Editing Alan Coren (section)

{{short description|English humourist and writer (1938–2007)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Alan Coren
| image       = Alan Coren British writer.jpg
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1938|06|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2007|10|18|1938|7|27|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| restingplace = [[Hampstead Cemetery]]
| education   = [[Wadham College, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Yale University]]<br/>[[University of California, Berkeley]]
| occupation  = Humourist, writer, journalist
| spouse      = {{marriage|Anne Kasriel|1963}}
| children    = {{hlist|[[Giles Coren|Giles]]|[[Victoria Coren Mitchell|Victoria]]}}
| relatives   = [[Michael Coren]] (cousin)
}}
'''Alan Coren''' (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)<ref name="Tele Obit"/> was an English [[List of humorists|humorist]], writer and [[satire|satirist]] who was a regular panellist on the [[BBC]] radio [[quiz]] ''[[The News Quiz]]'' and a team captain on BBC television's ''[[Call My Bluff]]''. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine.