Vic Reeves Big Night Out is a British comedy show and then a TV series running on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as New Year's specials. This marks the beginning of a collaboration between Vic Reeves (real name Jim Moir) and Bob Mortimer and begins a double action of Vic and Bob their comedy.
The event was later recognized as a seminal power in English comedy throughout the 1990s and that continues to this day.
Arguably the most noticeable of the couple's work, Vic Reeves Big Night Out was effectively a parody of the various events that dominated the early years of television, but which, in the early 1990s, fell out of grace. Vic, who was introduced by Patrick Allen as "The Entertainer and Singer of the Top Light of Britain", will sit behind a cluttered desk talking nonsense and introducing various segments and surreal guests on the show. Vic Reeves Big Night Out is famous as the only time in their career in which Vic only acts as host, while Bob is exiled to the back stage, appearing every few minutes either as himself or as a stranger. character. Both receive the same billing in series credit.
On October 3, 2007, the first episode was re-broadcast in More4 as part of Channel 4 on 25 , the season of the classic Channel 4 program shown to celebrate the channel's 25th anniversary.
On October 25th, 2009, the looping of Big Night Out started running on the Gold channel.
Both events series and New Year Specials are currently available for viewing on streaming service Channel 4, All 4.
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Histori
In the mid-1980s, a friend of Jim Moir gave him the job of running a comedy club in London. She did not know how to order her acting, she decided to perform herself, changed her name every night, but eventually survived with Vic Reeves and called on Vic Reeves' Variety Palladium show. In 1986, he moved the show to the Goldsmiths Tavern (now the New Crusade), New Cross and named him Vic Big 'Out' Big Night Out.
The first show was attended by several friends who were invited by Moir to see his performance, one of whom brought Bob Mortimer's lawyer with him. Mortimer soon became friendly with Moir, and was invited on stage to talk about his day at work. He soon became a regular fixture in the show and began writing material with Moir. Word of mouth, the audience quickly grew into a large number of enthusiasts, including Jools Holland, Jonathan Ross, Charlie Higson, and Paul Whitehouse. After the expansion of the crowd caused a change of venue to the Albany Imperial Theater in 1988, backstage man Fred Aylward joined as a regular character of Les. Higson and Whitehouse also have small parts.
The event sparked Alan Yentob's interest from the BBC, and Michael Grade Channel 4, and finally the deal was struck with Channel 4 to put live performances on television. With the help of production company Jonathan Ross, Channel X, a pilot was produced in 1989 (which had never been aired or released) where the show for three hours was reduced to 25 minutes. The first series began in 1990, and the show went on for two series and one special New Year's Eve, for a total of 15 episodes followed by a television broadcast of their stage show 'Big Night Out Tour'.
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Repeating character
The series spawned many popular surreal characters.
Les
Played by Fred Aylward, Les is Vic's caliber head coaching assistant, level-headed, mute. During each performance, Vic will reveal a new fact about Les - in particular, that he can not help but smile whenever he sees the spirit level and that he has an enormous fear of chives (later revealed not to be afraid of chives) on their own but the land in which they grow). He will then reveal that he has an internal wife named Pat, can reproduce himself throughout the summer months, collect stickers from the parking lot, formerly the lead singer in the Japanese pop group, owns a pet jellyfish called Peter and plays Bontempi organ. Les also has a fixation with mango and is then accompanied by a small sycophantic robot called Dylan.
The Man With The Stick
The Man With The Stick is a man (played by Mortimer, except in some scenes where he appears alongside one of the other Mortimer characters) wearing a large paper helmet covering his face. He also uses a long stick, which ends up with objects obscured by bags. By the time Man With The Stick shows up, Vic shouts, "What do we cry when we see the guy with the stick?" in which the audience replied, "What's on the end of the stick, Vic?" Vic will ask if he will reveal what's on the end of his wand; usually Man With The Stick refuses - but sometimes reveals it.
The Man With The Stick will go out every week for fanfare, and then proceed to talk casually with Vic about the pictures on his paper helmet. The graffiti helmet will act as a pictorial guide to what he has investigated during the week such as "A lamppost that has been decided to provide electricity for the Farnborough Air Show" and pop group "Spandau Ballet laughs at an orphan who has fallen off his bicycle". If the object at the end of the stick is revealed, this is usually done at the end of the program.
During the second series it was revealed that The Man With The Stick had sold his children to Vic, and, since they were still under contract, he could not return them. Vic uses them as a means for various purposes, such as exchanging them by car, enrolling them in the territorial army and selling their souls to demons. This gradually makes Man With The Stick a terrible depression. At the end of the final episode, Man With The Stick drunken stage storm brandished a gun and shot Vic, Graham Lister and finally himself (though all three will then return unscathed on the Big Night Out Tour).
The Man With The Stick often calls his friend Terry, who always subjects him to a terrible experience or humiliation, much discontent and real dissatisfaction with The With The Stick.
Played by Bob with a black curly wig, brown mac and horn-rimmed spectacles, Lister is described as an acquaintance and an admirer of "doctors, dentists, and architects". He is a bitter enemy and a radiant dessert that every week will enter the "New Island" segment of the show with increasingly depressing acts. He will then share a hot argument with Vic (whom he often refers to as "The Fop"). His most impressive acting was "Lard for Laughs" where he dropped the pork fat into a pile of salt, then pushed a block of pork fat through a breakfast cereal packet with the face of "pop star" Mickey Rourke on it. Lister will eventually win the contest with 'acting' to present 'Cool cool jug of orange juice' but still keep coming back for display at the event. He will eventually become so popular that by the second part of the series the audience will reflect his name spell every time he appears. In the last episode Lister is forced by Vic to admit he is a 'sexless, unworthy, and heartbreaking sex criminal'.
Judge Nutmeg
Played by Bob - wearing a Lister wig on the outside - Judge Lionel Nutmeg will lead "That's Justice", a game involving a member of the audience who is on trial for random and unreasonable crimes. The punishment was decided by turning the Hairy Justice Wheels, singing "turning, turning, turning the wheel of justice, seeing how fast the bastard was changing". Vic will then move until the wheels land on the punishment he most likes, making the wheel a useless tool for choosing a punishment. A recurring joke is Nutmeg's comment at the end of the show that Vic is dishonest and unskilled and suggests he's looking for an alternative job, much to his grief.
Aromatherapy
Dr Richard Slater and Dr Richard Slater, who are "fragrant to heal" and prescribe different smells to cure strange diseases. Although it is considered that they are unrelated, both wear white jumpsuits, have identical "Titian" hair, speak the same way and have the same name.
Morrissey, The Consumer Monkey
A monkey doll with Morrissey's face, with a mouth balloon operated by Vic and voiced by Bob. Morrissey, the Consumer Monkey often comes to advise on ugly or insecure consumer goods. Usually these items are manufactured and sold by Reeves & amp; Mortimer products, and couples will be forced to cover up.
Morrissey has a theme song, sung in a duet with Vic, which begins with Morrissey claiming "I love watches, I love jungle" and Vic fight with "He likes various consumer goods."
The Stotts
Played by Vic and Bob, Stotts is his excessive, anxious, and arguing brother from Shildon with a black insulating tape mustache, a well-worn balding wig, big silly clowns, and a high-pitched voice. Davey (Vic) is wearing a skirt. Donald (Bob) is a little more plausible, in a gray leather jacket, but he is vulnerable to "antique incidents". The couple is also often surprised. They have many talents including talk show presentations, game events (including party games like "Pass the Fat," "Read Anthony Trollope Novel" and "Guess What's in the Les's Back") and do a magic show. But usually, they give up and leave the set before their place should be finished.
The Stotts is one of the very few characters from Vic Reeves Big Night Out to come back later Reeves & amp; Mortimer Series. They appear in the second series of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer as talk show hosts, often interviewing celebrities like Sting and Damon Hill.
Rucksack Tinker
A pair of witty, bearded, and anorakous ramblers who tell funny anecdotes and share their knowledge of the world ramble with the audience, constantly assuring them that "not everything works." One (Bob) is clearly having an affair with someone else's wife, Mary.
Greg Mitchell
Greg Mitchell, "a beautiful sandy labrador", is a puppet dog with a completely naive world understanding. He often talked about something he had just done, with a high-pitched and somewhat agile voice. He would, however, suddenly realize that he did not think about it and fell into the noisy cockney below, shouting "my wife is going to KILL ME !!!." Greg will also reappear in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer .
Live Carpet
Played by Vic and Bob wearing masks made from carpet swatches. They will sit at Les's Lunch Club and make more shameful claims, such as being responsible for "coloring in black beetles on Friesian beef with special bureau", or "filling in colored bits in rice paddies" before accusing each other of being a "lie" , or someone who calls "I hear the rumors" with others responding to "I know, I started it." While this is ongoing, Les will serve both tea while soft music is played in the background. It will then be revealed that they are both Parker's character from the Thunderbirds children's puppet show which is actually Les's father (his 'mother' is Glaxo Industries)
On the Night Live Carpet Tour is played for two "swindlers" but is voiced by Vic and Bob who stand behind the stage and will enter the stage at the end of the act of kicking "fraudsters" off the stage.
Wavey Davey
Simple man, like a naive, naive boy waving at people, things and celebrities, in an increasingly evil way. It was then revealed to Satan. Played by Bob.
Talc & amp; Carrots
Two men (Vic and Bob) who came in silly clothes, stupid wigs and big dentures, clasped wooden pieces, buckets, circles with tomatoes attached to them and large placards announcing things like "Squirrel in hot trout buckets = racial harmony. " The couple will just fall and fall around the place, becoming awkward and not making it completely clear what "dots" they should make. At the end of their "appearance", the device gets messy and Les has to clean up very quickly. While this character confuses the audience and even event producers, Vic and Bob trust them as the best characters on the show. Action
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The performing arts group Vic and Bob, who performed "The Facelessness of Bureaucracy". They wore masks of Sean Connery or Jimmy Hill, one of them using talc or beehive powder and the other a pair of swimming trunks or a bra, and imposing a small dance for some traditional jazz interspersed by the sound of the wind, to illustrate "a retiree was attacked by several police officers ", etc.
Sir. Dennis
Jumper-wearing, a bit boring but a very sensitive news agency and tobacco seller, who does not have Curly Wurlys supplies because "they are too complicated" but sells cigarettes sweet and occasionally slips the original as "snacks for the kids". He conspired with Lister, and they both were one of the founders of the group of consumer safety and hygiene products, NIPS (Inspectorate of Product Standard Environment). Mr. Dennis was easily upset and at one point there was a violent rage around the set, pressing Les and dropping Lister. He married an invisible wife with various intestinal problems, was a fan of the Fresh Fields sitcom and played into a music promoter, managing several successful indie pop groups. Played by Vic.
Repeating segment
New Island
"New Island" is a strange parody of a talent show like New Face , with Vic acting as host. The so-called Acts Of Tomorrow will show off their ridiculous talents from the center of a small paddock, complete with a white picket fence with a gate. Generally, there will be three actions, one of which will surely be Graham Lister, and Vic will not attempt to hide his disgust at Lister's turn. The island of novelty also sees memorable characters like Mr. Wobbly Hand, Judith Grant, Slitherer, Hoxton Hockler, Mr. Melon in the wind and Wavy Davey makes an appearance.
That Justice
After building a demon by Vic, use the Judge Nutmeg wheel on stage on the mobile bench, and Vic hauls a random audience member on stage to try them for a set of silly silly charges, such as "staring fixed point, causing terrible drought" or " squeezing a flannel in the Thomas Cook branch, one of the most respected travel agents on the high street! ". When the defendant was innocent, Vic turned the Wheel of Justice - after combing his hair - and the audience sang "Play, turn, Turn the Wheel of Justice, see how fast the bastard is changing". Equally ridiculous punishments are then inherited (eg "One year worshiped by the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar"). During a memorable week, Judge Nutmeg changed the format of the show and tried a more liberal approach; The Wheel of Peace, where he tries to solve the marital problems of the 'separated' couple from the audience, who, incidentally, has never met before.
Reeves and Mortimer Products
Throughout the show Vic and Bob will try to put their own brand of imperfect and substandard products. These are often exposed by Morrissey the Consumer Monkey and when they try to launch their own meat product line, they are countered by Grahame Lister with his 'Luxury Luxury Lister'.
Song cover
The show will always end with Vic singing the song 'Mr. Songwriter' though sometimes being hijacked by other characters like Bob or Grahame Lister and at the end of the first season performed as a rock and roll number.
Big Night Out reunion show
The one-off reunion show of Big Night Out was performed in 2005 at the old Raymond Revuebar, now the Too2Much club, in London. It was filmed by Channel X, though there has been no news of what will happen to this recording. There are no signs that this will lead to a full reunion tour even if it is successful then it can change. Vic has mentioned that he wants to do more work right away, and that the return of Big Night Out lives out of the question.
DVD release
When Big Night Out successfully reached DVD in 2005, many audiences were disappointed to find edits made just to remove the ad break board. Along with this editing, it is also a missing episode. New Year's Eve special from 1990 lost, when DVD claimed that it was a complete episode collection. The original video was released in 1990 & amp; 1991 was rated PG by BBFC but the release of new DVDs from series 1 & amp; 2 rated "15" by BBFC.
Additionally, as a result of editing, some visual jokes that straddle the ad break are gone. Example. In Episode 1 of Series 1, Vic announced that he would drink a pint before the break, and poured one on his desk. After the break, his table was full of empty beer glasses, and he was drunk. He then went to urinate. Later in the same series, the assessment of the "New Island" action is hidden in a giant kebab, which is consumed during the commercial break. When the event returns, the winner is announced. In the edited version, it cuts from the Island to a kebab that mysteriously appears on Vic's desk. Direct stage live DVD recordings Vic and Bob Big-Night-Out-Tour were also released in 1991.
References
- You Do not Let It Lie: The Big Night Story
External links
- The BBC Comedy Guide - Vic Reeves Big Night Out
- Vic & amp; Bob's corporate production website
- The interview observer confirmed the reunion
- Big Night Out and Odor Video
- Vic Reeves Big Night Out on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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