david baddiel
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
David Baddiel has never shied away from honesty but he is more brutally honest than ever in My Family: Not The Sitcom. Not about himself so much this time, but about his parents.
David Baddiel has confirmed dates for his new show, My Family: Not The Sitcom. The show will debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory on May 10th and will run for six weeks. Tickets are available now for Chocolate Factory members and go on general sale on Wednesday 2nd March.
Don’t Make Me Laugh, created and hosted by David Baddiel, is set to return for a second series. It is the comedy series that asks comedians to do the one thing they hate above all else - NOT get laughs. Amongst the comedians joining David in this run will be Frank Skinner, Nick Hancock and Jason Manford.
David Baddiel has spoken for the first time about his new show, which will examine his complex relationship with his parents. My Family: Not The Sitcom is the follow-up to his acclaimed dissection of modern celebrity, Fame: Not The Musical.
Stewart Lee has joked in the past that he can’t resist doing a benefit because of the backstage crisps. Well, he’s back this week at the Hammersmith, sorry, Eventim Apollo on Friday as part of the Roar With Laughter fundraiser for the Zoological Society. You can do your bit for endangered species and have a giggle by buying a ticket. The line-up is pretty varied.
Comedian Omid Djalili has collaborated with producer Rick Blaskey (Three Lions) to release the fans' anthem for the World Cup – England’s Going Out…..(To Do It Again) is available from iTunes from Monday.
Among those guesting in the video are Sir Trevor McDonald, David Baddiel, Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee, Ray Winstone, John Bishop, John Hurt, Michael McIntyre, Harry Hill, Sean Lock, Terry Alderton, Ricky Grover and Bill Bailey.
Is it decadent post-imperialist arrogance or dicking about in the name of entertaining telly? That was my first thought when I started watching 24 Hours To Go Broke, Dave’s latest comedy travelogue series in which celebrities – mostly comedians – visit various parts of the world with a suitcase full of bank notes and have to spend them in a day or face a horrible forfeit.
This was the second time I've seen David Baddiel's Fame: Not The Musical and it is as funny, clever and insightful as it was when I saw the shorter version at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer. It's Baddiel's first stand-up show for 15 years and yet it barely feels as if he's been away. He's as sharp, perceptive and pathologically honest as ever. I'm not quite sure why Baddiel rubs some people up the wrong way.
Children’s writers beware. It seems as if comedians are coming over here taking your bloody jobs. Yesterday it was announced that David Baddiel’s first novel for children, The Parent Agency, is to be published this autumn by Harper Collins. Baddiel got the idea for the fantasy about a boy whose dreams come true after inventing stories for his kids: “The Parent Agency came about after a chat with my nine-year-old son Ezra.” Maybe his son should be on a royalty.
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