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Alan Coren

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.


— Alan Coren


#choosing #consists #democracy #dictators #hear

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.


— Alan Coren


#foolproof #i #i wonder #items #keep

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.


— Alan Coren


#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.


— Alan Coren


#interesting #more #our #people #room

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.


— Alan Coren


#act #cannot #designation #god #happen






About Alan Coren






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At this time he also wrote for The New Yorker. Later years
In May 2006 Coren was bitten by an insect that gave him septicaemia which led to his developing necrotising fasciitis. Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humorist 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.

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English humorist 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.

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