Have I Got News For You details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Paul Merton, Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop |
| Directors: | John F.D. Northover, Paul Wheeler, Ben Fuller |
| Genres: | Comedy - British, Television |
| Studio: | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Collections: | Top 100 Best of British |
| Name | Discs | |
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Have I Got News For You |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 3 hours 37 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 25 Nov 2002 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Un PC, harsh fantastic nights fun
By Cfloordave from Lancashire , 24 Mar 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
What could be considered a dubious rent due to the topical nature of the comedy is perhaps better than watching the current series. The DVD is so well edited it contains tremendous laugh-out-loud moments and endless well – edited gags that never leave you confused as to whether you’ve missed some by-gone topical gag.
Once, it’s been watched you can go back and re-watch the DVD with commentary from Hislop and Merton and hear their far from impartial views and anecdotes on contestants, politics and haircuts. This is just as funny if not funnier from a well teamed pair of cynic and surreal comedians.
Although some jokes may be reminiscent (the tub of lard, Paul Merton’s embarrassing Deayton T-Shirt), the humour value is tremendously entertaining and is well worth a rent as it can easily take up a whole evening.
There is also fascinating watching of seeing top UK stories discussed with a hindsight of how they panned out that is just as good as the comedy. Some clips even contain an element of nostalgia with one of the first shows Deayton ending on ‘It’s goodbye from me and it looks like it’s good bye from her [shows: clip of Thatcher: ‘Good-bye’]
Overall, harsh un-PC comedy that sadly it seems modern BBC comedy have lost the formula for.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(16)Awesome Rent
By Rhyno5k (64 reviews) from Plymouth , 12 Apr 2010This has to be my favorite rent from love film so far.
I haven't laughed so much in a long time watching a dvd.well worth a rent.
this dvd is great because it was at it's hey-day when angus deaton was at the helm,rude,funny & controversial.
the show is very tame these days to this- Was this review helpful to you?
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Have I Got News For You (1990)
By a customer from London, England , 05 Jan 2009Although some jokes may be reminiscent (the tub of lard, Paul Merton’s embarrassing Deayton T-Shirt), the humour value is tremendously entertaining and is well worth a rent as it can easily take up a whole evening.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Have I Got News For You'
By a customer from ipswich , 22 Jun 2008before he got caught and the guest presenters started.very funny and still topical!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Angus Deayton fans may be disappointed
By John Steele from Staffordshire, UK , 12 Mar 2007As you'd expect with the phrase 'Very Best of' in the title, this is a complilation DVD with no complete episodes. Instead it's a load of clips from each year of the show from 1990 to 2002 -- including a short clip from the untelevised 'Pirate Video' release. (The menu allows you to choose which year to start from but then goes right through to the end.)
What mars the DVD for me is that I was always more of an Angus Deayton fan and unsurprisingly he's missing from the DVD's commentary (which is just Ian and Paul), which also fails to include any really positive comments about Angus and gives the impression that they think the success of the show was just down to themselves, and then as if to rub it in that this DVD isn't for the likes of me it ends with clips from the show following the News of the Worlds' expose on Angus that I still find uncomfortable to watch, but evidently Paul and Ian don't.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Brilliant
By Chris from Bedwas, Caerphilly , 16 Feb 2007An amazing collection of clips. Laugh after laugh. Funny back then, and still funny now. Long Live HIGNFY- Was this review helpful to you?
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