Dave Cohen (writer)

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 the award-winning and hugely popular Horrible Histories.

Cohen is a prolific writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME, Chortle and The Huffington Post.

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 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. 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.

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.

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 and was a member of Comedy Store Cutting Edge. From 1994-2000 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.

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