Every Mitchell And Webb Film And TV Project Ranked From Worst To Best

David Mitchell and Robert Webb have built up a reputation as one of the truly great British comedy partnerships, in the vein of The Two Ronnies, Reeves & Mortimer, and Gervais & Merchant. Forming out of the same Footlights group at Cambridge University which produced John Cleese, David Baddiel and John Oliver amongst countless others, the pair would embark on a rollercoaster career at the turn of the millennium, often attempting to carve out solo careers in their own right, but always coming back together for their finest bits of work.

For this list we are looking at all television and film projects with significant on-camera contributions from either member of the duo. This includes small film roles, but not one-off appearances in full TV series, such as cameo roles in Doctor Who for both. For the sake of brevity, we are also discounting voiceover work, panel show appearances (even as team captain) or any appearances as themselves, so Mitchell’s work on Would I Lie To You? and Webb’s narration of Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum, for example, will not be considered.

Ranked in order of the quality of the project as a whole, rather than their individual contributions, here are the TV and film projects of Mitchell and Webb ranked from dross to dazzling.

Gun Shy falls into the trap of trying to be a parody of bad, over the top action films, but largely ends being just a bad, over the top action film, with some weak slapstick humour thrown in. The movie should be regarded as a cautionary tale in crowdfunded films, having raised its £1.9m budget through SyndicateRoom.

The film, which has a Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score of 0%, features David Mitchell as John Hardigger, an unlikely action hero who largely survives through extreme examples of good fortune and being very, very British. The movie was written by long time Mitchell and Webb collaborator Toby Davies.

The 2017 release features some real talent, with Antonio Banderas and Bond girl Olga Kurylenko both horribly miscast as the leads, portraying an ageing rocker and his kidnapped wife. Banderas’ Turk Henry then embarks on a painfully unfunny fish out of water rescue mission across South America.