David Baddiel

David Baddiel (born May 28, 1964) is a British comedian, novelist and television presenter and read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Footlights. He graduated with a double first.

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May 28 - 1964 - British - Comedian - Novelist - Television presenter - King's College, Cambridge - Footlights - Double first

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He first became famous with the Mary Whitehouse Experience, a radio series which he moved to television. With Rob Newman from the same show he moved on to the Newman and Baddiel in Pieces series, which ran in 1993. After this he featured in Fantasy Football League with Frank Skinner, and later Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. The duo also twice topped the UK singles chart with the football anthem Three Lions. An attempt at a self-starring sitcom, Baddiel's Syndrome, shown on BSkyB was a critical and ratings failure.

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Mary Whitehouse Experience - Rob Newman - Newman and Baddiel in Pieces - 1993 - Fantasy Football League - Frank Skinner - Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned - Baddiel's Syndrome - BSkyB

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He has also written three novels: Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes.

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Time For Bed - Whatever Love Means - The Secret Purposes

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He has a daughter, Dolly, born in 2001, with his girlfriend, Morwenna Banks. Baddiel is Jewish, his mother born in Nazi Germany, a Swastika appearing on her birth certificate. An episode of the BBC's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? investigated his heritage in some detail, but failed to disprove his theory that his mother had been secretly adopted from another Jewish family who had no hope of escaping (her parents had been married but childless for a decade before she was born). David suffers from insomnia.

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Morwenna Banks - Jewish - Insomnia

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