Bob Mortimer
Bob Mortimer was born in Acklam, England, United Kingdom on May 23rd, 1959 and is the Comedian. At the age of 64, Bob Mortimer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robert Renwick Mortimer (born on May 23, 1959) is an English comedian, podcast host, and actor.
He is best known for his comedy double act with Vic Reeves.
Early life
Mortimer was born in Middlesbrough's Linthorpe district. When Mortimer was seven years old, his father, a biscuit salesman, died in a car accident. Mortimer mistakenly set fire to his family's house with a stray firework at the same time. Mortimer spent his time at King's Manor School in Acklam, Middlesbrough, near Acklam Hall. Ali Brownlee, who would go on to become a sports presenter on BBC Tees, was one of his classmates.
He had trials with Middlesbrough's local professional football team, and although he wasn't able to join the club as a professional due to arthritis, he still supports them. He left school with three A-levels and went on to study law at Sussex and Leicester universities. Mortimer, who was active in political politics and the punk movement, formed Dog Dirt, a rock band. Mortimer, who obtained an LLM in Welfare Law, then migrated to London and became a solicitor for Southwark Council. He then began working in Peckham, where his work with the Public Health Act regarding cockroach infestation of council buildings resulted in a local newspaper dubbing Mortimer "The Cockroach King." He was mugged in Peckham by a former client who apologized after recognizing him and carried on to represent the client, according to his autobiography.
Personal life
Mortimer is a sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, which causes him a great deal when he is ill, especially before starting a television series or embarking on a tour. He manages the disease with steroids on those occasions. It was announced in October 2015 that he was recovering from a triple bypass surgery that resulted in the postponement of the first leg of the Reeves and Mortimer 25 years tour.
Mortimer married Lisa Matthews, a 22-year-old man, in October 2015, 30 minutes before undergoing heart surgery (after obtaining permission from the registrar to postpone the date forward). Harry and Tom, the couple's two sons, are also married.
He has been a lifelong fan of Middlesbrough Football Club and the Free band. Mortimer revealed that the first 30 years of his life were marked by a crippling fear, which only began to diminish after his initial television fame. Despite not knowing how much this event had influenced him as a youth, he also talked about how his father's early death influenced his personality.
Mortimer released an autobiography in September 2021, And Away...
Career
In 1986, Mortimer went to the Goldsmith's Tavern in New Cross, London, to see a new show by the comedian Vic Reeves. Mortimer was impressed by the performance, particularly the character Tappy Lappy, which was Reeves attempting to tap dance while wearing a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet. Mortimer approached Reeves after the show, and the two began writing material for the next week's show together. They also became good friends and formed a band, the Potter's Wheel. Mortimer began to perform on the show, which was christened Vic Reeves Big Night Out, creating such characters as the Singing Lawyer, Graham Lister, Judge Nutmeg and the Man With the Stick.
The show became successful in South London and eventually outgrew Goldsmith's Tavern, moving in 1988 to the Albany Empire in Deptford. Mortimer soon became an integral part of the performance, providing him with a weekly break from his legal work, which had begun to disillusion him.
Reeves and Mortimer 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". Later that year, the duo made their first television pilot together, Vic Reeves Big Night Out. The television show remained true to the nightclub act's variety show format. Mortimer took a 10-week break from his legal job to film the series and never returned.
The two later created a one-off pilot for a sitcom called The Weekenders in 1992, followed by the sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer in 1993, and Shooting Stars, a comedy panel show that first aired in December 1993. After being commissioned, Shooting Stars ran for five series between 1995 and 2002, with a special anniversary edition broadcast in December 2008. A sixth series was broadcast in late 2009, followed by a seventh series in mid-2010, and an eighth in 2011.
In 1999, Reeves and Mortimer appeared in a second sketch show called Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer. A year later, Mortimer played the part of Jeff Randall in Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), opposite Reeves as Marty Hopkirk and Emilia Fox as Jeannie Hurst.
In 2003, Mortimer and Reeves were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In a 2005 poll to find the Comedians' Comedian, the duo were voted the 9th greatest comedy act of all time by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
In 2004, Mortimer and Reeves wrote and starred in Catterick, a six-episode surreal comedy about an ex-soldier, Carl, who returns home from Cyprus to join his brother Chris, who has agreed to help find Carl's son. Cast included Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson.
On 17 November 2007, Mortimer appeared as Reeves' hairdresser, Carl, in the weekly radio sketch show on BBC Radio 2 entitled Vic Reeves' House Arrest.
On 27 February 2008, Reeves announced that he and Mortimer were working together on a new sitcom about superheroes who get their powers through a malfunctioning telegraph pole.
In November 2013, Reeves and Mortimer filmed episodes of a new BBC sitcom, House of Fools, also featuring Matt Berry (as Beef), Morgana Robinson (as Julie), and Dan Skinner (as Bosh).
In October 2015 the pair cancelled the first leg of their live tour, 25 Year of Reeves and Mortimer: The Poignant Moments, after Mortimer underwent an emergency triple heart bypass.
On 29 December 2017, Mortimer and Reeves starred in a relaunch and new singular episode of their comedy Big Night Out for the BBC. The show has been remade and subsequently renamed to Vic and Bob's Big Night Out. The episode remained true to the classic Big Night Out formula and was composed of various comedy songs, skits, characters and sketches. This was the first time the Big Night Out series had featured Mortimer's name in the title. A full series of Vic and Bob's Big Night Out began on BBC Four in November 2018.