The best of Hignfy series 39

[@lindahart6049]

Thanks for your hard work editing these for our enjoyment. Very much appreciated!

[@lorraineforster8164]

Thank you for making these programs available.

[@miriamwilson9542]

Watching this in Oct 2020...it gave me a feel-good boost like no other. RIP Bruce, and God bless all participants of HIGNFYZ xxx

[@TheWuec]

Olo8looloi l l 'll 'll

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Bruce is a sleazoid.

[@klaythoring1326]

I already liked Paul & Ross but after watching them try to rescue the poor young woman from Bruce I really loved them :)

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

Everyone was visibly uncomfortable the first time and I thought you were talking about that. Then Ross cut him off right at the prowl next time. Edit: Also the spectacular ending

[@JonB-dv1uu]

​@@hop-skip-ouch8798 L😅😢

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Silly old fool. I hope Paul complained - l imagine to no effect as the repellent Forsyth was untouchable - at the poor young woman's being there at the same time as the dirty old man.

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Laura Solon.

[@galesito1733]

I loved the bit at the end of the Brucie episode when they dance, Paul genuinely loved that episode.

[@SuzetteGrist]

Love how Ian showed Farage up for being a pompous prat😂😂

[@james_baker]

Thank you str1tsa. Still the best way to end the weekend.

[@lilliankeane5731]

The riveting piece of paper falling down 😂 and of course dear Brucie 💜thanks for the memories✨

[@Jamal-jv8yc]

I’m surprised lembit didn’t get another gig. He was a good sport

[@serendipidus8482]

Is that the man who played the harmonica. I had no idea who that was or who lebic is. 😂

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

Lee Mack, Kevin Bridges and Nigel fcking Farage on HIGNFY? Insane.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Where have you been?

[@thedolphin5428]

Paul and Ross dancing at 1:23:10, funniest thing ever. They really hit it off in that show.

[@silvershocknicktail6638]

When they're singing together, Bruce looks genuinely impressed.

[@SuzetteGrist]

Ross and Paul dancing brill 😂😂😂🎉🎉

[@kaga_me]

That John Prescott clip never gets old.

[@jameshenderson1498]

39:55 is Ian’s most visceral reaction to a joke on this show. Also, Episode 5 has some great comedic energy - best of the series

[@millerhxc]

My god the Bruce bits were hilarious.

[@DynamiteBobby]

There's about four or five legit great episodes in this series. But the post-election one with Lembit is probably the best HIGNFY show I've ever seen.

[@TimoRutanen]

How about the one with Brian Blessed hosting?

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Four or five? Getting your buttons pushed doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the episode. Just you’re easily offended

[@sherylsmiles141]

@@TimoRutanen he is amazing!!

[@livb6945]

Great Lee pronounciation there, "Tony Blur"

[@PollyJuice]

To Farage: "You mustn´t assume that the general population is as ignorant as you are." Ian Hislop; I love you, and I want to have your babies.

[@hannahjordan9833]

Thankyou for the perfect birthday present

[@james_baker]

Happy birthday. 🐱🎂

[@str1tsa]

Happy birthday! :)

[@tucker1000000]

Happy birthday!

[@Eisenwulf666]

Belated Happy birthday, you wonderful human being 😊

[@baoboumusic]

I remember being shocked by the Hitler moustache of Richard Herring. It took me some time to get his point (which is much more than "tryng to reclaim it for comedy"), but the man is quite interesting and thought provoking.

[@ktom5262]

That's the same they said about Hitler: interesting and thought provoking.

[@baoboumusic]

@@ktom5262 mostly provoking and thoroughly disgusting though.

[@FredRandall01]

S39E05 was one of the funniest episodes ever (not counting Boris' appearances).

[@Ryattt81]

"The future is orange"...unlikely prophecy, but the man was right.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@icarusandtherabbit]

That Bruce episode was gold!

[@RIXRADvidz]

4 minutes in , a Big Gigungus Ka-THANK YOU goes out in your direction !! Thanks Large!!

[@-_James_-]

Farage describing someone as ghastly. Takes one to know one, eh Nigel?

[@siddharthsen7035]

Ooh how did you come up with that

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@siddharthsen7035eyes and ears

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@siddharthsen7035you can talk! Cliche city

[@sgtmajvimy]

Bruce, what a gift 🧐🥃🥃😷

[@neilcoles1780]

Watching Farrage Gaslight a nation again.

[@serendipidus8482]

Does anyone know who the man eith the harmonica was? That was so awkward and funny, but not knowing who he was, i wasn't sure if i should feel sorry for him or quite the opposite. 😂

[@thenodfather]

Poor Ian didn't have a dance partner.

[@anikpelchat4280]

The future is indeed orange!

[@siddharthsen7035]

@Martin Major now its very , VERY grey 😴

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Fortunately now it’s the past.

[@mickmickymick6927]

56:02 Except then they brought Campbell back as host.

[@justinbowen2509]

Ten years late but James Carville isn't or wasn't a senator but a political consultant Also, don't know if Ian is brave or just stupid in the last episode.

[@BumMcFluff]

It's interesting, but while I generally like him, and often dislike the political guests or hosts (regardless of their party), there are times I feel sympathy for them and would not be adverse to seeing Ian Hislop get a smack in the mouth.

[@burgersbeansandchips]

Who knew Farage was the inspiration for Pepe?

[@NxDoyle]

These are great, thank you, but I'm wondering if you're able to include the host and guest names, please? I know most of 'em but, as a dirty foreigner, some of the politicians and media bots who appear are complete strangers to me. Thanks again.

[@minxythemerciless]

Open this in a new tab. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Have_I_Got_News_for_You_episodes

[@MultiMolly21]

I hate to be a fuddy-duddy; but even though my lifetime literally spans the time since his death and the present, I still can't work up even a chuckle when it comes to Hitler.

[@cathyshort]

To be fair, sometimes laughter is the only weapon we have for the survival of these terrible people in our history and some of the truly ghastly people in our present! It's a way of being able to converse and consequently learn about some of these difficult subjects! If we don't acknowledge and learn from history, we are destined to repeat it! 😅😊

[@HarringtonsApocy]

If you hate to do it, than maybe just don’t🤷🏽. I can’t work up a chuckle for jokes about marraige. Not all comedy is for all people. He was a world leader like many other, they made several george bush jokes and that man killed 4.7million people, and yet i don’t see any “oh deary me, i cannot fathom even a chortle for jokes about bush” from you

[@serendipidus8482]

I think they are usually very mild jokes about hitler anyway so they're never really very funny. It's always the same joke too. Usually it's " the more I hear about him!" Or " that's the worst thing he did" as it was here. Which isn't very funny. If they actually formed a proper joke in some way a clever joke then maybe it would be funny. But it's always just making light of what he did and I don't find that funny really. Not that I find it particularly offensive either. But if they actually made a proper joke with some irony or some satire or some twist in the tale I might laugh. I'm not against the idea of laughing at hitler if I ever heard a good joke let's say. Just have never heard one so far.

[@BobSutherland-uw1nq]

❤

[@Jack-Oates]

Was this blocked in the UK? I only just found this now I'm using a VPN

[@videosfromelsewhere926]

Aye

[@kettle_of_chris]

@@videosfromelsewhere926 Why was it blocked?

[@serendipidus8482]

Weird. I wish I could watch BBC sometimes I'd even pay to watch many shows on BBC but I can't from ireland even with vpn...I used tunnel bear before and that worked for a while but then it stopped working.

[@redchthonic]

[@michaelmccarthy9411]

Why would Blur be making a speech? They're a band!

[@dianabowman7042]

What is the name of the song at 1:22:46

[@michaelkluko3660]

These shows bang on about no weapons in Iraq. Never mentioning ,ruled by a despot who sponsored terrorism . Job well done !

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

But repeatedly lying to your parliaments and your constituencies about WMD is just fine? They took masses of our money to justify a dishonest invasion that created ISIS! You have a very odd measure of decency.

[@londonlady227]

Ians team were bloody miserable during the Brucie segments.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Because Bruce is cliched sleaze

[@serendipidus8482]

​@lizziebkennedy7505 I think everyone is from that era. Thank god he buzzed cos I was starting to turn inside out with cringe. The rest was hilarious though. He's very talented ..him and the boy who buzzed were a great combo. And Ian was a great combatant.

[@callumjohnstone1854]

11:20 why’s he got that moustache ?

[@sliperysid]

I love looking back at these shows and Hislop in particular. Now we have knowledge of what has happened since this was aired, is Farage still the ignorant person?..... I think not.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

What? The grifting lying sod who got Euro citizenship two mins after the referendum? Get out.

[@GenericGooner]

Chris Addison comes across like a snarky student who thinks he knows everything and can say what he wants without rebuttal. Just makes him seem arrogant.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Only if you don’t like what he says. Farage is much worse on that example

[@mickmickymick6927]

Don't support Brexit but Farage was always good at pointing out the Euro elite's hypocrisy and self-righteousness. Hope there's someone else in parliament still doing so now.

[@kettle_of_chris]

And If the cost of that is just Nigel Farage, then it's a bargain at twice the price.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

The Euro elite? So I suppose you condemn the monarchy and are a Republican if you don’t like ‘ruling elites’.

[@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?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoCyZZ-oicifhLs

[@woodypride5497]

Why was Ian so grumpy about Bruce?

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Well, I don't know. However, he may share my opinion that Forsyth was a truly dreadful person who bullied that young lady until Paul and Ross stepped in (as previously noted in these comments by a perceptive person). Forsyth! What a foul, smug, unfunny individual.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Because he sleazed on other guests. Because he’s a boring tedious one show pony?

[@Eisenwulf666]

Why is Laura Solon so scared of Brucie? It's like your grandfather wanting to dance, i thought it was sweet how playful and charming he tried to be. I am not a woman ,so maybe it was creepy? It didn't seem to me...

[@woodypride5497]

She seemed totally above the whole thing. Maybe because her teammate, Ian, was so grumpy

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

Maybe because he wasn't her grandfather and the fact that he was mostly looking at her during the song followed by running his hands through her hair while getting closer. If it's planned then it's okay but everyone was visibly uncomfortable with that.

[@thedolphin5428]

The way I saw it was that she's just a timid little snowflake who doesn't (yet) know how to drop her sense of seriousness and have spontaneous fun for the purposes of Brucie's self-mocking and very entertaining TV. See the way Ross and Paul later took to the occasion by lampoining the art of dance. That's maturity. I didn't see Ross and Paul "rescuing Laura from Bruce a second time" but their way of mocking Bruce for his innate old-fashioned, patriarchal sexism of gravitating to the only woman present. The whole "problem" was Laura's, not Bruce's.

[@thedolphin5428]

@@hop-skip-ouch8798 Everyone was only uncomfortable because SHE WAS. And that was HER problem ... because Bruce was obviously clowning around in self-parody not in realism. The discomfort issue is all just part of the PC stuff of "don't invade my personal space without my permission". IMO, she was a bad casting pick for that episode anyway.

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

@@thedolphin5428 1:15:46 Ross: If you were Michael Buble, i would've gone and punched you. That was before he cut him off when he crept up to her again.

[@CaptainBlood2010]

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[@garrington120]

Nigal Farage was very brave to come on this show considering the total negativity of the evil gnome Hislop