Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine.
Knack for creating columns or jokes out of any situation
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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The son of a builder, he won a scholarship to Oxford, and also studied at Yale and the University of California. He planned to become a professor, but his experiences in the US prompted him to take up comic writing.
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After selling several articles to "Punch" magazine, he was offered a full-time job on its staff. He became famous in the early 1970s with a column supposedly written by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. "The Bulletins of Idi Amin" were a big success. He was editor of "Punch" from 1978-1987.
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