Have I Got News For You [antikvár]

7 introduction Viewers of Have I Got News For You will know that it's traditional for me to begin the show with somé opening remarks which singularly fail to elicit any response from the audience. These rangé from 'Hello and welcome to the show that has more column inches than Warren Beatty', to 'Hello and welcome to the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of láger does for Sunday mornings'; to my own personal favourite, 'Hello and welcome to the show in which we boldly empty the nose of news into the handkerchief of satire'. So, being a stickler for old values, let me abide by that tradition by saying, 'Hello and welcome to this book, which I think you'll find, when it comes to quality, stops at nothing.' See? introduction THE PRODUCERS - A TRIBUTE Harry Thompson and Colin Swash are two of the dullest individuals currently working in Light Entertainment. Before he broke into television, Harry spent many years paddling around the backwaters of BBC radio producing non-award winning series such as Cyril Fletcher's Sound Guide to the Colours of the Rainbow. His pastimes include taking all the credit for Have I Got News For You and writing dull books. Two of his efforts, The Man Behind The Iron Mask and Tintin - The Inside Story, have recently been reprinted in a single volume entitled Who Cares? Colin Swash alsó comes from radio. His marked sensitivity to acoustics owes much to his former job at Cheam Abattoir. Unlike Harry he has a normál ego and when he first joined Have I Got News For You this helped him form a realistic view of his own worth to the programme. This realistic view has led to fifteen suicide attempts - six of which have been successful. I am thrilled to have this opportunity to publicly salute Harry and Colin's contribution and I am sure I can speak for Angus, Ian and myself when I say, 'Thank you for working on my show.' ^ANGUS iPAULS