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David Quantick was born on 14 May, 1961 in Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic. Discover David Quantick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation screenwriter author journalist comedy writer critic
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 14 May 1961
Birthday 14 May
Birthplace Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1961

David Quantick (born 14 May 1961) is an English novelist, comedy writer and critic, who has worked as a journalist and screenwriter.

A former freelance writer for the music magazine NME, his writing credits have included On the Hour, Blue Jam and TV Burp.

Quantick was born in Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) on 14 May 1961, adopted, and moved at an early age with his family to Plymouth.

Quantick went to Woodford Junior School and Plymouth College, then Exmouth Comprehensive School.

1983

David Quantick began writing for the music publication NME in 1983, where with Steven Wells he concentrated on comedy writing until 1995.

Alongside this, he also contributed material to British comedy shows such as Spitting Image.

1992

In 1992, he joined the writing team for the Radio 4 spoof news programme On the Hour, before writing for the television follow-up The Day Today in 1994.

1994

He appeared regularly on Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade (Radio 1, 1994–1997), 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.

1995

In 1995, Quantick presented a pilot show called Now What? to Carlton Television but he series was not picked up for development.

1996

He wrote with Chris Morris for Brass Eye in 1996 (broadcast in 1997) and Blue Jam (Radio 1, 1997), as well as the subsequent television version Jam (Channel 4, 2000).

1998

Working with Jane Bussmann, he co-wrote and performed Bussmann & Quantick Kingsize for BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

1999

He also provided material for Smack the Pony (Channel 4, 1999–2001), Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show (Sky One, 2000), So Graham Norton (Channel 4, 1998) and featured on Radio 4's The 99p Challenge.

2000

In 2000, the pair created what Quantick has claimed was the world's first internet sitcom and docusitcom (documentary/sitcom), Junkies, about three heroin addicts.

Starring Peter Baynham, Sally Phillips and Peter Serafinowicz, the writing pair claimed the project grew out of their frustration with the commissioning process.

They argued the average sitcom cost £200,000 to make and was difficult to finance, so they secured the services of cast and crew on a voluntary basis and made a show for less than £4,000.

The site received over a million visits in its first eight months of existence.

In 2000, Quantick's biography of The Clash was published, with further books appearing in 2001.

That year he collaborated with Andrew Collins and Stuart Maconie on Lloyd Cole Knew My Father, a live show about working as a music journalist.

A performance was later broadcast on Radio 2 as a six-episode series.

2001

Between 2001 and 2012 He was also part of the writing team of Harry Hill's TV Burp.

2003

In 2003 and 2005, Quantick contributed material to sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, five series of 15 Minute Musical (2004–08) and several series of Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections.

He also made several appearances on Clive Anderson's radio panel show We've Been Here Before in 2003 and 2004.

Between 2003 and 2005 Quantick co-presented a weekly programme One Way Single Parent Family Favourites on London based community arts radio station Resonance FM.

2005

In 2005 he appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me.

2006

In 2006 he wrote and presented series 3 of 'The Blagger's Guide', a six-part comedy series on BBC Radio 2 and appeared as Doctor Dave Radio on Radio 2 comedy programme, Radio Rivron.

2011

Quantick has lived in Hastings, East Sussex, with his wife and two children, since about 2011.

2012

In September 2012, Quantick published an e-book novel, Sparks, which was positively reviewed by Neil Gaiman and Ben Aaronovitch.

2014

Following its final series, Quantick contributed material to The Thick of It, helped write material for the comedian Rob Brydon, and recorded further editions of The Blagger's Guide for Radio 2 until 2014.

He produced a four-episode comedy series 52 First Impressions with David Quantick for Radio 4 in 2014 in which he recounted stories about 52 individuals he had encountered in his life/career.

2015

He won an Emmy Award for Veep in 2015.

He received an Emmy in 2015 for his work on the HBO series Veep.

He 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.

2016

That year he crowd-funded a novel The Mule via the Unbound company which was released on 25 February 2016.

2019

In April 2019 his novel All My Colors came out, described by the author David M Barnett as "a blend of Murakami-ish otherworldliness, Stephen King small town horror and Douglas Adams-esque absurdity."

In 2022, Quantick's first movie, Book Of Love, was released.

In the same year it won Best Primetime Movie at the 2022 Imagen Awards.