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Guy Browning (born 1964 inChipping Norton) is a humourist,after-dinner speaker and film director. He wrote theHow To... column inThe Guardian from 1999 to 2009.[1] Before that he wrote aboutoffice politics andsocial climbing.
Browning was educated atMagdalen College School andLady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He started out in the comedy duo Dross Bros withPatrick Marber.[2] The two fell out and Browning went into advertising with Darcy Macius Benton Bowles[3] where he was responsible for the line "Delicious Meaty Chunks in a Nutritious Gravy". He went on to become the Creative Director of the Added Value Company[3] before setting up his own business, Smokehouse, in 1997 which organises interactive events all over the world.[4]
Browning is a regular onBBC Radio 4, e.g.Small Talk (2003) andWeak at the Top, which ran for two series in 2005/6 starringAlexander Armstrong. The fictional John Weak works for Smokehouse, the name of Guy Browning's real business.
Browning combines a serious career as a business writer with books such asInnervation: Rewire Yourself for the New Economy (2003) andGrass Roots Management (2002), with humorous columns, such as "Weak at the Top" inManagement Today.
His books collecting hisGuardian columns,Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade andNever Push When it Says Pull, were bestsellers. His work has been translated into eight languages. He publishedHow to be Normal in 2014 andThe British Constitution: First Draft in 2015.
In June 2009, Browning began directing his first film,Tortoise in Love,[5] set in and aroundKingston Bagpuize.[6]
On 24 May 2012, the village of Kingston Bagpuize decamped en masse to view the premiere ofTortoise in Love,[7] as part of the opening of the newly refurbishedLeicester Square in London. The film had a UK release in July 2012 and went on to be released in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
He wrote the Sidestroke cartoon in theSunday Times with Janet Brown.
Browning lives inKingston Bagpuize inOxfordshire with his three children.
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