Edited sentence: However, in the same year, Private Eye magazine published a devastating parody of "The Greedy Bastard Diary" by Craig Brown, one of the next generation of satirists, which depicted Idle as a puerile, Americanised hasbeen, forever passing off old Python sketches as new ideas in between constant name-dropping (usually of ageing rock stars) and mawkish observations on how great America is, and that "I guess I was born with the gift of being able to make people laugh"