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Ian Hislop More at IMDbPro »

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Editor of the satirical magazine "Private Eye".

Hates soccer.

The only person to appear on every episode of "Have I Got News for You" (1990).

The only person to appear twice as a guest on "Room 101" (1994).

Personal Quotes

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

[On his and Paul Merton's behavior towards Angus Deayton] "We didn't stab Deayton in the back. We stabbed him in the front."

[on Tony Blair] In the early days we were doing jokes about how he's susceptible to spin, he doesn't know what he thinks. Nowadays he does know what he thinks and that's much more frightening. So over the years our version of his comic voice has gone from bright-eyed and enthusiastic to sort of bitter and mad.

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