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Ian Hislop

January 2024

  • Ashley Madison website on a tablet.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack; Making Sense of Social Housing; Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes – review

    Not enough users of the hacked infidelity website share their stories; more on the UK’s housing crisis; and a philology of funnies

August 2022

  • Philip Larkin in Hull, 1973.

    The week in audio: Larkin Revisited; In Suburbia; Inheritors of Partition; Out of Afghanistan

    Simon Armitage unpicks Philip Larkin while Ian Hislop explores the land of net curtains. Elsewhere, the legacy of Partition and the thoughts of Afghan refugees in Britain

January 2022

  • ‘As human as the rest of us’ … Spike Milligan in the 1950s.

    ‘The godfather of alternative comedy’: Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton and more on Spike Milligan

    He was the shellshocked genius who channelled his anarchic brilliance into The Goon Show. Ian Hislop and Nick Newman explain why they’ve written a play about Spike Milligan – while comedians remember a legend

October 2021

  • The Goons, from left, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe

    Spike Milligan was the true father of modern satire, says Ian Hislop

    Private Eye editor tells of new play about the anarchic comic – and reveals his run-ins over Goons scripts with the BBC

August 2021

  • The Boleyn girl ... Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the scandalous Anne Boleyn and her family go about their business

    The second episode of the documentary drama picks up 17 years into Henry VIII’s reign. Plus: jazz at the BBC Proms. Here’s what to watch this evening

September 2018

  • Trial By Laughter at The Watermill Theatre. Joseph Prowen and Nicholas Murchie. Photo by Philip Tull.

    Trial By Laughter review – Private Eye team's tribute to embattled satirist

    The ‘blasphemous’ 19th-century pamphleteer William Hone is at the sharp end of destructive libel action in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s humorous drama
  • Toppled Roman head at the British Museum.

    I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent review – one in the eye, from rump to Trump

    Easy mockery and courageous acts of defiance sit together uneasily as Private Eye’s Ian Hislop offers an absorbing history of rebellion
  • Ian Hislop at the British Museum

    'Joyless in the extreme' – I Object: Ian Hislop's Search for Dissent review

    British Museum, London
    The Private Eye editor has scoured history in search of objects and images that express dissent. But where’s the satire?

August 2018

  • Huang Yongyu’s Two Owls, China (1977) is at The Citi exhibition I object: Ian Hislop’s search for dissent, 06 September 2018 – 20 January 2019 at the British Museum.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Pollock storms into London and Banksy dials up the dissent – the week in art

  • I object – an exhibition at the British Museum curated by comedian Ian Hislop.

    Ian Hislop on dissent: 'It's cathartic to say, "This is rubbish"'

July 2018

  • Ashley Storrie, daughter of acclaimed Glaswegian performer Janey Godley.

    Funny bones run in the family as fringe plays host to comic dynasties

    This year’s Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents – from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth – who blazed the same trail

May 2018

  • Ian Hislop in the British Museum’s prints and drawings study room.

    Ian Hislop picks Banksy hoax for British Museum dissent show

    Graffiti artist’s Peckham Rock placed in museum as prank will feature among objects illustrating subversion

April 2018

  • Catherine Bennett

    Have I got news for women? Not really. We already know men make the best clowns

    Catherine Bennett
  • Anne Widdecombe

    Have I Got News For You: women hit back against ‘too modest’ claims

  • Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton

    Ian Hislop and Paul Merton under fire for female host remarks

  • Ian Hislop and Paul Merton

    It’s not funny being the only woman on a TV panel show

    Natalie Haynes

  • Shortcuts
    So female politicians don’t want to host HIGNFY? There’s a very good reason

  • Women too modest to host Have I Got News For You, Hislop claims

November 2017

  • Jo Brand

    Have I Got News for You where Jo Brand rebuked all-male panel tops complaints

  • Jo Brand silences all-male panel on Have I Got News for You – video

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