Robert Webb
Robert Webb
Robert Patrick Webbis an English comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. The two men are best known for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show and the sketch comedy programme That Mitchell and Webb Look. Webb is also known for presenting the Great Movie Mistakes and Great TV Mistakes franchise, in which he provides some humorous puns about a particular movie or TV show containing "continuity errors."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth29 September 1972
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once.
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
I'm good at finding things to do on my own, even if it's just reading.
I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world.
I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.
Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.
I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.
I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'
I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'