David Baddiel

My mum's death was appalling.

— David Baddiel

“ESCAPE FROM FARTY HARBOUR!!”

— David Baddiel

I am a nice boy.

— David Baddiel

“Strictly Come Dancing”

— David Baddiel

I feel uncomfortable if I'm not my self in any situation.

— David Baddiel

I might be the most unpractical person in the world.

— David Baddiel

Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd.

— David Baddiel

We were much poorer than many families.

— David Baddiel

I am someone who is going to say what I want to say.

— David Baddiel

“DARK FORCES OF THE CONDIMENT ARE”

— David Baddiel

I think I have a problem. I'm incredibly open about myself.

— David Baddiel

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

— David Baddiel

I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.

— David Baddiel

Because I've been around for quite a long time and done a lot of different stuff, there's a shifting idea of who…

— David Baddiel

I don't want to be one of those old people getting up at 5 A.M. to potter.

— David Baddiel

Dad was hyper-furious about money all the time and we didn't mix with high-flying or media families.

— David Baddiel

It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

— David Baddiel

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

— David Baddiel

When I first started on telly, I used to get quite a lot of fan mail from Indians saying it's great that…

— David Baddiel

I've always been an insomniac, and as I've got older that's got harder.

— David Baddiel

In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might…

— David Baddiel

Our culture is being shaped by trolls and the Holocaust deniers are a very extreme example of the trolls. Ignoring them has…

— David Baddiel

I wasn't thinking about becoming a children's writer. I just have an idea and if it sounds like a kids' book I'll…

— David Baddiel

“do this – and very large lines appeared across his forehead. His nostrils flared, becoming even wider holes than they already were.…

— David Baddiel

When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got…

— David Baddiel

I had a 'the Cure' hairstyle, bigger even than Robert Smith's for many years. I used to do jokes about it which…

— David Baddiel

He's a very sweary sort of bad tempered curmudgeon of a man. That's the joy of my dad, that he's not a…

— David Baddiel

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are…

— David Baddiel

I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I…

— David Baddiel

Frank Skinner was a terrible flatmate in some respects. He never cooked and the cleaning lady refused to go into his room.…

— David Baddiel

My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab - mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules,…

— David Baddiel

My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child…

— David Baddiel

I tend to feed the trolls because it gives me material for my work. I'm sometimes taken aback by the racist and…

— David Baddiel

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as…

— David Baddiel

Why is it kind of acceptable to say that the Germans are better at penalties, but not that blacks are better at…

— David Baddiel

Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness - these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand…

— David Baddiel

All the things I've done mean something to me.

— David Baddiel

I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.

— David Baddiel

I have an issue with classical music.

— David Baddiel

I can't really do characters. I don't do voices.

— David Baddiel