Alan corenk biography

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist and writer who wrote the script to Omnibus: The British Hero which featured Christopher.
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Giles victoria and alan corenk

English humourist and writer (1938–2007)

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)^[1] was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quizThe News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff.

Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.

Early life and education

Alan Coren was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1938, the son of builder and plumber Samuel Coren and his wife Martha, a hairdresser.^[2]^[3] In the introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren, Giles and Victoria Coren conclude that Samuel Coren was "an odd job man really" and had also apparently been a debt collector.^[4]

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

He graduated f

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Alan Coren

Died

18 October 2007 England

Relatives

Victoria Coren (daughter), Giles Coren (son)

Occupation

Screenwriter, editor, humourist, TV presenter

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humourist and writer who wrote the script to Omnibus: The British Hero which featured Christopher Cazenove as James Bond.

Coren was a regular feature of British television and radio during the 1970s and 1980s appearing in numerous panel shows such as the BBC radio's The News Quiz and as a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. He was also an editor of Punch magazine for ten years. His daughter is the TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, and his son the writer Giles Coren.

Biography[]

Alan Coren was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, although he ceased to be observant early in life, and would say he "had not been Jewish for years."

Despite his posh media persona, he was the son of builder and plumber Samuel Coren and his wife Martha, a hairdresser. In the introduction to Chocolate and Cuc

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Television

“Television — a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.”— Ernie Kovacs

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”— Groucho Marx

“ It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ”—Rod Serling

“Television tells a story in a way that requires no imagination; the picture on the screen and the sound provide all we need to know-there is nothing to fill in. Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming.”—Witold Rybczynski

“Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.”—Alan Corenk

“ Television is for appearing on - not for lo