Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
Nov 2014 · Guardian Faber Publishing
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THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED COMIC WRITERS
**Pre-order now: David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy**
There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as:
Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake?
Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing?
Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok?
Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them?
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. 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.
'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year
**Pre-order now: David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy**
There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as:
Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake?
Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing?
Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok?
Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them?
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. 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.
'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year
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3.7
48 reviews
Dean Ayers
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5 December 2014
Oh David, how far you continue to fall, a tacky book nit picking things that aren't even true... Every film/TV show is a remake for example, rubbish! Anything for a few quid eh... Now about that Mrs of yours...
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Wim Widdershins
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23 May 2017
It's a laugh, innit? What? ...that sound you make in the back of yer throat.
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Vinsant Huang
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16 November 2014
Practical and humorous
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About the author
David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, Ambassadors, Back and as Will Shakespeare in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You?, can't drive and co-owns a house. His second collection of comment and analysis is Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: and Other Rules to Live By.
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