Shooting Stars Video Showcase

Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two from 27 December 1993 to 22 December 1997 and then on BBC Choice from 13 January 2002 to 22 December 2002. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format as a vehicle for their uniquely surreal, silly and inventive style of humour. Following a pilot edition screened at Christmas 1993 as part of an evening of programmes presented by Reeves and Mortimer, a full series was broadcast starting on 22 September 1995. A 15th Anniversary Special, along with a mockumentary, was broadcast on 30 December 2008 on BBC Two. A new series began on 26 August 2009..

On December 10 2009, Reeves & Mortimer were guests on the Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4 to promote the new Shooting Stars series 6 DVD and Reeves' new book. During the interview Vic & Bob eluded to a new series when O'Grady asked why he'd never been asked to be on the show, both Reeves and Mortimer replied by saying he could be on the next series. No official confirmation of another series has been made, however.

Vic Reeves (born 24 January 1959, real name Jim Moir) and Bob Mortimer (born 23 May 1959), more commonly known simply as Vic and Bob or Reeves & Mortimer, are a British comedy double act. They have written and starred in several comedy programmes on British television since 1990, with Vic having made his first TV appearance in 1986.

Reeves & Mortimer's unique comedy combines surreal, often inexplicable, visually and verbally inventive material which often verges on the downright bizarre with traditional comedy double act staples such as violent, cartoonish slapstick (such as the duo engaging in escalating fights with large frying pans, baseball bats, hammers etc...), witty, often very silly banter (usually at their trademark, prop-strewn desk) and purposefully corny, rapid-fire jokes.

It is all infused with an anarchic energy and a deliberate, knowingly exaggerated "edge" to the performance. Their act is more versatile than many double acts who rely on the straight man/funny man dynamic. Often Mortimer will be the exasperated foil to Reeves' eccentric buffoon, or Reeves will play blankly bemused or annoyed to a manic or hyperactive Mortimer.

They forged a status for themselves as "the alternatives to alternative comedy" in the late 1980s and early 90s, and to this day inhabit a comedic universe all of their own, while still managing to exert an influence on British comedy.

In a 2005 poll The Comedians Comedian'', the duo were voted the 9th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.