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
Music’s a wood you walk through.
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.