
Vic Reeves
- 66 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and composer
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Johnny Vegas 'wants Shooting Stars return'
Johnny Vegas has revealed that he is keen to reunite with Shooting Stars hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
Dan French, Digital Spy, 27th November 2009Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House - Episode 1 Preview
Hallowe'en isn't until Saturday but here's comedian Reece Shearsmith (from The League of Gentlemen) in a haunted house in Hackney, with a bunch of other entertainers as keen as he is on ghosts, apparitions and macabre manifestations, to discuss the history of horror in entertainment. This week, together with Vic Reeves, Mark Gatiss and Yvette Fielding (often found on satellite TV, being gripped by spooky emanations), they discuss classic scary shows from British radio and TV and their essential ingredients. Next week, films.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 29th October 2009Timed well to air as Halloween approaches, The League of Gentleman actor (and Stage Podcast interviewee) Shearsmith talks to horror enthusiast (and fellow League-member) Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves and Yvette Fielding about what makes a story scary.
Scott Matthewman, The Stage, 23rd October 2009This 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.
Patrick Smith, The Telegraph, 30th September 2009Funny peculiar: The curious world of Vic Reeves
Never in the field of light entertainment has one man spawned such a collection of nonsensical catchphrases as Vic Reeves.
John Walsh, The Independent, 26th September 2009Tonight'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.
Jonathan Wright, The Guardian, 23rd September 2009Another 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?
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 16th September 2009Shooting Stars: Lady Antics
"As most people know I'm a ladies man," says Vic Reeves, "and it's always nice to have a lady seated to my right on the night."
Matt Callanan, BBC Comedy, 11th September 2009Vic '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.
Jen Blackburn, The Sun, 10th September 2009What 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.
The Guardian, 2nd September 2009