Bob Mortimer
- 65 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 winners revealed
The public have voted Derry Girls as Best New TV Sitcom in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018, with Inside No. 9 named Comedy Of The Year 2018 for the second year running. Other winners include Friday Night Dinner, Taskmaster and Vic & Bob's Big Night Out.
British Comedy Guide, 4th February 2019Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse to publish fishing book
Following the success of their TV series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are to publish a book together. It'll be out in the shops in May.
British Comedy Guide, 4th February 2019Bob Mortimer: stage fright helped me recover
Death of father and meeting Vic Reeves changed Bob Mortimer's life, he tells Desert Island Discs.
Vanessa Thorpe, The Guardian, 3rd February 2019Forgotten comedies: Catterick
Catterick is probably the most surreal sitcom ever made.
Rhianna Evans, Super Ink, 7th January 2019With no series of The Trip this year, a new pair of self-ironising, physically fading comics arrived to provide a sunnier take on kinship between two very funny middle-aged men. Those of us who didn't even know Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were mates soon delighted in the closeness of their evidently long-held friendship, as they simply went fishing together and chatted as they sat waiting on the riverbank. Notes of wistful, mortal vulnerability, along with the slight competitiveness that's always there when two comedians meet, gave their conversations depth to go with the endless silly laughs.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 28th December 2018Given that the first two series of their comedy extravaganza ran to seven episodes apiece, is it wrong to feel shortchanged as Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's four-show run reaches its conclusion? Really, we should be grateful for every surreal minute we get to spend in their company. Here, they open with a skit on vehicle maintenance among the celebrity community, surprise us with an "up-to-date dance project" and save the best for last when the Man with the Stick returns from the future in all his silvery splendour.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 19th December 2018Vic & Bob's Big Night Out: review
It's taken Bob 30 years to get his name alongside Vic's on the Big Night Out but now, as a cult hero in his own right, he not only deserves equal billing but an equal share of the credit.
Telly Binge, 7th December 2018Whatever Vic and Bob have lost in manic energy, they have gained in warmth. It is charming that this pair of schoolboy surrealists still take such infectious delight in making each other laugh. Tonight, a sneak preview of Vic's Royal Variety turn and the return of sinister folk duo Mulligan and O'Hare.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 5th December 2018TV review: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, BBC4, episode 2
It's great that this new Vic and Bob series has had such fantastic reviews.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th December 2018Vic & Bob's Big Night Out review
Don't analyse, just marvel as it takes flight.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 5th December 2018