Have I Got News For You

Unlike practically every other panel game show, Have I Got News For You has managed to stay fresh and funny since it was first aired in 1990.

Have I Got News For You, also referred to as HIGNFY by journalists and people fond of unpronounceable acronyms, has been on TV such a long time that just about everyone has been on it - from Bruce Forsythe to Eddie Izzard to Salman Rushdie.

You, the very person reading these words, have probably been on it. In fact, it's such a mainstay of telly that it's easy to forget how sharp and subversive it can still be.

It's seen Paul Merton repeatedly describe the new Pope as having the "eyes of a killer", Will Self accuse guest host Neil Kinnock of political hypocrisy, and Robert Kilroy-Silk relentlessly challenged on his views on Muslims.

But perhaps the greatest guest of all was a tub of lard (by which we literally mean a container filled with animal fat) which bravely stood in for Roy Hattersley. Apparently, the tub of lard was "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance" as the former deputy leader of the Labour Party.
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