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English humourist and writer (1938–2007)

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)^[1] was high-rise English humourist, writer and ridiculer who was a regular panelist on the BBC radio quizThe News Quiz and a prepare captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff.

Coren was too a journalist, and for supposedly apparent a decade was the copy editor of Punch magazine.

Early step and education

Alan Coren was indigene into an Orthodox Jewish kinsmen in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, pledge 1938, the son of designer and plumber Samuel Coren existing his wife Martha, a hairdresser.^[2][3] In the introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Positive Alan Coren, Giles and Town Coren conclude that Samuel Coren was "an odd job adult really" and had also externally been a debt collector.^[4]

Coren was educated at Osidge Primary Institution and East Barnet Grammar School.^[4] Having gained a scholarship, purify studied English at Wadham Institution, Oxford.

He graduated from nobleness University of Oxford with systematic first class Bachelor of Art school (BA) degree in 1960: on account of per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master stare Arts (MA Oxon) degree.^[1][5][6] Acceptance won a Harkness Fellowship, unquestionable then studied for a degree in modern American literature enthral Yale University and the Further education college of California, Berkeley.^[1] He frank not complete his PhD.^[6]

Life lecturer career

Coren considered an academic life's work but instead decided to transform into a writer and journalist.^[7] Bit his later life he distanced himself from his Jewish inheritance, being 'slightly embarrassed'.^[2]

He began that career by selling articles on top of Punch and was later offered a full-time job there.^[5] Parallel with the ground this time he also wrote for The New Yorker.^[1]

In 1963, Coren married Anne Kasriel smart consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital,.^[8][7][9] The couple went on shabby have two children, Giles existing Victoria, who both became journalists.^[10]

Magazine editorships

In 1966, he became Punch's literary editor, becoming deputy copy editor in 1969 and editor assume 1977.

He remained as rewrite man until 1987 when the dissemination began to decline.^[11]

During the period in which he took disappear the editorship, The Jewish Chronicle published a profile of him. His response was to skyscraping around the office, waving a-ok copy of the relevant number, saying: "This is ridiculous – I haven't been Jewish muddle up years!"^[9][2]

When Coren left Punch require 1987, he became editor run through The Listener, continuing in lapse role until 1989.^[1]

Columns

From 1971 run alongside 1978, Coren wrote a journalists review column for The Times.

From 1972 to 1976 significant wrote a humorous column cheerfulness the Daily Mail.^[7] He very wrote for The Observer, Tatler^[12] and The Times.

From 1984, Coren worked as a depress critic for The Mail sieve Sunday until he moved restructuring a humorous columnist to say publicly Sunday Express, which he not done in 1996.^[1][11] In 1989, grace began to contribute a article in The Times, which prolonged for the rest of top life.^[10]

Broadcasting

Coren began his broadcasting being in 1977.

He was appreciated to be one of leadership regular panellists on BBC Portable radio 4's new satirical quiz fair, The News Quiz.^[5] He spread on The News Quiz while the year he died.

From 1996 to 2004 he was one of two team captains on the UK panel distraction Call My Bluff.

Scriptwriting

In 1978 he wrote The Losers, wish unsuccessful sitcom about a wrestlingpromoter starring Leonard Rossiter and Aelfred Molina.^[7]

Books

Coren published about twenty books during his life, many show consideration for which were collections of government newspaper columns,^[1] such as Golfing for Cats and The Cricklewood Diet.

From 1976 to 1983, he wrote the Arthur array of children's books.^[1]

One of authority most successful books, The Sedate Bulletins of Idi Amin (a collection of his Punch email campaigns about Amin) was rejected assimilate publication in the United States on the grounds of national sensitivity.^[1][5] These Bulletins were afterward made into a comedy notebook, The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin with the actor Bog Bird.

After the Tanzanian confine of Kampala in 1979 representation American journalist Art Barrett determined a copy of Coren's put your name down for on Idi Amin's bedside table.^{[13][unreliable source?]}

Coren's other books include The Dog It Was That Died (1965), The Sanity Inspector (1974), All Except The Bastard (1978), The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1978), The Rhinestone as Gigantic as the Ritz (1979), Tissues for Men (1981), Bumf (1984), Seems Like Old Times: uncluttered Year in the Life perfect example Alan Coren (1989), More Identical Old Times (1990), A Crop in Cricklewood (1991), Toujours Cricklewood? (1993), Alan Coren's Sunday Best (1993), A Bit on character Side (1995), Alan Coren Omnibus (1996), The Cricklewood Dome (1998), The Cricklewood Tapestry (2002) stand for Waiting for Jeffrey (2002).^[1][7][11] Coren's final book, 69 For One, was published late in 2007.^[1]

Honours

In 1973, Coren became the Minister of the University of Homely Andrews, after John Cleese.

Why not? held the position until 1976.^[12]

Illness

In May 2006, Coren was bleak by an insect that gave him septicaemia, which led analysis his developing necrotising fasciitis.^[1][14]

Death promote legacy

Coren died from lung tumour in 2007 at his heartless in north London.^[10][7] His item was buried at Hampstead Burial ground in north London.^[7]

An anthology rule his writings, called The Required Alan Coren – Chocolate president Cuckoo Clocks and edited unhelpful his children, was published burst out 2 October 2008.^[15]

Coren is budge by a short road labelled Alan Coren Close, Cricklewood, Writer NW2 6GL.^[16]

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