Wow. Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Now there's a bit of history. Despite the guest hosts since being occasionally very good, I found Angus excellent, and miss his style. Thanks for sharing this.
That's how we wore them back then. Cook and Adams, though. Last one of these I saw I didn't even know who the guests were - despite the unrecognised host quoting their names.
I dedicate this video to my good mate Scott Donohue from Fleet Hampshire.. I remember watching this with you you loved Cooks humour. I remember sitting in your brothers bedroom in the early 90s watching this.. RIP Scott. I wish you were still with us..
Good Lord, Cook and Adams on one show!? I didn't know either of them where on. This is indeed a rare treat, thank you so much for the upload. Wow Paul really didn't like Angus did he :D
Magical - a "Hubble telescope" into the past - to a time before we knew of the unfolding events - the sad demise of Mr Cook and Mr Adams; the shaming of Mr Deayton - and the eternal (if greying) brilliance of Mr Hislop and Mr Merton (long may they thrive). Thank you for this wonderful upload
It was a shame Angus messed up and had to go, there's been some great guest hosts since but some of them (John Prescott anyone?) made for a train wreck of an episode. With Angus he didn't just host, he ripped into dodgy politicians with conviction. With him gone it's left to Hislop (and the occasional guest) to take them to task.
Angus did a bit of charlie and lost his job - entirely unfair given half his guests would have enjoyed a line or two. Besides, I think Jimmy Savile was still on the payrole in '92 and the beeb never did anything about him.
HIGNFY is such an institution , you just don't realise how long this show has been on air and yet every episode is as fresh and entertaining as the last ...long may this show continue to grace our screens it's a true Gem of british television .
@@scottishwildcat Just my opinion, but I like the program better without Angus as he’s far too twitchy and not that funny. He’s constantly shifting about and it’s distracting. Makes me wonder exactly how long he was using drugs?
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that Peter Cook may have been Ian Hislop's boss at the time. Ian worked for Private Eye, which was partly funded by Peter Cook. (In case you were wondering why Hislop was unusually polite to his co-panellist)
MIchaelKingsfordGray OMG you're trying to lecture someone for having a username but you can't even do simple math?!?! Dude, 1992 was TWENTY-SIX years ago, meaning they're 38 - 39 (depending if they've already had their birthday this year or not)! Go take several seats and sit your ass down.
+Cruitheach Yes, and just as I was posting the question, some bright spark must already have answered it after all this time, thought I. Thought I right: I thank you.
Man, Deayton was so good, in this and later in WILTY. And the BBC fires him once for having an affair and possibly a coke habit (didn't know those were frowned upon in showbiz), and then again for... making fun of Savile.
WILTY stands for "Would I Lie To You?"After Deayton's exposure in the tabloid media because of his sex and drugs scandal, Ian Hislop was furious with Deayton, because he thought that the whole HIGNY show would be cancelled by the BBC... It wasn't, but they haven't spoken since.........
Ah yes, from a time when HIGNFY was funny and the BBC's sphincter hadn't tightened up about censoring everything remotely spicy, controversial or challenging, which is the whole bloody point of satire
I didn’t realise how old this show was!! It’s been playing away in the background my whole life nearly. Sometimes il stop to watch but if I had to guess I’d have went 1999/2000
Wow, good work HIGNFY, getting legends like Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Compare that to the current crop of "celebrity" guests, nobodies like Louise Mensch and Big Brother contestants. A visual depiction of the decline of the BBC.
If you look at other guests from that series, most of them could or have appeared in the last few years on the show ... Jo Brand, Frank Skinner, Danny Baker, Rory Bremner, Sandi Toksvig, David Baddiel etc. Seen as a whole, it's more a visual depiction of the stasis of the BBC.
Great guests, and wasn't Angus an amazing host? He really held the show together. He plays the serious, straight man so well, it amplifies the humour but also caters to serious political discussion when it's appropriate.
Utterly irrelevant point. Bet ye didn't know that Irish band "The Fureys" and Davy Arthur and Billy Connolly and Barbara Dickson all lived in the same house in Edinburgh.
I did try to upload the following week's show with Stephen Fry and Frank Skinner, but it was immediately blocked worldwide by the rights owner so I had to delete it. Not sure why they blocked that show and not the hundreds of other HIGNFY shows on TH-cam, especially as they are earning money from the ads on this one.
Merton actually holds the programme together. I went to a recording not long ago. Every time the action flagged, which was often, Merton piped up and energised them. If he left, they'd need double the recording time and twice as many gifted editors.
@Qwfwq66 Yes @ Merton but sometimes his rants do stop the programme stagnating, and occasionally defuse tension. Agree about Lenny Henry (sir? seriously?) 100%. He was a mildly entertaining schoolboy novelty when he won New Faces, impersonating soft targets like Frank Spencer and Stevie Wonder, and has been going downhill ever since.
@Qwfwq66Merton told of honing his act while working at his desk as a civil servant. Speaks volumes about Merton & lazy, waste of space & taxpayers £, civil servants. 'Sir' Lenny Henry? Friend of BBC/Establishment but then so was SIR Jimmy Savile.
Love Peter so much. Please play one where Peter & Ian go round to Mirror offices whilst you know who is in States with case of Scotch so are welcomed in. They go into his office & ring him up. It is so funny.
Interestingly at 2m25s there is a story of an ex-pat arrest in Saudi, given a sentence of 100 lashes with a cane. Hislop says 'The Foreign Office intervened…" and Peter Cook quips "so they gave him 200 lashes". Rather prophetic in the current 2017 reign of Boris Johnson....
Did a little digging out of curiousity - I think the 'Dr David Kelly' mentioned here was a different one - he was/is(?) an expert in pheromones from the University of Cardiff
I wonder if the NHS would have recovered him. Poor bugger. By all accounts a lovely chap, much missed and generally irreplaceable. I hope this vid remains up and working for my children to find one day.
That was a lot better than these days. Better guests and more ruthless humour. Plus can you see how back then, these were not 'establishment' figures. Also of note is the attitude towards the royal family.
Kendra Fitzpatrick SHHHH!!!! We're supposed to remain completely anonymous! That's why we say "I was sent here by a man who......" Rather than "I was sent here by [INSERT TH-camR NAME]"
Wow. Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Now there's a bit of history.
Despite the guest hosts since being occasionally very good, I found Angus excellent, and miss his style.
Thanks for sharing this.
RIP to all from that show who died......Peter Cook, Douglas Adams and Angus Deayton's career.
EoinFC don't fotget Dr David Kelly!
Both guests now long gone, as well as Diana, mentioned as 'future Queen of England' in the first clip. What a difference twenty years can make.
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams on the same show! That is like booking Socrates and Plato!
I'd forgotten just how good the calibre of guests could get on this show. Also a very ill fitting jacket for Angus
I know!
the Russell Brand and James Corden of their day
Andrew Bevan I'm guessing/hoping you're joking!
That's how we wore them back then.
Cook and Adams, though. Last one of these I saw I didn't even know who the guests were - despite the unrecognised host quoting their names.
Cook and Adams, two wonderful people that I wish had lived longer.
Not much contribution from either tho, was there? I really admire both of them, but they were unusually silent here.
I dedicate this video to my good mate Scott Donohue from Fleet Hampshire.. I remember watching this with you you loved Cooks humour. I remember sitting in your brothers bedroom in the early 90s watching this..
RIP Scott. I wish you were still with us..
I forgot how awesome this series has always been. 2 legends along with angus and paul and ian... Thank you for uploading this :)
4.10 " Diana has been invited on a boxing day shooting party by the Royal Family- She is being given a half hour start ..." oooooer
thanks for the upload. two of britains greatest comic talents of all time. a treat
Good Lord, Cook and Adams on one show!? I didn't know either of them where on. This is indeed a rare treat, thank you so much for the upload.
Wow Paul really didn't like Angus did he :D
christ, Angus mentions all of The Hitchhikers Guide merch except for the towels! how could you forget the towels?!!!
I was going to 'like' this comment, but then I saw how many there were...
@@donroberts2126 Dammit, someone went over the sacred number! How ignorant.
He's clearly not a Hoopy Frood
Awesome upload of 3 greats shortly before they passed. Peter Cook, Douglas Adams and Ian Hislop's hair.
hair today, gone tomorrow
Magical - a "Hubble telescope" into the past - to a time before we knew of the unfolding events - the sad demise of Mr Cook and Mr Adams; the shaming of Mr Deayton - and the eternal (if greying) brilliance of Mr Hislop and Mr Merton (long may they thrive). Thank you for this wonderful upload
It was a shame Angus messed up and had to go, there's been some great guest hosts since but some of them (John Prescott anyone?) made for a train wreck of an episode. With Angus he didn't just host, he ripped into dodgy politicians with conviction. With him gone it's left to Hislop (and the occasional guest) to take them to task.
And curiously the demise of Dr. Kelly, too. Who was also mentioned in the video.
mistacoz I lost interest when Angus left.
And the death of Diana.
Angus did a bit of charlie and lost his job - entirely unfair given half his guests would have enjoyed a line or two. Besides, I think Jimmy Savile was still on the payrole in '92 and the beeb never did anything about him.
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams.......where did all our heroes goes. Possibly the grave but can we get some more?
No, we're not allowed to laugh at what we like any more.
HIGNFY is such an institution , you just don't realise how long this show has been on air and yet every episode is as fresh and entertaining as the last ...long may this show continue to grace our screens it's a true Gem of british television .
Cook AND Adams. What a combo!
This is an excellent episode. Is it my imagination or was this show much better in the 90's?
It was better with Angus, full stop.
@@scottishwildcat Just my opinion, but I like the program better without Angus as he’s far too twitchy and not that funny. He’s constantly shifting about and it’s distracting. Makes me wonder exactly how long he was using drugs?
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that Peter Cook may have been Ian Hislop's boss at the time.
Ian worked for Private Eye, which was partly funded by Peter Cook.
(In case you were wondering why Hislop was unusually polite to his co-panellist)
Oh my goodness. I would have been 13 when this was broadcast. So sad to think that both guests have been dead for so long. Big fan of both of them.
MIchaelKingsfordGray OMG you're trying to lecture someone for having a username but you can't even do simple math?!?! Dude, 1992 was TWENTY-SIX years ago, meaning they're 38 - 39 (depending if they've already had their birthday this year or not)! Go take several seats and sit your ass down.
"Late-ex Nun" RIP, you glorious beacon of hilarity.
+Gal Dagon Yes, that was a good one!
Are you talking about Angus D?
a beacon of reality
God I’d forgotten all about Angus Deaton! Thanks for uploading.
It's bizzare thinking this was filmed 2 years before I even existed, yet I can still get the jokes.
You half existed, the egg you gestated from existed in your mother.
Fedaykin24
Allegedly.............
*****
That was an in-joke that peole who watch this show would have got.
Thanks for the comedy biology lesson though!
did you get the reality ?
Two greats. Pete and doug. Rip lads.
Glad to see Peter Cook again! Thanks for sharing!
great quality for such an old video as well
What a line up. Peter Cook and Douglas Adams! These days the show often has nobodies as guests.
Probably the most stacked panel the show has ever had.
Ahhh when auntie was good. Thanks for uploading.
Douglasa Adams was great and very much missed
Angus is a legend, wish he was back.
Proof that Angus Deaton is till the best presenter of this show.
In case you're wondering, it's a different Dr David Kelly...but he's also dead now...
+Cruitheach I was wondering ,I did a search and indeed the famous Kelly murdered by Blair cropped up
+Cruitheach
Yes, and just as I was posting the question, some bright spark must already have answered it after all this time, thought I. Thought I right: I thank you.
ludocrat My pleasure :))
Cruitheach I was wondering...
Man, Deayton was so good, in this and later in WILTY. And the BBC fires him once for having an affair and possibly a coke habit (didn't know those were frowned upon in showbiz), and then again for... making fun of Savile.
Thank you, I didn't know he once hosted WILTY. I bet he was brilliant.
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WILTY stands for "Would I Lie To You?"After Deayton's exposure in the tabloid media because of his sex and drugs scandal, Ian Hislop was furious with Deayton, because he thought that the whole HIGNY show would be cancelled by the BBC... It wasn't, but they haven't spoken since.........
Ah yes, from a time when HIGNFY was funny and the BBC's sphincter hadn't tightened up about censoring everything remotely spicy, controversial or challenging, which is the whole bloody point of satire
I didn’t realise how old this show was!! It’s been playing away in the background my whole life nearly. Sometimes il stop to watch but if I had to guess I’d have went 1999/2000
Ian Hislop and Peter Cook together. Two men who pretend to be against the establishment but craved to be a part of it.
Alan Hartley true. The mark of a good old fashioned satirist
Wow, good work HIGNFY, getting legends like Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Compare that to the current crop of "celebrity" guests, nobodies like Louise Mensch and Big Brother contestants. A visual depiction of the decline of the BBC.
What Big Brother contestants have been on HIGNFY?
Jimmy Savile
poolworld1 Jimmy Savile was never a contestant, he was just a very temporary house guest. He never stayed overnight, thank goodness.
poolworld1 Jackie Mason
If you look at other guests from that series, most of them could or have appeared in the last few years on the show ... Jo Brand, Frank Skinner, Danny Baker, Rory Bremner, Sandi Toksvig, David Baddiel etc. Seen as a whole, it's more a visual depiction of the stasis of the BBC.
Diana should've kept the bike for her Paris trip.
Grazikon or got George Best to drive - at least he could take corners when pissed.
@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 *doffs cap* well played sir
This programme was so much better with Angus.
He was an immaculate presenter with a great sense of humour!
yep! I stopped watching it after he went :-(
Surely depends on whos presenting..Boris Johnson and Brian Blessed do a good job in the banta!
Great guests, and wasn't Angus an amazing host? He really held the show together. He plays the serious, straight man so well, it amplifies the humour but also caters to serious political discussion when it's appropriate.
Went downhill after Angus left.
It's too obvious and gameshowy now
I wouldn't say entirely downhill then - it was now when they just recycle the same hosts and fill the guest spots with no name MPs
Fully agree
It was good for a very long time, but having no set host meant they had to recycle a lot of people and it did get slightly stale
Fun Fact: Angus Deayton was the next door neighbour of Douglas Adams.
Utterly irrelevant point. Bet ye didn't know that Irish band "The Fureys" and Davy Arthur and Billy Connolly and Barbara Dickson all lived in the same house in Edinburgh.
@@MisterPeterColeman - at the same time?
Oh, to have seen Peter Cook on the same show as Peter Hitchens.
To have seen Christopher Hitchens on this show even once!
cbak12sg Peter Hit hens has always been a self-important loony.
2 greats sadly missed here.
So much better in 1992 than it is today in 2018 Well since Angus Deayton was relieved
I didn't think it would last 2 series without Angus. But it limps on, with more 'guest host' episodes than we ever had with Angus in the chair.
Fantastic i had been looking for sum older shows :) thanxs
I did try to upload the following week's show with Stephen Fry and Frank Skinner, but it was immediately blocked worldwide by the rights owner so I had to delete it. Not sure why they blocked that show and not the hundreds of other HIGNFY shows on TH-cam, especially as they are earning money from the ads on this one.
yer for sure and that's a shame would have loved to have seen that one :/
Interesting to see the needle between Deayton and Merton - they always hated each other.
Lulu Saintly I don't blame Deayton. Merton was the fly in the ointment for me!
Merton actually holds the programme together. I went to a recording not long ago. Every time the action flagged, which was often, Merton piped up and energised them. If he left, they'd need double the recording time and twice as many gifted editors.
@Qwfwq66
Yes @ Merton but sometimes his rants do stop the programme stagnating, and occasionally defuse tension.
Agree about Lenny Henry (sir? seriously?) 100%. He was a mildly entertaining schoolboy novelty when he won New Faces, impersonating soft targets like Frank Spencer and Stevie Wonder, and has been going downhill ever since.
@Qwfwq66Merton told of honing his act while working at his desk as a civil servant.
Speaks volumes about Merton & lazy, waste of space & taxpayers £, civil servants.
'Sir' Lenny Henry?
Friend of BBC/Establishment but then
so was SIR Jimmy Savile.
Peter Cook's JFK joke was beyond great.
I was expecting more from this, considering Peter Cook and Douglas Adams were on it. Cook, in particular, seemed quiet.
love the old production pan outs with the Audience in shot, sooo Bullseye!
Epic show, ESPECIAlly with these leg-ends, COOK and Adams....
Love Peter so much. Please play one where Peter & Ian go round to Mirror offices whilst you know who is in States with case of Scotch so are welcomed in. They go into his office & ring him up. It is so funny.
truly wonderful - thanks
Presumably the Michael Winner underwear jokes in this are the ones he tried to sue the show for
Holy shit, Douglas Adams! There's a pleasant rarity.
How have I not seen this before!!!!!!
Douglas Adams!??! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE"RE NOT WORTHY!
Interestingly at 2m25s there is a story of an ex-pat arrest in Saudi, given a sentence of 100 lashes with a cane. Hislop says 'The Foreign Office intervened…" and Peter Cook quips "so they gave him 200 lashes". Rather prophetic in the current 2017 reign of Boris Johnson....
How did you know about Nazneen Ratcliff and Boris a year ago? I'm impressed :-)
Christ they look so young.
Did a little digging out of curiousity - I think the 'Dr David Kelly' mentioned here was a different one - he was/is(?) an expert in pheromones from the University of Cardiff
Tragic boffin.
Current affairs indeed Dan...
By the time you read this, Nerd3 will have died :(
Where you send here by a man who erupted from a spawning vulcano as well?
Wow, how the world has changed.
It hasn't (except for Russia).
Sterlingboard pinned with dowel. Is what those panel fronts are made of. You're welcome.
Holy moley - can it be possible that show was on the go in 1992 ?? I was only 21 - Im 47 now.
A very subdued and polite Peter Cook. The presenter dominates leaving the others rather bored...I'm glad he went
"That was Stars for Thatcher. No wonder we didn't recognize any of them."
Sort of like the Trump inauguration.
I wonder if the NHS would have recovered him. Poor bugger. By all accounts a lovely chap, much missed and generally irreplaceable. I hope this vid remains up and working for my children to find one day.
Great quality in every way!
the days when HIGNFY was good...
This is good?????
whoah this used to be on BBC 2?!
terrific blast from the past
That was a lot better than these days. Better guests and more ruthless humour. Plus can you see how back then, these were not 'establishment' figures. Also of note is the attitude towards the royal family.
My gosh, they look so young!
Excellent quality considering the age of the source!
god watching this makes me feel old.
I hate to be the bringer of bad news ... but, God watches everything.
Angus Deyton's initial joke about Douglas Adams doesn't really work when you consider that he wrote the radio series before the books.
I think that was the actual joke
Wow 1992. Ian and Paul ahve been doing this for a long time.
The show was more than 3 years old at this point. They were on HIGNFY from the start in 1989.
R33Racer
Even though the news is dated, the show is still entertaining. That's a fun show.
Peter Cook and Douglas Adams are Godz
Back when it was funny.
Wow Douglas Adams and Peter Cook
Douglas Adams wins for "...the late ex-nun..."
It's not that often you hear anteprepenultimate used in a sentence these days.
I watched half an episode of the Simpsons and I'm still alive
Douglas Adams and Peter Cook? OMFG!!!
Thanks.
i was sent here by a man who spawned volcano's
aka Nerd³ 101 - Populous: The Beginning
The desk is made from OSB plywood and bamboo sticks! Such innocent times.
Why did Ian Hislop look and sound the same in his early thirties as he does in his mid-fifties?
An all male line-up on HIGNFY? I forgot they used to be allowed. What a time to be alive.
Why ? You got a problem with women on the show ? Even if they are funny and can give and take it back ?
"future queen of England" whoops!
not whoops, it is called sarchasm, the joke about a royal hunting party sent after Diana sure seems prophetic
Then Maxwell is on verge of suing Private Eye when he disappeared, Ian Hislop was so crowing over it
Forgotten just how long the show had been running!
a man who wants to be a god immedently rather than earn his godship and dosn't undertand the screaming sent me here!
He is a god through cheating. And volcanos.
and screaming dont forget the screaming
And angel of deaths
We Procrastinators take over the comment section where ever Dan sends us, don't we?
Kendra Fitzpatrick SHHHH!!!! We're supposed to remain completely anonymous! That's why we say "I was sent here by a man who......" Rather than "I was sent here by [INSERT TH-camR NAME]"
I was 5 when this aired.
Wow really?
2 of my most favourite humans, both gone far too early
''History Repeats Itself''.!! ( - ;
very impressive if you listen carefullly...
Amazing how many people mentioned/featured in this programme are now dead.
9.43 Wonder if Peter was thinking of the Derek & Clive sketch about the cab driver . get out tha cab!