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- King Boomer's Reaction to Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves in Shooting Stars and a compilation of their best bits from the show. ENJOY!
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As a game show Shooting Stars posed some classic questions to panellists, like "Is it okay to punch your gran if she's racist?"!!!
Do you remember fist of fun with pete the jippo 🤣
True or false: Kerry Catona doesn't own any cats.
"Name a junction on the M1"
True or false, O J Simpson is a murderer?
Name my favourite part of a monkey
"Jack Dee ... it seemed like he was playing a grumpy character." You just described that man's entire career.
Omg. Its me! Its me! I can't believe this... When you said you'd do a reaction to this for me, I was SO excited. I had notifications on stand by and was checking often.. Well, unfortunately I became ill and have spent the last 5 days in hospital so I've not been able to see it yet! Fucking typical!!🙄 So, I'm sorry for such a late reply and absolutely buzzing you have done this! And yeah, I did see the quality was extremely poor on the full episodes, which is such a shame! But doing the best bits is probably a better idea anyway! Thanks so soooo much!! You're a legend and I hope you can see my comment after its been buried! So pleased you enjoyed it!! 🤣
Forget about it Kim just make sure you recover fast for me ok? Sorry to hear you had a bad week but I know you will bounce back quick!
@@KingBoomer Thanks so much! Really means a lot and I needed a laugh today! You've made my week! I still often sing "tiny eyes/hands" and a some of Georges songs 🤣
@@KingBoomer A couple of short songs to check out are "tiny hands" and "1942". Pretty easy to find, both about 2 mins long. Hilarious!✌
@@KingBoomer I've watched this reaction like 5 times now haha 😄 I've left another comment with suggestions in on your status thing👍
One of the better episodes featured Larry Hagman. You have never seen anyone look more utterly lost on a TV show. Part way through, after winning a "fartridge", they asked him, "Larry, are you considering sacking your booking agent?"
I remember this so well :)
I remember this as well, the look on his face . He looked lost 😂
His reply was fantastic “I’ve done some loony shows in my time but this is definitely the one!” 😂
part partridge...part fart... it's a fartridge.
When he shook hands with Margarie (aka Matt Lucas) his face was priceless.
If your going to watch a full ep. The one with Larry Hagman (JR in Dallas) is just amazing. He had no idea what the hell was going on.
His agent did NOT brief him on what the show was like! Hilarious!
The true definition of a Yank lost in or maybe over the pond
There were quite a few people who went on the show because it became quite popular and was a part of the circuit of "celebrity things to do", without realising what the show was actually about, but non were quite so unprepared as Larry Hagman and I think his being on Shooting stars has gone down as a bit of a cult british tv moment in many ways
Harry Lagman?
If your going to react to a full episode, this is the one to do.
That whack job is George Daws who keeps the scores. "What are the scores, George Daws" and he may be familiar to you as you reacted to him only a few days ago on Little Britain. He played a few parts in the Carol Beers piece, the pregnant woman's husband and Carol's colleague in a dress. He also played the wife in Happy Couple. He's the rather brilliant Matt Lucas
George Dawes - the man with the scores ... "he's a baby". and he plays a drum kit
Best bit from George Dawes had to be his "Peanuts" song, he couldn't even finish it, it was that ridiculous but funny! :D
@@mikkdc He was also in Brides Maids, he's done a few appearances as well in some US tv shows.
@@Renzsu Yeah, Matts been in loads of stuff including another series with Vic n Bob called Catterick and also he was even in Dr. Who.
Matt Lucas. Bit of a legend really.
The bit at 13:09 was a song which George Dawes (played by Matt Lucas from Little Britain) used to sing each week. However, this week the song "Peanuts" was so ridiculous even he couldn't get through it with Vic and Bob laughing their heads off in the background, Matt just couldn't keep it together and laughed most of the way through the song. As for Jack Dee, he was known to pretty much never smile on the show and always try to keep a straight face but each week Vic n Bob would do everything to try and make him laugh. The thing with Reeves and Mortimer is they come out with the most random stuff and most the time its so ridiculous its funny.
"Peanuts" and "Baked Potato" are just insane.
My absolute favourite is 1942 haha 😄 Still sing it now. And Vic and Bob doing tiny eyes and tiny hands! Ridiculously funny.. I'm so glad he reacted to shooting stars. My all time favourite. We'll have to get him on to Never mind the Buzzcocks aswell!
A show that is meant to be a panel quiz type show but is actually just a peak into the minds of vic and bob which is why it’s so random but so so good.
The important things to remember about Shooting stars are:
- Vic, Bob, Matt (George Dawes), and Dan Renton (Angelos) are all in character
- Don't try and make sense of it, go with the flow.
- The best parts are often when Vic and Bob amuse themselves
Shooting Stars started in the mid 1990s and came back after a long hiatus. Look up the Larry Hagman episode :)
OMG I had completely forgotten about Larry Hagman 😂😂😂
@@ginjamutha Fair play to him, he went along with it :D
Saw a stand up show with Dan Renton as Angelos, it was an incredibly funny show and met him as I worked at the theatre
Also that a lot of it was pre-recorded in front of a live audience, so a lot of these moments when they're corpsing and pissing themselves laughing were the best takes thet had, just imagine the stuff that got cut, or even check out the Geordie Jumpers out-takes for some idea.
I love best that King has reacted to Matt already in other things without even realising it!
So Shooting Stars started out as a one-off christmas special and proved so successful that it was given a series. It was a way for Vic and Bob to make their comedy more accessible by shoe-horning it into something approaching a format, and by having celebrity guests which made people tune in for them, rather than specifically for Vic and Bob.
The show ran for many years and was re-commissioned twice after being off air for a a few years in between times, but with re-runs of old series performing incredibly well in the ratings.
The team to Vic's right (viewers left) would always feature someone who was considered grumpy or acerbic as the captain (Mark Lamarr in early series, followd by author Will Self then finally Jack Dee. Seated immediately to Vic's right would always be a good-looking female guest he could be pathetically lascivious towards, with Bob often deriding him for his attempts at wooing these guests, while at the same time himself behaving like a love-struck schoolboy when it came to the other team captain Ulrika Johnsson (who began her career as a weather girl on breakfast TV)
The team to Bob's left (viewers right) always had Ulrika Johnson as team captain and from the "Will Self-era" onwards featured a regular panelist on her team, a particular highlight was when Johnny Vegas was Ulrika's regular panelist as his brand of comedy just added to the absolute chaos of the show.
George Dawes kept the scores for most series in what would be Matt Lucas' (Little Britain) TV Debut (excluding the time he was in the audience on a kids TV show as a child himself) The things George Dawes said and did before delivering the scores were unscripted and Vic and Bob often didn't know what he was going to come out with until it happened. George Dawes also performed some songs on the show with classics including "Lesbians" and "Peanuts"
In the final few series Angelos Epithemou (Dan Skinner) took over the scoring after appearing as a regular on Ulrika's team following the departure of Johnny Vegas and brought a level of surreal cringe comedy to proceedings which again worked well with Vic and Bob's style of comedy.
And that's a very quick roundup of Shooting Stars from a massive Reeves and Mortimer nerd.
@@gartgreenside3657 Johnny Vegas wasn't so much exaggerated as pissed-up, and Jack Dee was pretty much just adopting the persona which his comedy was famous for, I might be wrong but Shooting Stars is the only time I ever saw Jack Dee's grumpy persona slip
@@brimstone260 Cheers, as I say I'm a bit of a nerd for Vic and Bob, I'd love to write the "biography" for their comedy if there was such a thing!
@@brimstone260 DONKEH
Ulrika-ka-kaaaa!
I can't belive a "best bits of shooting stars" video missed "ERANU" / "UVAVU"...
@@TheRealityleak yeah, this was really a best of the last couple of series of Shooting Stars with a few of George's songs thrown in. I'd say a proper best of definitely needs the early series plus some Johnny Vegas, plus some Sunderland Independent Films, Geordie Jumpers etc
There's a "Jack, with your face..." compilation on here which is definitely worth your time. Trying to see Vic break Jack is a pure joy.
With your face like a neglected radish…
Like Troubled Magnets
Like a forgetten tunnel
@@papamurrth1 like an explosion on a shit farm
Like an explosion, on a shit farm
As a young student I saw Vic n Bob 32 years ago touring 'The Big Night Out' in Birmingham U.K... Most bizarre and hilarious night I had experienced at that point. Loved them ever since.
That's great, I started watching them since about age 8... had a couple VHSs on repeat.
The Big Night Out.. I had many great nights there. Happy Times. 😀
I'm 51 years old and I saw them 32 years ago, too. Probably the same tour. It was at the BIC in Bournemouth. Did they sing 'Dizzy' at the end of the show?
What do we do when we see the wheel of justice?
Likewise, saw them live in Liverpool ‘94, “the brown tour”, fantastic :).
I’ve met Vic Reeves (Jim Moir) and he’s absolutely fantastic. He’s an incredibly talented artist too. He’s very modest and ‘normal’ irl. 😊 Edit: Jack Dee is brilliant. Saw him live a while back and his miserable persona is beautifully crafted.
16:16 A version of the Baked Potato Song got to No. 1 in the iTunes chart in 2020. Over 20 years after this was aired.
I'm old enough to remember this show and I have no idea what a 'pepper doodle' is. However I strongly believe the single result on Urban Dictionary was written by Bob Mortimer himself under the name 'Speckled Trout Man' - Bob and fellow comedian Paul Whitehouse have a tv series about fishing and they loved to catch and cook trout.
'An aggressive squirrel and ratting dog, most often associated with rat terriers, but larger in size, growing to an adult weight if 30 to 35 pounds. Can come in many color combinations, but the most common is the black and white Harlequin appearance. They make great family dogs, but require toys that they will be allowed to destroy, and to be taken out to chase wild life as often as possible. They have also been known as cat dogs due to their prolific ability to catch and dispense of ferrel cats
Our Pepperdoodle terminated 3 squirrels today
by Speckled Trout Man January 12, 2014'
Hope this helps, King Boomer!
The dove from above is one of the best things this show produced 🤣🤣 Bob and Vic are literally insane
I couldn't get enough of this when it was aired on TV ....
Comedy gold !
Jack's comedy persona is as a grump, it's served him well. Angelos and George are characters.
I have never seen this compilation before and I can't get past the first 30 seconds because I have never laughed so hard at the term 'he has a face like a hard boiled bollock' that is the best description I have ever heard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shooting stars Christine Bleakley tattoo is definitely worth a watch..
20:33 the person you were asking "who is this guy?" is Matt Lucas playing a character on the show called "George Dawes" and he kept the scores. He went on to be the other half of "Little Britain" with David Walliams (which I'm pretty sure you've reacted to also). Incidentally, some of the costumes look ridiculous (and they are) but they're also often ripping on a particular person (which, if you don't get the reference, can just look weird but still pretty hilarious). When he came out with the marigold glove on his head he was singing his version of the 80s classic "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo. Go look up pictures of them and then you'll see the glove is simply mocking their hairstyles
Marjorie Dawes from Little Britain must be related to George.
@@Cnith She's his mum and was occasionally on Shooting Stars in his place
@@matthewwalker5430 He started with Freddie Mercury's Loverboy and then went into the Kajagoogoo song...now, from another episode,
can anyone remind me which song he had been singing when he suddenly segued into the Potato Waffles jingle?
Hmm...memory test for you..."George Dawes" is obviously a Mary Poppins reference, and "Marjorie Dawes" a double-reference to the nursery rhyme and the token female from the Fraser/Hayes Four, but what's the origin of "Jack Dawes And The Sparrows"?
Vic and Bob were/are big fans of Surrealism. They started out touring Britain with a show called Vic Reeves Big Night Out. This was spotted by a tv station, and it became a tv series called Vic and Bob's Big Night Out. Their humour is absolutely hilarious once you understand where it's coming from. It's full of non-sequiturs. They then went on to make The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. You should check out clips from this show like The Stotts Interview Sting (of Police fame). or them interviewing various other people. Look out also for Reeves and Mortimer as Mulligan and O'Hare, singing "Rose". They then went on to making Shooting Stars, a faux quiz show. They would have Vic and Bob as quizmasters, George Dawes (Matt Lucas later of Little Britain) as scorekeeper and contributor of weird songs. There would be 2 regular team captains, Jack Dee and Ulrika Jonsson. The teams would be made up by 4 invited celebrities each week. The show was basically a showcase of silly sketches and daft ideas, brilliantly funny, very surreal. There would be a prize for the winning team. The prize was always something pitiful, and it could only be won by surviving the final challenge.
Vic and Bob went on to make several other tv series for various channels. They can still be seen regularly guesting on 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and other comedy panel shows. Bob is currently making fishing shows with another comedian called Paul Whitehouse. They both suffered heart attacks and took up fishing.
Vic is currently concentrating on producing art.
Loved this show, for a generation this was part of their Friday night routine as it would be on as you were getting ready to go out clubbing, it would certainly get you in the mood for going out and having a good time, when Larry Hagman appeared on the show he said, "I've done some loony shows in my time, but this is certainly the one!"
I've always loved Vic and Bob's absurd humour 😂
House of fools was funny
Vic & Bob's "House Of Fools", featuring the wonderful Mat Berry (Toast of London) is worth a look.
The only rules you need to know is that there are certain people who are static cast members on every show. Vic & Bob are the hosts, Jack Dee is one team captain, George Dawes (Matt Lucas actual name) is the score keeper/random performer. Angelos Epithemiou (Dan Renton Skinner actual name) are all on every show of this series & are all playing some form or crazy character. Ulrika Johnson the other team captain is also a main stay, she’s been on every series since the beginning of the show but she doesn’t really play a character, she just tries to be herself, but because she’s been exposed to this wacky world for so long she’s kind of just as nuts as the rest of them.
Then you get two or three random celebrity guests to make the teams up for each recording, usually it’s a British celebrity so they kind of know it’s gonna be a fucking weird ass day and know what to expect to an extent.
The best shows are when you get a European or North American guest on & they don’t know whether to politely laugh, brush it off, ignore the whole show & pretend they’re somewhere else, be offended….. or anything else, which makes absolutely amazing viewing.
One of the best shows I saw was with Kimberley Wyatt of Pussycat Dolls fame. She had absolutely no fucking clue what was going on at the beginning - but still got involved in every aspect & by the end of the show she was clearly really enjoying herself.
She learned the golden rule of being part of Shooting Stars, or even watching the show - which is: don’t try to figure things out. They just happen. Nothing is logical, nothings needs a reason or a point, it’s just random. If you start thinking about what’s happening too much then you miss the next part & could end up the butt of the joke because you’re still wondering what’s going on. Just relax your mind & be ready to laugh, go with the flow.
I thought Curtis Steigers was a good sport too!
Matt Lucas breaking character during the "peanuts " song is brilliant.
George Dawes (Matt Lucas) now presents the Great British Bake Off with Noel Fielding.
Shooting Stars is up there with the greatest shows ever! You would also like House of Fools, it’s the same sort of humour from Vic and Bob and also has Angelos from this show, really wacky. Search for Bob in a Tin Bath.
This was my favorite tv show ever, Vic and Bob are absolutely nuts, shooting stars was a panel game show, thats chaos from start to finish, hillarious. George Dawes (Matt Lukas) was the score keeper on the show, who did comic musical interludes in the show, he went on to star in little Britain. Jack Dee is a comedian who is known for being deadpan and sarcastic, he was a regular team captain.
*Lucas
The bald guy is Matt Lucas. He did play Tweedle Dum &Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland. More well known for being in Little Britain with David Walliams.
Jack Dee is a brilliant stand-up comedian, and was one of the tranche of new comedians that became popular in the early 1990s. His comedy personality is 'straight-faced, curmudgeon, frustrated and angry' observational comedy that calls out modern developments in life and the ridiculous stuff we deal with in our daily lives. Very funny. Lots of videos on YT. Check out Jack Dee Live, and 'Jack Dee at The Apollo'.
The bald guy is Matt Lucas and with David Walliams he created Little Britain. The character you see him playing @13:13 is basically Andy from Little Britain minus the wheelchair.
9:34 The song is "Sir Duke", by Stevie Wonder.
Hope not to spoil the illusion (and laughs), but they're definitely not playing those Didgeridoo tubes. Still hilarious, though.
Shooting Stars was essentially viewing in the 90s, along with shows like "TFI Friday".
Zany, whacky, silly humour. The 90s was pretty good at that. I think we could do with a bit more of it these days.
Mad as a box of frogs was Vic & Bob's Shooting Stars 😂
Yeah, the Larry Hagman episode was fantastic. He looked like a man living a hallucinogenic nightmare.
"Bang, bang its Reeves and Mortimer " is hilarious series 😂 insane jokes n situations which make no sense at all showing their sense of humour in full 🤣 so funny !
80s 90s UK humour is unbeatable.
Humour , music , tv All fucking peaked in 90s
Shooting stars is pure gold! Please watch the whole thing. Its one of the funniest and strangest shows ever made!
George Dawes played by Matt Lucas ... who also stars in 'Little Britain'
24:00 there's an entire sketch where Matt Lucas (from Little Britain who plays George and Majorie Dawes) has to buy a caravan from Bob Mortimer and it involves this same face shaking.
Funny you mention Alice in Wonderland... That same guy plays tweedle dumb and tweedle dee in Tim Burton movie 🍿
I've just read Bob Mortimer's autobiography. He talked about Shooting Stars and mentioned that Matt Lucas never revealed to Bob or Jim (Vic's real name) what he was going to do when he came on. So whenever he's on, doing his stuff, Bob and Jim's laughter is genuine because they're seeing it for the first time. When he's standing there with his hands on his hips shouting 'PEANUTS.... PEANUTS.... PEANUTS' Bob and Jim are in hysterics, and Matt is flipping them the V (British equivalent of middle finger) behind his back (which you can sort of see
him doing if you watch it back
If you want more Reeves and Mortimer but more recent, you should check out House of Fools. An equally anarchic sitcom of theirs. That will introduce you to the delights of Matt Berry and Morgana Robinson too. Highly recommended.
Vic and Bob are fantastic, just don't try to make sense of what you are watching!!!
Baldy is the character "George Dawes", in the first run series he generally kept score and played the drums dressed as a giant baby. You may notice he's played by Matt Lucas who went on to make Little Britain
the guy singing the songs is Matt Lucas, this tv show was his break in to TV. later went on to be in little Britain, hes the guy in the wheelchair sketches, also he was the only gay in the village, Majorie Dawes the woman who insults everyone in the fat club sketches and also p;lays Vicky Pollard plus many more of little Britains finest characters.
Matt corpsing during “peanuts!” Is an absolute classic :).
Reeves and Mortimer are part of a history of totally off the wall UK humour. Much of it makes no sense, but is still funny. Jack Dee is a comedian known for his deadpan style, so is a great counterpoint.
The singing character is George Dawes, played by Matt Lucas. Matt has been in tons of stuff and was actually in that Little Britain clip you did the other day.
Jack Dee is a stand up comedian known for his grumpy persona, they just tried to cheer him up and make him smile.
These are newer ones from when they came back after years (2008-11). They're good but the older ones with drunk Johnny Vagas. It wasn't put out live but alot of it stayed in. The guy who you asked about was Matt Lucas, from 'Little Britain'. Ulrika-ka-ka-ka, dove from above and in the club style.
The best way to watch this programme is to not ask "why" 😂 it's quality!!!
George Dawes is played by Matt Berry who went on to star in Little Britain
It's funny that you remembered "Alice in Wonderland" during the bald guy and the potato song. Because this guy - Matt Lucas - played Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice.
Bald guy is Matt Lucus, he was also in Little Britain. My man and fellow American you have opened up the can to the crazy shit that makes no sense that us brits put out! You have also taken me back to my child hood and the realisation to why I'm not normal! Great stuff!!!!
Matt Lucas appearing as George Daws - “ what are the scores on the doors George’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂 He is a very funny talented guy. Went onto Little Britain with David Williams . Also been in film if Alice in wonderland and on stage in Les Miserables !!!!!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Vic and Bob. I highly recommend their glass blowers sketch
20:28 That guy is Matt Lucas (you might know him from Little Britain) playing his character George Dawes. he was on throughout much of the shooting stars shows as the scorekeeper but did parts like this aswell
Strange that you mentioned Alice in Wonderland because the guy doing the potato song (Matt Lucas) played Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton's movie version.
This and Vic Reeves Big Night Out was mid 90s Friday night tv. Remember Vic Reeves on Shooting Stars singing a song In Da Club Style and you had to guess what it was which I never could but was absolutely hilarious.
The tune you thought you recognized was Stevie Wonder U Can Feel It All Over
The tune you thought was The Adams Family was The Flintstones lol
The guy in the green tracksuit is Matt Lucas from Little Britain
Maybe you're ready for Celebrity Juice now 👍
What are the scawrs (scores), George Daws? Was played by Matt Lucas, who also wrote and starred in the comedy show Little Britain along with his friend David Walliams (The computer says “No”).
At the moment Matt’s probably best known over in America for presenting The Great British Bake-off, along with fellow comedian Noel Fielding.
George Dawes - The baby singer is Matt lucas (you saw him briefly in the Little Britain video)
Jack Dee - was always on TV, etc... as a grumpy comedian that was his schtick.
Angelos - not sure what else he did but this was his character - similar to Joe WIlkinson on 9 out of 10 cats I suppose.
Ulrik-k-k-k-kk-a - Ulrika Johnson used to be a weathergirl on morning shows. Got beaten up by an ex footballer Stan Collymore and started doing this show pretty much straight after in 1995.
This show is mid-90s - It probably followed Vic Reeve's Big Night Out which was earlier - I think he may have done that on stage too and is where Bob met him.
Bob has calmed down a bit over the years . Matt Lucas played George Dawes who have the scores - dressed as a baby playing a drum kit - grumpy Jack Dee was a permanent team captain and they tried to cheer him up every week . It was a faux quiz show with regular rounds but total chaos with Bob and Vic these clips are usually out of context but with Shooting Stars it doesn't really matter , all in glorious analogue 4 : 3 .
'Have you got cigarettes on you?' is the funniest line ever.
Loved this reaction! I had tears of laughter, especially on the last pipe tune!! Please do some more shooting stars!
This video barely scratches the surface of the bottomless pit of madness that is Shooting Stars, great reaction though :)
We got this in New Zealand, absolute insanity but massively funny.
Hey, you‘ve probably got elsewhere shooting stars began in the early 90s pilot probably 93. It was pretty big through the 90s and returned in the 2010s with different panellists but with Vic and Bob hosting throughout.
Vic & Bob were famous for completely out there, surreal humour.
Tiny eyes is Simon & Garfunkel! Wow 32 yrs ago we used to tape it for my ex mrs's sister fella! The late great John Frog. His anniversary was on Sunday! Rip John & Thanks for getting me into Vic & Bob.
George Dawes AKA Matt Lucas best known for co-starring with David Walliams in their own show called Little Britain which ran in the mid 2000s
Jack Dee is now the chair/host of BBC Radio 4s antidote to quizz shows "i'm sorry i don't have a clue"
The genius of Vic Reeves (Jim Moir) is all in the subtlety. If you look at his mouth movements around 11:35 - who'd think of doing something like that for what is ostensibly a panel gameshow?
Was hoping you might recognise Matt Lucas (the guy with the hand on his head), he’s half of Little Britain and played the wife that never said anything in the miserable couple sketches you watched
Surrealist humour is ingrained in the British along with sarcasm, self deprecation, piss taking & storytelling . You could argue that court Jesters were of this genre . The Goon show was one of the first to be broadcast on radio back in the 50`s , Dudley Moore & Peter Cook with the Fringe shows , Monty Python , Spike Milligan , Neil Innes & the list goes on & the mantle is passed down . It doesn't have to make sense but somehow it does & it is funny to embrace the madness . Hard to explain to non British people as references & accents can get in the way of nuance & context . America has had some great surrealists & wacky comedians , Andy Kaufman being one of the most famous .
-Vic Reeves (real name Jim (James) Moir and Bob Mortimer host and are a double act.
-George Dawes is played by comedian Matt Lucas - usually does the music sections but he left at some point and 'Angelos' switched from panellist to support act replacing him.
-Angelos Epithemiou is a character played by Renton Skinner - plays a dim burger van man who carries shopping bag around.
-Jack Dee is a comedian where grumpiness is part of his act
-Ulrika Johnson is a team captain and former TV presenter who has appeared since the beginning of Shooting Stars before the revival (minus the pilot).
-Before Jack Dee, Mark Lamarr was the other team captain (comedian, radio DJ and used to present 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks'), then was replaced by Will Self in for 2002.
-Original run was 1995-97 (there was a pilot in 1993 though), then a series in 2002 and the revival run was from 2008-11.
George Dawes is a character played by Matt Lucas (Little Britain)
Jack Dee is a famous stand up comedian known for his deadpan humour and delivery.
Others have pointed out, don't try to make any sense of Bob and Vic in pretty much anything they are in together, they are batshit insane.
This was one of my favourite shows, live Vic and Bob 😂😂
A pepperdoodle is not a thing. Vic just made it up at that moment.
90s Vic and Bob was my fave by a mile, there's a best bits of Shootings Stars series 1 on YT, on the BBCs channel.
The music they were playing to Jack Dee when marching was Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.
Jack Dee used to do cheeky stand up comedy but it wasn't really working and he went on stage one day (a bit p-ssed off) an said "it's great to be here" (but in his p-ssed off voice) and the audience laughed- so that became his stage character (according to an interview I read that he gave some years back). It's funny how these things become catalysts for characters that launch people into stardom (Tommy Cooper the very nervous and somewhat clumsy magician who made it his act. Similalry "Piff the magic dragon" a modern comedy magician who go this character from being the only one in fancy dress at a party he'd been told was fancy dress and a bit grumpy)!
This was an awesome panel show. You can add Never Mind the Buzzcocks to the list if it isn’t on there already.
Be cool to see you watch entire episodes instead of clips.
The Alice in Wonderland comment reminded me that Matt Lucas actually played Tweedledee and Tweedledum in the film adaptation.
Vic Reeves big night out is well worth a watch, and not forgetting Vic had a number 1 hit with the Tomy Roe song Dizzy ( it had the band the Wonderstuff with him) and also a number 3 hit with Vic and Bob Ft EMF doing a cover of the monkeys song I'm a believer.
You constantly wonder 'what's going on'. We don't know either, and haven't for about 30 years. These two have been amazingly funny since the early 90's.
Once you get into the realm of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer the world starts to take on a different hue....
George Dawes is Matt Lucas. When dressed as a chicken he does Queen's Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and then moves into Too Shy by Kajagoogoo.
King boomer, you mentioned it’s kind of Alice in wonderland moment with the talking/singing potato, Matt Lucas (George Dawes) made it quite big in Hollywood and actually played one of the main characters in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movie.. so good catch without even realising 👌
Thank you baked potato 🥔🤣 that's a classic it never gets old
And peanuts
in tears with that ending - 'been ages since I saw that. :-)
So pleased you enjoyed that...Shooting Stars is fucking brilliant 😂😂😂
This wasn't a live TV show but they filmed in front of an audience & it's funny to keep the bits in when they crack up
It’s Matt Lucas , the small one from Little Britain KB , George Dawes was his characters name on this show .
👍🏴
If this is perhaps the most surreal panel show on TV, Jack is also the current host of the most surreal panel show on the radio, "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", which is a British institution. He took over from the show's long-time host Humphrey Lyttleton (RIP). It's a bizarre mix of games without rules and a non-stop barrage of the most outrageous double-entendres that the BBC would allow. There are compilations of it on CZcams.
14:57 "This is like some Alice in Wonderland type stuff".
Funny you should say that. Matt Lucas actually went on to play Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland.
Every week George Dawes (who used to keep the scores) would sing a song during one of the rounds which related to a question. The Peanuts song was called ‘Peanuts’.
4.30 J S Bach - Air on a G string.
6.01 Bewitched theme.
8.19 The Flintstones theme.
9.35 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke.