I met Bob once, in Leeds McDonalds of all places... He was very nice, took a couple of minutes to talk to me about The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer and Shooting Stars, and just made me feel like I wasn't bothering him. Meant a lot to me, as a lifelong fan. Brilliant bloke.
@@cianjsmith4778 The one in St Johns Centre ... He was doing the Athletico Mince live show I think, and was running late for it, but still took time to have a nice chat.
This just popped up on my timeline. People decry technology but it’s wonderful to be able to access wonderful moments like this. Bob is just a national treasure. Memories of coming home from pub and watching shooting stars they truly were the best of times. Now we can’t even afford to go to the pub. 😂
Not only is Bob a sweet man who is hysterically funny seemingly without even having to try, reading about his upbringing and how cripplingly shy he was as a child, the fact that he is now universally loved is just wonderful.
Shooting stars rivaled The Fast Show for playground currency at school in the 90s so grateful for it... but I genuinely believe that his telling of stories on WILTY with the weird style of being both razor sharp and surreal silly has surpassed it. Only watch the episodes with him in...but have watched each one about 8 times.
And Bob likes cats too. He must be protected at all costs. One of the panel on WILTY recently commented that Bob’s lived all his life like he knew he would be on a programme called WILTY. When he comes out with his unbelievable tales, you know it’s true!
I used to think everyone liked cats because they were so affectionate. It turned out that it's me. Animals, babies and the elderly are drawn to me for some reason. It's probably because I look a bit like an Alsatian.
I used to listen to Chain Reaction years ago but had forgotten about it completely. This was really good and it's always better when the participants have such a healthy respect for each other. I used to love House of Fools and particularly remember one episode where Morgana Robinson was absolutely helpless with laughter and Bob Mortimer just strolls over to her and says with deadpan face "pull yourself together". There ought to have been another series but it was probably vetoed by some producer with no imagination. No-one is willing to take risks these days.
As for the generation who took over from Monty Python Vic and Bob Reece and his troupe Matt Berry Julia Davis Big Train Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse Morganna Robinson Peter Serafinowich Are just AMAZING!!
I remember watching Big Night Out when it was first broadcast. The first few times I watched it I was stony faced, I didn't get it. And then, without notice, I just started laughing uncontrollably and couldn't stop. And I haven't stopped since.
Similarly, I queued up in the London Virgin Megastore (I think it was.... could have been HMV, I need to check the photos...) to meet Reece and the rest of League of Gentlemen when the movie came out. I'm glad he was a fanboy once, too.
21:52 I find an odd little digression about doing a sitcom, because before 'House of Fools', Reeves and Mortimer did the sitcom 'Catterick' in 2003, and Reece Shearsmith was one of the main characters!
Synopsis: Based on a fictitious football club BUT clearly is the MFC Chairman Steve Gibson (Played by his absolute double Reece Shearsmith). SG has gambled away his fortune and hired two utter buffons (VIC n Bob; Laurel and Hardy vibe) to stage a kidnapping/killing to claim the insurance... A classic in the making (whilst giving MFC some great PR)... Have you ever noticed how you never see Steve Gibson and Reece Shearsmith in the same room?
Interesting about the drink thing. I first started watching Big Night Out post pub, admittedly I was a postie at the time and often drunk. I'd work my delivery on earlies - up at 0500. Then drink in the afternoon before home, doze off on setee then up and work overtime at the sorting office. Finish at the sorting office and in the pub before bus home. When I arrived home half cut one Friday night Big Night Out was on. I must admit I didn't laugh and was confused by the format but it seemed interesting enough to record. So vhs in and hit record. Home early on a Saturday, only first delivery on a Saturday, I popped the vhs on and I was convulsed with laughter by a novelty island act - the man with the wobbly hand. They never failed to amuse me since, sometimes just stupid but other times actual genius in their take on humour. Vic seems to work on an intellectual dadaist level but Bob is just inspiration, one of the finest double acts ever.
Bob Mortimer has this hilarious talent of telling true and relatively mundane stories in such an absurd way that they become fantastical. I could listen to Bob telling stories all day long.
I remember when I saw the first episode of 'The Big Night Out'. I was ill in bed and the TV remote fell off the bed and I was too ill to get out of bed and pick it up so I just had to watch whatever was on Channel 4. I honestly though it was the biggest pile of rubbish I'd ever seen. 🤣🤣
I’m sorry but I love Bob Mortimer and could listen to him all day but this interviewer is so annoying and frustrating to hear him keep butting in, for gods sake just let Bob speak!!!!! Bobs giving his answer and starts telling his story and the interview keeps interrupting with other questions....Sooooo annoying !
Yep, annoying prat. As soon as Bob starts an answer, some he only gets a few words out and this idiot interrupts and we don’t get the answer. Over and over again. One of the worst interviews I have ever heard
Vic and Bob??? I remember one show where, in the intro, Vic says " and one guy will be appearing as a crocodile", or words to that effect, and the audience were in hysterics at that, and I thought, why? Perhaps I'm the most miserable guy in the world, I don't know, but help me to understand please, where the fuck's the humour in that? I'm all for wit and humour but surely it has to make some sort of sense? I love wit and consider myself to have a great sense of humour, but, sorry, I didn't "get" these guys at all.
If it has to make some sort of sense, you're probably just not into surreal comedy. I struggle with comedy that does make sense, anything observational unless it's slightly bizarre observations I can't cope with
@@mrdeafa25 I don’t think discussing cancer heart problems death etc is uplifting or funny I gave it a real try even bobs pal tells him his conversation is depressing at one point The scenery is beautiful and the other guy good but Bob wines on and on about his by pass heart thing and constantly about low fat this and that I gave it a miss and won’t watch again , it’s a pity as I thought it was ok at first
@@robertwalker3369 i think one of the main objectives of gone fishing is to show two men sharing conversations about their health, and encourage the public to do the same - finding hope/help in opening up to others
@@erin-eh2sl one program about health ok but on and on and on both depressing and boring especially as I’m 62 I don’t want to be reminded of heart failure etc not my idea of entertainment
I'd never heard of Bob. His grandmother was a customer of mine, and I used to do her feet. Glynis she was called. I took her toenail clippings to my local pub where I'd sell them to the locals, for they knew Bob from his show with Vic. I took her toenail and fingernail clippings but I couldn't satisfy demand. I approached Chelmsford prison and asked if the prisoners could donate toenail clippings for charity. The governor told me the inmates would love to help. From then on, I had bin bags full of toenail clippings, and I made myself a fortune.
Weekenders was sooo funny. I've still got a flickery copy on a VHS tape somewhere? "I remember you. You killed my brother. 8 years ago today, it was. Well, don't think I'll forget..." ha haar.
Aliens made contact in 1624 and bob fobbed them off with a disgruntled floral missive; employing his infamously preposterous quill crafted from the now extinct Great Auk , Sir Francis Bacon was so incandescent that he died of Syphilis the following winter, lovely bloke!!
I met Bob once, in Leeds McDonalds of all places... He was very nice, took a couple of minutes to talk to me about The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer and Shooting Stars, and just made me feel like I wasn't bothering him. Meant a lot to me, as a lifelong fan. Brilliant bloke.
So . . did he approach you? 😉
Which McDonalds was it?
@@cianjsmith4778 The one in St Johns Centre
... He was doing the Athletico Mince live show I think, and was running late for it, but still took time to have a nice chat.
Oh he has a thing for the Milk Shakes, because Burger King doesn't do them
Met whitehouse once ,asked him if he comprehended the joy he brought to people ? nah never really fort aaaahht it to be honest :D
There are only two types of people in the world: people who love Bob Mortimer and people who haven’t seen or heard him yet. ❤
and any who dont fall into one of those categories is not worth hearing about.
I was in the second class of people until only last year . Now I am a big time lover of Bob Mortimer !
I Luff Him 💞
Channel 4 are dumb AF - cant do Lister cos they own him :/
as a one off character they could hve sold the rights & let Netflix deal with censors
Or they are masquerading as a hamburger
I can't imagine that there is anyone who doesn't like Bob Mortimer . He should be our King
He's definitely 'national treasure ' status now, I reckon
@@evieslovelychannel no question !
If he were king, I’d stop agitating for Australia to become a republic! 🤩🤣
This just popped up on my timeline. People decry technology but it’s wonderful to be able to access wonderful moments like this. Bob is just a national treasure. Memories of coming home from pub and watching shooting stars they truly were the best of times. Now we can’t even afford to go to the pub. 😂
Not only is Bob a sweet man who is hysterically funny seemingly without even having to try, reading about his upbringing and how cripplingly shy he was as a child, the fact that he is now universally loved is just wonderful.
I have the book, but listened to the Audible version, he narrated it and it makes it so much more poignant
Bob’s impression of Reece in the audiobook of his biography is brilliant. Love them both and their comedy.
One cannot not like Bob, it's just not possible.
A national treasure ♥️
A fellow Boro Boy who I've been watching since secondary school. Love you Bob.
Shooting stars rivaled The Fast Show for playground currency at school in the 90s so grateful for it... but I genuinely believe that his telling of stories on WILTY with the weird style of being both razor sharp and surreal silly has surpassed it. Only watch the episodes with him in...but have watched each one about 8 times.
When Bob said "it's true" in this interview, the first thing that popped into my head was WILTY. Of course it's true, it's Bob.
Agreed
We need an episode with Jim on David's team
And Bob likes cats too. He must be protected at all costs. One of the panel on WILTY recently commented that Bob’s lived all his life like he knew he would be on a programme called WILTY. When he comes out with his unbelievable tales, you know it’s true!
I used to think everyone liked cats because they were so affectionate.
It turned out that it's me.
Animals, babies and the elderly
are drawn to me
for some reason.
It's probably because I look a bit like an Alsatian.
I love Bob Mortimer
You're not alone in that. Born funnyman, natural.
If he were King, I’d actually stop wanting Australia to become a republic! 😄👍
Since Rik Mayall died hes the funniest man on the planet, proud Parsnipper here
National treasure
Parsniper too
Mate, I avoid mainstream TV like the plague but him and Whitehouse gone fishing, is the best thing I’ve seen for yonks.
Here here
You're a good lad Peter
It was great seeing Bob and Reece working together in the brilliant Catterick. Such a good show.
I’d love to have a pint at the Siberian Khatru.
And house of fools - Reece is only in one ep though...
"You're really nosey, aren't ya?"
"Yeah. I am quite nosey."
A nuargh!
I used to go to Vic Reeves big night out at the Albany in Deptford in South East London in about 1989. Good Times.
Reece is a great interviewer. It's not the easiest thing to keep relatively quiet, yet keep the conversation flowing.
Yeah. It's nice to be able to appreciate Reece for Reece. He plays so many awful characters, brilliantly, it's easy to forget how nice he is.
Big fan of Vic and Bob. Personally , i think league of gentlemen is the best comedy series i've ever seen .
I clicked like before even watching this 😁 Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing it 👍
Also had my Vic and Bob book signed at the HMV in Oxford Street. Grand times.
Two genuinely funny guys. Thanks for this.
If loving Bob is wrong, then I don't want to be right!
Listening to this at 08:08; which shall now be known as BOB o'clock in my house
the Weekenders pilot is an unequaled gem of comedy.
They will show us in their true forms
@@pdrkenobi5868 their true forms!?
Boiled onions!
My favourite shooting stars sketch is kes
Vic playing mr farthing colin welland and Bob playing a young casper
It's a absolute classic
Its a total classic. Up there with "The Club"
@@Thejamescaseyshow
"Bloody hell fire"
Mmmmm . . . Chicken tikka 😜
Same.
I used to listen to Chain Reaction years ago but had forgotten about it completely. This was really good and it's always better when the participants have such a healthy respect for each other. I used to love House of Fools and particularly remember one episode where Morgana Robinson was absolutely helpless with laughter and Bob Mortimer just strolls over to her and says with deadpan face "pull yourself together". There ought to have been another series but it was probably vetoed by some producer with no imagination. No-one is willing to take risks these days.
Two of my favourite men in the whole world.
Creeping alopecia 😂 House of Fools is one of the funniest things I've seen and is amazingly not readily available on DVD 😱
Last time i saw Reece he was in the back of Peter Kay's car claiming Japanese was his Mother Tongue.
lyrical dance flap
National treasures ❤❤
Aw no, I thought we were getting to see this as well. I have a bit of a 'thing' for Mr Shearsmith.
I love Bob too
Me too! 😘
great stuff. two marvelous talents being casually marvelous together... i want to see the worlds largest diamond with a puppy inside it.
2 faves ❤❤❤❤
As for the generation who took over from Monty Python
Vic and Bob
Reece and his troupe
Matt Berry
Julia Davis
Big Train
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse
Morganna Robinson
Peter Serafinowich
Are just AMAZING!!
Uh Coogan, Morris, and Brooker too
Peter kay an all ...
The greatest..
Reeves Mortimor where marvellous truly belly laughing for school latter days .
Both geniuses imo
Bob had his bones checked by the bone doctor and they were found to be 100% funny
I remember watching Big Night Out when it was first broadcast. The first few times I watched it I was stony faced, I didn't get it. And then, without notice, I just started laughing uncontrollably and couldn't stop. And I haven't stopped since.
ditto
Great
Two comedy geniuses
Similarly, I queued up in the London Virgin Megastore (I think it was.... could have been HMV, I need to check the photos...) to meet Reece and the rest of League of Gentlemen when the movie came out. I'm glad he was a fanboy once, too.
Now, because of this interview, I've seen "The Weekenders", and I'm even more jealous of 90's kids from Britain than I already was.
21:52 I find an odd little digression about doing a sitcom, because before 'House of Fools', Reeves and Mortimer did the sitcom 'Catterick' in 2003, and Reece Shearsmith was one of the main characters!
"Hand"
Good interview by RS here wasn't it?
"Is it Giroooo day" 😂
Absolutely brilliant!! 👏👏👏
Jolly good.
"I won the Mums"
Your mum got really sick though didn't she mike.....
Bob is great and very funny. But Reece is my favourite comedian
Just 'let it lie'
I do not fear jazz - Big Strides
The BBC. The best.
Synopsis: Based on a fictitious football club BUT clearly is the MFC Chairman Steve Gibson (Played by his absolute double Reece Shearsmith). SG has gambled away his fortune and hired two utter buffons (VIC n Bob; Laurel and Hardy vibe) to stage a kidnapping/killing to claim the insurance... A classic in the making (whilst giving MFC some great PR)... Have you ever noticed how you never see Steve Gibson and Reece Shearsmith in the same room?
Is it giro day?
Interesting about the drink thing. I first started watching Big Night Out post pub, admittedly I was a postie at the time and often drunk. I'd work my delivery on earlies - up at 0500. Then drink in the afternoon before home, doze off on setee then up and work overtime at the sorting office. Finish at the sorting office and in the pub before bus home. When I arrived home half cut one Friday night Big Night Out was on. I must admit I didn't laugh and was confused by the format but it seemed interesting enough to record. So vhs in and hit record. Home early on a Saturday, only first delivery on a Saturday, I popped the vhs on and I was convulsed with laughter by a novelty island act - the man with the wobbly hand. They never failed to amuse me since, sometimes just stupid but other times actual genius in their take on humour. Vic seems to work on an intellectual dadaist level but Bob is just inspiration, one of the finest double acts ever.
Bob Mortimer has this hilarious talent of telling true and relatively mundane stories in such an absurd way that they become fantastical. I could listen to Bob telling stories all day long.
I remember when I saw the first episode of 'The Big Night Out'. I was ill in bed and the TV remote fell off the bed and I was too ill to get out of bed and pick it up so I just had to watch whatever was on Channel 4. I honestly though it was the biggest pile of rubbish I'd ever seen. 🤣🤣
I miss Les. Who loved a spirit level. I mean, who doesn’t?
Lol!
I am the spider
I think this is 8 years old from 2015.
26:37 😂😂😂
When's this from? Thanks for sharing.
2015!
Who is the women that Bob says he found at the Edinburgh festival? Does anyone know?
I only listened to this because I thought it was Kevin Spacey, can I have my money back?
No. Strictly no refunds
@@evieslovelychannel Well, that's less than lovely, but fair enough.
Yes, but only if you drop the charges.
Interviewer constantly interrupting
I’m sorry but I love Bob Mortimer and could listen to him all day but this interviewer is so annoying and frustrating to hear him keep butting in, for gods sake just let Bob speak!!!!! Bobs giving his answer and starts telling his story and the interview keeps interrupting with other questions....Sooooo annoying !
Yep, annoying prat. As soon as Bob starts an answer, some he only gets a few words out and this idiot interrupts and we don’t get the answer. Over and over again. One of the worst interviews I have ever heard
They're great friends IRL, so maybe they fell into their regular conversation patterns rather than interview format.
He’s obviously star struck
@@lnfreeman ye good friend....keep butting in , what kind of friend is that lol
@@Lapofthegodsif you really analyse your conversations with your friends, you probably do the same
Reese, if you're interviewing Bob, let him finish, instead of constantly talking over him, your interviewing technique is annoying.........
Vic and Bob??? I remember one show where, in the intro, Vic says " and one guy will be appearing as a crocodile", or words to that effect, and the audience were in hysterics at that, and I thought, why? Perhaps I'm the most miserable guy in the world, I don't know, but help me to understand please, where the fuck's the humour in that? I'm all for wit and humour but surely it has to make some sort of sense? I love wit and consider myself to have a great sense of humour, but, sorry, I didn't "get" these guys at all.
If it has to make some sort of sense, you're probably just not into surreal comedy. I struggle with comedy that does make sense, anything observational unless it's slightly bizarre observations I can't cope with
Bob is super talented. Vic on the other hand isn't overly funny.
I started watching his fishing programme but it was so depressing and aweful I stopped Bob was aweful
You must be confused. Its both uplifting and funny in equal measure.
@@mrdeafa25 I don’t think discussing cancer heart problems death etc is uplifting or funny I gave it a real try even bobs pal tells him his conversation is depressing at one point
The scenery is beautiful and the other guy good but Bob wines on and on about his by pass heart thing and constantly about low fat this and that I gave it a miss and won’t watch again , it’s a pity as I thought it was ok at first
@@mrdeafa25 they even had a guest dr discussing illness !!!!! On a river bank !!!
@@robertwalker3369 i think one of the main objectives of gone fishing is to show two men sharing conversations about their health, and encourage the public to do the same - finding hope/help in opening up to others
@@erin-eh2sl one program about health ok but on and on and on both depressing and boring especially as I’m 62 I don’t want to be reminded of heart failure etc not my idea of entertainment
I'd never heard of Bob. His grandmother was a customer of mine, and I used to do her feet. Glynis she was called. I took her toenail clippings to my local pub where I'd sell them to the locals, for they knew Bob from his show with Vic. I took her toenail and fingernail clippings but I couldn't satisfy demand. I approached Chelmsford prison and asked if the prisoners could donate toenail clippings for charity. The governor told me the inmates would love to help. From then on, I had bin bags full of toenail clippings, and I made myself a fortune.
Weekenders was sooo funny. I've still got a flickery copy on a VHS tape somewhere?
"I remember you. You killed my brother. 8 years ago today, it was. Well, don't think I'll forget..." ha haar.
I need Reece Shearsmith in Taskmaster. Even if it's just the New Years special. It'll prolly never happen.
SUPERB idea! I bet he'd be great on there
Maybe there's a chance now that Steve Pemberton has been.
@@Maialeen fingers crossed 😅
I met bob in 1888 in a smokey victorian backstreet and he gutted me with all the skill of a grimsby fish wife, lovely bloke!
"Bob was my inspiration for devising the Antikythera Mechanism, lovely bloke!":
Archimedes of Syracuse 206 BCE.
Kinda feel Guilty for Doing Bobs Missis now :(
Aliens made contact in 1624 and bob fobbed them off with a disgruntled floral missive; employing his infamously preposterous quill crafted from the now extinct Great Auk , Sir Francis Bacon was so incandescent that he died of Syphilis the following winter, lovely bloke!!