Robert Webb

Robert Webb ( born September 29, 1972) is a British comedian, actor and author. With David Mitchell, he is the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb.

Career

While studying at the University of Cambridge Robert Webb was a member of the renowned student theater club Footlights. There he met David Mitchell know. Together, they created their first comedy program for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Mitchell and Webb

2001 Mitchell and Webb began their first sketch show The Mitchell and Webb situation that aired the TV channel Play UK in six episodes. 2003 Channel 4 beamed the first season of the sitcom Peep Show, which was extremely successful and now is the longest running series of the transmitter. 2010, the eighth and ninth season has been commissioned.

2005 Mitchell and Webb emulated their sketch show and took on the first season of the written by themselves radio series That Mitchell and Webb Sound, which was sent from 2005 to 2009 by BBC Radio 4. The series was as That Mitchell and Webb Look adapted into four series for television. In 2006 she did a live tour under the name The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb.

Published in 2007 movie The Magician - Nothing but monkey business ( Magicians ), in which Mitchell and Webb play a stage magician duo. In the same year they took on the radio sitcom Daydream Believers, in the Mitchell and Webb played the lead roles.

2009 the duo released the book This Mitchell and Webb Book.

Other projects

In addition to his work in Mitchell and Webb Webb appeared in various radio and television series of the BBC. In 2006, he played one of the lead roles in the movie Confetti - Marry Less Ordinary, which he described in retrospect as poor. In 2008, he starred opposite Kris Marshall, Joanna Page and Ella Smith on Neil LaBute play in Fat Pig in Lononder West End. He also was a guest on various panel shows, including QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and is debating show Argumental team captain since 2011.

2009 Webb won the charity competition Let's Dance for Comic Relief with his interpretation of the song Flashdance ... What a Feeling.

2011 and 2012, Webb played alongside Katherine Parkinson the lead role in the gambling in Victorian England comedy series The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, in which David Mitchell played a minor role.

Awards

  • BAFTA Awards
  • 2007 ( Best Comedy Program for That Mitchell and Webb Look, along with David Kerr, Gareth Edwards and David Mitchell)
  • BAFTA Awards
  • 2009 ( Best Comedy Program for That Mitchell and Webb Look, along with David Kerr, Gareth Edwards and David Mitchell)
  • British Comedy Awards
  • 2006 ( Best TV Comedy Actor for Peep Show )
  • 2009 ( Best TV Comedy Actor for Peep Show, Best Sketch Show for That Mitchell and Webb Look, along with David Mitchell)
  • Festival de Télévision de Monte- Carlo
  • 2007 ( Outstanding Actor - Comedy Series for Peep Show )
  • 2008 ( Outstanding Actor - Comedy Series for That Mitchell and Webb Look)

Private life

Robert Webb is married with stand- up comedian Abigail Burdess. They have two daughters and live - as well as David Mitchell - in Kilburn, north London.

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