Jeremy Paxman "have always struck me as cranks." In 2017, Paxman's interviews of Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May for the upcoming general election were labelled 'embarrassing'. Journalist Michael Deacon opined that his pugilistic style of questioning had become tired, claiming that he had been 'doing an impression of himself'. Jeremy Paxman Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British broadcaster, journalist, author, and the quizmaster of "University Challenge", having succeeded Bamber Gascoigne at the time the programme was revived in 1994. Born in Leeds, Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate
University Challenge the House of Commons team, who scored 25 in 2003. In the 2014 "Christmas University Challenge" series, a team of alumni from Newcastle University also finished with 25. A all-time record low score for the series was achieved in the final of the 2017 "Christmas" series, when Keble College, Oxford, beat the University of Reading 240-0. The previous year in the "Christmas University Challenge" series in 2016, a team of notable alumni from The University of Nottingham scored 75, five points more than the alumni from Bristol University. Both teams conferred excessively and gave incorrect bonus answers. University College, Oxford,