Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born 23 May 1957, Hayes, Middlesex) is a British artist, critic, satirist, and writer from England, probably best known for his work in Private Eye. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Hayes is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is a suburban development situated 13 miles (20 Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop.
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Biography
Craig Brown was educated at Eton and Bristol University and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to The Tatler, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, the Evening Standard (as a regular columnist), The Times (notably as parliamentary sketchwriter; these columns were compiled into a book called A Life Inside) and The Sunday Times (as TV and restaurant critic). Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. the University (or derivatives but lower-case when referring to many universitiesor universities A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Tatler is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. For other uses see Spectator. The Spectator is a weekly British Magazine first published on 6 July The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969 is a weekly literary review published in London by News International Literary Review is a British literary periodical founded in 1979 by Dr The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. He later continued his restaurant column in The Sunday Telegraph and has contributed a weekly book review to The Mail on Sunday. The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961 The Mail on Sunday is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format
He created the characters of Bel Littlejohn, an ultra-trendy liberal, in The Guardian, and Wallace Arnold, an extremely reactionary conservative, in The Independent on Sunday. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. In 2001, he took over Auberon Waugh's "Way of the World" in The Daily Telegraph following Waugh's death. Auberon Alexander Waugh (ˈɔːbərən ˈwɔː ( November 17, 1939 &ndash January 16, 2001) was a British author and Journalist. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. However, he is probably best known for his Diary in the fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye, in which he adopts the persona of a celebrity or other public figure. Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. His targets have included the Queen, Jackie Collins, Bill Clinton, Martin Amis, and the publicist Max Clifford. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October, 1937) is a British -born Novelist and former Actress. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949 is an English Novelist, Essayist and Short story Writer, the son of writer Kingsley Maxwell Frank Clifford (born 6 April 1943) is an English Publicist. A typical (and famous) reference, characteristically combining viciousness and honesty in the Diary came in the purported entry for Mary Archer, married to convicted perjurer Jeffrey Archer, "I am the chairman of the Ethics Committee at Addenbrookes hospital, and well used to coming down hard on those who lie incompetently. Mary Doreen Archer Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born Mary Doreen Weeden on 22 December 1944) is a British scientist specialising in Solar Jeffrey Howard Archer Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940 is an English Author and former Politician. " Another typical Eye Diary mocks Martin Amis's pretensions - "Why pray, is it necessary to point out at this post-millennial juncture that Iosef Stalin is no mate of this 52-year-old novelist? Why, indeed?". Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949 is an English Novelist, Essayist and Short story Writer, the son of writer Kingsley
Brown also writes comedy shows such as Norman Ormal for TV (in which he appeared as a returning officer[1]), and his radio show This Is Craig Brown was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. It featured comics Rory Bremner and Harry Enfield and other media personalities. Rory Keith Ogilvy Bremner FKC (born 6 April 1961, Edinburgh) is a Scottish Impressionist and Comedian, noted Harry Enfield (born 30 May, 1961 in Sussex, England) is an English Comedian, Actor and Writer
He has appeared on television as a critic on BBC2's Late Review as well as in documentaries such a Russell Davies's life of Ronald Searle. For the CNN programme see NewsNight with Aaron Brown Newsnight is a British daily News analysis Robert Russell Davies was born in 1946 in Barmouth, North Wales and currently presents a Sunday radio programme on BBC Radio 2 which spotlights popular Ronald William Fordham Searle CBE (b 3 March 1920, Cambridge England) is an influential English Artist and Cartoonist
His book 1966 and All That takes its title, and some other elements, from 1066 and All That. 1966 and All That (ISBN 1-84456-077-5 is a 2005 book by British satirist Craig Brown, in the same style as 1066 and All That A BBC Radio 4 adaptation followed in September 2006, in similar vein to This Is Craig Brown. 1966 and All That is a radio adaptation of the book of the same name in four episodes broadcast between 8 September and 29 September 2006 The Tony Years is a comic overview of the years of Tony Blair's government, published in paperback by Ebury Press in June 2007. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to
Bibliography
- 1984 - The Marsh-Marlowe Letters: The Correspondence of Gerald Marsh and Sir Harvey Marlowe: Volume One, 1983, "edited" by Craig Brown (Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-08885-4)
- 1993 - Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (Century, ISBN 0-7126-5783-5)
- 1994 - The Hounding of John Thomas, a sequel to Lady Chatterley's Lover (Century, ISBN 0-7126-5778-9)
- 1998 - Hug Me While I Weep for I Weep for the World, by "Bel Littlejohn" (Little, Brown, ISBN 0-316-64716-0)
- 1998 - The Little Book of Chaos (Time Warner, ISBN 0-7515-2657-6)
- 1999 - The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, completed by Craig Brown (Black Spring Press, ISBN 0-948238-24-0)
- 2003 - This Is Craig Brown (Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-188807-7)
- 2004 - Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends': The Collected Parodies 2000-2004 (Private Eye, ISBN 1-901784-37-1)
- 2005 - 1966 and All That (Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-89711-2)
- 2006 - The Tony Years (Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-190969-4, paperback ISBN 9780091909703)
References
External links
- This Is Craig Brown - BBC page
- Craig Brown at the Internet Movie Database
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| NAME | Brown, Craig |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British writer, humorist, satirist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23 May 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hayes, Middlesex, UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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