I’ve Got News For You About Have I Got News For You: It Sucks

April 29, 2008

I’ve Got News For You About Have I Got News For You: It Sucks

It was an accident. Honest. I switched on the TV at 10 o’clock in the evening to watch the news on BBC1 but somehow ended up on BBC2, and suddenly the hysterical intro started playing and it turned out to be the current affairs ‘quizshow’ Have I Got News For You hosted by, of all people, Julian Clary. I’ve stopped watching HIGNY a long time ago. I thought then, and still think now, that it is biased towards Labour and that the two regular panellists, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, aren’t very funny - even though they know the answers to questions in advance and all their guests are terrified to overshadow them in any way. And, let’s face it, once they got rid of Angus Dayton after it had been revealed that he took cocaine and slept with prostitutes –...