
Acting
Jan 23, 1959
Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Vic Reeves
Acting
Biography
Jim Moir, better known by his stage name of Vic Reeves, is a British comedian, actor, TV presenter, singer writer and artist. He is one half of the surreal and successful comedy duo Reeves and Mortimer, alongside Bob Mortimer.
Feature Films (37)

Feature documentary from Louis Moir exploring the relationship between comedy and art, and the inner conflicts that lie within. Featuring the director's father Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, Spencer Jones, Simon Munnery, Miriam Elia and Bec Hill as they each prepare work for an exhibition.
A Brush with Comedy

Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
Eric & Ernie

The history of British comedy from the 1970s to today, showing how the work of Reeves and Mortimer provided a link between old-style acts such as Bernard Manning and modern phenomena like Little Britain.
When Comedy Changed Forever

Comic duo Reeves and Mortimer bring their distinctive smell to Ipswich, in this live performance filmed in 1994. Regular characters on show include Otis and Marvin, Mulligan and O'Hare, The Bra Men and mischievous windbags the Pettemains.
Reeves And Mortimer - Live Tour Puce 1694

Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.
The Itch of the Golden Nit

Though Dek leads a simple and happy life with his girlfriend Shirley and her 12-year-old daughter Marlene, his grand, televised marriage proposal puts his devotion to the test—especially as Marlene's long-absent biological father, Jimmy, looms in the background.
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Jim Moir and his wife Nancy continue on their ornithological adventure as they seek out their favourite seasonal birds and learn how they best evoke the festive spirit of Christmas.
Painting Birds With Jim And Nancy Moir Christmas Special

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer star in their first ever TV show with their own brand of original comedy. The show features characters such as 'Man With the Stick', 'Graham Lister', 'Wavey Davey' and 'Judge Nutmeg'. Visit Novelty Island, spin the Wheel of Justice and investigate new facts about Les. All of this hilarious comedy accompanied by a song by Vic at the start of the show and Oh! Mr Songwriter at the end. A must for those who "Wouldn't Let it Lie". This video contains a 90 minute live show.
Vic Reeves Big Night Out Tour

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
Amnesty International's Big 30

A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

Vic & Bob are on a road trip across England as they search for an elusive piece of celebrity memorabilia - Michael Jackson's "training" glove.
The Glove
Television & Series (71)

Vic Reeves Big Night Out is a British cult comedy stage show and later TV series which ran on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as a New Year special. It marked the beginnings of the collaboration between Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and started their Vic and Bob comedy double act. The show was later acknowledged as a seminal force in British comedy throughout the 1990s and which continues to the present day. Arguably the most surreal of the pair's work, Vic Reeves Big Night Out was effectively a parody of the variety shows which dominated the early years of television, but which were, by the early 1990s, falling from grace. Vic, introduced by Patrick Allen as "Britain's Top Light Entertainer and Singer", would sit behind a cluttered desk talking nonsense and introducing the various segments and surreal guests on the show. Vic Reeves Big Night Out is notable as the only time in their career where Vic solely took the role of host, while Bob was consigned to the back stage, appearing every few minutes as either himself or as a strange character. The two received equal billing in the series credits. On 3 October 2007, the first episode was re-broadcast on More4 as part of Channel 4 at 25, a season of classic Channel 4 programmes shown to celebrate the channel's 25th birthday.
Vic Reeves Big Night Out

Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC2. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of Catterick, though he may produce a spin-off centring on the DI Fowler character. Catterick is arguably Vic and Bob's darkest and most bizarre programme to date, balancing their typically odd, idiosyncratic comedy with some genuinely dark scenes. It plays like a darkly comic road movie, albeit full of Vic and Bob's bizarre, often inscrutable and frequently silly humour. Catterick is probably Vic and Bob's most uncompromising show since their notorious and frequently baffling 1999 sketch series Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, from which most of the characters are taken. It is in some ways stylistically similar to their short film The Weekenders first broadcast in 1992 on British television as part of Channel 4's "Bunch of Five" series. The series is named after Catterick in North Yorkshire, Britain's largest army base. It is about 10 miles away from Darlington where Vic Reeves grew up. It is also about 20 miles away from Middlesbrough where Bob Mortimer grew up.










