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Charlie Brooker returns for a second series of this wryly amusing panel show, in which he goes through a selection of topical TV clips with three guests, quizzing them on the content and generally being a cynical wit: think Harry Hill's TV Burp meets Have I Got News for You, with minimal emphasis on actual point-scoring. Tonight, Brooker's guests are David Baddiel, Liza Tarbuck and comedian Kevin Bridges.
Pete Naughton, The Telegraph, 15th April 2010Recent RTS winner Charlie Brooker returns to primetime for a second series of TV comedy quiz YHBW. The emphasis is of course on the funny, with great and/or odd clips of recent TV, and gags from guests Liza Tarbuck, David Baddiel and Kevin Bridges.
The Guardian, 15th April 2010Film Review: The Infidel
David Baddiel's story of a Muslim man who discovers he is Jewish unfolds in a series of inventive, often very funny encounters, says Philip French.
Philip French, The Observer, 11th April 2010Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili) is not dissimilar to many middle-aged Muslim minicab drivers in London: he observes his faith (to an extent), he drinks (a bit) and he gets angry with his black taxi-driving rivals. But upon clearing out his dead mother's house, he finds his birth certificate, and realises his whole life - or at least the one he tries his best to lead - is a lie. He was actually born Jewish and named Solly Shimshillewitz. Torn between two faiths, he enlists a black cabbie rival to help him 'learn to be Jewish', putting his son's engagement to the stepdaughter of an extremist Muslim cleric in severe jeopardy in the process.
This David Baddiel-scripted film (Directed by Josh Appignanesi) features many of the usual bit-part British comic actors and lots of very Baddiel jokes, only a few of which (such as a recurring motif about how annoying it is when people do 'air quotes') feel fresher than a bunch of Mary Whitehouse Experience outtakes rewritten for grown-ups.
Aside from the moments when it seems like North-East London's below-par answer to a Woody Allen movie, The Infidel tackles an ambitious and sensitive subject in an impressively balanced manner, yet without ever managing to feel like it needs to exist.
Tom Cox, Daily Mail, 9th April 2010Video: Baddiel film tackles race and religion
Comedian and scriptwriter David Baddiel's new film The Infidel tackles both race and religion.
The comedy stars Omid Djallili as a Muslim man called Mahmud who discovers that not only was he adopted, but he was also born Jewish.
BBC News, 6th April 2010Video interview: David Baddiel
David Baddiel chats about Omid Djalili's "big funny face", his hatred for finger "quoting" and not setting out to be blasphemous
Simon Reynolds, Digital Spy, 6th April 2010Which is the funniest religion?
Omid Djalili and David Baddiel talk to Dominic Cavendish about their daring new comedy 'The Infidel'.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 5th April 2010A funny five minutes with David Baddiel
The funny man, 45, on comedy porn, sharing a flat (and dead frogs) with Frank Skinner, Omid Djalili's moment with a banana and his comic heroes.
Nick McGrath, The Mirror, 4th April 2010Jew or Pakistani? The bullies don't care
A background of ethnic ambiguity inspired David Baddiel's new film, The Infidel.
Andrew Johnson, The Independent, 4th April 2010Baddiel: 'Infidel almost wasn't made'
David Baddiel has claimed that people are scared of subverting political correctness.
Catriona Wightman, Digital Spy, 2nd April 2010