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David Baddiel is a comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter.
In 1992, he performed to 12,500 people with Rob Newman at the Wembley arena in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show and was credited as turning comedy into “The New Rock’n’Roll”. This followed the hit TV shows The Mary Whitehouse Experience (BBC Two) and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (BBC Two). David later created and presented – with Frank Skinner – Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. Alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. David has made several acclaimed documentaries, including the 2016 travel documentary David Baddiel On The Silk Road (Discovery) and in 2017, The Trouble with Dad (Channel 4). More recently he created and presented Confronting Holocaust Denial and Social Media, Anger and Us on BBC Two, as well as reuniting with Hugh Dennis for comedy travelogue Two Men on a Bike for Channel 4.
David has published twelve hugely successful children’s books (The Person Controller, AniMalcolm, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, Birthday Boy, Head Kid, The Taylor Turbochaser, The Parent Agency, Future Friend, The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous, Only Children, Virtually Christmas and Small Fry) and the Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction polemic Jews Don’t Count. Due to the success of this book, David has also written and presented a documentary under the same title for Channel 4, which was released in late 2022. David’s next non-fiction book, The God Desire, was published in 2023, while he has also written four critically-acclaimed adult novels (The Death of Eli Gold, Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes), and the hit comedy film The Infidel. His memoir, My Family, was published in 2024 and became another Sunday Times bestseller.
In 2025 his book The Parent Agency was adapted into a stage musical and enjoyed a sold out five-week run at the Chester Storyhouse.
David Baddiel returned to stand-up comedy in 2013 with his critically acclaimed show, Fame: Not The Musical. In Spring 2016 David premiered My Family: Not the Sitcom, which ran on London’s West End for 15 weeks and was nominated for an Olivier Award. His latest show, Trolls: Not the Dolls, toured in 2020 and 2021. David recorded this trilogy of shows as stand-up specials for Sky Arts at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024.
David has created and starred in a several radio shows and podcasts, including Heresy (BBC Radio 4), Don’t Make Me Laugh (BBC Radio 4), David Baddiel Tries to Understand (BBC Radio 4), and A Muslim and a Jew Go There with Sayeeda Warsi.
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