Robert Webb

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David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

But there's a great bit in that where they go to the theater, and, um, Jez, the Robert Webb character, decides that he just doesn't wanna stay here anymore.

Mm-hmm.

And he just leaves.

The past is edited, so the narrative may be stronger.

As the writer and comedian Robert Webb says in How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir is a story, and to turn a person into a character is an act of simplification, even if the author is your brother and the character is drawn with love.

Ultimately, life writing needs to move outside the self if it is to find a place in the world.

Beyond the experience of catharsis for the writer, the stories must resonate with readers who recognise them as their own.

Got a bit of a star-studded cast.

We've got Robert Webb from Peep Show.

We've got Timothy Spolf, Wormtail and Harry Potter.

Okay, wait, Robert Webb is the other main guy that's not.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Endlessly.

So David Mitchell, by the way, and Robert Webb, we ought to explain what Peep Show is about.

This is a flat share sitcom, ultimately.

Yeah.

And the other thing

they mentioned as well was bringing back Mitchell and Webb, but they, Mitchell and Webb specifically, wanting to have new talent in their ensemble.

So they had Stevie Martin, they've got Lara Rico, you know, they've got people like that who... are again new faces it's about and i think everyone was hyper aware with the cancellation of live at the apollo that they wanted to do that they need these spaces they need to you know showcase these new comedians because it's so hard now and you know the you know I primarily the 31 shows I went to see you know about 25 were you know stand-up shows and the prevailing thing was you know how hard it is how much it costs you know that you need you essentially need to live in London if not a big city to do it you know so it's

yeah

Also, they'd announced a new sitcom comedy from Robert Popper.

He of Friday Night Dinner.

This stars Robert Webb and Timothy Spall.

Yeah.

very simple have

you ever seen that have you ever seen that it was the david mitchell thing he did david mitchell and and robert webb and they did this thing and they're wearing nazi caps and things they're like nazi anyway and then they suddenly look at each other they go are we the bad guys right it's a great little sketch and i think when you say you're being horrible you're being this and you're being that i think you actually in this instance i know you don't mean i'm being horrible i think you're being horrible

but to whom am i being horrible

uh partly to me partly to others i'm not being

best.

Which has cast so far Robert Webb.

Okay.

Timothy Spall.

Filming starts

next month.

I feel like Robert Webb's too old to be a middle-aged couple or part of a middle-aged couple.

Yeah, I would maybe say so as well.