HIGNFY S42E01 Jo Brand, Victoria Coren & Graham Linehan

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14 October 2011 From series 1 (1990) until series 10 (1995) the show was chaired by Angus Deayton, with team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton and a guest on each team. For series 11 (1996), Merton – aside from the first episode where he appeared as Hislop's guest – took a sabbatical, and so his team comprised two guests. Clive Anderson, Alan Davies and Eddie Izzard were all assigned 'guest captain' status in their appearances, although there were two episodes where Hislop's opponents were considered a 'double act' and neither was referred to as captain. The original line-up was restored for the following series, and remained that way until series 24 (2002). Following tabloid newspaper revelations about his private life, Angus Deayton was sacked after two shows of series 24. His spot has been taken since by many different guest hosts. Due to the suddenness of Deayton's dismissal, and with no time to book a seasoned replacement, Merton himself filled the position for the first programme after the departure (with Ross Noble filling the vacant captain's chair). For its first 19 years, the show was recorded on Thursdays and broadcast the following evening. For the two series in 2010, the show was moved back a day to Thursday (recorded on Wednesday), with the exception of the episode after the 2010 general election, but returned to the original setup the following year.[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 59th series was not recorded in a studio, but with the participants filmed from home and composited into a virtual set. Due to the extra editing time required, this series was also recorded on Wednesdays (although broadcast on Fridays).[2] The 60th series returned to a studio, but with a reduced capacity audience split across the studio, another room and a virtual audience watching over the Internet, and the panellists shielded from each other by perspex screens.