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" I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike. "

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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. "

Robert Webb

New

Way

Strength

" When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like. "

Robert Webb

Present

Mistakes

" 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. "

" I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is. "

" It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. "

" I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly. "

Robert Webb

Imagine

Thinking

" We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish. "

" 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. "

Robert Webb

Right

Head

" He likes 'Confetti,' and he doesn't like 'Star Wars.' I think that just relieves us from the burden of ever having to take Mark Kermode seriously again. "

" Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do. "

" 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. "

" I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. "

" I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.' "

" We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it. "

" 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. "

" Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury. "

" Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it. "

" I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments. "

" Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist. "

" It was quite an honour when 'New Woman' magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron. "

Robert Webb

Woman

Think

" 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. "

" I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really. "

Robert Webb

Comedy

Watching

" The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all. "

" 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. "

" I'd kill to be 'Doctor Who.' Maybe they could make the Doctor two people? He has got two hearts, after all. "

" No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too. "

" The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry. "