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
David Mitchell quotes about
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'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.
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.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.