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Video: Robert Webb on children's storytelling

We spoke to Peep Show's Robert Webb about his new TV series Winnie the Pooh.

Robert talks about life on the '100 acre wood' set and how he used his comedy co-star, David Mitchell, as inspiration for Rabbit's voice.

Interview: David Mitchell on his memoirs & Robert Webb

David Mitchell has a bad back. To ease the discomfort, he walks, one hour every day. The funnyman, best known for the Channel 4 series Peep Show and as one half of Mitchell and Webb, has been stepping out for medical purposes since 2007.

David Mitchell interview

Many people would expect David Mitchell, 38, to be well-versed in history. But here the comedian and Peep Show star tells Metro why he lists his specialist subject is The Simpsons, what it was like working with Michelle Pfeiffer and why he dislikes Downton Abbey.

Chris Morris's scathing satire Brass Eye, Jessica Hynes and Simon Pegg's brilliantly offbeat Spaced, Victoria Pile's gloriously surreal Green Wing - Channel 4, it's fair to say, has reeled out a number of memorable comedies since it launched in 1982. Part of C4's Funny Fortnight, this lively two-hour programme counts down its top 30, as voted for by readers of the station's website. "Rude, radical, and irreverent, over the last 30 years Channel 4 comedy has taken us on one hell of a ride," intones the narrator, with no shortage of hyperbole. Though the tone, of course, is self-congratulatory, there's still plenty to enjoy here, not least the terrific archived footage, which reminds you why these show's have such an enduring appeal. Interspersed with these clips are hilarious insights from an impressive array of talking heads: among them, Tamsin Greig, Sally Phillips, Al Murray, Charlie Higson, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, who says about Spaced: "When I think about all the things I've done, that was the most intense, the most fun, the thing I'm most proud of." One caveat: how did a show as derivative as Star Stories make it on to the list?

Robert Webb: I worry people think I'm like Jeremy

Robert Webb tells Metro he's nothing like his Peep Show character Jeremy, why he hasn't watched co-star Olivia Colman in Tyrannosaur, what he has planned for David Mitchell's stag night and all about his new film The Wedding Video.

David Mitchell: an equation for risk-free levity?

When is it OK to start making light of terrible events? That's the comedian's perennial question. Some say there are things you should never joke about. Others that there's no "unfit subject for comedy", just lots of unfit jokes.

David Mitchell: My new British citizenship test

Theresa May wants to put patriotism at the centre of British identity. Doesn't she know our national spirit is more about pasties, panto and Keith Chegwin?

This week the show it features not one, but two, token women!

Josie Lawrence and Sarah Millican join host Rob Brydon and team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell to help sort fact from fiction.

Also in tonight's episode we hear about the evil eye expression Huw Edwards employs during interviews.

And former Corrie star, game-show host and corpser extraordinaire Bradley Walsh fails miserably to maintain a poker face tonight.

His story - involving the theft of some mashed potato - will be submitted to the show's usual ruthless scrutiny, cross-interrogation and lightning wit.

"Talk about the Euro and do it with some level of insight!" demands David Mitchell of Lee Mack, in that pretend-outraged voice he uses a lot on this show. Mack gets his own back by demanding that Mitchell talk about last year's Carling Cup final. Neither of them can oblige, of course, but that's not the point: they're putting to the test the idea that Huw Edwards has an "evil eye" expression he uses to cut colleagues short in a studio discussion if they're going on too long. Edwards scowls a lot to demonstrate.

Sarah Millican, Josie Lawrence and Bradley Walsh are the other guests, with Walsh enjoyably corpsing as he tries to pretend he once stole mashed potato from his teachers.