David Mitchell (I)

Peep Show funny men David Mitchell and Robert Webb remind us that they're not just great comic actors but gifted writers as well with this new sketch show that's been adapted seamlessly from Radio 4's ]That Mitchell and Webb Sound].

Masters Of Comedy

Mitchell and Webb are interviewed by The Guardian.

Mitchell and Webb Situation

We're faced with a duo trying to find a voice and as a result the material misses more often than it hits. For every sketch that works there's also one that doesn't, another that goes on for far too long, another that's undeveloped and another still that's simply over-egged.

Mitchell and Webb Review

The radio show features topical humour without trying too hard to be up-to-the-minute, delivers satisfyingly dark material without striving to shock, and has a presiding intelligence that makes you want to weep with gratitude.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb have put together a wonderful radio comedy programme of satirical sketches. The show is a relativly quick-fire montage of sketches, which manages to be topical while not directly impersonating or parodying any specific figures, in the same way the shows such as Dead Ringers do.

The live-in lovers have finally made it to the altar; the groom is reading the wedding vows he wrote himself. We're both well past 30 now, and unless we get married we should probably split up, he says. But I'm buggered if I'm carrying all those books back down four flights of stairs... Will you be my first wife?

This cynical little scene comes from the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, a cut or three above most current radio comedy. If you're sufficiently twisted, you'll also enjoy a wicked spoof of those so-serious charity appeals, this time for Hairdressers Sans Frontières: This is Mwerere. She has to walk 15 miles every day to collect clean water... That's why I gave her this short, very manageable look.