Have I Got News For You
1990
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU is the hilarious quiz programme that focuses on news and politics. This collection presents highlights from the long-running show hosted by Angus Deayton. Read more
| Starring | Angus Deayton, Paul Merton, Ian Hislop |
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| Director | Ben Fuller, John F.D. Northover, Paul Wheeler |
| Genres | Comedy, Television |
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Have I Got News For You
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU is the hilarious quiz programme that focuses on news and politics. This collection presents highlights from the long-running show hosted by Angus Deayton.
| Starring | Angus Deayton, Paul Merton, Ian Hislop |
|---|---|
| Director | Ben Fuller, John F.D. Northover, Paul Wheeler |
| Studio | 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Television |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Nov 2002 Production year: 1990 |
| Format | DVD |
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Un PC, harsh fantastic nights fun
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. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Angus Deayton fans may be disappointed
As 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. -
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