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S2 Ep. 2: Ian Hislop

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Comedy, News, Society & Culture

4.8638 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode recorded at the 2017 Sheffield Doc Fest, Jolyon sat down with Ian Hislop in front of a live audience to discuss the part satire plays in documenting our world.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a news roast live special.

0:09.5

My name is Jolian Rubinstein.

0:11.8

And a number of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be invited by the Sheffield Documentary Festival

0:17.8

to interview satire's modern doyen private eye editor team captain of

0:26.7

have i got news for you that's right ian hisslop we had a lovely chat about post-truth about

0:34.1

the state of satire and about that bloody general election that happened. So what we've

0:38.7

decided to do is give you a special bonus episode where you're going to hear Ian and I discussing

0:45.6

all manner of madness with a crowd of people clapping and cheering along generally not for me,

0:52.4

but for Ian, who were they were really there to see?

0:55.4

And you know, I had to remind myself of that, because sometimes when you're an ego like me,

1:00.2

you've got to look in the mirror and say, Jolly and this isn't about you.

1:03.1

No one gives a rocks about you being here.

1:05.5

They're here for the Hislop.

1:07.3

Except when we were walking into the theatre, the person who actually ran the theatre,

1:12.0

and I'm talking about the usher,

1:13.7

he was like, oh my God, you're Jolly and Rubinstein.

1:15.9

I was like, yeah, thanks, mate.

1:17.2

And I walked in.

1:18.1

And then Ian walked, he was like, sorry, mate, have you got a ticket?

1:20.5

And I was like, yes, at least the young people know me.

1:23.8

So that's my eager, centric, narcissistic comment for the day. You enjoy this.

1:28.5

So it is my great, great pleasure to welcome to, welcome to Hello, Sheffield.

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