Have I Got News For You
- TV panel show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1990 - 2024
- 600 episodes (67 series)
Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Also features Angus Deayton.
- Returns on Friday 5th April on BBC1 at 9pm with Series 67, Episode 1
- Series 60, Episode 7 repeated Friday at 12:35am on Dave
- Streaming rank this week: 1,258
Press clippings
The Office named top landmark comedy of the last 50 years
The Office was the highest-placed comedy in a Broadcasting Press Guild list of the top 50 landmark programmes of the last 50 years.
British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2024Have I Got Sport For You in development
A sports-based spin-off from Have I Got News For You is reportedly in development.
British Comedy Guide, 29th February 2024Ghosts was the most-watched TV comedy of 2023
Ghosts, Michael McIntyre's Big Show, Have I Got News For You, Blankety Blank and Mrs Brown's Boys were the most-watched British comedies on TV in 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 10th January 2024Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 shortlist
The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2024It's time the BBC put Have I Got News For You out of its misery
It was once the sharpest satire on TV. Now it's complacently predictable liberal-left pap.
Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 12th December 2023BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty stuns viewers with X-rated joke
Naga Munchetty stunned Have I Got News For You viewers with an X-rated joke on air.
The BBC Breakfast star, 48, was in the hosting seat for the latest episode of the comedy quiz show.
Alex Doyle, The Sun, 9th December 2023It's OK for Have I Got News For You to mock Laurence Fox
The BBC has rejected complaints that Have I Got News For You was 'inappropriate' for the way in mocked Laurence Fox. On the episode that aired on October 6, presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell made reference to how the actor-turned-activist had been fired by GB News for his sexist rant against political journalist Ava Evans.
Chortle, 8th December 2023Guz Khan laughs off Have I Got News For You complaints
Writing on X, the 37-year-old joked he was glad that was the only controversy engulfing him, joking: 'Man, I thought they had the CCTV footage of me eating haraam McDonalds chicken nuggets in a car park in Coventry. That would have been career ending...because I was ENJOYING them. God forgive me.'
Chortle, 29th November 2023BBC staff 'lost for words' after Guz Khan announced HIGNFY host after calling Israel 'genocidal'
A comedian who has accused Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' in Gaza has been booked to host BBC panel show Have I Got News For You.
Matthew Lodge, Daily Mail, 28th November 2023Feargal Sharkey praised for 'powerful' Israel-Palestine speech on HIGNFY
Comments made by the musician and activist, who grew up during the Troubles, are being lauded by panel show's viewer as 'eloquent', 'informed' and 'worth listening to'.
Jacob Stolworthy, The Independent, 4th November 2023