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Have I Got News For You - Series 40 - Thursdays 9pm BBC1
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vdhr1/Have_I_Got_News_for_You_Series_40_Episode_1/The popular news quiz returns, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, guest host Benedict Cumberbatch, and guest panelists Victoria Coren and Jon Richardson.
My god, Hislop and Merton looked old on the trailer for the show.
Both guests were pretty good last series though, so there is promise
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Yeah Merton has started to grey. I'm not sure I like its Thursday time slot still.
How much are they paying Hislop and Merton now - £40,000-£50,000 per episode?
..the programme has been going 20 years.
She can discipline me anytime...
...she's also quite intelligent
Loving BC though.
Aye I seem to be in a minority
She just annoys the hell out of me.
He was quite funny too I thought.
Vicktoria Coren is very cute, she also seemed to say a lot more on the night. Crazy how much they have to leave out.
I actually prefer the eps where it's been a slower news week. It feels a bit more relaxed pace wise and they can include more banter in the edit.
I love Cumberbatch and thought he did okay. I like Coren and Richardson, but they aren't my favourite guests by a long stretch.
It was the highlight of the show.
Benedict Cumberbatch must have the best name in showbiz:D I thought he did OK.
That's a bit desperate
No idea who the host was, assume he's the BBC's flavour of the month
Apart from being in poor taste perhaps the same comedian would let us know his personal contribution to the UK economy...
I actually agree with the comedian that Phillip Green is a tax evading shit, because he would have had to pay back over £200 million in tax, but he get's let off the same as Vodafone who were left off with a tax bill of £7 million by our kindly thoughtful and useless HMRC.
After reading Sir Philip's findings about the scandalous amount of waste in governmental departments, I don't blame him for trying to pay as little tax as possible.
As a former BBC freelancer, and now as someone who runs his own business, I can confirm there is no shortage of waste and overstaffing at the BBC either. Their business practises wouldn't last five minutes in the commercial sector.
As for tonight's host, I've never heard of him. Victoria Coren is welcome in my flat anytime she likes though!"
Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor who (a) played the part of the young Stephen Hawking in a biographical drama a few years ago, (b) narrated the script written by Hawking in the recent series about the History of the Universe.
So, how were things down that mine?
Who are you, Green's PA?
Tax avoidance may be perfectly legal, but it's in even poorer taste when the people who practice it have the cheek to lecture the rest of us in how the country should be run.