Ian Hislop - Private Eye Editor, Broadcaster and After-Dinner Speaker.


Ian Hislop has edited Private Eye since 1986, taking over the helm from Richard Ingrams and steering it to ever greater commercial success.

Ian Hislop was born in Mumbles, South Wales educated at Ardingly College and then Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated with a degree in English literature in 1981.

In his role as editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop has the dubious distinction of being the most sued man in British legal history.

He is known to millions as the losing team captain on Have I Got News For You?, which has won numerous awards including a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment.

Ian Hislop has made countless radio appearances, as a panellist, essayist and presenter. Credits include: The News Quiz and Fourth Column, as well as series on the history of tax, the Victorians and church architecture.

Ian began as a scriptwriter for Spitting Image, and went on to write sketches for Harry Enfield and television plays for Maureen Lipman and Dawn French.

Hislop, along with Nick Newman, wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Gush, and the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's the Prime Minister

In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy

Ian Hislop was honoured to receive the British Society of Magazine Editor's highest award, The Editor's Editor.


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