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David Quantick is a writer, broadcaster and critic specialising in comedy and music. He has written on, or appeared in, an extremely large amount of influential television and radio shows, from The Day Today and The Fast Show, to the banned animation PopeTown and the equally controversial Brass Eye. He began writing for the music publication NME and, with Steven Wells, he contributed to many of the humorous, snippet sections in the paper. He gained a reputation for incisive and witty observations on popular culture and music. Alongside rock journalism he was also submitting gags and sketches to British comedy shows such as Spitting Image. Quantick built his profile steadily and his name began to appear more and more often in print, radio and television. In 1992 Armando Ianucci asked him to join the writing team for the radio comedy On The Hour after which he made the natural progression to the television follow up The Day Today (1994). Both shows were highly acclaimed within the industry, winning awards and marshalling a loyal fan base. At this stage Quantick was still submitting copy to the NME, only giving up in 1995 after an unusually long association with the paper. Around this time he was appearing regularly on Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade (BBC Radio 1 1994 to1997), waxing critical about music's stars. This developed into his own named slot in the format: Quantick's World. His relationship with Maconie continued in parallel on the weekly show, The Treatment on BBC Radio 5 - an hour long satirical news round-up. Quantick rejoined the Chris Morris/Armando Ianucci axis to write for Brass Eye in 1997. The show caused huge controversy as Morris often does, and though Quantick's association with him on Jam (2000) was less explosive, the Brass Eye Paedophile Special was so controversial that Government ministers initially condemned the programme (without having seen it). Throughout this period he contributed to less provocative fare such as Smack The Pony (1999-2001), Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show and could be heard on BBC Radio 4's 99p Challenge. But most importantly Quantick and Bussman were making history. In 2000 they created the world's first Internet sitcom, Junkies about three heroin addicts. Quantick also claimed it as the first docusitcom (documentary/sitcom), though some argue a competing claim is made by The Osbournes. It starred long time Morris collaborator Peter Baynham, with Sally Phillips (Smack The Pony) and Peter Serafinowcz (Look Around You). It is still available for download. The project grew out of the writing pair's frustration with the commissioning process. The average sitcom, they said, cost 200,000 pounds to make and finding funds is too difficult. So they secured the services of cast and crew on a voluntary basis and made a show for less than 4,000 pounds. The site received over a million visits in the first eight months. In 2001 Quantick collaborated with Collins and Maconie again on Lloyd Cole Knew My Father, a live show where the three recounted humorous tales of working as rock journalists. Part of the conceit was that, far from being a tale of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll, stories centred on the deflating aspects of the job: the boredom, missing assignments, the idiosyncracies of fan letters. Quantick missed one performance at Edinburgh's Pleasance Theatre when he went for a walk up a large hill - Arthur's Seat - and had to be rescued by firemen. A performance was later broadcast on BBC Radio 2 as a six episode serial. Around this time there was an explosion of nostalgic list shows on British television themed around decades past: I love The 1980s and I Love The 1990s etc. Quantick was in his element (as was Maconie) scraping the pith from cultural icons and ephemera. Quantick enjoyed immense success with the publication of 2004's Grumpy Old Men, which spent three months in the Sunday Times bestseller list. He continues to write.