David Walliams

David Walliams

David Walliams is an acclaimed English comedian, actor, and writer with a string of bestselling children’s books to his name including Ratburger and Gangsta Granny. Walliams’ stories for children have been favorably compared to those of beloved children’s author Roald Dahl.
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Listen to popular children’s books by Walliams including The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2011), Demon Dentist (2013), Awful Auntie (2014), The World’s Worst Children (2016), and The Midnight Gang (2016). Walliams’ hilarious children’s books and audiobooks have earned him several National Book Awards, and have sold eight million books in forty six languages worldwide.

In addition to his children’s books, Walliams is renowned for his comedy, and in particular his work on the popular sketch comedy television show Little Britain which he created with Matt Lucas. Little Britain ran from 2003-06 on BBC and won many awards including two BAFTAs. Listen to the Little Britain radio series audiobook to find out what had viewers hooked on this entertaining British comedy. Want more? Go behind the scenes with Inside Little Britain, an audiobook he co-wrote with Boyd Hilton and Matt Lucas.

Walliams supports many charitable causes and has participated in a number of Sport Relief initiatives including swimming the English Channel in 2006, and swimming the Thames in 2011.

Born ‘David Williams’, he began using the stage name ‘David Walliams’ after joining the Equity trade union because of its policy requiring members have a unique professional name (and ‘David Williams’ was already taken). Walliams was born 20 August 1971 in London, England.