Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022

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Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. With reassuringly jaundiced reflections on everything from the global recession, religion and the Royal Family to the NHS, education and the media, it’s a handy primer to the British Constitution, even though we don’t actually have one. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With over 1,000 questions on everything from politics to pop culture, Have I Got News for You: The Quiz of 2023 promises hours of entertainment and is probably the only sardonic souvenir of 2023 going. So the Have I Got News For You team have, in a moving and totally out of character display of public-spiritedness, compiled this Guide to Modern Britain to help guide you around, er, modern Britain.

There’s the Missing Words Round, the Odd One Out Round, loads of rounds that we’ve nicked from other puzzle books, and for any insomniacs out there, there’s even one on the Labour Party. Since the comedy quiz show about the news began in 1990, comedian and television personality Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, broadcaster, satirist and editor of Private Eye , have been the show’s regular team captains. With over 1000 questions and plenty of gags on everything from politics to pop culture, ‘Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022’ promises hours of entertainment and will serve as a timeless souvenir of a rollercoaster year. With more than 25 series under its belt Have I Got New For You is Britain's most successful satirical TV show and, with six million viewers, it's also the BBC's highest rated comedy quiz show.Large format paperback(two small creases and nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition. WATERSTONES’ BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023: PUZZLES AND HUMOURWhether it was Harry talking about his todger in his controversial autobiography, or celebrities from Gary Lineker to Phillip Schofield and Huw Edwards dominating the news agenda, plus strikes, inflation, wildfires, the Wagner group performing the briefest mutiny of all time, an ill-fated trip to the Titanic, and – as usual – a stack of scandals leaking out of the Cabinet, 2023 has had just as many newsworthy things you’d like to forget as any other year. Ian and Paul have been the regular 'team captains' since the show began in 1990, and for the first twelve years, were under the watchful eye of the host Angus Deayton. Other TV highlights include his eponymous surreal sketch series from 1991-3; interviewing Spike Milligan in what was to be his last major television appearance as host of Room 101 ; and making several programmes about early cinema, including The Birth Of Hollywood which he co-wrote with his wife, Suki Webster.

Biography: Have I Got News For You is a long-running entertainment show starring Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, which delivers comic observations and scripted gags, from the satirical to the surreal, through the highly original mechanism of a quiz about the news. With the same lack of irony, they could equally have have added "Contains no hint of wit, humour or insight". Our books regularly hit the bestseller lists, and we have powered countless authors to household-name status. Emily Barrett, Sphere publishing director, acquired world rights to the books, which are the first in a new collectible series, from Hat Trick Productions.A whistle stop tour of Britain, both historical and modern, informed by a sharp eye for detail and the inclusion of interesting facts. The ideal gift to give this Christmas (to someone else or to yourself), this book contains all the fun of being on ‘Have I Got News for You’ without the fear of Ian Hislop pressing you on shady business dealings from 2008.

The ideal gift for fans of the show and other quizzers besides, I have no doubt this book will be one of the biggest quiz titles this Christmas and will have a suitably special campaign to establish and support it. This comic tour round the "Have I Got News For You" universe, enables you to meet the politicians who suffered at the merciless tongue of Ian Hislop, or the hapless celebrities bewildered by Paul Merton's surreal ramblings. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. An ideal Christmas gift which will feature over 1,000 questions and plenty of gags on everything from politics to pop culture, Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022 (and 2023) will keep readers entertained for hours and serve as timeless souvenirs of their respective rollercoaster years.Packed with useless facts and unhelpful cynicism, the Have I Got News for You Guide to Modern Britain will help you understand exactly how the most ingenious, resilient, resourceful and proudest people on earth became the Twittering, touchy-feely, fame-obsessed, flu-fearing wimps that they are today. Plus you can play along with a selection of Odd Ones Out, Caption competitions and Guess the Headlines, and savour the scathing satire of the guest presenters. It’s a Royal Cock-up’ and Have I Got News for You regular features: the Missing Words and Odd One Out rounds. Following Angus's departure, dozens of different guest hosts have taken the reins, including James Bond, Captain Kirk, Sherlock Holmes and the Prime Minister.