Ian Hislop
Ian Hislop
Ian David Hislopis a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and is a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth13 July 1960
answering life questions
I should go on Mastermind, answering questions on the life and times of Jeffery Archer. I'd get more questions right than he would!
happy obviously room time together
They obviously couldn't get the two of them to be happy in the room together at the same time
awful sticks news
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
pride proud modesty
Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
war shells world
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.
strong comedy weak
The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
trying belief weak
I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak
common enjoy conditions
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
kings england chivalry
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
helping source journalist
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
pokemon made worst
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
lawyer given libel
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
acceptable eccentric longer politics
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
changed chose civil sciences seemed subjects time worth
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.