David Baddiel is a British comedian, novelist and television presenter and read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Footlights. He graduated with a double first.

He first became famous with the Mary Whitehouse Experience, a radio series which he moved to television. With Rob Newman from the same show he moved on to the Newman and Baddiel in Pieces series, which ran in 1993. After this he featured in Fantasy Football League with Frank Skinner, and later Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. An attempt at a self-starring sitcom, Baddiel's Syndrome, shown on BSkyB was a critical and ratings failure.

He has also written three novels: Time For Bed, Whatever Love Means and The Secret Purposes.

He has a daughter, Dolly, born in 2001, with his girlfriend, Morwenna Banks. Baddiel is Jewish, his mother born in Nazi Germany, a Swastika appearing on her birth certificate.