We should be grateful for him.David Mitchell has published eight novels, two of which – number9dream and Cloud Atlas – have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ' Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious modern world. Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? DAVID MITCHELL AUTHOR TVWhy is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as: **Pre-order now: David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy** THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED COMIC WRITERS that he’s not David Mitchell the novelist.why it would be worse to bump into Michael Palin than Hitler on holiday.that he has fallen in love at LOT, but rarely done anything about it.trying to pretend he isn’t a total **** at Robert Webb’s wedding.how doing quite a lot of walking around London helps with his sciatica.the satisfaction of writing jokes about suicide.the pain of being denied a childhood birthday party at McDonalds.why, by the time he got to Cambridge, he really, really needed a drink.the curious French habit of injecting everyone in the arse rather than the arm.the singular, pitbull-infested charm of the FRP (‘Flat Roofed Pub’).To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.ĭavid 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.Īs well as giving a specific account of every single time he's scored some smack, this disgusting memoir also details: You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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