They first met when solicitor Bob Mortimer went to see comedian Vic Reeves performing in London; today they are one of the leading comic acts of their generation. Friends and fellow comedians talk about the pair and their humour.
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Omnibus 10.25pm BBC1
"They wanted to do a South Bank Show on us and we were a bit shy of that, because it's a bit self-congratulatory," says Vic Reeves. So Reeves and Mortimer have become the subjects of this Omnibus documentary, covering their earliest days together to the present.
Since Vic Reeves Big Night Out hit TV in 1990, the pair's immensely strange humour, peopled by characters wearing doormats and underpinned by catchphrases (from "You wouldn't let it lie" to the later "Ulrika-ka-ka"), has been at the cutting edge of British comedy in the nineties. And this profile - including interviews with the surreally diverse likes of Terry Jones, Jim Davidson and Ulrika Jonsson - is well deserved.