In September 2021 it was announced that one of the stories in The World's Worst Children would be removed after podcaster Georgie Ma made a complaint, saying Walliams' book was "normalising jokes on minorities from a young age." [119] The story criticised by Ma earlier in the year is "about a Chinese boy called Brian Wong" who is "never, ever wrong". [120] Ma, who also called out the story for its "casual racism", talked in May with representatives of HarperCollins, who agreed to remove the story in future editions of the book. [120] Hastings, Chris (21 February 2009). "Comic Walliams speaks of depression battle". Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 20 September 2010. David Walliams marries Dutch model Lara Stone". BBC News Online. London. 17 May 2010 . Retrieved 16 May 2010. Little Britain’, which he co-created with Matt Lucas, started on Radio 4 and soon progressed to BBC1. The show has won numerous international awards including three BAFTAs, and now plays in over 100 countries. ‘Little Britain Live’ performed to a million people in the UK, Ireland and Australia. David and Matt followed ‘Little Britain’ with the hugely popular spoof airport documentary series 'Come Fly With Me'.

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As well as being a No.1 best-selling Children’s author, David Walliams is one of Britain's most popular writers and comic actors. Team captains: Ulrika Jonsson and Charlie Brooker. Panellists: Danny Wallace, Tom Deacon and Penny Smith Starkey, Adam (10 November 2022). "David Walliams apologises for "disrespectful" comments about 'Britain's Got Talent' contestants". NME . Retrieved 10 November 2022. Alison Flood (27 November 2014). "David Nicholls and David Walliams win top prizes at National Book Awards". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 March 2015.Little Britain pulled from iPlayer and Netflix because 'times have changed' ". BBC News. 9 June 2020 . Retrieved 30 November 2020. This delightfully dark offering from comedian-turned-bestselling author David Walliams is certain to entertain young readers. Tony Ross's illustrations work brilliantly with Walliams's text; there's plenty of fast-paced action; and the jokes are gleefully ghoulish (and often gross). The characters are well-drawn, in particular hero Alife, who is also a carer for his disabled dad, and the terrible villain really is truly demonic. The pair are best known for Little Britain, which ran from 2003 to 2009 on the BBC in the UK and from 2008 onwards on HBO in the USA. The programme first aired on BBC Three before moving to the more mainstream BBC One. Among the characters Walliams played were Emily Howard, a deluded " transvestite"; Ray McCooney, an insane Scottish hotel owner; and Sebastian Love, an aide de camp to the Prime Minister (portrayed by Anthony Head) on whom Love has a huge crush. A successful live stage show of the series, Little Britain Live, was produced in 2006. A number of seasonal and charity specials followed, up to 2009. A spin-off series produced in the United States by HBO, Little Britain USA, aired in 2008. The characters from Little Britain played by Walliams and Lucas appeared in a 2010 UK television advertising campaign for the Nationwide Building Society. Mirror.co.uk (4 November 2009). "David Walliams pulls down Mark Ronson's trousers at Brixton Academy CARE concert". mirror . Retrieved 5 December 2022. I think David Walliams' best books for kids are the ones that are obviously personal to him (and very touching) or funny without trying stupidly hard to be funny, without villains, that are character-driven, that don't aim towards an over-the-top Indiana Jones chase sequence and lose their unique feel.

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Twelve-year-old Alfie hates going to the dentist. His teeth are yellow and brown and he loves sweets. He had an awful experience at the one-and-only dentist in town, Mr. Erstwhile, and has refused to go since then. Erstwhile croaks and a new dentist, Miss Root, shows up at Alfie's school to promote good dental hygiene. Or so it appears. But something is off... she's an odd tooth, saying that she will not give gory details on Erstwhile's death, but then gives the gory details: Erstwhile was found in his surgery room lying in a pool of blood with a dental probe through his heart. David Walliams Completes 140-Mile River Thames Swim Challenge For Sport Relief Charity". Sky News. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012 . Retrieved 6 November 2011. Walliams was born at St Teresa's Maternity Hospital in Wimbledon, in the London Borough of Merton, in 1971. He is the son of Peter Williams (1936–2007), a London Transport engineer, and Kathleen Williams (née Ellis), a laboratory technician who worked at Sutton Grammar School. Walliams grew up in Banstead, Surrey, specifically in the residential area of Nork, with his mother, father and sister Julie. He was educated at Collingwood Boys' School in Wallington, and Reigate Grammar School in Surrey, where he was a contemporary of writer Robert Shearman. [9] From 1989 to 1992, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he resided at Manor Hall and graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Drama). [10] During university holidays in 1990, Walliams performed with the National Youth Theatre, where he met future comedy partner and friend Matt Lucas. At their first meeting, Lucas did an impression of Jimmy Savile and Walliams an impression of Frankie Howerd. They would not meet again for another year. [11] He changed his stage name to David Walliams when he joined college Equity, as there was already a member named David Williams. [12] 2000s

a b Flood, Alison (4 October 2021). "HarperCollins removes story from David Walliams' book The World's Worst Children". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 October 2021.