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Robert Webb: Summary

Recent Role:: on Would I Lie to You?

Birthday:: 9-29-1972

Birthplace:: Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.

Birth Name:: Robert Webb

Robert was born in 1972, in Lincolnshire. His parents divorced when he was five. He has two older brothers and a younger half-sister. His mother died when he was 17. He attended Cambridge University - though his driving reason was to join the Footlights. He studied English at Robinson College. He met David Mitchell here, and they joined forces to write comedy together. Robert is...

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In 2006, Robert returned to his old school, Horncastle Grammar to encourage the students with their revision.(edit)
While Robert's parents were initially concerned about his career choice, when he appeared on Radio 4, his father relaxed, as 'That meant it was definitely going to be fine'.(edit)
Robert was nominated with comedy partner David Mitchell, for stage show Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb for Best Stage Comedy at the 2006 British Comedy Awards.(edit)
Along with comedy partner David Mitchell, Robert was ranked ninth in a Broadcast magazine poll of the UK best TV talent, in 2005. Also in 2005, they came joint twelfth in the Radio Times's poll, "Most Powerful People in TV Comedy".(edit)
Robert's radio show, in which he performs with partner David Mitchell (That Mitchell and Webb Sound) was nominated in the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards for Best Comedy, but lost out to Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson's Down the Line.(edit)