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
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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.