does appreciate a good joke... Even if she is the victim....

[@bryanleigh6497]

Good God! Series 42 of this smug woke garbage, long long past it's cancel date, just like the BBC. And there's Graham, who was recently cancelled for defining a woman.

[@slatibaadfast]

And you watched the whole thing. If you don't like a show, a movie or a television program you switch it off, or better still, don't switch it on. There are many, many programs I don't like so I don't even bother with them. I don't complain about them.

[@gerrypippin2263]

@@slatibaadfast I’m the same. I don’t like Brussels sprouts so I don’t eat them, then complain about the taste

[@bodysuitguy]

@@slatibaadfast He had to pay for it though. Under threat of imprisonment if he refuses but still wants to watch ITV.

[@bodysuitguy]

@@gerrypippin2263 Are you forced by law to pay for a fraction of them even though you hate them?

[@muddydog6605]

*correctly defining a woman

[@billwilkinson4012]

Core doesn't appear to be comfortable, mind you nor would I teamed with Hislop. He is such a smug, slimes character, and Private Eye suffered under him. Used to enjoy higny, but BBC has become so leftist and biased consequently as are the panel. No longer watch it nor BBC now. Should be defended.

[@kateoc8]

Coren. And Ian is a national treasure..

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Yes, a print magazine that is still viable in a digital age has suffered terribly under Ian.

[@zigisamblak]

Am I the only one here madly in love with Victoria Coren? No? Okay so I'll just join the back of this line of millions of drooling nerds then, gotcha.

[@CD-db1zo]

I’m in love with Ian. He’s so cute!

[@honordefon610]

You just got stardust in your eyes zigi

[@granthurlburt4062]

@@CD-db1zo I love seeing women love a man for his intelligence. Victoria expressed her attraction for Jacob Rees-Morgue (!) after he made some clever crack. It's wonderful about this show and the English that two people on opposite sides of the political specturm can appreciate each others' intelligence and wit.

[@gaskellr44]

@@granthurlburt4062 She was surely taking the piss regarding that dingbat.

[@MultiVince95]

Friday 14th October 2011

[@evando2006]

Am I the only one here madly in love with Victoria Coren? No? Okay so I'll just join the back of this line of millions of drooling nerds then, gotcha.

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

This is the literal exact same comment as the one above yours.