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Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs. Hosted by Deayton, with team captains Hislop (magazine columnist) and Merton (comedian) joined by, typically, a comedian and a politician, journalist or news figure - although an absent Labour politician was once famously replaced by a tub of lard! Regular rounds of Caption Competition, Odd One Out, What Happened Next and Missing Words are interspersed with running jokes: Deayton's senile mother, Hislop's Jimmy Somerville impersonation, the firm belief that all politicians are crooks...
15 July 1931, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK
16 January 1963, Bristol, England, UK
1962, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10 March 1956, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
11 July 1964, Liverpool, England, UK
10 December 1952, Middlesex, England, UK
18 June 1970, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
9 September 1972, Brighton, England, UK
15 June 1968, London, England, UK
21 November 1968, Boscombe, Dorset, England, UK
13 May 1956, Romford, Essex, England, UK
9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
25 October 1962, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
3 October 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
13 January 1965, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
28 September 1947, Ardingly, Sussex, England, UK
