{"id":39214,"date":"2025-08-01T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39214\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:25:09","slug":"channel-4-comedy-branded-a-gift-to-be-greatest-comeback-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39214\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 comedy branded ‘a gift’ to be greatest comeback of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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They\u2019re back! After more than a decade, David Mitchell and Robert Webb are bringing back the sketch show with a brand new comedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Channel 4<\/a> has finally released a first look clip and image from the upcoming series Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping, a brand new sketch show hitting screens in September 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The six-part season reunites comedy giants Mitchell and Webb on screen for the first time since 2017\u2019s Back and 12 years since the end of Peep Show<\/a>, where they\u2019ll be joined by the next generation of comedy heroes, including Ghosts star and Great British Sewing Bee\u2019s best-ever host<\/a> Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin, and Krystal Evans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first preview of Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping shows a flustered Mitchell sweating his way through airport security, manifesting our biggest fears while also feeling terrifyingly accurate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s painfully awkward, completely absurd and fans are already calling the show \u2018a gift\u2019.<\/p>\n

While many viewers of the preview said they \u2018can\u2019t wait\u2019, Mitchell and Webb fan Henry Shevlin has high hopes the show will be even funnier. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tFirst look at Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping shows the comedy giants at their best (Picture: Channel 4)
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He wrote on X: \u2018Mitchell & Webb are probably my favourite British comedians so looking forward to this. The sketch itself isn\u2019t that brilliant but maybe C4 went for one with \u201cbroad appeal\u201d and the actual show will be weirder and nerdier.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ahead of its launch, Mitchell and Webb said: \u2018When Channel 4 asked us to do another sketch show we were startled, bemused and available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a perilous time for the industry and so it\u2019s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counterintuitive commissioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tMitchell and Webb\u2019s Peep Show ended 12 years ago on Channel 4 (Picture: Channel 4)<\/p>\n

\u2018And we\u2019re confident that unlike Roger Moore with his shoe on the bonnet of a car teetering on the edge of a cliff in For Your Eyes Only [REPLACE WITH 21ST\u00a0CENTURY REFERENCE?]\u00a0we\u2019re not about to give British TV comedy a final lethal nudge into the abyss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re looking forward to working with our brilliant new cast despite their youth and talent and would like to encourage viewers to watch the advert break carefully and do their best to buy something. <\/p>\n

\u2018It doesn\u2019t have to be a car but, you know, a box of chocolates or an app or something.\u2019<\/p>\n

Smith-Bynoe added: \u2018Getting to join this project with comedy legends Mitchell & Webb feels like getting to sit on the grown-ups table that you\u2019ve been trying to get on for years, then you realise the grown-ups are just as funny, silly and they\u2019ll let you have a sip of Advocaat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m really excited to be a part of this long-awaited return of comedy royalty.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The duo\u2019s last sketch show, Mitchell and Webb Look, won them a Bafta for Best Comedy and ran for four seasons on the BBC. <\/p>\n

Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping launches on Channel 4 next month.<\/p>\n

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