History Awesome / HaveIGotNewsForYou

** Season 27, episode 3 - Paul finally having enough of Robert Kilroy-Silk (who had kept interrupting Paul during the whole show) and shouts at him '''"ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP!"''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6kbU0SWiY One of the few times you really see him so pissed off.]]

* A collective one in October 2009. Nick Griffin (leader of the right-wing British Nationalist Party) had been getting huge publicity all week thanks to press stupidity. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lymg9PYdEXM Then his picture appeared in the "guess the major news story" round]]... and all four panelists (Ian, Paul, and guests Ed Byrne and Grayson Perry) agreed that they had no idea who he was. Presenter Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}} immediately moved them on to the next question, effectively dismissing Griffin as an irrelevance.

-->'''Piers:''' ''"The tragedy was that the poor girl who won had a terrible arthritic attack, moments before she went on stage."''
-->'''Clive:''' ''"Piers, it's a ''comedy'' news quiz. Arthritis doesn't normally feature in that."''
-->'''Piers:''' ''"Well, you're here Clive."''
-->''(audience "ooo's")''
-->'''Clive:''' ''"Well, you won't be back."''
-->''(audience laughs)''

-->'''Clive Anderson:''' Surely you must have covered this ''[[[YetAnotherBabyPanda random story about a German hippopotamus dying after accidentally swallowing a tennis ball]]]''? Page-five sort of story?\\

* Ian's unexpected ExpospeakGag description of the J-Lo song "Jenny from the Block."

--> '''Christine:''' Hang on, wait a moment, would you mind cutting out the word disgraced when you refer to my husband in future? If he's disgraced, what are you?
--> '''Angus:''' Disgraced, I think. So, I haven't banged on about family values for the last seven years.

--> '''Angus:''' "Time for our Odd One Out round, in which a monkey with a pin has a one-in-four chance of getting right -- so let's see how he does. Paul..."

** He's hilarious in that episode, too, clearly due to having even less patience than usual -- he kept fidgeting and responded to EVERYTHING. One of the two top stories was the revelation that Conservative politician and [[ObviouslyEvil self-described Nazi]] Alan Clark had been having affairs with the entire family of some equally right-wing judge. Following a comment from Paul that how Clark should "get the father drunk and go for a full house," Ian launched straight into a long rant about how horrible everyone involved was, which got a round of applause and only stopped when Angus pointed out that [[FailedASpotCheck no one had actually given the answer yet]]. The rest of the episode features him bitching about trains and utterly ignoring Mariella Frostrup's attempt to bring up ''Magazine/PrivateEye'''s mockery of her, and perhaps best of all, when Paul, aided by Neil Kinnock, had engaged Angus in a somewhat SeinfeldianConversation about [[{{Oireland}} whether it's cool to make a joke with the premise that Irishmen walk around carrying pigs under their arms]], Ian can suddenly be heard (offscreen and in a slightly strangled voice) remarking, "Pigs in the West Midlands have an Irishman under their arm."

** In the sixth episode of series 18, during Odd One Out, he demonstrates his knowledge of Music/TheBeatles trivia when Ian's teammate Anna Ford fails to come up with the answer for a group consisting of Mao Tse Tung, Music/BobDylan, a Walrus, and Creator/JefferyArcher. Paul then takes charge:

** When Roy Hattersley pulled out for the third time in the final episode of series 5, Paul had to do the show with a Tub of Lard as his teammate, and his headlines in the Missing Words round were in French, German, Russian, Japanese, and English (but completely blacked out), only the first of which he could even begin to understand...he still won.
** In the sixth episode of series 18, during Odd One Out, he demonstrates his knowledge of Music/TheBeatles trivia when Ian's teammate Anna Ford fails to come up with the answer for a group consisting of Mao Tse Tung, Music/BobDylan, a Walrus, and Jeffery Archer. Paul then takes charge:

* Angus Deayton got one in a few episodes after being subjected to a {{humiliation conga}} for his exploits with a call girl. Christine Hamilton was on, and her husband Neil (a former Tory MP) came up in a couple of "Odd One Out" questions. Each time he was mentioned Angus described him as "disgraced", and after the third time Christine cracked.

** Admittedly, the awesomeness was lessened a bit after Paul named this as the moment he knew the show couldn't survive with Angus anymore, but it was still a pretty good comeback under the circumstances.

** Season 27, episode 3 - Paul finally having enough of Robert Kilroy-Silk (who had kept interrupting Paul during the whole show) and shouts at him ''' "ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" ''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6kbU0SWiY One of the few times you really see Paul Merton so pissed off.]]

* After boxer Tyson Fury made headlines for a series of homophobic and sexist remarks, Paul shut down the discussion by pointing out that the best thing we could do was ignore Fury and deny him a platform for his sad and irrelevant views. Amidst huge applause, the questions were dropped and the show moved on to the next round.

* Ian utterly shredding Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, for his ''completely'' hypocritical (and ''extremely disrespectful'') article about the late [[BadassBookworm Ralph]] [[ImmigrantPatriotism Miliband]]. During his rant, Ian point out that (inhales breath)... the Daily Mail supported a fascist regime seeking to invade Britain (endorsing the Blackshirts during their efforts in Kristallnacht), then pointed out that the Daily Mail has offices based abroad in tax offices to pay less corporate tax in the UK, and finishes it off with the [[SarcasmMode shocking surprise]] that Paul Dacre doesn't even live in Britain. A rant which points out that, at the end of the day, the Mail hates Britain more than Ralph Miliband ever did.

* Angus giving Neil and Christine Hamilton their "fees" in brown envelopes, and Ian asking Jonathan Aitken to pay him back the money ''PrivateEye'' lost being sued for printing stuff about him that he later went to jail for.

* Angus Deayton got one in a few episodes after being subjected to a {{humiliation conga}} for his exploits with a call girl. Christine Hamilton was on, and the answer to an "odd one out" question was her husband Neil (a former Tory [=MP=]), who Angus described as 'disgraced', at which point Christine cracked.

** Bloom does deserve a small degree of credit for not flipping out as he usually does to any bit of criticism.

* Angus Deayton got one in a few episodes after being subjected to a {{humiliation conga}} for his exploits with a call girl. Christine Hamilton was on, and Angus kept referring to her husband Neil (a former Tory [=MP=]) as 'disgraced'. Eventually Christine cracked.
--> '''Christine:''' Stop referring to my husband as disgraced. If he's disgraced, what are you?
--> '''Angus:''' I don't know. Disgraced, I suppose. So, I haven't been banging on about family values for the last seven years.

* A collective one in October 2009. Nick Griffin (leader of the right-wing British Nationalist Party) had been getting huge publicity all week thanks to press stupidity. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lymg9PYdEXM Then his picture appeared in the "guess the major news story" round]]... and all four panelists (Ian, Paul, and guests Ed Byrne and Grayson Perry) agreed that they had no idea who he was. Presenter Creator/DavidMitchell immediately moved them on to the next question, effectively dismissing Griffin as an irrelevance.

** He's hilarious in that episode, too, clearly due to having even less patience than usual -- he kept fidgeting and responded to EVERYTHING. One of the two top stories was the revelation that Conservative politician and [[ObviouslyEvil self-described Nazi]] Alan Clark had been having affairs with the entire family of some equally right-wing judge. Following a comment from Paul that how Clark should "get the father drunk and go for a full house," Ian launched straight into a long rant about how horrible everyone involved was, which got a round of applause and only stopped when Angus pointed out that [[FailedASpotCheck no one had actually given the answer yet]]. The rest of the episode features him bitching about trains and utterly ignoring Mariella Frostrup's attempt to bring up ''PrivateEye'''s mockery of her, and perhaps best of all, when Paul, aided by Neil Kinnock, had engaged Angus in a somewhat SeinfeldianConversation about [[{{Oireland}} whether it's cool to make a joke with the premise that Irishmen walk around carrying pigs under their arms]], Ian can suddenly be heard (offscreen and in a slightly strangled voice) remarking, "Pigs in the West Midlands have an Irishman under their arm."

** For the Odd One Out round, Morgan uses a joke that Eddie Izzard used in the previous episode, randomly saying "Jam" as the answer. When he fails to get a laugh and explains why he said it, Ian states why Eddie got a laugh and Piers didn't: "People like him." It turns into something of a BrickJoke when in the Missing Words round, Ian uses the 'jam' gag and gets a laugh.

* Sir Patrick Moore [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment accompanying the closing theme tune on the xylophone]].

** In the sixth episode of series 18, during Odd One Out, he demonstrates his knowledge of Beatles trivia when Ian's teammate Anna Ford fails to come up with the answer for a group consisting of Mao Tse Tung, Bob Dylan, a Walrus, and Jeffery Archer. Paul then takes charge:
--->'''Paul:''' It's Beatles: Mao Tse Tung is mentioned in the song "Revolution", Bob Dylan's mentioned in the song "Yer Blues", the Walrus is mentioned in the song '''"I AM the Walrus"''', and Jeffrey Archer is there because he appeared with the Beatles in 1963 having raised money with them to Oxfam, '''two points please'''!

** Season 27, episode 3 - Paul finally having enough of Robert Kilroy-Silk (who had kept interupting Paul during the whole show) and shouts at him ''' "ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! ROBERT, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" ''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6kbU0SWiY One of the few times you really see Paul Merton so pissed off.]]

* The fact that Salman Rushdie was on the show.

* '''{{BRIAN BLESSED}}!''' He impressively managed to destroy Paul's deadpan demeanour just by being himself.

* Charlie Brooker utterly shredding a group of people complaining about newsreaders not showing enough of their legs.

** Later in that episode, he bemoans the fact that the media have treated {{George Clooney}}'s engagement like a serious news story, for which he receives huge applause.

* A collective one in October 2009. Nick Griffin (leader of the right-wing British Nationalist Party) had been getting huge publicity all week thanks to press stupidity. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lymg9PYdEXM Then his picture appeared in the "guess the major news story" round]]... and all four panelists (Ian, Paul, and guests Ed Byrne and Grayson Perry) agreed that they had no idea who he was. Presenter DavidMitchell immediately moved them on to the next question, effectively dismissing Griffin as an irrelevance.

* Paul Merton has had a few on {{Have I Got News For You}}.

* The entire panel (but especially Paul) completely destroying Louise Mensch on her second appearance.
** Arguably HarsherInHindsight. Her argument that Occupy Wall Street protestors in London going to Starbucks makes a lot more sense, now that the latter has been exposed as being heavily into tax avoidance. Of course, given how this wasn't exactly well known at the time (and given the fact that Mensch did use InsaneTrollLogic), it's still pretty awesome.

** For the Odd One Out round, Morgan uses a joke that Eddie Izzard used in the previous episode, randomly saying "Jam" as the answer. When he fails to get a laugh and explains why he said it, Ian explains why Eddie got a laugh and Piers didn't: "People like him."
** In the Missing Words round, Ian uses the 'jam' gag and gets a laugh. Morgan later says to Hislop "Don't try the popularity line with me, Hislop," and then appeals to the audience to see if anyone likes him. Keep in mind that this is Morgan going on Ian's show, picking a fight with Ian, then expecting the audience to take his side. The audience promptly cheer and applaud in support of Ian, thus giving the audience a Crowning Moment of Awesome.

** Guest captain, Clive Anderson, has a moment every time Morgan, ''his own teammate'', has a go at him. For instance:

* '''{{BRIAN BLESSED}}!'''

* Paul regularly needles Angus throughout most of the latter's run as host, though occasionally the Angus gets back at him:
--> '''Angus:''' "Time for our Odd One Out round, where a monkey with a pin has a one-in-four chance of getting right -- so let's see how he does! Paul..."

* Paul regularly needles Angus throughout the series, though occasionally the latter will get back at him:

* In the Missing Words round, Ian uses the 'jam' gag and gets a laugh. Morgan later says to Hislop "Don't try the popularity line with me, Hislop," and then appeals to the audience to see if anyone likes him. Keep in mind that this is Morgan going on Ian's show, picking a fight with Ian, then expecting the audience to take his side. The audience promptly cheer and applaud in support of Ian, thus giving the audience a Crowning Moment of Awesome.

--> '''Angus:''' I don't know, disgraced I suppose. But at least I didn't spend five years banging on about family values.