David Walliams

David Walliams & Co spotted filming Series 2

David Walliams swapped the Britain's Got Talent panel for the classroom as he got to work filming the second series of his sitcom Big School.

David Walliams: Sue Townsend, my hero

David Walliams on how he was inspired by the writing of Sue Townsend - and why Adrian Mole will live forever.

David Walliams: The Boy in the Dress to be adapted

David Walliams. novels could be dominating the next four Christmases, with plans for Ratburger, Demon Dentist and Billionaire Boy TV adaptations

David Walliams interview

"I would like to do stand-up if I could but it is a very hard thing to do and I don't come from being a stand up comedian so I don't know if I could do it."

David Walliams winds Simon Cowell up on BGT

David Walliams will never pass up a chance to take a playful shot at Simon Cowell.

Seventeen million: the audience figure The Dick Emery Show regularly pulled in - and the number of years his Saturday TV show seemed to plough on for (just under two decades, in reality). Which likely explains why catchphrases such as "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!" (the first part also being the title of his ridiculously entertaining 1972 film) seem so indelibly carved into the comedy bedrock. Here, David Walliams and Charlie Higson reflect on this gifted mimic's appeal.

Dick Emery: the neglected superstar of TV comedy

A new BBC documentary pays tribute to Dick Emery who was rated 'one of the comedy greats' by David Walliams. But is he still funny?

David Walliams to return to the stage in My Fair Lady

David Walliams and Sheridan Smith are to pair up on stage again - this time for My Fair Lady.

David Walliams's 2011 children's book, his fourth, has sold more than 430,000 copies, which means there are at least that many imagined versions out there of Ben's adventures with his surprisingly acquisitive grandmother. The team behind last year's Walliams adaptation, Mr Stink, now turn their attention to Gangsta Granny, with Julia McKenzie as the titular lawbreaker.

Schoolboy Ben (Reece Buttery) is bored rigid by the soup 'n' Scrabble regime at Granny's house until she reveals that she was once an international jewel thief. Like many career criminals, she's haunted by the audacious heist she never pulled off, and together Ben and his grandma - aka the Black Cat - decide to complete it.

A child's-view of adult quirks is part of what makes David Walliams's stories special, and he appears here as Ben's dad, with Miranda Hart as Ben's mum. Obsessed with Strictly Come Dancing, they're the ultimate source of mortification for any 11-year-old.