Robert Webb interview on Peep Show, David Mitchell & masculinity | Unfiltered James O’Brien #3 

i watch peep show from start to end at least once every 6 months, i fucking love him and david

This is outrageous, This is contagious!

I love Robert. He's so down-to-earth, humble and smart.

What an incredibly lovely bloke.

But how much washing up does he think he could do without washing up liquid?

When Robert was mentioning the negative stuff around 14:25, I was genuinely expecting him to use the word "orgones".

i was always a huge fan of peep show, but i didn't know a great deal about Robert web the man, watching this interview i'm glad that he is in fact the thoughtful, caring, humble human being i thought he would be

I’ve watched Grand Designs with you. That smile when some eco-glass gets delayed on its way from Antwerp and the nice couple gets pushed over budget. That’s the real you.

American here. just discovering Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look and if you dont mind me saying... "bloody brilliant". love it. they've really stuck with me. will have to get Robert's book

His voice is like rich dark chocolate melting in my ears.

It can’t be understated how much pressure working class kids face, from their own families. I grew up in the Upper Midwest/Rust Belt in the US. My father was an electrician, my mom was as a secretary. I was the first person, in my family, to go to university. I wanted to study fine arts but whenever I brought it up, I was told that I needed to study something practical and once I had a proper career, I could take up art as a hobby. Spending tens of thousands of dollars pursuing a degree that wasn’t going to “guarantee meaningful employment with full benefits and vacation” just didn’t fit their world view. I buried my pride, along with my dreams, to give my family the validation that we are taught comes with status and titles and professions.

As you can possibly tell by my avatar, David Mitchell is my favourite comedian of all time. But having heard more and more interviews with Robert, I have to conclude that I'd probably rather have a conversation with him. His emotional intelligence is off the charts. What a legend.

Thank you. So much like my own childhood and relationship with my dad. My brother born before me died at the age of three. I'm 66 and still suffer from father problems even though he has been dead for the last 15 years, but this kind man made me feel less alone.

Some unspeakable fundamental truths spoken by Robert Webb, brave interview

Wonderful interview. Good conversation with a fascinating and amazing guy. Happy days

Great interview, Not a fan of autobiographies but will add this ro my expanding list of must reads. This long interview style suits James.

Excellent interview, soaring high above the regular fare of an interviewer who's so enamoured with himself he keeps interrupting and an interviewee simply trying to plug his latest product. Bravissimo!

Very honest, very moving and quite surprising... (Rang a lot of personal bells with me.) I knew almost nothing about Robert Webb before I watched this, (though I admire his work with DM very much...) and I'll certainly be buying this book. To know ALL the answers is impossible, but it's important to be aware of the questions, I guess... xx SF

Brilliant series. Loving this & got the book to read when I get home. Nice one!

Wonderful conversation. I am part way through reading his book now, so this made for a nice addition.

A great interview! Will be reading Webb's book.

I had no idea he had such a tumultuous life, he seems to have emerged as a great guy

What a brilliant interview. I relate to all this very much.

Great interview, authentic genuine kind person. Thanks.

I love peep show and admire Robert a fantastic interview from James O'Brien.

Really enjoyed this, I have a peep show binge probably once every few months. RW and DMs chemistry is on another level. Awkward comic timing to perfection. Nice to see this side of him.

This was deep! Not seen one of these unfiltered interviews before. I anticipated this might be an hour of funny Peep Show/Sketch Show/Magicians et al anecdotes... changed the way I appreciate Robert Webb.

One thing I like about this podcast is that the guest is allowed to speak, too many podcasts with an ignorant host that interrupts the guest, the focal point of the show

This podcast was golden, thanks!

Re: David “He was the first vertical person I said goodmorning to” is such a fun phrase

Thank you Robert for being so brave

Brilliant conversation. Enjoyed it, will take things away from it too. Thanks.

I relate to this interview on so many levels. Relationships with my friends, my own family, my dreams.

Absolutely great interview and absolutely great book one of my favourite memoirs/autobiography

28:44 omg this makes the sketch about his typing even funnier 😂

Great interview.

Loved the book, Rob. Thank you!

he raises a good point around 46:00 with the "farage in the garage" idea, being from gen z i can say tbh when youre young boys arent really any different now to how he describes them back then, just with added technology and different interests and as someone who's gay, growing up being told "gay" means bad or inferior in every sense and being encouraged to use it as a negative label does get internalised way before you're old enough to know what "gay" is and whether or not you are gay

My grandparents lived in Sleaford and used to take us to Kinema in the Woods at Woodhall Spa! Never knew RW grew up there. Fantastic interview

How have i only just seen this, the book is amazing i read it last year

Great interview. Loved the book.

Great stuff

Well that was a great interview, as a peep show fan I alwas enjoyed Robert. Never knew how tough he had it as a kid. An it was nice to see you just let him chat. It's always great to see the stars you love to watch turn out to be decent people. That's a man I'd enjoy a pint with

Rob feels like a very important voice at the moment with regards to issues around masculinity, I really would encourage anyone with young boys or anyone interested in the subject to read his book, it is all the things you expect (funny, charming etc) but it also feels from the perspective of another young boy who never fitted in with societal expectations of working class men, quite important.

superb book btw

Jam packed with wisdom and of the most useful sort...

cheer up xx these are good times xx

I wanna see more of Robert Webb... I miss peep show...

I've seen Robert Webb in interviews before and thought what a charming, intelligent, honest and funny chap he seems. This again confirms that. This was really nice and fun to listen to.

I loved the book - read it in almost one go - and this interview is absolutely fantastic. If I had one criticism about the book (though I'm frankly happy to be contradicted if I'm getting this wrong) is that there is a lot of bad behaviour attributed to the patriarchy, with the risk of it being viewed as an excuse. I 've been fortunate enough to have some wonderful men-wonderful fathers, brothers, husbands, friends- in my life, from a variety of social/education backgrounds, who, despite the true fact that they don't talk about their emotions much, they never react with anger or resentment or by removing themselves from a difficult situation, and (maybe indeed a smaller a subset of them) will never act as if the women in their lives are somehow more responsible for family and household responsibilities than they are. I agree that these men behave thus #despite# the patriarchy, but this means that the patriarchy cannot be seen as an all-encompassing mechanism of conditioning for men's behaviour. It is certainly a very big factor, but men who screw up don't just screw up because they don't know any better, they have a huge deal of responsibility for their own actions.

Jesus... I could draw almost every mirrored comparison with my own childhood and 'new' fatherhood.

1993! Can't believe the creative partnership with Mitchell goes that far back. Look forward to reading the book.

I have listened to his book (narrated by himself) and it is excellent, but also quite sad in places - particularly his relationship with his father and his mother passing away. Definitely recommend people listen to it (if like me, you are too lazy to read it!).

His voice 🥰 gives me tingles

What he says about how becoming a parent is meant to make you feel more forgiving of your parents is so spot on. Becoming a parent made me feel much more resentful and angry at the way I was treated growing up, at both my father and my mother. My father for being the narcissistic asshole he was and always will be, then for my mother for enabling him and supporting his disgusting self serving behaviour. I don’t speak much to my father as he is the same as he always has been. My mother thankfully has seen and taken accountability for her actions and deeply regrets them, and now makes up for them in spades.

how did Robert drop the phrase "Farage in the Garage" and neither of them even smiled? lmfao

The therapy session I needed

THIS IS SOOO NOT RAINBOW RHYTHMS

Good interview on both sides

Forgotten how much I liked James doing these. Bring him back.

If you're a fan of this book and rock/punk music then listen to Idles, brilliant band

Such a talented guy. I forgot irl he wasn’t jez and went to Cambridge.

I've always thought of James O'Brien as a real life Jez character. Life imitating art and all that.

I was just looking at the thumbnail and thought "damn that looks like a sort of munchkin-version of Robert Webb.

That’s numberwang!

Did they make it through an hour long interview about a book without ever mentioning the title?

I love this voice!

Superb

"...lethal English curtesy" is just brilliant.

World Wide Wobert 🤣

"God, I can be quite boring when I put myself to it"

I love this guy. Like, you look at that 18 year old list and you're like, check check check. Not Hollywood quite yet. Not Cleese but as close as anyone will ever be to that who was born after 1970. lol

Brilliant

53 minutes hearing the car alarm going off in the background

That was a great Darth Vader impersonation!

Dang, Jez is a complex guy. Also, this interviewer is really good. 👍🏻

Get Simon Amstell on next, his book Help is fantastic!!

That was friggin' hilarious at 28:00.

Wow what a clever man

When is Back coming on again?

Dunno y this made me cry

How thick is wall ?

i love robert but i disagree about movie mistakes that was a great show and i loved it when i was younger

The thumbnail looks like their playing snooker

When James mentioned Cyril Connolly, did anyone else think "no, semi-carnally"?

I'm an American and I like to think of myself as a big anglophile. I know what the British school system is like both now and in the 1800s. And I know the geography of England and how its train system and its accents work. But I always have to google the really British references while watching this. Like, who is David Mellor and what's this with the Duke of Windsor? Oh, you're saying that Webb went from talking working class to upper-middle class and Mellow went from talking upper-middle class to Aristocratic. lol

Robert found a publisher for his book? What next? he's found a director for his film? a builder for his cathedral?

Where’s Robert looking at?

I hope British London get the publishing rights

I do not know what i would do without peep show? God bless this man

A SAUSAGE IS MISSING!!!!!!

A far cry from Jez ! 😁

Get the mics sorted out before you start out. That said. Great interviews

I think Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are for sure the American Mitchell and Webb, or as I fancy, Webb and hey, look! Mitchell is here too.

Hennimore!!!!

Oh no... Pekora's BGM is stuck in my head.

Praise Vectron!

Damn, he should do a travel show and call it World Wide Webb

Men with Ven

Where's gunny