Ian Hislop Quotes

• In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

  Ian Hislop

  People, Daily Mail, Bears

  "Have I Got News for You". Comedy, Game-Show, October 11, 2013.

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• The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

  Ian Hislop

  Strong, Comedy, Weak

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• Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

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  Pride, Proud, Modesty

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• All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

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  Feet, Lawyer, Given

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• He visto la película de Pokémon, que es probablemente la peor película jamás hecha sobre cualquier tema.

  Ian Hislop

  Pokemon, Made, Worst

  "Have I Got News for You". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• 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?'

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  Thinking, Rest Of Your Life, Problem

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• I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

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  People, Stories, Film

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• 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.

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  People, Bars, Stories

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• England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

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  War, Shells, World

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• I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

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  Common, Enjoy, Paid

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• 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.

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  Mean, People, Peculiar

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• I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

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  Trying, Belief, Weak

  "Inside the Private world of Ian Hislop". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 29, 2012.

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• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

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  News, Television, Awful

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• 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.

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  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

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  Helping, Source, Journalist

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• You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

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  Kings, England, Chivalry

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