The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Unexplained Accent: Tony Baron, brother of Paul Baron, has a Chinese accent from growing up in Hong Kong. I’m living with deafness. Can you imagine a life without stereo records? All I’ve got left is Frank Ifield on mono!” Vic and Bob have performed on a number of television programmes as a double act, though they have also worked alone or in collaboration with other people. (For their work outside of the Reeves & Mortimer double act, see Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.) Fartillery: Le Corbussier et Papin - literally, in one episode when the former uses the latter as a howitzer against passing Tour de France cyclists. In early 2000, Vic and Bob headed the cast in revival of sixties private detective drama, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). The new version, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) ran for two series and constituted their first dramatic (though still light-hearted) acting roles. The scripts for the series were written by Charlie Higson and Reeves was briefly romantically linked to co-star Emilia Fox. The pair also presented a one-off behind the scenes show called On Set with Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), which was broadcast on BBC Choice in 2000.

Vestibular schwannoma is a benign growth in the brain that usually grows slowly over many years and does not spread to other parts of the body. The Booze For t'Baby man continued his quest to find some booze for his baby, which eventually brought him a bottle of Babycham for which he was moderately thankful. A Brief History Of South London Comedy Clubs". Beyond The Joke. 1 April 2015 . Retrieved 3 November 2022. Tom Fun went from a one-off joke in series two of The Smell to getting his own Once an Episode segment with Derek in Bang Bang. With virtually all of the Vic Reeves Big Night Out characters consigned to the past (only Greg Mitchell and the Stotts survived, the Stotts appearing in the second series), a whole range of new characters appeared. The show also featured pre-recorded sketches and a lavish studio set laden with columns and pillars, and in the centre the enormous letters R&M, from which the duo emerged at the start of each show.Speak of the Devil: Hercule Poirot appears when Vic misreads Bob's note asking for "dancing marionettes and Pierrot" as "dancing majorettes and Poirot". In the 1990s and 2000s both Reeves and Mortimer capitalised on their fame by featuring in a variety of television adverts. The earliest of these was for Cadbury's Boost bars, described by Reeves as "slightly rippled with a flat underside". [14] Other companies they advertised together included Müller, where the duo acted out examples of pleasure and pain, [15] MFI and Kit-e-Kat. They have advertised several products solo such as Mini Cheddars and DHL (Mortimer) and Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Fanta, Lynx and Mars chocolate bars (Reeves). [16] Mortimer contends that derivative material of their comedy and works has "flooded the advertising world. The Tango and McDonald's ads wouldn't have been on without our sort of stuff." [17] Oop North: Like many R&M characters, Pat Wright and Dave Arrowsmith are from the North East (Hartlepool to be exact). When the first series of the programme first made it to video titled "Red" & "Blue", it included extended versions of the episodes the way they were supposed to go out on TV, usually 7–10 minutes of new footage. When this DVD came out many were disappointed to find the episodes featured were the BBC edit versions. Series 2 was intact on the DVD release, mainly because it never had extended versions.

Shaggy Dog" Story: The opening narration usually establishes a tenuous link between the events described and Reeves and Mortimer before introducing them. On one occasion though the narrator simply stops the story and immediately segues to "Ladies and gentlemen, Reeves and Mortimer!" The thing is that, as surrealist comedians, they don't really have an equal although they certainly have been inspirations to others coming after them. This show is endlessly creative, from the straight-laced "historical" opening through the weird and wonderful characters and scenarios. The opening songs are an indication of what to expect and, aside from one or two, they are generally very funny, putting you in the right frame of mind to get into the rest of the show. The rough structure includes characters of entirely their own creation (such as Uncle Peter, Pat & Dave), real characters put through the imagination cycle (see Otis Reading & Marvin Gaye, Slade, various BBC shows such as Antiques Roadshow) or those inspired by real people (such as Mulligan & O'Hare). Some of them don't work for me personally but this is to be expected – the Frenchmen are too basic to carry the genre joke they are making and, looking at those bit now I feel more embarrassment than amusement. Sometimes these instances split the crowd, or I am laughing alone (see the KEYS CUT instance). Experimental music is too serious, people say. I think there's laughter to be had, and that doesn't mean a laughing at, nor does it mean one artist is more lightweight than those perceived as more 'serious'. It's about risk, and the moment. This means you won't always get it right. Getting it wrong can make you look like an idiot; whereas meanness and misplaced stereotyping can be much worse. Humour is not universal and often travels badly (something exploited by the recently reissued Eurotrash TV series) and the expectations of an audience have a lot to do with culture and context. Humour relies on a consensus of some sort to be understood by an audience if it is to work, for better or worse.The Musical: Each episode starts with a different musical number (some original, some ironic covers) and ends with the signature "I Love The Smell". The last episode of series 1 had an even bigger musical sequence at the end. The Stotts get a progressively bigger role over time until they get a Once an Episode segment in Bang Bang. This Christmas Special spawned the third incarnation of Shooting Stars, which included a sixth series in 2009, a seventh series in 2010 and another Christmas special airing on 30 December 2010. An eighth series of the show was shown on BBC 2 in 2011. The show has since been axed by the BBC.

The second surreal comedy show put together by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, following Vic Reeves Big Night Out and their Channel Hop from Channel 4 to the BBC. Considered to be some of Vic and Bob's best work. Had two series, in 1993 and 1995.

The finale to each show would usually see a despairing Bob attempting to entertain the audience, whether singing "The Way We Were" on skis, singing "For All of Us" from within a glass bottle, playing "The British Countryside" on the flute or playing his enormous organ, which happened to contain a fully functioning pub. Vic would barge in and ruin everything for Bob before the usual, rousing "Let's Have A Little Bit More" song would close the proceedings. A new sketch show followed in 1999, Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer. Characters Donald and Davey Stott (who had appeared throughout the Big Night Out era) returned to the screen. The series also featured various celebrity cameos, including Caprice, Michael Winner, Sinéad O'Connor and Damon Hill, and appearances from comedy actors Charlie Higson and Morwenna Banks. Vic and Bob, also known as Reeves and Mortimer, are a British double act consisting of Vic Reeves (born 24 January 1959; real name Jim Moir) and Bob Mortimer (born 23 May 1959). They have written and starred in several comedy programmes on British television since 1990, with Reeves having made his first TV appearance in 1986. They have often been referred to as the modern day Morecambe and Wise.

Everything Is Better With Explosions - On Bang Bang the Stotts insist on starting every interview with "a nice explosion" note They ignite a small pile of gunpowder,which "explodes" with a dull fizz, and in a variation on Every Car Is a Pinto, perhaps the most surreal sketch of all involved a car whose bonnet and boot lids would blast off into the air, then land and explode in an absurdly oversized detonation. The following year, Reeves collaborated with The Wonder Stuff to cover " Dizzy", originally released in 1969 by Tommy Roe. The song reached number one and spawned a spin-off full-length album on Island Records, I Will Cure You, which featured re-recorded songs from Big Night Out, cover versions and new material. A companion video titled Four Golden Memories was released, which featured videos for "Dizzy" and Reeves's other singles " Born Free" and " Abide With Me", plus live versions of "Dizzy" (filmed on tour the previous year) and "Meals on Wheels". Reeves and Mortimer auditioned for roles as a pair of chipmunks in The Lion King (1994); according to Mortimer, the Disney producers were enthusiastic, but he and Reeves were uncomfortable with their corporate attitude and abandoned the film. [12]

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In August 2003, Reeves and Mortimer appeared in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands as Plonko the Clown and Kung-Fu Clown. In 2004, they appeared in Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Bendle and Potter. As of 2018, they were producing The Glove [13] alongside regular collaborators such as Matt Berry and Morgana Robinson. In November 2022 it was revealed that actor Brian Cox had joined the cast of The Glove. Early-Bird Cameo - Swiss Toni appeared once to sell the Men With Bras a car before he became a regular on The Fast Show, much less before he got his own series.