Still one of the most memorable episodes. And many thanks to Jimmy as Anne Widdecombe said he was the reason she would never come back to the program again.
I'm American and a big Jimmy Carr fan, but as much as I've heard about Ann Widdecombe, I've never seen her. Seeing her now, thank God Jimmy Carr is in this episode.
I'm not normally a Jimmy Carr fan but he was the only one who really managed to hold his own here. Without him the episode would have been a monologue from Widdicome. Even Merton seemed at a loss.
I've never enjoyed Jimmy C more than here, taking on A Widdicomb. She may be a piece of work, but the two episodes of Hignify with her hosting bring out the best in the panel.
I think the exact same thing! I thought her and Jimmy got along great so I didn’t understand in later episodes… Paul and Ian both commented that Widdicombe would not come back because of how Jimmy carr treated her. I thought they got along just fine? What am I missing?
@@hullinstruments What you're missing is an unedited, hours-long recording session from which a lot has been edited out before televisual broadcast. I think it shouldn't take too much imagination to imagine what might have been said in those cut-out bits since the person we're talking about is Jimmy Carr
@@hullinstruments she was somewhat of a good sport about it (or at least it was edited to appear that way) but he did mock her quite a few times. As did everyone else. It was probably jimmy pretending to flirt with her that did it.
@@chrism6952 pure gold in my opinion I would love to see the hours uncut version. Another person who stood up extremely well after the editing was Boris Johnson's first appearance. Can't stand the man's politics and I'm an American so I don't know enough to come in anyway... But he was downright charming and likable as hell as they kept drilling him and he kept getting more and more uncomfortable but still laughing it off.
@@hullinstruments Well I think he got elected on personality rather than policies so that makes sense.. I liked him better as a presenter than a politician. Jacob Rees Mogg was surprisingly likeable as a panelist too. I like that they actually bring on people with opposing opinions but I honestly dont understand why they agree to do the show.
I would love to see the unedited tape of this episode. You have Jimmy Carr who can rip you apart 20 different ways before you know it, Paul who is very good at subtle and not so subtle attacks, even Ian was ripping into her.
What? She was witty as a firecracker and handed the perennially smug Hislop his hat and reduced a less and less engaged but still self-approving Merton to phoning in desperate eye rolls! I'm no tory, but credit where it is due. The only one to give her a challenge was Carr. I respect Merton and Hislop's cleverness, but they had it coming. They mercilessly mock who they don't approve of, even if it's just because they think they ought not to. You don't have to support her., she was surprisingly funny!
@@editor4958 We really cannot have watched the same episode. You think THAT was funny? Blimey. Anything even remotely funny said by her was in the autocue bits anyway, so it's not her words. It's pretty telling that the only time she properly laughed was when Jimmy joked about poorly-paid Eastern European labourers
Wow someone agrees! That was loads of fun. I don't agree with the politics personally but She was witty as a firecracker though and handed the perennially smug Hislop his hat and reduced a less and less engaged but still self-approving Merton to phoning in desperate eye rolls! I'm no tory, but credit where it is due. The only one to give her a challenge was Carr. I respect Merton and Hislop's cleverness, but they had it coming. They mercilessly mock who they don't approve of, even if it's just because they think they ought do. You don't have to support her, she was surprisingly funny!
its like she was the knuckles rapping teacher who traumatized everyone at school and it took half the episode for the guys to remember they were all adults now 😂 you could see their childhood responses each rise up at first though lol
I feel like Jimmy always has some replies locked and loaded, like how when a host prompted Paul to "go higher" with a number and Paul just repeated his answer but raised the pitch of his voice lol. I think Jimmy keeps some replies to common phrases ready to go. And that might make it sound like I'm simplifying his comedy - far from it. Keeping all that stuff straight in your head and knowing when to use it is a great skill. Imo Jimmy is really consistent with his humor, his pacing and tone, and honestly, if I was 1/8th as funny I'd feel blessed beyond reason.
This episode would've been a flaming disaster without Jimmy, though Ian and Paul got in a few good ones. The Carr-Widdecombe duel alone is worth the watch.
I teach part-time in a middle school, and Jimmy Carr is the kind of student I dread. He's cocky and outspoken, charming, defiant, and he has no filter. It's not his behavior, but I think you can relate to the effect a kid like that can have on the rest of the class. (I'm not a proper teacher, just after-school music classes. Maybe you're better with kids like that than I am.)
today on ReWatch : Shreds of Widdecombe , the eye roll to god was her breaking point. congrats to Paul for finally getting her. Jimmy Carr was very close. you'd have thought the 'bag puss' comment would have been it.
WTF are you talking about? The only reaction at all was with Carr. He took the moment as it was and played with it. Hislop and Merton clearly were surprised that their regular entitlement to smugly mock the guest was denied by actual wit! Screw tories but those two needed a dose of their own medicine. She was funny.
You know when something is so bad that you are probably gonna watch it again? So bad that you never wwant to see it repeated? My mind keep on wrapping around who booked her? What their general sense of humour like? Such a wonderful episode, for all the wrong reasons!
OMG!!!! Jimmy Carr MVP!!! Anne has a quickfire acerbic comeback handy but her performance was still stock insufferable Widdicome. At the 12 minute mark, I paused the show and said to my gf, "She's never coming back on this show. She's no match for Jimmy and he knows blood is in the water, he's all game on!" My gf who was not as familiar with Jimmy as I am, said, "What do you mean?" I told her just watch, "He's going to slice and dice her." Did he ever!!! She held up pretty well, all in all. I am impressed.
oh man this show would have flopped so hard if jimmy weren't the beautiful sadist he is. ian and paul were having none of it!!! too funny to watch a train wreck like this
Why won’t she come back? In later episodes I’ve heard them mention several times that she refuses to do the show again after how Jimmy treated her… But you can plainly hear her laughing her ass off like she’s really enjoying it, and I think she’s fucking hilarious. I have no idea about her politics … I’m an American and I can hardly understand your politics over there…so maybe she’s crazy? but she’s absolutely brilliant and cut out to be a host on these shows. She’s great.
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For all the criticism, I think she holds her own in her own way. I can't stand her politics, but she's not an idiot--it's just that her style doesn't match with the kind of humor of people like Carr, and since Carr's style is the one that tends to be favored on a show like this, she comes off looking the worst. When you watch a Brian Blessed episode, it's kind of the same--his style is completely different, and it *should* be a train wreck (and kind of is), but he makes it work by completely ignoring the "rules" of the show and bellowing over any objections.
In a way? I don't agree, I was amazed at how funny she was! There was wit there. I don't agree with tory politics but I also don't always agree with Hislop's smug self righteousness or Merton's interrupt and mock everything, collect check stencil. I found it great fun to see them get a dose of their own cod liver oil. Unlike them, Carr did not seem to come in thinking "I'm entitled to gun her down" rather, reacted to who she was being, instead of who she is supposed to be and as a result did not look petty, just the rather vapid fellow he likes to portray!
He never found his footing with Anne. Some experience in standup, dealing with hecklers, would have really help him here. Jimmy was locked and loaded the second he knew what's up. Not just a natural, but a seasoned one. He ceased the night.
Clearly. I guess is why she was able to laughably PWN a typically smug Hislop, and Merton. I think they were not prepared for her to have a guest with wit. I love 'em but it's about time that lazy entitlement got challenged.
When do you suppose was the moment that Jimmy decided he was going to absolutely ruin Ann? And how long did it take him to get his commendation for doing so?
I’ve seen Anne Widdicome on a more recent program where they were doing some historical reenactment and she was belligerent and bossy to others. What a miserable person.
With her terrible teeth, wooden manner and moaning voice, Ann Widdecombe plays into every single stereotype of the British that we have here in the U.S. This one was brilliant and I loved it.
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Still one of the most memorable episodes. And many thanks to Jimmy as Anne Widdecombe said he was the reason she would never come back to the program again.
Hard to know when she is ad libbing and when she's reading the script.
I swear this is the funniest programme i have ever seen in my life. It is like that Monty Python episode. Jimmy Carr is brilliant in this!!!!
I'm American and a big Jimmy Carr fan, but as much as I've heard about Ann Widdecombe, I've never seen her.
Seeing her now, thank God Jimmy Carr is in this episode.
I'm not normally a Jimmy Carr fan but he was the only one who really managed to hold his own here. Without him the episode would have been a monologue from Widdicome. Even Merton seemed at a loss.
@@rebefarfort1244 I think Paul gave up right away after she shut Alex down at 6:24. Did she think she was actually in charge, or funny?
"Why would I want to listen to a wrong answer?"
"Well, you've been in the Tory party most of your life."
Brilliant comeback from Ian 😂
just for reference, that's at 15:35
I've never enjoyed Jimmy C more than here, taking on A Widdicomb. She may be a piece of work, but the two episodes of Hignify with her hosting bring out the best in the panel.
I think the exact same thing! I thought her and Jimmy got along great so I didn’t understand in later episodes… Paul and Ian both commented that Widdicombe would not come back because of how Jimmy carr treated her. I thought they got along just fine? What am I missing?
@@hullinstruments What you're missing is an unedited, hours-long recording session from which a lot has been edited out before televisual broadcast. I think it shouldn't take too much imagination to imagine what might have been said in those cut-out bits since the person we're talking about is Jimmy Carr
@@hullinstruments she was somewhat of a good sport about it (or at least it was edited to appear that way) but he did mock her quite a few times. As did everyone else. It was probably jimmy pretending to flirt with her that did it.
@@chrism6952 pure gold in my opinion I would love to see the hours uncut version. Another person who stood up extremely well after the editing was Boris Johnson's first appearance. Can't stand the man's politics and I'm an American so I don't know enough to come in anyway... But he was downright charming and likable as hell as they kept drilling him and he kept getting more and more uncomfortable but still laughing it off.
@@hullinstruments Well I think he got elected on personality rather than policies so that makes sense.. I liked him better as a presenter than a politician. Jacob Rees Mogg was surprisingly likeable as a panelist too. I like that they actually bring on people with opposing opinions but I honestly dont understand why they agree to do the show.
Like watching a substitute teacher trying to control a classroom of misbehaving kids determined to make the teacher's life uncomfortable - Hilarious!
I would love to see the unedited tape of this episode. You have Jimmy Carr who can rip you apart 20 different ways before you know it, Paul who is very good at subtle and not so subtle attacks, even Ian was ripping into her.
This is the wildest one I have ever seen. The whole thing has come unhinged, and it's hilarious.
Ian yelling at Ann will never not amuse me
15:53 Jimmy Carr nodding like a proud dad would when his kid has said something glorious.
Jimmy Carr is on fire!
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This is the best episode, pure genius 👏
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She’s got a voice best suited to mime.
She sounds like Lady Grantham without the class
🤣😂😂😂
And a face suited for radio..
This episode (along with the ones with Tom Baker or Brian Blessed or William Shatner) is a classic. Widdicomb is a character and a half.
For the first few minutes I thought she was doing a "bit"
But she's really like that, isn't she?
She increases in awfulness as she ages.. like a particularly bad wine.
@@kida4313 "increases in awfulness" - oh shit!!!! lmfao!!!!
What? She was witty as a firecracker and handed the perennially smug Hislop his hat and reduced a less and less engaged but still self-approving Merton to phoning in desperate eye rolls! I'm no tory, but credit where it is due. The only one to give her a challenge was Carr. I respect Merton and Hislop's cleverness, but they had it coming. They mercilessly mock who they don't approve of, even if it's just because they think they ought not to. You don't have to support her., she was surprisingly funny!
@@editor4958 We really cannot have watched the same episode. You think THAT was funny? Blimey. Anything even remotely funny said by her was in the autocue bits anyway, so it's not her words. It's pretty telling that the only time she properly laughed was when Jimmy joked about poorly-paid Eastern European labourers
I didn't think I'd like this one despite being a big Jimmy Carr fan - instead, laughed until I cried.
I'd heard her name but hadn't ever seen her until now. Jimmy handled her beautifully. I do wonder if they hooked up after the show😘😄
One of the funniest HIGNFY
She might be a bad politician but she is bloody funny there
Wow someone agrees! That was loads of fun. I don't agree with the politics personally but She was witty as a firecracker though and handed the perennially smug Hislop his hat and reduced a less and less engaged but still self-approving Merton to phoning in desperate eye rolls! I'm no tory, but credit where it is due. The only one to give her a challenge was Carr. I respect Merton and Hislop's cleverness, but they had it coming. They mercilessly mock who they don't approve of, even if it's just because they think they ought do. You don't have to support her, she was surprisingly funny!
Thanks so much for posting.
Absolutely brilliant!
11:16 Paul’s smile!!! Love it!
Man, that voice is torture.
My buthole IMMEDIATELY clenched
Yeup. Unwatchable because of it.
This has got to be my favorite so far. :-)
its like she was the knuckles rapping teacher who traumatized everyone at school and it took half the episode for the guys to remember they were all adults now 😂 you could see their childhood responses each rise up at first though lol
LEGENDARY!
All these boys knew the wheels were coming off in the first 5 minutes.
The wheels have never been on tighter.
I feel like Jimmy always has some replies locked and loaded, like how when a host prompted Paul to "go higher" with a number and Paul just repeated his answer but raised the pitch of his voice lol. I think Jimmy keeps some replies to common phrases ready to go. And that might make it sound like I'm simplifying his comedy - far from it. Keeping all that stuff straight in your head and knowing when to use it is a great skill. Imo Jimmy is really consistent with his humor, his pacing and tone, and honestly, if I was 1/8th as funny I'd feel blessed beyond reason.
I love how everyone is taking the piss
Don't steal the fish, don't RUN AWAY with it, basically LEAVE THE FISH ALOOONE!! LMAO!!!
Imagine, if this was someone's first ever HIGNFY they ever saw.
Revisiting this. Such a classic.
Great episode! Thought Anne was great fun!
Hilarious! Best cast ever
This episode would've been a flaming disaster without Jimmy, though Ian and Paul got in a few good ones. The Carr-Widdecombe duel alone is worth the watch.
Based on episodes like this, I can say with the confidence of an experienced teacher that Paul probably was an interesting child in school.
I teach part-time in a middle school, and Jimmy Carr is the kind of student I dread. He's cocky and outspoken, charming, defiant, and he has no filter. It's not his behavior, but I think you can relate to the effect a kid like that can have on the rest of the class. (I'm not a proper teacher, just after-school music classes. Maybe you're better with kids like that than I am.)
Reading Carr's wiki page brought me here.
i came here after they mentioned this in the next episode jimmy is in.
today on ReWatch : Shreds of Widdecombe , the eye roll to god was her breaking point. congrats to Paul for finally getting her. Jimmy Carr was very close. you'd have thought the 'bag puss' comment would have been it.
Love Jimmy even more now...lol
Best episode ever! Almost funnier than Mr. Blobby on Big Fat Quiz Show! Brilliant Fucking Brilliant. Ahbuffnaught!!!!! Im in Love!
Arbuthnott is a village and parish in the Howe of the Mearns.
AW has a mind > mouth interface which is unfiltered. ... just like Jimmy. Every line a zinger!
Prince Philip hijacking the to-camera piece was the highlight of this episode.
This epsode is really an unforgettable one for the mildly poisonous chemical reaction, esp. between Jimmy and Ann.
mildly? :D
WTF are you talking about? The only reaction at all was with Carr. He took the moment as it was and played with it. Hislop and Merton clearly were surprised that their regular entitlement to smugly mock the guest was denied by actual wit! Screw tories but those two needed a dose of their own medicine. She was funny.
Ian,Jimmy and Paul killing me on this show. The best show ever!!!!
True to her word, she never wants to be on HIGNFY ever again. Thank god.
more's the loss. That shit was well funny, and it's about time Hislop and Merton got a challenge to smugness.
The Waker-upper on her head just made me think of the Borg.
You know when something is so bad that you are probably gonna watch it again? So bad that you never wwant to see it repeated? My mind keep on wrapping around who booked her? What their general sense of humour like?
Such a wonderful episode, for all the wrong reasons!
This is the best thing that ever happened.
Best HIGNFY ever?
She certainly got some wise cracks levelled at her, interesting episode.
Jimmy Carr is right, we do cost to much 😄
I can't believe she claimed Jimmy Carr made her swear she'd never do this show again. This was like 15% of their bullying capacity. She's weak.
Feel like I've had Ann as a substitute teacher before. Lol
Thanks for posting.
This is what it looks like when the Bucket woman tries to host a pub quiz.
Ann Widdicombe has some decent comic delivery when she's spontaneous but reading off the prompter? Nooooo😂
With her hosting, the guest players should have been Cristopher Hitchens and Steven Fry.
What makes this so tough for me is that I both hate her and feel sorry for her at the same time. Very uncomfortable feeling.
The best episode, I actually liked Anne Widdecombe for the first time😂
OMG!!!! Jimmy Carr MVP!!! Anne has a quickfire acerbic comeback handy but her performance was still stock insufferable Widdicome. At the 12 minute mark, I paused the show and said to my gf, "She's never coming back on this show. She's no match for Jimmy and he knows blood is in the water, he's all game on!" My gf who was not as familiar with Jimmy as I am, said, "What do you mean?" I told her just watch, "He's going to slice and dice her." Did he ever!!! She held up pretty well, all in all. I am impressed.
oh man this show would have flopped so hard if jimmy weren't the beautiful sadist he is. ian and paul were having none of it!!! too funny to watch a train wreck like this
Why won’t she come back? In later episodes I’ve heard them mention several times that she refuses to do the show again after how Jimmy treated her… But you can plainly hear her laughing her ass off like she’s really enjoying it, and I think she’s fucking hilarious. I have no idea about her politics … I’m an American and I can hardly understand your politics over there…so maybe she’s crazy? but she’s absolutely brilliant and cut out to be a host on these shows. She’s great.
"Is that where God lives?"
"Despite his infidelities". Nobody was even shocked when Merton said that. We all know the monarchy is a sham, I guess.
Such a horrid human. You could feel the distain towards her.
Having different views to you doesn’t mean someone is horrid
@@Secret19977 when their views would result in the suffering of the people they are supposed to represent I'd say they are horrid.
Super episode. 😂😂
Enjoyed that
Reminds me of when Anne Robinson was on.
Ian can crack at Widdi but she was hysterical. It was so funny. So he’s kinda wrong.
I actually enjoyed this. Why is everyone so critical? it's a type of rude comedy.
agreed!
Ed Itor same here. Maybe not fun being a panelist but being a viewer I found it entertaining.
well she’s awful so it’s easy to hate everything she does but this was great
@25:45 a new generation of Dalek.
No idea how they didn't spot that, considering she was sitting right beside them.
Anne Widdecombe, now there's a face for radio. Alas, that voice makes her intolerable in that medium as well.
Merton didn’t have to do anything this ep
Why was Alex James included in this episode?
He barely says a thing.
He tried to and got shut down. I wouldn't say much after that either.
@@gaymerkrazed To be fair, the copious drugs didn't help...
@@jamesdeanlovespunk Copious amounts of drugs helps everything.
very cool
Got to give it to Ann, tho. From the "booyakasha" on she dumbfounded the boys.
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For all the criticism, I think she holds her own in her own way. I can't stand her politics, but she's not an idiot--it's just that her style doesn't match with the kind of humor of people like Carr, and since Carr's style is the one that tends to be favored on a show like this, she comes off looking the worst. When you watch a Brian Blessed episode, it's kind of the same--his style is completely different, and it *should* be a train wreck (and kind of is), but he makes it work by completely ignoring the "rules" of the show and bellowing over any objections.
In a way? I don't agree, I was amazed at how funny she was! There was wit there. I don't agree with tory politics but I also don't always agree with Hislop's smug self righteousness or Merton's interrupt and mock everything, collect check stencil. I found it great fun to see them get a dose of their own cod liver oil. Unlike them, Carr did not seem to come in thinking "I'm entitled to gun her down" rather, reacted to who she was being, instead of who she is supposed to be and as a result did not look petty, just the rather vapid fellow he likes to portray!
I was expecting a lot more from Alex James!!
I think Widdecome put him off lol
I read his autobiography and it was really funny, assuming he wrote it himself!
He never found his footing with Anne. Some experience in standup, dealing with hecklers, would have really help him here. Jimmy was locked and loaded the second he knew what's up. Not just a natural, but a seasoned one. He ceased the night.
I think she knew what she was walking into.....
Clearly. I guess is why she was able to laughably PWN a typically smug Hislop, and Merton. I think they were not prepared for her to have a guest with wit. I love 'em but it's about time that lazy entitlement got challenged.
When do you suppose was the moment that Jimmy decided he was going to absolutely ruin Ann? And how long did it take him to get his commendation for doing so?
It does make one wonder if Ann has ever done anything exciting in her life
I’ve seen Anne Widdicome on a more recent program where they were doing some historical reenactment and she was belligerent and bossy to others. What a miserable person.
15:27 😂😂😂
Miss Ann, like so many, way in over. bless. oops, sorry about the clacking Eye Roll...
That woman’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
Acrimonious what!
27:47, is that Ian speaking, can't be...
With her terrible teeth, wooden manner and moaning voice, Ann Widdecombe plays into every single stereotype of the British that we have here in the U.S. This one was brilliant and I loved it.
you failed to mention the wit. must have just forgotten.
Wow.
Alex James seemed scared.
didn't AW almost walk of this recording?
Ann Widdecombe, the right-wing god botherer. What's not to hate?
Ann Would have come but couldn't.
That's great news!
She is awfully rude to them.
1:30 What the f*k's a comedium?
I'm late. !! but Thank You all the more so. all the bounty of the UpLoad Button overspilling into my screen. Karma says you got good comin' to you
Anne is so bright, very funny.
Those were names of George Washington’s DOGS… not cats.. ✌️🌞
That old lady is spry, and funnier than half the girls I’ve gone out with in my 30 years
Who's the old bag in the middle desperately failing at her Maggie Thatcher panto?
They really should not get politicians to host. She’s annoying AF
i always thought she hated this show.