Speakers

David Baddiel is a comedian, author, screenwriter and television presenter. In 1992, he 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 (BBC2) and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (BBC2). David 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. As an author, David has published ten hugely successful children's books as well as four critically acclaimed adult novels; and most recently, two esteemed non-fiction polemics. David’s Dad, Colin, lived with Pick’s Disease for several years and passed away in January 2022. Colin’s dementia was the subject of David’s stage show ‘My Family: Not the Sitcom’, the Channel 4 documentary ‘The Trouble with Dad’ and most recently, My Family: The Memoir published in July 2024. David wants to use comedy to talk about dementia to raise awareness of what dementia is, and how it affects every person differently. David has joined forces with Alzheimer’s Society as an Alzheimer’s Ambassador to continue this conversation and to encourage others to unite against dementia, so no-one has to face the condition alone.