pplpod Episode 122 traces David Baddiel’s shape-shifting career—from Cambridge Footlights and The Mary Whitehouse Experience to era-defining double acts with Rob Newman and Frank Skinner. We revisit the cult-to-mainstream leap of Fantasy Football League, the terrace-anthem immortality of “Three Lions,” and a stand-up voice that kept getting braver (Fame: Not the Musical, My Family: Not the Sitcom, Trolls: Not the Dolls). We unpack his writer’s desk—novels for adults and kids, TV scripts, documentaries—and the recent polemics that sharpened the conversation (Jews Don’t Count). Throughline: curiosity that won’t sit still, jokes that keep working after they land, and a mind that drags comedy into the arguments that actually matter.