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 ".

Feeling Minnesota is a 1996 American romantic comedy film, directed by Steven Baigelman, starring Keanu Reeves, Vincent D ' Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Tuesday Weld and Courtney Love.

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.

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

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.

Reeves and Mortimer's unique comedy combines surreal, often inexplicable, visually and verbally inventive material which often verges on the downright bizarre with traditional comedy double act staples such as violent, cartoonish slapstick ( such as the duo engaging in escalating fights with large frying pans, baseball bats, hammers etc ...), witty, often improvised silly banter ( usually at a trademark, prop-strewn desk ) and purposefully corny, rapid-fire jokes.

In 1993, the pair also recorded Reeves and Mortimer's Driving School, a one-off comedy show featuring, amongst others, Pat Wright and Dave Arrowsmith, the Bra Men characters from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

The Reeves and Mortimer advert replaced these real programmes with their own inventions, including crime-drama " Detective in a Wheelbarrow ", a comedy called " Three Blokes in a Bath ", coverage of " Olympic Anvil Throwing " and coverage of " International Pan Fighting ".

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, Reeves and Mortimer were voted the 9th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

Reeves continued to work alongside Bob Mortimer as a comedy duo in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars, and Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, some of which also featured future cast members of The Fast Show and Little Britain.

In May 2006 he presented a programme on ITV Tyne Tees about Northeast comedy culture, It's Funny Up North with ... Vic Reeves.

Mortimer and Reeves made their television debut on the short-lived 1989 comedy / chat show One Hour with Jonathan Ross, in the game show segment known as knock down ginger.

This was followed by the sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer ( 1993 ) and Shooting Stars, a comedy panel show.

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

* In 2005, he hosted his first major TV series without Vic Reeves, a comedy panel game for BBC One, called 29 Minutes of Fame, which featured regular guests such as Jo Brand.

However, Reeves and his partner failed to find financing and the film was never made.

On July 31, 1964, Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel ( also the pianist of Reeves ' backing group, the Blue Boys ) left Batesville, Arkansas, en route to Nashville in a single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls.

His partner is Ellie Reeves, a Labour NEC member and a trade union lawyer, who is the sister of Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Both Reeves and business partner Dean Manuel are killed in the crash ; their bodies are found two days later following a massive search for the two missing men.

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.

He has also had a role in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's Catterick as a helpful man with a chronically cold wife.

* 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.

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.

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.

* The final advert in the Renault Clio's Papa & Nicole series featured Nicole ( played by Estelle Skornik ) jilting her groom ( Reeves ) at the altar for Bob ( Mortimer ) and the pair eloping in a Clio, spoofing a scene from the 1967 film The Graduate.

In 2001, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark formed their own production company, Pett Productions, which has produced several television programs that have featured one or both comedians.

James Roderick Moir ( born 24 January 1959 ), better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer ( see Vic and Bob ).

Robert Renwick " Bob " Mortimer ( born 23 May 1959 in Middlesbrough ) is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves ( see Vic and Bob ).

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 )

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

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.

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.

Wenders ' book, Emotion Pictures, a collection of diary essays written while a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on BBC Radio 3, featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with Gina McKee, Saskia Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Ricky Tomlinson, dramatised by Neil Cargill.

Keanu Reeves plays the title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information.

Staines Rugby Football Club plays at The Reeves ground in Snakey Lane.

George Reeves plays Clark Kent / Superman with Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen, John Hamilton as Perry White, and Robert Shayne as Inspector Henderson.

Reeves also plays in the rock group " Port Chuck " along with General Hospital co-stars Steve Burton, Bradford Anderson, and Brandon Barash.

* Jim Reeves is welcomed to Ireland by show band singers Maisie McDaniel and Dermot O ' Brien, at the start of his tour of Ireland ; for a week he plays at US military bases in England.

A disillusioned and borderline psychotic LAPD Vice detective, Detective Tom Ludlow ( Keanu Reeves ), rarely plays by the rules and is haunted by the death of his wife.

Reeves plays Winston Connelly, the so-called high school nerd and vice president of the Astronomy club.

In 1995 and 1996, under Dan Reeves the Giants had losing seasons and relied heavily on Rodney Hampton who received the bulk of the carries on rushing plays.