My cousin Alan Coren would have been 85 on 27th June. The former editor of Punch and the Listener, regular panellist on The News Quiz, team captain on Call My Bluff, columnist and author was one of the most gifted and loved humorists of postwar Britain.
When he became editor of Punch, then a bastion of English satire, he was profiled by the Jewish Chronicle. He allegedly waved around a copy of the paper and said, ‘This is ridiculous I haven't been Jewish for years.’
He was,