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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