Ian Hislop vs. John Prescott - Have I Got News For You 

Ian and Paul are a match made in , not heaven , the multiverse. one very educated the other not, but both incredibaly quick witted and mutual respect

He did get intimidated. He switched to a personal attack on Prescott's personal life; when he could have easily made the same point without trying to embarrass him -- in front of an audience.

@@MrEminem He's worth embarrassing though, a truly despicable human being. A vile hypocrite.

No, that was Les Dawson.

@@mickeymouse7861 yes, that’s to whom I was referring.

@@mickeymouse7861 Poor Dean.

Loool. Nice one Sarah

Sarah hahahahahahaha!!

Mogul art

The scale of the fuck up wasn’t clear at first.

I'm pretty sure Prescott was refering to when he was filmed punching a protester after getting egged

Oh my fucking God. Spot on!

😂😂

Fucking hell you're right

More like Jabba the hutt

Maxim X brilliant

He would do good as a new host on Blankety Blank, I let you guess why & what I mean.

Yes talking ballshit as he always does.

Yep. He was all over that Jimmy Saville thingy...

Haha! Satire! Yes! Satrise everything! Everything is ridiculous! I am above it all! Haha!

Prescott didn’t go to public school 🤔

@@Celestina0 that's why the media all pilloried him for every little thing while letting their fellow Old Boys get away with much worse

​@@ulturehe deserves it. A union champion who became a Lord Prescott phuck him

darkline64 which one's which? 😂

👍😂

I just spat out all my water out of my nose. 😂😂😂😂

Adult baby stomps on human bullfrog All day

Hahahahaha!!!

Right

Millions mate

To be fair... What else would it be? Even if they went in there knowing that is was all a sham, it can still be described as a mistake.

absolutely

​​@@boahnation9932 an illegal war? And actions during it war crimes? What exactly do people consider Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Calling it a mistake is minimizing the impact and making it about the perpetrator's reputation, not their victims' dignity.

Gone to pot.

Harry Enfield fan perchance?

She was dying of cringe

Gets me hard every time

His exchanges with William Hague in parliament could be very funny.Once when Hague was taunting him over his physical encounter with a farm worker who threw an egg at him, Prescott retorted ' I may be known as 'Punch' - but we all know who Judy is...' He was called 'Two Jabs' (two jags) Prescott by the press.

+Jimmy Dixon war in Iraq - where's the comedy?

What sniffing round Corbyn, What's clever about that. He is a scumbag, like all Labourites.

Which show were you watching 😀

@@philippayne4951 Bullshit.

But I'd much prefer to watch Piers Morgan and like sweat in that chair every week!

NO !!!

,great tits...

She's a tedious royalist centrist.

Lord two jags prescott.

That was John Prescott's fault, was it?

@@andrewtucker94 he was part of the Government, so yes. And even if he wasn't, no decent human being laughs off 1M civilian deaths.

@@andrewtucker94 not solely. He gets a good portion of the blame though. Or he should.

Just like his affair - it was all a mistake. Like a child he thinks he can get away with anything as long as he apologises afterwards.

I can't believe I'm your first like

You had me believing you just until the last bit.

Wtf 😂

He was known to punch the odd Welshman ....

+Ad Max Merton hasn't said ANYTHING FUNNY in YEARS!! Just comes out with random childish comments.

+Grant Wilson yeah,but Hislop seems to get away with it. (Remember how he treated Paula Yates)

He needs to diffuse the situation

+TheGava4 Wasn't he completely right about Paula Yeats?

they've been institutionalised. "adjusted"

Bloody hell... cost of living these days having John Prescott at your table for Christmas Dinner might be the last time you ever sit at it before having to sell your house!

they personally hated eachother!

Why??

Eoin N. Molloy just didn't get on!

Merton is a champagne socialist. He didn't like Deayton because he was someone who came from a well off background and went to public school. Basically Merton has a massive chip on his shoulder.

Seige CJ Agreed on all points. But I find Merton funnier than Deyton or Hislop (which isn't setting the bar very high, I'll admit)

Shooting Prescott would probably be better for the middle-east.

Is it dolphin in a bathtub?

Agreed. Leave it to the editor.

never would've guessed

@@leood5431 Lol!

Sean Conway Someone’s seems to be venting...

IH is a prissy little man and not funny.

Sean Conway lol salty

+Danny Boy This show isn't meant to be a political debate, Merton was trying to keep it light and help the show along

The show is supposed to be political, though. It's nice seeing these exchanges, in between all the crappy one liners

ZPSBestProfileName The key word in Vulture's comment was "debate". HIGNFY is most definitely not intended for frank discussion of a politician's personal life and or involvement in a party, it's political satire in the end. Though moments like these are good, they're best off as the exception to the rule, and not the rule itself.

Yeah but whatever Merton interrupts with should at least be funny. I'm kind of repeating OP's point seeing as it didn't get through the first time.

Thay never are

I don't.

He's incredibly petty and thinks highly of his own opinions. Also starts needless feuds and can't take any stick back, just plays popularity with the audience of (essentially) his own show, who will always back him over a guest

Nah his reponses are weak just contradicting whether it's true or not Private Eye does get sued all the time and Prescott is allowed to change his mind on Iraq. Blair is hated still because he insists to this day it was the right to do.

@@cun7us me neither mate. hes a cunt.

I so agree

@Kent Donaldson Yes he has certainly picked the winning ticket in life's lottery.

@@VincentRE79 she is a lefty fool.

@John Rogers We could overlook that with Victoria.

@@johnrogers2045 Who cares? All parties are the same. Same shit, different colour scheme.

John Rogers lmao we found the WOKE dude.

No he wants credit for stopping innocent people from being killed.

Anyway, we're bound to being America's lapdog now after Brexit, we've been cut off from our other friends in the world

RONNIE PICKERING!!

@Stephen Crowther RONNIE F*****G PICKERING!!

Who?

Adam G these grillings are half the reason the audience is there

I don't support the intervention in Syria, but to be fair even when we did go in we weren't aiming at toppling the government. If we'd gone in the first time, we would have toppled Assad, and then when ISIS flared up a few years later they would likely have taken Damascus and all the industrial and population centres, rather than just tracts of desert and a few cities. Whilst I don't support either, going in the first time would have been FAR worse, so even though Miliband only delayed the intervention, even that delay did achieve a lot.

People forget what Cameron wanted to do. He was actually going to bomb Syria, in support of ISIS. They didn’t realize what it was at the time and were about to make a gigantic blunder. Prescott is right Miliband did stop it and he doesn’t get any credit. When we did intervene in Syria we at least didn’t do it in support of radical Islamists who want to end Western Civilization. That 2 years was vital to understanding who the protagonists in the civil war were. So instead of bombing the Assad regime and pissing off the Russians and helping ISIS the intervention has mainly avoided conflict with Assad and concentrated on putting down radical Islamists. Huge difference, and thanks to Labour and Milliband!

@@Zkkr429 Well said. Our bombings of ISIS (though mostly it was the Americans) were well worth doing, done in coordination with secular, feminist, pro-democracy forces on the ground in the form of the Kurds and their Arab allies, and were critical to enabling them to wipe ISIS off the map.

He would easily be distracted by some sausage rolls.

Chaps both are fat

@@kylenoble9110 Yeah, but Prescott used to box.

@@legomaniac856 oh ano semi professional

Typical Bully ....losing an intellectual disagreement, so wants to make it physical

"illegally invade Iraq was taken" What a nonsensical comment! What do you mean by "illegal"? But, of course, you haven´t a clue.

STEPHEN LEE has the same problem

was funny when he got hit by one

A rotten one at that.

+EGGJAZZ Can't forget the Chumbawamba ice bucket over his head! Ah, those were the days!

It was FU NY when he TWATTED THt hippy!

And a crawler. He crawls round Corbyn hoping for a cabinet job.

He doesn't in the paper he editor of. But on the show he is paid by and therefor representative of BBC. BBC lays down lines he cannot cross

Well, his department had a big bullying problem - I wonder why? Good old compassionate Labour!