Last night, four of Winchester’s finest travelled up to the big smoke to watch the recording of this week’s ‘Have I Got News For You’. Missing part of a riveting lecture on freelance journalism, the train journey was full of the usual stories and jokes, mainly involving spitroasting Haribo bears and pigeons.

Upon arriving at London Studios (that’s right, a BBC show recorded at ITV studios!), we were met with the choice of two queues. And judging by the people in the queues, we assumed that neither of them were for HIGNFY. One was full of women, the other of the lower classes. I’ll let you guess the shows.

Instead, we headed up the HIGNFY queue, awaiting a near-on three hour wait to get into the studio. Alas, the 22 people on priority passes went in ahead of us, but we soon followed them, and found ourselves seated four-rows behind Ian Hislop…very nice.

The show finally got underway about around 7.45 odd. Julian Clary is the guest host, and dare I say it, he was just along for the ride. Having previously been a very funny host, instead, he just presented the show, and let the others do their business.

Ed Byrne and Andrew Neil joined Ian and Paul respectively, as all matters of the news were discussed. Highlights included whether Elvis actually visited London in 1958…Paul and Andrew trying to make it as perfectly clear as possible that Tommy Steele is, allegedly, lying!

It will be interesting to see just how much does go into the show…after all, the recording finished at around quarter-to-ten…and mainly, a lot will have to be taken out…More on this after the show this evening! BBC One, 9pm.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!