Craig Brown
Craig Brown
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brownis an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth23 May 1957
life longer others people prefer
Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
solution
This is not the right solution to the problem.
concerned data margins people spending spent surprised weather
The weather was okay, the spending data suggests that people still went out and spent so I'm not too concerned at this stage. I would be surprised if margins had significantly deteriorated.
discomfort love outlet pop seems
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
australia bit hopefully mess worry
Australia is a bit of a mess but hopefully we won't have to worry too much about that for too much longer.
alan blazer worn
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
eminent enjoyable few microphone quite watching
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
condensed project taken
We've taken about an 18-month project and condensed it to about 10 months.
compelling life strangers tedious trailing
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
feels forward looking middle soon
I'm usually in the middle of everything, but I wasn't in the middle this time, ... It feels great. I'm looking forward to the trip, as soon as I get over the shock.
beautiful hate perhaps players sinister supporters
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
funny seemed slave strikes time unlikely
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
home spot thrilling town
For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.