Michael Parkinson interview 2002 4/4 Ian Hislop 2

[welshexcile]

ian hislop for PM!

[QPRTokyo]

Was the Cons now Labour......

[CitizenAngel]

I dislike in that clip how Archer's wife stares at Hislop as if she's attempting to intimidate him and while she might have done a bit I love how he didn't back down. There's nothing I can't stand more than a bully. Ian may be slightly pompous but he knows how to put idiots and sleazy crooks in their place.

[bobhasell]

who remembers at least two members of thatchers government going to prison!!!

[semigotbanned]

LOL Conservatives are gonna attack poverty??

The fact that they will never tell you how must give you a clue ....

What a dumb angry little prick!

[webbtje]

@semigotbanned They'll attack poverty by cutting inheritance tax! Oh, hang on.

[FulchesterUnited]

Hislop would probably be a phenomenal person to sit and have a drink with and talk bollocks. More so than Merton I think, even though Paul is more your "every man", I get the sense that you could probably engage Ian much more easily...

[yetigoose]

What vile creatures Lord and Lady Liar were. They actually believed they were better than anyone else and sued all those who dared to question their morals. They got what they deserved. The fines and jail sentences were one thing, but eternal public ridicule - I bet that really stung.

[50033836]

If you look closely, Ian can't look her in the eye for more than 3 seconds as he speaks.

Which shows her stare has some effect on even the mighty political ridiculer known as Ian Hislop!

[webbtje]

Ter be fair now, if he's anything like me, I get uncomfortable looking in anyone's eyes for too long.

[Pepotamo1985]

@50033836

I think he just found her utterly objectionable. On the Question Time with Harriet Harman he recoiled from her and her utterly pedestrian barbs and worthless responses. I think he just finds a lot of people in public life painfully odious.

[BiffaTW]

well said IAN!!!!!!

[hellhammer1369]

I think Lady Archer was under the impression that if she glared at Ian that he would stop the attack. Of course, forgetting that this was Ian Hislop. She is an idiot for agreeing to appear on a show with him, she had to have expected some attacks.

[Beeblebroxologist]

I think she was going to go for him more - but after that it wouldn't have looked good for her... whoop

I'm not at all bias against her lying git of a husband ;)

[arisuta2]

Archer is the epitomy of sleaze. He falsified his family background he falsified his own achievements, he pretended to be what he wasn't. His only real achievements appear to have been as an athlete and writer of pulp fiction novels, (which were sometimes stolen from other writers). Why is he still a lard? He should be stripped of his lardship forthwith.

[capaldicorporations]

he should be stripped of his skin!

[IddyB]

I've taken to questioning whether things are true or 'Archer'.

[leavesofautumn]

We need Ian Hislop and Private Eye in this world. Just think of what people would get away with if they weren't around.

[ASobsessive]

Mary Archer couldn't really complain because she agreed to appear on the Question Time panel on the same show as Ian Hislop, she should have known that Private Eye had been slagging and riduculing her husband for decades, and the fact that Lord Archer was in jail at the time, she should have gone in expecting to have her husband's name mentioned at some point in a cold but fair way.

[IddyB]

Indeed.  Perhaps she thought Ian wouldn't say it to her face. How amusing.

[ishman2006]

The question time part was awesome so was the story about Peter Cook at the mirror offices brilliant stuff!

[IddyB]

I'd never heard that story. Simply brilliant.

[KINGROOSTER45]

thanx this is great- yay