The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer - The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Vestibular schwannoma is a benign growth in the brain that usually grows slowly over many years and does not spread to other parts of the body. The real Slade were reportedly big fans of the Reeves and Mortimer version, but claimed that they were never as surreal as the real thing. The second surreal comedy show put together by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, following Vic Reeves Big Night Out and their Channel Hop from Channel 4 to the BBC. Considered to be some of Vic and Bob's best work. Had two series, in 1993 and 1995. Everything Is Better With Explosions - On Bang Bang the Stotts insist on starting every interview with "a nice explosion" note They ignite a small pile of gunpowder,which "explodes" with a dull fizz, and in a variation on Every Car Is a Pinto, perhaps the most surreal sketch of all involved a car whose bonnet and boot lids would blast off into the air, then land and explode in an absurdly oversized detonation. In 1994, between series of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, the pair hosted a one-off hour long show on BBC Radio 1 entitled Radio Reeves & Mortimer. The show was partially presented in character as 'co-hosts' Councillors Cox and Evans.

The first series also had short films with high production values (presented as an Imagine Spot on Vic's part) which replicated an iconic scene from a film, such as running on the beach from Chariots of Fire, before crudely inserting a vegetable in place of someone's head or similar, with a label declaring low prices on veg. This was eventually explained as Vic blowing the budget on advertising, having forgotten that Reeves and Mortimer don't sell fruit and veg. The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. The episodes on the DVD are the shorter broadcast versions, rather than the extended versions available on the VHS releases from the mid-nineties. (BBC Video /Cinema Club, 3 April 2006)This wariness was partially justified because it is hard to ignore how out and out silly the whole Reeves & Mortimer sense of humour is and I would be lying to myself if I said that I found the whole thing hilarious. It is not even that at times I found it bemusing, it was more that some of the silliness just seemed to be being done for the sake of it and that it didn't have any effect on me but to feel a bit daft. I recognise that part of this is me getting older but from my memory I didn't find much hilarious about the extremes of the show, such as people carrying signs with the word "nightie" on it, or the presentation of the two men arguing on the frozen cat urine (why they had stuff in their pants is beyond me). However, all this negativity covers up my main feeling, which was that the show is still very funny and worth seeing – no childhood memories were shattered here as is often the case when watching stuff that I remember as being brilliant to the 10 year old me etc. The following year, Reeves collaborated with The Wonder Stuff to cover " Dizzy", originally released in 1969 by Tommy Roe. The song reached number one and spawned a spin-off full-length album on Island Records, I Will Cure You, which featured re-recorded songs from Big Night Out, cover versions and new material. A companion video titled Four Golden Memories was released, which featured videos for "Dizzy" and Reeves's other singles " Born Free" and " Abide With Me", plus live versions of "Dizzy" (filmed on tour the previous year) and "Meals on Wheels". Asked if he can hear anything at all in that ear, Reeves said: “It’s dead, absolutely, completely gone. On 27 February 2008, Reeves announced that he and Mortimer were working together on a new series, as well as possibly reviving Shooting Stars:

Vic: Your body has its own central heating, in the form of your lungs. Hot foods such as steak, pies and soup are transferred directly to the lungs whereupon they heat the entire body. A one-off special called Vic and Bob's Big Night Out was shown on BBC Two in December 2017. This was a partial revival of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out format, and featured an appearance by Matt Lucas. Two four-part series followed in 2018 and 2019 on BBC Four. [4] [5] Quiz shows [ edit ]Fake Band: A subversion - Slade, a real band, are spoofed, but in such an exaggerated parody fashion that they're unrecognisable. In 1997, they co-wrote a one-off special, It's Ulrika! for Shooting Stars panellist, Ulrika Jonsson. The show aired on BBC1, and featured appearances from Vic and Bob, as well as Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Charlie Higson. Naked People Are Surreal: In most episodes of Bang Bang the front of the desk is semi-transparent and a naked man can be seen crouching beneath it. In one episode there's a naked woman as well, but there seems to be a partition separating her from the man.

Perhaps the most significant advert starring the pair was the finale of the Renault Clio Papa & Nicole advert series in 1998. Renault cast the duo to battle over Nicole, the star of the series, at the altar. An estimated 23 million viewers tuned in to see Nicole jilting Reeves at the altar and eloping with Mortimer in a Clio, spoofing a scene from the 1967 film The Graduate. For extra exposure, the commercial was scheduled for prime time viewing during the long-standing British soap opera Coronation Street. [19] It was also screened extensively during the World Cup. [20] The duo's The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer characters Le Corbussier et Papin quoted the advert in their sketches before they were cast in the role. In 1993, the pair also recorded Reeves and Mortimer's Driving School, a one-off comedy show featuring, amongst others, Pat Wright and Dave Arrowsmith, the Bra Men characters from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.Vic Reeves Big Night Out (series one and two, minus the New Years special) (Channel 4 DVD, 12 September 2005) Shooting Stars, The Game for You to Play at Home - for Players Aged 4-84, BBC Worldwide Publishing, 1996 Two series of Reeves and Mortimer's second quiz followed in 1999. Entitled Families at War, it featured two families competing in bizarre tasks on a loose Shooting Stars theme. The show was far more mainstream, less comedy-based, and obviously designed for comfortable Saturday evening BBC1 viewing. In 1999 the two revived the format under the name Bang Bang Its Reeves And Mortimer, which will also be covered here as it is essentially a third series in all but name. Even more surreal than their earlier work, Reeves and Mortimer considered it superior but it was less popular with the fans, perhaps because each episode was weighed down by a large part of it being devoted to a single recurring setting called The Club, which was somewhat divisive. Bang Bang also developed some characters and concepts that had been introduced in The Smell, such as Tom Fun. They would also inevitably end every transaction with someone they accused of making light of their bras with something along the lines of "And ye can keep yer [X]!" before snatching whatever 'X' was and storming off with it anyway.

Mulligan & O'Hare released two albums, Pancake Day (which earned them a South Bank Show profile, although presenter Melvyn Bragg appeared to be more interested in his bicycle) and Coffee Break. The 'Verse: Some recurring characters, particularly the Bra Men, also showed up as contestants in parodies of game shows.I’m living with deafness. Can you imagine a life without stereo records? All I’ve got left is Frank Ifield on mono!” A recent reminder of how funny Shooting Stars was saw he digging out this DVD copy of season 1 of "Smell of...." since I had fond memories of loving that show. I was at the age where I got the humour and loved quoting the lines and characters with school friends and, when I moved to England I remember seeing them live within a few months of arriving in the Midlands. However, with all that I was also wary that I was viewing the show through the eyes of a much younger person at a completely different time from now – meaning that what might have been classic at the time may not still be that way to the me in my thirties.