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Dave Cohen is a writer for television and radio, as well as a columnist for The Huffington Post . He has written for Have I Got News For You and contributes musically to Horrible Histories .
Cohen is a prolific writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME , Chortle and The Huffington Post. [1]
He has written for BBC Radio 4 including The Best of British, Dead Ringers which won a Sony Gold Award 2001, The Sunday Format , The News Quiz and 15 Minute Musical [2] which he was also a co-creator and won the 2009 Writer's Guild Best Radio Comedy Show, to name a few. He also wrote for BBC Radio 5's The Treatment and They Came From Nowhere.
Cohen has written for a number of television shows including the Rory Bremner Show , Spitting Image , Eleven O'Clock Show , Not Going Out and My Family . [3] He has been a long time writer for Have I Got News For You and Horrible Histories which has won a variety of awards including Best Sketch Show, Best Comedy Show at the Children's BAFTAs and Best British Comedy Show. [4]
He was a columnist for NME/The Face in 1984–5, The Guardian in 2009 and has been writing for The Huffington Post since 2011. [5]
Cohen began performing in 1984, at Edinburgh Fringe as a stand-up comedian. He was nominated for a Perrier Comedy Award for Tuxedo Junta, which he wrote and performed with Paul B. Davies. He went on to co-found The Comedy Store Players [6] and was a member of Comedy Store Cutting Edge. From 1994 to 2000 he occasionally performed for Guns'n'Moses. After nearly a decade of absence, he returned to perform in My Life As A Footnote and most recently, in 2012, performed Songs in A Flat. [7]
In television, Cohen has acted in 15 Storeys High [8] and Sixty Six and in 2004 was in Suzie Gold .
From 1991 through to 1999, Cohen contributed to BBC Radio 1's Loose Talk and Songlines, of which he was co-creator. He was also a recurring guest for BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends. His own series, Travels With My Anti Semitism, appeared in 1999.
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