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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  Official Website of Vic Damone
In 1949 in my hometown of Buffalo, New York - Vic was going to do a week of stage shows at Shea's Buffalo Theatre....how excited I was to be able to see the singer who I had become a fan of the previous year.
Bob Wells, a disc-jockey from WEBR Radio Station in Buffalo also had a Saturday afternoon teen-age dance/record show where they would play records and the kids would dance.
Vic was making a guest appearance there and we all went to see him again.
www.vicdamone.com /fan_club_president.html   (437 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Comedians
Vic's habit of rubbing his thighs at the most attractive female guest was funny as part of his 'mating ritual', but it was soon taken over by sexual harassers everywhere.
Vic and Bob were unhappy with this show, but due to the ratings they were pressured to continue it for three seasons, with the possibility of a fourth in 2002.
Vic and Bob's love of music is shown in the constant use of songs in their shows.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A592472   (1528 words)

  
  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vic
Vic's Who'd have thought that mild-mannered VIC REEVES who presses flowers for a hobby and was last seen leaving the jungle in I'm A Celebrity is a secret swashbuckler.
Vic and Bob shoot their mouths off; Eleven years ago they were a cult turn in a dingy comedy club - today they are the nation's favourite double act.
Vic's; Who'd have thought that mild-mannered VIC REEVES - who presses flowers for a hobby and was last seen leaving the jungle in I'm A Celebrity - is a secret swashbuckler.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Vic&StartAt=1   (1585 words)

  
 Beatles64 - Bob Wooler
Bob was particularly knowledgeable about the music the young Merseysiders wanted to hear and his record collection inspired a number of bands in their choice of repertoire.
Bob reckoned that the total number of occasions he introduced the Beatles on stage at the Cavern was 274, but also believed that, counting all the other Mersey venues, the number of times he compèred their shows was nearer 400, an achievement which ensures his place in Beatlelore.
Bob had to be taken to hospital and Epstein immediately set out to repair the damage, ordering his solicitor Rex Makin to pay Bob £200.00 in damages.
www.beatles64.co.uk /bobwooler.htm   (1095 words)

  
 It's Reeves and Mortimer
Vic and Bob wrote the entire show - as the producer Graham Smith said, "they have such enormous confidence in what they come up with, and by and large it works".
Channel 4 had been asking for a pop show from Vic and Bob for some time, and the pilot resulted in a show that Vic said he would have enjoyed to watch.
By the time the pilot was complete, Vic and Bob were committed to the BBC and so nothing more was made of the series.
vicandbob.madpage.com /index.php?pid=2   (337 words)

  
 Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers Limited
Vic began doing stand-up comedy and chose 'Vic Reeves' as just one of many different stage aliases he would use each night and for some reason it stuck.
Bob attended one of Vic's marathon three hour performances, which was part music, part satire of variety shows, some physical comedy; in other words, anything for a laugh, which he now admits was mostly "performance art" most of the time.
Vic also made an early TV appearance on The Tube in 1986, doing the first of his send-ups of game show hosts.
www.speakers.co.uk /csaWeb/speaker,REVMOR   (399 words)

  
 Reeves and Mortimer
Vic 'n Bob, as most of their fans (and Britain) call them, both started out in the North of England in the year 1959, growing up a mere 12 miles apart but never meeting.
Vic began doing stand-up comedy and chose "Vic Reeves" as just one of many different stage aliases he would use each night and for some reason it stuck.
Bob attended one of Vic's marathon three hour performances, which was part music, part satire of variety shows, some physical comedy; in other words, anything for a laugh, which he now admits was mostly "performance art" most of the time.
www.eskimo.com /~rkj/weekly/aa072901a.htm   (643 words)

  
 UCB/LBNL Video Conferencing Tool (vic)
Vic is a video conferencing application developed by the Network Research Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley.
Vic was designed with a flexible and extensible architecture to support heterogeneous environments and configurations.
When building vic from source, you need to specify --with-aix-shm=libpath to set the pathname of the extension library (that also needs to be compiled from the exmaple codes).
www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov /vic   (1428 words)

  
 VIC & BOB PAGE...
Vic and Bob, Bob and Vic, however you say it they're still two of the most unique comics this country has ever produced.
Their first series was Vic Reeves Big Night Out which ran on Channel 4, after becoming a fast cult favourite, they soon moved to the BBC and renamed The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.
Vic and Bob have now gained huge status by employing Ulrika-ka-ka-ka Johnson and that greasy fifties throw back Mark Lamar, for the popular Quiz-show-type-thing SHOOTING STARS, which is always corking!
www.hatfield.freeserve.co.uk /VICBOB.htm   (132 words)

  
 www.talkleeds.co.uk - Vic Reeves
Vic Reeves was born James (Jim) Roderick Moir in Leeds on 24th January 1959, to Jim and Audrey Moir, and although only stayed in Leeds for the first five years of his life before moving to Darlington co. Durham, can still be considered a son of Leeds.
London was the place where Jims creative talents flowed and Vic Reeves was born, performing in several bands, he became a regular of the London pub and club scene, and in 1983 started a part-time art school course to realise his dream of becoming an artist.
Vic is reported to be presenting the 2007 series of ‘Brainiac Science Abuse’ for Sky One.
talkleeds.co.uk /talkleeds/local-heroes/vic-reeves.html   (440 words)

  
 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Vic and Bob
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.
Vic Reeves’ comedy career began in The Goldsmiths Tavern in New Cross, London, in the mid-1980s.
Vic has a keen interest in the supernatural, and in 2003, along with his wife Nancy Sorrell, made a guest appearance in an episode of LivingTV’s acclaimed ghost-hunting series Most Haunted.
random.dragonslife.org /vic-and-bob/2907   (1418 words)

  
 No Regrets Country Music Band - Profiles
After a successful two years with this semi-pro outfit Vic jointly formed the Longriders and stayed for a year before a short break to create a group that allowed Vic to express his own views and brand of Country Music, which he has seen through to the present day.
Although Vic is relatively new compared to some on the scene, Vic's love of fine Country Music shows through on the bands performances.
Bob Common was born in Dundee, he worked for numerous years on the Cabaret / Rock circuit.
www.no-regrets.co.uk /no-regrets-band-members.htm   (289 words)

  
 About Bob Proctor - Business and Sales Success
Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur, and teacher preaching the gospel of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential.
Perhaps the reason Bob Proctor is so insightful into the factors that limit peoples' success is rooted in the fact that he lived an aimless, purposeless existence for the first 26 years of his own life.
The experience of hearing and seeing Bob Proctor lecture is a memorable one, packed with the information, inspiration and wisdom to transform the lives of everyone in his audience.
www.horncreek.com /bobproctor.html   (1084 words)

  
 National Terrazzo Tile & Marble, Inc.
Vic and Bob began a partnership that would continue the terrazzo trade, but also encompass a more diverse scope of installing floors including tile and resinous flooring systems.
With most of their revenue coming from residential terrazzo floors, Vic and Bob began to look into commercial construction as a new means of expansion.
Bob was left to run the company with the assistance of his youngest son, Victor.
www.nationalterrazzo.com /c_history.htm   (559 words)

  
 Reeves and Mortimer: Moving To BBC-1
Two families, each one teamed by Vic or Bob, competed with each other one by one in a series of competitions using whatever special skills each possessed, even something as mundane as bricklaying.
The finale of each episode ended with either Vic or Bob suspended in a giant glass cube as the "spider," manipulated by the winning family, trying to grab as many prizes as possible while the music counting down played faster and faster.
Vic 'n Bob seemed an odd choice to take this on, particularly as they had no real acting experience and were best known as oddball comics.
www.eskimo.com /~rkj/weekly/aa072901b.htm   (593 words)

  
 Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Too2Much, London | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
To promote the DVD release of their Channel 4 series Big Night Out, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer were staging a one-off gig in a former Soho strip joint.
When Bob teases Vic about his desire to "bum" a heavyweight boxer, Vic replies (cue hilarity): "You just wouldn't let it lie." And the audience can barely contain themselves when Reeves terrorises bespectacled lab assistant Les with some chives.
And when Vic describes Jordan rubbing her "boobs" to make a fire that will light Peter Andre's pipe, it becomes clear that the duo retain their flair for vivid word-pictures.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1567672,00.html   (472 words)

  
 Featured Speakers
Bob Mehsikomer is America's premier muskie, pike and lake trout angler, educator, and television host.
Bob is also known for his giant pike videos that feature many pike in the 30# class - northern pike up to 53 1/2 inches long.
Bob Mehsikomer educates viewers on fishing techniques, and shows them how to put all the details together to catch fish, including the best conditions, correct times and locations.
www.northwestsportshow.com /attendees/features/seminarbios.asp   (3267 words)

  
 Reeves and Mortimer: Moving To BBC-1
Two families, each one teamed by Vic or Bob, competed with each other one by one in a series of competitions using whatever special skills each possessed, even something as mundane as bricklaying.
The finale of each episode ended with either Vic or Bob suspended in a giant glass cube as the "spider," manipulated by the winning family, trying to grab as many prizes as possible while the music counting down played faster and faster.
Vic 'n Bob seemed an odd choice to take this on, particularly as they had no real acting experience and were best known as oddball comics.
www.amasci.com /~rkj/weekly/aa072901b.htm   (593 words)

  
 Honkers Pub & Eatery - Profile
Vic works on the floor bartending and serving customers while Bob, along with his wife, Maria and kitchen staff keep the kitchen humming.
Customer service is paramount with Vic and Bob as they endeavor to please their customer's tastes, schedules, budgets, and, will modify any item to meet special dietary preferences.
When Vic is not working the floor or bartending she uses her background in Marketing and Public Relations to promote Palate Pleasers and Honkers.
www.honkerspub.com /profile.htm   (486 words)

  
 Bob Mortimer : Comedian Profile
Bob Mortimer (born Robert Renwick Mortimer), is a British comedian and actor, best known for his double act with Vic Reeves.
Bob was soon invited to perform on Vic's stage show, "Vic Reeves Big Night Out," creating such characters as the Singing Lawyer, Graham Lister, Judge Nutmeg and Man With The Stick.
Off-screen, Jim and Bob were now an equal partnership, but didn't become known as ‘Reeves and Mortimer’ until their move to the BBC in 1993.
www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/m/mortimer-bob.htm   (610 words)

  
 Bob Hayes : Aden Airways
Bob was ex R.A.F. Fleet Air Arm, joining Aden Airways in 1953.
Bob Hayes in Arab Airways uniform with Son, Ray and daughter, Wendy in Amman Jordan, before he went to Aden
One Xmas my Dad was on the Xmas Roster to fly and for some reason (only known to her!) she didn't want him to fly.
adenairways.com /Bob_Hayes.htm   (788 words)

  
 YouTube - Vic and Bob - Masterchef
vics a legend and comin fron darlo,,,,come on darlo,come on darlo
Vic and Bob - The Stotts meet Caprice
Vic & Bob on Jonathan Ross in 1991
www.youtube.com /watch?v=towd9vZWDJg   (297 words)

  
 Bob Links
Bob Ross: Since 1981 the Bob Ross Co. and the Joy of Painting television show have been dedicated to the philosophy that painting is not just for the chosen few - it is for everyone.
Bob Byerley of Missouri is one of the foremost painters of children today.
Bobs Belfast: Bob's is a leading edge Belfast bar which is situated on the Lisburn Rd, one of the most sought after areas in the city.
www.bobworld.com /public_html/bob/cool_bob_links.htm   (1560 words)

  
 Jim Rohn International Online Store
In mid-December Vic Johnson was nice enough to send us a recorded taping of the 4-week Born Rich Tele-Seminar that he and Bob Proctor had conducted earlier in the year.
Beyond the great ideas and strategies that Bob and Vic share, much of the effect it had on me was coming from the energy that Bob had in his Q and A sessions.
Bob's book and the You Were Born Rich live seminar have already changed the lives of tens of thousands around the world.
www.jimrohn.com /shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=54&kbid=5393   (1222 words)

  
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Vic does a voice over on the advert for the new pink Domestos.
Anyway, Vic displays a series of incidents where Bob experiences Pleasure followed by Pain (and in the end Vic eating a yogurt followed by Bob hitting him with a massive spoon)
Renault Clio - Vic and Bob did the last in the series of Papa Nicole adverts where Vic is about to be married until Bob arrives on the scene to steal his bride away...
members.lycos.co.uk /jimandbob/appearances/adverts.htm   (323 words)

  
 Vic Reeves - UKGameshows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jim Moir, alias Vic Reeves, came up through the comedy circuit, picking up fellow-traveller Bob Mortimer along the way.
Since their surreal stage show Big Night Out tranferred to Channel 4 in 1990, Vic and Bob have gone from strength to strength, with a string of hit sketch shows and semi-spoof game shows, and even an entertaining kitschy revival of 60s private eye romp Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
Vic is credited with discovering both Matt Lucas and Simon Day.
www.ukgameshows.com /page/index.php?title=Vic_Reeves&printable=yes   (187 words)

  
 Sky Showbiz - Vic Dumped From Car Ads
Funnyman Vic Reeves has been dumped from car insurance adverts after he was charged with drink-driving.
A spokesman said the current ad, featuring the voices of Reeves and comic partner Bob Mortimer, would be dropped while a review took place.
He said: "We are extremely concerned to hear of the recent events involving Vic Reeves.
showbiz.sky.com /showbiz/article/0,,50001-1176295,00.html   (176 words)

  
 Vic and Bob return : News 2002 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are to make their first sketch series in three years.
But Vic last week complained about BBC chiefs who kept 'demanding' they make more episodes of the quiz show.
"Bob and I would love to experiment more with new shows but they demand we do more Shooting Stars," he told the Sun.
www.chortle.co.uk /news/2002/06/10/1667/vic_and_bob_return   (173 words)

  
 Sustainable business and industry - Realising the Sustainability Advantage - Dr Bob Willard
During his recent visit, Dr Bob Willard provided invaluable information and support to businesses seeking to achieve the sustainability advantage.
In addition to this, Bob outlined how businesses can quantify the value of sustainability and demonstrate a clear, compelling business case.
Bob encourages you to use his presentation and worksheet templates to assist in understanding and quantifying the business case for sustainability for your business.
www.epa.vic.gov.au /bus/expertise_innovation/bob_willard.asp   (308 words)

  
 Six Figure Income: How I Created a Six-Figure Income by Vic Johnson
Vic is one of the best things that has ever happened to my business." - Bob Proctor, International best-selling author of You Were Born Rich.
Vic is not only one of the most prolific marketers on the Internet today; from dealing with him personally on numerous occasions, I can also vouch that he’s one of the most honest, ethical and downright nicest, as well.
He now helps thousands of people understand that they are in total control of their own destiny and shows them how to dramatically turn their lives toward an exciting direction.
www.vicjohnson.com /hicsfi.htm   (2796 words)

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