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HIGNFY began on BBC Two on September 28, 1990 and transferred to BBC One in October 2000. Two series of around eight episodes are made each year. Over an hour's worth of the show is recorded for each 30-minute programme on Thursday evenings for broadcast on Friday, allowing the show to remain topical, while the BBC's lawyers have time to request cuts of potentially libellous material. The regulars have commented that if a guest says anything funny, it is usual ...

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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City), better known as Boris Johnson (and occasionally as 'Bo-Jo' within the UK tabloid press) is a British Conservative politician and journalist, with a distinctive scatty and eccentric public persona. He is Member of Parliament for Henley and also Shadow Minister for Higher Education. Boris Johnson - Early life. He was one of the four children born to Stanley Johnson and his first wife, Charlotte Johnson-Wahl. He is the great-grands ...

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• Boris Johnson - Early life
• Boris Johnson - Journalism
• Boris Johnson - Politics
• Boris Johnson - Bigley editorial
• Boris Johnson - Public Persona and Have I Got News For You
• Boris Johnson - Bibliography
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Bruce Joseph Forsyth, CBE (affectionately called Brucie) (born 22 February 1928) is a British entertainer and showman who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1958-1960 and 1961), and has since presented game shows such as Play Your Cards Right (1980-1987, 1994-1999 and 2002-2003), The Generation Game (1971-1977 and 1990-1994), and Strictly Come Dancing (since 2004). Bruce Forsyth - Life history. He was born Bruce Joseph Forsyth-JohnsonIncluding:

• Bruce Forsyth - Life history
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• Bruce Forsyth - Film

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Will Self (born 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist who was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. Will Self is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastic novels and short stories set in seemingly parallel universes. These include Cock and Bull (1992) — the stories of a man and a woman who develop sexual organs of the opposite sex. My Idea of Fun (1996) — a lonely boy grows up just outside Brighton in a caravan park with his over-sexual mother and Samual Northcliff who takes ...

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Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done by a person, while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. One notable trait of Australians (perhaps "inherited" from the British) lies in their use of deadpan humour, in which the joker will make an outrageous or ridiculous statement without giving any explicit signs of joking. Americans visiting Australia have gained themselves a reputation for gullibility and a lack of a sense of humour by not recognising that tales of kangaroos hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and drop bears exemplify ...

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The Right Honourable William Jefferson Hague (born March 26, 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and currently Shadow Foreign Secretary. William Hague - Initial political career. Hague was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, into a middle-class family in a strongly working-class area. He made the national news at the age of sixteen by speaking at the Conservative party's 1977 national conference. In his speech he rem ...

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• William Hague - Initial political career
• William Hague - Leadership of Conservative Party
• William Hague - Backbenches
• William Hague - Return to the Shadow Cabinet

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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), (26 March 1753 - 21 August 1814), was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Benjamin Thompson - Early life in America. Thompson was born in rural Woburn, Massachusetts, in America; his birthplace is preserved to this day as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked to Cambridg ...

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• Benjamin Thompson - Bavarian maturity
• Benjamin Thompson - Experiments on heat
• Benjamin Thompson - Inventions
• Benjamin Thompson - Later life
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BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. It is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and first broadcast as the 'BBC Television Service' on November 2, 1936, although the BBC had been broadcasting experimental and test transmissions in a variety of formats since 1929. The station held a complete monopoly on television broadcasting in the UK until ITV was launched in 1955. BBC One - History. Baird Television Ltd. made Brit ...

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• BBC One - Channel Controllers

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2There is also a variant for use in Scotland, see Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom for details. 3 The Royal motto used in Scotland is Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (Latin for "No-one provokes me with impunity"). 4 Not official. 5Officially recognised languages, in Wales: Welsh; and in Scotland: Scottish Gaelic since 2005 Act. Norman French is also used for occasional items of official business. 6 Formed as United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

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• United Kingdom - Subdivisions
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• United Kingdom - Economy
• United Kingdom - Society
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• United Kingdom - Culture
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• United Kingdom - Miscellaneous topics

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QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry. It is distinguished by the awarding of points not necessarily for the correct answer, but rather for an interesting one. Many of the questions and answers are extremely obscure. Points can also be deducted, but, quite interestingly, not for wrong answers, but only for obvious but wrong answers; this often results in a negative points score at the end of the ...

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• QI - Frequent participants
• QI - Criticism
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BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. BBC Two - History. The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts, a performance from Soviet comedian Arkady Raikin, and a production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, culminating with a fireworks display. However, at around 6:45 pm a huge power failure, originating from Battersea Pow ...

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• BBC Two - Some popular programmes
• BBC Two - On screen identity
• BBC Two - BBC Two today
• BBC Two - Controllers of BBC Two

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Amiga Power - Kangaroo Court. Through their long computer gaming experience, the AP reviewers had developed a number of pet hates about computer games. One of the more frequently mentioned ones, for example, was "slippy-slidey ice worlds" - levels in platform games in which the friction between the player and the ground is artificially reduced, making progress haphazard. (The phrase "slippy-slidey ice worlds" was adopted by ...

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Winners first; nominees indented British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Sitcom. The Royle Family Gimme Gimme Gimme Spaced British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best New TV Comedy. dinnerladies The League of Gentlemen People Like Us British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Comedy Drama. Cold Feet Jonathan Creek< ...

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British Comedy Awards 1999, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Television radio and film, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Sitcom, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best New TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Comedy Drama, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV 'Broken Comedy', British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Comedy Game Show, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Comedy Talk Show, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best International Comedy TV Show, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Comedy Film, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Radio Comedy, British Comedy Awards 1999 - People and performances, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Comedy Actor, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best TV Comedy Actress, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Comedy Entertainment Personality, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Live Stand-up, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Male Comedy Newcomer, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Female Comedy Newcomer, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Best Writer, British Comedy Awards 1999 - Lifetime Achievement Award

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Bob Monkhouse was born in Beckenham, Kent, and educated at Dulwich College, from which he was expelled; he worked briefly as an animator before his national service. On leaving the RAF in 1948, he was one of the first comedians to be given a contract by the BBC. Originally employed as a scriptwriter for radio comedy, Monkhouse gradually moved over to television, hosting programmes such as Candid Camera in the early 1960s. He also had an income as a gag-writer for many visiting American comedians including Bob Hope when they wan ...

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He was born in Glasgow, UK in 1964. His father is from Naples, Italy, while his mother is from Glasgow. Iannucci has an extensive history in British radio and television. First receiving widespread fame in the early 1990s as the producer for On the Hour and then The Day Today, he received critical acclaim for both his own talents as a writer and a producer, and for first bringing together such comics as Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Steve Coogan. The members of this group went on to work on separate proj ...

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Armando Iannucci, Armando Iannucci - Biography, Armando Iannucci - Filmography, Armando Iannucci - Television, Armando Iannucci - Radio, Armando Iannucci - Bibliography, Armando Iannucci - Print, Armando Iannucci - Audiobooks, Armando Iannucci - Awards

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The foundation of Deayton's career was the parody of commercial/local British radio stations Radio Active transmitted on BBC Radio 4 between 1981 and 1987, which he both co-wrote and performed in. It transferred to television as KYTV between 1989 and 1993. During this period, Deayton was also frequently seen appearing as a straight man alongside Rowan Atkinson; and starred with Atkinson in two separate roles (a pool attendant and a man on a park bench) in ...

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Angus Deayton, Angus Deayton - Early life, Angus Deayton - Comedy career, Angus Deayton - Scandal

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In 1997, Hague was elected leader of the Conservative Party in succession to John Major. Hague beat other more senior Conservatives for the role, including Michael Howard whom he had initially agreed to run with. Hague's leadership is seen widely as a failure. In the view of some commentators Hague was ill-prepared for the role of Opposition Leader and had a poor public delivery while his attempts to appeal to the younger generation failed to win him the popular following he had been seeking. Hague has said that his image never recove ...

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William Hague, William Hague - Initial political career, William Hague - Leadership of Conservative Party, William Hague - Backbenches, William Hague - Return to the Shadow Cabinet

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The magazine currently includes several regular sections: The cover, with its famous speech bubble, putting ironic or humorous comments into the mouths of the famous in response to topical events. News (previously called The Colour Section) – effectively the stories the magazine is most proud of that week or thinks most important, placed at its front. Street of Shame – covering journalism, newspapers and other press stories. The term "Street of Shame" refers to Fleet Street. Usua ...

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Private Eye, Private Eye - History, Private Eye - Nature of the magazine, Private Eye - Sections, Private Eye - Defunct sections, Private Eye - Newspaper parodies, Private Eye - Others, Private Eye - Regular mini-sections, Private Eye - Cartoons, Private Eye - Frequent Targets, Private Eye - Prime Ministers, Private Eye - Other Politicians, Private Eye - Prominent Figures, Private Eye - Journalists, Private Eye - Entertainment and Media, Private Eye - Examples of humour, Private Eye - Neasden, Private Eye - Lord Gnome, Private Eye - Crossword, Private Eye - Andrew Neill image, Private Eye - Phil Space, Private Eye - Criticism, Private Eye - Litigation, Private Eye - Ownership, Private Eye - Trivia, Private Eye - Reference

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Mandelson was born in London in 1953 and educated at Hendon County Grammar School (now Hendon School). He is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, the London County Council leader and Labour cabinet minister. In his youth, he briefly rebelled against his family's Labour tradition and in 1971 left the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) to join the Young Communist League, then the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. This move was partly a result of disagreements with the Trotskyist Militant Tendency that had just won a majority i ...

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Peter Mandelson, Peter Mandelson - Early life, Peter Mandelson - Work with Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson - Cabinet post, Peter Mandelson - First resignation, Peter Mandelson - Second resignation, Peter Mandelson - European Commission, Peter Mandelson - See Also

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Winners first; nominees indented British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best New TV Comedy. The Office Human Remains The Sketch Show British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best TV Comedy. One Foot In The Grave Coupling The Office British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best TV Comedy Drama. Bob and RoseSee also:

British Comedy Awards 2001, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Television radio and film, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best New TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best TV Comedy Drama, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best International Comedy TV Show, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Radio Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Comedy Film Award, British Comedy Awards 2001 - The AOL People's Choice Award, British Comedy Awards 2001 - People and performances, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Television Comedy Actor, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Television Comedy Actress, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Comedy Entertainment Personality, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Comedy Newcomer, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Best Live Stand-up, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Writer of the Year Award, British Comedy Awards 2001 - Lifetime Achievement Award

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