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
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
The human world is made of stories, not people.
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
Every single customer I spoke with had a problem with at least one major vendor, and every major vendor was named by at least one customer.
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.
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.