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.

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. ❤

I can't imagine that there is anyone who doesn't like Bob Mortimer . He should be our King

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 love Bob Mortimer

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.

One cannot not like Bob, it's just not possible.

I need Reece Shearsmith in Taskmaster. Even if it's just the New Years special. It'll prolly never happen.

If loving Bob is wrong, then I don't want to be right!

Since Rik Mayall died hes the funniest man on the planet, proud Parsnipper here

Reece is a great interviewer. It's not the easiest thing to keep relatively quiet, yet keep the conversation flowing.

A fellow Boro Boy who I've been watching since secondary school. Love you Bob.

Bob’s impression of Reece in the audiobook of his biography is brilliant. Love them both and their comedy.

It was great seeing Bob and Reece working together in the brilliant Catterick. Such a good show.

I used to go to Vic Reeves big night out at the Albany in Deptford in South East London in about 1989. Good 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!

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

Also had my Vic and Bob book signed at the HMV in Oxford Street. Grand times.

the Weekenders pilot is an unequaled gem of comedy.

Big fan of Vic and Bob. Personally , i think league of gentlemen is the best comedy series i've ever seen .

My favourite shooting stars sketch is kes Vic playing mr farthing colin welland and Bob playing a young casper It's a absolute classic

Two genuinely funny guys. Thanks for this.

I clicked like before even watching this 😁 Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing it 👍

Listening to this at 08:08; which shall now be known as BOB o'clock in my house

If you haven't read Bobs autobiography, I would urge you to. You can read it while eating pocket meats and pie.

Bob had his bones checked by the bone doctor and they were found to be 100% funny

The greatest..

"Is it Giroooo day" 😂

great stuff. two marvelous talents being casually marvelous together... i want to see the worlds largest diamond with a puppy inside it.

Jolly good.

Both geniuses imo

Reeves Mortimor where marvellous truly belly laughing for school latter days .

Great

Creeping alopecia 😂 House of Fools is one of the funniest things I've seen and is amazingly not readily available on DVD 😱

Two comedy geniuses

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!

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!

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!!

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.

"I won the Mums"

Who is the women that Bob says he found at the Edinburgh festival? Does anyone know?

Is it giro day?

Just 'let it lie'

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?

When's this from? Thanks for sharing.

The BBC. The best.

Kinda feel Guilty for Doing Bobs Missis now :(

Lol!

26:37 😂😂😂

"Bob was my inspiration for devising the Antikythera Mechanism, lovely bloke!": Archimedes of Syracuse 206 BCE.

Absolutely brilliant!! 👏👏👏

Interviewer constantly interrupting

I am the spider

I think this is 8 years old from 2015.

I only listened to this because I thought it was Kevin Spacey, can I have my money back?

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’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 !

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.

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.

Bob is super talented. Vic on the other hand isn't overly funny.

Reece will you please let BoB talk without interjecting every 4 words aaaaaghhhh

Reese, if you're interviewing Bob, let him finish, instead of constantly talking over him, your interviewing technique is annoying.........

I started watching his fishing programme but it was so depressing and aweful I stopped Bob was aweful

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.

Is there video of this anywhere?

Thanks for the upload. Reace is a great writer himself as well The League of Gentlemen was a real hroundbreaking series itself.