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 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.
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.
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.'
A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night.
The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.
I'd kill to be 'Doctor Who.' Maybe they could make the Doctor two people? He has got two hearts, after all.