Robert Webb
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 29, 1972 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 72
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Antiques Riviera
2026TV
Narrator (voice)
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
2025TV
High Hoops
2025TV
Mr. Holt
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023Movie
Martin
Whitstable Pearl
2021TV
Tom Grant
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
2021TV
Guest
Frayed
2019TV
Rufus
Inside the Pet Food Factory
2019Movie
Self
Back
2017TV
Andrew
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017TV
Self - Panellist
National Treasure
2016TV
Robert Webb
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
2016TV
Self
Our Ex-Wife
2016TV
Jack
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016Movie
Nick
Insert Name Here
2016TV
Self - Panelist
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015TV
Self - Guest
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014Movie
Self
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014TV
Rick and Morty
2013TV
Knight of the Sun (voice)
Ambassadors
2013TV
Neil Tilly
Was It Something I Said?
2013TV
Self - Panellist
You Saw Them Here First
2013TV
Himself - Narrator
The Last Leg
2013TV
Self
Gadget Man
2012TV
The Wedding Video
2012Movie
Tim
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012TV
Jedrington Secret-Past
The Toys That Made Christmas
2011Movie
Self - Presenter
Death in Paradise
2011TV
Justin West
Fresh Meat
2011TV
Dan
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010Movie
Jeremy "Jez" Usborne
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
2010Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Robert's Web
2010TV
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
2010Movie
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
2010TV
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
2010TV
Self - Judge
The Bubble
2010TV
Self
You Have Been Watching
2009TV
Self
My Life In Verse
2009TV
Self
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009TV
Self
Argumental
2008TV
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008Movie
All Star Mr & Mrs
2008TV
Lily Allen and Friends
2008TV
Self - Guest
Would I Lie to You?
2007TV
Self
Magicians
2007Movie
Karl Allen
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb
2006Movie
That Mitchell and Webb Look
2006TV
Various Characters
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006TV
Confetti
2006Movie
Michael
Blessed
2005TV
Doctor Who
2005TV
Robot 2 (voice)
Twisted Tales
2005TV
Colin
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Tim Kendall
The Smoking Room
2004TV
Robin
Celebrity Mastermind
2003TV
Peep Show
2003TV
Jeremy Usborne
QI
2003TV
Self
Spine Chillers
2003TV
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
2001TV
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
2001TV
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000TV
Glorfinoid (voice)
Urban Gothic
2000TV
Bentley Kaye
Bruiser
2000TV
People Like Us
1999TV
Tom Wolfson
Comic Act
1998Movie
Mario
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996TV
Self, Self - Host
The Frank Skinner Show
1995TV
Self
Soccer AM
1995TV
Self
Room 101
1994TV
Self
Have I Got News for You
1990TV
Self, Self - Host
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV
Self - Presenter