The Wit Who Wooed and Won; READ 3 Comedian and Panellist David Mitchell Was Once a Sad Singleton. but as He Reveals in His New Book, the Right Girl Was Worth Waiting Three Years For

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He's posh, uncool and a little nerdy. In fact, comedian David Mitchell has long played on the comic image of lonely, dysfunctional loser.

He made his name as repressed, socially inept Mark Corrigan in Peep Show, the longest-running sitcom in Channel 4 history which begins a new series later this month co-starring his comedy partner Robert Webb.

And in his autobiography Back Story, the witty panellist on QI, Would I Lie To You? and Have I Got News For You, admits he's never been much good with girls.

Until the penultimate chapter, that is, when readers will discover that the Cambridge graduate and star of That Mitchell And Webb Look is really an incurable …