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And so begins Gary's quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life?

Find sources: "Bob Mortimer"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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. When is Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing series 4's release date? Everything you need to know". Radio Times . Retrieved 6 October 2020. The much loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apart ... Off the wall doesn’t quite cover it .. . Fans of Mortimer’s surrealist turns on Would I Lie to You? or his internet sketch show Train Guy won’t be disappointed. Nor will crime fiction devotees, if only they can get over the talking squirrels.'

Kingsolver’s novel is more serious and fatalistic than its 170-year-old predecessor – as Demon says, ‘A kid born to the junkie is a junkie’. But in updating it, she makes a great case for popular fiction’s enduring ability to shine a light on the kind of people we are. (BE) Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer: 'There was the chance one of us might drop dead on the riverbank' ". The Guardian. 15 July 2018 . Retrieved 3 September 2020. Dent, Karen (27 February 2008). "Reeves enjoys a Big Day Out with apprentices". The Journal. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009 . Retrieved 28 February 2008.

The book is focused around a 30 year-old legal assistant at a firm of solicitors in London. Mortimer himself worked as a solicitor before becoming a comedian. 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. [ citation needed] [10]And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life… Wallop, Harry (5 October 2009). "Churchill dog to star in 22 pantos. Oh Yes". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 7 July 2019. Press Association (27 October 2015). "Bob Mortimer cancels tour after triple heart bypass operation". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 October 2015.