Three of David Baddiel’s critically acclaimed one-man shows will land on Sky Arts & NOW in November.  These first original stand-up commissions for Sky Arts will see My Family: Not the Sitcom premiere on Saturday November 9th, Fame: Not the Musical on November 16th and Trolls: Not the Dolls following on November 23rd, all at 10pm on Sky Arts and available on NOW TV.

Filmed at London’s iconic Royal Court Theatre earlier this year, Baddiel reprised the three critically acclaimed shows which saw him return to stand up (after 15 years away) and perform in the UK and internationally from 2013 – 2021.

Baddiel said: “I was very happy to discover that, at my advanced age, I remembered these three shows well enough to perform them again on stage.  I think that in itself was considered enough of a miracle for Sky Arts to film them.”

A comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter, in 1992, Baddiel performed to 12,500 people with Rob Newman at the Wembley arena in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show and was credited as turning comedy into “The New Rock’n’Roll”.  This followed the hit TV shows The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces. Baddiel later created and presented – with Frank Skinner – Fantasy Football and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. Alongside The Lightning Seeds, the pair also wrote the seminal football anthem Three Lions. Baddiel has made several acclaimed documentaries, including David Baddiel On The Silk Road, The Trouble with Dad,  Confronting Holocaust Denial,  Social Media, Anger and Us and, most recently, Jews Don’t Count.

Baddiel has also published thirteen hugely successful children’s books and recently he published the Sunday Times bestselling polemic Jews Don’t Count. Baddiel’s most recent non-fiction book, The God Desire, was published last year. He has also written four critically-acclaimed adult novels.  David has also created and starred in several returning radio shows, including Heresy , Don’t Make Me Laugh , and David Baddiel Tries to Understand; co-hosts the British Podcast Award nominated A Muslim & A Jew Go There; and wrote the hit comedy film The Infidel.

The 3 x 60” specials are produced by Avalon and Executive Produced by Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner.

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