This is horrible. :( Poor Angus did nothing wrong whatsoever, since when is it illegal to snort coke and have sex with prostitutes? Everyone's done one or the other at one point in their lives! Bigots, the lot of them. And besides, it's his private life and nobody's business. Outrageous that he had to leave.
yeah fair enough to just sit there and take it, but damn if I shagged a prossy and did cocaine whilst listening to gangsta rap Id be thinking what a bloody good night! "elements are true, elements are untrue" WTF angus?- He knows he's on the verge of being sacked, he should have said yeah I did pay to shag a whore, deal with it, it was niiice!
Why are Journalists paying with there jobs for something they did not do, people who are responsible should be losing there jobs. Hacking was allowed until parliament made it illegal & yet 80% of laws for Britain are made by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Parliaments laws do not go further then paper they are written on. Britain is only country in Europe run by Brussels all but name.
@spielme unprofessional dicks... yeah, or as other people would put it, comedians... you can´t expect to sleep with a prostitute, do cocaine and expect paul or ian not to mention it at all....
@spielme Why? The whole show is about sleaze, corruption whole-sale political idiocy, and Angus was always one of the first to criticize ANYONE when it came to this sort of thing. Why should Paul and Ian make an exception just because the person in question is the show's host?
@spielme I agree. Yes do some jokes. But at the end there is a point where its workplace bullying. If he is going to loose his job anyway all you're really doing is laying the boot in when someone is down. They had to make some jokes but I don't like Paul very personal responce. I get the reasons. But unprofessional is exactly the right word.
@Nexius8 I agree, Merton especially was embarrassing himself by the end of the show, desperately linking every subject in the least possible funny way to the scandal, you could tell Deayton was getting sick of him.
@OneBigRetard It has nothing to do with that, it's referencing him cutting up lines of coke with it (hence getting it dirty), Merton does the action on the desk after he says it and it's fairly common that people doing lines of whatever will crush it/split it with a credit card.
Sorry mate, but that's not too bright. Or at least how stupid do you suppose I am? First up, I got the cocaine and cutting up reference, it's pretty obvious. At that point Deayton was the face of Barclaycard and earning a lot of money from it.
Now are you suggesting Merton randomly chose that card? Anyone else would have said 'credit card' no? It was a dig by PM at Deaytons biggest earning stream. Barclay card dropped him very soon afterwards. I think it shows in AD's face.
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Massive respect for Deayton after this, Grace under pressure takes a whole new meaning. The irony of the scandal is that while Deayton managed to maintain his professionalism with such poise, Merton got cheap and personal. (I'm not a critic of Mereton, I think him hilarious but I thought his conduct during the scandal was very ugly.) As in most things in life, I agree with Stephen Fry about Deayton.
I can't help but feel a bit sorry for Angus but then again I don't know the full story. It seems that Paul and Ian never liked Angus and couldn't wait to slaughter him.
I actually feel really sorry for him, imagine if that was you and you knew if it was going to be broadcasted on national tv. It's funny to watch, but it's bullying really.
I thought the "I can't believe you had the nerve to turn up today" comment was particularly nasty, and just completely unfunny. Also Merton referring to HIGNFY as "my comedy show" is the height of arrogance.
I think considering the nature of the show it would have been hard to keep Angus on, but I really disliked Merton's attitude, and even before then I found his style to be particularly tiresome. He is rarely funny, and people now just laugh at anything he says. He needs to go.
@strakha0 i just thourght that this section of youtube was being too clever, witty and meaningful, it was letting the side up, i brought it back down to earth by me being an absoulue douche. i have nothing against you, just your opinions and thoughrghs concening paul merton. mye apologees for badd spalling
Why do people think badly of this guy, he is an adult and he is entitled to privacy. I hate it when the nose bastard press offices un-lawfuly break into someone house and stick their noses in. Just like that poor blue peter presenter, I never saw him compose himself badly whilest on stage, and if he wants to take drugs in his own home, thats his own dam responsobility, the BBC hade no right to sack these 2 men, it's up to the courts to punnish not the public ) :<
@meatisdeliciouse He was sacked because the guests would have just made jokes about him forever, meaning he couldn't criticise anyone without it turning back on him.
Why the hell did they sack this guy? He did nothing wrong!#! If he as a fully grown adult wants to have a proistitute, FINE, none of my buisnes. Why should someone be sacked when he hase done his job well, what happens behinde closed doors, is HIS buisnes, just like poor mr. Max Mosley. I'm sick of people thinking that they have the right to stick their noses into other peoples buisnes and he cartainly did not desrve the boot. If he hase commited a crime, then it's up to the POLICE to judge ) :<
Despite the things that Angus did, you have to give him credit to just sit there and take all the abuse that was getting thrown at him, anyone else I'm sure would have just walked off set and not come back. But also credit to Paul for finally getting some decent revenge on Angus and making it worthwhile to watch :D
Deaton had it coming. They show no mercy to celebs and polticians that are mired in sleaze, ripping on them. If one of them is NO DIFFERENT then they cant really stand and take the piss.
So how do i feel about this topic with hindsight. Well...Angus did what many do and was unfortunate to get caught out, his celebrity status made it worse as his career ended up in doubt. His position as a satirist made him a target for a mocking, but as the show went on the vindictiveness struck me as quite shocking. Despite his shortcomings he was the presenter i liked the most, he may be rough round the edges but it sure beats a guest host.
I totaly second this. I couldn't and still can't understand why Ian and Paul going on and on and on about it. 1-2 jokes, OK, but the whole episode was used (up) for it, leading to the BBC directors, cowards as they were, to sack Angus.
The whole episode was supposed to be ripping on Angus though, that was the point. The missingwords round at the end practicly tells you as much.... The BBC didn't want to be assosiated with him after the scandalso they made it clear they don't condone that kind of behaviour...
It's amazing what you come across on youtube. Fair play to Deayton, he took all that was thrown at him. It's not an excuse but he didn't back down from it. He could have quite easily told producers he wasn't going to host but obviously he agreed to it. And yes, Merton and Hislop had a great time.
He didnt do anything wrong - all grown ups no one was hurt - get over it - MP's are always being caught with an orange in there mouths with a pair of tights over there head and a bog brush up there chuff!
@ComboMaX Except for the fact that the scandal made Angus unable to present a satirical program. See Christine Hamilton's comments when Angus refers to her husband as a "disgraced former Tory MP." When anyone can turn a satirical comment back on Angus, it does make it very difficult for him to present. See Paul Merton's interview on Parkinson (the one when he has the beard).
Merton had it in for him, when he divorced from Caroline Quentin in 1998 Deaton was pretty merciless with Merton, taunting him about stories of her having an affair amongst other things. He could hardly be suprised that his very public fall from grace would see Merton taking every opportunity to get him back for his pretty nasty comments at the time. Well done Paul, the t-shirt was a priceless moment and HIGNFY is better with guest hosts.
@mondyboy81 Hi, I find this episode fascinating, high water mark etc, so can you expand on what happened viz a vis the Quentin - Merton split, because that would certainly explain the real deep down venom Merton shows towards Deayton, by the end its like a playground punch up. Hislop dips in as ruthlessly as you would expect but with Merton it seems like real hatred. Its exquisitely vicious.
around the time this episode was broadcasted, the lead host angus was rumoured to have had meet up with a prostitute and it was all over the papers. it happen again later in the year think it was 2002 n he ended up leaving the show
I think Paul a bit over the score with the dressing down he gave Angus, ok he did deserve to get hacked to pieces to some degree but not to quite the extent that he eventually got. Paul him self admitted in an interview on “Parkinson” that he never liked him in the first place which is why he picked on him as badly as he did. Would it been someone else who he liked beforehand you wonder if he would have quite so ruthless as what he was.
Angus had to leave because a lot of the guests were unfunny and could only seem useful to the show if they mentioned the scandal. Thats why there was a list of jokes he couldnt do - some idiot wouldnt have been able to keep their mouth shut and understand its not funny.
Angus took it all on the chin and kept his cool, besides the small bit of the article that Ian read out was quite flattering about him so that kind of leveled the field when ian and paul began cracking jokes. the ironic thing is that apart from the small group in charge of the BBC at the time virtually no one gave a shit about what Angus got up to.
merton will now keep his nose clean, but know 1 day he will mess up and then the spotlight will be on him, if it doesn't happen what a boring bastard!
Firstly - Well done Angus - For taking it on the chin. Second - Angus never stole the show - because he was easily the best host of any comedy program ever. Brydon, Dara, etc all ae good but get involed too much. Angus sits back and gives the opportunities to the comedians and made it a much better show.
I miss Angus on the show, he was the best person for that job. Who cares what he done? What he gets up to in his private life is no business of anyone's>
i was slightly surprised at how unrelenting Paul Merton was on this subject. Frankly, he could have toned it down a bit and still be funny with his talent. It was a tad easy to make fun of Angus the way he did here.
I thought that this was a rather funny episode. I noticed that many of the comments below have taken the side of Angus and feel that he had been treated unfairly by Paul and Ian and whilst I have no real objections to Angus' actions, (as far as I'm concerned what people do in their spare time is their business,) I can't help but think that if you host a panel show that ridicules people for that sort of thing all the time then you can't involve yourself in it not expecting this sort of treatment.
@guglielmobelis True. He did take a big risk and he ultimately payed the price for it.
I can understand Paul's comments on Parkinson, about how Angus didn't have the right to take the mickey out of Politicians sleazy antics anymore, after what happened to him.
But given time, I'm sure it would have been swept under the carpet, apart from on here, no-one talks about it anymore.
I think Ian and Paul had been trying to get rid of him for years, they saw this as the perfect opening to do so.
@guglielmobelis I heard somewhere that Paul and Ian were jealous and never got on with Angus. That becomes really evident in this episode and in the second episode of Series 24. So if they had it there way, then they probably would have got rid of him.
Ian and Paul always contributed more than Angus did, who just read off the Autocue and he did that brilliantly.
When his antics put the future of the show (which they worked hard on) in jeopardy, they ganged up on TV in a bid to get rid of him.
@BBrooksMr With the utmost respect, this is all just speculation. I once "heard somewhere" that Elvis and Tupac Shakur weren't dead. To me, what comes across in this episode is not jealousy, it is simply opportunism. It was inevitable, any comedian would have done the same, it is their job as panellists to make fun of the main topics of the week and the main topic of that week happened to be Angus. I could be wrong but it doesn't seem any deeper than that to me.
@BelfastAtheist Paul often displayed a dislike for Angus but there was never much of a hint from Ian. Paul certainly seemed to dislike him and the may both have despised him but all the definitive statements from people who know barely anything on the matter, (yes, including you,) annoy me. And if they did hate him then has it occurred to anyone that he might just have been a massive dickhead? I preferred the show when he presented it just like everyone else but honestly, take off the blinkers.
@BBrooksMr You were right, however, when you said in an earlier comment that Angus had "balls" to appear on the show that week. And yes, it was definitely better than any public apology. He knew full well this would happen and he took it better than I would have.
@guglielmobelis He took it better than anyone would have I suppose, anybody else in that position would have probably halted filming, walked out halfway through or refused to even appear in the first place. Which would have made it worse.
As I said, he knew he'd get it and he took out on the chin (very well) . Your right in saying that it is the panellists job to make fun of the main topics of the week and there was no way that they couldn't go through the whole episode without mentioning it.
@BBrooksMr I think Paul's point (on Parkinson) was more that he couldn't, not that he didn't have the right to. I think if he had stayed on then any panellist opposed to any comment he made (even now, after all this time) could (and no doubt would) bring it up. And what makes you say that Ian and Paul were trying to get rid of him?
I remember seeing this episode of HIGNFY. I have a lot of respect for Angus, for having the guts to go out there. It's better than any public apology.
That really showed how sorry he was for doing what he did. He knew that he was going to get slaughtered that night and he knew he deserved it.
But I have to say that Paul and Ian (especially Paul) took it a bit too far. No-one deserves to be embarrassed like that on TV and the way that they both ganged up on him towards the end was terrible.
Generally, I really enjoy British humor. This, however, seems mean-spirited and pretty darn tasteless to me. Incisive wit is all very clever and enjoyable, but kicking a man again and again when he's down is pathetic stuff. Fallen public figures deserve scorn if hypocritical, yes. Surely, though, to beat a dead horse ad nauseum, especially to your target's face, is contemptible behavior. It's bullying.
This was the last episode i enjoyed of HIGNFY, its been rubbish since without Angus. Ian and Paul are nowere in the same league as him and i really havent a clue how the show has kept running this long
time after time merton takes the easiest joke, a million people in this country could have sat in merton's chair that night and come up with better jokes, i wonder if merton looks back at this episode with a bit of embarrassment, i seem to remember them being as vicious with paula yates, and michael parkinson said to ian hislop about the paula yates episode, it was like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, i think the same applies to this treatment of angus
" 'Remote chance of [what] for women'. Help yourself." ^^
He reeeally was very good. Despite what he did, I'm kinda on his side because Ian and Paul (especially Paul) took the joke a bit too far. I mean, it's completely understandable that they took piss of him and he certainly had expected it, but their mockery became tiring by the end of the episode.
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Only foolish idiotic lowly people watch this program or find it funny. People who don't know what entertainment is. Do you laugh out loudly while reading the financial times on the tube?
@MrPonko sorry for a start im 14 and it is a real shame that there is a lack of INTELLIGENT humour like this left on British television thanks to the BBC's fear of hurting people or being "impartial" .
@MrPonko sorry i'm not happy with you thinking that all 14 year olds are thick and don't understand politics i am a fan of this you moron. And i do like question time and newsnight better than most shit on the telly. Also please don't flatter yourself by saying that i am out to impress you i see no reason why u should doubt that i am 14
I think @MrPonko is probably old enough to know better than this - shame on you.
@planeman95 - good on you for enjoying some fine british satire - not always a good idea to pick fights with people about personal taste though (same to you @MrPonko)
@eddjcaine Oh I'm so sorry mummy. I really am old enough to know better, shame on me. I've been bad little boy, I really have mummy. I really have. Do you think I should apologise to the little boy I was rude to? I hope he will forgive me. *sniff sniff*
Seriously dude who on God's Earth are you to tell me I'm too old for my bhaviour and say to me shame on you? Whoever says "shame on you" to strangers on the web you must be one of the SILLIEST clowns alive.
Can't be worse than roasting little kids online about their taste in satire - at least I'm picking on someone my own size - what gives you the right to say those things to that kid? This comment box, and your anonymity, that's who. But whatever, you're right - it's not in my business, or my interest to take part in this stupid power game of yours, and who am I to cast aspersions on someones character? I don't really need to really...
Half of the rotating guests have had worse reputations than Angus, and make shit presenters to boot. The reason given by Merton and Hislop for the show being better off without Angus is now... uh... not valid. lol =D
this is so uncomfortable to watch. It started off gunny, but When it got nastier, I lost a lot of respect for paul. Come back angus, I can't bear another shit guest presenter. the other week it was bruce forsythe for fuck sakes.
@GushingMILF He paid a prostitute and did drugs, thereby committing both moral and legal crimes. He should have served jail time for the drugs, and would have if he hadn't been famous. Getting laid out on his show was the least he deserved. There was nothing about taking it on the chin, he didn't have much choice.
@GushingMILF He slept with a prostitute and did drugs, thereby committing both moral and legal crimes. He should have served jail time for the drugs, and would have if he hadn't been famous. Getting laid out on his show was the least he deserved. There was nothing about taking it on the chin, he didn't have much choice.
@Hazyheffalump I think his moral compass is about as much use as a shit flavoured yoghurt to be honest. Either way, yes, I do agree, he should have done time but his status protected him from that
@Hazyheffalump You're an idiot if you think people should go to prison for snorting cocaine. In London, that would put the majority of the population behind bars - how would you pay for it? People don't go to prison in England for snorting a bit of coke. You must be American. And sex with prostitutes is just sex at the end of the day. Take your head out of your arse.
@sahseeker A custodial sentence for coke would mean a good proportion of london's financial district would disappear over night lol believe me. I know.
@sahseeker Any type of drug is as bad as alcohol, so if they're going to ban every other drug, they should ban alcohol. Since they aren't going to do that then they should drop the ban altogether
@Laraluva2 History has taught us that banning alcohol is retarded.
I don't drink or touch this stuff.
at all.
Its not some big pricky arrogant thing I do i just don't like drinking.
Alcohol wont ever be completely banned in the world and if it is it'll become a vastly popular drug which like in America caused a great amount of organized crime.
Maaaybe we can see alchol banned in America? its already banned in some places in the Middle east.
but the shit would hit the fan if it was in europe.
@Laraluva2 "Any type of drug is as bad as alcohol"
Shall we ban coffee? How about paracetamol? That's a bit impractical isn't it, so we'll not do that. While we're at it we'll legalise heroin and crack. Your logic, not mine
@spameister well, how about we lift the ban, because frankly - im sick of hearing about how the government is holding the hands of people in this country.
if they want to get shitfaced on alcohol and drugs, fine then.
@sahseeker Might i point out that sex with prostitutes is legal in the UK. Keepin a brothel and being a pimp isnt though, So long as the protitute doesnt solicit in public (kerb crawling), its legal.
This is horrible. :( Poor Angus did nothing wrong whatsoever, since when is it illegal to snort coke and have sex with prostitutes? Everyone's done one or the other at one point in their lives! Bigots, the lot of them. And besides, it's his private life and nobody's business. Outrageous that he had to leave.
EmmyNeander 5 months ago
Poor Angus
twentytwoandeight 5 months ago
How can you call ian and paul twats? This is there job essentially.
Jakerius93 5 months ago
Give Angus credit, he had a beautiful smile through most of the whole episode. Though it seemed obvious he was getting tired of it by the end.
EmilyDNelson 6 months ago
Twats the pair of them. With friends like these...They must really have had it in for him.
I doubt if Deayton was sacked.....more likely he couldn't be arsed hanging around with these two once a week.
The only one who comes out of this episode with any respect is Mr Deayton.
samedayhandyman 6 months ago
yeah fair enough to just sit there and take it, but damn if I shagged a prossy and did cocaine whilst listening to gangsta rap Id be thinking what a bloody good night! "elements are true, elements are untrue" WTF angus?- He knows he's on the verge of being sacked, he should have said yeah I did pay to shag a whore, deal with it, it was niiice!
littlep656 6 months ago
HA! I was wondering why Paul was wearing a hoody rather than a garishly colourful shirt!
TheSneakyCheetah 6 months ago
Brutal. How did he keep it together?! Hat's off to him.
Tommyleon225 6 months ago
He's been irreplaceable ever since.
McPrfctday 6 months ago
And now the News of the World is dead.
Nexius8 6 months ago
"There was an ELEPHANT in there?!"
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Why are Journalists paying with there jobs for something they did not do, people who are responsible should be losing there jobs. Hacking was allowed until parliament made it illegal & yet 80% of laws for Britain are made by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Parliaments laws do not go further then paper they are written on. Britain is only country in Europe run by Brussels all but name.
justicepartyuk 6 months ago
favourite episode :)
LIVINGONTHEDOLE 6 months ago
Paul and Ian are being unprofessional dicks in this episode
spielme 7 months ago
@spielme unprofessional dicks... yeah, or as other people would put it, comedians... you can´t expect to sleep with a prostitute, do cocaine and expect paul or ian not to mention it at all....
ElGranPikachu 6 months ago 2
@spielme Why? The whole show is about sleaze, corruption whole-sale political idiocy, and Angus was always one of the first to criticize ANYONE when it came to this sort of thing. Why should Paul and Ian make an exception just because the person in question is the show's host?
GooseberryMk3 6 months ago 3
@spielme I agree. Yes do some jokes. But at the end there is a point where its workplace bullying. If he is going to loose his job anyway all you're really doing is laying the boot in when someone is down. They had to make some jokes but I don't like Paul very personal responce. I get the reasons. But unprofessional is exactly the right word.
Nexius8 6 months ago
@Nexius8 I agree, Merton especially was embarrassing himself by the end of the show, desperately linking every subject in the least possible funny way to the scandal, you could tell Deayton was getting sick of him.
BenJamesH2011 5 months ago
Fair play to Angus. He handled it so well.
wigsta 7 months ago
Livingston sounds like Spud from Bob the Builder.
dilwich123 7 months ago
I love Paul Merton. Even more after this!
MrRhcp1995 7 months ago
The Barcley Card moment is really the one. It is in that moment that Angus knows he is 100s of thousands of pounds poorer. You can see it in his face.
Before the first scandel he was on £50,000 a show, then £25,000. All in, losing that show and the BC deal must have cost him millions.
OneBigRetard 7 months ago
@OneBigRetard It has nothing to do with that, it's referencing him cutting up lines of coke with it (hence getting it dirty), Merton does the action on the desk after he says it and it's fairly common that people doing lines of whatever will crush it/split it with a credit card.
r1c0ch3t211 7 months ago
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Sorry mate, but that's not too bright. Or at least how stupid do you suppose I am? First up, I got the cocaine and cutting up reference, it's pretty obvious. At that point Deayton was the face of Barclaycard and earning a lot of money from it.
Now are you suggesting Merton randomly chose that card? Anyone else would have said 'credit card' no? It was a dig by PM at Deaytons biggest earning stream. Barclay card dropped him very soon afterwards. I think it shows in AD's face.
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McKeeisacrook 7 months ago
the one week anyone even nick griffin could have been and not got slaughtered. great episode
bonjovimental 7 months ago
Massive respect for Deayton after this, Grace under pressure takes a whole new meaning. The irony of the scandal is that while Deayton managed to maintain his professionalism with such poise, Merton got cheap and personal. (I'm not a critic of Mereton, I think him hilarious but I thought his conduct during the scandal was very ugly.) As in most things in life, I agree with Stephen Fry about Deayton.
1991njl 7 months ago
I knew ian and paul would gang up on him
MrAdnan252 7 months ago
the only thing he did wrong was cheat on his wife, if he wants to het high and pay for sex he should be allowed.
sjewitt22 7 months ago
@sjewitt22 yeah but apparently he didn't pay the prostitute
88tommyb666 7 months ago
This is unworthy of the talents of all involved.
metacarple 7 months ago
I can't help but feel a bit sorry for Angus but then again I don't know the full story. It seems that Paul and Ian never liked Angus and couldn't wait to slaughter him.
musket1830 8 months ago
I actually feel really sorry for him, imagine if that was you and you knew if it was going to be broadcasted on national tv. It's funny to watch, but it's bullying really.
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i wonder what happened after the show.
sparkyinbath 8 months ago
TBH, he took it pretty well
MrDuckieone 8 months ago 3
@MrDuckieone TBH he was on a TV panel show while, at the time, the BBC were thinking of sacking him because of it; he kind of had to :L
GRAEMEMCFORLIFE 8 months ago
I feel a bit sorry for Angus, the shows not the same without him anyway.
Jackiesstash08 8 months ago 4
I thought the "I can't believe you had the nerve to turn up today" comment was particularly nasty, and just completely unfunny. Also Merton referring to HIGNFY as "my comedy show" is the height of arrogance.
I think considering the nature of the show it would have been hard to keep Angus on, but I really disliked Merton's attitude, and even before then I found his style to be particularly tiresome. He is rarely funny, and people now just laugh at anything he says. He needs to go.
strakha0 8 months ago
@strakha0 hahahah fuck you!
TheHazzabigun 8 months ago
@TheHazzabigun Come on man, there's no need for that.
strakha0 8 months ago
@strakha0 i just thourght that this section of youtube was being too clever, witty and meaningful, it was letting the side up, i brought it back down to earth by me being an absoulue douche. i have nothing against you, just your opinions and thoughrghs concening paul merton. mye apologees for badd spalling
TheHazzabigun 8 months ago
@TheHazzabigun I have a terrible habit of letting the side up. It's all cool, well worth it to read that reply lol
strakha0 8 months ago
This episode was hilarious! everyone was getting jokes in there about Deayton even Ken Livingston got a few in, he was brilliant!
alphaspecie224 8 months ago
There was an elepahant in there?! Love Paul Merton
mamabear1753 9 months ago
to be fair deayton and merton are s**t
mcflee123 9 months ago
the shows now way past it sell by date only hope would be to have new captains but 21 years is far to long
xandy1959 9 months ago
You left out one of the most brilliant lines of the entire episode: "thank goodness I had a line of coke before I came on" from ian
readingaddict176 10 months ago
6:04 is the most articulate response I have ever heard.
luxuriousnax 10 months ago
You gotta admit .tho, the show is sh*te without Angus
lambrettali175 10 months ago
Fair play to him for doing this episode.
EbsNhexz 10 months ago 5
Why do people think badly of this guy, he is an adult and he is entitled to privacy. I hate it when the nose bastard press offices un-lawfuly break into someone house and stick their noses in. Just like that poor blue peter presenter, I never saw him compose himself badly whilest on stage, and if he wants to take drugs in his own home, thats his own dam responsobility, the BBC hade no right to sack these 2 men, it's up to the courts to punnish not the public ) :<
meatisdeliciouse 10 months ago
@meatisdeliciouse He was sacked because the guests would have just made jokes about him forever, meaning he couldn't criticise anyone without it turning back on him.
secretsantaone 10 months ago 4
@secretsantaone Oh, I see.
meatisdeliciouse 10 months ago
Why the hell did they sack this guy? He did nothing wrong!#! If he as a fully grown adult wants to have a proistitute, FINE, none of my buisnes. Why should someone be sacked when he hase done his job well, what happens behinde closed doors, is HIS buisnes, just like poor mr. Max Mosley. I'm sick of people thinking that they have the right to stick their noses into other peoples buisnes and he cartainly did not desrve the boot. If he hase commited a crime, then it's up to the POLICE to judge ) :<
meatisdeliciouse 10 months ago
What I would have killedto be in the audience!
luxuriousnax 10 months ago
Despite the things that Angus did, you have to give him credit to just sit there and take all the abuse that was getting thrown at him, anyone else I'm sure would have just walked off set and not come back. But also credit to Paul for finally getting some decent revenge on Angus and making it worthwhile to watch :D
ComradeJon 10 months ago 12
@ComradeJon Maybe they wouldnt have put bus lanes in london if the were sh*t faced :)
Pwnedanime 10 months ago
I used to think merton was a cool guy, he isn´t he´s a sanctimonious prick
yatter1 10 months ago
Deaton had it coming. They show no mercy to celebs and polticians that are mired in sleaze, ripping on them. If one of them is NO DIFFERENT then they cant really stand and take the piss.
Tiwaz81 11 months ago
I almost felt sorry for Deayton at the time, you can see the embarrasment in his eyes and body language. I wonder what happened to Deayton.
uncled39 11 months ago
well Paul always did islike Angus...
DietDrMario 1 year ago
I feel sorry for Angus... sucks really.
TannhauserEFL 1 year ago
even dave gorman's stickin his boot in. classic!!
stellaCURRYsorted 1 year ago
DEAYTON IS SUCH A TALENTLESS TWAT
henryhaven 1 year ago
So how do i feel about this topic with hindsight. Well...Angus did what many do and was unfortunate to get caught out, his celebrity status made it worse as his career ended up in doubt. His position as a satirist made him a target for a mocking, but as the show went on the vindictiveness struck me as quite shocking. Despite his shortcomings he was the presenter i liked the most, he may be rough round the edges but it sure beats a guest host.
scaryninja1693 1 year ago
@scaryninja1693
I totaly second this. I couldn't and still can't understand why Ian and Paul going on and on and on about it. 1-2 jokes, OK, but the whole episode was used (up) for it, leading to the BBC directors, cowards as they were, to sack Angus.
Thought it was a disgrace.
ekkybedmond 1 year ago
@ekkybedmond
The whole episode was supposed to be ripping on Angus though, that was the point. The missingwords round at the end practicly tells you as much.... The BBC didn't want to be assosiated with him after the scandalso they made it clear they don't condone that kind of behaviour...
piepiepietoast 1 year ago
Im gutted Angus aint on HIGNFY anymore. Hes does coke? so what, so do i now and again. Rack em up Angus!
ProjectLonely 1 year ago
It's amazing what you come across on youtube. Fair play to Deayton, he took all that was thrown at him. It's not an excuse but he didn't back down from it. He could have quite easily told producers he wasn't going to host but obviously he agreed to it. And yes, Merton and Hislop had a great time.
PIPPIN542 1 year ago
He didnt do anything wrong - all grown ups no one was hurt - get over it - MP's are always being caught with an orange in there mouths with a pair of tights over there head and a bog brush up there chuff!
dilwich123 1 year ago
I think Angus handles it pretty well..
MrAmystic 1 year ago 6
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Hislop and Merton are both twats. Angus should have chinned both of the smug cunts.
ospreyneath 1 year ago
Angus was a fair target.
richardsfinalfantasy 1 year ago
LOLLL angus looks so pissed off,, proper awkward hahaha
danye42 1 year ago
If only I was in that audience! My life would have been complete.
jimmyduckegg 1 year ago
Come on, bring back Angus!
Fleshious 1 year ago
@Fleshious
Here here, the best ever (mind you, the 1ste time that Bruce Forsyth presented was a classic, as was the episode with Brian Blessed!).
ekkybedmond 1 year ago
very funny... its all humour and people should take it that way.. what he does in his own life... is up to him...
ComboMaX 1 year ago
@ComboMaX Except for the fact that the scandal made Angus unable to present a satirical program. See Christine Hamilton's comments when Angus refers to her husband as a "disgraced former Tory MP." When anyone can turn a satirical comment back on Angus, it does make it very difficult for him to present. See Paul Merton's interview on Parkinson (the one when he has the beard).
StewartUSAF 1 year ago
I'm so glad they had Dave Gorman on- he's a genius!
StigGT2 1 year ago
@StigGT2 Dave Gorman should be a guest presenter.
VicRattlehead50 1 year ago
The funny thing is that these day I reckon this scandal would have boosted his career, not ended it!
jobsta 1 year ago
haha I like ken livingstone
larry149 1 year ago
Merton had it in for him, when he divorced from Caroline Quentin in 1998 Deaton was pretty merciless with Merton, taunting him about stories of her having an affair amongst other things. He could hardly be suprised that his very public fall from grace would see Merton taking every opportunity to get him back for his pretty nasty comments at the time. Well done Paul, the t-shirt was a priceless moment and HIGNFY is better with guest hosts.
mondyboy81 1 year ago 134
@mondyboy81 have you got any clips of angus taunting paul over his divorce?
covGuk 1 year ago
@mondyboy81 Hi, I find this episode fascinating, high water mark etc, so can you expand on what happened viz a vis the Quentin - Merton split, because that would certainly explain the real deep down venom Merton shows towards Deayton, by the end its like a playground punch up. Hislop dips in as ruthlessly as you would expect but with Merton it seems like real hatred. Its exquisitely vicious.
KILLERSTROP 1 year ago
@mondyboy81 and brain blessed was the best of them imo!!! he had me almost in tears from laughter
drew2pac 8 months ago
@mondyboy81 HIGNFY is crap nowadays...
4evainter 8 months ago
@mondyboy81 I completely forgot about that lol, he really did deserve it
keflar5 7 months ago
@mondyboy81
Really. That is real interesting. Did he take the piss on the show? If so that is so fucking low.
OneBigRetard 7 months ago
what was the scandal? im i bit too young to remember this
HcmJames 1 year ago
around the time this episode was broadcasted, the lead host angus was rumoured to have had meet up with a prostitute and it was all over the papers. it happen again later in the year think it was 2002 n he ended up leaving the show
ADL718 1 year ago 2
@HcmJames Angus was caught snorting coke and having sex with a hooker.
sbonfiglioli 1 year ago
I think Paul a bit over the score with the dressing down he gave Angus, ok he did deserve to get hacked to pieces to some degree but not to quite the extent that he eventually got. Paul him self admitted in an interview on “Parkinson” that he never liked him in the first place which is why he picked on him as badly as he did. Would it been someone else who he liked beforehand you wonder if he would have quite so ruthless as what he was.
CitizenAngel 1 year ago 3
c'mon BBC he took it on the chin...such losers!
rssfeedslive 1 year ago
"There was a elephant in there?"
Kpvker 1 year ago
he took it well
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InnocenceExperience 1 year ago
Angus had to leave because a lot of the guests were unfunny and could only seem useful to the show if they mentioned the scandal. Thats why there was a list of jokes he couldnt do - some idiot wouldnt have been able to keep their mouth shut and understand its not funny.
01Volume 1 year ago
Angus took it all on the chin and kept his cool, besides the small bit of the article that Ian read out was quite flattering about him so that kind of leveled the field when ian and paul began cracking jokes. the ironic thing is that apart from the small group in charge of the BBC at the time virtually no one gave a shit about what Angus got up to.
thedarknesscallingme 1 year ago
Go Angus.....
fatcat2939 1 year ago
I want Angus back.
temporaldisplacement 1 year ago 3
merton will now keep his nose clean, but know 1 day he will mess up and then the spotlight will be on him, if it doesn't happen what a boring bastard!
devilsown6666 1 year ago
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Paul Merton is about as funny as cancer. Fuck off you boring dingbat.
Fronika 1 year ago
LMAO has anyone got any nail scissors? XD
henrycrumm 1 year ago
Firstly - Well done Angus - For taking it on the chin. Second - Angus never stole the show - because he was easily the best host of any comedy program ever. Brydon, Dara, etc all ae good but get involed too much. Angus sits back and gives the opportunities to the comedians and made it a much better show.
ShahenshahG 1 year ago
He still did the show mind you. Almost as if he had some sort of debt to pay to someone.
WubwubDubstep 1 year ago
I miss Angus on the show, he was the best person for that job. Who cares what he done? What he gets up to in his private life is no business of anyone's>
jsb1cfc 1 year ago
At least he had the good grace to sit there and take the piss taking, some people would have walked out but he just took it.
poodledreams 1 year ago
"There was an elephant in there?"
LOL I wish i was a quick-witted as Paul.
wildboymusicuk 1 year ago
absolute classic piece of television
british comedy at its best
paul merton is a funny fucker
MrStonecold69 1 year ago
I do feel kinda sorry for him. We all do something we are not proud of.
FlashTwister 1 year ago
@FlashTwister and you do you friends take the piss for the rest of your life
suffern63 1 year ago
@FlashTwister are you serious?!?!?
DunxMeister 1 year ago
the news of the world title makes no grammatical sense.
Crookmeisteren 1 year ago
Poor Angus, he was rip'd to shreds!
morrismagic08 1 year ago
after paul reveals the t-shirt "is the wrong answer" absolute legend!!! did so well in the face of complete and utter failure!!
wsharpey 1 year ago
i was slightly surprised at how unrelenting Paul Merton was on this subject. Frankly, he could have toned it down a bit and still be funny with his talent. It was a tad easy to make fun of Angus the way he did here.
zarni000 1 year ago
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@zarni000 Agreed, then again Paul Merton is an unfunny waste of space.
CaptainYossarian 1 year ago
@CaptainYossarian What!!! Paul Merton is a comedic genius. He just ripped Angus Deayton a new asshole.
retrac1985 1 year ago
He must have known he would be coming into the studio to get a death over it..
THALIDO 1 year ago
I thought that this was a rather funny episode. I noticed that many of the comments below have taken the side of Angus and feel that he had been treated unfairly by Paul and Ian and whilst I have no real objections to Angus' actions, (as far as I'm concerned what people do in their spare time is their business,) I can't help but think that if you host a panel show that ridicules people for that sort of thing all the time then you can't involve yourself in it not expecting this sort of treatment.
guglielmobelis 1 year ago
@guglielmobelis True. He did take a big risk and he ultimately payed the price for it.
I can understand Paul's comments on Parkinson, about how Angus didn't have the right to take the mickey out of Politicians sleazy antics anymore, after what happened to him.
But given time, I'm sure it would have been swept under the carpet, apart from on here, no-one talks about it anymore.
I think Ian and Paul had been trying to get rid of him for years, they saw this as the perfect opening to do so.
BBrooksMr 1 year ago
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guglielmobelis 1 year ago
@guglielmobelis I heard somewhere that Paul and Ian were jealous and never got on with Angus. That becomes really evident in this episode and in the second episode of Series 24. So if they had it there way, then they probably would have got rid of him.
Ian and Paul always contributed more than Angus did, who just read off the Autocue and he did that brilliantly.
When his antics put the future of the show (which they worked hard on) in jeopardy, they ganged up on TV in a bid to get rid of him.
BBrooksMr 1 year ago
@BBrooksMr With the utmost respect, this is all just speculation. I once "heard somewhere" that Elvis and Tupac Shakur weren't dead. To me, what comes across in this episode is not jealousy, it is simply opportunism. It was inevitable, any comedian would have done the same, it is their job as panellists to make fun of the main topics of the week and the main topic of that week happened to be Angus. I could be wrong but it doesn't seem any deeper than that to me.
guglielmobelis 1 year ago
@guglielmobelis
Apart from the fact Paul Merton hated Angus Deayton and so did Ian Hislop by the end of his run..
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
@BelfastAtheist Paul often displayed a dislike for Angus but there was never much of a hint from Ian. Paul certainly seemed to dislike him and the may both have despised him but all the definitive statements from people who know barely anything on the matter, (yes, including you,) annoy me. And if they did hate him then has it occurred to anyone that he might just have been a massive dickhead? I preferred the show when he presented it just like everyone else but honestly, take off the blinkers.
guglielmobelis 1 year ago
@BBrooksMr You were right, however, when you said in an earlier comment that Angus had "balls" to appear on the show that week. And yes, it was definitely better than any public apology. He knew full well this would happen and he took it better than I would have.
guglielmobelis 1 year ago
@guglielmobelis He took it better than anyone would have I suppose, anybody else in that position would have probably halted filming, walked out halfway through or refused to even appear in the first place. Which would have made it worse.
As I said, he knew he'd get it and he took out on the chin (very well) . Your right in saying that it is the panellists job to make fun of the main topics of the week and there was no way that they couldn't go through the whole episode without mentioning it.
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@BBrooksMr I think Paul's point (on Parkinson) was more that he couldn't, not that he didn't have the right to. I think if he had stayed on then any panellist opposed to any comment he made (even now, after all this time) could (and no doubt would) bring it up. And what makes you say that Ian and Paul were trying to get rid of him?
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guglielmobelis 1 year ago
I remember seeing this episode of HIGNFY. I have a lot of respect for Angus, for having the guts to go out there. It's better than any public apology.
That really showed how sorry he was for doing what he did. He knew that he was going to get slaughtered that night and he knew he deserved it.
But I have to say that Paul and Ian (especially Paul) took it a bit too far. No-one deserves to be embarrassed like that on TV and the way that they both ganged up on him towards the end was terrible.
BBrooksMr 1 year ago
Wow Merton and Angus mus have history!
ellidee50 1 year ago
Generally, I really enjoy British humor. This, however, seems mean-spirited and pretty darn tasteless to me. Incisive wit is all very clever and enjoyable, but kicking a man again and again when he's down is pathetic stuff. Fallen public figures deserve scorn if hypocritical, yes. Surely, though, to beat a dead horse ad nauseum, especially to your target's face, is contemptible behavior. It's bullying.
niclasjt 1 year ago
This was the last episode i enjoyed of HIGNFY, its been rubbish since without Angus. Ian and Paul are nowere in the same league as him and i really havent a clue how the show has kept running this long
PinkThinkingCat 1 year ago 2
time after time merton takes the easiest joke, a million people in this country could have sat in merton's chair that night and come up with better jokes, i wonder if merton looks back at this episode with a bit of embarrassment, i seem to remember them being as vicious with paula yates, and michael parkinson said to ian hislop about the paula yates episode, it was like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, i think the same applies to this treatment of angus
mikemanu01 1 year ago 2
" 'Remote chance of [what] for women'. Help yourself." ^^
He reeeally was very good. Despite what he did, I'm kinda on his side because Ian and Paul (especially Paul) took the joke a bit too far. I mean, it's completely understandable that they took piss of him and he certainly had expected it, but their mockery became tiring by the end of the episode.
Idnarmadur 1 year ago
Very Funny
vladislavs2 1 year ago
anyone who thinks that deayton should not have been removed as host is clearly an idiot. thats all i need to say, quite frankly
hammerandclaw 1 year ago
to the bloke picking on the 14 year old - david dimbleby presents QT, not Johnathan. At least do some research if you're gonna pretend you like QT.
ameliameech1 1 year ago
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Only foolish idiotic lowly people watch this program or find it funny. People who don't know what entertainment is. Do you laugh out loudly while reading the financial times on the tube?
Bye bye backsides
MrPonko 1 year ago
@MrPonko only brain dead idiots like you dont understand satire like this
planeman95 1 year ago
@planeman95 ... said the middle aged nobody that wears a suit and tie and laughs out loud while reading the Guardian on the tube.
MrPonko 1 year ago
@MrPonko sorry for a start im 14 and it is a real shame that there is a lack of INTELLIGENT humour like this left on British television thanks to the BBC's fear of hurting people or being "impartial" .
planeman95 1 year ago
@planeman95 Ohhh you're 14? Why are you commenting on this video then and pretending to be a fan when you don't understand a single one of the jokes?
Are you going to lie to us and tell us you enjoy Newsnight and Question Time with Jonathan Dimbleby too?
Go pack to playing on your PS3 and stop pretending you're a fan of this, it does not impress any of us.
MrPonko 1 year ago
@MrPonko sorry i'm not happy with you thinking that all 14 year olds are thick and don't understand politics i am a fan of this you moron. And i do like question time and newsnight better than most shit on the telly. Also please don't flatter yourself by saying that i am out to impress you i see no reason why u should doubt that i am 14
planeman95 1 year ago
I think @MrPonko is probably old enough to know better than this - shame on you.
@planeman95 - good on you for enjoying some fine british satire - not always a good idea to pick fights with people about personal taste though (same to you @MrPonko)
eddjcaine 1 year ago
@eddjcaine Oh I'm so sorry mummy. I really am old enough to know better, shame on me. I've been bad little boy, I really have mummy. I really have. Do you think I should apologise to the little boy I was rude to? I hope he will forgive me. *sniff sniff*
Seriously dude who on God's Earth are you to tell me I'm too old for my bhaviour and say to me shame on you? Whoever says "shame on you" to strangers on the web you must be one of the SILLIEST clowns alive.
I don't even have words for you.
MrPonko 1 year ago
Can't be worse than roasting little kids online about their taste in satire - at least I'm picking on someone my own size - what gives you the right to say those things to that kid? This comment box, and your anonymity, that's who. But whatever, you're right - it's not in my business, or my interest to take part in this stupid power game of yours, and who am I to cast aspersions on someones character? I don't really need to really...
eddjcaine 1 year ago
leave angus alone!!!! :'(
extremelyequal 1 year ago
love this so much ! Paul Merton is one of my favourite comedians, really quick witted
Oldbluesock 1 year ago
not been been the same since he left
surfin4 1 year ago
Half of the rotating guests have had worse reputations than Angus, and make shit presenters to boot. The reason given by Merton and Hislop for the show being better off without Angus is now... uh... not valid. lol =D
UnitedKingdomify 1 year ago
this'll never get old :D
ShedHead9 1 year ago
What episode is this?
Slob92 1 year ago
this is so uncomfortable to watch. It started off gunny, but When it got nastier, I lost a lot of respect for paul. Come back angus, I can't bear another shit guest presenter. the other week it was bruce forsythe for fuck sakes.
jamesjonesrocket 1 year ago
He was handling it well....at first. But the jokes started to wear thin on him.
BangingMash 1 year ago
paul is just so relentless when he is tearing him up funny as fuck
drsmokesweed 1 year ago 2
ouch
therewasasecretchord 1 year ago
I love it how he totally took it on the chin all the way through.
GushingMILF 1 year ago 18
@GushingMILF He paid a prostitute and did drugs, thereby committing both moral and legal crimes. He should have served jail time for the drugs, and would have if he hadn't been famous. Getting laid out on his show was the least he deserved. There was nothing about taking it on the chin, he didn't have much choice.
Hazyheffalump 1 year ago
@GushingMILF He slept with a prostitute and did drugs, thereby committing both moral and legal crimes. He should have served jail time for the drugs, and would have if he hadn't been famous. Getting laid out on his show was the least he deserved. There was nothing about taking it on the chin, he didn't have much choice.
Hazyheffalump 1 year ago
@Hazyheffalump I think his moral compass is about as much use as a shit flavoured yoghurt to be honest. Either way, yes, I do agree, he should have done time but his status protected him from that
GushingMILF 1 year ago
@Hazyheffalump You're an idiot if you think people should go to prison for snorting cocaine. In London, that would put the majority of the population behind bars - how would you pay for it? People don't go to prison in England for snorting a bit of coke. You must be American. And sex with prostitutes is just sex at the end of the day. Take your head out of your arse.
sahseeker 1 year ago 70
@sahseeker You must be fucking ignorant if you think everyone in London snorts coke.
backlikevertabrae 1 year ago
@sahseeker A custodial sentence for coke would mean a good proportion of london's financial district would disappear over night lol believe me. I know.
EllyMcCormack 1 year ago
@sahseeker Any type of drug is as bad as alcohol, so if they're going to ban every other drug, they should ban alcohol. Since they aren't going to do that then they should drop the ban altogether
Laraluva2 11 months ago
@Laraluva2 History has taught us that banning alcohol is retarded.
I don't drink or touch this stuff.
at all.
Its not some big pricky arrogant thing I do i just don't like drinking.
Alcohol wont ever be completely banned in the world and if it is it'll become a vastly popular drug which like in America caused a great amount of organized crime.
Maaaybe we can see alchol banned in America? its already banned in some places in the Middle east.
but the shit would hit the fan if it was in europe.
MrDelusionalPenguin 11 months ago
@Laraluva2 "Any type of drug is as bad as alcohol"
Shall we ban coffee? How about paracetamol? That's a bit impractical isn't it, so we'll not do that. While we're at it we'll legalise heroin and crack. Your logic, not mine
spameister 11 months ago
@spameister well, how about we lift the ban, because frankly - im sick of hearing about how the government is holding the hands of people in this country.
if they want to get shitfaced on alcohol and drugs, fine then.
it's not my problem if they OD.
Laraluva2 11 months ago
@Laraluva2 Guess who'll be footing the NHS bill for that then...
spameister 11 months ago
@sahseeker Might i point out that sex with prostitutes is legal in the UK. Keepin a brothel and being a pimp isnt though, So long as the protitute doesnt solicit in public (kerb crawling), its legal.
upturnedkangaroo 9 months ago
@sahseeker Damn, it's not illegal to stick your head up your arse, is it?
Widmerpool99 8 months ago