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David Baddiel

July 2024

  • David Badiel in his office in London

    ‘I have an obsession with authenticity’: David Baddiel on growing up, golf and family affairs

    David Baddiel grew up with an emotionally absent father and a mother having an affair with a golf memorabilia salesman. No wonder he’s written a very funny memoir about it all

June 2024

  • David Baddiel.

    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – sex, lies and the making of a standup

  • David with his brothers, Dan and Ivor, and parents on holiday in Swansea Bay, 1974.

    Book of the day
    My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel review – meet the parents

May 2024

  • David Baddiel sitting on bench among trees.

    David Baddiel: trauma passed on from Holocaust is why I do comedy

    Promoting his book at Hay festival, comedian says his mother and grandparents’ flight from Nazi Germany affected later generations

February 2024

  • David Baddiel and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6 E1: David Baddiel, comedian

  • Julia Masli whose show ran at Park theatre earlier this year.

    No sets, less fuss, a cast of one: can standups save the UK’s cash-strapped theatres?

November 2023

  • Secrets unshared … My Father’s Secrets.

    My Father’s Secrets review – Holocaust pain unlocked in Jewish coming-of-age tale

    Animated feature, based on Michel Kichka’s autobiographical graphic novel, explores the legacy of genocide from a sideways angle

August 2023

  • Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre and Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro.

    Bradley Cooper in ‘Jewface’ storm after Leonard Bernstein trailer reveals prosthetic nose

    Criticism focuses on the change to the appearance of the actor who directs, co-writes and stars in Maestro, biopic of the conductor and composer

July 2023

  • The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, speaks behind a lectern at a press conference, with several young people standing behind him

    Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools

    Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills

April 2023

  • FEB 2023 - LONDON : David Baddiel is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter, and author.. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    The God Desire by David Baddiel review – not quite losing my religion

    The comedian’s attempt to reconcile his lack of faith with his Jewish identity places him in an intriguing position in an often polarised debate

March 2023

  • David Baddiel

    David Baddiel: ‘Football fills a God-shaped hole’

  • Jewish people at an antisemitism rally in Manchester in 2018

    Observer book of the week
    Everyday Hate by Dave Rich review – how antisemitism is built into our world

November 2022

  • BBC pundit Alex Scott wears the One Love armband

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: World Cup 2022; David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count; Wednesday; Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

  • David Baddiel and David Schwimmer in New York on David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count.

    TV review
    David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count review – a doc so shocking it sounds like a siren

  • Jason Lee

    Jason Lee: ‘David Baddiel’s apology was overdue. I’ve waited a long time’

  • David Baddiel meet David Schwimmer in New York in Jews Don’t Count.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: David Baddiel explores modern-day antisemitism in Jews Don’t Count

  • The G2 interview
    ‘It’s a song about losing!’ Skinner, Baddiel and Broudie on 26 years of Three Lions – and bringing it up to date

  • ‘One more go for the blokes’: Skinner and Baddiel record festive Three Lions track

  • Flashback
    David Baddiel looks back: ‘My dad was unemployed and angry, my mum was distracted by her passionate affair’

August 2022

  • From left: Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds with comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel in 1998.

    Three Lions anthem could be ‘put to bed’ after Euro 2022 win, says David Baddiel

    Women have reset clock after more than five decades of pain, says comedian who co-wrote 1996 song
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