On par with Jan Boehermann's description of the postwar German attitude towards nationalism: "We are proud of not being proud."

It must have been where Canadians learned it.

...that famously humble history of invading most places on the planet, them mislabelling immigrants etc as "invaders"? ;-)

@@LMM7880 No That would be Canadians too Polite about their Politeness and keep saying " Sorreee ... dint see ya there guv"

Dry.

Ian hislop's paper Private eye, always has loads of law suites against them. Not so polite apparently!

You don't get British humour.

​@@paulstewart6293look who he's been sued by. Robert Maxwell was one. A man who used to get onto the roof of the Mirror Group building, and urinate off the top of it. Another was James Goldsmith. A man who wouldn't look out of place of the far right of today's Conservative government. Neo fascist is a term that is not strong enough to describe him. Sonia Sutcliffe also sued the Eye, after it was alleged she'd exploited the fact that she was married to the Yorkshire Ripper in order to make money. These aren't fine upstanding pillars of the community, whose reputations are being dragged through the mud. They're utter bastards, who sued Private Eye for printing articles about them that were extremely close to the bone.

​@@paulstewart6293 A man can be polite in person whilst being 'a pain in the ass' elsewhere...

@@paulstewart6293 What a silly comment. You have the depth of a piece of paper.

We in the states are at least as liable if not moreso for giving him a space for his bs to flourish. So; no harm, no foul.

​@@Doc_FunYeah, but there definitely was harm.

Don't apologise. He's a Seppo.

"I'm media tyrant Rupert Murdoch." - The Simpsons

He's not Australian anymore. He bought membership at a bigger club. And now he owns it.

I don’t know if people in the US will realize how much of a meeting of giants of political satire/comedy this is.

​@@JonathanFittThe majority of us will not, myself included, prior to watching the interview.

@@elrapido51501+

This one does.@@JonathanFitt

Both of them are (a) so very well read and knowledgeable, and (b) able to analyse a situation and break it down, all while (c) not over-explaining to their audience. Loved Stewart on TDS back in the day, and continue to watch "Have I got News for You" whenever I can get it (have to wait for viewers to upload to UKposts) where Ian is one of the two permanent panelists. The two best ways to get a digest of the most important news happenings in the US and UK.

Right?! I've been closely following UK politics for a few years because Brexit and BoJangles were just too similar to Donald to not pay attention to and be concerned about the risks to democracy there. Learned about Hislop shortly after and he's so friggin awesome

This one I hadn't seen coming!! Two worlds colliding indeed!

@@sempressfi you should get a copy of his magazine, private eye, it’s funny!

​@@sempressfi Yes, I love Ian on Have I Got News For You!

Yup, seeing them two in the beginning was a bit surreal...

Every week would be preferable. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺👍

Great idea. Or a quarterly catch up? 2 X in UK and 2 X in US?

Good shout Hector

possibly from prison. but so far, they survive.

That's a genuinely great idea!

Too bad they talk such tabloid-driven, neo-left, TDS, projecting, propagandist guff :)

no cos that would mean he could not update himself unless it was as per 1850. and in fact he is very good at updating himself.

😂 brilliant.

I'd say he should be listed as a "Schedule 2 Person"... And treated accordingly.

Hislop is a grade 1 BBC mouthpiece

Yeah, and he's expressed how much he hates doing it but man, Jon skewering these clowns to their faces is so effective and cathartic for so many of us, he really is a national treasure

Has he ever sat with Chomsky? I would love that.

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ "Speak truth to your loved ones, and lie to the Nazis." -Anonymous

@@shawnhenderson2091 I truly admire John Stewart and catch his programs whenever I can… “You learn something new every day if you pay attention .” That is what my wife would tell me and she was an educator for 40 years before she passed! The good do die young…😢

Just shame there are so few likeminded in all of America.

I feel

Rare.

Rare, but welcome.

This is how it should be in government too. GOP should use this as a training tool.

I thought the same! They ought to have a weekly podcast.

Let's hear what either of them have to say about the 1942 USDA film *Hemp for Victory* and how the legalization of "Marihuana" saved the US, England and the Jewish people from fascism and genocide during World War II (an issue which both should be quite keen to observe). They can also explain to their audience how today the film is the key to reducing pollution, replacing fossil fuels, ending deforestation and stopping climate change.

I would add Al Franken to that list.

Bollocks. Sycophant

Agree 100%… man we need them at this time in history!

Jon let himself down with Drag Queen Gate

Perfectly said! This was a treat.

A delight.

I'm late for work now!

Now Im curious...what are you?

Probably Canadian. Or perhaps another Common Wealth country

The one reassuring feeling in all this corruption is that regardless of where you are from, the struggle with corruption is global and impacts us all. No one is above the struggle. Remember when ‘the West’ used to talk about the rabid corruption everywhere else? Lol. Corruption - the great Leveller-could end up bringing all of us together (finally). No room for arrogance any more - plenty of room for understanding and unity. It’s a problem for our species-and we need all of us to solve it. 😊

Who doesn't love that. Good deep chuckles.

I'm American, but now I'm like can we get more of these pairings going? Dara and Colbert, Seth and Nish (he's already had James on multiple times and it was wonderful but I imagine Nish would find correction hilarious), Samantha Bee and Ashley Bee, Amber Ruffian and Frankie Boyle - I wanna see the endless cheerfulness against the legendary dour.)

I would too! And you can tell Ian is enjoying it too. I simply adore both of these gentlemen. The team from Have I Got News For You really needs to get Jon on the show on Ian’s team.

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@@shelleysmith4017 That would be stellar!

also, because we love Jon and see him always fighting for humanity, I so enjoy seeing him being able to relax and feel good. this is like ice cream for my mind ❤️

@ Dorothea Walland Don’t eat it too quickly, it will give you an excruciating brain freeze.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Brexit! Break the bonds across the small pond😂

I loved it in Serbia. Ian is wrong though about it being set up in a war, it had been set up before.

Brilliant minds! I'm pretty sure that one of them Ian refers to is Boris Dezulovic, but I don't know was the other suppose to be Ivancic or Lucic? I steta sto je Dezulovic toliko omrazen u hr javnosti, to puno govori o stanju uma nacije 🙁

@@teekay9886 I don't know. But ever since I heard him mention Feral I've been missing it. It really was brilliant.

What happened to the journalists themselves? Did they carry on writing?

@@mongolmcphee7791 Ivancic and Dezulovic are still around, I saw a piece from Dezulovic the other day somewhere. Lucic has died.

Ian is often a guest on the new statesman podcast with Innado Innuci (apologies for the spelling) who created VEEP and THE THICK OF IT.

@@gmc2418 I think he's quite used to the mis-spellings and mispronunciations.... ukposts.info/have/v-deo/omB9emaFpoubop8.html

@@gmc2418 Armando Iannucci :)

@@johnnypopstar thanks

This is the dream team I didn't know could or would happen, and one we needed! I with other people I would love to see these two come together monthly to talk through topics intelligently and with great humour.

Like Jon in America Ian is a rock star over here in the UK.

@@konradyearwood5845 i absolutely love him

Can you imagine Jon guest hosting an episode of HIGNFY...

@@AH-te5gs You never know. Might be part of what he is in the UK for?

Yea thank god we have someone like Jon to lick the boots of hillary clinton

Like the Batman/Superman analogy... but them sitting around talking about how evil has evolved gives me pause. Rather see them in action trying to destroy it.

@@markrichardson6381 Yes, but then it wouldn't be satire.

what is happening in the US, is the John Birch Society creed (founder is father of Koch bros) which we ignored as a fringe organization, took over little by little, from the fringe to the center.

The beauty of being a millennial, we got to see everyone fucking up the country just in time for us to become adults and be saddled with the mess

My uncle Jim has never (to my knowledge) made an unconservative remark in his entire life. 😢

​@@cherynenglish6561listen to Charley Daniels and especially "Uneasy Rider." He knew it was coming.

​@cherynenglish6561 correct with the JBS/Koch wing, but an interior split led to the formation of the Council for National Policy in 1981. Whats happening is their plan.

Ian is your Jon Stewart? I'd never heard of him until this, and now I'm thoroughly impressed.

@@6thwilbury2331 There are 30-something _years_ of _Have I Got News For You_ in the can. The older eps might be harder to find but even from the Southern US, tenacity paid off. Wikipedia has a decent list by year. That was crucial in aiding my quest for finding shows to view.

@6th Wilbury I would say that Hislop certainly has a tenacity about him when he's tackling some corrupt BS, that is a trait Jon Stewart and he seem to share. For how I remember him being personality wise and in lot of televised settings I'd say his character is closer to that of someone not unlike Christopher Hitchens, in that Hislop is also an evidentially intelligent, very well-read man with a quick wit; who enjoys verbal busting back and forth. He can and will engage, knowledgeably on a mind boggling number of topics. And when his position is one he's passionate about he absolutely will use scathing mockery and polemicist rhetoric to expose his target's corruption, while increasing the audience's enjoyment of the brutal flaying he's engaged in.

Jon stopped "speaking truth to power" about 10 years ago. He is now the mouthpiece of the powerful.

@@elingrome5853Like the super simping suck up access journalism Jon "Overton window" Stewart displayed with his Hillary/Condi lovefest "interview"?

Yeah, the way Ian ridicules people like Jeremy Corbyn a man who could have brought real change to this country is genius. So now what we end up with is Tory and Keir Starmer’s neoliberal Tory lite. Ian went after Corbyn just as much as the Murdoch press and loved to push the fake narrative that Jeremy is an anti-Semite. I’m sorry, but people like Ian and Jon are nothing more than gatekeepers for the establishment. I have absolutely no time for either of these guys, because they’re liberals who like to portray themselves as people on the side of the downtrodden working class.

And it's great to see him looking like a lot less of his old HIGN self! We need him on a bit of a health kick to ensure he'll be around until 'some sunny day' he can come out and say; "Dear UK, normal service has been resumed, politics has become about the betterment of the country & its people, business leaders are no longer interested in pure greed & profit, but are reinvesting in the country, paying fair rates of Corporate Taxes, providing Health Insurance to All the workers and creating Charitable Funds for various projects - with Tax incentives for All employees who wish to 'Join In', as well a options to do Voluntary work for Charities, with Employers footing the Bill for the Voluntary hours. Businesses - especially in Essential industries - shall be 30% Govt. Owned (& supported as needed) with No business to be more than 45% owned by foreign investors/companies. And so on..." That'd feel nice, wouldn't it! 🌞🍀POD☘🌞

​@nickxcore74 Shit, you're right. I worship Ian for the great work he does but yeah, there was a real chance for a shift towards a fairer and less privatised Britain and we collectively blew it. 😢

@@nickxcore74 Well said. Was about to write the same thing (although not about Jon Stewart, as I know nothing about him).

I don't know Jon Stewart, but Ian Hislop is your typical 'liberal'. He complains about the right wing, but when the UK had a chance of a centre-left government under Corbyn (name a policy that wasn't centre-left), Hislop and everyone like him (including most of the Labour MPs) strove to portray Corbyn as an extremist/a communist/an anti-Semite/to blame for Brexit/a terrorist sympathiser/a far-left lunatic/take your pick. No doubt Hislop is a fan of Starmer - regardless of what he says - as Starmer is offering the same neo-liberal policies as the Tories, but with slightly less (and only slightly) of the racist, far-right posturing. Hislop likes to present himself as someone who critiques the elite, but he is very much one of them, and is an enemy of change (probably because he likes his cosy lifestyle).

@@monkeynews8311"I take legal action" means "I sue someone". He's not talking about the legality of melatonin.

Ian likes to moan about politics and celebrity and conveniently omits that HIGNFY was the chief media vehicle to bring Boris (and others) to the public's attention over the years

Talking of HIGNFY, do you remember Hislop calling out Boris Johnson when he was a guest host on there, many many years back? He saw even back then the duplicitous nature of the man and it just makes it even more of a crying shame that the rest of the country had to find out by suffering through his stint as PM.

Ian is a national treasure.

@@johnnypopstar Yeah, I think a lot of people liked Boris Johnson from his appearance there, admitting to snorting coke seemed so fresh as a politician and I fell for it at the time myself. I'm glad I saw through him before he was elected though, can't understand those who still support him.

​@@Studeb part of his popularity in voting terms really came because he was standing against Corbyn. I think had he been standing against a competent leader from a more mainstream version of Labour then it would've been a far closer election than it turned out. Ultimately it's up to the parties who they put forward to lead them, we're all really just voting for a local MP and a set of policies, which is more important than personalities in my opinion.

I'm guessing you've seen Bremner, Bird and Fortune, too.

@TAO TOLOGY Yes I did. Not as much as i would have liked though. I also loved the Friday Night Armistice with Armando Iannuci back in the 90's.

I second it not being long enough! Can’t believe it was 45 minutes, seemed like 10 maximum

I feel exactly the same ❤

Jon let himself down with his drag queen comments

sometimes I wonder if they are all that’s left keeping the flood of insanity behind the berm. We the public must do better or we deserve everything that happens

No one on the right will ever watch this. Sadly, they're preaching to the choir.

This is the best conversation between a Brit and an American I’ve ever witnessed!

The time different is like 5 hours(when Jon is living at the east coast) ? So even if jon gets up at 10 a.m. It's 3 P.m. In the UK, so this should work. If jo

I have seen better interviews of Hislop though. Stewart is usually quite good but I'm not so sure here. Might just be he is too American and nice to make Hislop truly comfortable

@@samsoncooper1 any in particular you would recommend?

I don't know Jon Stewart, but Ian Hislop is your typical 'liberal'. He complains about the right wing, but when the UK had a chance of a centre-left government under Corbyn (name a policy that wasn't centre-left), Hislop and everyone like him (including most of the Labour MPs) strove to portray Corbyn as an extremist/a communist/an anti-Semite/to blame for Brexit/a terrorist sympathiser/a far-left lunatic/take your pick. No doubt Hislop is a fan of Starmer - regardless of what he says - as Starmer is offering the same neo-liberal policies as the Tories, but with slightly less (and only slightly) of the racist, far-right posturing. Hislop likes to present himself as someone who critiques the elite, but he is very much one of them, and is an enemy of change (probably because he likes his cosy lifestyle).

As an American living on London, this was MY dream interview too. 😊

Really? ... me too! Which state? I married a Texan for my sins XD

Why would you choose to live here if you have a choice?

After reading this comment, I felt compelled to see if it was uploaded by John Oliver! Lol… i have no idea exactly how long J.O. has been here in the U.S. of A. but, felt 10 years seemed close enough, citizenship-wise

Yeah 👍🇺🇸

At the risk of being a pedant, this isn't on the BBC.

😂

Great comment

To be fair, he holds the left to account to, it just happens less often... I'd suggest for a reason.

@@ericjohnbaumgartner Relevance?

@@PCDelorian He only holds people who wont cost him anything accountable*

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Absolutely, we all need the laughter desperately

I definitely strongly second this motion. I would also like to suggest John stewart to appear on bbcs have I got news for please

You guys are all lost…good luck!

@@chadchurdley Those poor lost souls trying to make the world better for all people... How did you learn that the real goal should always be 5 megawealthy families and 8 billion exploited peasants? TRUMP/PUTIN 2024!!! Too bad we can't resurrect Hitler, eh???

Hi Sassie 😊. If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy a podcast called 'The Rest Is Politics' with Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell. Two friends from opposite sides of the political spectrum who discuss the week's events both in British Politics and from around the world. They also have some interesting guests. 😊

You have to have an IQ under or an age over 50 to think that these tv and newspaper journalists are honest.

Don't forget that most people in the end do not vote for extremists here in Europe. The Italian PM, who was to be feared ahead of the election result, didn't cause any notable crisis, but adjusted to the norm to have talks with your partner countries on all kind of issues. French elections feared the win of Le Pen, neither she or her father ever got into power. They are there to get the 20, 30 percent of angry people who listen to empty promises of going back in time when life 'was great for all'. Same in the Netherlands, where I live, people voted on a party right of Geert Wilders who was very right (and left on certain issues) years ago but not extreme enough. That party people voted for (Forum voor Democratie) has since been obliterated in the polls. The leader turned out a bigger nut than anyone would think. He's following the US book for right wing extremists with of course siding with Putin, calling it the best day of his life when the invasion happened, tries to make trans issues a thing in our politics while no-one cares what someone else does. Same with abortion, they take that from the US, while it hasn't been an issue for Christian parties for decades. They don't even try to bring it up, knowing the fast majority of people are sane and think it's a private issue. It's a useless battle and they are too stupid to see that. Which is good, they should stay in the fringes. Life has challenges enough aside from dealing with idiots in power. Then you have right wing leaders in lets say Hungary, but they are kept in check by the EU and their billions they can withold him. That's why the Union was founded, to keep things in check.

Too bad they talk such tabloid-driven, neo-left, TDS, projecting, propagandist guff :)

Ill informed at many points also.

​@@ole1111Not.

Oh great idea! Mind you the BBC woukd have a heart attack.

@@MrBizteck I dont see any negatives in your comment...

That would be an amazing watch!

@@MrBizteck ...they let William Shatner. Not sure they wouldn't allow Jon.

Great idea 💡 👍

Honey, you haven’t listened to enough podcasts… . This is actually a relatively uncomfortable conversation between smart men with very different contexts. They are incredibly smart, and funny, but this is much deeper. It’s deep enough that both danced around the idea of democratic-brotherhood (though Ian was much more reticent). You’re not wrong, love, it’s that the conversation requires more depth than your comment. . I’m only wanting to respect the humans in the video, I mean no disrespect to you 🙏🏻❤️

Jonathon Freeman, what other conversations would you recommend?

@@jonathanfreeman-mariani472 Oh hun, you don’t understand the nuance of their conversation and interactions. That’s ok - we all have to learn - but you’ve embarrassed yourself trying to be condescending to this person showing appreciation. Also they were causing you no harm so shuffle off and bother someone else maybe?

@@jenchapman6807 Is (negative) feedback undesirable? You think one can't respond to an overstatement ("best conversation available"), because you don't like the tone? Is it your place to tell random people to piss off and 'bother someone else'? Don't you think that taking part in random conversations might run the risk of opposition, and that that is a good thing to sharpen your mind? I really wonder why you think your sarcasm isn't the same as his. You're both condescending. Both trying to shut people up?

@@lux_moto TL;DR … that’s a dig regarding your long-winded view phraseology but in all honesty, I’ve lost interest.

I've been watching "hignfy" for a couple of years now here in the U.S. I wish we could manage to have a similar program here! I just love it. Started to watch for the humor, stayed to pick up on British politics. Fabulous show I highly recommend. I found it on UKposts . ♡

They would be the only ones to change his mind - he wants the money for them.

That $ can corrupt a mind real quickly if they get a good enough whiff of it

and Ian!

Yes! This is why I like them both!

I have that in the pub with my friends most weeks

Mutual respect, I’d say!

🤴 RIP Queen Elizabeth

@@bonnieagliata4780 abolish the monarchy

@@bonnieagliata4780 You want her, you pay for her.

I don't know Jon Stewart, but Ian Hislop is your typical 'liberal'. He complains about the right wing, but when the UK had a chance of a centre-left government under Corbyn (name a policy that wasn't centre-left), Hislop and everyone like him (including most of the Labour MPs) strove to portray Corbyn as an extremist/a communist/an anti-Semite/to blame for Brexit/a terrorist sympathiser/a far-left lunatic/take your pick. No doubt Hislop is a fan of Starmer - regardless of what he says - as Starmer is offering the same neo-liberal policies as the Tories, but with slightly less (and only slightly) of the racist, far-right posturing. Hislop likes to present himself as someone who critiques the elite, but he is very much one of them, and is an enemy of change (probably because he likes his cosy lifestyle).

Yup. Though it's more like "Yeah, I've got no clothes on, what are you going to do about it you pedo?!"

"The Cryptkeeper."

@@Shadowman4710 EC comics were a documentary

"Goldfinger"

The character of Elliott Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies is based upon Murdoch.

@@ZeroCharisma teaching art in school is important.

Jon let himself down with his drag queen comments

​@@geekylove3603 in what way?

@Phillip Hilton Are you joking or gaslighting? I'll take you at your word. 1. There are drag Queens who go out of their way to read to children, out of kindness and to promote diversity. Its is beautiful. 2. There are drag Queens who are performing in an explicit sexual way, stripping gyrating playing explicit music in front of kids. It's weird. 3. There are young boys 11 to 15 years old who have been called young drag Queens who have performed explicit sexual way in front of adults. It's weird. Jon and countless other parents, politicians, academics, celebrities and influencers have ignored points 2 & 3 and pretended only point 1 exists. As you can see I acknowledge all points. What do you acknowledge Phillip?

I don't know Jon Stewart, but Ian Hislop is your typical 'liberal'. He complains about the right wing, but when the UK had a chance of a centre-left government under Corbyn (name a policy that wasn't centre-left), Hislop and everyone like him (including most of the Labour MPs) strove to portray Corbyn as an extremist/a communist/an anti-Semite/to blame for Brexit/a terrorist sympathiser/a far-left lunatic/take your pick. No doubt Hislop is a fan of Starmer - regardless of what he says - as Starmer is offering the same neo-liberal policies as the Tories, but with slightly less (and only slightly) of the racist, far-right posturing. Hislop likes to present himself as someone who critiques the elite, but he is very much one of them, and is an enemy of change (probably because he likes his cosy lifestyle).

​@@julianevans9548Oh do give it a rest.

We do have the Onion in the states. That's kinda like private eye.

@@nathanharris4105 Those are two very different things. Private Eye has proper investigative journalism. Some stories and issues they have covered over decades. The Onion is a chat show headline.

That is an amazing idea (totally agree)...I really hope there's an intern for AppleTV or PrivateEye watching these comments and sending good ideas up the chain...

PlEasE LiKe AnD ShArE

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@Leonie Moats Hear! Hear! 🥂

I second it.

Drivel

He's no doubt less-known than Stewart but he's an absolute national treasure to those that know. He's often on comedy panel shows absolutely skewering the government and his magazine Private Eye is simply the best investigative journalism in the country right now, and as a bonus it's also *hugely* clever in its satire.

I was so excited to see this. 2 brilliant people chatting ❤

Aww…bless.

I can’t believe they got together!

​@@jimrustle270 6th

Perfactly said!

Is Big Brother (or Come Dine With Me, I'm not fussy) still running? Throw in James O'Brien, Jon and Ian and you have the core of must-watch TV. Oops! Nearly forgot Tom Walker (Jonathan Pie), and maybe Frankie Boyle too.

I don't know Jon Stewart, but Ian Hislop is your typical 'liberal'. He complains about the right wing, but when the UK had a chance of a centre-left government under Corbyn (name a policy that wasn't centre-left), Hislop and everyone like him (including most of the Labour MPs) strove to portray Corbyn as an extremist/a communist/an anti-Semite/to blame for Brexit/a terrorist sympathiser/a far-left lunatic/take your pick. No doubt Hislop is a fan of Starmer - regardless of what he says - as Starmer is offering the same neo-liberal policies as the Tories, but with slightly less (and only slightly) of the racist, far-right posturing. Hislop likes to present himself as someone who critiques the elite, but he is very much one of them, and is an enemy of change (probably because he likes his cosy lifestyle).

@@julianevans9548 so you’re annoyed he didn’t hero worship Corbyn?