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* In a recent year's Christmas issue, the Bookworm columnist--who usually reviews horrible ghostridden celebrity biographies as a CausticCritic--reviewed Paul O'Grady's and was forced to admit he really liked it--prompting a NoteFromEd saying he was fired.

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* In a recent year's Christmas issue, the Bookworm columnist--who usually reviews horrible ghostridden ghostwritten celebrity biographies as a CausticCritic--reviewed Paul O'Grady's and was forced to admit he really liked it--prompting a NoteFromEd saying he was fired.
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* Following the death of former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy (who had appeared on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' with editor Ian Hislop 9 times), there was a small tribute in the news pages, reminding readers of the time Charles Kennedy had bought the original copy of a front page that took the piss out of him as a memento, the tribute simply saying "Man with Sense of Humour Dies". Charles Kennedy was known for being extremely good-natured about jokes at his expense, and the tribute was rather sweet by Private Eye standards.

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* Following the death of former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy (who had appeared on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' with editor Ian Hislop 9 times), there was a small tribute in the news pages, reminding readers of the time Charles Kennedy had bought the original copy of a front page that took the piss out of him as a memento, the tribute simply saying "Man with Sense of Humour Dies". Charles Kennedy was known for being extremely good-natured about jokes at his expense, and expense–indeed, when his own party started singing songs about his alcoholism, his response was to promise to provide a second verse–and the tribute was rather sweet by Private Eye standards.
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** Probably because O'Grady's book was unpretentious and honest. Unlike almost any other celebrity memoir.

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** Probably because O'Grady's book was unpretentious and honest. Unlike almost any other celebrity memoir.memoir.
* Following the death of former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy (who had appeared on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' with editor Ian Hislop 9 times), there was a small tribute in the news pages, reminding readers of the time Charles Kennedy had bought the original copy of a front page that took the piss out of him as a memento, the tribute simply saying "Man with Sense of Humour Dies". Charles Kennedy was known for being extremely good-natured about jokes at his expense, and the tribute was rather sweet by Private Eye standards.
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* In a recent year's Christmas issue, the Bookworm columnist--who usually reviews horrible ghostridden celebrity biographies as a CausticCritic--reviewed Paul O'Grady's and was forced to admit he really liked it--prompting a NoteFromEd saying he was fired.

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* In a recent year's Christmas issue, the Bookworm columnist--who usually reviews horrible ghostridden celebrity biographies as a CausticCritic--reviewed Paul O'Grady's and was forced to admit he really liked it--prompting a NoteFromEd saying he was fired.fired.
** Probably because O'Grady's book was unpretentious and honest. Unlike almost any other celebrity memoir.
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* In a recent year's Christmas issue, the Bookworm columnist--who usually reviews horrible ghostridden celebrity biographies as a CausticCritic--reviewed Paul O'Grady's and was forced to admit he really liked it--prompting a NoteFromEd saying he was fired.

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