David Quantick

David Quantick (born 14 May 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is an Emmy Award winning English journalist, radio and screen writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy. He has collaborated with comics and writers such as Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci (as co-writer for On the Hour, Blue Jam and Veep) and Harry Hill as a writer for TV Burp. Quantick is a former staff writer for NME, for whom he wrote in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before publishing books such as "How To Write Everything" (2014) and "How to be A Writer" (2016). 2Early life He was born in Sheffield, adopted, and moved at an early age with his family to Plymouth. Quantick went to Woodford Junior School in Plymouth, then Exmouth Comprehensive School. 2Career 3Early years David Quantick began writing for the music publication NME in 1983, alongside Danny Baker and Paul Morley. Together with Steven Wells, he contributed to many of the humorous snippet sections in the paper. In addition to rock journalism, he was also submitting jokes and sketches to British comedy shows such as Spitting Image. Quantick built his profile steadily and his name began to appear increasingly often in print, radio and television. In 1992, Armando Iannucci asked him to join the writing team for the Radio 4 spoof news programme On the Hour, after which he made the natural progression to the television follow-up The Day Today (BBC2, 1994