Television Archive: Have I Got News For You December 1992 Peter Cook Douglas Adams
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- Ian Hislop, Angus Deayton and Paul Merton are joined by Peter Cook and Douglas Adams in December 1992. Revenue from the ads goes to the rights holders and Google, not me.
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Wow. Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Now there's a bit of history.
Despite the guest hosts since being occasionally very good, I found Angus excellent, and miss his style.
Thanks for sharing this.
love the old production pan outs with the Audience in shot, sooo Bullseye!
Epic show, ESPECIAlly with these leg-ends, COOK and Adams....
I didn't think it would last 2 series without Angus. But it limps on, with more 'guest host' episodes than we ever had with Angus in the chair.
How have I not seen this before!!!!!!
Ah yes, from a time when HIGNFY was funny and the BBC's sphincter hadn't tightened up about censoring everything remotely spicy, controversial or challenging, which is the whole bloody point of satire
Wow Douglas Adams and Peter Cook
Holy moley - can it be possible that show was on the go in 1992 ?? I was only 21 - Im 47 now.
Douglas Adams and Peter Cook? OMFG!!!
That was a lot better than these days. Better guests and more ruthless humour. Plus can you see how back then, these were not 'establishment' figures. Also of note is the attitude towards the royal family.
It's not that often you hear anteprepenultimate used in a sentence these days.
Amazing how many people mentioned/featured in this programme are now dead.
very impressive if you listen carefullly...
a man who wants to be a god immedently rather than earn his godship and dosn't undertand the screaming sent me here!
He is a god through cheating. And volcanos.
and screaming dont forget the screaming
And angel of deaths
We Procrastinators take over the comment section where ever Dan sends us, don't we?
Kendra Fitzpatrick SHHHH!!!! We're supposed to remain completely anonymous! That's why we say "I was sent here by a man who......" Rather than "I was sent here by [INSERT UA-camR NAME]"
I was sent here by a man who didn't look at volcanoes
Back in the days when you got shining wits on the BBC ,not whin..,.oh you know what I mean. 😂
why was angus deayton pushed out and russell brand and the vile jonathan ross allowed to keep their jobs after humiliating a grandfather publicly for no other reason than their own self gratification
I think the BBC felt that a show that pokes fun at people in the public eye and their frailties could not be chaired by somebody who had become a news story himself because of his own frailties. A similar decision appears to have been taken with Radio 4s News Quiz, when Simon Hoggart of blessed memory stood down. Brand and Ross didn't keep their BBC jobs: Russell Brand's radio show was cancelled (he's appeared only on the BBC's Newsnight, Comic Relief & the News since) and the over-excited Jonathan Ross's lucrative contract with the BBC was not renewed (he's on ITV & Channel 4 these days).
+Carol Warner Cos Deayton couldn't keep making comments about "disgraced" People without admitting he was disgraced also and as the Host of HIGNFY he had to kinda be above it all, which he failed to do in 2002, so he couldn't coninue as the Host. Jonathan Ross's Job didn't involve that so he was suspended but not fired. Ironically as you mentioned Ross, did you see that Deayton took over from him as Host of the 2008 Comedy Awards cos of Ross's suspension? I thought he did great.
+Carol Warner Because the BBC are a bunch of c***s
+palimpsest2011 Paul Merton, who had no lost love for Angus, so take it with a pinch of salt, said that a producer had shown him a list of jokes and remarks they had had to cut, as they felt Angus could no longer do them. Apparently it was quite lengthy compared to the list of jokes and quips he could do.
Carol Warner
I was sent here by a man who played god and nearly died while doing so.
I was sent here by a man who typed tab f11 byrne then tab f3 f4 f5.
Merton is trying (quite well) to be on top form in the presence of Cook
Is it me, or was that a BBC program that was actually funny as well as critical of Government, super stars, MPs and religious zealots. It is a program that cannot be made today in this sad, sad world.
only 30mins seemed like 30 hours
hmm, I thought the name Dr David Kelly [10:30] rang a bell.
worth a google.
Both guests now long gone, as well as Diana, mentioned as 'future Queen of England' in the first clip. What a difference twenty years can make.
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams on the same show! That is like booking Socrates and Plato!
I'd forgotten just how good the calibre of guests could get on this show. Also a very ill fitting jacket for Angus
I know!
the Russell Brand and James Corden of their day
Andrew Bevan I'm guessing/hoping you're joking!
That's how we wore them back then.
Cook and Adams, though. Last one of these I saw I didn't even know who the guests were - despite the unrecognised host quoting their names.
RIP to all from that show who died......Peter Cook, Douglas Adams and Angus Deayton's career.
EoinFC don't fotget Dr David Kelly!
christ, Angus mentions all of The Hitchhikers Guide merch except for the towels! how could you forget the towels?!!!
I was going to 'like' this comment, but then I saw how many there were...
@@donroberts2126 Dammit, someone went over the sacred number! How ignorant.
He's clearly not a Hoopy Frood
4.10 " Diana has been invited on a boxing day shooting party by the Royal Family- She is being given a half hour start ..." oooooer
Cook and Adams, two wonderful people that I wish had lived longer.
Not much contribution from either tho, was there? I really admire both of them, but they were unusually silent here.
In case you're wondering, it's a different Dr David Kelly...but he's also dead now...
+Cruitheach I was wondering ,I did a search and indeed the famous Kelly murdered by Blair cropped up
+Cruitheach
Yes, and just as I was posting the question, some bright spark must already have answered it after all this time, thought I. Thought I right: I thank you.
ludocrat My pleasure :))
Cruitheach I was wondering...
"Late-ex Nun" RIP, you glorious beacon of hilarity.
+Gal Dagon Yes, that was a good one!
Are you talking about Angus D?
a beacon of reality
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that Peter Cook may have been Ian Hislop's boss at the time.
Ian worked for Private Eye, which was partly funded by Peter Cook.
(In case you were wondering why Hislop was unusually polite to his co-panellist)
This is an excellent episode. Is it my imagination or was this show much better in the 90's?
It was better with Angus, full stop.
@@scottishwildcat Just my opinion, but I like the program better without Angus as he’s far too twitchy and not that funny. He’s constantly shifting about and it’s distracting. Makes me wonder exactly how long he was using drugs?
It's bizzare thinking this was filmed 2 years before I even existed, yet I can still get the jokes.
You half existed, the egg you gestated from existed in your mother.
Fedaykin24
Allegedly.............
*****
That was an in-joke that peole who watch this show would have got.
Thanks for the comedy biology lesson though!
did you get the reality ?
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams.......where did all our heroes goes. Possibly the grave but can we get some more?
No, we're not allowed to laugh at what we like any more.
Cook AND Adams. What a combo!
Magical - a "Hubble telescope" into the past - to a time before we knew of the unfolding events - the sad demise of Mr Cook and Mr Adams; the shaming of Mr Deayton - and the eternal (if greying) brilliance of Mr Hislop and Mr Merton (long may they thrive). Thank you for this wonderful upload
It was a shame Angus messed up and had to go, there's been some great guest hosts since but some of them (John Prescott anyone?) made for a train wreck of an episode. With Angus he didn't just host, he ripped into dodgy politicians with conviction. With him gone it's left to Hislop (and the occasional guest) to take them to task.
And curiously the demise of Dr. Kelly, too. Who was also mentioned in the video.
mistacoz I lost interest when Angus left.
And the death of Diana.
Angus did a bit of charlie and lost his job - entirely unfair given half his guests would have enjoyed a line or two. Besides, I think Jimmy Savile was still on the payrole in '92 and the beeb never did anything about him.
I forgot how awesome this series has always been. 2 legends along with angus and paul and ian... Thank you for uploading this :)
Went downhill after Angus left.
It's too obvious and gameshowy now
I wouldn't say entirely downhill then - it was now when they just recycle the same hosts and fill the guest spots with no name MPs
Fully agree
It was good for a very long time, but having no set host meant they had to recycle a lot of people and it did get slightly stale
Oh my goodness. I would have been 13 when this was broadcast. So sad to think that both guests have been dead for so long. Big fan of both of them.
MIchaelKingsfordGray OMG you're trying to lecture someone for having a username but you can't even do simple math?!?! Dude, 1992 was TWENTY-SIX years ago, meaning they're 38 - 39 (depending if they've already had their birthday this year or not)! Go take several seats and sit your ass down.
Great guests, and wasn't Angus an amazing host? He really held the show together. He plays the serious, straight man so well, it amplifies the humour but also caters to serious political discussion when it's appropriate.
Good Lord, Cook and Adams on one show!? I didn't know either of them where on. This is indeed a rare treat, thank you so much for the upload.
Wow Paul really didn't like Angus did he :D
Two greats. Pete and doug. Rip lads.
From the days when this show had a genuinely talented and witty regular.
If you're daft/masochistic enough to sit through the dross that obtains today, you most likely lack the taste to lament the loss of Deyton. I'd get that checked out if I were you.
As we see here, the vitriolic resentment for Deyton's prepossessing, comedic and artistic qualities with which the wobble-necked windbag, Merton, was possessed infected the pusillanimous puritan, Hislop, and the rest of the production team. Thus, as it its wont, the BBC let its power-broking perverts and pen-pushers indulge the pontifical bitterness of its unduly comfortable little shills and bumped off the show the best thing on the show.
Man, Deayton was so good, in this and later in WILTY. And the BBC fires him once for having an affair and possibly a coke habit (didn't know those were frowned upon in showbiz), and then again for... making fun of Savile.
Thank you, I didn't know he once hosted WILTY. I bet he was brilliant.
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WILTY stands for "Would I Lie To You?"After Deayton's exposure in the tabloid media because of his sex and drugs scandal, Ian Hislop was furious with Deayton, because he thought that the whole HIGNY show would be cancelled by the BBC... It wasn't, but they haven't spoken since.........
Fun Fact: Angus Deayton was the next door neighbour of Douglas Adams.
Utterly irrelevant point. Bet ye didn't know that Irish band "The Fureys" and Davy Arthur and Billy Connolly and Barbara Dickson all lived in the same house in Edinburgh.
@@MisterPeterColeman - at the same time?
Diana should've kept the bike for her Paris trip.
Grazikon or got George Best to drive - at least he could take corners when pissed.
@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 *doffs cap* well played sir
great quality for such an old video as well
By the time you read this, Nerd3 will have died :(
Where you send here by a man who erupted from a spawning vulcano as well?
Proof that Angus Deaton is till the best presenter of this show.
Interestingly at 2m25s there is a story of an ex-pat arrest in Saudi, given a sentence of 100 lashes with a cane. Hislop says 'The Foreign Office intervened…" and Peter Cook quips "so they gave him 200 lashes". Rather prophetic in the current 2017 reign of Boris Johnson....
How did you know about Nazneen Ratcliff and Boris a year ago? I'm impressed :-)
Wow, good work HIGNFY, getting legends like Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Compare that to the current crop of "celebrity" guests, nobodies like Louise Mensch and Big Brother contestants. A visual depiction of the decline of the BBC.
What Big Brother contestants have been on HIGNFY?
Jimmy Savile
poolworld1 Jimmy Savile was never a contestant, he was just a very temporary house guest. He never stayed overnight, thank goodness.
poolworld1 Jackie Mason
If you look at other guests from that series, most of them could or have appeared in the last few years on the show ... Jo Brand, Frank Skinner, Danny Baker, Rory Bremner, Sandi Toksvig, David Baddiel etc. Seen as a whole, it's more a visual depiction of the stasis of the BBC.
I dedicate this video to my good mate Scott Donohue from Fleet Hampshire.. I remember watching this with you you loved Cooks humour. I remember sitting in your brothers bedroom in the early 90s watching this..
RIP Scott. I wish you were still with us..
Paul Merton's stroppy attitude towards Angus, is like a moody teenager being petulant with his dad. It's sad that all these years later Merton's career hasn't progressed beyond Have I Got News For You and Just A Minute... I suspect he aspired to a successful sitcom or comedy movie career...
He writes and presents quite a few programmes, especially documentary series, he also writes for other comedians.
See Wikipedia: In a 2007 public poll featured in The Guardian, Merton was voted alongside the likes of Oscar Wilde, Spike Milligan, Noël Coward and Winston Churchill as one of the ten greatest wits of all time.
The Comedian's Comedian, a 2005 Channel 4 poll of fellow comedians, saw him voted among the top twenty greatest international comedians in history, with host Jimmy Carr crediting him for being "responsible for more great lines than Angus Deayton's dealer." The Observer's "The A-Z of Laughter", a 2003 special compiled by expert judges which featured the 50 funniest acts in British comedy by letter, applauded Merton for "bringing to Have I Got News for You a genuine surrealism that cuts through the clubbable smugness."
Merton has accumulated multiple awards and honours. After seven BAFTA Award nominations for "Best Entertainment Performance", he finally won the award in 2003, defeating fellow Have I Got News for You star Angus Deayton, who had been dismissed from the show the previous October. He has since been nominated for a further three awards - a total of eleven nominations - including a nomination for his travel documentary Paul Merton in China.
Merton's appearances on Have I Got News for You have seen him nominated for five British Comedy Awards, winning the 1992 "Top TV Comedy Personality" and 1999 "Best Comedy Entertainment Personality" awards. He has also shared a further three British Comedy Awards with the panel and crew of the show, winning "Best new TV comedy" in 1991, "Best comedy gameshow" in 1999 and "Best Comedy Panel Show" in 2009. He received the 2004 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for "Best Non-Acting Performer", also for his work on Have I Got News for You.
In 2008, Merton presented Bruce Forsyth with a BAFTA Fellowship: Forsyth had given Merton his Best Entertainment Performance award in 2003.
So yeah, shame he never was never in a 'successful sitcom'. *rolls eyes*
Douglasa Adams was great and very much missed
"That was Stars for Thatcher. No wonder we didn't recognize any of them."
Sort of like the Trump inauguration.
What a line up. Peter Cook and Douglas Adams! These days the show often has nobodies as guests.
Oh, to have seen Peter Cook on the same show as Peter Hitchens.
To have seen Christopher Hitchens on this show even once!
cbak12sg Peter Hit hens has always been a self-important loony.
thanks for the upload. two of britains greatest comic talents of all time. a treat
i was sent here by a man who spawned volcano's
aka Nerd³ 101 - Populous: The Beginning
Now we've got Jack Whitehall, Josh Widdicombe and Sarah Millican. FFS
Thats because they dont rock the boat. Welcome to tyranny.
Did a little digging out of curiousity - I think the 'Dr David Kelly' mentioned here was a different one - he was/is(?) an expert in pheromones from the University of Cardiff
Tragic boffin.
If this show was edited to today's political correct/ establishment standard, it would be about 5 minutes long
Ian Hislop and Peter Cook together. Two men who pretend to be against the establishment but craved to be a part of it.
Alan Hartley true. The mark of a good old fashioned satirist
Probably the most stacked panel the show has ever had.
10.20 I Wonder if "Scientist Dr David Kelly" who was theorising about sweat in 1993 was the same one who died because of Tony Blair in 2003.
Current affairs indeed Dan...
Back when it was brilliant! Bring back Anus, I mean Angus!
Sterlingboard pinned with dowel. Is what those panel fronts are made of. You're welcome.
Angus is a legend, wish he was back.
Douglas Adams wins for "...the late ex-nun..."
Back when it was funny.
Douglas Adams!??! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE"RE NOT WORTHY!
Interesting to see the needle between Deayton and Merton - they always hated each other.
Lulu Saintly I don't blame Deayton. Merton was the fly in the ointment for me!
Merton actually holds the programme together. I went to a recording not long ago. Every time the action flagged, which was often, Merton piped up and energised them. If he left, they'd need double the recording time and twice as many gifted editors.
@Qwfwq66
Yes @ Merton but sometimes his rants do stop the programme stagnating, and occasionally defuse tension.
Agree about Lenny Henry (sir? seriously?) 100%. He was a mildly entertaining schoolboy novelty when he won New Faces, impersonating soft targets like Frank Spencer and Stevie Wonder, and has been going downhill ever since.
@Qwfwq66Merton told of honing his act while working at his desk as a civil servant.
Speaks volumes about Merton & lazy, waste of space & taxpayers £, civil servants.
'Sir' Lenny Henry?
Friend of BBC/Establishment but then
so was SIR Jimmy Savile.
This programme was so much better with Angus.
He was an immaculate presenter with a great sense of humour!
yep! I stopped watching it after he went :-(
Surely depends on whos presenting..Boris Johnson and Brian Blessed do a good job in the banta!
Oh how we joked about those untrained jokers in Moghadishu. Nothing for those marines to worry about..
Presumably the Michael Winner underwear jokes in this are the ones he tried to sue the show for
Wow, how the world has changed.
It hasn't (except for Russia).
Paul Merton's jokes are amateur next to Cook's material.
Carnation77 Since 1977 Pretty much anyone is an amateur next to Peter Cook.
Peter Cook's JFK joke was beyond great.
So was George the first Metro Sexual. ??
Brilliant.
Why did Ian Hislop look and sound the same in his early thirties as he does in his mid-fifties?
"future queen of England" whoops!
not whoops, it is called sarchasm, the joke about a royal hunting party sent after Diana sure seems prophetic
all this clever cynicism over the years has hardly made a dint to the status quo
+Peter Plasticon porron taste Your statement is true to some extent because before the evolution of modern Capitalism, revolutionaries would have inspired and personally lead actual revolutions. Now they just become stand-up comedians and writers and such and when they eventually realise what you have realised they sell out to the very system that they sought to inspire others to overthrow. This is acceptable to the system as it is always in control of the mass media. And maintaining the 'status quo' is a key function of the system. The ratio of rich and powerful to everyone else and sheeple to underclass must remain constant to insure stability. However Capitalism will eventually destroy itself as this is now a mathematical inevitability, so clever cynicism on any scale is ultimately irrelevant.
+bbutc Exactly my point, most people can be bought, Cook called his club the Establishment, as if it were anti-establishment, which he wasn't at all
+FraggingBard If you regard all revolutionaries as terrorists then you are either a member of the ruling elite or a sheeple. And my money would be on sheeple.
+Peter Plasticon porron taste What's wrong with the status quo? It's worked for years.
+Peter Plasticon porron taste Ian Hislop has quoted Peter Cook himself, which consisted of him telling a yougn Ian when he took over as editor at private eye (and I'm paraphrasing a bit here) 'remember all those clever German satirical revues that did so much to prevent the rise of Hitler? Oh wait...they didn't!' So I think at least Cook and Hislop and really any satirist worth their salt know the limitations of their craft. Also, satirists such as Gilray and Cruickshank can often be the most conservative of people. One can only point out so many flaws in the system anyway, but it takes public action en masse to do anything about it!
HIGNFY is such an institution , you just don't realise how long this show has been on air and yet every episode is as fresh and entertaining as the last ...long may this show continue to grace our screens it's a true Gem of british television .
I was expecting more from this, considering Peter Cook and Douglas Adams were on it. Cook, in particular, seemed quiet.
Was that Cyril Smith in the clip at the start?
A bit late but, yes, it was.
9.43 Wonder if Peter was thinking of the Derek & Clive sketch about the cab driver . get out tha cab!
10:20 -- Dr David Kelly and sweat. Is it *the* David Kelly do you think?
The show has never been as good since Angus Deayton was pushed out by Paul Merton and Ian Hislop........Mind you being more witty made them look plain.
Give me one witty thing he ever said.
Andrew Devine couldn't recognized wit if it was sown into his Jim Jams and told to recite what was written whilst being coached by David Walliams.
You realise that pretty much everything Deayton says is read off an autocue and written by other people, right?
I know.....but he does it so well.
I think its improved greatly without Deyton. There has been some excellent guest hosts.
the days when HIGNFY was good...
This is good?????
I was sent here by a dead man.
Awesome upload of 3 greats shortly before they passed. Peter Cook, Douglas Adams and Ian Hislop's hair.
hair today, gone tomorrow
Angus Deyton's initial joke about Douglas Adams doesn't really work when you consider that he wrote the radio series before the books.
I think that was the actual joke
Ahhh when auntie was good. Thanks for uploading.
Things have changed since I were a lad, used to get away with a lot more than now.
I watched half an episode of the Simpsons and I'm still alive
whoah this used to be on BBC 2?!
''History Repeats Itself''.!! ( - ;
Christ they look so young.
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams are Godz
Merton never liked Dayton did he..lol ?