David Mitchell and Robert Webb's 'deeply scared' co-stars reveal what they're really like

David Mitchell and Robert Webb are returning to sketch comedy for the first time tonight since the BAFTA-winning That Mitchell and Webb Look came to an end 15 years ago.

While that's undoubtedly bound to be daunting for Mitchell and Webb themselves, their new co-stars felt the pressure even more. Channel 4's Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping sees the titular comedy duo reunite once again - and this time, they're joined by rising stars Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin and Krystal Evans.

Mexican-American stand-up comic Lara admits that she was "deeply scared" heading into the writing room for the show. "That was my first writing room ever. I'd never done one before so for me, I was scared from all angles," she told The Mirror.

"But it was really nice in there and we had it every two weeks which was good because we had enough time to think about stuff."

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Taskmaster's Stevie added that producer Gareth Edwards helped to ease them into the writers room. "They were really nice and chill," she said.

"Gareth would always for the first few writers' groups say, 'This is going to be a terrible idea but I'm going to pop it out there,' so we would feel less embarrassed giving up ideas. There was no 'that's crap' - it was very supportive."

"They're quite premise-led sketches so it would be something that had annoyed David or annoyed Rob or me or Lara. Then we would talk about how you would put that into a sketch scenario."

Stevie added that Mitchell and Webb would often spend the sessions 'giggling at each other'. She said: "They're a double act and they work in a very particular way.

"David and Rob would sort of giggle at each other like they were 15 and it was really nice to be in the room when that happened. It's like, 'you're both each other's favourite person comedically.'"

She continued: "I'd be so disappointed if I'd come to set and it would be like, 'Oh they don't really talk to each other, they're a bit stuff.' But they just want t o make everyone laugh and have a silly time, which is really nice."

For Ghosts star Kiell, he admitted that he learnt not to have expectations of his comedic idols after working with Kayvan Novak on 2017's Britain Today Tonight.

"I've worked with so many different, already-established people that I've learned not to have expectations because I used to watch FaceJacker a lot when I was younger and when I worked with Kayvan, I had no idea what he was really like," he said.

"First of all, you hardly ever saw his actual face and secondly, what his real voice is. It changed everything about what I thought I knew and I learned from very early in my career that you can't have expectations of people. He was really, really particular in a good way. But he knew exactly what he wanted all the time."

Meanwhile American comedian Krystal was "a really huge fan" of Peep Show and jumped at the chance to audition. "When I watched Mitchell and Webb back in the 2000s, if they had hired an American, I would have thought they'd sold out," she said.

"But obviously I'm so glad that they wanted to hire me. It's hard to think of two comedians in the UK that I would be more excited to work with than those two."

Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 4.

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