Nick Cohen (I)
- Journalist
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Blacking up: 'comedy' that dealt in contempt
Little Britain, removed from BBC streaming services, anticipated a coming vindictiveness.
Nick Cohen, The Guardian, 13th June 2020Since when has Steve Coogan stood against censorship?
Why is Index on Censorship cosying up to the tribune of Hacked Off? I have looked everywhere. I have Googled, and asked around. But I can find no evidence that Steve Coogan has ever taken the trouble to defend freedom of speech at home or abroad.
Nick Cohen, The Spectator, 19th June 2014Mock the Nation
Dara O'Briain, a buttery-faced man with a smugly malicious manner, presides over panellists without a political idea in their little heads.
Nick Cohen, StandPoint, 2nd September 2009Satirists once had real bite. Not any more
If the previews are a guide, I'm sure Gordon Brown won't mind in the slightest. ITV's satirists show him as a dour miser, who cautiously guards the taxpayers' pennies from his gloomy Downing Street office. [p=1356Naylor] has decided that our PM is 'a very austere, Scrooge-like Victorian gentleman. I mean he uses words like "prudence", which people haven't used for a hundred years!'
Nick Cohen, The Observer, 6th April 2008