Robert Webb

Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. The pair are best known for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show and the sketch comedy program That Mitchell and Webb Look. Webb is also known for presenting the Great Movie Mistakes and Great TV Mistakes franchise, in which he provides some humorous puns about a particular movie or TV show containing "continuity errors".

Early life

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Webb grew up in Woodhall Spa near Horncastle as the youngest of three brothers. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching The Young Ones and Blackadder, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school and began writing parodies. While Webb was in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels.

At the age of 20, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights. Webb and Mitchell met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.

Robert Webb (MP)

Robert Webb (c.1719 – 9 September 1765) was the Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1747 to 1754. He was a prominent sugar merchant, owning plantations on Montserrat.

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Robert Webb (born 1972) is an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Robert I. Webb

Robert I. Webb is a professor of Finance at the University of Virginia. He is a Paul Tudor Jones II Research Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce of the University of Virginia. Additionally, he is the editor of the Journal of Futures Markets, published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is also the author of Macroeconomic Information and Financial Trading, Trading Catalysts: How Events Move Markets and Create Trading Opportunities and "Shock Markets: Trading Lessons for Volatile Times".

Previously he was a consultant to the World Bank and he traded on the floor at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He also served as a Senior Financial Economist at both the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Webb received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and obtained his doctorate from the University of Chicago.

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Robert Webb (cricketer)

Robert Holden Webb (born 22 February 1806 at Ham Common, Surrey; died 10 March 1880 at Essendon, Hertfordshire) was an English cricketer with amateur status. He was associated with Cambridge University and recorded in three first-class matches from 1826 to 1827, totalling 24 runs with a highest score of 10 and holding no catches.

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