I was a little surprised no-one went for the "Bill Bailey lookalikes created by the dozen when hard-boiled eggs dropped on barber's floor" vein, but maybe that's just been done? I love Bill's complete refusal to be offended by such jokes. Watching that "Towers of London" quasi-punk dude trying to rile him up with such material on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" years back and completely failing was wonderful.
@@anyquestions9931 i miss a lot of things. Do you remember spitting image? And brass eye? And the savage eye an irish one. Scathing political comedy. Now the news is the most laughable slapstick!
Picturing another gag where they go with the "Sir Lancelot charging the castle" scene in "Holy Grail". You could even include the subsequent wedding slaughter as "Vlad greets journalists".
I'm disappointed that even in the extended version the question about the keeper of the Scottish seal didn't get a single observation about the keeper of the Scottish walrus.
Everyone was great, but I think "Joke of the Episode" has to go to Helen Lewis and her "woman finds self pregnant" gag. Even the seasoned pros lost it at that!
Lol I once many many years ago I met Paul Watson (a North American environmental activist) in a bar and met him because I said “sorry to stare but you look like …” and his table and ours had a great evening. But now I’m wondering if he was just a look alike 😂♥️🇨🇦
i hope this comment doesn't age poorly, but i've always appreciated Paul's palpable disgust when the topic of sexual crimes comes up. i'm sure most people dislike sex crimes, but i'm always comforted by just how angry it seems to make Paul
Bill Bailey AND Helen Lewis. Doesn't get much better than this unless they had Jess Phillips, too!! I want to see Jess and Helen vs. Paul and Ian with Steph McGovern in the chair!! There'd only be small shards of Ian's tweed jacket left after that one!
Ah, guess outdoor chess isn't a thing in London, eh? You don't normally supply the pieces for outdoor, inner city chessboards. (Or else you're on the hook for replacing them.) People bring their own. (Just like a basketball court) The appeal is A: You can play randos and even a novice player might do something unexpected that helps an experienced player stay sharp. B: Even if playing against a friend, and you both presumably have chess sets and could choose to play anywhere, fixed, outdoor tables tend to be larger and more comfortable to play on. Cheap chess sets are often small and can be annoying, as you strain to avoid knocking over other pieces. C: It makes the game more social. NYC actually has quite rich traditions of neighborhood gurus of chess, checkers and dominoes. Okay, obviously the dominoes games are more about the money, but there's still a skill element! None of this is to say it's wise public investment, just to give some insight into the logic behind it.
@@louieberg2942 like red-coloured candy, which is typically made from crushed cochineal beetle shells, or expensive perfume, which often contains beaver musk, or the majority of beer and wine, which use fish guts as a clarifying agent, or even plain bags of sugar, which often contain bone char as a whitening agent. It's truly insane just how pervasive animal agriculture is, yet most people will happily virtue signal and call themselves animal lovers while paying other people to abuse them.
50 k for stone seats in a damp country with no shelter yes of course. Thats more helpful than funding chess clubs 😂 it will cost more in providing pile medication through the nhs!
I just noticed the genius of the name of HMRC. No matter the gender of the head of the royal family, it's still H(his/her)MRC. Well, until you have someone wants to be referred to as "they".
My friend Billy had a ten foot willy He showed it to the girl next door She thought it was a snake so she hit it with a rake And now it's only two foot four
14:01 "We noticed a suspicious drop in your earnings in 2020." Surely, someone in the HMRC must've thought, "We've been sending quite a lot of these letters, haven't we? Is everybody getting into tax dodging, somehow?" 🤦🏽♂️😂
I CAN'T believe this has been discontinued! Very likely the BBC'S most popular show! And how expensive can it be? As a 70 yr old Canadian who has lived next the US most of my life, and watched their media, I find it hard to believe HIGNFY will survive being transported to the US. Yes I watch Seth Meyers, Colbert, & Kimmel almost nightly but I still doubt the humour will survive. The US is too PC and few of its comedians, let alone politicians are as witty as have been so many HIGNFY guests. Maybe Merton's getting tired. Not Ian, I think
