• Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz...
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  • 2008. Victoria Elizabeth Coren was born in Hammersmith, West London, the only daughter of the humorist and journalist Alan Coren and Anne Kasriel. Her parents...
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    Awards in 2005. Coren was born in Paddington, London, the only son of Anne (née Kasriel) and English journalist and humourist Alan Coren. His parents had...
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    Christ (2021). Coren is a cousin of the late British author and journalist Alan Coren, and is thus related to Alan's children Victoria Coren Mitchell and...
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  • Coren is a variant of the Roman masculine and female given name Corina meaning "spear". It was the surname of the following people: Alan Coren (1938–2007)...
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  • Willie Rushton Eve Pollard Alan Coren Lord Montagu of Beaulieu Fatima Whitbread 15 July 1988 13 Chris Tarrant Eve Pollard Alan Coren Jean Rogers Clement Freud...
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  • host. Originally, Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams and Punch editor Alan Coren acted as team captains. It was adapted for television in 1981 under the...
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  • Academic offices Preceded by Alan Coren Rector of the University of St Andrews 1976–1979 Succeeded by Tim Brooke-Taylor...
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  • October 1991 Sandi Toksvig David Thomas 02x02 11 October 1991 Tony Slattery Alan Coren 21–25 02x03 18 October 1991 Rory McGrath Tony Banks MP 25–18 02x04 25...
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    influences were P.G. Wodehouse, Tom Sharpe, Jerome K. Jerome, Roy Lewis, Alan Coren, G. K. Chesterton, and Mark Twain. Pratchett began writing the Discworld...
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    well known by being referenced by a short comical essay by the humorist Alan Coren entitled "Careful, Mr. Beethoven, that was your fifth!" The funeral was...
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    Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020. Cowsill, Alan (2010). "2000s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual...
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  • The Losers is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1978. Written by Alan Coren, it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. The Losers was made for ITV...
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    Barnet Road, along with the 'Tony Boden Theatre' which is on premises. Alan Coren (born 1938) grew up in East Barnet, and attended Osidge Primary and East...
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  • "Interview: Rowan Atkinson". the Guardian. March 30, 2003. "Obituary: Alan Coren". the Guardian. October 19, 2007. Ninh, Amie (2011-04-25). "Double Doctor...
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    comic novel Three Men in a Boat. This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist...
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  • now as a daytime series on BBC1. It began airing on 13 May 1996 with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig as the team captains and Bob Holness replacing Robinson...
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    "Clitterhouse Farm". Retrieved 7 March 2018. Hamilton, Alan (20 October 2007), "Alan Coren, satirist of the world – and Cricklewood", The Times, London:...
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  • on Transatlantic Records. It was performed by John Bird and written by Alan Coren, based on columns he wrote for Punch magazine. Gunboat Dipperlomacy Star...
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    Stanley Coren (born 1942) is a psychology professor, neuropsychological researcher and writer on the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs...
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  • 1911) 2006 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934) 2007 – Alan Coren, English journalist and author (b. 1938) 2007 – William J. Crowe, American...
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  • of 10 Cats, Would I Lie to You? Alan Coren, The News Quiz, Call My Bluff Barry Cryer, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Alan Davies, QI, As Yet Untitled, Big...
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    University, and researcher at CERN and JINR, died from the disease. 2006: Alan Coren, British writer and satirist, announced in his Christmas column for The...
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  • satirical album The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin (1975) by Bird and Alan Coren. "What ho" and "What ho said the t'ing" are phrases that also crop up...
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    Muggeridge (1953–1957) Bernard Hollowood (1958–1968) William Davis (1969–1977) Alan Coren (1978–1987) David Taylor (1988) David Thomas (1989–1992) Peter McKay (September...
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  • Listener’s eclecticism as a lack of focus, the new company appointed Alan Coren from Punch as editor in 1987 to try to establish a clearer identity as...
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  • in 2005; son of Alan Coren; elder brother of journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell; also related to the Canadian journalist Michael Coren. Theodore Dalrymple...
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  • career as a writer for Punch spanned the editorships of E. V. Knox to Alan Coren. Boothroyd's chief literary work outside the comic essay was an official...
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  • art forms, is pushing in its late maturity against its own boundaries." Alan Coren, writing for the Mail on Sunday in November 1988, wrote of Silver Nemesis:...
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    Born: Victoria Coren, English writer, television presenter and poker player, in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of journalist Alan Coren Died: Alice Stevenson...
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