By Megan Thomas
I love David Mitchell – the actor/comedian, not the author, as is apparently a cause of confusion that has the benefit of selling more books. I listened to the audiobook and it felt like he was sitting in front of me, telling me about his life in the style of an episode of Would I Lie To You. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
From his childhood in Oxford and time spent as a part of the Cambridge Footlights, one of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupes at Cambridge University, to his career as one part of comedy duo Mitchell and Webb alongside Robert Webb, this memoir seems very true to form in terms of the public perception of Mitchell as a public personality.
The memoir is packed tightly with plenty of laugh-out-loud anecdotes, a couple of surprising ones, a great deal of hard work, some meticulously-formed rants and political commentary. We learn about his influences as a comedian (no surprises to see Monty Python and Morecambe and Wise described as his idols), the social anxiety he has pushed through, and his long, daily walks from his home in Kilburn in which he has some one-on-one time with his thoughts and which forms part of the structure of the memoir.
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