😂😂😂

Hislop would take the gloves off and then put on a different pair of gloves

He’s fought countless court battles and is editor of the country’s leading satirical magazine. He’s not a pushover.

Ian needs to explore this character on an Amazon show

He would do easily as one of the Irishman Netflix movie.

And good on him. I think many of us hope for that day😢

​@@jacquigoodman3360amen to that

Normally he NEVER shows his true nature. I was quite astounded to sée it too.

@@StepladdertoSausage71Personally, I like it when comedians put aside their stage personas for moments like this. People complained that Feargal didn't contribute much, but what he said about this conflict, by bringing it home and talking about the peace in Northern Ireland was very important. Feargal has a perspective and insight that the others don't. I think that's why the producers of the show had him on in the first place.

Sure, nice speech, but you're not getting peace there until you recognise the cause of conflict is Israel and the west stops supporting and arming it and forces it to stop doing what it's been doing for 70 years. In Northern Ireland there's no government because the Unionists refuse to accept democracy. What's the UK government doing about that? Nothing.

She'd have been a smash on the 1950s Borscht Belt circuit.

Quite disgraceful, I think, her reading out the cheap shots at Jeremy Corbyn. Why? Because he wants a ceasefire?

Great to see him. But its a comedy show paid for by us. Totally pointless appearance.

Granatapfel in german (grenade apple)

Same here, I left 1998 and bought the DVDs for many years, watching them straight after broadcast is wonderful

Same herè -- 30 years. What happened at that time to drive us away? I've forgotten.

Same, I left 26 years ago, to live in the land of raucous, Céline Dion loving boy racers.

Me too. Thirty years in Kampuchea

⁠Tory election win made up my mind

I got to ask. It is German "Zapf an" (as in tapping the beer keg), or are you a "zap fan"? If the latter, what the heck is a zap. Don't feel obliged to answer 🙂

@@shorerocks Fan of Zap the American Gladiator from back in the 1990s 💪 🙂

@@zapfanzapfan Oh, good Lord, I would never have guessed this. Thank you, dear Sir!

she always has the attitude of "i can't be arsed to be here". 😄

Brand should come more often. I know Victoria Coren-Mitchell is brilliant, but Joe Brand is spectacular with her dry, self deprecating humour. Love her.

Dutch person here, absolutely love this show as well! I like the rotating presenters, they are all brilliant

If you told me that one of the five used to be in a punk rock band, she's the obvious pick.

I want one.

7:33 even

No, you're not alone. I thought he was fantastic and extremely moving in how he expressed that.

No

@BSideWasTaken Moved me to the bathroom to throw up - EDIT! sincere apologies I thought it said 'Farage' instead of Fergal :(

​@@richardh8082why, do you not like kindness and compassion?

@@barnaclefelching4079 Because I lost my glasses and thought it said 'Farage'. Please accept my sincere apologies. I'm so embarrassed :(

@shellybelly35 Maybe a test of initiative? - which he failed, like everything else

Had he taken the hood off initially she would have said "Did I indicate taking the hood off?" It was clearly a no-win situation. The correct answer would be to ask because even if you get a snarky reply at least you pointed out that the instructions were ambiguous. Ambiguous instructions are very dangerous, so there's only so much criticism you can get for asking for clarification.

@@garrick3727 Seems like a way army either judges your character (which is important) or breaks you down so you only follow orders (also valuable in the forces). For this reason I thought she did a good job (and Hancock is a knob so BONUS)

He sounds a bit Irish too.

First, he didn't steal the joke. She didn't make the crossing the road joke. Either, 1) she was too slow with her delivery (poor trade craft) or 2) all she had was "Why?" (fuzzy comedic instinct). Either case would mean Paul saved the day.

@@Hexon66 I think there is truth in that. Maybe she didn't read the room well. I've been watching HIGNFY for 30 years and it gives a lot of insights into comedy. Very often, Paul gets laughs because he is Paul. He may have saved the day. But he definitely doubled down on it, for whatever reason (keep the show rolling ... a bit formulaic, perhaps). Audiences at comedy shows are a very odd creature.

The audience know Paul and his ways of bullying them into clapping or laughing or giving him credit for this or that. So sometimes they just perfunctorily give him what he wants to save time. He was pretty good in this show but I saw a more recent one where he clearly winces and frowns when he doesn't get the amount of laughs he thinks he deserves. To think this has been going on for more than a decade now...

@@Otheheavychange Exactly!

@@Otheheavychange I used to call it comedic bullying but it gets peoples' backs up as it seems a contradiction in terms (like nobody ever witnessed it at high school!!). In the early days, Ian and Paul had to work for their living, so it was forgivable, giving the show edge. Now the audience prefers the comfort of the familiar rather than edge, so they don't have to work for it now.

Yes, and it's not bloody fair! ☹

The implication is that Hancock's violation of lockdown rules was as bad as serial murder.

More cat expressions....

There's a bit more

About two Rishi is short jokes, 1 Biden is old joke, and 3 Suella is racist jokes.

Unlike with Ukraine where the cause is pretty clear and it's easy to get aid and kits there (I've just donated money for a specialized vehicle and night vision drones), common Europeans are more or less powerless when it comes to Israel and Palestine. The situation is so hopeless that IMHO most people in the audience needed at least an image of peace, even though it doesn't mean much and it's easy to say.

Like Hi-Fi, hi-tech is OK

@@AndrewTBP , okay, thank you for the information! /hi5

It's not traditional grammar, but widely used. Considered OK nowadays.

It is, indeed. Thought at least Ian would spot that error.