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Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.
— David Baddiel
Frank Skinner was a terrible flatmate in some respects. He never cooked and the cleaning lady refused to go into his room. But he was brilliant because he was very, very funny. You could just sit around at home and have a laugh without having to rely on any social arrangements.
— David Baddiel
Most people who know me well say I am almost autistically myself. I like to never change.
— David Baddiel
I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.
— David Baddiel
Everything I do is storytelling; storytelling is about curiosity.
— David Baddiel
An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job.
— David Baddiel
My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.
— David Baddiel
I remember watching an episode of 'Seinfeld' in which George can't understand why security guards can't sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That's a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy.
— David Baddiel
Neurosis, an obsession with stupidly named food, bookishness - these are all OK to class as attributes that come hand in hand with a name that ends in 'berg'; the only possible exception being the money thing, although clearly we are better at accountancy.
— David Baddiel
I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.
— David Baddiel
The first proper car I had was an old Nissan Micra.
— David Baddiel
Our culture is being shaped by trolls and the Holocaust deniers are a very extreme example of the trolls. Ignoring them has not worked. It doesn't mean that confronting them will work completely but I think it's a debate we have to have.
— David Baddiel
I don't want to be one of those old people getting up at 5 A.M. to potter.
— 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 of their gods.
— David Baddiel
I am not a very good actor.
— 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 very angsty. But comedians are storytellers so it's really a hop, skip and a jump.
— David Baddiel
If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely different character. But when you're someone like me, you don't want to have a persona. I want to be exactly who I am on stage.
— David Baddiel
I feel uncomfortable if I'm not my self in any situation.
— David Baddiel
The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.
— 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 I am.
— David Baddiel
Everyone is complicated, but when you're famous, you have to be pigeon-holed. By doing different stuff, that's rubbed up in complicated ways against the culture.
— David Baddiel
Baddiel is a slightly quizzical name - it comes from Latvia but people thought it sounded vaguely Hindustani or something. I thought it might be a good idea to write a body swap movie, like 'Trading Places' or 'Freaky Friday,' about somebody who believes they are one thing but suddenly become another.
— David Baddiel
I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.
— David Baddiel
Dad was hyper-furious about money all the time and we didn't mix with high-flying or media families.
— 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 I do. Even though that sounds poncey.
— David Baddiel
I cook roasts and pasta and curries and all sorts of things - generally things that aren't one composite thing, like a cake is.
— David Baddiel
I might be the most unpractical person in the world.
— David Baddiel
Basically, out of the sphere of what I do - being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am incredibly uncompetitive.
— David Baddiel
I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.
— David Baddiel
There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.
— David Baddiel
I am an intellectual.
— 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 conventional nice grandpa, or indeed a conventional nice dad.
— 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 write a kids' book. If it's a film or a play, I'll write that.
— David Baddiel
I think 'Friends' is brilliant and it was massively underrated in this country for a very British reason, which is the assumption that because the cast is beautiful, it must be vacuous. Whereas in fact, it's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
— David Baddiel
My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child of a second-generation immigrant family - his father sold cloth, zips and buttons from door to door - and so science - biochemistry at Swansea University, followed by a PhD at Imperial College - was his way out, his way up.
— David Baddiel
I have an issue with classical music.
— David Baddiel
Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are told are objective any more, so my personal feeling is that you have to try to take them on.
— David Baddiel
I've seen episodes of 'Friends' which are as funny as any sitcom I've ever seen.
— David Baddiel
All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.
— David Baddiel
If you're going to talk about the devil, at some point you've got to meet the devil.
— David Baddiel
Why is it kind of acceptable to say that the Germans are better at penalties, but not that blacks are better at boxing? Is it simply that you're allowed to stereotype a group perceived as oppressive, but not one perceived as oppressed - which is why it's fine for women columnists constantly to rail against men, but never the other way round?
— David Baddiel
I've always been an insomniac, and as I've got older that's got harder.
— David Baddiel
Mum died on a Saturday - apparently that's quite common. Dad already had dementia, and my brother and I had to let him know the news. Forty-five minutes later we had to tell him again. We spent the whole of that Sunday reminding him over and over.
— David Baddiel
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.
— David Baddiel
I thought I was great at football. For a long time I thought I could have been a professional if I'd wanted to.
— David Baddiel
I can't really do characters. I don't do voices.
— David Baddiel
I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.
— David Baddiel
I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.
— David Baddiel
I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.
— 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 an Indian is on!
— David Baddiel
It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.
— David Baddiel
I went to a Jewish primary school and all my parents' friends were Jewish.
— David Baddiel
We were much poorer than many families.
— David Baddiel
It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.
— David Baddiel
My theory as to why I first became a comedian is that my mother was always keenest on my younger brother, Dan. It doesn't bother me now, but it did then and the way I compensated for that was to publicise myself as myself - to tell people who I was in 100 per cent detail, going into every crevice of my life.
— David Baddiel
Virtually any practical task becomes chaos within seconds of me getting near it.
— David Baddiel
I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.
— David Baddiel
I am a nice boy.
— David Baddiel
I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I think it has changed absolutely everything. It has changed truth, it has changed culture. It has certainly changed the way that we relate to each other and in a very short amount of time.
— David Baddiel
My contention is even people who are living without social media are not just aware of it, they are affected by it.
— David Baddiel
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