Even if you didn't watch it I bet you can already guess what tonight's Have I Got News For You was like.
Its guest presenter, panel and audience united in grief and bitter fury at the election of Donald Trump.
It was like last night's Question Time with fewer laughs.
Paul Merton pulled faces. Ian Hislop pulled faces. Maureen Lipman was aghast. Charlie Brooker sneered. And Rich Hall was so depressed he ritually disembowelled himself midway through one of Paul's Toblerone jokes.
Still, you'll doubtless be delighted to hear that The Donald wasn't the only political target for HIGNFY's (moaning) satire. For balance, they included several other targets:
Nigel Farage
The Daily Mail
UKIPers
Nigel Farage
Liz Truss
Jeremy Corbyn
Nigel Farage
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Prince Philip
...with closing bonus jokes about Trump, Putin and UKIP supporters.
How the studio audience laughed! 'Ha ha ha ha ha', they went (though not so much at the Jeremy Corbyn jokes).
P.S. The Twitter reaction consisted of (a) lots and lots of people complaining about HIGNFY having a Trump-hating, lefty bias, (b) the usual Corbynistas complaining that HIGNFY has an anti-Corbyn bias and, as a result, (c) quite a few people echoing the following sentiment:
No it doesn't. If anything, it shows that HIGNFY is betraying BBC impartiality by mocking from a consistent, soggy, centre-Left position against both the Right and the far-Left. (Why is this so hard a concept for some people to understand?)
That some doughty BBC defenders (who, when you click on their Twitter feeds, turn out to share identical/almost identical, soft-Left views) are claiming this episode of HIGNFY as evidence of 'BBC impartiality' tells its own story, and is much funnier that most of tonight's HIGNFY.
P.S. The Twitter reaction consisted of (a) lots and lots of people complaining about HIGNFY having a Trump-hating, lefty bias, (b) the usual Corbynistas complaining that HIGNFY has an anti-Corbyn bias and, as a result, (c) quite a few people echoing the following sentiment:
No it doesn't. If anything, it shows that HIGNFY is betraying BBC impartiality by mocking from a consistent, soggy, centre-Left position against both the Right and the far-Left. (Why is this so hard a concept for some people to understand?)
That some doughty BBC defenders (who, when you click on their Twitter feeds, turn out to share identical/almost identical, soft-Left views) are claiming this episode of HIGNFY as evidence of 'BBC impartiality' tells its own story, and is much funnier that most of tonight's HIGNFY.
