Ian Hislop opens Have I Got News For You with joke about taxi incident

It was initially believed the London black taxi had been hit by a bullet, however the Metropolitan Police have since confirmed there’s “no proof of a firearms discharge presently”.

Police mentioned they’re persevering with to research the circumstances across the incident that befell in Soho on Tuesday morning.

Non-public Eye editor Hislop mentioned on the BBC comedy quiz present on Friday: “There was one excessive level when a policeman investigating me mentioned ‘this can be a foolish query, however is there anybody who may need a grudge towards you?’.”

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His fellow staff captain Paul Merton joked: “I’ve an alibi.”

Hislop beforehand issued an announcement thanking “everybody for his or her concern” over the incident.

“He can verify that there was an incident in a taxi yesterday through which a rear window shattered, and the police are investigating,” the assertion mentioned.

“They had been initially trying into the potential for a shot having been fired however have now indicated that there could also be one other extra harmless rationalization for what occurred.”

The investigation adopted a name from the motive force, who had reported he was “stationary in visitors in Dean Avenue when a shot was fired in the direction of his car, hanging the window and damaging it”.

No accidents had been reported, with police launching an investigation, and seizing the car.

Hislop, 64, has served as a staff captain on the BBC comedy present affairs quiz present since its first episode in 1990, and has been the editor of Non-public Eye journal since 1986.