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". Career. Writing. 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. Theatre, film and television performance. 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 to 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". In television, Cohen has acted in "15 Storeys High" and "Sixty Six" and in 2004 was in "Suzie Gold". Radio. From 1991 through to 1999, Cohen contributed to BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk" and "Songlines", of which he was co-creator. He was also a recurring guest for BBC Radio 4's "Loose Ends". His own series, "Travels With My Anti Semitism", appeared in 1999.