Craig Brown is a British satirist and writer probably best-known for his work in Private Eye. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

He was educated at Eton and Bristol University and then became a freelance journalist in London. His alter egos appeared in The Guardian as Bel Littlejohn from January 7, 2000 until March 9, 2001, and as Wallace Arnold in The Independent. He is probably best known for his 'Diary' in the fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye, in which he adopts the life of a celebrity. Victims have included the Queen, Jackie Collins, Bill Clinton, and the publicist Max Clifford. He also writes comedy shows such as Norman Ormal for TV, and has written several books. He also took over Auberon Waugh's 'Way of the World' in The Daily Telegraph.

His This Is Craig Brown radio show was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. It featured fellow comics Rory Bremner and Harry Enfield and other media personalities.

Works

• Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends': The Collected Parodies 2000-2004, (Private Eye, 2004) ISBN 1901784371
• This Is Craig Brown (Ebury Press, 2003) ISBN 0091888077
• The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, Craig Brown (Penguin Books, 2002) ISBN 0141003871
• The Marsh-Marlowe Letters (Prion Books, 2001) ISBN 1853754617
• The Little Book of Chaos (Time Warner Paperbacks, 1998) ISBN 0751526576
• The Hounding of John Thomas (Century, 1994) ISBN 0712657789

External link

• Guardian - Bel Littlejohn column archives
• This Is Craig Brown - BBC page