David Mitchell (I)

As we return for the fifth series of this engagingly filthy comedy, Mark (David Mitchell) is getting drunk and maudlin on wedding champagne as his flatmate Jeremy (Robert Webb) urges him to go out on a double-date: Beggars can't be choosers, she's an actual woman.

Mark - remember, this is a man who once based his romantic strategy on the Siege of Stalingrad - arms himself with a copy of the Friends of the British Museum magazine and goes forth again to search for love...

I adore Peep Show and I adore Mark and Jeremy, an amiable pair of misfits trapped in a squalid, mutually destructive friendship. Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's script is packed with the kind of quotable funny lines that should be on T-shirts, and Mitchell and Webb are both just marvellous.

Series Two Review

Many sketches you maybe don't laugh out loud out, but are left incredibly impressed, and thinking 'where the hell did they get *that* from!'

Interview with David Mitchell and Robert Webb

The Telegraph interviewed David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the build up to the second series of the show.

That Mitchell and Webb Look is an uproarious sketch series from the fine folks at BBC America that, unlike most of its ilk, hits far more home runs than groundouts. Written and performed primarily by the comedic duo of Robert Webb and David Mitchell, it's a cleverly cheeky pastiche of offbeat characters and biting wit that's rife with dead-on social commentary.

Series Two Preview

Sketch shows are difficult. Less so if you're running the same catch-phrase characters every week, where you change the setting but just feed people the same lines over and over. That Mitchell and Webb Look aims higher than this and is that much funnier for doing so.

Hence, BBC1's new panel game Would I Lie To You is likely to prove enjoyable due to the masterstroke of hiring David Mitchell as a team captain. David is already a first-rate comic writer and actor but in the past year or so he's proven to be a brilliant participant in panel games. Not since Paul Merton has someone seemed so at home behind a desk.

I wonder if David Mitchell and Robert Webb have many duppy to feed. They're certainly working hard: Peep Show, plus a film, Magicians, and those awful Apple Mac adverts (the duppies could have gorged themselves on that cheque). And now another series of That Mitchell and Webb Sound. Like all their work, I think I won't really like it and then find myself tuning in and laughing like a drain. It's always at the same thing, which is the chubby uncool feller (is he Mitchell? Or Webb?) getting angry. This week he lost his rag about footie fans becoming too immersed in the game, deciding to do the same with Raiders of the Lost Ark. 'At the end we're tied to a stake in the ground, and you lot open the Ark of the Covenant, and the wrath of God comes out and melts your face,' he snarled. Said by Chubby, this was hilarious.

Mitchell is currently chairing a Monday evening game show, The Unbelievable Truth, in which comedians who appear on every other Radio 4 game show compete to see how many facts they can disguise in a three-minute web of fiction. He undoubtedly gives a lift to the otherwise predictable proceedings.

Radio Review

When their sketch show, That Mitchell and Webb Sound, first appeared on Radio 4 a few years ago, they weren't yet celebrities and their show was fresh, funny, inventive, daring.

Stretched concept made good by Mitchell's quick thinking

It is the unscripted moments that happen in spite of the concept that make this show worthwhile.