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Ian Hislop

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Born: July 13, 1960
From: Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, UK

Biography

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and has been a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You since the programme's inception in 1990.

Known for

Have I Got News for You

1990 Series 7.1

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Year unknown Series 7

Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World

2010 Series 8.3

Years and Years

2019 Series 7.5

The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You'

Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Filmography

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2025

What's the Monarchy For?

Acting (Self) 2 EP

2024

Have I Got News for You

Writing (Writer) 10 EP

A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary

Acting (Self)

2022

Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive

Acting (Self - Co-Writer, 'SPIKE')

Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story

Acting (Self) 1 EP

2021

Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World

Acting (Self - Presenter) 4 EP

2019

Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History

Acting (Presenter)

Years and Years

Acting (Ian Hislop) 1 EP

2018

Acting (Themselves - Guest) 1 EP

A House Through Time

Acting (Self) 1 EP

2017

Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row

Acting (Himself - Presenter)

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

Acting (Self) 1 EP

2016

The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)

Acting (Self)

2014

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Acting (Self)

Ian Hislop's Olden Days

Acting (Self - Presenter) 3 EP

2013

The Wipers Times

Writing (Writer)

2012

Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip

Acting (Self - Presenter) 3 EP

2011

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

Acting (Self - Presenter)

2010

Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders

Acting (Self - Presenter) 3 EP

Acting (Marcus Fielding) 26 EP

Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?

Acting (Self)

2009

Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard

Acting (Presenter)

2008

A Bunch of Amateurs

Writing (Writer)

Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails

Acting (Self - Presenter)

2007

Scouting for Boys

Acting (Himself (Presenter))

2006

The One Show

Acting (Self - Guest) 1 EPActing (Self) 1 EP

Best Ever Spitting Image

Acting (Self)

2005

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2

Acting (Self (archive footage))

Not Forgotten

Acting 7 EP

2004

Who Do You Think You Are?

Acting (Self) 1 EP

Acting (Self - Guest) 2 EP

2003

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters