10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
Alan CorenThe role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
Alan CorenThere are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?
Alan CorenTelevision is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
Alan CorenCan anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.
Alan Coren