Robert Webb: '"Novelist" still sounds too posh for me'
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telegraph.co.ukThe comedian, actor and writer, 47, lives in London with his wife Abigail and two daughters, Esme, 10, and Dory, eight When I was a kid, I mainly wanted to be a superhero, but that gave way to ambulance driver and finally, when I was 13, a comedy actor and writer. ‘Novelist’ didn’t really come into it because it just sounded too posh for me.
It still does, to be honest. But I was writing stories before I was writing sketches – usually on scraps of paper that I stuck together and called ‘my book’.
I wrote about my mother’s death in [my autobiography] How Not To Be a Boy. Exploring that time when I was 17 and framing it in my own words was certainly helpful.
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