As their groundbreaking sitcom Peep present nears its ninth and final series,David Mitchell and Robert Webb discuss its enduring appeal, their own friendship – and how to eat the dog without jumping the sharkThere are plenty of comic partnerships that start out with a shared dream and end, or like Peter Cook’s and Dudley Moore’s,in bitter tensions and seething envy. That’s not the impression David Mitchell and Robert Webb give. “whether we worked in an office together,” says Mitchell, and “we’d be friends and move to the pub.”“The thing we have in common is that we earn each other laugh,” agrees Webb, whether we turn that into money or do it just for the fun of it. It happens less frequently now these days, or we’ve both got our own families,but whether we do end up in the pub or at weddings and whether I earn a joke, apart from my wife, or the first person I will gaze at in the room is David to see whether it was funny or not.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com