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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...
10 November 1944, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
8 May 1960, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
16 August 1939, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
11 July 1957, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
29 June 1962, London, England, UK
10 December 1952, Middlesex, England, UK
13 May 1951
3 February 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
26 December 1957, Devon, England, UK
16 January 1963, Bristol, England, UK
31 October 1963, Ealing, London, England, UK
28 September 1947, Ardingly, Sussex, England, UK
4 August 1970, England, UK
26 July 1961, St. Kitts, British West Indies [now Saint Kitts and Nevis]
9 May 1936, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
13 January 1965, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
