The gold chain, the high-quality rubber and the openly-gay Tory

What do you get when you cross a DVD of ‘Big Boys and Buxom Babes’, a gold chain, some high-quality black rubber and an openly-gay Conservative Shadow Cabinet member?

Yup, you guessed it, Have I Got News For You returned last Friday for its 37th series with guest host Frank Skinner and guest panellists Katy Brand and Alan Duncan MP, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

Highlights of the show, which can still be watched on BBC iPlayer (link), included discussions on the MPs expenses fiasco, which prompted Duncan to say ‘I want to be Home Secretary’. He pulled out a blank DVD, claiming it to be ‘Big Boys and Buxom Babes’ and a gold-plated bath plug, claiming himself to be ‘supremely qualified’.

Brand then proceeded to claim that Duncan had class, saying ‘you’ve got a gold chain and a piece of high-quality black rubber’. Duncan’s expression changed from looking at the audience, to looking at Brand with a faux-shocked smirk, to giving a flirtatious smile and a wink.

‘We Tories have got class,’ he stated.*

Despite the hilarity, Duncan faced questioning from regular Ian Hislop, who had been doing Duncan’s ‘second homework’ and discovered that Duncan had three homes – the second of which was paid for by the taxpayer and the third of which generated a private income for Mr Duncan.

As always, despite the seriousness involved in the discussions, it was, as always, a brilliantly funny start to the series and I cannot wait for it to continue.

* For those of you who watched the Friday night episode and cannot recall the bathplug incident, it was shown on Have I Got A Bit More News For You on Saturday night, also available on BBC iPlayer (link).