Ian Hislop is joined by Harry Enfield, Jan Ravens and Lewis Macleod to bring the Private Eye annual 2023 (available in shops now. Ed.) to the stage. Featuring Sylvie Krin, EJ Thribb, William McGonagall, Sir Herbert Gussett and many more!
It is a miracle that Private Eye has survived for all these years of controversy, shenanigans, and attacks by their massively wealthy targets. Clearly God loves Private Eye. And so do I.
Private Eye is an establishment approved “controversial” paper were as truly independent newspapers like the ‘The Light Paper’ which challenges and gives a more honest, truthful, alternative version of all the establishment narratives pushed on the UK’s general public has been under attack with multiple hit pieces carried out by the BBC and their top Stazi agent Mariana Spring who’s goal is to demonize and censor alternative news outlets and with help from the government force legal action and arrests against journalists like Richard D Hall who was arrested this year simply for giving an alternative versions of events to the news stories that we are constantly told to believe are real but are really made up bulls**t to manipulate the general public into thinking a certain way to make it easier to push their agendas. The Private Eye with its crappy jokes poses no threat to the establishment because in todays world you can mock but never truly challenge the establishment and it’s Mainstream Media
Private Eye - The Year In Review 2023 0721am 27,12,23 i mean, if you cant leave Coleman balls alone i wonder how you can have a peter o'sullivan impersonator do the voice.... bring Coleman balls back irrespective of if people comprehend what that title refers to...
I have been buying Private Eye since 1968 over a period of 55 years, and just one edition lasts longer than a Tory Home Secretary! "Do they sell the Eye in Rwanda ?" asks Lizard Truss. I hope someone will lettuce know! Great Job Ian & Guests!!
What a pleasure it was to be in the audience; hadn't made it to one before. Everyone around me, myself included, loved it. Laughed until my jaws ached. Enjoy!
Brilliant, as always. I am proud that the UK still allows Private Eye to flourish. It's staff would have 'disappeared' or had 'accidents' in many other countries.
lol, instead the legal system, government and private companies openly conspire to make it have no meaningful public presence whatsoever. I guess that's technically better.
An annual gem, which like the magazine, attacks the wrong doers, rips the piss out of those who deserve it and always entertains. So many delightful vignettes: Lewis McLeod’s Boris Johnson, Harry Enfield’s King Charles and the lovely Jan Raven’s Liz Truss and Esther McVey had me in kinks. Thank you Private Eye.
So glad that Private Eye drop these occasional nuggets on RU-vid. Have been an avid reader for many years. I know my comment isn't very insightful or thought-provoking, it's really just to stimulate the RU-vid algorithm.
What a treat. Harry Enfield's King Charles was a delight, as were the Donald Trump, Eamonn Holmes and SNP poem by Lewis Macleod. All pretty talented folk.
Private eye has videos?!?! I still remember seeing pribate eye as a child in my local off license. I thought it was a magazine for spies 😂 Then many years later, after getting into have i got news for you and ian hislop, I found out what a gem it is!
Private Eye - The Year In Review 2023 27.12.23 0700am someone please employ ian hislop for a few months to do the political correspondence course for the BBC - in the wee hours, if nought esle... which doesn't mean: big black cock - at all... but means the British Broadcating Company...
@@El-Burrito Comments on ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2023’ 27.12.23 1259pm whatever happened to Harry Enfield... is he still alive? dying all those times like that on tour...his stage act was ghassstly! from vomiting in the isles to faux juggling act... and really messed up drum solo skits with rim shots. worse than any avant garde jazz musician i have seen.... ummmmmmm...
The impressions and details are spot on. I strongly believe that Ian Hislop deserves an recognition for the passionate way in which he fights for truth and to better the outcomes of government functioning. Especially to the degree he is faced with the consequences from the powerful (rich and thus controlling of puppets in government) which unfortunately is the risk of being sued. Yet the desire he has to get to the truth and subsequent frustration in those who act in terrible ways mean his efforts are significant.
Nice to see Sir Herbert Gusset is alive and well and posting comments on RU-vid. "Things were so much better in the past, everything's going downhill, Private Eye used to be funny but it's rubbish now" Nurse! The screens!!
Thank God for Private Eye. A loan island of truth in a sea of lies and sleaze. I've subscribed to it for a few years now. Someone said in the canteen at work the other day, "You don't read that do you?" (I don't, I just look at the pictures!) and I told him it was far better than any newspaper you can buy. A great performance by you all, and do keep up the good work.
There are very few things I treasure from the UK since I left in 1968 (yes I am an old git) but Private Eye heads the list 'Punch being a close second but I am not sure this even exists any more?) Pubs came next but from what I read, I don't think I could even go into one now! The Britain I was born into and grew up in as a working class oik seems to have vanished? I was talking to some old friends the other day (mostly Old Gits like me) and a selection of what we hold dear are TV shows like Only Fools and Horses, Yes Minister and Yes Prime MInister, Allo Allo, It ain't half Hot Mum, Are you being served?, Minder, Duchess of Duke Street, Birds of a Feather, Dad's Army, Upstairs Downstairs,. Happily I have made a collection of all of these PLUS The BBC Theatre Presentations (especially Dickens). I don't see anything remotely as entertaining as these anywhere these days. I have been lucky enough to live through these, and note I have gone over the fantastic radio series of the immediate post-war days.
IIRC Thatcher regarded 'Yes (Prime) Minister' as a documentary with jokes, & even appeared as a cameo in an Xmas special despite most of the jokes being very much against her government :) Still one of the funniest & most satirical shows I've ever seen, closely followed by Rory Bremner, John Bird & Ian Fortune's collab in the 90s & ofc Spitting Image (on which Harry Enfield & Jan Ravens did some great voice acting for)
Give Hislop 5 years, dictatorial powers & some piano wire for Paul Merton. I'm the certain the UK would function, although I'd miss Merton's deadpan delivery...
This is such brilliant work and yes quite amazing in this awful time of HMP Britain and Stasi land of delving into citizens private lives, especially the lowest paid and pensinoers! X 🙏🎊🤔😬🏴🇨🇮
13:27- 13:31 - I swear to tell the truth. The whole truth. And nothing like the truth 15:15 - Pig confidential 15:44 - 16:13 - 16:56 - 17:22 - Rupert 19:30 - 101 or 999 20:37 - Autobiography 22:58 - Cop-out 28 , Single Use 23:22 -
