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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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62 years old |
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Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
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David Quantick Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is David Quantick worth at the age of 62 years old? David Quantick’s income source is mostly from being a successful screenwriter. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated David Quantick's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1995, Quantick presented a pilot show called Now What? to Carlton Television but he series was not picked up for development.
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).
Working with Jane Bussmann, he co-wrote and performed Bussmann & Quantick Kingsize for BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
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.
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.
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.
A performance was later broadcast on Radio 2 as a six-episode series.
Between 2001 and 2012 He was also part of the writing team of Harry Hill's TV Burp.
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.
In 2005 he appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me.
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.
Quantick has lived in Hastings, East Sussex, with his wife and two children, since about 2011.
In September 2012, Quantick published an e-book novel, Sparks, which was positively reviewed by Neil Gaiman and Ben Aaronovitch.
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.
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.
That year he crowd-funded a novel The Mule via the Unbound company which was released on 25 February 2016.
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.