HIGNFY dipping a toe in

[Theeyeballsinthesky]

Having a dig at Stoke hospitals 21 genders flag and the Scottish police for only arresting people on line

I mean it’s only taken several years

It's safe now.

I was thrilled!

I can’t say I’m not pleased but fuck me, it’s taken them long enough.

Munya and Jo unsurprisingly silent…

And a quick mention of JKR….

Sure I saw 'agender' on the list of genders!! How very phobic of the hospital!

I could hardly believe it! Audience were a bit quiet for the hospital bit, were probably as surprised as me!!

The thin end of a very welcome wedge?

"And why not, now cancer's been cured and everything."

They all got very giddy immediately afterwards - hysterical relief at having got away with it, perhaps.

This.

Yep. Plus recent discussion on here revealed that awful show where they bullied Paula Yates by repeatedly commenting on her breasts. They can fuck off.

Satire should not have waited until it was safe. Come on Hislop, you’re an intelligent man and you’ve been in court more times than I’ve had hot meals. You should have been all over this YEARS ago.

Hislop came out with some nonsense in the latest page 94 podcast. I was quite surprised, I thought he was more GC.

Here's literal proof that the joking was invalid:

https://twitter.com/wholenewrach/status/1781415697085591874

The silence or near-silence from Hislop, Private Eye and HIGNFY have been incredibly disappointing all these years.

Ooh. Haven't seen it yet, but I'll watch tomorrow.

I was so disappointed when I saw Ian Hislop's letter to Glinner which said that the issues related to gender identity belief weren't worth worrying about. It not only belittled the impact (medical experimentation on children, women's sports being infiltrated by men who identify as women etc) but it also belittled what he had been through, as if losing so much because of standing up to this had been pointless.

Anyway, that said, this is a positive direction. Obviously I've not seen it yet but at face value it feels a bit like a weathervane exercise: put up some satire on a programme (that is very popular with the left-leaning 35+ year old audience) that dares to poke fun at the idea that we all have a gender identity and see what happens. Mass complaints, silence?

I keep having to remind myself that Hislop has been Private Eye editor for 38 years and HIGNFY started when the Soviet Union still existed. Living off past glories comes to mind.

But I suppose if satire now is mostly conventional wisdom with an irreverent tone, it's useful as a weathervane.

I wondered if this would get a thread.
Better late than never. It is still progress, and all progress should be welcomed.

About bloody time!

That was a brilliant comment!

Love Kisa.
😂

“But I suppose if satire now is mostly conventional wisdom with an irreverent tone, it's useful as a weathervane.”

👏😅

As the DC would say (in an admiring tone): “ooh, that’s cold”.

I’m disappointed that it’s taken Hislop so long given that gender ideology is modern life’s biggest crock of shite just waiting to be mocked and parodied in Private Eye.

I didn’t know about the Old Boys’ discussion about breasts. Can the women on the show (are there any??) talk about these Old Boys’ cocks next time please?

Yes, Hislop was a bit of a crush of mine for years because he is so sharp and smart and funny. Not so much now because of the swerve to avoid anything on this, bar the odd cartoon in PE. If anything is ripe for skewering it is gender ideology.