David Quantick

David Quantick (born 14 May 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire, England) is an 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). He won an Emmy in 2015 for his work on Veep.