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"Jack Dee ... it seemed like he was playing a grumpy character." You just described that man's entire career.

As a game show Shooting Stars posed some classic questions to panellists, like "Is it okay to punch your gran if she's racist?"!!!

A show that is meant to be a panel quiz type show but is actually just a peak into the minds of vic and bob which is why it’s so random but so so good.

The bit at 13:09 was a song which George Dawes (played by Matt Lucas from Little Britain) used to sing each week. However, this week the song "Peanuts" was so ridiculous even he couldn't get through it with Vic and Bob laughing their heads off in the background, Matt just couldn't keep it together and laughed most of the way through the song. As for Jack Dee, he was known to pretty much never smile on the show and always try to keep a straight face but each week Vic n Bob would do everything to try and make him laugh. The thing with Reeves and Mortimer is they come out with the most random stuff and most the time its so ridiculous its funny.

Omg. Its me! Its me! I can't believe this... When you said you'd do a reaction to this for me, I was SO excited. I had notifications on stand by and was checking often.. Well, unfortunately I became ill and have spent the last 5 days in hospital so I've not been able to see it yet! Fucking typical!!🙄 So, I'm sorry for such a late reply and absolutely buzzing you have done this! And yeah, I did see the quality was extremely poor on the full episodes, which is such a shame! But doing the best bits is probably a better idea anyway! Thanks so soooo much!! You're a legend and I hope you can see my comment after its been buried! So pleased you enjoyed it!! 🤣

One of the better episodes featured Larry Hagman. You have never seen anyone look more utterly lost on a TV show. Part way through, after winning a "fartridge", they asked him, "Larry, are you considering sacking your booking agent?"

If your going to watch a full ep. The one with Larry Hagman (JR in Dallas) is just amazing. He had no idea what the hell was going on.

I’ve met Vic Reeves (Jim Moir) and he’s absolutely fantastic. He’s an incredibly talented artist too. He’s very modest and ‘normal’ irl. 😊 Edit: Jack Dee is brilliant. Saw him live a while back and his miserable persona is beautifully crafted.

So Shooting Stars started out as a one-off christmas special and proved so successful that it was given a series. It was a way for Vic and Bob to make their comedy more accessible by shoe-horning it into something approaching a format, and by having celebrity guests which made people tune in for them, rather than specifically for Vic and Bob. The show ran for many years and was re-commissioned twice after being off air for a a few years in between times, but with re-runs of old series performing incredibly well in the ratings. The team to Vic's right (viewers left) would always feature someone who was considered grumpy or acerbic as the captain (Mark Lamarr in early series, followd by author Will Self then finally Jack Dee. Seated immediately to Vic's right would always be a good-looking female guest he could be pathetically lascivious towards, with Bob often deriding him for his attempts at wooing these guests, while at the same time himself behaving like a love-struck schoolboy when it came to the other team captain Ulrika Johnsson (who began her career as a weather girl on breakfast TV) The team to Bob's left (viewers right) always had Ulrika Johnson as team captain and from the "Will Self-era" onwards featured a regular panelist on her team, a particular highlight was when Johnny Vegas was Ulrika's regular panelist as his brand of comedy just added to the absolute chaos of the show. George Dawes kept the scores for most series in what would be Matt Lucas' (Little Britain) TV Debut (excluding the time he was in the audience on a kids TV show as a child himself) The things George Dawes said and did before delivering the scores were unscripted and Vic and Bob often didn't know what he was going to come out with until it happened. George Dawes also performed some songs on the show with classics including "Lesbians" and "Peanuts" In the final few series Angelos Epithemou (Dan Skinner) took over the scoring after appearing as a regular on Ulrika's team following the departure of Johnny Vegas and brought a level of surreal cringe comedy to proceedings which again worked well with Vic and Bob's style of comedy. And that's a very quick roundup of Shooting Stars from a massive Reeves and Mortimer nerd.

There's a "Jack, with your face..." compilation on here which is definitely worth your time. Trying to see Vic break Jack is a pure joy.

The important things to remember about Shooting stars are: - Vic, Bob, Matt (George Dawes), and Dan Renton (Angelos) are all in character - Don't try and make sense of it, go with the flow. - The best parts are often when Vic and Bob amuse themselves Shooting Stars started in the mid 1990s and came back after a long hiatus. Look up the Larry Hagman episode :)

I couldn't get enough of this when it was aired on TV .... Comedy gold !

As a young student I saw Vic n Bob 32 years ago touring 'The Big Night Out' in Birmingham U.K... Most bizarre and hilarious night I had experienced at that point. Loved them ever since.

The dove from above is one of the best things this show produced 🤣🤣 Bob and Vic are literally insane

That whack job is George Daws who keeps the scores. "What are the scores, George Daws" and he may be familiar to you as you reacted to him only a few days ago on Little Britain. He played a few parts in the Carol Beers piece, the pregnant woman's husband and Carol's colleague in a dress. He also played the wife in Happy Couple. He's the rather brilliant Matt Lucas

16:16 A version of the Baked Potato Song got to No. 1 in the iTunes chart in 2020. Over 20 years after this was aired.

I've always loved Vic and Bob's absurd humour 😂

Loved this show, for a generation this was part of their Friday night routine as it would be on as you were getting ready to go out clubbing, it would certainly get you in the mood for going out and having a good time, when Larry Hagman appeared on the show he said, "I've done some loony shows in my time, but this is certainly the one!"

I have never seen this compilation before and I can't get past the first 30 seconds because I have never laughed so hard at the term 'he has a face like a hard boiled bollock' that is the best description I have ever heard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Shooting stars Christine Bleakley tattoo is definitely worth a watch..