The best of Hignfy series 20

Favorite moments from series 20. This was first broadcasted in the autumn of 2000

[@LoneKharnivore]

If anyone's wondering about his hospitalisation, Paul broke his arm while in Edinburgh for the Fringe.

[@rogergreen9861]

Other little known Antipodean facts include: koala means I cannot recall, echidna means I used to know this, platypus means maybe ask someone else, wombat means I would prefer not answering, and dingo means mind your own business. Also, sadly kangaroo is the attempt to spell the word from Nth Qld people for the bouncy bastards (gungurru, or the like), learned after Cook had to spend time ashore during a serious repair. It did not come from the Botany Bay area, or was an error in understanding. Drongo.

[@jasrust]

Blackwood was just excruciatingly inept.

[@amelia6150]

str1tsa you make me so happy ty for all the work you put in it and share with us you the best in my book lol.

[@jrspiritcommunicator7611]

Well said 👍

[@amelia6150]

@@jrspiritcommunicator7611 thank you

[@alunchurcher7060]

have you ever thought about grammar and diction my friend.

[@amelia6150]

@@alunchurcher7060 yes and it's asshole for you.

[@oscardog6719]

Alun Churcher English may not be her first language. Rather mean spirited of you to say that when she was being kind.

[@galesito1733]

Paul's "W. H. Spliff" comment made me laugh.

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@colinstewart1432]

Forgot just how mercilessly they used to razz Angus. Classic 🤜💥🤛

[@Xipheas]

Used to do what!?

[@suzandemir1293]

Miss Angus in the other series

[@RIXRADvidz]

such fun, many appreciations, but Stringfellow, and he's been on more than once. ....

[@anonUK]

Well he won't be on again.

[@ash7324]

@@anonUK😂

[@aigtban]

Ian's Welsh pronunciation actually isn't that bad, compared to most English people who attempt it.

[@petergrimsditch7778]

Maybe because he was born in Wales :}

[@richardponsford5147]

@@petergrimsditch7778 tiger uppercut!

[@pwuk]

Tidy

[@Mousy677]

"well, i split my trousers in front of the queen" is the only phrase in the english language as far as i'm concerned

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

Bet you voted leave didn't you

[@hilljamie94]

Oh Germaine, how wrong you were

[@eta2670]

My mother loves her, but germaine* seems to be wrong a surprising amount x)

[@LoneKharnivore]

Bloody Greer hasn't been right about anything for a long time.

[@DeadlyPants123]

Biggest cow in the world. Hated her after what she said about Steve Irwin

[@RIXRADvidz]

the peineta on Angus is quite fetching. the dots on the board behind his head .....

[@weatherbog]

Not related to this particular video but for some reason Series 57 arrived but will not open due to copyright issues and the commends are turned off. Can open all the others. Weird.

[@str1tsa]

Weird. The video works fine where I live. It has probably been blocked or something. By the way, every blocked video is also on dailymotion so you can watch it there if you want to: www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xbwju?playlist=x3oj3x

[@weatherbog]

@@str1tsa yeah very Odd. Thanks for the new link..

[@flugsven]

Is that prince Andrew? (no, I'm not brittish) And thank's for posting! 🌷

[@jenniferholden9397]

flugsven No, it's not.

[@flugsven]

Jennifer Holden I seem to have missed the beginning last time 🙃

[@ferraridinoman]

Charles Kennedy! What a funny guy! could have this piss taken out of him, (or do it himself!) Nice funny Man!! RIP xx fcuking drink!

[@timl4257]

Is that nigella Lawson sitting next to paul?

[@george52066]

Yes

[@jimosborn3411]

Nigella 🔥🔥

[@eatmywords]

yes, to uphold the moral integrity of the bbc we get rid of deynton and replace him with guest hosts rolf harris and jimmy saville.

[@felicitatumfortunae]

It wasn't that. It was that he was such a source of scandal that he couldn't properly make fun of people any more.

[@zufgh]

@@felicitatumfortunae And so they move onto a format where instead they hire a new source of scandal basically every week and pile onto the host, etc. It's not really an excuse that works when you take into account the years since where the host being the butt of the joke is essentially the whole point of the show now.

[@Liorte1973]

Jimmy Saville never presented HIGNFY.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Exactly

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@felicitatumfortunaeit IS that to anyone with a clue. What is the scandal? Jeez, you people elected Boris Johnson! on your standards you’d be depose your King.

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

7:25 The "kangaroo means I don't know" story isn't entirely accurate. What actually happened was the settlers were speaking to two different Aboriginal groups who spoke different languages. They got the word "kangaroo" from the first group but the second group didn't know what that word meant because they spoke a different language.

[@PokerPlayerJames]

Well that bit about global warming has aged well. . .

[@PokerPlayerJames]

@Richard Joyce very familiar with Orwell. "Brave New World" would be an apt comparison as well.

[@LoneKharnivore]

But environmental destruction is the most important. Governments, ethics and civilisations come and go but climate change can end humanity.

[@PokerPlayerJames]

@@LoneKharnivore I think you're arguing against a point I never made? I'm a strong believer in combating climate change.

[@bournemouthisshit]

Crikey! They all look younger and Charles Kennedy looks... Alive!

[@mathewdee1632]

Always a fan of his on this show , shame about his alcoholism ,. He was quite funny and reserved ..which made it even funnier

[@santanamauricio]

that penguin story was a lie, it never happened

[@awgroom]

Back when this funny and pretty much politically balanced

[@sockington1]

7.41 - which is the wrong answer actually

[@brandongill2577]

“Good night. Sorry, that was just to annoy anyone who set their videos to record this.”

[@conradblack779]

kangaroo does not mean i don't know in aborigine its just what they called kangaroos the story is a myth.

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

Exactly. What happened is because different Aboriginal tribes spoke different languages, one tribe called them "kangaroos" and the English dutifully recorded that as the name, but when they interacted with another tribe, the other tribe didn't recognise the word "kangaroo", leading to the confusion. It'd be like thinking the word "dog" meant "I don't know" because the next person you spoke to was French and used the word "chien".

[@bloozee]

How did the koori understand the question I wonder... perhaps captain Cook shouted his question very loud???

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Aborigine, you goon. Show some damn respect

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@bloozee Use capital letters for proper nouns, you bogan.

[@christopherstclair3297]

Merton is / was impressive and swift, but he had no idea when to put on the brakes. Eventually, his constant interruptions turned into a circus, rather than a funny but serious political comments. The public laughed, but you could see the strain on the faces of his partners, as they repeatedly tried to continue where the comment had started. I can't imagine how long the original texts were - they must have told Merton, whatever you do, make sure you're done on time - that may explain his breakneck speed. I'm glad he's mellowed down since those halcyon days.

[@gaskellr44]

You are spot on in your analysis. Think he took it too far at times for his own enjoyment (which is fair enough) but it could get a bit tiresome, but he and I H were masters at wit and satire. With hindsight, you can now understand that they weren't too fond of A D...not sure why.

[@peteglanton9259]

I can’t stand him personally. He reminds me of a child in my class at primary school; noisy, rude, desperate for attention, constantly interrupting the teacher, and not very funny.

[@slatibaadfast]

done

[@LoneKharnivore]

*broadcast

[@DKMTS]

39:46 Is that awfully creepy of Paul or am I missing a running joke?

[@gaskellr44]

no, not said in a creepy way - more dead pan - and he obviously knew how the target would take it.

[@Mickenos85]

Is there a law that stops us pronouncing the word for homosexual men as homosexual ? I notice the Daily Mail doesnt print it either!

[@laxeystu8096]

7:29 This story is untrue

[@wellmounted]

This was one of the worst for Merton doing his Monty Python schtick.

[@johnfairweather9188]

The story about the word kangaroo is nonsense. How would an aborigine who didn’t speak English know what Captain Cook was asking?

[@arthurkemp4494]

Because captain cook wasn’t the first European or even brit to Australia. The Dutch were there first, so they knew who the whites were. Also there are so many aborigines languages that are now extinct that it could be true that kangaroo originally meant “I don’t understand you” all in all etymologist don’t really know why the kangaroo is called the kangaroo

[@johnfairweather9188]

@@arthurkemp4494 The Dutch who arrived first didn’t speak English, so my point still stands.

[@alexkrycek3359]

Paul Merton at the end comes off really badly. I wonder what his real life beef with Angus was

[@csmadisun]

He was never super fond of Angus - Ian Hislop was once quoted as saying "Paul didn't ever like him, and was very 'up front' about it. But I got on quite well with him - until the big break-up, obviously." (The big break-up being his departure from the show in 2003) It was probably a serious clash of personalities, coupled with the jokes about Paul's wife (Caroline Quentin) souring Paul's opinion of him - it's quite notable that it was after Angus started making those jokes that Paul started being harsher towards him.

[@emeraldblue5291]

They just did a retrospective for the show's 30th anniversary. Ian said he & Paul are friends & go out for a pint after the taping and that he and Angus were friendly "until the situation". (This season was after scandal #1) They wanted him gone after his very public scandal but the BBC kept him on, consenting adults etc, & Angus promised them that was the full story. He almost cost all of them their jobs. I'd be a bit salty too. Then the other shoe dropped & all hell broke loose. Angus was fired & they tried Paul as host before going to different host every week. I think Paul knew that Angus was an SOB aka a liar & a cheat from the first time they met and they never got on very well. Sometimes you just know that someone isn't a good person. Yet they still managed ro work together for 10yrs.

[@MultiBunnyhops]

@@emeraldblue5291 There was also a lot of resentment that Deayton got paid loads of money "for reading a funny script" whereas Paul (especially) provided spontaneous witty comedy (without a script) and got paid normal panelist rates (which I understand are modest).

[@opkb4e]

@@emeraldblue5291 You should watch that anniversary show again, because you have a lot of the details muddled up, and some are just plain wrong.

[@garyd7890]

@@MultiBunnyhops Yeah, only 20k for a good solid couple of hours work every week. Very Modest.

[@stephenmurray2851]

32:20 whenever we say this about Pakistanis etc we are called racist

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

What! Do you mean that what you say =to= is also important as what you say? Well I never!

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

"How dare people call me racist for being racist"

[@stephenmurray2851]

@@TheEvilCheesecake Ah there it is, the race card alert. The girls in Rochdale and Rotherham say hi.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

That’s ‘cos you are.

[@stephenmurray2851]

​@@lizziebkennedy7505no I'm not. It's people like you who are racist.

[@Al-cynic]

go learn some science

[@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

[@johnbootland1675]

why have you written an excerpt from fawlty towers ? we all heard and and we all know it

[@fredflintstoner596]

@@johnbootland1675 ARE YOU THE COMMENT POLICE ?

[@fredflintstoner596]

@@johnbootland1675 YOU NAUGHTY MOOSE !

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

We're watching a man fall apart in front of our eyes here

[@fredflintstoner596]

@@TheEvilCheesecake THOSE ARE THE WRONG SHAPED CHIPS !

[@gaskellr44]

HIGNFY is very funny at times, but this is mostly a tiresome rampage at Angus' expense and starts to become devoid of humour, and just basically a lesson in bullying. Him and Hislop can be great wits, but come over as c**** in these snippets.

[@GaryGoals]

Car? Cat? Cog?

[@gaskellr44]

@@GaryGoals Lol, should have been 3 *s