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David Baddiel

Basically, out of the sphere of what I do – being a comedian/writer, and out of the sphere of football, I am incredibly uncompetitive.

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David Baddiel

I might be the most unpractical person in the world.

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I cook roasts and pasta and curries and all sorts of things – generally things that aren’t one composite thing, like a cake is.

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My theory as to why I first became a comedian is that my mother was always keenest on my younger brother, Dan. It doesn’t bother me now, but it did then and the way I compensated for that was to publicise myself as myself – to tell people who I was in 100 per cent detail, going into every crevice of my life.

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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.

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It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

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Dad was hyper-furious about money all the time and we didn’t mix with high-flying or media families.

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We were much poorer than many families.

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I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.

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

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Baddiel is a slightly quizzical name – it comes from Latvia but people thought it sounded vaguely Hindustani or something. I thought it might be a good idea to write a body swap movie, like ‘Trading Places’ or ‘Freaky Friday,’ about somebody who believes they are one thing but suddenly become another.

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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.

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