• Bob Mortimer Originally studed law at Sussex University.
• Vic Reeves was brough up on a diet of Monty Python and rock music!
• Vic recently made a suprise visit on Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, but his wife Nancy was voted off first and then Vic swiftly followed.
• Bob Mortimer is said to have appeared in First Direct Bank adverts, depciting a character who pushes in front of a queue of a chippy saying Can I just get to the front please? All Ive had today is a mouse!'
• Vic also has appeared in various adverts and voice overs most well known in for Churchill Insurance 'Oh yes!'

All about Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer

Robert Renwick Mortimer born 23rd May, 1959 in Middlesbrough. James Roderick Moir (now Vic Reeves) born in Leeds on 24th January 1959. Vic Reeves Big Night Out started as a stage performance in 1988 and began receiving press coverage and, through their new friends Jools Holland and Jonathan Ross, Jim and Bob made their first television appearances on shows like The Tube, The Last Resort, Juke Box Jury and The Happening. It seemed inevitable that Vic Reeves would eventually become a television star, and both Alan Yentob of the BBC and Michael Grade of Channel Four turned up.Channel Four won the signing battle and, via Jonathan Ross’ production company Channel X, Big Night Out made the leap to TV.A pilot was filmed in late 1989, directed by Geoff Posner.Off-screen, Jim and Bob were now an equal partnership, but didn't become known as ‘Reeves & Mortimer’ until their move to the BBC in 1993.

Further shows include, Bang Bang Its Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars quiz show, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and more recently comedy series such as Randell and Hopkirk Deceased and BBC3's Catterick. Click here to see Biographies and some further information about the shows.

Left Vic and Bob in Catterick 2003