Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer win slapstick award

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have been recognised as comedy legends at Bristol's annual Slapstick Festival.

Slapstick awards pay tribute to Vic & Bob

The undisputed champions of surreal visual comedy, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer will be in Bristol on Sunday to be presented with the fabulous Aardman Slapstick Visual Comedy Award.

Vic & Bob, Pascoe, Acaster: celebrity lists of 2014

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer choose the biggest fools at their imaginary celeb Christmas party; Sara Pascoe pens an alternative Christmas tale in three chapters; and James Acaster names his biggest schmoozes of 2014.

Top 5 Moments... Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars is without doubt the greatest panel show ever made, with it lasting for a healthy six series and spanning from 1993 to 2011. It remains a source of frustration for me that the programme was cancelled in 2011 as it definitely hadn't exhausted itself in any way. The best justification for this may very well be that the comedic style of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer was a tad too strange for a new and evolving audience, though there is still a gap in my life ever since its cancellation. I have very fond memories of being only nine or ten years old and absolutely crying with laughter at the madness that is Shooting Stars, from its Dove From Above round to Vic's pub singing.

Vic and Bob back to their best with House of Fools 2

Warning: Contains spoilers - As soon as Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer step in to their mocked-up living room, on the strangely tiny set of House of Fools, their chemistry is palpable.

Filming begins on series two of House of Fools

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's offbeat BBC Two sitcom returns for a new seven-part run later this year, despite rumours the show was to be axed after just one series.

Will Self: Vic & Bob cut my best jokes

Will Self has claimed that Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer cut his best lines from hit BBC quiz show Shooting Stars.

Radio Times review

A welcome return for the adult (and we mean adult) storybook series, but here laced with a touch of sadness.The late Rik Mayall shares the billing with Vic Reeves in this opener, with Mayall telling a wonderful story about a weatherman whose predictions actually come true and who finds himself tempted to use his power to immoral ends...

Storytelling is a form Mayall clearly loves, and he gives it everything in what must have been one of his last ever jobs. It's intense, focused and a little bit naughty and reminds us of what we're now sadly missing. Reeves's story is pretty good too - a slightly madder but no less amusing yarn about a cleaner from the future who finds herself on a mission to Mars.

The 80s comedy club where heckling became an art form

What's left of the old Mitre Arms sits on a grim, grey stretch of the A102, within gobbing distance of the Blackwall Tunnel. It looks like the sort of pub where you'd get bottled if you looked at someone in a funny way. So it's hard to believe that in the late 80s this place helped launch the careers of a generation of alternative comedians including Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves, Jenny Eclair, Jerry Sadowitz, Jeremy Hardy and Jo Brand.

Crackanory: review

Iconic TV show returns for new series featuring Vic Reeves and the late Rik Mayall at his best.