Quotes by Alan Coren

About Alan Coren:

Alan Coren 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.
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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.

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

Alan Coren

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlan Coren
  • Descriptionhumorist and writer from the United Kingdom
  • BornJune 27, 1938
  • DiedOctober 18, 2007
  • ProfessionJournalist