Reeves & Mortimer

Vic & Bob to make film about life in a hotel

Vic Reeves has revealed he and Bob Mortimer are planning to make a film together about life in a hotel.

Shooting Stars: why cancel this Reeves & Mortimer gem?

The show's history is peppered with standout comedy moments that you just wouldn't get on other panel shows.

Shooting Stars snub for "dim" Louis Walsh

Wacky quiz show Shooting Stars will return for a new series - but hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have barred Louis Walsh from reappearing for being "dim".

Vic & Bob Shooting Stars interview

George Dawes may no longer be in charge of the scores, Mark Lamarr and Will Self have departed and the Dove From Above may be going a bit grey around the edges, but there's still something very exciting about a new series of Shooting Stars...

This series of the madcap quiz show may not have struck the same irreverent chords as it did in its Nineties heyday, but it's been entertaining all the same. Concluding the current run, this episode sees The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding, DJ Tony Blackburn and presenter Zoe Salmon join team captains Jack Dee and Ulrika Jonsson and regular guest Angelos Epithemiou - the curmudgeonly alter-ego of comedian Dan Skinner - for more surreal tomfoolery.

Tonight's guests, Mutya Buena, Lenny Henry and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, are squired through the surrealist miasma by Vic in an RAF uniform and Bob with an inflated head. Treats include a dolly production of the Elephant Man, Angelos Epithemiou's rendition of The Cat Crept In (brilliant) and Mutya touching a pie through a wall. You won't get that anywhere else. Curious in that it's exactly as great as it was 16 (aieee!) years ago. No worse and no better.

Another splendidly silly foray into Vic and Bob's playpen, featuring a 'jazz fight', more moaning from Angelos the burger van owner, Jack Dee trying not to laugh and Kim from How Clean Is Your House? offering up some priceless facial expressions when Vic turns on the charm and turns a Marigold glove into a fish. Who says TV doesn't teach you anything?

Vic 'n Bob get a few bob less

Comics Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have taken a pay cut worth tens of thousands of pounds to help the BBC slash costs.

Jack Dee has got what must be the easiest gig in TV at the moment. Turn up, scowl, try not to laugh. Drinks and nibbles in the green room afterwards. Car home. Thanks very much.

Meanwhile, new panelist Angelos Epithemiou is turning out to be quite a hit with his cross-eyed squint at these celebrity shenanigans. "It's all right but it's not my sort of humour," he offers tonight. You might well agree. Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's surreal nonsense - like a hallucinogenic Morecambe and Wise - has always been an acquired taste and you either get it or you don't.

What the returning Shooting Stars lacks in novelty, it makes up for in undiminished surrealism. Tonight's guests include Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs and Jack Dee ("Your face is like an abandoned walnut. Like a doomed horse"), but it's the enduring madness of the hosts that entertains. Within mere moments, Vic has arrested a jazz pancake and shot it with a clarinet. Even regulars Ulrika Jonsson and drumming baby George Dawes (Matt Lucas) look surprised.