Robert Webb
Acting • Born 1972-09-29
Biography
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
72 credits
Magicians
Movie • 2007
Karl Allen
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Movie • 2014
Self
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Movie • 2023
Martin
The Wedding Video
Movie • 2012
Tim
The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb
Movie • 2006
Confetti
Movie • 2006
Michael
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
Movie • 2010
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie • 2016
Nick
The Toys That Made Christmas
Movie • 2011
Self - Presenter
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
Movie • 2010
Self - Narrator (voice)
Comic Act
Movie • 1998
Mario
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
Movie • 2008
Inside the Pet Food Factory
Movie • 2019
Self
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Movie • 2010
Jeremy "Jez" Usborne
Peep Show
TV • 2003
Jeremy Usborne
Soccer AM
TV • 1995
Self
The Smoking Room
TV • 2004
Robin
That Mitchell and Webb Look
TV • 2006
Various Characters
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
TV • 2001
Blessed
TV • 2005
Frayed
TV • 2019
Rufus
Argumental
TV • 2008
Bruiser
TV • 2000
The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995
Self
Lily Allen and Friends
TV • 2008
Self - Guest
Celebrity Mastermind
TV • 2003
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
TV • 2001
You Have Been Watching
TV • 2009
Self
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
TV • 2009
Self
All Star Mr & Mrs
TV • 2008
My Life In Verse
TV • 2009
Self
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
TV • 2010
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
TV • 2006
Robert's Web
TV • 2010
Fresh Meat
TV • 2011
Dan
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Robot 2 (voice)
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
TV • 2012
Jedrington Secret-Past
You Saw Them Here First
TV • 2013
Himself - Narrator
Spine Chillers
TV • 2003
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self
People Like Us
TV • 1999
Tom Wolfson
Our Ex-Wife
TV • 2016
Jack
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Bubble
TV • 2010
Self
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
TV • 2021
Guest
Back
TV • 2017
Andrew
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
TV • 2016
QI
TV • 2003
Self
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Ambassadors
TV • 2013
Neil Tilly
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
TV • 2000
Glorfinoid (voice)
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
TV • 2014
National Treasure
TV • 2016
Robert Webb
Gadget Man
TV • 2012
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self
Insert Name Here
TV • 2016
Self - Panelist
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self - Host
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
TV • 2010
Self - Judge
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV
Self - Presenter
Rick and Morty
TV • 2013
Knight of the Sun (voice)
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Justin West
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Tim Kendall
Whitstable Pearl
TV • 2021
Tom Grant
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self - Host
The Last Leg
TV • 2013
Self
High Hoops
TV • 2025
Mr. Holt
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV • 2017
Self - Panellist
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
TV • 2025
Twisted Tales
TV • 2005
Colin
The Antiques Riviera
TV • 2026
Narrator (voice)