Death registered London NW1, age 69 (U.K. death index)
Death location Regents Park (UK and Ireland, newspapers.com obituary index 1800s – current)
Birth registered Hackney, mother's maiden name Coren. Quarter 3 July- September 1938

Broadcaster and humourist.A regular panellist on Radio 4's The News Quiz and BBC2's Call My Bluff,his insightful and derisive style of comedy first came to the public eye when he edited Punch magazine in the 1970s.He also wrote regular newspaper and magazine columns,books and a series of children's fiction.He joined Punch as a deputy editor and became editor in 1978,holding the position for nine years.He was then hired by the BBC's The Listener magazine to give the intellectual weekly a more humourous tone.Though extremely well-read and witty,his humour had a kindness that audiences found endearing.

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Writer, Humorist and Broadcaster. He is best known for his nearly 30 years as a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4's "The News Quiz," and his popular column in The Times for 20 years. He was educated at East Barnet Grammar School, followed by Wadham College at Oxford University. He pursued a Masters degree on the Violet Vaughan Morgan scholarship, and continued his education in the United States on a Commonwealth Fellowship. He studied for a Doctorate degree in modern American literature at Yale University and USC at Berkeley. While in the U.S he participated in civil rights marches, and started sending pieces to the satirical magazine, Punch, in England. He abandoned his academic plans when Punch offered him a job. He returned to England and was an assistant editor at Punch from 1963 to 1966, and literary editor from 1966 to 1969. He became deputy editor in 1969, and became the 12th editor of Punch from 1977 to 1988. He began his broadcasting career in 1975, as a panelist on BBC Radio 4's "The News Quiz," and remained until 2007. He was a team captain on BBC One's television program, "Call My Bluff," from 1996 to 2005. He was a columnist at the Daily Mail from 1972 to 1976, the Mail on Sunday from 1984 to 1992, and the Sunday Express from 1992 to 1996. He wrote his very popular column in The Times from 1988 to 2007. He published over 20 books, many of them bestsellers. His content was often topical and satirical, with numerous parodies of famous authors. From 1976 to 1984 he wrote the "Arthur" westerns for children. Among his books are, The Sanity Inspector (1974), The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin (1975), Golfing For Cats (1975), The Best of Alan Coren (1980), and A Year in Cricklewood (1991). His final book was, 69 For One (2007). In 2008, an anthology of his works entitled, The Essential Alan Coren- Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks was edited and published by his children. He was known as "The Sage of Cricklewood" in his locality.