Garry Bushell doesn't think so.
I'm undecided.
Was he funnier with Newman than Skinner?
Are his books any good?
Discuss with reference to his goatee beard.

By R~S~P on Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 03:08 pm:

I'm inclined to say yes just to disagree with Gary Bushell... I think he was funnier with Rob Newman, but that may be because of my great love for Rob Newman, who is a genius. I find both Rob Newman and Frank Skinner funnier than David Baddiel. I only one of his books (not sure how many he's written), Time For Bed, which was good, but not particularly funny. So that's it. Draw your own conclusions.

By Joe on Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 09:13 pm:

His beard is both uncalled for and unfunny and he himself is not rip-roaringly hilarious. But he's OK I suppose.

By pistol on Friday, January 26, 2001 - 08:27 pm:

who the fuck you talking about?

By R~S~P on Friday, January 26, 2001 - 11:28 pm:

David Baddiel. Read the fucking title.

By Lucky on Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 12:04 pm:

WELL. Plan B arrived on a holiday...

By ps on Saturday, January 27, 2001 - 11:13 pm:

i can read. WHO is he?

By Eddy on Sunday, January 28, 2001 - 11:57 am:

He is a comedian. Better known for the song "Three Lions" done with Frank Skinner and Ian Broudie/Lightning Seeds. Fucking classic song.

By Anonymous on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 03:11 pm:

my arse is on fire

By sp on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 08:15 pm:

never heard it. soon, perhaps...

By Chris on Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 03:15 pm:

David Baddiel is strikingly unfunny, if his awful show is anything to go by (for those of you who don't know, I mean the one where he and Frank Skinner sit on a sofa for half-an-hour in front of a moronic audience). It's a self-indulgent love-in that reveals a breathtaking lack of intelligence at ITV, where they obviously think that some smug git in a beard can be funny 'off the cuff' when scripted comedy is hard enough to do properly. It's the kind of programme only people who appreciate the humour in 'They Think it's All Over' or 'A Question of Sport' could possible find remotely amusing.

So no, David Baddiel is about as funny as a sitcom about Harold Shipman and Adolf Hitler sharing a flat.

By la jongleur on Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 05:07 pm:

There was, infact, a sitcom about Hitler sharing a flat (or was it living in the flat above?) a jewish couple. It was voted about 28 on TV's Worst Moments Ever simply because of the bad taste though the clips that they showed were really funny.

By indigo on Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - 06:38 pm:

they were so unfunny it was amazing! and Paul Jackson (the guy behind Red Dwarf, which I used to love when i was about 12) produced it, which worried me slightly.

Baddiel was absolute shit. They sat on a sofa being unfunny about Grecian 2000 (that is hard!)

By cornelius withnail strangelove on Thursday, February 1, 2001 - 11:58 am:

the show was called heil honey i'm home

By Chris on Friday, February 2, 2001 - 12:35 pm:

Yes, I heard about it the other day. And I wish I hadn't, it's really lowered my opinion of the human race. How depressing that Paul 'Red Dwarf' Jackson could involve himself in such a project. Although Red Dwarf hasn't been wonderful recently.

By indigo on Friday, February 2, 2001 - 06:16 pm:

I haven't watched more than 2 episodes of the last two series, they were so dreadful. On that TV moments from hell show, did anyone else notice that for every crap, racist 70s sitcom (love thy neighbour, mind your language etc) they had the same writer ome on whining "its all a bit of fun! and its all true! you unhumourous bastards!"? It began to piss me off slightly - wouldn't you hate to be stuck in a lift with him?

By Joe on Saturday, February 3, 2001 - 08:26 pm:

It was called Heil Honey I'm Home, and it looked fantastic. I thought it was great. But don't lump it in with those other sitcoms that definately were racist, if anything it seemed to parody them by taking it to its most extreme point.

By Joe on Saturday, February 3, 2001 - 08:29 pm:

Oh sorry, you've said what it's called already. Now I feel stupid.