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

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Arbitrary Skepticism: In an episode that started with a number from 'Footloose', Vic burst out in disbelieving laughter every time Bob tried to explain the idea of homosexuality to him. Especially arbitrary considering that in another episode Vic accidentally doses Bob with a love potion and ends up uncontrollably attracted to him. Men with Bras: "What you lookin' at mate?! Are you looking at my bra?!", "You think there's somethin' funny about a coupla fellas wearin' bras?!" and "Howay!" Two series of Reeves and Mortimer's second quiz followed in 1999. Entitled Families at War, it featured two families competing in bizarre tasks on a loose Shooting Stars theme. The show was far more mainstream, less comedy-based, and obviously designed for comfortable Saturday evening BBC1 viewing. The duo returned to the sketch format yet again with Vic and Bob's Big Night Out, which can be summed up as a mishmash of The Smell and Big Night Out, in 2018.

Steve Coogan: The Inside Story - Vic and Bob played various familiar characters and celebrities giving anecdotes on Coogan's career. (BBC Two, 2009) A man who wandered around in a brown mac, and frequently asked Vic and Bob if they had "any booze for t'baby?" to which they would reply, "You can't give a baby BOOZE". We're also working on a sitcom. It’s about super heroes who get skills through a telegraph pole that malfunctions and they go around helping people in their local community. [7] They forged a status for themselves as "the alternatives to alternative comedy" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a 2005 poll The Comedian's Comedian, the duo were voted the 9th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. [1] Career as a double-act [ edit ] The format that brought Reeves and Mortimer to the attention of a nation, or at least the chunk of it found watching Channel 4 on a Friday night. Ostensibly a showcase for ‘Britain’s Top Light Entertainer and Singer’, the whimsical whirlwind within – utterly at odds with the alternative comedy generally found in such a slot – bewildered many of the viewing public, yet within weeks an enduring cult was born. 2. The Weekenders (Channel 4, 1992)I’m living with deafness. Can you imagine a life without stereo records? All I’ve got left is Frank Ifield on mono!” 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] Power, Ed (29 December 2017). "Vic and Bob's Big Night Out, review: the hugely influential 90s comedy show returned – but they didn't make a fuss". The Telegraph. London . Retrieved 18 January 2018. Ear Ache: A woman on Series/Masterchef who cuts off her own ears to create a food arrangement shaped like the face of Jesus. Lloyd Grossman's not happy to find this out.

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Product Placement: Parodied - Vic and Bob take every opportunity to mention (in an anvilicious way) that this problem could be solved with the new "Reeves and Mortimer (name of product)". 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". In 1993, the pair also recorded Reeves and Mortimer's Driving School, a one-off comedy show featuring, amongst others, Pat Wright and Dave Arrowsmith, the Bra Men characters from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

On 27 February 2008, Reeves announced that he and Mortimer were working together on a new series, as well as possibly reviving Shooting Stars: Reeves and Mortimer appeared in a corporate advert for the BBC itself in the early 1990s, suggesting that the BBC was a place where talent could grow and develop. The advert spoofed BBC trailers of the time, which informed viewers of upcoming programmes due for broadcast. The duo's advert replaced these real programmes with their own inventions, including crime-drama "Detective in a Wheelbarrow", a comedy pastiche of Last of the Summer Wine called "Three Blokes in a Bath" (which also featured Matt Lucas), coverage of both " Olympic Anvil Throwing" and "International Pan Fighting", and ended with " Poldark on Mopeds". [18] This wariness was partially justified because it is hard to ignore how out and out silly the whole Reeves & Mortimer sense of humour is and I would be lying to myself if I said that I found the whole thing hilarious. It is not even that at times I found it bemusing, it was more that some of the silliness just seemed to be being done for the sake of it and that it didn't have any effect on me but to feel a bit daft. I recognise that part of this is me getting older but from my memory I didn't find much hilarious about the extremes of the show, such as people carrying signs with the word "nightie" on it, or the presentation of the two men arguing on the frozen cat urine (why they had stuff in their pants is beyond me). However, all this negativity covers up my main feeling, which was that the show is still very funny and worth seeing – no childhood memories were shattered here as is often the case when watching stuff that I remember as being brilliant to the 10 year old me etc.Asked if this has distressed him, Reeves said: “No, not really, I would rather hear than not but this happened so you just get on with it, don’t you?

Sport Relief - "Celebrity Boxing" section. Bob took part in, and won, a boxing match against Les Dennis. Reeves also appeared in the program. (2002) A recent reminder of how funny Shooting Stars was saw he digging out this DVD copy of season 1 of "Smell of...." since I had fond memories of loving that show. I was at the age where I got the humour and loved quoting the lines and characters with school friends and, when I moved to England I remember seeing them live within a few months of arriving in the Midlands. However, with all that I was also wary that I was viewing the show through the eyes of a much younger person at a completely different time from now – meaning that what might have been classic at the time may not still be that way to the me in my thirties.The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. The episodes on the DVD are the shorter broadcast versions, rather than the extended versions available on the VHS releases from the mid-nineties. (BBC Video /Cinema Club, 3 April 2006) Jim Moir's comedy career began in New Cross, London, in the mid-1980s. Having tried out various stage names, he settled on Vic Reeves and began a show called Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, first at Winston's wine bar in Deptford, then at The Goldsmiths Tavern. [2] At Goldsmith's he met and began working with Bob Mortimer, and the show then moved to an even bigger venue, the Albany Theatre in Deptford, in 1989. The show began to attract various well-known audience members, such as Jonathan Ross and Alan Yentob and collaborators such as Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse, Fake Band: A subversion - Slade, a real band, are spoofed, but in such an exaggerated parody fashion that they're unrecognisable. 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. Fartillery: Le Corbussier et Papin - literally, in one episode when the former uses the latter as a howitzer against passing Tour de France cyclists.