Michael Parkinson interview 2002 3/4 Ian Hislop 1

[@lizclegg6246]

I think Hislop and what he does are admirable.

[@ScottFromScotland1]

Do you lie awake at night thinking 'oh my god, I wish I'd not said that' about someone? No. That's what I love about Ian Hislop.

[@chrischarlescook]

Hislop is proof that the class system in the UK can make people judge others wrongly. Rich and poor. Very clever chap!

[@CasparWilson]

mono sound :(

[@davidwhyberd7612]

He did not want Bruce Forsyth on the show in 2003 and was rather sarcastic and did not join in the fun of having the best guest presenter ever. Bruce pulled out all the stops and was hilarious and brilliant. Ian thought it was beneath him and showed his snobbishness. Paul Merton absolutely loved it, was laughing, and just let Bruce take over. Play your Iraqi Cards Right was hilarious. It was one of the funniest shows ever. I often watch it. However, Ian is quite superb and very witty.

[@johnking5174]

It was that episode that got him the Strictly job in 2004

[@boosh90]

Shame they thought better of calling it "Play your Kurds right", but you can't have everything

[@pwuk]

According to Paul, Ian's childhood TV didn't have an ITV button, it'd been removed by Harrods before delivery.

[@DeanMoxley87]

@@boosh90 They did, that was the OG name but they thought it was too much

[@alipanroosendaal9503]

The comments under the Parkinson interview with Merton are closed so I will say it here: Both men came to the logical conclusion back in 2003 that Johnson was totally off his trolley. Subsequent events only confirmed the veracity of those opinions. However, the great British public in their wisdom (aided by a laughable electoral system) chose him to lead them. What does this tell us?

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

That the ones who voted for him don't watch HIGNFY?

[@alipanroosendaal9503]

@@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods That could be a part of it, although it was that show that inadvertently shot him to prominence. They were, I believe, presuming that he would be eaten up, spat out, and exposed. They assumed the general populace would have disdain for this wretched self-serving dim public school chancer. It turned out they saw in Johnson the simpleton in themselves and their fear of intellect, intelligence, and the hard complicated realities of politics, and life in general. A generation brought up on advertising slogans, football chants, and news soundbites, ran to his putrid pied piper call.

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

@@alipanroosendaal9503 I can't disagree, sadly.

[@stnhld2841]

The cracks are well and truly exposed now. All we need is a viable alternative.

[@allingtonmarakan1436]

That anything is electable if it has the support of the mass media owned by the billionaires who control what people think.

[@pow1983]

At least have it in stereo even if u have to fudge it

[@thesubtleface]

@JuliusDS92 Having seen so many episodes of HIGNFY and hearing what Hislop has had to say about the great and the good it seems obvious, to me anyway. He comes across as a protector of the 'ordinary working man' but of course at the same time portraying himself to be aloof and upper middle class; whereas PM seems a genuinely nicer guy despite his deadpan humour (notice he is seldom rude to any of the guests). Sorry I can't be any more specific

[@jonnysupreme]

He's a wanker ya mean?! 😂😂😂

[@liljoerox]

i often wonder if paul and ian like each other, i can't tell if ian's making a joke when he says they don't. i know neither of them seem particularly fond of angus but i always imagined paul and ian got on ok.

[@rage707]

They're proper friends n both born in 57

[@leeshapon]

@@rage707Not true. Ian is 3 years younger.

[@madunwagbo4769]

Connex. There’s a name I haven’t heard for a couple of decades. What an awful rail company. And what we got as replacements (Southern and SouthEastern) aren’t much better.

[@Frohicky1]

Good video, but my right ear hurts

[@bnzss]

My right ear loved this, jfc

[@JuliusDS92]

@thesubtleface Interesting comment - how do you mean? I would have had the two of them the other way around - Hislop certainly smiles and laughs more, though I realise that may have more to do with Paul Merton's deadpan style of humour.

[@Tamashi88]

@FulchesterUnited it's Godwin's Law!!

[@oldfartinthenight9201]

Nothing wrong with GCE metalwork!

[@michaelt8682]

he really has mellowed in his old age. he's a little twerp here

[@sashaboo72]

I detest the way he treated Paula yates on ‘Have I got news for you’

[@halimanunez1117]

Me too, I could never watch the show again after that.

[@taraalan1131]

Sashaboo72 Yes - he comes across as an arrogant man who is so proud of his education and the school which he admits was like a refuge . Maybe the news of his father’s death contributed towards his angry , distant manner . He should have been given the news at home. Sadly, he’s appearing snobbish and self important here.

[@normanmeharry58]

but his summing up is correct. Yates was a journalist who knew the score re tabloid press. You can't invite them in and then expect them to have nice manners ever after.

[@sashaboo72]

Norman Meharry Well, I understand what your saying, but this was on a game show. He wasn’t working in that role. Personally I feel he showed himself as an arrogant, rude, vicious little a**hole. He was trying to be clever and funny, but he came across as nothing more than a public school bully. I have zero respect for this pompous little dick head.

[@sashaboo72]

Karen DeGenerous Well, actually I do understand the show, and I’m all for a bit of banter, but I felt he went below the belt to the point of being spiteful. I don’t like the guy and I’m entitled to my opinion.

[@coneko]

wow silly me and here i thought this section of you tube was to comment on the video we've just seen

[@andrewlovett747]

Bring back Angus

[@scotty686]

I miss angus deighton.

[@CookieCrumble47]

@mikemanu01 totulli agree brokun britton!

[@joejjohnston]

Yes, absolutely right. To be quite honest I still think war was the right option, earlier I meant to say that I think there have been mistakes in the conduct of the war. Saddam's was a criminal regime, and what is more, he had used WMDs in the past when he gassed entire Kurdish villages, killing upwards of 100000 Kurds. Anyone who thinks it was a mistake to remove him doesn't understand the nature of his rule.

[@XXWXWXW]

Parkinson is so condescending.

[@thesubtleface]

There is a lot of anger and bitterness in Ian Hislop, Unlike Paul Merton he's not genuinely good-humoured and I've never liked him or his wit.

[@CDStoner]

@Jon Treasure Hislop is fine

[@potnudles]

There seems to be a lot of assumption and ignorance with you. Unlike other people who may be quite open minded

[@MrScaramoosh]

Hislop has turned out to be a jerk.

[@thetruth156real3]

Clever chap but don’t forget he’s an out an outTory really.

[@friedachingford2977]

Have you ever read private eye 😂😂

[@thetruth156real3]

@@friedachingford2977 I must have about two hundred laying around my study,, wolf in sheep clothing,, he despises the poor and uneducated, in fact,, I have never ever seen him converse with any of the lower classes, even his stablemate is made to sit on the opposite side of him! And has never been invited to his home old boy?

[@rage707]

Not all upper class snobs r tories.

[@thetruth156real3]

@@rage707 No,, not all bears shit in the wood.

[@roberthope303]

Hello, He could;t do a good job at presenting and now selling life cover for over 50.I will not entertain this and will like to see if he disappear from the TV altogether?

[@madunwagbo4769]

Are you talking about Parkinson? He just got old like all of us and retired. Anyway, he’s gone now (and yes, I’m aware your comment was made seven years ago), so R.I.P.