Have I Got News for You: how does the US version compare?
The long-running topical comedy show made its way stateside in September and it’s turned out to be a far different proposition than the original
“Big up Keir Starmer,” declared a British prisoner released early from jail last month. “Well, he said more than that,” joked Charlie Brooker, that week’s guest host on Have I Got News for You. “But his sentence got cut short.”
Cue muffled laughter, and groans. “Very good,” lied Ian Hislop, a veteran team captain on the long-running UK comedy panel show. When a moth was spotted flying around the studio, Paul Merton, the other captain, quipped: “I think it’s jumped out of the script.”
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