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
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.
I think we think in terms of stories.
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.