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.
It is a worry. Eventually something's got to give between how much we own and how much space we live in.
Our running game has been struggling, and the key was to try to get on top of these guys early and work the ground game. We wanted to develop some confidence in our running game, which we did tonight.
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.