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Shooting Stars was a UK television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two. Created by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it is both a parody of the game show format, and an experiment in dadaist television. The first series was broadcast in 1995, and the most recent in 2002 (the second series to be shown that year). From Monday 7 January 2008, SHOOTING STARS'' is showing on the UK digital channel Challenge. The shows run for half an hour on Challenge, and because the channel broadcasts adverts (which the original BBC channel did not), the repeated episodes are cut down to approximately 20 minutes with adverts.
On Saturday 23 February 2008 Russell Brand on his BBC Radio 2 show claimed he was asked to appear in a new Christmas Special and that Matt Lucas would return as George Dawes; this has yet to be confirmed.
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Vic and Bob
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.
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.
