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}} David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian, writer, and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. Together the duo star in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Peep Show'' in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. Mitchell won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance in the show. The duo have written and starred in several sketch shows including ''Bruiser'', ''The Mitchell and Webb Situation'', ''That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' and most recently ''That Mitchell and Webb Look''. Mitchell and Webb also starred in the UK version of Apple's ''Get a Mac'' advertisement campaign. Their first film ''Magicians'' was released in 2007. Mitchell is a frequent participant on British panel shows, being a team captain on ''Would I Lie to You?'', host of ''The Bubble'', and a frequent guest on other panel shows, including ''QI'', ''Mock the Week'' and ''Have I Got News for You''. He also hosts the television panel game ''Was It Something I Said?'', the radio show ''The Unbelievable Truth'' and the comedy news programme ''10 O'Clock Live''. As a writer, Mitchell regularly contributes comment articles to ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian''. ==Early life== Mitchell's ancestry can in part be traced back to the Highland Clearances. He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, to Ian Douglas Mitchell and Kathy Grey Mitchell (née Hughes),〔 who were then hotel managers. In 1977, his parents gave up their jobs to lecture and to look after a then two-year-old Mitchell.〔 He attended Napier House primary school. He is the older of two boys; when David was seven and a half years old his parents had another son, Daniel.〔〔 The family moved to Oxford where Mitchell's parents became lecturers on hotel management at Oxford Polytechnic.〔 In a 2006 interview with ''The Independent'', Mitchell stated his childhood dreams: From the age of 12 Mitchell was educated at Abingdon School, a public school in Oxfordshire. Having always been top of the class at primary school, once he moved to Abingdon, he realised that there were plenty of people more intelligent than he was and so turned his attention to debating and drama, "where () had a chance of being the best".〔 There, Mitchell often took part in plays, "largely because you got to play cards backstage."〔 His roles mainly consisted of small minute-long parts, until he won the role of Rabbit in ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. This was the first time that he was "consciously aware I was doing a performance" and that that "was better, even, than playing cards."〔 Mitchell had been "obsessed" with comedy writing since his school days, as he "always felt that doing a joke was the cleverest thing", and "would intrinsically prefer a parody of something to the actual thing itself". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Mitchell (comedian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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