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
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.
Somebody is going to know these faces and somebody is going to call and we are going to catch these people who have avoided prosecution for these years.
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
The human world is made of stories, not people.
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.