Willie Rushton he was an established guest on quiz shows and celebrity panel games: "Celebrity Squares", "Blankety Blank", "Countdown" and "Through the Keyhole". When asked why he appeared on these "ludicrous programmes", his answer was simple: "Because I meet everybody there". For 22 years until his death, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", which he joined as a regular team member in the third series in 1974. In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people
Have I Got News for You Have I Got News for You Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Regularly broadcast since 1990, it is loosely based on the BBC Radio 4 show "The News Quiz" and has a topical and satirical remit. "Have I Got News for You" is often cited as beginning the increasing domination of panel shows in British TV comedy, and remains one of the genre's key standard-bearers. In recognition of this, the show received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 British Comedy Awards. It was the