Letter: Not funny, Ian

I thought Ian Hislop, one of the team captains on the BBC's Have I Got News for You, plunged to the lowest broadcasting depths when, for an entire half hour, he concentrated on digging up the dirt on John Prescott's sex-straying episode of several years ago.

He was the only one there who thought he was funny. I am surprised Mr Prescott did not turn on the abhorrent little man and give him one right on his jaw.

The captain of the other team, Paul Merton, kept quiet for most of the programme, probably through embarrassment.

TERRY DUNCAN

Greame Road

Bridlington, Yorkshire