A biography for Robert Webbhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic.”
“I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.”
“Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.”
“I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.”
“My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.”
“We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.”
“To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.”
“We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.”
“I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.”
“My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.”
“The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.”
“Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.”
“Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.”
“I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.”
“On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.”
“I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.”
“Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.”
“When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.”
“Basically I try not to knock other comedians.”
“I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.”