Robert Webb on losing his mum and dad

JohnPerry

...and on growing up.

Lovely bit of writing and thinking, this:

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/how-not-be-boy-robert-webb-growing-and-losing-parent

Drew_TNBD

ahhhhhh... can't read that, I'm liable to cry all night.

Grunfeld

Thanks for linking to that piece.  I've no idea who the fella is but it was a good read.

monquixote

A good bit of writing that. 

JohnPerry

Grunfeld;375159" said:

Thanks for linking to that piece.  I've no idea who the fella is but it was a good read.

Mitchell and Webb, TV comic and actor

Emp_Fab

Grunfeld said:

Thanks for linking to that piece.  I've no idea who the fella is but it was a good read.

He's the 'Webb' part of 'Mitchell & Webb' (David Mitchell ?)

axisus

Agreed, excellent bit of writing!

joneve

I know the Webb family. His brother is a fucking prick and thinks he's the daddy because he is brothers with Rob...Shame too, because his wife and kids are actually really nice. Only met Rob once when he stayed with his girlfriend at our hotel in the village where his family live, but he's a top bloke (as was his Mrs.), and really unassuming, just a "normal" guy and doesn't try to act famous - but that article is awesome and shows the kind of guy he is. 

mudslide73

Lovely stuff. He was a guest on Radio 4's My Teenage Diary - did a whole section on going to his Mum's funeral in his old school blazer in lieu of a suit. It contains a great part about holding tightly onto the school badge he'd had to remove from the front. 

Edit: Found it. 

frankus

I liked that

DavidRees

I liked that too ...