{"id":40658,"date":"2025-09-03T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40658\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:49:09","slug":"david-mitchell-and-robert-webb-are-back-making-sketches-together-after-15-years-and-their-new-show-just-made-friday-nights-funny-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40658\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back making sketches together after 15 years \u2013 and their new show just made Friday nights funny again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The comedy duo returns with a terrific new sketch show, \u2018Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping Out\u2019, on Channel 4\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Webb and David Mitchell with, from left, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Kristal Evans in their new sketch show. Photo: Channel 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8104fc5e-106a-4ec1-aae5-ad02cd7c25a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Robert Webb and David Mitchell with, from left, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Kristal Evans in their new sketch show. Photo: Channel 4<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Remember when the internet was the future of comedy? It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that people were talking about how there was a vast, untapped reservoir of natural comedy talent to dive into on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For a while, broadcasters \u2013 desperate to lure young people back to television and fearing they might be missing out on something \u2013 started believing this myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comedy duo returns with a terrific new sketch show, \u2018Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping Out\u2019, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9162],"class_list":{"0":"post-40658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-pat-stacey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}