It’s about time they were back, and although The Independent doesn’t think much of Vic and Bob’s brand of comedy, from the details of their politics-free show (I’d rather they were politics free than ski-holidaying their way through man-made global warming propaganda without being in control of the facts) it would seem that they are definitely Back On Form:

Tonight, the main raiding of the character cupboard was a reprisal for the odd folk duo Mulligan and O’Hare from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

The croonsome twosome had taken over editorial duties at Heat magazine, and their particular spin on celebrity obsession was to spot celebrities shopping at hardware or furniture stores, and so seeing “Jennifer Aniston outside Carpet (Tick) Right” was high on their news agenda. The speculation on whom she might be buying the carpet for was their ludicrous take on celebrity obsession and it was as close to social comment as it gets from a pair rightly accused of heralding the de-politicisation of comedy in the Nineties and signalling catchphrase culture for scores of apolitical students to hide behind.

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Digital Spy have reported on a new sitcom to be penned by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, set to feature superheroes who acquire their powers from a telegraph pole.

“It’s about superheroes who get skills through a telegraph pole that malfunctions. Then they go around helping people in their local community.”

There’s also talk of a new series of Shooting Stars, depending on the BBC.

Frankly, it’s a disgrace.

Reeve & Mortimer should be starring in their own series of sketches, fun and frivolity with the best comedy writers the BBC can lay their hands on providing the path into Vic and Bob’s world.

Scrabbling around begging the BBC to let them make a sitcom which the BBC will then demand x amount of Shooting Stars episodes for is unbecoming of performers of Vic and Bob’s standing and influence in British Comedy.

They deserve the best contracts, the best teams behind them and the best material - as well as the best slots on BBC One on a Saturday night.

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