This was also played upon when Wilson made a guest appearance on the comedy TV quiz show Shooting Stars, in which Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer purposefully misquoted his catchphrase by referring to him as " Richard ' I don't believe you ' Wilson ".

He cites his modern influences as Harry Enfield ( who he says without meeting he would not have been doing what he does now ), and the approach of Reeves and Mortimer who he thinks are " far and away the best comedians that we have had in this country for a long while.

Hill has also appeared on many British television programmes, including Top Gear, This is Your Life, TFI Friday, Shooting Stars and Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer.

* The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Episode 5 ( 1995 )

Comedians Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse and Mark Williams affectionately parodied the band in a number of what the band called ' hysterically accurate ' " Slade in Residence " and " Slade on Holiday " sketches, in their The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer television programme in the early 1990s.

The programme would start with a 45 minute magazine section consisting of interviews, fashion items and comedy appearances by a wide range of alternative artistes such as Mark Miwurdz, Frank Sidebottom, Vic Reeves ( before his association with Bob Mortimer ), Foffo Spearjig and even French & Saunders.

* Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer lived in the area in the early days of their double act, and performed at the Tramshed in Woolwich.

Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer ; it uses the panel show format but with the comedians ' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.

The hosts ( Reeves and Mortimer ) and the two teams of three sit behind desks.

There he influenced the early careers of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Simon Day, Chris Lynam, Martin Soan, Harry Enfield and many others to whom he gave their first gigs.

A sketch in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer featured Vic Reeves as Melvyn Bragg ( with felt-tip marks on his face ) presenting a feature on fictional folk singers Mulligan and O ' Hare.

She has also had minor roles in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Absolutely Fabulous, and she has also played straight acting roles in television drama, including You Can Choose Your Friends, The Rotters ' Club, Kavanagh Q. C., Lewis, and Jonathan Creek.

Between 1995 and 1997 he appeared as a team captain in the surreal panel show Shooting Stars, where he displayed a mixture of dour boredom and contempt towards hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer who, in turn, mocked his " 50s throw-back " appearance.

She made brief appearances in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer ( 1993 ), alongside Steve Coogan and John Thomson in a Granada TV pilot entitled The Dead Good Show, then appeared in and wrote for the BBC comedy series The Fast Show between 1994 and 1997, and rose to prominence as the character Mrs Merton on the mock talk show, The Mrs Merton Show, in 1994.

Vic Reeves ( born 24 January 1959, real name Jim Moir ) and Bob Mortimer ( born 23 May 1959 ), more commonly known simply as Vic and Bob or Reeves and Mortimer, are a British comedy double act.

Often Mortimer will be the exasperated foil to Reeves ' eccentric buffoon, or Reeves will play blankly bemused or annoyed to a manic or hyperactive Mortimer.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

Bullock later appeared in The Lake House, a romantic drama also starring her Speed co-star, Keanu Reeves ; it was released on June 16, 2006.

Swoosie Kurtz and Mildred Natwick ( in her final film ) appeared in supporting roles, as did young relatively unknown actors Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman, both of whom would go on to achieve fame in the 1990s, with starring roles in Speed ( 1994 ) and Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ) respectively.

In 2008, Laurie appeared as Captain James Biggs in Street Kings, opposite Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and then in 2009 as the eccentric Dr. Cockroach, PhD in DreamWorks ' Monsters vs. Aliens.

Common also appeared in the movie Street Kings alongside Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, The Game, and Forest Whitaker.

Steve Reeves appeared in 14 peplums made in Italy from 1957 to 1964, and most of his films are highly regarded examples of the sword and sandal genre.

During the second season, Reeves appeared in a short film for the Treasury Department, Stamp Day for Superman, in which he caught the villains and told children why they should invest in government savings stamps.

Reeves recently appeared on Vh-1's " Diva's celebrate Soul ," singing her 1965 hit " Nowhere To Run " backed by singers Marsha Ambrosius and Sharon Jones of the Dap Kings ; on " Jimmy Kimmel Live!

That recording was never released by RCA but appeared during 2003 as part of a collection of Reeves songs, after RCA had sold its rights to Reeves ' recordings.

Reeves ' fans repeatedly urged RCA or Bear Family to re-release some of the songs overdubbed during the years after his death which have never appeared on CD.

She appeared as a supporting character in the films The Beach ( 2000 ), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ) with Tom Cruise and, as the archangel Gabriel in Constantine ( 2005 ) with Keanu Reeves.

Reeves also appeared in the program.

* In August 2003, Reeves and Mortimer appeared in the film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, as Plonko the Clown and Kung-Fu Clown respectively.

* Reeves and Mortimer first appeared on Jools Holland's single " Holy Cow " in 1990, singing backing vocals.

Before finding fame, Reeves appeared in the Shakin ' Stevens video promo for " What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For ".

In late 2007, Reeves appeared in a weekly radio-based sketch show on BBC Radio 2, entitled Vic Reeves ' House Arrest.

In November 2007, Mortimer appeared as Reeves ' hairdresser, Carl, in the weekly radio-based sketch show on BBC Radio 2, entitled Vic Reeves ' House Arrest.

Reeves ' weekly column, carried by Universal Press Syndicate, has appeared in more than 160 newspapers across the United States since 1979.

Pulse-code modulation was invented by British scientist Alec Reeves in 1937 and was used in telecommunications applications long before its first use in commercial broadcast and recording.

* W. Reeves, The Culdees of the British Islands ( Dublin, 1864 )

In 2002, Hagman made an appearance in the fourth series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's British comedy panel game, Shooting Stars.

Reeves, however, performed for British radio and TV programs.

During 1966, Reeves ' record " Distant Drums " scored No. 1 on the British singles chart and scored there for five weeks, besting competition from The Beatles ' " Yellow Submarine " and " Eleanor Rigby " ( a double-sided " A " release ), and the Small Faces ' song, " All Or Nothing ".

Sir Paul Reeves, the former Governor General of New Zealand who advised Fiji's constitutional convention of the 1990s, was very familiar with the British constitutional reforms, and it is therefore not surprising that Fiji enacted reforms so similar to those of the United Kingdom.

In an interview on British TV show Something for the Weekend Reeves stated there were benefits to doing a radio show, as even more bizarre and outlandish images could be conjured, which could not be replicated using props on a television programme-such as balancing the whole of Ireland on a record stylus to stop it from skipping.

* Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office-Ben Thompson, Fourth Estate / HarperCollins, 2004

In 2003, Mortimer and Reeves were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

Reeves challenges the composition of the jury, which is made up of representatives who are prejudiced against the British.

Reeves and Farlan both cite examples from British and world history to support their positions.

In 1920 she embarked on an affair with Alexander Stuart Frere Reeves ( 1892 – 1984 ), a British publisher nearly 30 years her junior ; he later married and named his only daughter Elizabeth in her honour.

* Alec Reeves ( 1902 – 1971 ), British scientist

The series was remade in 2000 as Randall & Hopkirk ( Deceased ), starring British comedy duo Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

* In 1937, British scientist Alec Reeves files the first patent describing Pulse-code modulation.

However, other British acts such as The Two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, Reeves and Mortimer, French and Saunders, Mitchell and Webb, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, Fry and Laurie, Lee and Herring, Armstrong and Miller, Peacock and Gamble, the role of " comic " and " straight man " are less obvious, largely interchangeable or dispensed with altogether.

John Morris Reeves ( 1 July 1909 – 1 May 1978 ) was a British writer known as James Reeves principally known for his poetry and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs.

Although it is true to say that a number of his votes came from British based athletes, ( notably former World's Strongest Man Jamie Reeves being among that number ) he also was named as best strongman of all time by Magnus Ver Magnusson, Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Ted Van Der Parre.

* Reeves & Mortimer, a British comedy act

Thomas Reeves VC ( 1828 – 4 August 1862 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.