Robert Webb

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.

Robert Webb - I was probably a bit ghastly as a fresher

"At Cambridge I oozed with the studied vulnerability of a young man who thinks he is about due a massive amount of (safe!) sex. I'm delighted to say that it worked"

Threesome review: Series 2, episode 1

Threesome, everyone's favourite Ménage à trois-based comedy is back, with a whole sack of one-liners, a bed-full (three, appropriately) of top class guest stars in the shape of Bill Bailey, Robert Webb and Joe Thomas, and a first episode that delivers laughs, even if it did leave the plot and characterisation at the sorting office.

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 remembers his own slight wedding disaster

Only one tiny thing went wrong when Robert Webb, star of The Wedding Video, got married himself...

Robert Webb: I'm not snotty like Peep Show's Jeremy

Peep Show star Robert Webb worries fans think he is like his sneery on-screen character Jeremy.

Wedding Video: on set with Robert Webb & Rufus Hound

I visited Basildon Park in West Berkshire as it played host to a series of small but significant social disasters caught on camera by Rufus Hound's character and others and there was the hectic air familiar to both movie sets and wedding ceremonies.

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.

Something of a foolproof premise that didn't take a great leap of imagination to commission: celebrities come on and read from their embarrassing teenage diaries. They're famous now so it all turned out OK, leaving them free to rip into their former selves in the company of host Rufus Hound.

First up is Robert Webb, the comedian and actor who has a sideline in sarcastic voiceovers. He uses that skill to make the most of his more than usually pretentious and doomy musings, written in a bungalow in Lincolnshire in 1989.

The present-day Webb neatly sums up the adolescent impulse to document every day of existence despite a lack of events, ascribing it to "that delightful combination of insecurity and conceit that made me think this was the best way to have a decent conversation".