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 think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
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.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.