From rejecting letters at McDonald’s to communicating with Captain Kirk and owning a travel dressing gown, this compilation collects 24 of David Mitchell’s finest Quickfire moments.

Featuring classic Quickfires from Series 3–8, this is peak David Mitchell – awkward, meticulous, and utterly unforgettable.

Featuring inimitable host Rob Brydon with lightning-quick team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack.

00:00 – S3 EP1 – David Mitchell: “This is a letter rejecting me from a job at McDonald’s.”

02:25 – S3 EP2 – David Mitchell: “As a child at my grandparents’ house I had a little bell I would ring if I wanted anything.”

04:43 – S3 EP3 – David Mitchell: “I read Nineteen Eighty-Four from cover to cover in W H Smith, so I didn’t have to buy a copy.”

07:16 – S3 EP4 – David Mitchell: “I was thrown out of a nightclub for refusing to stop dancing on a table.”

09:15 – S3 EP6 – David Mitchell: “The screensaver on my phone is a photo of my living room carpet.”

11:16 – S3 EP7 – David Mitchell: “The only concert I have ever been to was by Shirley Bassey.”

13:02 – S3 EP8 – David Mitchell: “Three members of the Cabinet subscribe to my Twitter feed.”

15:34 – S4 EP1 – David Mitchell: “This is my special travel dressing gown. It’s the one item I always pack when I go on holiday.”

19:07 – S4 EP2 – David Mitchell: “I’ve had to prise open my bedroom door for the last two years ever since the door handle fell off.”

22:15 – S4 EP3 – David Mitchell: “I have such a terrible singing voice, that one year my teacher told me to mime during our school carol concert.”

23:52 – S4 EP4 – David Mitchell: “For six months, I wrote horoscopes for a women’s magazine.”

26:32 – S4 EP6 – David Mitchell: “This is the cricket ball with which I bowled out Jeremy Clarkson at a charity cricket match.”

29:28 – S4 EP7 – David Mitchell: “As a child I used to play board games against a bucket with a face painted on it. I called this bucket Stephen Tatlock.”

33:15 – S4 EP8 – David Mitchell: “As a child I had a special way (two ways) of communicating with Captain Kirk during Star Trek episodes.”

36:03 – S5 EP2 – David Mitchell: “When I was 12, I saved up all my pocket money and bought a rowing boat that I never used.”

38:22 – S5 EP5 – David Mitchell: “I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.”

41:02 – S5 EP8 – David Mitchell: “This is my bear, Tablecloth. Customs officers once cut his head off and searched him for smuggled goods.”

44:54 – S6 EP2 – David Mitchell: “I like pens. And I like to know where my pens are. For this reason, I have a three point pen policy.”

48:34 – S6 EP4 – David Mitchell: “On a wall in my flat there is a mysterious red switch. I have no idea what it does because I have never pressed it and refuse to do so.”

51:29 – S6 EP9 – David Mitchell: “Once a week, I love to eat a full English breakfast, but can only do so if I am entirely stripped to the waist.”

54:54 – S7 EP5 – David Mitchell: “I once sent out 30 professional photographs of myself to try and get an agent. I got just one reply, advising me to destroy all copies of the photograph.”

57:07 – S7 EP9 – David Mitchell: “I once got stuck in a cave for an hour after getting the hood of my kagool caught on a stalactite in a way I couldn’t un-twizzle.”

58:59 – S7 EP10 – David Mitchell: “This is my cape. I used to put it on, pretend I was Doctor Who, and head into my Tardis… or as my parents called it, the airing cupboard.”

1:02:25 – S8 EP4 – David Mitchell: “There is something about me that elephants like. Every time I visit a zoo, they thunder towards me and point their trunks in my direction.”

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