Uutisvuoto (

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for "newsleak" - the pun works equally in both languages) is the

version of the popular

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'' Have I Got News For You''. Broadcast on Saturday nights on Yle TV1 since 1998, the show received very high viewing figures. Uutisvuoto was aired on Yle TV1 from 1998 until May 2018, then moved to

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in January 2019. Uutisvuoto mainly follows the same format as ''Have I Got News For You''. The guests are usually celebrities, and frequently politicians. In two presidential elections, both of the second-round candidates appeared as guests: to-be-president

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and

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in 2000, and president Halonen and

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in 2006. Winning the show correlated with winning the election contest itself in both instances. In 2006, the "presidential show" broke all viewing records when it was watched by 1.4 million viewers (in a country of 5.2 million). The show was so popular in Finland that it was even parodied in the

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(Finnish for

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) comic book as Uutiskuono (news muzzle/snout). ''"Haluatteko lukea hyvän vitsin jonka kuulin äsken Yleisradion kahvilassa?"'' ("Do you want to read a good joke which I just heard at the Yleisradio's cafeteria?") () is Peter Nyman's Uutisvuoto joke book. The book's name is a reference to Nyman's way of telling jokes. He opens with the book's name, then, ignoring all answers, continues: "Ei se mitään, kerron sen silti." ("Doesn't matter, I'll tell it anyway.")

Performers

The host of Uutisvuoto was originally

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. In 2010, journalist Baba Lybeck took over. Novelist

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was one of the permanent team captains for the entire history of the show until 2017. His pair was originally poet

Tommy Tabermann Tommy Tabermann (3 December 1947, Ekenäs – 2 July 2010, Helsinki) was a Finnish contemporary poet and politician, radio personality and journalist.Helsingin Sanomat, July 4, 2010, p. B7. Since 1998 and until 2006 he was known to Finnish audien ...

, who resigned after being elected to the

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in 2006. Tabermann was eventually replaced by comedian

Stan Saanila Stefan Olof "Stan" Saanila (born 27 June 1968 in Helsinki) is a Finnish stand-up comedian. Uppslagsverket FinlandSaanila, (Stan) He was one of the team captains, opposite novelist Jari Tervo, in the television show ''Uutisvuoto'', filling a vacanc ...

until 2017. Both teams also included a weekly guest member, often a politician or a journalist. * Baba Lybeck (presenter 2010–2018) *

(presenter 1998–2010; 2019–present) *

(captain 1998–2017) *

(captain 2007–2017; 2019–present) *

(captain 1998–2007) *

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(captain 2019–present)

References

External links

Official site
(in Finnish) * Finnish comedy television series Finnish game shows 1990s Finnish television series 1998 Finnish television series debuts Finnish television series based on British television series 2018 Finnish television series endings Yle original programming MTV3 original programming {{Finland-tv-prog-stub