Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop
Ian Hislop is a writer and broadcaster and has been editor of Private Eye since 1986. He has been a columnist for The Listener and The Sunday Telegraph, and TV critic for The Spectator. As a scriptwriter with Nick Newman, his work includes five years on Spitting Image, Harry Enfield and Chums, and My Dad’s the Prime Minister, as well as the film and play A Bunch of Amateurs. He has written and presented many documentaries for TV and radio including: Radio 4’s The Real Patron Saints, A Brief History of Tax, Are We Being As Offensive As We Might Be, Lord Kitchener’s Image, The Six Faces of Henry VIII and I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. He also presented TV’s Great Railway Journeys – East to West, Scouting for Boys, Not Forgotten, Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails, Ian Hislop’s Changing of the Bard, Age of the Do-Gooders, When Bankers Were Good, Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain, Ian Hislop’s Olden Days and Victorian Benefits: Workers and Shirkers. He has appeared frequently on Question Time and since 1990 has been team captain on BBC’s Have I Got News For You – which has won many awards including the BAFTA for Best Comedy 2016. Most recently he and Nick Newman wrote the critically acclaimed 2016 Radio 4 comedy drama Trial By Laughter. In 2016 their play The Wipers Times was premiered and had a successful run at The Watermill Theatre, before a sell-out tour and transfer to the West End.Perform Ian Hislop
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, ComedyA Bunch of Amateurs
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m
5 STARS “Terrific comedy packed with killer comic dialogue... plenty of twists and turns” - WhatsOnStage
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Spike
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, ComedySpike
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 7m
SPIKE is an absurdly funny new play by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman that delves into the inner workings of one of the UK's most unique and brilliantly irreverent comedy minds.
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The Autobiography of a Cad
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
The Autobiography of a Cad
Chronicling the rise of self-proclaimed political titan Edward Percival Fox-Ingleby from Eton to Oxford and then on to Parliament, this dramatisation based on the happily fictitious memoir of a Cad contains all the hallmarks of success: adventuring while at university, serving the frontline of WWI, and joining the Tory party.
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The Wipers Times
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Wipers Times
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 6m
A stage adaptation of the award-winning BBC film by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, ComedyA Bunch of Amateurs
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m
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Spike
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, ComedySpike
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 7m
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The Autobiography of a Cad
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
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The Wipers Times
Nick Newman, Ian Hislop
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Wipers Times
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 6m