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
No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.
Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
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.
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 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.'
Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.
My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.