Shooting Stars...the Reeves and Mortimer show...

...not the astronomy thingy.

Was it good or not?

I hated it back in the 90s. And usually if I hate something that's that. But on watching repeats it's one show that I think I may have misjudged and written off too quickly. It could be very surreal, very postmodern and...knowing.

So what do you think? Were you a fan? Any particularly great moments?

The Dove from Above.

Eugene Norman

Takes a while but once you get the humour it clicks.

Cold War Kid

Hated it too, but would be willing to give it another go.

Cold War Kid

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Hated it too, but would be willing to give it another go.

Do.

On reading your posts here I sometimes think we may not be a million miles apart on issues, or even if I disagree you articulate your position well and, most importantly, civilly.

So will Shooting Stars see another meeting of minds, or will this be the one that drives a wedge between us. I converted, can you?

mad m

UUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLRRRRRRRIIIIKKKKKAAAAAAKAAAAAKAAAAA


Georgie Doors!!!!

Subcomandante Marcos

George Dawes, What are the scores?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RNW90Q2YJk

I'm trying to find another great one, where instead of a tumbleweed, there's bells and a load of people dressed as soldiers walking across.

fleet_admiral

OOOVAVOO

OOORAAANNUUUU

This was a good moment. The baked potato song. At the time, I would have dismissed it as stupid, but of course it was knowingly stupid, and it's the irony of knowing the utter stupidity of it that made it...

http://youtu.be/bPsY_nhTtxg

retalivity

Are you stalking me???
Ive been watching it all evening, after finding it on youtube earlier, havent seen it in years

LETHAL LADY

He's a baby, he's a baby.

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Are you stalking me???
Ive been watching it all evening, after finding it on youtube earlier, havent seen it in years

Just watching a repeat on Gold. Though from the later years.

K.Flyer

Pure Genius comedy, nothing better out there.

fleet_admiral

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

He's a baby, he's a baby.

He's a 1950's greaseball

GerB40

No love for Angelos??

Posy

Oh I used to love Shooting Stars!!

"With the scores on the doors, it's George Dawes!"

Were the late 1990s/early 2000s a golden era of comedy in the UK? The Fast Show, the League of Gentlemen, Harry Enfield, Fr. Ted (well, it was shown on British television), The Office and so on...

Posy

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm trying to find another great one, where instead of a tumbleweed, there's bells and a load of people dressed as soldiers walking across.

There's a good one here, at exactly 17.00 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-UMENwcHgM

And here is when Bob tells a Dove Joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxXBGC7dzNs

Welsh Megaman

As Conor74 said, episodes of 'Shooting Stars' are shown on GOLD (Sky Channel 110 in the UK) Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays just after midnight

''Presenting Miss Sweden 1952, it's Ulrikakakaka!''

Welsh Megaman

http://youtu.be/xinLivR8Sp0

I love this Carry On spoof,Bobs Sid James has to be seen to be believed!

http://youtu.be/kZQ1PxNzhlI

briany

The pinnacle of Shooting Stars is the Johnny Vegas era when they had him on every week as a perennial panellist. Shooting Stars is a very funny show, but could get a bit predictable with the same gags every week ("He's a crafty cockney binman!" "Jack - with your face like a...." Vic's leg rubbing, and pops at Ulrika), but Johnny would come out with mad stuff every week, hilarious stream-of-consciousness rants which I believe had to be edited down to fit the time. It's unusual that Vic & Bob get flustered but you could see they were left a bit wanting when Johnny got going. In fairness, they also saw his value to the show and did skits with him like getting him to smash a coconut with his bare hands, or spinning on a merry-go-round without spilling his pint of Guinness. Definitely the most interesting and anarchic period of the show.

Skid X

By it's nature it was a bit hit and miss, but when you were in the mood for it Shooting Stars was great entertainment.

I'd love to have been in the audience for a recording, it must have been epic.

And it looks like every episode is on Youtube!

briany

zorro2566 wrote: »

I love this Carry On spoof,Bobs Sid James has to be seen to be believed!

http://youtu.be/kZQ1PxNzhlI

I always thought the inclusion of Will Self as a team captain was pretty weird. How Vic & Bob hooked up with him I don't know. He seems like a person who would take him himself quite seriously and just has a very dry presence, but then he seems quite game in things like the Carry On spoof.

Supposedly he had all his best gags cut from the broadcasts which he resented, and was only doing the show as a 'paternity leave' so that he could focus on raising his kids for a year or two instead of working all hours of the day on his writing. On the other hand, he praised Vic & Bob for bringing his comic potential out of him on the Shooting Stars retrospective, but then again if he'd said they were a pair of c**ts, that probably would have been cut from broadcast as well. :pac:

Brief_Lives

briany wrote: »

The pinnacle of Shooting Stars is the Johnny Vegas era when they had him on every week as a perennial panellist. Shooting Stars is a very funny show, but could get a bit predictable with the same gags every week ("He's a crafty cockney binman!" "Jack - with your face like a...." Vic's leg rubbing, and pops at Ulrika), but Johnny would come out with mad stuff every week, hilarious stream-of-consciousness rants which I believe had to be edited down to fit the time. It's unusual that Vic & Bob get flustered but you could see they were left a bit wanting when Johnny got going. In fairness, they also saw his value to the show and did skits with him like getting him to smash a coconut with his bare hands, or spinning on a merry-go-round without spilling his pint of Guinness. Definitely the most interesting and anarchic period of the show.

I agree with a lot of this. I was a massive shooting stars fan.. I looked forward to every week, and would be in tears of laughter..

Johnny Vegas appearing was the real show stopper for me, and you have to have that sense of humour to put up with Vic and Bob in the first place that Vegas would appeal to anyway.

You won´t see its like on tv again. I haven´t seen anything since at that time of night either.