Based on his stand-up show My Family (Not The Sitcom)

David Baddiel is writing a memoir based on the stand-up show he performed about his parents.

The comedian and author won critical acclaim for his 2016 show My Family (Not The Sitcom) which was inspired by the death of his mother It also covered his relationship with his father, who suffers an aggressive form Alzheimer’s.

Now he has told The Times he is writing on book based on the show.

Much of the stand-up covered her mother’s sex life – which Baddiel conceded was ‘stuff that people don’t normally talk about with a recently departed parent’, but explained was a substantial part of her identity, ‘her way of saying she was not just a prim, suburban, Jewish housewife’

And the show portrayed his father as a difficult man who would aggressively criticise his sons, a trait amplified by his Pick’s disease.

In his interview, Baddiel, also disclosed that he he is working on a BBC documentary on social networking inspired by his follow-up stand-up show Trolls: Not the Dolls, which resumes on Saturday (Dates)

The comedian is also planning a follow-up to his bestselling book on antesemitism, Jews Don’t Count, which will be based on his atheism.

He told the newspaper: ‘The difference between me and most other – sorry to use this word – celebrity atheists is that I am from an ethnic minority.

‘I never dismiss religion. I never think it’s nothing. I really know what it means in terms of culture and tradition and all the rest of it… I’ve got a lot of time for religion, but it makes no difference to my militant belief that there is no actual God.’

In 2017, it was reported that he was working on a TV adaptation of My Family (Not The Sitcom), but nothing has come of that project. But Baddiel did make an acclaimed  documentary, The Trouble With Dad, for Channel 4, about his father’s illness.

Published: 6 Sep 2021