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So Ian Hislop thinks Gordon Brown came on Mumsnet because it "wasn't too tough." Can we have Ian Hislop on a webchat please...

175 replies

nigglewiggle · 23/10/2009 21:22

The cheek!!

Also who said "that's the cringiest thing I've ever heard." You've been mentioned on HIGNFY .

OP posts:
TanyaBranning · 23/10/2009 23:13

You have to be funny be a comedian, don't you?

BecauseImWorthIt · 23/10/2009 23:13

I was at young mums!

JackBauWooohooohoowaaer · 23/10/2009 23:15

TBFair he is funny in print, wiht time to polish, but is not a stand up. He just has always seemed a bit misogynistic IMO. And that tipped me over edge.
Hislop not offensive shagwise, griffin deifnately is

witcheseve · 23/10/2009 23:19

The use of 'comedian' was tongue in cheek, didn't mean to offend and I do think that 10% of HIGNFY is funny.

madwomanintheattic · 23/10/2009 23:19

i heart ian hislop. he's on my fantasy dinner party list. no idea what he said or why (or when) as am Not In The Country at the mo, but can imagine the context. agree wholeheartedly with vulpusinawilfsuit.

he'd eat many mumsnetters alive, i suspect, however fanbleedingtastic we think we are.

get him on - a learning experience on both sides, i'd say.

madwomanintheattic · 23/10/2009 23:20
JeremyVile · 23/10/2009 23:21

If I had a fantasy dinner party list he'd be on mine too!

Tortington · 23/10/2009 23:22

i bet a pound to a penny it's a custard cream

JeremyVile · 23/10/2009 23:22

UPDATE

I now have a fantasy dinner party list...

  1. Ian Hislop
TanyaBranning · 23/10/2009 23:25

Sorry, I still disagree.

I quite like PE (haven't bought it for a few years mind you - not as funny as it once was...went down hill after the whole Blair/St Albion period, imo) and I am certainly all for a good, healthy bit of political satire.

However, I find Hislop unbearably smug, pompous and patronising, with misogynistic tendencies. I don't find him that funny on HIGNFY. I don't find HIGNFY that funny, tbh.

I think his throwaway comment was actually indicative of his nasty, dismissive attitude towards people he deems not as clever as him - like, urm, women...and anyone who hasn't been to Oxbridge, probably.

I repeat: he is a twat. And that is my final word on the matter.

witcheseve · 23/10/2009 23:26

Can I come to your dinner party too.

JeremyVile · 23/10/2009 23:29

Of course but you will have to practice your sneering.
It will be a sneery sort of affair...

witcheseve · 23/10/2009 23:33

I can sneer with the best of them. I promise to contribute wisely to the early evening discussions then get disgustingly drunk and make everyone else who is still standing feel smug!

JeremyVile · 23/10/2009 23:35

Perfect!

JulesJules · 23/10/2009 23:39

If anyone missed the programme tonight, I think the extended version of HIGNFY is on tomorrow night , BBC2 9.30 pm.

ABatDead · 23/10/2009 23:39

Well I like IH and really enjoyed his programe on railways and the Baden Powel as well as when he is on HIGNIFY.

I think he was just quite rightly pointing out the irony of a politician being tripped up by an an 'apparently soft' young Mum's forum. He didn't mean anything more than that.

Yes, it would be good if he did come here and have a live chat. I think he would find it rather fun and so would we during the run up to the election. In fact I think a lot of people who don't normally get a good press on MN might be good to invite on. Both sides might learn a lot.

MadameDefarge · 23/10/2009 23:40

Its media chinese whispers....a week on, this is the story we get....

And always love the socially, financially and intellectually gifted taking the piss out of their perception of the great unwashed; in this case, mumsnet.

Clearly all the women of his acquaintance are far to busy running publishing houses, writing opinion columns in the nationals, running media companies and writing novels in dire need of editing to come on mumsnet....

MonstrousMerryHenry · 23/10/2009 23:47

Damn! someone set up this thread before me.

I do love Ian Hislop, but having made a comment like that? Bring it on, Hislop!

witcheseve · 23/10/2009 23:52

I suppose we didn't do ourselves a lot of favours to keep asking about biscuits. But then we were misled into thinking that he was reading the thread as it came IYSWIM.

MonstrousMerryHenry · 23/10/2009 23:53

ABD - took me a few seconds to get your name - veeery clever. But then I ask myself - did you just use an anagram robot? Your secret's safe with me!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 24/10/2009 00:02

I saw it.
It was very sneery.

BUT

if all he knows of MN is what he's read in the other dailys partic Daily Mail, then he's justified really, tbh. The majority of quotes and articles have been either about spats, lunch box items, mmc etc.

Never quoted on the Iraq or Afghan war. So why would he think MNers would talk about politics?

I reckon he was bottlefed..

witcheseve · 24/10/2009 00:07

I think that mnet is a bit of a well kept secret anyway. The name gets muddled up with netmums. So any airy fairy young mums that saw HIGNFY will goggle and then have a lovely time with the young mums that talk about biscuits

JustAnotherManicMummy · 24/10/2009 00:08

I expect he thinks we are Bounty or somesuch

MonstrousMerryHenry · 24/10/2009 00:10

What is Bounty? Is it related to those godawful marketing ploys dished out in maternity wards when your brain has turned so mushy you have no resistance to such crap?

Luckily I missed the Bounty woman when she came round our ward.

ABatDead · 24/10/2009 00:16

MMHenry - thank you. No robots involved. It took me days to think it up.