David Baddiel

I don't think comedians are better travellers but they are communicators and storytellers.

— 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

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

If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely…

— David Baddiel

I don't believe in God, so I'd say that laughter is one of the only true weapons for fighting against real darkness,…

— David Baddiel

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

— 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

Furious protesters don't come after you for jokes at the expense of people; they come after you for jokes at the expense…

— David Baddiel

I don't believe in God but I do believe in Larry David.

— David Baddiel

I've met a lot of people who follow me on Twitter but I've never met anyone who has trolled me.

— 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

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

— David Baddiel

If you're going to talk about the devil, at some point you've got to meet the devil.

— David Baddiel

Basically, out of the sphere of what I do - being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am…

— David Baddiel

I am a nice boy.

— David Baddiel

We are all frightened now. No one says anything public without looking over their shoulder and wondering, Have I said something wrong?…

— David Baddiel

Football fandom is this, it's magical thinking, it's hope over experience.

— David Baddiel

To disarm a troll, you don't try and destroy them straight away, you take onboard what they're saying and then destroy them.

— 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

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

— David Baddiel

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

— 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

Baddiel is a slightly quizzical name - it comes from Latvia but people thought it sounded vaguely Hindustani or something. I thought…

— David Baddiel

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what…

— David Baddiel

“IT’S GOING TO GET SALT-AND-PEPPERED! AND … KETCHUP’D!!!”

— David Baddiel