biography
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| male
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| (1960– )
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| biography:
| British writer, editor, and broadcaster. He studied at Oxford, became a television scriptwriter for Spitting Image (1984–9), a columnist for The Listener (1985–9), and long-standing editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye (1986– ). Presenter of The Canterbury Tales series for Channel 4 (1996), he is also a team captain of the BBC's popular Have I Got News For You (1991– ), and has co-written a number of plays for television. |
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