David Mitchell and Robert Webb reunite for new sketch show

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Peep Show duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb will be reuniting on TV for the first time since 2021, collaborating with younger comedians in a new sketch comedy show.The as-yet-untitled series will consist of six half hour episodes, with the pair being joined by up and coming performers Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, and Krystal Evans.

The show will air on Channel 4, who confirmed the news via press release. The broadcaster described the new project as “a bold return to British sketch comedy with an innovative merging of comedy minds across generations”.In the release, Mitchell and Webb released a statement that read: “When Channel 4 asked us to do another sketch show we were startled, bemused and available.

It’s a perilous time for the industry and so it’s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counterintuitive commissioning.”It continued, by joking: “We’re confident that unlike Roger Moore with his shoe on the bonnet of a car teetering on the edge of a cliff in For Your Eyes Only [REPLACE WITH 21ST CENTURY REFERENCE?] we’re not about to give British TV comedy a final lethal nudge into the abyss.” They concluded: “We’re looking forward to working with our brilliant new cast despite their youth and talent and would like to encourage viewers to watch the advert break carefully and do their best to buy something.

It doesn’t have to be a car but, you know, a box of chocolates or an app or something”.Mitchell and Webb are best known for their influential sitcom Peep Show, which ran for nine series between 2003 and 2015.