Not sure about the Hislop skewering all regardless of political stripe thing.

For the last thirty odd years he has been a team captain on a political,news event style quiz show called "Have I got news for you" which sadly just serves as a socialist leftist mouthpiece against anything Tory. Tory party make a gaff then Hislop is on it like a cat hearing its food dish being rattled. Usually spouting the same old personal clichés as found in a third raters stage show rather than anything actually meaningful, smirking and simpering believing that he has struck a strong moral blow whilst basking in the seal clapping, whooping delight of the audience.

The make up of the guest panelists are firmly left wing in their views and any one invited on the show who is even vaguely right leaning is there only to be cruelly mocked by Hislop and even the other team captain Paul Merson, on whose side the poor victim is supposed to be on.

However the labour left are totally left alone and on some past episodes openly praised when equally error prone, so much for his political non-bias

Hislop is just a left wing socialist wet and these days makes no secret of hiding it.

The only fools he doesn't suffer are those of an opposing political persuasion to his own neutrality is not a strong point of his.

Agree about Fry. I loved his sketch show with Hugh Laurie in the 90's which is when I became aware of him and the various platforms he now broadcasts on.


As for Al Murray another public school posh boy who believes that by putting on a "Mockney" accent and insulting foreigners makes him a man of the people, hardly.

His WW2 documentaries however are reasonably good and he does seem to have a good interest/knowledge of the period.

The others you mention, Armstrong and Miller, Mitchell and Webb, Rhod Gilbert, Jack Dee are no longer in the main stream anymore and mainly reduced to general knowledge quiz show presenting, Dee can usually be found on obscure radio shows and occasionally bit part acting, Armstrong and Miller, Mitchell and Webb haven't performed together in years so can only be judged by the times.

Rhod, sadly has stage four cancer but hopes to return to the stage soon.

Bill Bailey I like musically and whilst a modern comedian he doesn't follow, thank God, the modern trend of nastiness for its own sake like Jimmy Carr.


Just my take on it nothing more.