David Baddiel
Comedian
1964-05-28
Books by David Baddiel
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The Parent Agency
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Jews Don't Count
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Jews Don’t Count
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Quotes by David Baddiel
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Yeah! I love you is subject to the law of diminishing returns; like one or two other critical weekly elements of a relationship, it loses a bit of thrilling value every time you get it out.'... That's what happens with I love you, that same phrase that you once shouted Hollywood or Heathcliff-like in the lashing raining, now- now you are saying it dumbly at the end of every phone conversation, a follow-on from, I'll be back for dinner. Once it came out spontaneous rush, it forced itself out; now it's reflex.
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Yeah! I love you is subject to the law of diminishing returns; like one or two other critical weekly elements of a relationship, it loses a bit of thrilling value every time you get it out.'... That's what happens with I love you, that same phrase that you once shouted Hollywood or Heathcliff-like in the lashing raining, now- now you are saying it dumbly at the end of every phone conversation, a follow-on from, I'll be back for dinner. Once it came out spontaneous rush, it forced itself out; now it's reflex.
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Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.
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Mum died on a Saturday - apparently that's quite common. Dad already had dementia, and my brother and I had to let him know the news. Forty-five minutes later we had to tell him again. We spent the whole of that Sunday reminding him over and over.
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The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.
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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.
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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.
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