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Vic Reeves

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

September 2022

  • ‘The art was always there’ … Moir has been birdwatching since he was a small child.

    ‘The comedy was a distraction’: Jim Moir on leaving Vic Reeves behind to paint rocks all day

    Edging away from the spotlight as a comedian, Moir has devoted himself to painting birds, rocks and punch-ups in dinghies. Is he one of Britain’s most prolific artists?

May 2022

  • Jim Moir’s Snowy Owl, 2022, a white owl on a bright background that is half red, half blue

    The Warhol of bird painting – Vic Reeves, AKA Jim Moir, and his uncanny avians

    The artist and comedian is a keen birdwatcher – and it shows in these intense, meticulously detailed portraits that are both funny and full of pop art twists

September 2021

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    Vic Reeves reveals inoperable tumour has left him deaf in one ear

  • WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 31/08/2021 - Programme Name: Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing S4 - TX: n/a - Episode: Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing S4 - ep 2 - Burghley House Stamford (No. 2) - Picture Shows: Burghley House, Stamford Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse - (C) Owl Power - Photographer: Marianne Wie

    And Away… review – how Bob Mortimer went from sidekick to standalone

July 2020

  • Programme Name: Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: paying tribute to Dada artist Man Ray Jim Moir - (C) BBC - Photographer: -

    Farty paintings and getting sozzled on gin: a seriously silly history of art and comedy colliding

    Can comedy ever be art? From the crucifixion in puppet form to Vic Reeves on dada, we celebrate the daftness that can ensue when one spills over into the other

May 2020

  • Vic Reeves on the set of The Big Flower Fight

    ‘Lager and fags were our main vices’: Vic Reeves on booze, guns and his rock’n’roll years

    As he prepares to host The Big Flower Fight, the comedian born Jim Moir discusses his wild fame in the 90s – and why he now prefers a pork pie to a pint

December 2019

  • From left: Tim Key; Harry Hill Vic Reeves; Lolly Adefope and Josie Long

    'I got obsessed with Chris Tarrant so I painted him': comics on why they make art

    As a new exhibition on comic’s prints and portraits opens, Harry Hill, Vic Reeves, Lolly Adefope and more talk us through their masterworks

September 2019

  • From left, Sarah Silverman, Romesh Ranganathan, Julia Davis, Steve Coogan, Tiffany Haddish

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  • Reeves and Mortimer

    This much I know
    Jim Moir: ‘I’ve been trying to shake Vic Reeves off for about 20 years’

December 2018

  • Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves on Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out.

    TV review
    Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out review – don’t analyse, just marvel as it takes flight

    The duo are back, emanating warm currents of guff including ‘Britain’s only gay man’ Graham Lister and his pet owl, Beaky

November 2018

  • Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in House of Fools.

    The best of Reeves & Mortimer: our rundown of their finest moments

    Ahead of Big Night Out’s return, we go over the comedy duo’s work, including The Weekenders, Monkey Trousers and Catterick

July 2018

  • Live Well For Longer … Tamal Ray and Kate Quilton

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    Wednesday’s best TV: Live Well for Longer; Picnic at Hanging Rock

    A new health show looks at advances in modern medicine and booze abstention, while Vic and Bob go sea-trout fishing

January 2018

  • The final edition of the News of the World, which closed in July 2011 over phone hacking.

    Phone-hacking cases against Murdoch papers settled at last minute

    Confidential settlement of cases against Sun and News of the World raises difficult issues for future hacking cases, judge says

December 2017

  • Best of festive telly

    French & Saunders, Black Mirror and Doctor Who: your Christmas TV planner

    From Alan Partridge and First Dates to The Miniaturist and McMafia, prime your set-top box for the best telly the festive fortnight has to offer

November 2016

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    The best Christmas comedy of 2016 – from Sofie Hagen to David Brent

  • New Orleans resident and legendary pianoman Fats Domino pauses a moments for a photo after meeting with reporters 19 August 2007 to talk about his new 2- disk album "Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino" to be released 25 September 2007. The album is full of music's superstars with the expected large royalties going to to his Tipitiana's Foundation, with the mission of preserving the musical culture of New Orleans and the building of a lower 9th ward cultural center. AFP photo/Paul J.Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

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October 2016

  • Amma Assante photographed at the Observer studios.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: October 2016

    Reportage from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; the dispossessed of Johannesburg; and stars of stage and screen – all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer this month
  • Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer with large balloons in the shape of the numbers two and five on their heads

    Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer: ‘It’s really a music hall act that we do’

    Britain’s favourite Dadaist comedians and our last great comedy duo are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a new live show. Tim Adams listens in
  • Tiswas

    Gunge, gophers and Kylie in a box: what happened to Saturday morning kids' TV?

    Shows such as Tiswas and Going Live! were bastions of British entertainment, but now they’ve been replaced by wall-to-wall TV chefs. We celebrate its golden era and ask where it went
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