David Baddiel apologises for mistakenly criticising a celebrity instead of a pleb [split topic]

[bigfatheart]

Again, worth noting that he didn't start tutting about "the lust of internet shaming" when ITV News asked him to humiliate some plebs for getting ideas above their station and questioning their impartiality.

[jobotic]

He must be proud of his role in getting these cunts in power

[gib]

What was the joke he deleted?

[BlodwynPig]

What was the joke he deleted?

A non-joke about Whitty not following his own guidance or something. It's like the 90s never happened

[kalowski]

A non-joke about Whitty not following his own guidance or something. It's like the 90s never happened

[idunnosomename]

the title of this thread always makes me laugh

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Ha one of them is showing its bottom!  Baddiel is undercutting his faux-solemnity with his inimitable classic humour and I have high hopes for this show now.

It's like when a businessman has some colourful socks just peeping out beneath his funereal black suit trouser leg attire and you think 'this guy is a fucking legend and we are gonna get on'.

[BlodwynPig]

Is Baddiel still appearing in theatres?

[idunnosomename]

Yes but no one was going so its fine

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It's the butt crack guy expression:

Has anyone sent this picture to him?  I think he'd love it!

[Schnapple]

I really enjoyed his last show, but an hour of Baddiel pwning faceless internet commenters sounds excruciatingly tedious.

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I really enjoyed his last show, but an hour of Baddiel pwning faceless internet commenters sounds excruciatingly tedious.

Not only tedious but depressing.  A bitter man with obvious psychological issues lashes impotently outwards into the ether - what's even remotely worthwhile about that conceit for anyone?

Only the trolls themselves will get anything out of this, as they are being fed.  Everyone else over the age of thirteen is shaking their heads in dismay.

[the]

Presumably this tour isn't currently going anywhere. (Not that it was going anywhere in the first place, comedically speaking.)

... Though I've depressed myself now thinking about the general 2021 avalanche of live shows and Radio 4 dirge that will be about 'the lockdown!!!'. They're writing them as we speak. On a Macbook, in the study.

[Satchmo Distel]

2021 might be too early for a return to 'normality' the way things are going.

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... Though I've depressed myself now thinking about the general 2021 avalanche of live shows and Radio 4 dirge that will be about 'the lockdown!!!'. They're writing them as we speak. On a Macbook, in the study.

That sound desolate but I have hope it won't happen to a substantial degree.  I think most people are aware that "what's the deal with lockdowns?" would be a boring subject in itself, though I guess loads of people want to talk about what they're now doing to pass their time, and share where their creativity and boredom is taking them.

Instead I think the lockdown is inspiring artists and comedians to put material online, and it'll be interesting to see how various shows adapt to survive.  Taskmaster, for example, has become a bit like Adam and Joe's 'Black Squadron' lately.

[idunnosomename]

quite frankly, i'll admit i'd love a lockdown special of ed reardon

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Or Mister Ed.

[Sherman Krank]

David Baddiel
Corona: Not The Beer
UK Tour 2021(ish)

[petril]

Baddiel's Syndrome except David Baddiel, a David Baddiel character written by David Baddiel based on David Baddiel, played by David Baddiel, is forced to share every scene with The Posh one and The American one

[Ferris]

David Baddiel
Corona: Not The Beer
UK Tour 2021(ish)

This is incredibly likely to happen.

[idunnosomename]

unless he catches it and dies

[phantom_power]

Even when he is sort of right he is such a sneering prick you wish he wasn't. See for instance his responses to his brothers fake "child walks into the room during a live TV interview" thing:

https://twitter.com/Baddiel/status/1252285508459339779

[Brundle-Fly]

Even when he is sort of right he is such a sneering prick you wish he wasn't. See for instance his responses to his brothers fake "child walks into the room during a live TV interview" thing:

https://twitter.com/Baddiel/status/1252285508459339779

Can you single out his 'sort of right sneering prick' responses to Carol Malone being a twat, please? I can't be bothered to wade through all the slurry.

[Annie Labuntur]

Can you single out his 'sort of right sneering prick' responses to Carol Malone being a twat, please? I can't be bothered to wade through all the slurry.

"It is quite unbelievable, isn't it, Carole?" is a bit "I got the joke and you didn't, I am better than you", as if he's never missed the point of anything, the unassailable intellectual.

A 55-year-old man tweeting like a teenage girl.

[Brundle-Fly]

"It is quite unbelievable, isn't it, Carole?" is a bit "I got the joke and you didn't, I am better than you", as if he's never missed the point of anything, the unassailable intellectual.

A 55-year-old man tweeting like a teenage girl.

That's the default position of most of us on CaB, though.

Come on, even if you can't bear Baddiel, surely, you can't be siding with Carole Malone here?

[Annie Labuntur]

That's the default position of most of us on CaB, though.

Come on, even if you can't bear Baddiel, surely, you can't be siding with Carole Malone here?

No, I don't like her, but I hate Baddiel's sneery superiority too.

He could have been more generous and said something like, actually it's just a joke but quite a convincing one - her mistake would still have been there for people to see. But like so many twitter scumbags he has to have a victory.

[Brundle-Fly]

No, I don't like her, but I hate Baddiel's sneery superiority too.

He could have been more generous and said something like, actually it's just a joke but quite a convincing one - her mistake would still have been there for people to see. But like so many twitter scumbags he has to have a victory.

Fair dos, I guess so. Little victories on Twitter seem a little concern these days.

[Annie Labuntur]

Fair dos, I guess so. Little victories on Twitter seem a little concern these days.

Actually Xi Jinping called Twitter a deadlier virus than COVID-19.

Makes you think.

[Brundle-Fly]

Actually Xi Jinping called Twitter a deadlier virus than COVID-19.

Makes you think.

Indeed?

[phantom_power]

That's the default position of most of us on CaB, though.

Come on, even if you can't bear Baddiel, surely, you can't be siding with Carole Malone here?

I am not siding with Malone. As I said he is right, but he is such a snide little cunt about it that I don't want him to be. This isn't his only response in this style either