A Have I Got News For You joke from this week's show, read by Gary Lineker, set Paul chuckling, Ian twisting his head and the studio audience howling with laughter:
Britain's ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, has announced that a Brexit deal could take 10 years. That's not fair. Most of the people who voted for it will be dead by then.
Leave.EU weren't impressed though:
Is this what the BBC has come to? Anti-Brexit propaganda programmes and mocking the elderly? Disgraceful, @GaryLineker. pic.twitter.com/CQFdxjYI3Q— LEAVE.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) December 17, 2016