He did get intimidated. He switched to a personal attack on Prescott's personal life; when he could have easily made the same point without trying to embarrass him -- in front of an audience.
I’m afraid that I can’t look at John Prescott without imagining him saying, “The mother-in-law came round the other day. I knew she was coming, the mice were throwing themselves on the traps.”
I love how Paul tries to calm things down but when Prescot takes a shot at Ian for being smaller, Paul shoots Prescot down for being too big. Beautiful bit of loyalty there.
@@boahnation9932 an illegal war? And actions during it war crimes? What exactly do people consider Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Calling it a mistake is minimizing the impact and making it about the perpetrator's reputation, not their victims' dignity.
His exchanges with William Hague in parliament could be very funny.Once when Hague was taunting him over his physical encounter with a farm worker who threw an egg at him, Prescott retorted ' I may be known as 'Punch' - but we all know who Judy is...' He was called 'Two Jabs' (two jags) Prescott by the press.
I once met him on a train. He was having some difficulty getting into the disabled lavatory. I had to operate the automatic door for him and nearly ended up in the cubicle with him. I hope he knew how to find his willy, because I sure as hell would have drawn the line at that task.
Merton is a champagne socialist. He didn't like Deayton because he was someone who came from a well off background and went to public school. Basically Merton has a massive chip on his shoulder.
Bloody hell... cost of living these days having John Prescott at your table for Christmas Dinner might be the last time you ever sit at it before having to sell your house!
If Paul Merton can de-escalate a fight between Prescott and Hislop he should be a Middle East peace envoy think of the peace he would bring to the region with his wit.
He's incredibly petty and thinks highly of his own opinions. Also starts needless feuds and can't take any stick back, just plays popularity with the audience of (essentially) his own show, who will always back him over a guest
Nah his reponses are weak just contradicting whether it's true or not Private Eye does get sued all the time and Prescott is allowed to change his mind on Iraq. Blair is hated still because he insists to this day it was the right to do.
I don't support the intervention in Syria, but to be fair even when we did go in we weren't aiming at toppling the government. If we'd gone in the first time, we would have toppled Assad, and then when ISIS flared up a few years later they would likely have taken Damascus and all the industrial and population centres, rather than just tracts of desert and a few cities. Whilst I don't support either, going in the first time would have been FAR worse, so even though Miliband only delayed the intervention, even that delay did achieve a lot.
People forget what Cameron wanted to do. He was actually going to bomb Syria, in support of ISIS. They didn’t realize what it was at the time and were about to make a gigantic blunder. Prescott is right Miliband did stop it and he doesn’t get any credit. When we did intervene in Syria we at least didn’t do it in support of radical Islamists who want to end Western Civilization. That 2 years was vital to understanding who the protagonists in the civil war were. So instead of bombing the Assad regime and pissing off the Russians and helping ISIS the intervention has mainly avoided conflict with Assad and concentrated on putting down radical Islamists. Huge difference, and thanks to Labour and Milliband!
@@Zkkr429 Well said. Our bombings of ISIS (though mostly it was the Americans) were well worth doing, done in coordination with secular, feminist, pro-democracy forces on the ground in the form of the Kurds and their Arab allies, and were critical to enabling them to wipe ISIS off the map.
ZPSBestProfileName The key word in Vulture's comment was "debate". HIGNFY is most definitely not intended for frank discussion of a politician's personal life and or involvement in a party, it's political satire in the end. Though moments like these are good, they're best off as the exception to the rule, and not the rule itself.
The 'terrible family Christmas' joke at 2:45 is the most bog standard stuff that people always say on a show after there's a little argument. Surely she can do better than that.
Paul really saves Ian there . Only issue i ahave with Ian is sadly he has blindedly supported the self regulation by the papers , which is bad due to their own manipulation of complaints . While it is easily argued that any goverment controlling press is equally bad , there are more checks and balances than the self appointed people in their own industry .
Mr Prescott was supposed to be there as a counterweight to the PM when controversial policies were put forward. But, he was given two Jags to go and play with. So, he was not present when the decision to illegally invade Iraq was taken.
I like how Ian never gets intimidated by anyone. And always has enough knowledge in their supposedly specialist subject to rip them apart.
Ian and Paul are a match made in , not heaven , the multiverse. one very educated the other not, but both incredibaly quick witted and mutual respect
He did get intimidated. He switched to a personal attack on Prescott's personal life; when he could have easily made the same point without trying to embarrass him -- in front of an audience.
@@MrEminem He's worth embarrassing though, a truly despicable human being. A vile hypocrite.
I’m afraid that I can’t look at John Prescott without imagining him saying, “The mother-in-law came round the other day. I knew she was coming, the mice were throwing themselves on the traps.”
No, that was Les Dawson.
@@mickeymouse7861 yes, that’s to whom I was referring.
@@mickeymouse7861 Poor Dean.
Loool. Nice one Sarah
Sarah hahahahahahaha!!
"You didn't own up publically you were revealed as doing it!"
LOL
Mogul art
The scale of the fuck up wasn’t clear at first.
Prescott looks like Vader with his helmet off dying on the death star.
Oh my fucking God. Spot on!
😂😂
Fucking hell you're right
More like Jabba the hutt
Maxim X brilliant
Ian is a formidable journalist - None of his old public school chums are safe from his merciless satire.
Yep. He was all over that Jimmy Saville thingy...
Haha! Satire! Yes! Satrise everything! Everything is ridiculous! I am above it all! Haha!
Prescott didn’t go to public school 🤔
@@Celestina0 that's why the media all pilloried him for every little thing while letting their fellow Old Boys get away with much worse
@@ulturehe deserves it. A union champion who became a Lord Prescott phuck him
The human Bullfrog vs An adult baby
darkline64 which one's which? 😂
👍😂
I just spat out all my water out of my nose. 😂😂😂😂
Adult baby stomps on human bullfrog
All day
Hahahahaha!!!
John Prescott knew exactly what the spirit of this programme was all about: serious political discussion with a live studio audience.
He would do good as a new host on Blankety Blank, I let you guess why & what I mean.
Yes talking ballshit as he always does.
I love how Paul tries to calm things down but when Prescot takes a shot at Ian for being smaller, Paul shoots Prescot down for being too big. Beautiful bit of loyalty there.
I'm pretty sure Prescott was refering to when he was filmed punching a protester after getting egged
"This is like a terrible family Christmas" :-D
The audacity to play the death of thousands of people off as a mistake
Right
Millions mate
To be fair... What else would it be? Even if they went in there knowing that is was all a sham, it can still be described as a mistake.
absolutely
@@boahnation9932 an illegal war? And actions during it war crimes? What exactly do people consider Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Calling it a mistake is minimizing the impact and making it about the perpetrator's reputation, not their victims' dignity.
Haha Prescott fought his corner pretty well considering the circumstances.
His exchanges with William Hague in parliament could be very funny.Once when Hague was taunting him over his physical encounter with a farm worker who threw an egg at him, Prescott retorted ' I may be known as 'Punch' - but we all know who Judy is...' He was called 'Two Jabs' (two jags) Prescott by the press.
+Jimmy Dixon war in Iraq - where's the comedy?
What sniffing round Corbyn, What's clever about that. He is a scumbag, like all Labourites.
Which show were you watching 😀
@@philippayne4951 Bullshit.
Victoria Coren-Mitchell's face at 1:49 gets me every time
She was dying of cringe
Gets me hard every time
Ian Hislop can be the most savage man on the planet when he feels like it
"Oh my god! The Daily Mail!"
Harry Enfield fan perchance?
Prescotts Most memorable quote , questioned upon landing after a plane ride... : '' I'm happy to be back on Terra Cotta ''
Gone to pot.
Victoria Coren would be a perfect permanent host of this, clever, witty, on the ball
But I'd much prefer to watch Piers Morgan and like sweat in that chair every week!
NO !!!
,great tits...
She's a tedious royalist centrist.
"it WASN'T embarrassing?!"
1 million civilian deaths in Iraq and he dismisses it as a 'mistake' and laughs it off. what a real human.
Lord two jags prescott.
That was John Prescott's fault, was it?
@@andrewtucker94 he was part of the Government, so yes. And even if he wasn't, no decent human being laughs off 1M civilian deaths.
@@andrewtucker94 not solely. He gets a good portion of the blame though. Or he should.
Just like his affair - it was all a mistake. Like a child he thinks he can get away with anything as long as he apologises afterwards.
It’s like a terrible family Christmas. 😂🤣😂🤣
2:15 You can always count on Paul Merton to ruin good television.
By far one of my favourite ever HIGNFY moments
Prescott, "You didn't give us credit for what we didn't do!". Bloody hell.
I once met him on a train. He was having some difficulty getting into the disabled lavatory. I had to operate the automatic door for him and nearly ended up in the cubicle with him. I hope he knew how to find his willy, because I sure as hell would have drawn the line at that task.
I can't believe I'm your first like
You had me believing you just until the last bit.
Wtf 😂
All we need now is Harry hill to run in and say fight.
Merton ruining the whole thing. This is what HIGNFY needs more of. The show has certainly lost some edge too it in recent years.
+Ad Max Merton hasn't said ANYTHING FUNNY in YEARS!! Just comes out with random childish comments.
+Grant Wilson yeah,but Hislop seems to get away with it. (Remember how he treated Paula Yates)
He needs to diffuse the situation
+TheGava4 Wasn't he completely right about Paula Yeats?
they've been institutionalised. "adjusted"
2:18 Paul Merton actually gets paid every year for lines like this.
Paul Merton seems to have no problem coming to the aid of the likes of Prescott and Yates, yet was absolutely savage when it came to Deayton.
they personally hated eachother!
Why??
Eoin N. Molloy just didn't get on!
Merton is a champagne socialist. He didn't like Deayton because he was someone who came from a well off background and went to public school.
Basically Merton has a massive chip on his shoulder.
Seige CJ Agreed on all points. But I find Merton funnier than Deyton or Hislop (which isn't setting the bar very high, I'll admit)
This show used to be legendary!
This got awkward fast
I think if Baron Prescott was a bit closer he would have given Hislop a left hook
He was known to punch the odd Welshman ....
.. brilliant episode.. love how she says. This is like a terrible family Christmas..😂😂
Bloody hell... cost of living these days having John Prescott at your table for Christmas Dinner might be the last time you ever sit at it before having to sell your house!
Paul is good at calming things down
Is it dolphin in a bathtub?
David Mitchell is one lucky funny man.
@Kent Donaldson Yes he has certainly picked the winning ticket in life's lottery.
@@VincentRE79 she is a lefty fool.
@John Rogers We could overlook that with Victoria.
@@johnrogers2045
Who cares?
All parties are the same. Same shit, different colour scheme.
John Rogers lmao we found the WOKE dude.
Look how uncomfortable merton looks too lol
Why isn't there an Ian Hislop 'Thug Life' compilation?
Sean Conway Someone’s seems to be venting...
IH is a prissy little man and not funny.
Sean Conway lol salty
Just as it's getting good Merton steps in just to let everyone know he is still there. Sit down lad and let it play out.
Agreed. Leave it to the editor.
He actually wants credit for not killing even more innocent people than they actually did 🙄
No he wants credit for stopping innocent people from being killed.
Anyway, we're bound to being America's lapdog now after Brexit, we've been cut off from our other friends in the world
If Paul Merton can de-escalate a fight between Prescott and Hislop he should be a Middle East peace envoy think of the peace he would bring to the region with his wit.
Shooting Prescott would probably be better for the middle-east.
Always had a soft spot for prescott ever since he punched a be mulleted moron for chucking an egg at him...
Nice one John
i so love hislop
I don't.
He's incredibly petty and thinks highly of his own opinions. Also starts needless feuds and can't take any stick back, just plays popularity with the audience of (essentially) his own show, who will always back him over a guest
Nah his reponses are weak just contradicting whether it's true or not Private Eye does get sued all the time and Prescott is allowed to change his mind on Iraq. Blair is hated still because he insists to this day it was the right to do.
@@cun7us me neither mate. hes a cunt.
I so agree
Just let them have a fight it would be hilarious to watch tv gold 🤣🤣🤣
Stopped us going into Syria... for about 2 years. *sigh*
I don't support the intervention in Syria, but to be fair even when we did go in we weren't aiming at toppling the government.
If we'd gone in the first time, we would have toppled Assad, and then when ISIS flared up a few years later they would likely have taken Damascus and all the industrial and population centres, rather than just tracts of desert and a few cities.
Whilst I don't support either, going in the first time would have been FAR worse, so even though Miliband only delayed the intervention, even that delay did achieve a lot.
People forget what Cameron wanted to do. He was actually going to bomb Syria, in support of ISIS. They didn’t realize what it was at the time and were about to make a gigantic blunder. Prescott is right Miliband did stop it and he doesn’t get any credit. When we did intervene in Syria we at least didn’t do it in support of radical Islamists who want to end Western Civilization. That 2 years was vital to understanding who the protagonists in the civil war were. So instead of bombing the Assad regime and pissing off the Russians and helping ISIS the intervention has mainly avoided conflict with Assad and concentrated on putting down radical Islamists. Huge difference, and thanks to Labour and Milliband!
@@Zkkr429 Well said. Our bombings of ISIS (though mostly it was the Americans) were well worth doing, done in coordination with secular, feminist, pro-democracy forces on the ground in the form of the Kurds and their Arab allies, and were critical to enabling them to wipe ISIS off the map.
Mertons interruption wasn't even funny
+Danny Boy This show isn't meant to be a political debate, Merton was trying to keep it light and help the show along
The show is supposed to be political, though. It's nice seeing these exchanges, in between all the crappy one liners
ZPSBestProfileName The key word in Vulture's comment was "debate". HIGNFY is most definitely not intended for frank discussion of a politician's personal life and or involvement in a party, it's political satire in the end. Though moments like these are good, they're best off as the exception to the rule, and not the rule itself.
Yeah but whatever Merton interrupts with should at least be funny.
I'm kind of repeating OP's point seeing as it didn't get through the first time.
Thay never are
SO MUCH BANTER
Mr Toad let himself go
you can imagine mertons ear piece going mental ''say something funny''
Adam G these grillings are half the reason the audience is there
Prescott looks like Buzz Lightyear on his day off.
John Prescott, a man that cant wear a belt and a tie at the same time in case he turns into sausages.
STEPHEN LEE has the same problem
my god it's like a trickster uncle vs. an evil uncle
Tony told me to go and connect with the electorate. So that what I did.
'Two Jags' was just yet another massive liar. He was caught out many times...but just continued his lies. Did he know Ronnie Pickering?
RONNIE PICKERING!!
@Stephen Crowther RONNIE F*****G PICKERING!!
Who?
Thanks for posting.
This is so refreshing, at last TV viewing with NO REHERSALS....!
Like most people who think they "deserve forgiveness" for having owned up.. they only owned up having been exposed as having done it!
Prescott saying about Blair with Iraq, Ed Miliband and Syria. MILLIBAND WAS NOT PRIME MINISTER WHERE AS TONY BLAIR WAS.
Les Dawson's let himself go
Thanks for sharing, I love British Comedy x
never would've guessed
@@leood5431 Lol!
Victoria saying massive is exciting
This isn’t Hislop and Prescott. This is Claude Cat and Marc Antony.
The only thing Prescott would win is a pie eating contest.
I knew this was going to be good going in. I wasn't disappointed
The problem with John Prescott is he would always got aggressive. Would never have liked working in any of his departments.
Well, his department had a big bullying problem - I wonder why? Good old compassionate Labour!
Huge respect for Prescott that he punched that cowardly egg-throwing thug on the campaign trail despite the obvious negative repercussions.
Paul slammed Prescott pretty good with that 'Room Service' quip
Ian Hislop for prime minister!
David Mitchell did very well
Paul Merton still has a thousand-yard stare to his hard left for some reason.
Lol at Merton's comment at the end- would pay good money to see Hislop and Prescott have a scrap
Can we get some love for Prescott here? Guy has always been a fucking battleaxe of awesome whether you agree with his politics or not.
Agreed.
The 'terrible family Christmas' joke at 2:45 is the most bog standard stuff that people always say on a show after there's a little argument. Surely she can do better than that.
'we made a mistake' sorry John thats pathetic
Very very good interjection from Victoria Coren at the start
is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
great video
Ian Hislop is superb, he doesn't hold back. And Victoria Coren is SO fit!
Paul really saves Ian there . Only issue i ahave with Ian is sadly he has blindedly supported the self regulation by the papers , which is bad due to their own manipulation of complaints . While it is easily argued that any goverment controlling press is equally bad , there are more checks and balances than the self appointed people in their own industry .
Oh my god the daily mailll!
Go on Ian.👍
Hislop had the select committee on the ropes and chickened out “ Is that too strong “?
He doesn't in the paper he editor of. But on the show he is paid by and therefor representative of BBC. BBC lays down lines he cannot cross
Two Jags Prescott and his warmonger mates Blair, Brown, Straw etc trying to defend his part the Iraq war!!
Mr Prescott was supposed to be there as a counterweight to the PM when controversial policies were put forward. But, he was given two Jags to go and play with. So, he was not present when the decision to illegally invade Iraq was taken.
"illegally invade Iraq was taken" What a nonsensical comment! What do you mean by "illegal"? But, of course, you haven´t a clue.
Both born in Wales so both know how to argue
Ian is always the winner!
Except in Syria Assad had used chemicals weapons on his subjects not long before the military action.
Nine years ago means nothing
Battle of the Double Chins
Coren's dad was talented😎
instead of the press , make the government more accountable.........
I feel so sorry for Victoria and Paul
Mistake.....understatement
2:38 enough meat for a few chicken wings there
Love Ian Hislop
I can't stand Hislop but in a battle of wits Prescott is unarmed and shown as the buffoon he is
Utterly detestable, the lot of them.
I doubt there has ever been a more duplicitous slimy politico (And I DO include Bliar) than two Jags utterly revolting insect.
*WHAT’S YOUR COMPLAINT?*
Was this aired or cut out?
Merton boring get should have provoked them more , that’s what the viewers wanted am I right or am I right.
My God, is that man getting all the goodies available to the Lords for making a mess of this country?
I didn´t know there was an actual live version of Jabba the Hutt, I thought he was just a made-up character in a movie!