Have I Got News for You (TV Series 1990– ) Poster

David Steel: Self

Quotes 

  • Paul Merton : This is, somebody was planning to make - and have, I think, made - a jacket, a hundred hamsters have gone into this jacket, and animal rights protesters have said this is terrible, and Gieves & Hawkes

    [pronounced "Geeves"] 

    Paul Merton : I believe are the names of the tailors, Savile Row tailors.

    David Steel : "Gieves"

    [pron. "Jeeves"] 

    David Steel : , I think you'll find.

    Paul Merton : "Gieves"? Is it Gieves?

    David Steel : Could be. Sounds more likely, doesn't it?

    Paul Merton : Does it? How's it spelled?

    Angus Deayton : G-E-I.

    [sic] 

    Paul Merton : Ah, that's the thing that threw me you see, I was following the letters.

    Angus Deayton : So Gieves & Hawkes, yes, that's right. And what have they been...

    Paul Merton : So "Gieves", how do you spell "Gieves"? G-I-E-V-E-S?

    Angus Deayton : Yeah.

    Paul Merton : Was there a special day at school where they wrote all these names on a blackboard, because I must have been off sick. So the tailors, they've made a "gacket"...

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