The best of Hignfy series 37

[@ppodism]

48:03 ha ha - all the talk of Gordon Brown coming to office and leaving office without election seems very amusing in the light of Johnson,Truss and Sunak

[@edeledeledel5490]

Johnson had one election - which for some unknown reason, was very successful, unfortunately for the country.

[@philnasmith9755]

“These are headlines; not maxims for life!” - I just love Frank Skinner

[@marywood8794]

Every time that they talk about how crazy it is that Boris is the mayor of London on this show...I just keep thinking oh if only you knew what's coming! Lol

[@georgebegg2448]

Xa

[@melview55]

@@georgebegg2448 io mop

[@ryanwebb5082]

You re-watch the old HIGNY series and see him pop up a number of times, he's not particularly quick-witted but there's something likeable about him..... This is a decent example of what power does to people.

[@dan-el6015]

@@ryanwebb5082 Johnson has always been the way he is, he just keeps getting more opportunities to be so without consequences

[@rainbowevil]

@@ryanwebb5082 he was literally always without morals lol.

[@BigWojS]

Everyone laughing at a respiratory virus in 2009. Hi from 2022.

[@laztheman1291]

Whats your point? They were all laughing about one in 2020 too.

[@jaydolan8278]

Seeing Rolfe Harris say “if your wondering what an average Boy Scout looks like” didn’t age well to say the least 😂

[@CashelOConnolly]

Rolf

[@michaelwright8787]

Fair play for having the bottle to include Rolf Harris, I'm sure the BBC would like that episode to be forgotten forever lol

[@lauriesicardaskey]

It's Jake the Peg, with an extra leg...

[@drewcampbell8810]

...and Julia Hartley-Brewer to boot!

[@jamesswayze5890]

"He had the girl by the leg... no what was I talking about??" and "These kids in the pool, they were all over me..." A bit awkward now...

[@Sundae_Times]

Did anyone notice the gollywog on the backdrop throughout the Rolf Harris episode? What's that about?! 🤷‍♂️

[@mmm217]

@@Sundae_Times couldn't see it anywhere

[@ingrownbronail6451]

It's mad to think how crazy the fling of resignations in Browns cabinet were at the time for a decade later pretty much all of Boris' cabinet resigning in the same day.

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

40:22 It's incredible how much a young Jimmy Somerville looks like a young Ian Hislop, but at the same time a young Richard Coles - as he was then - looks frighteningly like a young Jacob Rees-Mogg.

[@lmm2103]

He does as well lol

[@decodolly1535]

Rees-Mogg was never young! He was born a middle-aged prig.

[@jemshadow123]

Yes its an ongoing joke with the priest

[@djinnko]

thanks for posting these and especially for including the episode numbers!

[@Oooo-bi7bi]

makes you wonder why those kids were trying to stop Rolf from coming to the surface.

[@AussieFossil]

It's a shame they failed.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Paul: "We used to have a bloke on here that became Mayor." Then Foreign Secretary, PM.....oh shit, it wasn't a bad dream!

[@galesito1733]

Just wait until Rolf becomes leader of UKIP!

[@justinbowen2509]

Starting a petition to get Reg D. Hunter into the House of Lords

[@kurtsoderberg]

Dont waste your time.

[@alexkrycek3359]

Terrible idea

[@justinbowen2509]

@@fynesider as a joke...? (I’m not really going to do it)

[@WillBravoNotEvil]

Ugh. He's an unfunny buffoon.

[@hesky10]

As an American he's ineligible to enter the Lords, no euphemism intended. A previous example are the queen's private secretaries are all given a peerage once their time serving her has expired, she once had an Australian, who got a knighthood instead as he was not eligible for a peerage

[@cameronamoils6915]

12:35 onwards, oddly prophetic

[@DeanMoxley87]

31:05

[@cameronamoils6915]

@@DeanMoxley87 Reminds me of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3PPhq2GodOrbLc

[@nathanaelwright9196]

Crazy to look back on these expenses scandals in comparison to the Boris years

[@DeanMoxley87]

31:05 hiding in plain sight !! Then goes on to talk about the Charity Swimming Event he claimed in court he’d never attended until video footage was shown filmed by the BBC proving he was there & he openly talks about it on this show years before & we had “evidence right here”. If that footage from the beeb was never found this show would have been his down fall !!

[@miriamxlb]

Thanks for taking the time out to make these , I forgotten the Rolf Harris was once a host

[@hootsmon4723]

Now a nonce....

[@captainroger]

@@hootsmon4723 was always a wrongen

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

@@captainrogeryes, appropriating the damn didgeridoo. Revolting.

[@peterkirby1753]

The flu pandemic bit hasn't aged well... Nor the Boris for PM. And then topped off with Rolf Harris 🤦🏻

[@TheNapalmFTW]

Talking about masks and a pig flu pandemic was... Interesting to hear in 2023.. if only they knew.

[@georgiosstamatopoulos6045]

This Rolf Harris chap seems quite a friendly one, listening to him reminisce about how he was playing with some kids in a pool

[@georgiosstamatopoulos6045]

"With the charming persona I had, I thought "I'm gonna have to thumb one of these kids up"". Mmmm

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Ugh

[@jdixon390]

​@@georgiosstamatopoulos6045 he said thump not thumb

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@pixelpotato4874]

Tory MP:" It's going to be like Zimbabwe" Talk about nail on the head,Fucking Hell...

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@quiltygal6981]

Love Reginald D Hunters version of the House of Lords 🤣🤣

[@UltimatumNo5]

I think it is more truthful than Ian and others were thinking - prostitutes, entertainment such as televisions and certainly plenty of bars.

[@SassiLassi]

Loving the show, thanks str1tsa.

[@ethzero]

24:00 Paul, "You should highlight the people that weren't fiddling". 👀 at Rolf Harris.

[@lfcbpro]

In it's time, HIGNFY has had on Max Clifford, Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris, damn, they must want to burn some of those tapings.

[@karendegenerous600]

Burn them onto what 😱??

[@jake6112]

HIGNFY also had Boris Johnson on before he became mayor of London and prime minister of GB&NI. Let's burn all those recording too! Let's burn everything that isn't exactly the same as it is now! Things change, things come out, things evolve, and things age badly. We don't have to delete them from history.

[@couldntmixapotnoodle]

@@jake6112 he's not saying they should just that the channels where HIGNFY was shown probably would knowing what we know now.

[@anonUK]

Don't forget Jonathan King.

[@ChesterPerry187]

And they aren’t as bad as Rees Mogg

[@shanefoy3720]

Rolph harris man, I loved watching him when I was a little kid now I only feel digusted and sad really when I see him, coz he was very creative and articulated but whereas little kids could understand even

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Creative? He’s a chav beyind words. I suppose you think Pam Ayres is a poet.

[@AussieFossil]

My recollection of Rolf Harris is that he wasn't really all that popular here and he really didn't become 'famous' until he went to GB.

[@sharonmullins1957]

I am so happy to find this! So funny.

[@sn4rff]

loving these videos. though yeah, less so rolf harris. but let's skip over him, and return to - great video, thanks!

[@baoboumusic]

20:30 that is exactly the right pronounciation of van Gogh, both are with the ch as in loch, so van Ch-o-Ch.

[@harrypainter7472]

Half past two.

[@jameshenderson1498]

1:07:22 was PERFECT timing and hilarious 😂

[@IndySidhu88]

Sundays are awesome again! Thank you Str1tsa!

[@lofthouse23]

I'm shamed to admit I smiled and laughed during the Rolf Harris segment. I remember being entertained by Rolf on TV. How tragic that he turned out to be monster. But I am a tiny bit sad he has passed on.

[@Renegade2786]

12:58 Imagine that Newspaper headline was today!

[@exessex3522]

My first thought as well: Only 152! We manage that almost every day. What a bunch of wimps!

[@TheKillingJoker1980]

My god, I forgot about the Rolf episode, used to love him, just painful to watch now

[@AICabal]

Eh, I manage to seperate the entertainer from the man. You have too really, or you'd never watch anything.

[@johngreenwood1972]

AlCabal. Really?

[@Koraxbear]

Remember as two different people, I know its not easy but Michael Jackson managed it and he had more than two.....

[@BuckyOhYeah]

@@AICabal So with that should we separate the Hitler the genocidal person, from Hitler the family man, or artist, or decent to his friends person??... They are one in the same... If you are willing to separate those aspects of a person, what about general murderers? FFS, what an inane, *stupid* comment?!!

[@harrypainter7472]

It's a shame cause it used to be a really funny episode

[@joannesuzieburlison7128]

It has Ian singing, I'm in love.

[@james_baker]

Thank you. Back to Sundays 😸

[@AlgoEX997]

42:15 Just noticed with headphones you can hear Hislop in the background mocking Van Day 😂

[@sgtmajvimy]

Katy Brand’s laugh and smile are infectious 😁😷🥃

[@The.Intruder]

At 47:10 the front passenger car door looks open and not shut properly. 👀

[@exessex3522]

7:03 If a black American guy approached an American cop like that, he would probably be gunned down.

[@captainroger]

To shake his hand?

[@martinjasper7650]

Yep, wrong pandemic, but unfortunately right about a lot of what was feared back then..

[@exessex3522]

46:55 I thought that religious leaders wore the silliest clothes but mayors and the military are not far behind.

[@abapaper7416]

That face Paul Merton makes 1:00:23

[@TEKASHI-de1qt]

When Ian stops smiling, choose your next words very carefully.

[@1970kingbob]

I hear the hum all the time. At night in bed I would say to my wife that she MUST hear it but she never hears it

[@harvestcanada]

Who'd ever thought, Rolf '3 legs' Harris, was at that point, was an absolute pervert.

[@Sundae_Times]

Did anyone notice the gollywog on the backdrop throughout the Rolf Harris episode? What's that about?! 🤷‍♂️

[@goldenpony3460]

40:15 that's rather cool of them to be fair, considering it happened almost half a century ago

[@hullinstruments]

Half past 2…. That’s my favorite that’s fucking hilarious

[@DYMMOT]

34:45 Bloody good point from the right honourable gentleman

[@paznewis107]

Those kids knew...

[@pabrennan6877]

They didn't realise COVID-19's severity & it's importance - like certain others groups that still do to this day it appears.

[@edolen]

they're actually talking about swine flu here.

[@susi-emily]

Severity? It was nothing more than a bad flu bug. Its only importance was to show the government how easily the sheep can be controlled. You've made your beds.

[@gerardoneill1513]

Some of the cow jokes were udder ridiculous.

[@johnnunn8688]

Who is the Irish fella in the USAF Corporal shirt?

[@MrOllieBD]

The skit about the kids ‘holding him under’ aged well.

[@thesteve120]

"Veal vill ask ze questions?"

[@jonharper8963]

Paul saying at 25.46 that we should highlight the people who weren’t fiddling while rolf Harris is presenting 😅

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Love Lee Mack!

[@Reichieru1]

I think we can answer the question about masks now. It's both.

[@TimesFM4532]

Ian being angry at the labiur in 2023 is very funny esspecily after trust

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

After truss?

[@susi-emily]

@@lizziebkennedy7505 Labiur? Esspecily? They even edited the comment. Was there some punctuation that needing removing?

[@TheGamingAKM]

​@@susi-emily Probably just wanted to make the spelling mistake because it's funny.

[@theenchiladakid1866]

How did that covid thing turn out in the end

[@harvestcanada]

Rolf Harris tisk* tisk* tisk*😏😏💀

[@fishwarrant6355]

The Hum is the sound off the MATRIX 😮

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

31:20 Yikes, not aged well (excuse the expression)

[@colummccrudden101]

Alan Duncan and the Revered What lads!

[@alistairs3934]

47:30 How stupid would that be….

[@Hacienda_27]

Is this really free for the studio crowd or ?

[@RIXRADvidz]

29:33, playing a ''bowl of lentils'' very close to beans beans the magical fruit..... the more you eat the more you toot the more you toot the better you feel eat them beans at every meal.

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Beans beans good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you fart 😉

[@dangrahamdrums]

13:00 2020 says hi.

[@Lepizzle251]

Ahaha them laughing about having a new prime minister come and go without having an election. Just wait for truss 😂😂

[@francaperotti5934]

Rolf Harris and the story about the children in the swimming pool is funny now.

[@kessmarl]

Um ... no it’s not. He was probably reliving what he did to one of the kids, while he was saying it. That’s what they do, same as serial killers.

[@francaperotti5934]

@@kessmarl I was being sarcastic but nevermind.

[@ryanwebb5082]

The stuff with Alan Duncan actually made it into the Daily Mail. Fucking hell, it was clearly a joke!

[@susi-emily]

Many things said in jest are blown out of all proportion by virtue signallers and the humour-intolerant.

[@scottgordon1781]

LOL , that mayor of London is now PM :-)

[@MichaelB-wm5cg]

Nice to see Rolf Harris back. 😲

[@Jack-Oates]

17:17 well that's less funny now he is

[@katough]

cheetah from tarzan was still alive in 2009. he died in 2011

[@ajakuk1]

I'm here to read the rolf Harris comments

[@pauldeverill6268]

How uncomfortbale must they feel now being pals with Rolf?

[@stevefolwell4574]

Love watching all these..but please please remove rolf Harris..his face should be removed from history.

[@sootzbitz7770]

what did the kids know about Rolf

[@francaperotti5934]

I love Clive Anderson talks back he did just that and they all deserved it.

[@lycian123]

And iin the green room they all shook hands. Rolf Harris?

[@norcatch]

«It's gonna be like Zimbabwe»...

[@MrOllieBD]

Quick thought, “Celebrity dumping” should, I would have thought, at least involve a celebrity?!

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

geezer with the plug chain and rubber plug is a dead ringer in looks and sound to Swiss Tony!

[@andyac6200]

The kids most probably were trying to drown him.

[@ppodism]

Who is the smug Tory boasting about his expenses? I don’t remember him

[@emmajh45]

Alan Duncan, typical Oxbridge tory, the only decent thing he ever did was resign when Boris became P.M.

[@conniesmith7828]

Really thought it was Ian first time I saw this. I'm a '60's girl myself but I do like the song.

[@joannesuzieburlison7128]

its not Ian? Oh, dream ruined.

[@Jockinoz]

26.54 What the hell is rolf harris doing on here. Can’t you cut it out?

[@leemccluskey5786]

RIP Liam Treadwell

[@davidlin2974]

12:58 the mask thing remind me of Covid

[@andrewnicholson4689]

Funny how we aren't laughing anymore, prophetic or not.... Hmmmm.....

[@nothanksmate]

Anything with Rolf Harris CANNOT be best of.

[@seanmegan1278]

The start of 37x02 aged really well, eh?

[@portglasgoejuniors]

Facemasks❓ Mortuaries❓❓not funny now❓❓❓prophetic❓❓

[@williamchapple8886]

This is the issue, it’s like the boy who cried wolf. So many times before we’d been told something of this scale would happen and it never occurred so when it actually did no one believed it was actually happening and didn’t take it as seriously early on

[@Mousy677]

prescient, even

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

00:59:36 Who is that young woman? {:o:O:}

[@kidmohair8151]

this makes me think... what if David Lloyd George, or Prince Edward (not that one) or (ahem) "Churchill" , had had the opportunity to appear on this show? how iconic would they be?

[@edotball]

rolf comes off well in this it was a different time

[@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?"