1. Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 and is an English comedian, actor and writer.
40 Facts About Robert Webb
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Robert Webb rose to prominence alongside David Mitchell as the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb.
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Mitchell and Webb starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which Webb plays Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne.
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Robert Webb headed the critically acclaimed sitcom The Smoking Room and was a performer in the sketch show Bruiser.
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Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 in Boston, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Woodhall Spa.
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Robert Webb's parents divorced when he was five years old, with his mother remarrying a year or so later.
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Robert Webb has two older brothers and a younger half-sister.
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In 1992, Robert Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights, where he met David Mitchell.
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Robert Webb was nominated for the Best Television Comedy Actor award again, this time without Mitchell, in 2009.
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That Mitchell and Robert Webb Look won them the BAFTA for "Best Comedy Programme or Series" at the 2007 awards, and they earned a further nomination for it in 2009.
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Robert Webb has appeared in two series of the BBC Three sitcom The Smoking Room and the Radio 4 sketch show Concrete Cow.
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Robert Webb has since said that he believed that his genitals would be pixellated out but only discovered at the screening of the film that they were not.
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Also in 2008, Robert Webb made his West End stage debut in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig.
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Robert Webb won the 2009 series Let's Dance for the charity Comic Relief, parodying the audition sequence from the film Flashdance.
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Robert Webb narrated the series Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum.
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Robert Webb hosted a 2010 Channel 4 series looking at the week's online news, Robert's Web.
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Robert Webb has appeared on several panel shows, including Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and QI.
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In January 2011, Robert Webb appeared on a celebrity version of BBC quiz Mastermind, answering nine questions correctly on his specialist subject and 11 correctly on the general knowledge round.
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In 2011 Robert Webb played Dan, a geology lecturer, in the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat.
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From 2011 to 2012 Robert Webb replaced Rufus Hound as team captain on the BBC comedy panel show Argumental.
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Robert Webb was the narrator of Channel 5's anti-nostalgia series 10 Things I Hate About, which began on 16 April 2012.
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In each episode, Robert Webb presented his opinion on the awful aspects of a particular year.
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In 2011 Robert Webb presented "Groundbreaking Gags" on BBC Three, in which he looked at the significant gags for which that the animated show Family Guy has been recognised.
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From September 2021 Robert Webb was a contestant in the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Dianne Buswell.
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Robert Webb said he had an urgent consultation with his heart specialist, after experiencing symptoms, and that she had recommended he pull out of the competition.
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Robert Webb was the invited guest on the Radio 4 long running series Desert Island Discs, hosted by Lauren Laverne in March 2023.
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Together with Mitchell, Robert Webb published his first comedy book This Mitchell and Robert Webb Book, which was released in the UK and the US in 2009 by HarperCollins imprint Fourth Estate.
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An abridged edition of highlights from This Mitchell and Robert Webb Book, entitled How to Cope with Mitchell and Robert Webb, was released only in the UK on 1 October 2009.
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Robert Webb wrote articles for the comments pages of the Telegraph newspaper between 2009 and 2011.
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Robert Webb criticised those who commented on the online versions of his articles in a New Statesman piece.
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Robert Webb thinks it is harmful for men to 'keep a stiff upper lip' and hide their feelings.
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In 2015, Robert Webb began writing his first solo memoir, How Not to Be a Boy, on growing up in working class Lincolnshire.
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Robert Webb was a staunch supporter of the Labour Party, and joined the party in 2013 in response to Russell Brand's interview on Newsnight in which Brand suggested people should not vote as a form of protest.
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Robert Webb expressed his disapproval at the appointment of Guardian journalist Seumas Milne as Labour's press secretary, and was quoted as saying that paying his party subscription with Milne in the post made him "feel sick".
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Robert Webb identified himself as a "gender-critical feminist" but emphasised that he opposes transphobia.
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Robert Webb stood by his comments in a 2020 interview with The Sunday Times.
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Robert Webb has been criticised by some LGBT news outlets, charities, and activists for this stance.
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Robert Webb married fellow comedian Abigail Burdess in 2006, with whom he had worked on the BBC Two comedy show The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff.
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In 2020, Robert Webb underwent emergency surgery on his heart for a mitral valve prolapse after being diagnosed with the condition at a routine medical check.
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Robert Webb has appeared on a number of podcasts, including The QuaranTea Break Podcast with Simon Ward, The Two Shot Podcast, Podcast Secrets of the Pharaohs and RHLSTP.