1. David Quantick was born on 14 May 1961 and is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic, who has worked as a journalist and screenwriter.
18 Facts About David Quantick
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David Quantick went to Woodford Junior School and Plymouth College, then Exmouth Comprehensive School.
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David Quantick was born in 1961, in a mother-and-baby home in Wortley, Yorkshire.
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David Quantick's mother lived in the Midlands and went to stay with an aunt In Derbyshire to conceal the fact she was pregnant.
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David Quantick was adopted by a family, who were living in Sheffield at the time and then moved to Plymouth.
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David Quantick began writing for the music publication NME in 1983, where with Steven Wells he concentrated on comedy writing until 1995.
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David Quantick appeared regularly on Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, with his Quantick's World slot and on the weekly show, The Treatment on BBC Radio Five Live, which was an hour-long satirical news round-up.
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David Quantick wrote with Chris Morris for Brass Eye in 1996 and Blue Jam, as well as the subsequent television version Jam.
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David Quantick provided material for Smack the Pony, Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show, So Graham Norton and featured on Radio 4's The 99p Challenge.
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In 2000, Bussmann and David Quantick created, specifically made for download over the web, what David Quantick has claimed was the world's first internet sitcom and docusitcom, The Junkies, about three heroin addicts.
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In 2003 and 2005, David Quantick contributed material to sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, five series of 15 Minute Musical and several series of Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections.
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David Quantick made several appearances on Clive Anderson's radio panel show We've Been Here Before in 2003 and 2004.
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In 2005, David Quantick appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me.
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Between 2003 and 2005 David Quantick co-presented a weekly programme One Way Single Parent Family Favourites on London based community arts radio station Resonance FM.
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In September 2012, David Quantick published an e-book novel, Sparks, which was positively reviewed by Neil Gaiman and Ben Aaronovitch.
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David Quantick received an Emmy in 2015 for his work on the HBO series Veep.
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David Quantick had two writing manuals published with Oberon Books: How To Write Everything in 2015, then How to Be a Writer: Conversations With Writers About Writing the following year.
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In 2019, David Quantick became a Visiting Professor with the University of Sunderland.