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20 May 2020

Robert Webb Q&A: “I’d like to be the subject of a deeply unflattering nude by Freud“

The comedian talks The Young Ones, John Smith, and The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease.

By New Statesman

Robert Webb was born in Lincolnshire in 1972. One half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, he is best known for the sitcom “Peep Show” and is a regular comedy panellist.

A washing line on a sunny day in Dolly Patchett’s garden. Dolly was a friend of my grandmother’s and used to look after me. I feel sure my view of the drying clothes was from a pram.

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