Chris Addison

Chris Addison

Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, in television he plays Ollie in the BBC 2 television satire The Thick of It and Toby in its spin-off film In the Loop, and he co-created and starred in the BBC 2 sitcom Lab Rats. In radio he hosts the weekly comedy news satire show 7 Day Sunday on BBC Radio 5 Live.

  • Title: Chris Addison
  • Popularity: 13.232
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1971-11-05
  • Place of Birth: Didsbury, Manchester, England, UK
  • Homepage: http://mrchrisaddison.tumblr.com
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Chris Addison Movies

  • 2007
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    100 Greatest Stand-Ups
    100 Greatest Stand-Ups

    1 2007 HD

    Several people walk into a bar... The funniest comedians of our time stand up to be counted down in our exhaustive look at who really has funny...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2009
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    In the Loop
    In the Loop

    7.033 2009 HD

    The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2011
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    Chris Addison: Live
    Chris Addison: Live

    1 2011 HD

    Following a sell-out UK spring tour Chris Addison makes his critically acclaimed stand-up available in shiny, round format (DVD) for the first time....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2010
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    The 100 Greatest Stand Ups 2010
    The 100 Greatest Stand Ups 2010

    1 2010 HD

    Counting down the 100 greatest stand up comedians.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ann Bryson

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  • 2013
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    The Look of Love
    The Look of Love

    5.6 2013 HD

    Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Steve Coogan

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  • 2007
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    The Rise of the Nutters
    The Rise of the Nutters

    8.1 2007 HD

    With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2019
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    Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
    Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

    5.1 2019 HD

    Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sebastian Croft

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  • 2010
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    Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
    Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

    1 2010 HD

    'Welcome to my folly', declared Robin Ince as he opens Nine Lessons..., his massive sell-out Rationalist Celebration of comedy and science for...

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    Cast: Robin Ince

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  • 2014
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    Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
    Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

    8.065 2014 HD

    In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2007
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    Spinners and Losers
    Spinners and Losers

    8 2007 HD

    Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2014
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    The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure
    The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure

    4 2014 HD

    As part of BBC Two's 50th birthday celebrations, this programme pulls from the shelf some rare and previously unseen comedy moments from some of the...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tamsin Greig

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  • 2011
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    Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
    Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties

    10 2011 HD

    Sketch-show sensation Catherine Tate tells the story of the decade in which she became a household name. She meets with comedy glitterati Alan Carr,...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Catherine Tate

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  • 2022
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    Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
    Public Service Broadcasting - BBC Proms - This New Noise - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

    1 2022 HD

    Public Service Broadcasting – a band who bring wit, invention and multimedia spectacle to the stage – return to the Proms after their...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: J. Willgoose Esq.

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  • 2011
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    Chris Addison: Live
    Chris Addison: Live

    1 2011 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2019
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    The Hustle
    The Hustle

    6.199 2019 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Anne Hathaway

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  • 1970
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    Hallelujah!
    Hallelujah!

    1 1970 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ralph Fiennes

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  • 2023
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    The One Show
    The One Show

    4.8 2023 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and...

    Genre: News

    Cast: Jermaine Jenas

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  • 2010
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    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    5.8 2010 HD

    Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jonathan Ross

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  • 2021
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    8 Out of 10 Cats
    8 Out of 10 Cats

    6.861 2021 HD

    8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jimmy Carr

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  • 2012
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    The Thick of It
    The Thick of It

    7.954 2012 HD

    Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2013
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    Skins
    Skins

    8.1 2013 HD

    Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2009
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    What the Dickens?
    What the Dickens?

    1 2009 HD

    What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2010
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    Genius with Dave Gorman
    Genius with Dave Gorman

    8 2010 HD

    Comedy series where Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dave Gorman

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  • 2021
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    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    7.515 2021 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jodie Whittaker

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  • 1970
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    Gas
    Gas

    1 1970 HD

    A showcase of the best up and coming stand-up comedians.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lee Mack

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  • 2024
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    Would I Lie to You?
    Would I Lie to You?

    7.582 2024 HD

    A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton)....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Mitchell

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  • 2024
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    The Graham Norton Show
    The Graham Norton Show

    7.101 2024 HD

    Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Graham Norton

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  • 2024
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    QI
    QI

    7.982 2024 HD

    Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sandi Toksvig

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  • 2023
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    Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
    Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

    6.8 2023 HD

    One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Alan Davies

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  • 2024
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    8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
    8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

    7.158 2024 HD

    Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jimmy Carr

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  • 2022
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    Mock the Week
    Mock the Week

    6.917 2022 HD

    Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hugh Dennis

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  • 2019
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    Insert Name Here
    Insert Name Here

    7 2019 HD

    Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Sue Perkins

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  • 2024
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    Have I Got a Bit More News for You
    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    6.5 2024 HD

    Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't...

    Genre: News

    Cast: Paul Merton

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  • 2024
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    Have I Got a Bit More News for You
    Have I Got a Bit More News for You

    6.5 2024 HD

    Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't...

    Genre: News

    Cast: Paul Merton

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  • 2018
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    Patriot
    Patriot

    7.6 2018 HD

    To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Dorman

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  • 2020
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    Victoria Wood: The Secret List
    Victoria Wood: The Secret List

    7 2020 HD

    Back in 2009, Victoria wrote a list of her favourite moments from her seminal 80s series, intending to use it as a compilation show of self-selected...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sara Pascoe

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  • 2014
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    Trying Again
    Trying Again

    3 2014 HD

    Meg and Matt are working to have their relationship recover following Meg's affair with her boss. Six months after the affair, the couple are...

    Genre:

    Cast: Jo Joyner

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  • 2010
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    You Have Been Watching
    You Have Been Watching

    8 2010 HD

    Notoriously foul-mouthed television critic Charlie Brooker invites three of his friends round to sit in oversized chairs, watch television, and they...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charlie Brooker

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  • 2024
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    Horrible Histories
    Horrible Histories

    7.981 2024 HD

    Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and...

    Genre: Family

    Cast:

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  • 2023
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    The One Show
    The One Show

    4.8 2023 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD. The programme is currently hosted by Alex Jones and...

    Genre: News

    Cast: Jermaine Jenas

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  • 2008
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    Lab Rats
    Lab Rats

    1 2008 HD

    Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2014
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    Doctor Who Extra
    Doctor Who Extra

    1 2014 HD

    Doctor Who Extra brings you unprecedented access to the making of Doctor Who... Featuring interviews with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, it's the...

    Genre:

    Cast: Matt Botten

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  • 2024
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7.136 2024 HD

    Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ian Hislop

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  • 2024
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7.325 2024 HD

    Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Seth MacFarlane

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  • 2011
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    1 2011 HD

    My Funniest Year is a British television stand-up comedy series broadcast on Channel 4. In each episode a comedian talks about the events of one...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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  • 2019
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7.4 2019 HD

    A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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  • 2012
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    5.722 2012 HD

    Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British television comedy programme that ran for 11 years from 2001 to 2012. It was produced by Avalon Television for ITV...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Steve Benham

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  • 2019
    imgS7 E7

    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7.4 2019 HD

    A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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  • 2023
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7 2023 HD

    Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Martin Freeman

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  • 2023
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7 2023 HD

    Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Martin Freeman

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  • 2012
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    7.954 2012 HD

    Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2008
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    1 2008 HD

    Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Chris Addison

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  • 2014
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    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You

    3 2014 HD

    Meg and Matt are working to have their relationship recover following Meg's affair with her boss. Six months after the affair, the couple are...

    Genre:

    Cast: Jo Joyner

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