David Mitchell
David Mitchell
English stand up comedian and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. He is best known for starring in and writing the Channel 4 series Peep Show, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. He has also written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and, That Mitchell and Webb Look.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 July 1974
CitySalisbury, England
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
History admits no rules; only outcomes.
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.