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Ian Hislop [1960-0] Welsh

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Editor, Journalist

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 is a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You.

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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.		101
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.		102
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.	Funny	103
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.	Legal	104
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.	Amazing	105
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.		106
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.		107
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.		108
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.		109
The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.		110
You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'		111
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.		112
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.		113
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.		114
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.		115
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.		116
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.		117
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.		118

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