S6 E1: David Baddiel, comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Pulling up a pew at Grace’s house to launch a new season of Comfort Eating is the legendary comedian and author, David Baddiel. With a career spanning 40 years on TV, stage and radio, not to mention coining anthemic football songs and writing multiple bestselling books for adults and children, David has a unique place in our nation’s popular culture. He brings Grace his favourite comfort snack and while demolishing this cherished chow, David opens up about family, relationships and an obsession with telling the truth. Together, he and Grace take a trip down memory lane back to the 90s when their paths crossed. Wistful, honest and outrageous – it’s a conversation best served with a dollop of brown sauce. Just make sure the bread’s white and squishy

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:05.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack
0:25.7	you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:29.2	Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed door.
1:08.3	Just a quick word, there will be some strong language in this episode. Hello friends. Now you find me actually on my hands and knees I am wedged behind my sofa. I'm just doing a bit of tidier up. I've got a new episode of Comfort Eating to record and I do like to have the place
1:14.0	Spik and Spann. I am trying to get rid of the mountain of cat hair,
1:19.6	the swathes of it that are always blowing through my living room. I've also been looking at my messages.
1:28.7	Now some of them are about comfort eating. Some people were asking for style advice. I mean I don't know if you actually
1:36.1	seeing me I only have two looks either very very tight mafia wife dresses or to be quite honest I'm just laying down in pyjamas but I'm very
1:46.4	flattered my one tip to give to you carry a lint roller now if you do ever look at me up close, I'm generally
1:55.8	forstooned in cat hair. I do take a lint roller with me everywhere. This
2:01.9	morning I was actually standing in the aisle on an
2:05.3	avantee train. Just giving my arms and legs a quick go!
2:11.5	Now my guest today, I am so excited is someone who I know loves cats as much as I do
2:19.3	because I've been stalking him on Instagram and I think he probably ought to give himself a quick
2:23.7	role with his roller before he leaves the house it's David Badeel.
2:28.3	Comedian TV presenter screenwriter and million copy best-selling author of children and adult books.
2:36.0	No, not those type of adult books.
2:37.8	His TV programs include The Mary White House Experience Fantasy Football League with his long-running comedy partner Frank Skinner.
2:46.8	He is a bona fide comedy legend and he has been for absolutely decades. I can't wait to find out what he nibbles on when he's
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