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
equal life money roughly tricks
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
life matter mean telling turn turtle
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
designed dictates goes large life objects providence tiny
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
art life monument possibly putting until
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
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.
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.
car drunks hoot squeeze sure windows
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
area downtown shared team
To do anything in a downtown area in 10 months, it's only done by everyone having a shared vision. It has been a team effort.
deal women
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.
directions men women
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
joys serve
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
bubble critics plays
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
reads
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.