David Mitchell: Back Story

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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in THE OBSERVER or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
As well as giving a specific account of every single time he's scored some smack, this disgusting memoir also details:

the singular, pitbull-infested charm of the FRP (Flat Roofed Pub)

the curious French habit of injecting everyone in the arse rather than the arm

why, by the time he got to Cambridge, he really, really needed a drink

the pain of being denied a childhood birthday party at McDonalds

the satisfaction of writing jokes about suicide

how doing quite a lot of walking around London helps with his sciatica

trying to pretend he isnt a total **** at Robert Webbs wedding

that he has fallen in love at LOT, but rarely done anything about it

why it would be worse to bump into Michael Palin than Hitler on holiday

that hes not David Mitchell the novelist. Despite what David Miliband might think

Reviews

One of the best celebrity memoirs of last yearhis outsider geek personality translates just as well on the page as it does on TV. Metro

It livened up about half way through with the appearance of me. But enough of David's life. The book is wonderful from beginning to end. Robert Webb

'David Mitchell is an extremely funny man on screen, in person, in print and very probably underwater.' Sam Bain, co-writer of Peep Show

He can write Evening Standard

Fluent, discursive, intelligent. Evening Standard

If you like Mitchell on television, you will like him in this book. Shortlist

Author Bio

David Mitchell is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb alongside Robert Webb, whom he met at Cambridge University. Together the duo star in the sitcom Peep Show in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. Mitchell is a frequent participant on British panel shows, including QI and Have I Got News For You.