Robert Webb

Robert Webb

Date of birth: 29-09-1972
Born in Lincolnshire, Robert Webb went to Cambridge, where he joined the famous Footlights troupe – and met David Mitchell, when they were both auditioning for a student pantomime.

They wrote their first show – the First-World-War-based Millions Dead or Dying ( a wry look at the post-apocalyptic age with songs) – while at university, and took it to the 1997 Edinburgh fringe.

After graduating, they appeared in regular sketch nights on the London circuit, and wrote for a number of shows including Armstrong & Miller and Big Train. Theyreturned to Ediburgh with Shopping and St***-Up (1998), The Mitchell & Webb Story (1999) and The Mitchell & Webb Clones (2001)

Their first break into television came in 2000, on the short-lived BBC sketch show Bruiser, which led to their own show on the now-defunct Play UK the following year, The Mitchell and Webb Situation.

In 2003, they landed the roles that woul dmake their name, as flatmates Mark Corrigan (Mitchell) and Jeremy Usbourne (Webb) in the multi-award-winning Peep Show, written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. The show's sixth series is due out in 2009.

Alongside this, they continued to work on their own sketch series, first on Radio 4 with three series of That Mitchell and Webb, which trasferred to TV as That Mitchell and Webb Look and had three series by 2009, winning a Bafta for best comedy in 2007.

In 2006 the pair made their first tour, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb, which was nominated for best stage comedy at the the British Comedy Awards, and the following year their first film, Magicians, was release, while they also fronted Apple's Mac vs PC ads.

As a solo artist, Webb has appeared in BBC Three sitcom The Smoking Room.

In 2008, he made his West End stage debut in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, and in 2009 he won in the Comic Relief Let's Dance special, spoofing the famous Flashdance sequence

He married comedy actress Abigail Burdess in 2007.

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High Hoops gets a second series

CBBC comedy reunites former Peep Show stars Robert Webb and Isy Suttie

A second series of its CBBC comedy High Hoops – which reunites former Peep Show stars Robert Webb and Isy Suttie.

The news comes as series one off the show about ‘charmingly reckless’ high school basketball player Aoife, played by Darci Hull, lands on iPlayer today.

Patricia Hidalgo, director the BBC’s children’s and education programming, said: ‘We’re so confident that audiences will love High Hoops that we’ve already commissioned a second series. 

‘It has a stellar cast. Darci Hull as Aoife is one to watch, she will go far!’

 Webb plays headteacher Mr Holt and Suttie plays Aoife’s mum Bríd, while  Nigel Boyle from Line of Duty plays the school basketball coach Jim.

Webb said: ‘Mr Holt tends to be aggressive, competitive, angry. He's one of those teachers who is still using sarcasm as his main form of communication, probably as his teachers did to him in the 1980s. All of the excellent teacher training that happened between then and now seems to have just passed him by. He still speaks to the kids, particularly Aoife, really quite disrespectfully, which is lots of fun for me.

‘I just get to run around being angry, and I got to grow a moustache, which I've always wanted to.’

Suttie said: ‘My character Bríd is a single parent, she’s got two kids who are going through different things emotionally. Bríd really likes meditation and mindfulness, but she's also quite competitive, so she's often boasting about being the best one at mindfulness, which is a bit how I am in real life!

‘When I read the scripts, I thought it was really funny, and I read it without knowing it was aimed at kids, and thought, this is a really great family sitcom. So for me, the comedy came first.’

 Aoife breaks the fourth wall by speaking directly to the audience and the show’s creator Sinéad Fagan said: ‘As a teenager, you’re always having to present a face when you’re actually thinking something else. Aoife likes to big herself up a bit but then bring herself down.’

The show is made by West Yorkshire-based CanCan Productions and filmed in Halifax.

High Hoops series one is on iPlayer now.

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Published: 17 Mar 2025

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2001

Mitchell and Webb Clones


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