David Baddiel

David Lionel Baddiel is an Americanborn English comedian, novelist and television presenter. He is known for his work alongside Rob Newman in The Mary Whitehouse Experience and partnership with Frank Skinner. Besides comedy, Baddiel is also a published novelist and a screenwriter, author of childrens novels The Parent Agency and The Person Controller.

Baddiel was born in Troy, New York, and came to the United Kingdom with his parents when he was four months old. His father, Colin Brian Baddiel, was a Welshborn research chemist with Unilever before being made redundant in the 1980s, after which he sold Dinky Toys at Grays Antique Market and later worked for his friend Alan Black at Regal Chemicals. His mother, Sarah, who died in 2014, was a refugee who escaped from Nazi Germany. She moved to the United Kingdom at five months old with her parents in 1939. Baddiel is the middle of three sons. His parents were both from Jewish families.

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