How to offend everyone, with Ian Hislop
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 20. 04. 2023
- "Your constant criticism of Brexit, Tories, GB News, traditional marriage has led me to cancel my subscription."
Is there any humour left in politics?
Ian Hislop reveals the secret to poking fun at public figures - and why it means cancellations of Private Eye subscriptions are soaring.
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Owned by Rupert Murdoch. Pro Brexit. Pro Boris. Credibility rating?
Higher or lower than Fox News?
The times is a tory mouthpiece
no thanks. blowing a Tory not the best way to view the world..
@@stuartmacpherson7948 The Times is a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece, which is even worse đ
Yeah give The Murduch "News" Empire more money, stick even more nails into the coffin of British democracy, great idea.
Private Eye is the only paper that is actually investigating ALL parties, corporations and local government without fear or favour. They put the rest of the media to shame - and they are funny.
Spot on-the real reason why nothing ever changes is that a bigoted intolerant left will only spot the crime if a Tory does it and go into denial and spout conspiracy theories when "their lot" do EXACTLY the same, and a bigoted intolerant right will likewise only spot it if Labour do it and utter EXACTLY the same conspiracy theories and denials as the left. Dump being blinded by silly coloured rosettes and damn the lot-THEN something will change.
No. Theyâre a leftist outfit for those arrogant types who believe theyâre above politics.
Certainly put the "paper of Murdochs record" The Times to shame
No they're part of the establishment now.
knobface
A new way to troll my politically inept mates, buy them a Private Eye subscription after they have cancelled.
Cheers Ian you're a Genius.
Come on, you donât have any mates.
â@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I don't think he is a member of the Conservatives or Reform, so he probably does have friends.
@@jeffsuter344 awww, comrade to the rescue !
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knobface
As an American, I learned about Private Eye and Ian from an interview with John Stewart. Now Iâm a big fan!
Excellent conversation! Most are unaware of how scripted, and therefore predictable, the right wing echo chamber is around the globe. Populism thrives on people not taking an interest in other countries .. a.k.a. "the poorly educated." Jon and Ian should have a monthly televised chat.
When I lived in Florida I still kept my subscription to Private Eye active and albeit they would arrive an issue late I would always take it into my work (Tallahassee Memorial Hospital) and after I read it I would lend it to a co-worker who was a die-hard Republican. He would laugh at the jokes and say hmm interesting about articles from "In the Back" but whenever a story about Republicans or a joke about Trump would appear then his mood swiftly changed and the magazine would be swiftly (and politely but the feeling of anger was still there) put it down and went back to his youtube videos of guns and what Trump was saying that day.
@@Sou1defiler sounds about right
that was a cracking interview!
As an American...As an Eskimo...As a spotty-backed hippopotamus...
That was a joy. Private Eye is, thankfully, our greatest defence against politics!
Let's stop digital money. Let's keep cash. Big State doesn't need to know what you spend your cash on. Keep your freedom. Write to your MP. Say no to digital money.
What defence? The UKâs politics is a disaster. I guess if you can afford PE, youâre above the cost of living impacts. Certainly makes it easier to laugh.
More! More! Ian and Private Eye are great, if we can't laugh at ourselves, what hope is there.
If we can't laugh at other people, what hope is there? đ
I had to let my Eye subscription expire not because their coverage was making me angry, but because what they were covering was. The incompetence and corruption they expose is maddening, so for my own sanity I had to stop reading. I don't know how Ian does it.
Wake me up when it's time to vote.
Just be grateful that you live in the UK. I have Portuguese friends and from what they tell me about politics over there, we live in corruption-free utopia in comparison.
Worst part is, they don't have an equivalent to Private Eye, let alone Ian Hislop, to help expose it.
@@bipolarminddroppings How does he know it goes on then? What are the conventional newspapers and radio stations like?
@@simonpitt8145 Because the corrupt are sufficiently brazen to display their corruption in public. A friend of mine who did some high-powered consulting in Lisbon with Portuguese banks and politicians tells some hair-raising tales of the corruption he saw.
Yep. I used to watch a podcast every day but I got fed up with learning about virtue signalling loonies in the public sector wasting our tax money, the BBC and their bigoted hiring policies, nonces in schools, gender and race grifters, and the media outright lying about everything, so I had to stop watching. It's too depressing.
I agree. The sheer blatant corruption exposed in political and social coverage is enough to make anybody weep.
A case in point is the Post Office subpostmaster fiasco where two big companies KNOWINGLY completely ruined the lives of hundreds of people and got many people sent to jail because they were worried about their bottom line and reputations. Private eye covered the topic for years and it took over twenty years for any sort of justice to be achieved, and it's still nowhere near finished. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
"Deep fried banana republic" as a Scot (in England) and one who has quite a leaning towards independence, I find that phrase extraordinarily funny.
I mean....I get why it didn't land well - just the implication that we eat fruit...
@lindoriel7286 đđđ
â@lindoriel7286 how dare you! I always get pineapple on my deep fried pizza!
Independence for England,keep your corrupt SNP not that we are much better đ€Ł
"The further left, the more thin-skinned"
I agree but I think that's true of the right too - the more extreme and ideologically-driven people are, the more likely they are to get upset when their beliefs are challenged. Just look at Brexiteers saying that getting called 'gammons' was comparable to racism. Meanwhile, most of us in the centre continue to read Private Eye and laugh at the ineptitude of our political class.
I would describe myself as left, still have my subscription! That said I can understand why people 'on the left' would take exception to Matt Chorley or Rupert Murdoch's times newspaper being critical of Jeremy Corbyn could be legitimate given the seeming universally similar coverage (in terms of talking points). Complaining about the same in private eye is likely overreacting!
Whatever happened to the middle?
Honestly, Its mostly not about being thin-skinned per se but instead about whether one is nuanced enough to punch up rather than down or mechanically set to punching everyone including starving kids in Africa.
I think he did say the right are thin skinned before mentioning the left.
I've read that very letter on Sanders, Hislop cannot in good faith equate the 'hard left' with the reactionary right. He undercuts a lot of what Private Eye stands for and writes when his magazine pours scorn on Sanders and co. I can certainly take a joke but the dismissal of Corbyn, Sanders etc is 'balance' designed to help sales and undermines their message.
"Do they cancel their subscription?"
"They tend to wait one issue to see if their letter's in."
Ian is speaking truth to power we need many more like Ian.
Ian represents the power, no?
@@barkebaat No - he is in another part of the playground.
@@barkebaat No. definitely not.
Ian comes from the poshest part of British society
@@oldschoolcockneylover8138 It's what you say and how you say it that matters - not who your parents were.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ian and his predecessor Richard Ingrams at a radio recording many years ago and they gracioussy signed the cover of a vintage Eye for me. It still has pride of place in our hall 30 years on. Just listening to Ian extole the virtues of making anally retentive people of all persuasions 'cross' brightens my day.
Your mom "gracioussy" signed my anally cross. It hangs my hallway too.
Our Ian is too much of an intellectual challenge for your average Brit, that's why we invented nick ferrari.
Ferrari? Sounds like a foreign name.
@@heycidskyja4668 I think I preferred you when you were just plain old sidssnotear. đ€Ł
Thank you for that, it's made my day đ
His continual arrogance and condecention towards anyone who wished their country to have their sovereignty returned was nauseating. He's an opinionated little traitor who'd sell his county to the EUSSR, in a heartbeat. He's become irrelevant.
And what about the average non brits ? Or are they far more intelligent than the average Brit?
Hislop is the king of satire. A smart operator and very funny
Love Private Eye. Ian Hislop is admirable.
I don't agree with everything Ian Hislop says. That doesn't affect my profound admiration for him. It's a condition known as being a rational adult.
Starting reading Private Eye as a 17 year old in 1977 Iâve had blips along the way, but itâs always been on the money with its characterisations of wastrels
I believe that publications like Private Eye are VERY important for the maintenance of democracy and also, it's VERY funny. This video finally made me get round to subscribing. By doing so I think I'm doing a tiny bit to support democracy and getting a good lough too.
Ian is a national treasure.
Hampstead socialist.
Ian is a bitter loser, he wanted to stay in Europe and has a go at anyone that has a differing opinion, HIGNFY used to be very funny and Paul can still be very witty but Ian has gone to sarcasm and he comes across as a child at times
I love that those Cancellation letters are like Christmas morning for Ian Hislop. Heâs like an imp from a fantasy novel, or a medieval court jester - irrepressible .
It's never hard to offend people who rise from their beds each day determined to be offended about something.
I'm with Stephen Fry - "You're offended? So the f**k what?!"
I'm with you and the inimitable Stephen Fry on this!!!!
Quote by Thomas Paine: âHe who dares not offend cannot be honest.â
With intersectionality and brexit itâs hard for the left not to be offended.
@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I thought many on the left wanted Brexit like 'No2EU'...
@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I think you mean the right?
I just subscribed to Private Eye from Canada! I'll get my issues three weeks after they're printed and I couldn't be happier! đ
Ian has never failed to make me chuckle.
Absolute legend!
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@@snowyowel7961 Bet you a tenner he can spell Owl.
@@oteimoto85 I should hope so it's owl However you are referring to OWEL which is the name of a group in new Jersey who my neice knows so I gave it a twist. Check it out.
@@oteimoto85 Of course I know how to spell owl however Owel is a group in new Jersey who my neice and I know so I put Owel has a twist OWEL.
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SUUUUUURRREEEEE!!!
Hurray for Ian HIslop. He's a brilliant educator with a great sense of humour - and his knowledge of football can't be equalled!!!!
GB News, a fantastic target. Like local radio on drugs.
Ian is a genuine national treasure.
Ian gives me hope. His humour makes me believe that all will be settled in the end.
I easily offend everyone every day. No problem đ
Pull my finger!
I had a lady call at my door promoting the Tory Party - in fact actually lecturing me in the most patronising way.
I need to say this is a Tory area where their support is almost entirely down to forelock pulling. Most of my neighbours 'know their place.'
I told her I'd cut off my hand before I ever voted Tory. (I didn't bother to mention that - these days - that also includes the Labour Party.)
So she could take both her superiority and her disgusting policies to the other side of my garden gate!
She protested she'd never been so insulted.
I replied that - with her face - she surely MUST have been...
@@jackywhite880 No need to be nasty or personal. You could have said that - with her policies - she must have been.
@@jackywhite880 then know your place and vote tory
Your mom offends me. Every day.
A nice reminder that itâs my duty to buy Private Eye at least once in a while, just to make sure everyone on every side is getting a stick poked at them. Similar reason why I donât buy the Times funnily enough.
Private Eye is brilliant! Been a fan for decades.
As a good friend once advised vicariously: Life occasionally reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously.
I love it when someone corrects me ! It's not often , as I'm getting on a bit now and even at school I was known as a know it all. But please correct me as I want to learn. Sticking your fingers in your ear lugs and going "blah blah blah I can't hear you" is going to get you nowhere
As you get older, you may even find yourself able to laugh at your foibles.
"Brexiteers can't take a joke" - Come on. That's not true. Any group which has Nigel Farage as its leader has to be, by definition, able to take a joke!
I am surprised that anyone who watches GB News would also read Private Eye.
I'm surprised anyone who watches GB News can read.
@@Slaeowulf Maybe they just look at the pictures?
Why not - what news would you suggest - the BBC!?!
Message to Ian - I'm a regular reader of Private Eye - every fortnight I shove a copy between the covers of the Saturday Daily Mail?!?
@@paulbird1808 Clearly you like fairy stories so maybe the Disney Channel would be appropriate?
Russel Howard attacked the Tories...cancelled
The Mash Report attacked the Tories...cancelled
Mock the Week attacked the Tories...cancelled
Watch your back HIGNFY
You forgot, C4 and BBC, who didn't show enough respect to the Tories, and were threatened with privatisation.
HIGNFY will probably (like Lineker) be saved by its' viewing figures.
I heard the joke about Ed Davey being on the cover and I'm shocked! Appalled, disgusted, I will cancel my sub... no, I won't. People should learn to take a joke as well as hand them out, whether it's laughing at the ones they find funny or turning a blind eye to ones they don't. After all, Private Eye is one of the few bits of media to report fearlessly and honestly - and if there weren't evidence they wouldn't write the articles.
possibly the only
Ian Hislop is so straight forward and honest. Doesn't matter who they are, they can all be lampooned.
When someone DECLARES they're quitting your blog it's because your message hit home and they are clutching their pearls because they have nothing else to hang on to!
Itâs so true. Itâs always the ones who call anyone else a snowflake that are the most offended if you call their side a name of poke fun at it like Trump and Brexit. So so true. The most overly emotional people that think their way is the only waay!
Oh don't be so silly. Most people on that side of the fence are so used to it as mainstream media is full of it day in day out that it's water off a Duck's back. They don't have the added 'protected characteristics' to hide behind neither.
My way _is_ the only way, so you'd better get used to it!
Alas, though: my wife's ways are more only, so I never get to do my way. đą
Your constant criticism of Brexit, and Gb news means I will now subscribe to Private Eye
Private Eye keeps me sane. Long may it continue.
I'm what you would call a traditional Liberal, therefore I generally vote Labour, but I have voted LibDem and Tory in the past too, so I find the jokes hilarious, no matter who they are aimed at, because I have no dog in the fight.
If its funny, it's funny, even if the joke is occasionally aimed at me.
"I'm what you would call a traditional liberal, therefore I generally vote labour"
Not, you know, liberal? The liberal party? The liberals?
Most socialist leaning folk vote labour.
I am honestly surprised that UKIP members and GB news viewers subscribe to Private Eye in the first place.
Love PE and Ian Hislop. Great 8nterview. Think I need to send letter saying I'm angry about having nothing to be angry about in PE! đ
Ian, yet again brings common sense to the party. I donât care who is offended - thats their problem.
Your mom is their problem.
@@HumanityisEmbarrassing You might want to expand on that.
I mean, I could, but it would seem rude to expand on your mom without asking....
I'm surprised those folk would have subscribed to the Eye in the first place.
That was my thought too.
I love the eye most honest investigative newspaper in the uk
Cheers ian
As a LibDem, I can confirm we a re just pleased to be name checked every 6 months or so.
Ian Hislop is a natonal treasure. He takes the pi!! out of them all. He upsets the right people.
I see Ian Hislop. I click.
Snap!
What........another channel ? đđđ
I see your mom, I don't click....đź
For those claiming to cancel Private Eye: "oh dear, how sad, never mind...".
John Cleese was a Lib Dem? Before he lost it đ
Brexiteers can't take a joke
That's because they are the joke.
Well why are remoaners called remoaners? Brexit has delivered inflation busting wage increases for me and got me out of the temporary accommodation B and B scene (4 years hard time!) and into the private rental scene! I also drive now too despite being told how thick I was to vote leave and how much poorer I would be! All lies but you knowâŠ.. the Bus etc etcđ
One's position on the left or right is an indication of one's madness, so; the more extreme a person goes the more off their bleedin' top they are.
Correct, and backed up by research data. There is more mental illness prevalent at the extreme positions, and also more on the left than on the right.
A wit, funny, a true intellectual but also a smug, self-satisfied, on message leftie. Yes, I still read Private Eye.
People these days simply don't understand satire. It's too bad, they're missing out on so many healthy laughs!
but you do....your better than us...we dont get it....satire.....get it
These days.
@@james6901 - Is using âyourâ instead of youâre, satireâŠâŠâŠâŠ.if so, Iâm sorry but I donât âget itâ either.
@@alangray263 No you do get it, you just want to feel superior.
I find it ironic that people no longer understand satire.
It's so un-British not to laugh at yourself. It's strange that the more ideological people become, the less sense of humour they seem to have and the less British they seem to be. True Brits are the last ones to say anything explicit about their identity as they realise it's a bit too shifting and complex to pin down in words.
Just subscribed for another year! Too good to miss. đ
My brother bought me a year's subscription for my birthday back in the 1980s, and I have renewed it every year since, even when I was so hard up it was sometimes a stretch. It's invaluable.
Have a dig at politicians or Royalty that are corrupt, lying or inept.
They're all fair game.
In Private Eye, they do exactly that. Always have.
Your constant jibes about brexiteers, the SNP and GB news has caused me to subscribe
The front cover âthe Ed Davey Legacy in Fullâ would be a slightly blanker cover than the one with the Theresa May legacy set out in full
My question is, "what are GB News viewers doing subscribing to Private Eye in the first place?" Maybe they'd not read it before subscribing and have money to spend frivolously.
I made a comment on the Alba website. It was referring to a supporter being incensed that anyone who questioned their policies should be allowed to make a comment. I got the impression they didnât understand the internet. They get quite upset when anyone dares to suggest their leader worked for the Russians! He did! No sense of humour.
Mr Hislop's rag is absolutely outrageous & disgraceful! and fabulously funny - I hope he continues for many years to come!
Ian Hislop a wickedly funny man whose wit nobody is safe from.
When I told them I was going to be Tory politician they all laughed, theyâre not laughing now.
Channelling your inner Bob Monkhouse, me thinks.đ
@@geoffreypettitt9378 Yep. A classic line from Bob!
@@geoffreypettitt9378 yep
Your mom is laughing now, however
We in Scotland do love Private Eye, but Nicola has been subjected to DAILY abuse from Daily Mail, Express, Record etc. SNP are hanging in there and we will eventually be an INDEPENDENT country. We hate tory government and also labour so england needs a better party
I could listen to Ian for hours.
Said your mom
So it boils down to this? , the moment people start believing in personalities rather than ethical policies we're done for .....
@jabberwockytdi8901 it's one of the three leadership types - the charismatic (personality cult), the traditional (inherited power) and rational-legal (bureaucratic parliamentarianism). They come and go. The policies - and more to the point, morality - are another dimension.
Charismatic leadership is usually followed until it has a failure, when the person gets dumped by disappointed followers: these days are marked by people not dumping the charismatic leader and refusing to admit failure. We might be done for...
The boy is a national treasure!
the SNP jokes had me in stitches. lol
Your mom has me in stitches
In a bad way
As a long time reader of PE, but having never subbed, I often consider subscribing, in order to be able to write a letter telling them I'm unsubscribing.
ha ha you can write that anyway! I just buy from the shop - its good to support that too
Brilliant, I watched this and immediately subscribed to the magazine!
Good for you! Welcome to the club.
Rupert Murdoch really - really does not like Private Eye.
What makes Murdoch so angry is that he knows he can't touch 'Private Eye' . Two other people who famously hated the Eye were Robert Maxwell and Tiny Rowland.
I've wondered for many years why people buy the Eye if they're going to be offended - or, for that matter, support anything or anybody that the Eye can get a hook into on a regular basis.
I thought GB news only had 2 viewers both have cancelled their subscription have they đ
When I worked in theatre there was a joke about playing to a really bad house which was "There were only two old age pensioners and a man in a wheelchair in the audience. And the man in the wheelchair walked out"
It's a bit like that for GB News.
He's obviously doing something right
I think it's the other way round... the re moaners can't take it .
I have just cancelled my subscription to the Eye for the 94th time đ
This makes me wonder if people take out a Private Eye subscription just so they can cancel it. đ
Hislop is a legend.
More of a bell end ! đđđ
So was Michael Foot - literally! đ
Scappare, Italian for run, escape, flee.
If they only direct it at political opposites then it's hardly a joke.
I respect Ian enormously. Every political view and agenda is fair game, so he pokes fun at them all.
Do I agree with everything he says or that every joke is funny? No. But do I agree he should have the freedom to say whatever he wishes to say? Absolutely.
Iâm a Reformist and I for one will stick up for PE. Certainly over all the other media toilet paper.
Love Ian. Proper person. đ
Well, if the British people was delivered Brexit, instead of being off in and off out then form wouldnât come back
This episode was quality, few average ones recently but this had me laughing
After many years of umming and erring I've decided to take out a subscription.
Bought PE for years and Ian transformed it. Never subsribed but always bought and loyal. I don't agree with all of it but if I did me and them would be really boring people.
1'm getting pedantic now, my predictive text has gone up the spout. What is the purpose? I spend 15 minutes trying to amend what I've written. đ€
"People are always saying men should be more sensitive... well, if you want to make men more sensitive, give them power, right?"
Timothy Snyder
Ian Hislop didn't miss the opportunity to have 'British 3-Pin sockets' deliberately in clear view right behind him. Making the powerful political statement that he didn't want those garlic smelling inferior 2-Pin sockets found all over Europe. What a true Brexiteer!
'Private Eye' and 'Viz' - every time they pop through the letterbox, I tingle (to quote the late, great Peter Ustinov in Spartacus). Both excellent and mucho needed.
Had to laugh though as the picture shown of Hislop by Times Radio must be of him about 20 years ago !!!
My biggest problem with private eye is its so danm hard to read ! The typeface makes my eyes cross ! I still buy it but never completely read an issue cover to cover.
I subscribed a few weeks ago and Iove Private Eye.
i've got a collection of his private eye magazines, love em
Spot on Ian. They have wrecked the place on more ways in one. By the way Scotland has the lowest Unemployment it's history.
Let's keep cash. Don't accept digital money. Let's keep our freedom. === Let's keep cash ==== Private Eye magazine needs to talk about this.
''Deep-fried banana republic''
I'm stealing that
Im about to subscribe to private eye on the back of this video đ
The Bugle starts each week with one story "in the bin" So does GB news stand for Garbage Bin News?
Have to wonder why on earth they ever brought Private Eye in the first place??
No sense of humour, why purchase a satirical magazine???