Bob Mortimer
- 65 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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Chortle Awards 2020 winners
Jessica Fostekew has won Best Show and the Breakthrough prize in the Chortle Awards. Other winners include Zoe Lyons, Bob Mortimer, Brodi Snook, The Delightful Sausage, Flo & Joan, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean and Rhod Gilbert.
British Comedy Guide, 18th March 2020How death enlivened British TV comedy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have gone all existential in The Trip to Greece. But they're far from the only British comics riffing on the brevity of our existence
Alex Hess, The Guardian, 4th March 2020Chortle Awards 2020 nominees
Bob Mortimer, Greg Davies, Katherine Ryan, Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Allen are amongst the nominees for the Chortle Awards 2020. Jonny Pelham, Jessica Fostekew and Catherine Cohen have two nods.
British Comedy Guide, 27th February 2020Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, BBC4, review
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are clearly having fun, but why didn't they put their brilliant minds to work on something new?
Sarah Hughes, i Newspaper, 4th December 2019TV review: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, BBC4
It's hit and miss of course, but way more hit than miss.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th November 2019Vic and Bob's Big Night Out review
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer look like they are men with nothing to prove any more, and that's wonderfully liberating.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th November 2019Vic and Bob consider a return to Catterick
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are considering reviving their show Catterick - possibly as an animation.
Chortle, 21st November 2019Third series for Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
BBC Two has ordered a third series of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, the comedy chat-and-travelogue format with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse.
British Comedy Guide, 7th November 2019Athletico Mince is Bob Mortimer at his staggering best
Bob Mortimer's jokes never come to a terminus - his sense of humour is an endless thing.
Antonia Quirke, The New Statesman, 17th October 2019The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
Steve Coogan is the funniest Brit, coming second on the list, with American Tina Fey coming first. Once again, in a mirroring of a Channel 4 poll in 2007, Stewart Lee came 41st.
Hannah J Davies, Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Brian Logan and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th September 2019