Quotes from David Baddiel

building were a lot more grown-ups, some of them just standing there, others sitting by tents or lying in sleeping bags. They looked up expectantly when they saw Barry. Lukas got his loudhailer back out. "Move away, please!" The grown-ups looked disappointed, shuffling backwards to let them through. The three boys walked up to the door, which was large and black and on which were written, in big brass capitals:

The idea that collective responsibility is racist has got lost in the righteous fury.

Big Pants by Hugh Jass!" Dionna laughed more. "And you asked for Fifty Yards to the Toilet by Willy Makit!

he was looking at Isla Fawcett, who was looking at her brother Morris, who had his eyes shut because he was asleep.

I said earlier that being white was not just about skin color, but about security. That's what white privilege represents. White really means: safe.

in 2018, 60 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes in the United States were perpetrated against Jews (by contrast 18.6 percent targeted Muslims).

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just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

IT'S GOING TO GET SALT-AND-PEPPERED! AND … KETCHUP'D!!!

We have to know what's meant

ESCAPE FROM FARTY HARBOUR!!

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Yaahs!" said Lord Rader-Wellorff, sticking his head out of the roof too. "Oh, that's better," said Peevish, whose head appeared last, as he groaned with relief and tried, in the small space left in the roof rectangle, to stretch his lower back.

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fear of his little sister's safety. "Don't go too near the water!" Ruby stood up. She was, in fact, standing right by the water. In quite a lot of mud. "I'm just trying to catch— Oh!" she said. She'd been about to say – and this may be obvious – "Spock". She'd been leaning over the river, trying to catch Spock.

If you go on stage, or on TV, then there is an impetus that comes about to be a persona. A completely different character. But when you're someone like me, you don't want to have a persona. I want to be exactly who I am on stage.

It gives me cancer to have an idea but not do it. Whether I get into trouble for it is not as important as the need to chase the idea.

I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.

I remember watching an episode of 'Seinfeld' in which George can't understand why security guards can't sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That's a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy.

I have an issue with classical music.

An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job.

I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that's what I do. Even though that sounds poncey.

Fame doesn't allow for complexity, especially complexity of character.

The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.