Quotes by Robert Webb

About Robert Webb:

Robert Patrick Webb is an English comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell.
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Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

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I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

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Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laug...

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My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

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Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

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I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

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I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words.

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Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want,...

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I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

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We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

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I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

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Basically I try not to knock other comedians.

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When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

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When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once.

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It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.

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Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

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I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

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Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.

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Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

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Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Webb
  • DescriptionEnglish comedian, actor and writer
  • BornSeptember 29, 1972
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Comedian; Author