The best of Hignfy series 36

REUPLOAD! Favorite moments from series 36. This was first broadcasted in the autumn of 2008

[@johardy8512]

My husband and I used to shout "it's on" when tv was young!! It remains my fave programme and our son loves it too...carrying on tradition. Thanks so much for making our Fridays a hoot...whatever the week had been xx❤

[@untitleddocument4197]

what a fine time capsule this is

[@Brownalebelly]

Tom Baker was the greatest ever host, even better than Brian Blessed. Loved it.

[@scottshepard6151]

I will never understand the ... I can't stand Brian Jebus-please-look-at-me! Blessed.

[@mikeh996]

It's a close race, they're so hilarious 😂

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

"pull ya finger out ya lazy bastard!" :D@@mikeh996

[@jordieg-us4ee]

​@@fargodavilleitnotd6729 "ill chin ya, ya bastard" 😂

[@Gurovski]

the best was William Shatner 🤩

[@str1tsa]

The original video got blocked because of Boris Johnson waving a flag at the closing ceremony of the Beijing olympics. So I edited that clip out and reuploaded this video

[@DeanMoxley87]

Good to see you back, I really enjoy these compilations 👍

[@RIXRADvidz]

Maintaining Deity Status around Our House. Higgy is more than just Brain Candy, it's Food for Thought and a creamy delicious taste of History. LOL

[@hannahjordan9833]

Masterfully done. I love these compilations!

[@Pabsie1974]

Best moment of the week on KZbin, when your profile name pops up. Thank you

[@scope3boy]

Thanks for re-uploading the video! Will you be doing the most recent series at any point?

[@Mousy677]

god i miss when "wiff-waff" was the biggest thing that boris johnson seemed to be capable of

[@colinstewart1432]

Thinking wiff waff was peak Boris 🤔

[@jodyswallow1008]

Paul and Ian are legends. You have to be straight up and informed to survive. Brutal, tactile, brilliance.

[@robertmacnish7158]

😊

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Your missive is gibberish. They are not legends, but real people. They are not brutal, they are witty. And as for "tactile", these days the word seems to mean "touch - activated", so what the devil do YOU mean ?

[@ozanyoung2909]

Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are one of the best comedy double acts of all time. XD

[@markhill427]

That is an outrageously true comment

[@DarkRavenProductions]

the tom baker clips had me in stitches

[@TaxTheMonkey]

He'd be a great Granddad

[@TaxTheMonkey]

@Heloise O'Byrne Brian Blessed is the one you're thinking of.

[@paulkielty3800]

The politics of England were invented on a dinner table and our politics are called riff raff.

[@proudpro-vaxxer2154]

Hang on - what happened to Scotland, Wales and Northern ireland?

[@eatmywords]

@@proudpro-vaxxer2154 they're still there aren't they?

[@laurahall3094]

Or spoons (stirring...)

[@danielmetcalf]

Wasn't it wiff waff?

[@samuellewis4042]

This is the best of the best of have I got news for you I believe. This particular series.

[@XmasEve64]

Love the Spider part when Paul says it will be our new currency in a few years time. Nowadays it could be a NFT for a price of $233,39 lol.

[@evklinken]

​@@jaymercer4692 easy mistake to make given a huge part of the planet uses a comma rather than a period to denote decimals

[@jaymercer4692]

@@evklinken Yeah you're right. Don't know what I was on back then but its an unnecessarily mean and just unwarranted comment that I completely forgot about. I apologise and I'll delete it. Cheers for calling me out.

[@djtomoy]

Paul Merton is a comedy wizard

[@ruby.-aaa]

Thank you for this!!

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@paulfretwell1571]

thanks for your uploads str1sa vids got me through lock down.

[@charliepollard2048]

It's happening all the time. They pissed themselves when they thought Boris had a chance at London mayor!! That was before Prime minister. Love this show.

[@TheGreenAnorak]

Thanks for upload.

[@TheGreenAnorak]

I fancy a game of Wiff Waff now.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@cgdimension]

i like that they have guest hosts still,,,but if they hadn't sacked Angus, we wouldn't have had Boris make a couple of appearances which in hindsight only helped his image

[@lukerosie6121]

Watch the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, you may realise lots of different cogs work together to make the idiots think what they want. My favourite show is actually mock the weak, which is what the elite are doing with these kinds of shows

[@suekennedy1595]

Scary seeing Rolf Harris !

[@DeanMoxley87]

Quick Get It Watched Before It’s Removed From The Country It Actually Airs In 👍

[@mark68z]

containing the people who paid for it to be produced in the first place.

[@thechazzler8934]

Tom Baker was so good

[@markloveless1001]

"You've ruined my childhood!". Priceless.

[@sj-ll6wc]

God you Jerry. Absolute legend

[@markloveless1001]

So much fun to see him again. I thought he was great. And y'all's (I'm an Arkansan, I know my pronouns) amusement at poor ol' Randy Bumgartener never ceases to amaze.

[@TregMediaHD]

Greetings from Amsterdam And loyal subscriber

[@johnflynn5044]

I cant look at Tom Baker without thinking of the drunken sailor in Blackadder and laughing... He was a class act and a British treasure

[@paulaus]

He's not dead yet!

[@eta2670]

@@paulaus I had to Google it, thought he had and I’d blocked it out x)

[@GaryGoals]

They are girls lips!

[@PatrikWalzer-lt2qo]

R.I.P. Jerry.

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

Notice Sarah Millican all young and silent BUT laughing madly at the wit of the others. She's come a long way!

[@peteglanton9259]

Apparently if you went to Oxbridge you’re guaranteed a job for life at the BBC.

[@markloveless1001]

Audience goes "woooooooooo".

[@blondiebxl]

47:32 Meryl Streep in her greatest role! What a performance!

[@traffa2]

Meryl Streep? Not.....Germaine Greer?

[@millerhxc]

That Rolf Harris clip is a bit awkward now...

[@warriorsfan19]

Only a bit? That’s being generous.

[@2nd3rd1st]

49:24 This man invented NFTs!

[@amyfortunato3978]

Great entertainment!

[@LoneKharnivore]

22:26 Yes, you do, if you've watched the show.

[@ThroatSore]

36? Boy. Tom is 1209, and looking wonderful, might I add?

[@stevie-ray2020]

Just realising how wrong all those people were back then thinking; "Finally, America has seen the worst President in US history leave the White House office!"

[@LeeDon76]

Bush is still the worst

[@damenwhelan3236]

@@LeeDon76 Hahahahha Woodrow Wilson lead to the kkk..

[@damenwhelan3236]

Yanks forgetting history will never not be funny.

[@davkrod]

Balack Obama

[@cargilekm]

I am sorry Bush has been Trumped. Cheers

[@Salad-Cream-Binge]

51:17 these were actually sensational

[@michaelj.beglinjr.2804]

At 1:26:48, Paul is showing off his psychic powers again.

[@kevinshelley2803]

Paul Merton - "Is it a mermaid in a bath tub."

[@proudpro-vaxxer2154]

I usually love Hislop but what he says at 3:35 is utter cringe 😖

[@lmm2103]

I'm still not sure why he said that in the first place, he's made some excuse about it being a comment on her being popular but I don't know why he phrased it in that way. I think he must have been tired

[@jaymercer4692]

Yeah I think he and everyone else realised it was a bit weird and fair play to people they called him out on it.

[@jonathanpope81]

Love you Augustus !

[@bettyhunder6146]

hilarious x ❤

[@sockington1]

who is the cardboard cut-out with Ian ?

[@ArabellaTransylvania]

Fnar. 31 mins in, the segment about Helvetica Bold - that was moi, writing under a pseudonym. Jo Brand - WRONG.

[@thetwopct]

28:47 Such a great delivery of this joke

[@falcychead8198]

After watching this, I feel a greater appreciation for the intelligence and integrity of our political leaders today.

[@paulkielty3800]

Really

[@SkepticalTeacher]

I think they were being sarcastic!

[@couldntmixapotnoodle]

most of them started their career on HIGNFY. I just wish more of them hadnt

[@robinmabbott7334]

49:46 It's a 7 legged spider . Was it born like that or has it been fighting

[@k8like]

I really want to hear the debate between Ian and Germaine when they're discussing the sex workers but Mark Watson jumping in with that inane comment turns what could be an interesting discussion into a really annoying moment.

[@mathildejensen3285]

Why is the former danish prime minister Paul Nyrup Rasmussen shown in a clip?

[@robinmabbott7334]

57:20 is that Sara Millican coz shes lost a lot of weight how old is this episode ?

[@juliehughes1258]

Yes, that is Sara Millican. I think rather than weight loss she is just very much younger here.

[@ppodism]

Footage of Boris at 1hr 3m could have been any of the attempts to interview him since 2016

[@allingtonmarakan1436]

One would like to think that the editor of a magazine, (excellent magazine), who graduated from Oxford University, would know the difference between someone being 'hanged' and someone being 'hung'. People are hanged, pictures are hung, Ian, for goodness sake, lol.

[@billythepigeon7345]

Some of us are hung.

[@pegjames188]

Hung is correct when referring to the past tense, be it person or picture.

[@billythepigeon7345]

@@pegjames188 technically it's not at all, however some argue for common usage, basically if enough people are wrong it becomes right.

[@lmm2103]

@@billythepigeon7345 good, let's all use it

[@Erulin68]

@@pegjames188 a person can be 'hung' in the present tense too to be honest. It just has a different meaning. 😁

[@connormanders1601]

COME BACK

[@robertfish4052]

Ministry of laughter.

[@kaga_me]

Poggers

[@theenchiladakid1866]

Lord forgive if he was ever to be prime minister

[@ItsMoorbinTime]

50:26 predicted NFTs

[@FTZPLTC]

Man, I forgot how hard McCain leant into the Obama/Osama stuff. Weird that history kind of forgot that.

[@bunnybismuth]

History didn't forget it, the media did

[@s.k.393]

Love Frank.

[@catatonicable]

11.00....and SA is completely finished now...

[@aprilharvey2225]

At,east he didn’t have far to fall.

[@kroome111]

49:23 is that the origin of NFTs?

[@thehobknocher]

Yes it is!

[@EasyGrace]

The best of HIGNFY was over 10 years ago. It's just sunk in every way ever since!

[@shanefoy3720]

All TV comedy has suffered so badly, look at the mock the week too was amazing frankie boyle had to leave ever since then things have went down hill more and more now its been cancelled so sad what politics have done to TV comedy in general

[@dannjp75]

Don’t watch it then

[@kimsherlock8969]

WIFF WAAF WHOM HAD DINING ROOM TABLES AS BIG AS A PING PONG TABLE ?

[@Truffle_Pup]

If Tom Baker and Brian Blessed aren't the first and second choices on your "5 people to have dinner with" list then you are a fool.

[@garethbain9125]

1:21... Foreshadowing from Clarkson...

[@franzfleischer3476]

Who is the man in Ian's team in the very first clip?

[@decodolly1535]

Tom Bradby

[@franzfleischer3476]

@@decodolly1535 Thank you!

[@susanjames1227]

50:40 I live for this stuff.

[@luxpursuits]

Miranda sounds a lot like Diana

[@Mickenos85]

Serge thought being manly involved throwing his partner around like a sack of coal.

[@jestermoon]

39:25 😂❤ 39:32 😂

[@roderickfernandez5382]

When someone said bowling and shoot a moose they got the American exactly right cuz I am one I have bowled but you can bet I would never shoot a moose unless it shot me first love this new show I just discovered

[@8teillumin]

I love how how much we hated the old labour government and thinking they where the worst we could get and yet in the year of 3 prime ministers I’d rather have the Blair/Brown governments

[@mikeh996]

Holy shit Millican is smoking!!🤎

[@alunchurcher7060]

Why didn't the cat ever get pregnant because the owner fitter a back door flap.

[@whimsical_me5135]

18:39 To be fair, I also would have called him a boy, and I'm 36 lol.

[@beemoney19]

God, Sarah Millican has always been gorgeous.

[@GenericGooner]

How prophetic of Paul to suggest a picture would be currency. He predicted NFTs

[@redchthonic]

😁😁😁

[@proudpro-vaxxer2154]

21:17 - Oh dear, this bit hasn't aged well 🤮

[@InsightfulUndercurrents]

Neither has 9:30, Ian admits to being in the same society that David Cameron was alleged to do that thing when he denied being in that society when the story came out.

[@ethzero]

49:20 Prescient of NFTs 😮

[@Maz-zb9uf]

Tom baker 🥰

[@Mollypopithelen]

What's the name of the 12 year old? The one who professes to be in his 30s and is so vocal about his disappointment in Tom Baker. He puts a downer on this whole episode.

[@lmm2103]

I think you're talking about Chris Addison. I don't think he was really disappointed in Tom Baker at all

[@rerooar]

My gosh... sad watching the clips of bush thinking that was as bad as it could get... imagine if trump isn't rock bottom. 😱😱😱

[@anonimouse4678]

Interesting as Mrs McCartney was on ITV saying Paul knows I know the truth she meant if course he was replaced before the white album

[@craigstoner2632]

When Paul retires, James Acaster is more than qualified.....just putting it out there.

[@wozgog]

Absolutely

[@prettypurple7175]

2008//////

[@TimesFM4532]

Tbf the bank points no very poltical since the Torys wanted even more deregulation

[@Mollypopithelen]

Miranda, you are much prettier than Margaret Beckett, similar enough to be related but her chin is way much more pointy than yours.

[@martinbradley6528]

am I alone in thinking that Brian Blessed is tiresomely tiresome?

[@AlisonWatson-gb6nc]

😅

[@jasonmcelroy7017]

M

[@colinmcmb]

I thought we were going to avoid having to hear Toby Young's whining voice. At least it was only 3 words. Just enough to stop him complaining about lack of free speech. Oh, wait...

[@daedalus5070]

Heaven forfend someone defending free speech 😱

[@TPJH850]

15:34

[@AA-hg5fk]

HIGNFY - only a decade past its use-by date!

[@bridgetgallagher1930]

While Merton can be quick on the draw he can at times over do it and just be annoying.

[@AA-hg5fk]

he often makes repetitive, irrelevant interruptions that aren't even funny.

[@carolgarland3282]

@@1famekouby I hadn’t thought that was the case. I thought Angus had done that himself?

[@sherryaleshire9187]

They tried to save Angus then he got caught in more shall we say stuff. He was AWESOME. But he could not give anyone else any SHIT because of what he done. Paul didn't bully him off. Angus done that allll by himself. Really too bad.

[@RIXRADvidz]

BORIS

[@08453300222]

Wiff waff poppycock, table tennis was originally called 'gossima', Happy new year to ya all.

[@alexkrycek3359]

"We thought every day would be fucking torture!". Merton is really annoying but THAT was very witty.

[@lmm2103]

What's annoying about him?

[@alexkrycek3359]

He tends to dominate things with non sequiturs

[@anonUK]

@@alexkrycek3359 Is he a dolphin in a bathtub?

[@lmm2103]

@@alexkrycek3359 oooh

[@itsnotrightyouknow]

Who was it who ever decided frank skinner was funny??

[@happivaras]

24:43~25:07 How insulting John Sargent is not that fugly.