David Baddiel has confirmed dates for his new show, My Family: Not The Sitcom. The show will debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory on May 10th and will run for six weeks. Tickets are available now for Chocolate Factory members and go on general sale on Wednesday 2nd March. 

This new show follows his critically acclaimed return to stand-up, Fame: Not The Musical. While the last show homed in on the nature of modern celebrity, in this show Baddiel applies his trademark honesty to family, illnesss and attitudes to bereavement.

As the announcement of the new dates puts it: "When family members die, or are lost to dementia, all we tend to say about them is that they were wonderful. But if that is all you can say about them, you may as well say nothing: to truly remember our loved ones, you have to call up their weirdnesses, their madnesses, their flaws. Because the dead, despite what we may think, are not angels. 

My Family: Not The Sitcom is a massively disrespectful celebration of the lives of David Baddiel’s late mother, Sarah, and dementia-ridden father, Colin. It’s a show about memory, ageing, infidelity, dementia, what we can and can’t say in an over-policed moral culture, golf and gay cats."

David Baddiel: My Family Not The Sitcom is at Menier Chocolate Factory from May 10 - June 25. Tickets and further info here.