History YMMV / HAVEIGOTNEWSFORYOU

** Angus Deayton. There are those who think the Deayton years are untouchable and superior in quality, whereas there are some who think the guest-hosted years allowed for more variety and gave the show a much needed shot in the arm.

* FanNickname: Episode six of series twenty-three is known as, by everybody, the "Angus Deayton Scandal Episode" (a CD release of highlights from the show referred to it as "The Angus Show"). Episode two of series twenty-four is known as, by a lot of the core fandom, "Angus' goodbye", or some variation.

** A lot of jokes about sex/drugs made to or by Deayton while he was host take on a different tenor watching them now. In the commentary for the "Very Best Of" DVD, Merton and Hislop have fun pointing these out, even making jokes about things like fake snow falling on Angus ("What's all that white stuff falling on Angus?" "He just chucked away about 80 quid's worth there")

* UnintentionallySympathetic: When the scandalous details of Angus Deayton's personal came out, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop had great fun alongside the public in skewering him. However, Deayton took it all with remarkably good humour and never swiped back despite how Merton and Hislop relentlessly piled on him. This resulted in public opinion swinging a little back in his favour. It's also notable that the one time Angus ''did'' swipe back at one of the guests (Christine Hamilton, the wife of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician) a disgraced former Tory MP]], who tried to call Angus out as a hypocrite for repeatedly bringing up her husband's scandal), Paul and Ian saw this as a sign the show couldn't survive with him anymore even though the studio audience reaction had clearly been on his side, approving of his AtLeastIAdmitIt attitude.

* VindicatedByHistory: While the guest host format has held up well, Angus' scandal doesn't seem so bad now, and some people online do say that when the show eventually ends, [[BookEnds Angus should be the one to host the final episode]].

** In a 2015 episode, Jon Richardson joked about Alex Salmond offering to show people his [="SNPenis"=]. In 2018, Salmond resigned from the SNP following allegations of sexual misconduct, and was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault the following year. And then in 2020, the [=SNP’s=] Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay, resigned after it was revealed that he’d sent inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old boy.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: When the scandalous details of Angus Deayton's personal came out, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop had great fun alongside the public in skewering him. However, Deayton took it all with remarkably good humour and never swiped back despite how Merton and Hislop relentlessly piled on him. This resulted in public opinion swinging a little back in his favour. It's also notable that the one time Angus ''did'' swipe back at one of the guests (Christine Hamilton, the wife of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician) a disgraced former Tory MP]]), Paul and Ian saw this as a sign the show couldn't survive with him anymore even though the studio audience reaction had clearly been on his side, approving of his AtLeastIAdmitIt attitude.

** In Jerry Springer's episode, he goes off on a tangent about buying a pig from a county fair auction, lamenting the fact that she will likely outlive him: "Bella could live 25 years. I'm not gonna live 25 years. Bella is now in my will!" Given that Springer was "only" 64 in December 2008, his absolute certainty that he wouldn't live to be 89 was quite funny at the time. Less so when he died less than 15 years later.

** Not in the same league as the above examples, but every time Paul needles Angus, it's quite clear in hindsight that he wasn't kidding, even though the audience laughs when he does it.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: When the scandalous details of Angus Deayton's personal came out, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop had great fun alongside the public in skewering him. However, Deayton took it all with remarkably good humour and never swiped back despite how Merton and Hislop relentlessly piled on him. This resulted in public opinion swinging a little back in his favour. It's also noticeable that the one time Angus ''did'' swipe back at one of the guests (Christine Hamilton, the wife of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician) a disgraced former Tory MP]]), Paul and Ian saw this as a sign the show couldn't survive with him anymore even though the studio audience reaction was clearly on his side.

** While Creator/JeremyClarkson was initially a popular host, if obnoxious at points, the news that the BBC are considering letting him return as host in the future, after his assaulting a producer on ''Series/TopGear'', has split the base. On the one hand, some feel that he shouldn't be barred from the BBC altogether, whereas on the other hand some feel it sends the wrong message and implies he can easily get around (his version of) ''Top Gear'' supposedly ending. As it stands, Clarkson dropped out of Series 49's lineup but is due to return for the autumn/winter series in 2015.

* ArchivePanic: As of 2015, 49 series have been made, most of which [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes have not been put out on DVD.]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: When the scandalous details of Angus Deayton's personal came out, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop had great fun alongside the public in skewering him. However, Deayton took it all with remarkably good humour and never swiped back despite how Merton and Hislop relentlessly piled on him. This resulted in public opinion swinging a little back in his favour.

* UnacceptableTargets:
** Discussed on the show a few times when a RidiculouslyCuteCritter is shown and cause the audience to go "aww". Ian immediately calls the audience out on one occasion, for laughing when a human being dies horribly but for defending the animals.
** Someone who is horribly disabled or has had serious misfortune is likely to be one of the few humans to not be made fun of on the show.
** One of the few cases where you can't make a joke about a group is in the case of abuse victims, as Creator/JimmySavile and Max Clifford have proved. Time will tell if this extends to Rolf Harris as well.
** The show notably did not cover the death of former Lib Dem leader (and nine-time guest on the show) Charles Kennedy as a news story, instead opting to pay tribute to him with a selection of clips from his appearances and describing him as "a friend of the show".

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: During the show's long run, many.
** The Liberal Democrats, and before them the Social Democratic Party; anyone voting for them was treated as drunk or mad.
--->'''Alexander Armstrong''': There's no time for the proposed 10% increase in cider prices, so great news for people in UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, who are free to resume to local tradition of getting so smashed out of their skulls they end up voting Lib Dem.
** Along with the show's usual targets like Jeffrey Archer or John Prescott, at least earlier on.
** Eric Pickles seemed to have been the generally agreed-upon joke fodder for season 40, Prescott now being elevated to the House of Lords and no longer on the Labour front bench, and Pickles being in government and being even more rotund than Prescott at his peak.
** Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were targets throughout their run for the White House in 2012, to the point that even the leader of ''UKIP'' (itself a target as lampshaded by Nigel Farage) was able to get in a joke at them.
** The Murdochs are frequent targets, given their media empire and influence on global politics.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In episode five of season 42, [[Creator/DavidMitchellActor DavidMitchell]] reveals that he knows the price of a Ready Meal for One, prompting the audience's sympathy (much to his emarassment). He's now married to Victoria Coren.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In episode five of season 42, Creator/DavidMitchellActor reveals that he knows the price of a Ready Meal for One, prompting the audience's sympathy (much to his emarassment). He's now married to Victoria Coren.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The Norwegian adaptation of this this show, titled ''Nytt På Nytt'' has consistently been Norway's most popular TV show for several years.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** In the commentary track on the 2002 "Very Best Of" complication DVD of the first twelve years of the show, Merton and Hislop acknowledge all the jokes that couldn't be made now, particularly the ones about Princess Diana in the years before her tragic death.
** The 1995 episode where Hislop mercilessly picks on guest Paula Yates was viewed less favourably after she went into a downward spiral following Michael Hutchence's suicide in 1997, eventually dying of a drug overdose in 2000. In interviews however, Hislop insists that Paula Yates was not a "no-hoper" and capable of defending herself, otherwise he would not have gone on the attack.

** The joke about Iain and Duncan Smith being identical twins running a political party got even more amusing when that actually happened in Poland -- the Polish twins became President and Prime Minister. (And now a FunnyAneurysmMoment now that one of those twins was the highest-profile casualty of the 2010 Polish plane crash.)

* AcceptableTargets: During the show's long run, many.

** The Daily Mail is an easy target, owing to [[InsaneTrollLogic their]] [[SarcasmMode highly prestigious]] [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer take on things]], to say nothing of their [[KickTheDog rather cruel]] articles. Mentioning that you like or work for the Mail is a very easy way to become TheScrappy for the rest of the panel, most of the time.

** To stop a flood of potential entries for this moment, as long as you are not horribly disabled/have had some '''seriously extreme''' accidents or misfortune and have not been a major douche about it, ''you are this''. And even then, depending [[BlackComedy on the contestants]]...
*** Even if you are dead, this trope is very much in effect, as shown for Robert Maxwell and UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, and UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein.