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David Mitchell: Back Story
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Shortlisted for: Biography/Autobiography of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards 2012
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, pit bull-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 isn’t a total **** at Robert Webb’s wedding
- That he has fallen in love a LOT, but rarely done anything about it
- Why it would be worse to bump into Michael Palin than Hitler on holiday
- That he’s not David Mitchell the novelist, despite what David Miliband might think
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- Philip Wong
- 2017-11-22
An interesting book by an interesting author
I have always enjoyed watching David Mitchell on panel shows and his sketch shows were always great. now it turns out he's also a great author.
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- 2020-10-10
Intelligently sexy - as always
David Mitchell is the thinking man's sex symbol (if that particular thinking man were gay and had a thing for clever wit, fearless honesty, and devastating wordsmanship. I enjoyed every minute of getting to "meet" the real David Mitchell!
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- Sara Hicks
- 2020-03-12
Adored!
Loved this journey! Laughed (and cried)... then immediately bought the next book. Like an old friend, finally opening up to you after a few glasses of wine. 🧡
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- Theresa
- 2022-05-19
Intelligently written and beautifully executed
I found myself laughing out loud at this story. I’ve not really watched many of his shows but I knew of him from some tv work, and I’m glad I listened to his story.
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