‘The scripts were the funniest things I’d ever read’: the stars of Peep Show look back, 20 years later
It launched the careers of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Mitchell and Webb, plus Olivia Colman – but it nearly got cancelled. Two decades since its first episode, its stars reflect on the show that made them
October 2021
Robert Webb withdraws from Strictly Come Dancing due to ill health
Comedian, who had open heart surgery two years ago, says he stepped back on medical advice
August 2021
Strictly Come Dancing 2021: the contestants – ranked
Robert Webb, AJ Odudu, Tom Fletcher and Nina Wadia are among the celebrities getting their dancing shoes on for Strictly. But who will succeed … and who on earth is Tilly Ramsay?
January 2021
TV review
Back review – Mitchell and Webb's return is well worth the wait
Robert Webb: 'The doctor said my heart was about to fail. That got my attention'
June 2020
Books that made me
Robert Webb: 'I've given Graham Swift's Waterland to at least two girlfriends and David Mitchell'
Come Again by Robert Webb review – uplifting sliding-doors sci-fi
May 2020
Books blog
The Big Book Weekend: a literary festival in your own home
After the cancellation of so many events, a festival that combines some of the best has come to the rescue
April 2020
'They were literally about to turn me off and on again': Robert Webb on his brush with mortality
Book of the day
Come Again by Robert Webb review – entertaining debut novel
February 2020
David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’
The former Peep Show star felt right at home playing a lily-livered journalist in Michael Winterbottom’s film Greed. He talks about marriage, capitalism – and Armageddon
May 2018
Lunch with...
Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’
Made in ...
Robert Webb on Lincolnshire: 'Golf clubs, mock-Tudor facades and pubs with horse-brassy fireplaces’
December 2017
Your guide to a happy new year… by Dawn, Eddie and other celebrity self-help gurus
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017: the hits and misses of the publishers’ year
October 2017
TV review
Back review: farewell to Mitchell and Webb’s squirmingly good sitcom-cum-thriller
Simon Blackwell’s comedy about a suspected cuckoo in the nest was surprisingly touching without veering into sentimentality. Bring on series two
September 2017
The Guardian Books podcast
Robert Webb on modern masculinity – books podcast
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Doctor Foster; Tin Star; Safe House; Back; Cold Feet; Diana and I
TV review
Back review – Mitchell and Webb return with a glorious mix of fun and filth
At last men are joining our conversation about toxic masculinity
