Have I Got News for You

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Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Regularly broadcast since 1990, it is loosely based on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz and has a topical and satirical remit. Have … more »



Paul Merton:
This is, somebody was planning to make - and have, I think, made - a jacket, a hundred hamsters have gone into this jacket, and animal rights protesters have said this is terrible, and Gieves & Hawkes [pronounced "Geeves"] I believe are the names of the tailors, Savile Row tailors.

David Steel:
"Gieves" [pron. "Jeeves"] , I think you'll find.

Paul Merton:
"Gieves"? Is it Gieves?

David Steel:
Could be. Sounds more likely, doesn't it?

Paul Merton:
Does it? How's it spelled?

Angus Deayton:
G-E-I. [sic]

Paul Merton:
Ah, that's the thing that threw me you see, I was following the letters.

Angus Deayton:
So Gieves & Hawkes, yes, that's right. And what have they been...

Paul Merton:
So "Gieves", how do you spell "Gieves"? G-I-E-V-E-S?

Angus Deayton:
Yeah.

Paul Merton:
Was there a special day at school where they wrote all these names on a blackboard, because I must have been off sick. So the tailors, they've made a "gacket"...

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