All three of David Baddiel’s critically acclaimed one-man shows will land on Sky Arts & NOW in November. These first original stand-up commissions for Sky Arts will see My Family: Not the Sitcom premiere on Saturday 9thNovember, Fame: Not the Musical on 16th November and Trolls: Not the Dolls following on 23rd November, all at 10pm on Sky Arts and available on NOW TV.
Filmed at London’s iconic Royal Court Theatre earlier this year, David reprised the three critically acclaimed shows which saw him return to stand up (after 15 years away) and perform in the UK and internationally from 2013 - 2021.
My Family: Not the Sitcom – a massively disrespectful celebration of the lives of David’s late mother, Sarah and dementia-ridden father, Colin, which ran on London’s West End for 15 weeks and saw David nominated for an Olivier Award.
Fame: Not the Musical – where David examines his strange relationship with the New Lad / Token Jew / comedy rock’n’roller / football singer-songwriter persona he’s co-existed with for 30 years.
Trolls: Not the Dolls – stories of the dark, terrible and hysterically absurd cyber-paths that interacting with internet trolls has led him down. Come with him on this comedy journey into our culture’s most dank virtual underground. You will come back safe, more able to deflect your own trolls and only a little bit soiled.
David Baddiel said: “I was very happy to discover that, at my advanced age, I remembered these three shows well enough to perform them again on stage. I think that in itself was considered enough of a miracle for Sky Arts to film them."
in 1992, David performed to 12,500 people with Rob Newman at the Wembley arena in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show and was credited as turning comedy into “The New Rock’n’Roll”. This followed the hit TV shows The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces. David later created and presented – with Frank Skinner – Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. Alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. David has made several acclaimed documentaries, including David Baddiel On The Silk Road, The Trouble with Dad, Confronting Holocaust Denial, Social Media, Anger and Us and, most recently, Jews Don’t Count.
David has published thirteen hugely successful children’s books (The Person Controller, AniMalcolm, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, Birthday Boy, Head Kid, The Taylor Turbochaser, The Parent Agency, Future Friend, The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous, Only Children, Virtually Christmas and Small Fry). Recently he published the Sunday Times bestselling polemic Jews Don’t Count. David’s most recent non-fiction book, The God Desire, was published last year. He has also written four critically-acclaimed adult novels (The Death of Eli Gold, Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes).
He has also created and starred in several returning radio shows, including Heresy , Don’t Make Me Laugh, and David Baddiel Tries to Understand; co-hosts the British Podcast Award nominated A Muslim & A Jew Go There; and wrote the hit comedy film The Infidel.
