Acting · Lincolnshire, England, UK · Born September 29, 1972
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.
TV100 Questions with Tom Simons
2026
as Self
TVThe Antiques Riviera
2026
as Narrator (voice)
TVMitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
2025
TVHigh Hoops
2025
as Mr. Holt
MovieBlood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
2023
as Martin
TVWhitstable Pearl
2021
as Tom Grant
TVRhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
2021
as Guest
TVFrayed
2019
as Rufus
MovieInside the Pet Food Factory
2019
as Self
TVBack
2017
as Andrew
TVRichard Osman's House of Games
2017
as Self - Panellist
TVNational Treasure
2016
as Robert Webb
TVDara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
2016
as Self
TVOur Ex-Wife
2016
as Jack
MovieAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
as Nick
TVInsert Name Here
2016
as Self - Panelist
TVTravel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
as Self - Guest
Movie50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
as Self
TVDuck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
TVRick and Morty
2013
as Knight of the Sun (voice)
TVAmbassadors
2013
as Neil Tilly
TVWas It Something I Said?
2013
as Self - Panellist
You Saw Them Here First
2013
as Himself - Narrator
TVThe Last Leg
2013
as Self
TVGadget Man
2012
MovieThe Wedding Video
2012
as Tim
TVThe Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
as Jedrington Secret-Past
MovieThe Toys That Made Christmas
2011
as Self - Presenter
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as Justin West
TVFresh Meat
2011
as Dan
MoviePeep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010
as Jeremy "Jez" Usborne
MovieMad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
2010
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Robert's Web
2010
MovieHarry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
2010
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
TVChannel 4's Comedy Gala
2010
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
2010
as Self - Judge
TVThe Bubble
2010
as Self
TVYou Have Been Watching
2009
as Self
My Life In Verse
2009
as Self
TVLet's Dance for Comic Relief
2009
as Self
TVArgumental
2008
MovieThe Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008
TVAll Star Mr & Mrs
2008
TVLily Allen and Friends
2008
as Self - Guest
TVWould I Lie to You?
2007
as Self
MovieMagicians
2007
as Karl Allen
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieThe Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb
2006
TVThat Mitchell and Webb Look
2006
as Various Characters
TVRob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
MovieConfetti
2006
as Michael
TVBlessed
2005
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Robot 2 (voice)
TVTwisted Tales
2005
as Colin
TVAgatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Tim Kendall
TVThe Smoking Room
2004
as Robin
TVCelebrity Mastermind
2003
TVPeep Show
2003
as Jeremy Usborne
TVQI
2003
as Self
TVSpine Chillers
2003
TVThe Mitchell and Webb Situation
2001
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
2001
TVAqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
as Glorfinoid (voice)
TVUrban Gothic
2000
as Bentley Kaye
TVBruiser
2000
TVPeople Like Us
1999
as Tom Wolfson
MovieComic Act
1998
as Mario
TVNever Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self
TVThe Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
TVSoccer AM
1995
as Self
TVRoom 101
1994
as Self
TVHave I Got News for You
1990
as Self
TVHave I Got a Bit More News for You
as Self - Presenter
