Acting
Robert Webb
Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He rose to prominence alongside David Mitchell as the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. Mitchell and Webb starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which Webb plays Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne. The two also starred in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, for which they then performed a stage adaptation, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb. The duo starred in the 2007 film Magicians, and in the short-lived series Ambassadors in 2013. Webb headed the critically acclaimed sitcom The Smoking Room and was a performer in the sketch show Bruiser. From 2017 to 2021, he starred alongside Mitchell in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Back. Webb is also a regular comedy panellist, appearing on shows such as The Bubble, Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Mastermind, Argumental, and Was It Something I Said? He has also hosted and narrated several programmes. His other sitcom appearances include Blessed, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, and Fresh Meat. Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 in Boston, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Woodhall Spa. His parents divorced when he was five years old, with his mother remarrying a year or so later. He has two older brothers and a younger half-sister. He grew up on a council estate, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching the sitcoms The Young Ones, Blackadder, and Only Fools and Horses, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school, and began writing parodies. At the age of 13, partly because of resentment towards his father, he made a conscious effort to lose his native Lincolnshire accent and now speaks with a more neutral English accent. When he was 17 and in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. In 1992, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights, where he met David Mitchell. The two met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.
Filmography
The Antiques Riviera
Series · 2026
High Hoops
Series · 2025
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
Series · 2025
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Film · 2023
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
Series · 2021
Whitstable Pearl
Series · 2021
Inside the Pet Food Factory
Film · 2019
Frayed
Series · 2019
Back
Series · 2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
Series · 2017
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Film · 2016
Our Ex-Wife
Series · 2016
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
Series · 2016
National Treasure
Series · 2016
Insert Name Here
Series · 2016
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Series · 2015
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Film · 2014
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Series · 2014
You Saw Them Here First
Series · 2013
Ambassadors
Series · 2013
Rick and Morty
Series · 2013
The Last Leg
Series · 2013
Was It Something I Said?
Series · 2013
The Wedding Video
Film · 2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Series · 2012
Gadget Man
Series · 2012
The Toys That Made Christmas
Film · 2011
Death in Paradise
Series · 2011
Fresh Meat
Series · 2011
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
Film · 2010
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
Film · 2010
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Film · 2010
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
Series · 2010
Robert's Web
Series · 2010
The Bubble
Series · 2010
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
Series · 2010
You Have Been Watching
Series · 2009
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Series · 2009
My Life In Verse
Series · 2009
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
Film · 2008
Argumental
Series · 2008
Lily Allen and Friends
Series · 2008
All Star Mr & Mrs
Series · 2008
Magicians
Film · 2007
Would I Lie to You?
Series · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb
Film · 2006
Confetti
Film · 2006
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Series · 2006
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
Series · 2006
Blessed
Series · 2005
Doctor Who
Series · 2005
Twisted Tales
Series · 2005
The Smoking Room
Series · 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Series · 2004
Peep Show
Series · 2003
Celebrity Mastermind
Series · 2003
Spine Chillers
Series · 2003
QI
Series · 2003
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
Series · 2001
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
Series · 2001
Bruiser
Series · 2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Series · 2000
Urban Gothic
Series · 2000
People Like Us
Series · 1999
Comic Act
Film · 1998
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Series · 1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Series · 1996
Soccer AM
Series · 1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Series · 1995
Room 101
Series · 1994
Have I Got News for You
Series · 1990
Have I Got News for You
Series · 1990
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Series