David Walliams

David Edward Williams known professionally as David Walliams is an English comedian, actor, talent-show judge, author, presenter, and activist, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch show Little Britain.

Since 2012 Walliams has been a judge on the ITV talent show Britain’s Got Talent. He wrote and starred in two series of the BBC One sitcom Big School, playing the role of chemistry teacher Keith Church. In 2015, he starred as Tommy Beresford in the BBC series Partners in Crime based on the Tommy and Tuppence novels by Agatha Christie.

Date of birth:
20th August, 1971
"I can’t see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Politics
"I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Imagination
"I’ve noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It’s not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Cool
"I haven’t traditionally been a family entertainer."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Family
"I know some of my parents’ friends think ‘Little Britain’ is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can’t really say anything negative about that, can you? There’s nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father’s face that day was amazing."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Amazing
"I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Business
"We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Funny
"I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Dad
"TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Power
"I know somebody from university who’s called Phil Collins and I think there’s something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
― David Walliams
Topic(s): Famous

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