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Robert Webb grew up in Lincolnshire in 1972 and you may attended King Elizabeth’s Grambridge, in which the guy joined Footlights and satisfied David Mitchell, developing new funny union Mitchell and you will Webb. It proceeded to make five selection of their Sony Prize-winning BBC Radio 4 sketch show, One Mitchell and you will Webb Voice, and for tv, five selection of the latest Bafta-successful You to Mitchell and you can Webb Discover BBC2.
Once the an actor, Webb is best noted for playing Jeremy Usborne inside Peep show, and therefore went having nine series, therefore it is Station 4’s longest-running sitcom. This new programme obtained a unique a few Baftas, a few United kingdom Comedy honors plus 2004 is actually awarded this new esteemed Flower D’Or for Most readily useful Funny. In the cinema, Webb features starred multiple spots from inside the London’s West End, such as about Olivier Prize-profitable Jeeves and you may Wooster: Perfect Rubbish, in which he gave a rate discussed by critic Honest Cottrell-Boyce since the ‘the brand new definitive Bertie Wooster out of his generation’.
During 2009 the guy acquired the BBC1 charity moving battle, Let us Dance to possess Comic Rescue, providing a memorable translation of audition world in the film Flashdance.