David Baddiel opens up on his unusual family and Fantasy Football League

They co-hosted Fantasy Football League, which began in 1994, and co-wrote the number one hit Three Lions. This month David, 53, begins another tour of his hit stand-up show, My Family: Not The Sitcom. He lives in north London with his wife, actress and writer Morwenna Banks, and their children, Dolly, 16, and Ezra, 13. […]

David Baddiel: My dad, dementia and the healing role of comedy

CHANNEL 4 David Baddiel’s theatre show discusses family life and his father’s dementia His Playhouse Theatre show in London, My Family: Not The Sitcom, which partly focuses on his dementia-suffering father Colin, is set to go global. Not only will it tour the UK next year, he is also taking it to the Montreal Comedy […]

David Baddiel: This cruel disease has stolen my dad’s mind so we must discuss it

These include swearing, sexual disinhibition, rudeness, apathy, impatience and selfishness. “I said, ‘Sorry, does he have a disease or have you just met him?’,” deadpans his son in a TV documentary about Colin’s condition to be screened on Monday evening.  It turns out that Colin has always been an irascible individual but Pick’s amplifies his […]