“I remember watching an episode of 'Seinfeld' in which George can't understand why security guards can't sit down. He gets obsessed with it and eventually buys a chair for a security guard who sits down and goes to sleep. The shop gets robbed. That's a brilliant extrapolation of what is essentially observational comedy.”

English comedian, presenter, screenwriter and author

David Lionel Baddiel is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter and author. He first came to prominence through his early work with Rob Newman on The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and later through his comedy partnership with Frank Skinner. His career spans television, live comedy and writing. He is best known for work that helped define British comedy in the 1990s, especially his collaborations with Newman and Skinner, and for his later work as a presenter and author.