David Baddiel is the latest big name comic on his way to Workington.

The comedian brings My Family: Not The Sitcom to the town's Carnegie Theatre on March 3 – a two-hour one-man show he describes as a twisted love-letter to his parents.

He talks about his recently deceased mother and his father, who has dementia.

David talks about the discovery of his mother’s 20-year-affair with a fellow collector of golf memorabilia and his fatherm who has a form of frontal lobe dementia known as Pick’s disease.

Its symptoms, we learn, include abrupt mood changes, rudeness and aggression and David relates how these have led his father to be banned from a Jewish nursing home.

This Olivier-nominated show has been performed in the West End and has had a sold-out run at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory.

He says My Family: Not the Sitcom is a show about memory, ageing, infidelity, dysfunctional relatives, moral policing on social media, golf, and gay cats.

David first became known as one of the stars of The Mary Whitehouse Experience and then Newman and Baddiel In Pieces.

In 1992, with Rob Newman, David performed to 12,500 people in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show.

In 1994 David and Frank Skinner created Fantasy Football League allowing them to talk about football for a living for over 10 years.

The pair, with The Lightening Seeds, wrote the unofficial England anthem Three Lions, which has been number one three times and is still heard at games around the world.

In 2000 David and Frank created the hit ITV show Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, going out live and unscripted for over 60 episodes.

They joined up together again in 2006 and 2010 to record one of the first hit podcasts, Baddiel and Skinner’s World Cup Podcasts, live from Germany and South Africa. The show was downloaded over a million times and was one of the first podcasts to be nominated for a Sony award.

David is also an accomplished author and has had seven books published. He wrote the 2010 film The Infidel, starring Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Matt Lucas and Miranda Hart.