Quotes from David Baddiel

I spent a long time on a big studio sitcom, 'Baddiel's Syndrome,' for Sky, and got no audience.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

We were much poorer than many families.

I don't want to be one of those old people getting up at 5 A.M. to potter.

My contention is even people who are living without social media are not just aware of it, they are affected by it.

I was always very against the idea that for comedy to be 'important' it has to be dark. It's very much a critic's way of thinking.

I certainly don't think comedians are more depressive than any other walk of life. I have had clinical depression, as it happens. The stress of performing didn't help, but it wasn't about being a comedian in itself.

If you're going to talk about the devil, at some point you've got to meet the devil.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

Everyone should try a taxi, as it is part of the New York experience.

I think 'Friends' is brilliant and it was massively underrated in this country for a very British reason, which is the assumption that because the cast is beautiful, it must be vacuous. Whereas in fact, it's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

I went to a Jewish primary school and all my parents' friends were Jewish.

To disarm a troll, you don't try and destroy them straight away, you take onboard what they're saying and then destroy them.

When I first started on telly, I used to get quite a lot of fan mail from Indians saying it's great that an Indian is on!

He's a very sweary sort of bad tempered curmudgeon of a man. That's the joy of my dad, that he's not a conventional nice grandpa, or indeed a conventional nice dad.

I always think of Ireland as a place for complex ideas and prose. I like Irishness. I like Irish culture and Irish literature.

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might have been worse - my mother had a very difficult and complicated life.

Furious protesters don't come after you for jokes at the expense of people; they come after you for jokes at the expense of their gods.

I am not a very good actor.

I'm incredibly uncommitted to party politics. I vote Labour but only because Glenda Jackson was my MP and I loved her on 'Morecambe & Wise.'

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.