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Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and The Guardian. He is the author of several books, most recently ‘The Lost Diaries’ and ‘One on One’.
'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday 'The greatest satirist since Max Beerbohm' Elaine Showalter Guardian 'Craig Brown's humour will outlive his victims. His journalism is one of the few compensations for being British now' David Sexton, Sunday Telegraph 'A genius ... in every instance, the skill of the parodist dwarfs any achievement attributable to his subject' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph 'He is the comic writer the rest of us admire from afar, and envy beyond the bounds of reason. How does he do it?' Markus Berkmann, Spectator 'Britain's wittiest satirist' The Times '[Craig Brown] has an acutely attuned comic ear, an unmatched eye for spotting the absurdities of human behaviour and a bloodhound-grade nose for sniffing out phoniness and pretension' Mail On Sunday
