Bob Mortimer

Bob Mortimer announces he's fit to return to tour

Bob Mortimer underwent triple heart bypass in October, cancelling first leg of tour with Vic Reeves - Bob says he can resume second leg of tour.

Pictures: Bob Mortimer out of hospital

He raised concern with news of his triple bypass heart operation. So fans of Bob Mortimer will surely be reassured to see the award-winning comic back on his feet and embracing life - which is precisely what he was doing on Tuesday afternoon.

Bob Mortimer apologises to fans for cancelling shows

Bob Mortimer has spoken out for the first time about his life-saving heart surgery.

Bob Mortimer inundated with support

Messages of support have poured in for Shooting Stars comedian Bob Mortimer, as he recovers from a triple heart bypass.

Bob Mortimer undergoes triple heart bypass surgery

Comedian Bob Mortimer was recovering in hospital tonght after undergoing a triple heart bypass operation, the Mirror can reveal.

The charm didn't really endure into the second series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's sitcom (which was recently cancelled by the Beeb) but this - the first episode of the first series - is a fine reminder of their absurdist comic strengths. Bob is dismayed that his oddball lodger, Vic, is cramping his style. It's particularly problematic tonight, as his neighbour Beef (Matt Berry) has arranged a date for Bob with a woman "charred, like a tugboat". The plan is to watch Conan the Barbarian on TV. But what has Vic done with the TV?

The first in Sky Arts' Physical Comedy season, in which a host of stars both established and up-and-coming feature in a series of silent comedy shows. Among those set to appear are Johnny Vegas, Frank Skinner, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, as well as Jocelyn Jee Esien and Marek Larwood. Tonight's opener stars Kim Cattrall as Ruby, who lives in a huge ramshackle house along with a troupe of acrobats who perform dazzling physical feats. It was written by Mike Wozniak, who also co-stars.

Radio Times review

Last week it was judo, this week netball is the sport at which Lee Mack must feign competence, claiming to have been made captain of his (or possibly his wife's) netball team. Could he be pulling off an elaborate double bluff of the kind you occasionally get on this programme, where someone's flailing inability to sound plausible is really a smokescreen to cover the fact they're telling the truth?

Fans of the show will be glad to learn that Bob Mortimer is on Lee's team. Nobody unhitches the game from its moorings so brilliantly, this time with tales of a childhood game he claims to have played called Theft and Shrubbery. Also tonight: three different impressions of Alan Hansen.

Review: Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast

Richard Herring's new series of podcasts kicks off with an illuminating chat with Bob Mortimer.