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" I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews. "
Robert Webb
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" We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then. "
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" I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world. "
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" Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want, and it's quite difficult to find. "
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" My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better. "
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" The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way. "
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" When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened. "
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Right
Head
" I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. "
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" Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems. "
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You
" We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons. "
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People
Gender
" UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility. "
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Language
Power
" Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots. "
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You
Idiot
Missing
" It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians. "
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Scared
Odd
" It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. "
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People
Without
Saying
" The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. "
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Men
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" The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry. "
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The Only Thing
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" We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it. "
Robert Webb
Open Mind
Comedy
Everything
" I'm good at finding things to do on my own, even if it's just reading. "
Robert Webb
Reading
Good
My Own
" There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget. "
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Comedy
Easy
Forget
" When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once. "
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Past
Swing
She
" I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen. "
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" I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it. "
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Real Life
Life
Lying
" Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. "
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Gender
Feminism
" Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege. "
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" My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year. "
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" Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below. "
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" One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other? "
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People
Dinner
Fantasy
" I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused. "
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Important
Hate
People
" I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it. "
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