Craig Brown
- 67 years old
- English
- Writer
Press clippings
Advice from Barry Cryer... The secret of comedy? It's that special K
"You learn a few things. You know which words are funny? Words with a 'K' in it. You didn't know that, did you?"
Craig Brown, Daily Mail, 8th March 2022Craig Brown presents 100 Years of The X Factor (Pt 1)
The X Factor is coming to an end. It's time to look back on 100 years of this talent show, and to celebrate its landmark moments.
Craig Brown, Daily Mail, 3rd August 2021Armstrong & Miller 'stand in solidarity' with Rowling
Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, previously a comedy double-act, were among more than 50 public figures and anti-trans campaigners who signed the letter published in The Sunday Times, which condemns the "insidious, authoritarian and misogynistic" opposition to JK Rowling on social media. Other people in the world of comedy who signed the letter include Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Griff Rhys Jones, Craig Brown, Francis Wheen, Jimmy Mulville, Frances Barber and James Dreyfus.
Nick Duffy, Pink News, 28th September 2020Craig Brown wins prize for 'unconventional' royal bio
An "unconventional" biography of Princess Margaret has won one of the top prizes in the UK's longest-running literary awards. Craig Brown was awarded the James Tait Black biography prize for Ma'am Darling - which combines interviews, parodies and essays.
BBC, 18th August 2018Craig Brown: every joke seems to cause offence
It's a funny old world, but comedy's no laughing matter when every joke causes someone offence, laments Craig Brown.
Craig Brown, Daily Mail, 9th August 2018Comedy? It's just flogging a dead parrot
Idle has become the figure he used to satirise: a humourless, pompous, self-obsessed, self-adoring bore.
Craig Brown, Daily Mail, 1st July 2014Godless TV series Rev shows BBC's bias - minister
A free Church of Scotland minister has claimed popular BBC comedy Rev reveals the corporation's "anti-Christian agenda".
Craig Brown, The Scotsman, 2nd May 2014Private Eye: Dear Bill, I seem to be a comedy legend
The 'Dear Bill' column ran in Private Eye throughout Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Ostensibly letters penned by Denis Thatcher to an old golfing chum called Bill, it fast became a comedy classic, and is now immortalised in The Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose.
Craig Brown, Daily Mail, 17th April 2013Billy Connolly to receive lifetime BAFTA
After six decades in showbusiness Billy Connolly, Scotland's most famous former welder, is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award.
Craig Brown, The Scotsman, 28th October 2012Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries
How do you out-snob Virginia Woolf, out-raunch DH Lawrence and out-rant Germaine Greer? Craig Brown explains the parodist's art.
Craig Brown, The Guardian, 2nd October 2010