“We're not designed to know hundreds of people - we're designed to know four people in our village. So the only way we can know hundreds of people is by reducing them to a stamp of their identity.”

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.