Comedy Connections - Shooting Stars

[@eclectica1]

Shooting Stars taught me that Sidney Poitier was the world's first black man.

[@robertbrown9181]

I learned that William Shatners real name was bill shits 😂

[@garryharriman7349]

You just wouldn't let it lie, would you!

[@Iffy]

I learnt that Jeremy Irons

[@jamescropley1607]

I learnt that Lynn Faulds Wood.

[@richwjolly]

@@jamescropley1607 I learnt that James may?

[@jodyswallow1008]

Jim and Bob, thank you for all the belly laughs. Shooting Stars was comedy gold.

[@alistairs3934]

You can absolutely see how this show inspired many comedy panel shows of the modern era, especially cats does countdown

[@ericacroft13]

they stole from them the comedy panel show idea and the layout.

[@alexmacleod3728]

It was an inspiration for Would I Lie To You

[@ziggypop8106]

The 'Club Singer' was a highlight every week.

[@Blackcats2228]

I loved Vic and Bob. They're just the best. Always had a crush on Bob too! I recommend their series Catterick. It's hilarious.

[@Wild-Camping-Geordie]

Thank you for all the laughs, Vic & Bob ......The best duo !

[@Kraken54321]

The smell of Reeves and Mortimer was brilliant.

[@ziggypop8106]

I loved Vic's jet black night club singer hair and retro clothes, pure class 😬

[@Oldie699]

Bob is the best just looking at his little face cracks me up. Jst read his autobiography it's brill

[@adriandenton6637]

Some people are just funny..and don't need anything else.

[@andreablamire5509]

Saw them in Manchester when I was a student, many many moons ago.

[@marksmith0209]

Thank you, Baked Potato - for everything

[@gavinbuck8130]

Jim's\Vic's last words at the end there were quite sweet. :)

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Bob, a man that does his own dentistry

[@daicockle1987]

Amazing especially for comedy duos they live next door to each other real friends

[@lilme7052]

The bit where the camera zoomed in on Michael Winners ice-cream hair made me double over and laugh so hard it was silent laughing with tears.

[@DrGoodnSexy75]

It’s always important to remember the stott brothers interviewing sting 😂

[@Wild-Camping-Geordie]

absolute classic comedy 🤣🤣🤣

[@willseabury6971]

Michael Winner..can you leave your fingerprints on a parsnip?

[@paulpope5157]

Randall and Hopkirk was superb, always wondered why it was cancelled after 2 series :(

[@charliekane135]

Shooting Stars was brilliant.

[@iMertin90]

im 32 but bob is a hero of mine.. what a progamme shooting stars was

[@bobburroughs6241]

Loved it, love them.

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

These guys formed my sense of humour along with many other great comedians.

[@Glenuig]

My favourite comedy show of all time. No show has made me laugh so hard in my life

[@getsbuckets]

I bought dizzy when I was a wee boy.always loved those guys. ❤️

[@edmervlewis660]

Thanks for uploading this been hoping it would pop back up for years!

[@carlt9265]

Best ever bring it back

[@104thMaverick]

Thanks mate! Some other prick only uploaded 3 out of 4 parts of this! You’re a legend, thanks

[@karlwebster5438]

hahah. yep. I also came via that momentarily furious route. Thank you Ben Jones. Happy new year.

[@MrNemoYo]

Great upload fella...Pub singer was MY fave!

[@ziggypop8106]

'Big Night Out' was just something else. Nothing like it before, others have tried a similar format since but can't.

[@eileendocherty6676]

Loved it. Comedy geniuses.

[@davegadge1]

Thanks for uploading!

[@justinchoir525]

...."PEANUTS"..... laughed all the way down to my core....

[@gorber1971]

I still have no idea why that was so fucking funny, but it makes me laugh every time. I find myself randomly shouting it around the house sometimes.

[@1man1bike1road]

you either love or hate them i watched their very first Vic Reeves bg night out on channel 4 and loved them immediately

[@lforster2]

This was fascinating thank you

[@steadytube]

shooting stars was brilliant.

[@Whatthaonabout]

Brilliant!cheers n 🍺 🍻

[@jestermoon]

Take A Moment Genius Thx for posting my friend Stay Safe Stay Free ❤😂🎉

[@gavinbuck8130]

"Written on the flange of the dove"

[@stevewynnearts]

So many good ones

[@ziggypop8106]

'Friends' 😆 I know which I was watching on Friday nights and it wasn't a US sitcom

[@imanishay]

I remember watchin this with my dad as a child 🤣🤣 classic

[@lilme7052]

I watched it about 15 and just rewatched it. So much went over my head then. Rewatch it!

[@orlandostead8703]

Simply Superb!!!

[@michaelgreen1515]

I will never understand why Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) failed.

[@EVERTONFC.]

Catterick is amazing

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Always hated Danny Baker. I've never seen anyone so involved with British comedy back in the day who just didn't get how comedy works. I think his problem was he saw comedy as a competition where he HAD to win and his attempts at one upping a genuinely talented comic were just cringe worthy which is evident at around 21:22 where he completely sucks the funny out of the room instead of playing along. How that man made a living I'll never know

[@whatwelearned]

That's very true. I found him okay on the radio, on his own. Very weak on here

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

He has his own niche. His Talk Radio stuff with Danny Kelly circa 1997-2000 is some of the best radio ever done imo.

[@gorber1971]

Yep. I hate that type of person. You might not agree, but I put Phil Jupitus and Bill Bailey in that same category. They spoilt QI when they were on for the same reason. They thought it was all about them.

[@whatwelearned]

@@gorber1971 I agree with this, particularly with Jupitus. Can't say it made me dislike him as he seems nice enough but some people just can't function when the environment isn't just about them.

[@merlin5476]

@@gorber1971 each to their own i guess, i think Life of brian & fawlty towers are awesome cult classics, i know some people that just dont get it. I think Phil jupiters is a very loud unfunny turd. I think phil bailey is funny & rsther surreal with his spur of the moment comments. Danny baker when he was on Radio London I think, was very amusing, had many music related anecdotes & was very interesting regarding his life long musical knowledge AND he has saved me nearly a thousand pounds in licence fee too. Danny bakers book " going to sea in a sieve" if you love music is 1 of the funniest things I've read. Like i say, each to there own i guess

[@christinekelly5916]

The best!

[@oddespenjenssen2236]

They just strike my funny bone. Completely bullseye.

[@ChrisPRaven]

I worked at the Albany Empire at the time thay did their Big Night out there.

[@superpaulgarden]

Big Night Out blew my teenage mind, 10 o'clock on a Friday night on channel 4 if memory serves.

[@lilme7052]

lol I recon it was 9, I was also a teen and that would have been too late for me. Actually it could have been cause Eurotrash was on after 😆

[@jamesdonaldmorris2318]

Never seen this in Australia. I have only just found out about this show.

[@estebancomulet]

Genius

[@ziggypop8106]

Slade 😆😆😆😆

[@stevenaitcheson6938]

Doing Vic Reeves' singing game in the shower 👌

[@pandemoniumanimations1019]

Thanks for this man Do you have the RAB C NESBITT episode of comedy connections?

[@Nealson454]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKLJdoSaf9qHf5Y in case you haven’t seen it yet

[@pandemoniumanimations1019]

@@Nealson454 thanks a lot man got on that as soon as u uploaded 😜

[@dogpaw775]

perfect, find something you enjoy doing then make it your job.

[@ziggypop8106]

I'd forgotten Emilia Fox was in 'Randall and Hopkirk'

[@davegadge1]

Being from Boro I like Mortimer the best!

[@gorber1971]

I remember being behind Bob Mortimer going through the tills at Food Giant in Hill Street Center once. All the time, I was wondering whether it was him or not, and then I manged to catch a glimpse of his card when he paid, and it said Robert Mortimer. I haven't seen many famous people in my life, so it sticks in my mind.

[@davegadge1]

@@gorber1971 well Andrew stuck in the Hills street center it will be hard, maybe try Martin road, Boro fish bar? Or the Europa? 😀 joking, good story! I am local, not taking this Pss, just messing all the best!

[@barukkazhad8998]

They wouldn't let it lie

[@sureshot8399]

Sadly Mark Lamarr is conspicuous by his absence here. A funny fella.

[@Bellocks1]

he's employed by the British Museum to represent *the 50s* - doubt he'll have time to be interviewed.

[@Grandmastergav86]

He quite Showbusiness as far as I'm aware, shame loved him on Shooting Stars and he made Buzzcocks.

[@ThatCoalSoul]

2:27 Interesting ...was everyone occasionally doing an impression of Ade Edmondson back then?!

[@davidstoves9619]

very funny guys

[@BBoyBiff]

Id love to know how to get to watch shooting stars again

[@ThatCoalSoul]

It might be on Britbox ...but I'm not 100% sure of that.

[@stevewynnearts]

And the entire club.

[@mumbles8078]

It is so mad, to see ulrika at 14:17 sandwiched between convicted peedo Freddy Talbott and also, Louise Wiener, from the Britpop band called Sleeper. You really could not, make it up. Well done, Vic and Bobbington, for this post-modern laff that you have created in me!!

[@forgottentelevisiondrama2750]

Tx: 3 April 2006

[@briangibson9032]

Geordie jeans

[@lilme7052]

Geordie jumpers

[@timberwolf27]

Eric Andre.... Release the files!

[@davegadge1]

RIP TPT

[@shanestewart4905]

And away...

[@stevewynnearts]

Ladies night is yes

[@jameswyer772]

I could watch this all day and not even smile

[@gavinbuck8130]

aaawww that's a shame, hope you feel better soon.

[@tamhau-yu3466]

Fascinating look in! But why is no-one talking about Will Self's admittance that participation in the show severely worsened his mental health? From 29:30

[@MossySphynxx]

Sarcasm!

[@johnmartinez7440]

Yeah, think he was definitely taking the piss there. But the joke about self-harm and bulimia was in pretty poor taste.

[@lilme7052]

@@johnmartinez7440 It really was!

[@ziggypop8106]

Why have I never seen 'Rock Profiles'?

[@pierreroberts9169]

What have you done with all the children.

[@jonnysupreme]

Thought that was Norm McDonald with Bob on the thumbnail then

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

Norm could be funny, but not Vic and Bob funny.

[@Ipdex]

I genuinely always thought Vic Reeves was his real name!!

[@davegadge1]

Tolbot still in prison?

[@pauloneill9880]

Peanuts

[@theoriginalbluey]

Frank Boff and his one thumbs down!

[@EmperorSmith]

IRANU

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

CC 33

[@shaunohagan1491]

What does " Student fan base " mean? under 25's?

[@alecskinner8807]

I think it means fans who are also students. Hence the university tour I guess.

[@adriandenton6637]

Does everyone under 25 go to university.?.Big Night Out started out pretty niche and the 'people that attended university' took to it. Hence the university tour. It was pretty surreal and kinda cerebral. Perfect stoner stuff as well.

[@alecskinner8807]

@@adriandenton6637 Yes. Stoners and indeed others also liked their stuff. The fact that they appealed to students and in that sense had a student fan base, off the back of which I also guess a university tour was organised, was not an exclusive appeal.

[@adriandenton6637]

@@alecskinner8807 think it was on pretty late at night on C4 as well.

[@keithcharman4133]

What we great was who cares who wins the caravan or the speedboat. It’s just about fun.

[@toi_techno]

southern English people are no craic but the northerners and midlanders are almost at Irish levels

[@branthomas1621]

southerners think Flanagan and MacIntyre are funny.

[@johnmartinez7440]

Good examples of unfunny Northern people here ⬆️

[@kali3665]

Sounds like You Bet Your Life with actual insanity. Who CARES who wins the game - you're here for Vic and Bob, just like you watched You Bet Your Life for Groucho.

[@Oldie699]

See I call celebrity juice the poor man's shooting stars.

[@mrmoran0077]

Celebrity juice isn't even the poor mans version of noels house party 😂

[@lewangillard9701]

Nah celebrity juice is amazing

[@adriandenton6637]

Keith Lemon is smutty, trashy, sticky and unfunny..which also describes ITV funnily enough.

[@eclectica1]

@@mrmoran0077 No mention of crinkly bottoms here, thank you.

[@lilme7052]

Yes!!

[@timwright4263]

I thought she drank a pint. DISAPPOINTED!

[@michaelgreen1515]

I loved their comedy show but hated the "game show" format.

[@nelftm]

Fred Talbot on Shooting Stars.......... Awkward.

[@boogiewoogie9770]

Typical BBC bias making a programme about a BBC show and then showing that show on the BBC! Thankfully I don't watch the BBC and I didn't watch this.

[@carldean2260]

Hopefully, one day, Bob will be left the entire Sky TV empire by Rupret Mydick. Then he'll commission a Vic and Bob channel. Then we shall all die with a smile on our faces.

[@adriandenton6637]

hahaha..wtf..but you commented.

[@boogiewoogie9770]

@@adriandenton6637 I think my account has been hacked by John Lydon

[@eclectica1]

Um, what?

[@stickytapenrust6869]

They did do Comedy Connections on New Statesman, which was Yorkshire TV and Spitting Image, which was Central TV.

[@deanbracken5857]

Never really got it. Few funny bits but generally was crap.

[@gorber1971]

There's not a lot to 'get'. That's probably your problem, trying to make sense of the non-nonsensical. It works at a really fundamental level, like slapstick, which it comprises a lot of.

[@runningbravado]

Uvavu

[@cerneuffington2656]

Not in the slightest bit funny 💩

[@ziggypop8106]

You either get it or you don't. Thankfully millions got it

[@davidemberton6100]

Also all midgets have night vision 🤣