The only person to appear on every episode of Have I Got News for You (1990), once even doing so whilst suffering from appendicitis (something not revealed until some time later).
Editor of the satirical magazine "Private Eye", where he succeeded Richard Ingrams.
The only person to appear twice as a guest on Room 101 (1994).
Because of his diminutive stature and pugnacious journalistic style, he was once described by fellow journalist John Sweeney as "a garden gnome on acid".