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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...
11 November 1958, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 August 1954, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
10 December 1952, Middlesex, England, UK
12 October 1944, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
1980, Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK
17 August 1949, Cairo, Egypt
8 September 1971, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
30 December 1959, Slough, Berkshire, England, UK
1962, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
4 February 1977, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
14 May 1958, Bebington, Cheshire, England, UK
18 April 1971, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
16 August 1939, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
