Bob Mortimer
- 64 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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Review - Comedians: Home Alone
This must have been one of the easiest comedy compilation shows to curate. With the live circuit in its induced coma, so many stand-ups are pumping out online content online that the whole internet is one giant audition room.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2020TV preview - Comedians: Home Alone
Following E4's Remote Comedy From The Paddock the BBC launches with their own self-shot lockdown rapidfire sketch show. And on the basis of the first episodes - not that this is a competition - the BBC has the edge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2020Bob Mortimer's Train Guy pulls into the BBC
Bob Mortimer's online character Train Guy is coming to the BBC. He is one of the characters in the new lockdown series Comedians: Home Alone, which starts on BBC Two on June 1 at 10.15pm.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th May 2020BBC Two orders Comedians Playing With Themselves
BBC Two is to broadcast a new short-form series called Comedians Playing With Themselves, in which comics are tasked with entertaining the nation from their homes.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd April 2020The 8 best comedy podcasts around right now
Christ alive, we could all do with a laugh. Fortunately, take a wander into the podcast world and you'll soon be ankle-deep in funny stuff. Where to start, though?
Esquire, 18th April 2020Enter the bizarre world of Athletico Mince
Even sport-haters love Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson's cult football podcast - which isn't really about football at all...
Luke Holland, The Guardian, 31st March 2020Chortle 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 2019