Category: Vic & Bob
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Steve Coogan – The Inside Story
In Christmas of 2009, BBC Two aired a mockumentary charting the life and career of Steve Coogan. With classic archive moments and some rarely seen early appearances, this one-hour special includes interviews with well-known faces who have collaborated with Steve, and others who are simply fans of Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauline Calf, Tony Ferrino…
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The Film Of Reeves And Mortimer
In September of 1997, the BBC’s arts strand Omnibus, aired The Film Of Reeves And Mortimer. It traced their career, and included a lot of specially made comedy material too.
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The All Star Comedy Show
A few days ago we had a brief look at Monkey Trousers. Here’s the pilots for that series, with its initial title of The All Star Comedy Show. These two episodes aired on ITV in 2004, and were written by Vic and Bob, with help from others including Simon Blackwell and Caroline Aherne. It was…
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Monkey Trousers
There was a time when ITV flirted with sketch shows featuring big name performers. While The Sketch Show did well, another project did less so, in spite of a stellar cast and line up of writers. Monkey Trousers didn’t even last it’s full run of six shows, leaving the final one unaired. I think it…
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The Complete History Of Masterchef (According To Vic And Bob)
Here’s a sketch from The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer, which provides a weird insight into the hidden cake phenomenon on today’s Internet. And here they are, mocking the same show, many years later on Shooting Stars. I think Vic and Bob like their food shows. But maybe not the newer ones so much.
