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
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
I'm not a great deep political thinker.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
The human world is made of stories, not people.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
If your words're true, they're armed.
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.