Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are one of Britain's most iconic comedy duos - so it might come as a surprise that they don't chat that often.
The glimpse in to their working relationship came from Vic, real name Jim Moir, who admitted in a new interview that the pair don't keep in close contact.
Jim, 64, and his wife Nancy, 38, gave a joint interview about their new Sky Arts series, Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir. In it, Jim - an accomplished artist - paints rare British birds before going off to look for them in their natural habitat.
There are obvious parallels that can be drawn between the new series and Bob's critically acclaimed Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - but when probed by the interviewer, he claims Nancy replies on his behalf, pointing out that they are dissimilar.
Jim then reveals to the Radio Times: “We never really speak much. Bob and I have never been ones for talking on the phone. We’ll see him now and then and have a chat about things. It’s not a conscious thing, we haven’t discussed it. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this show at all to him.”
Nancy adds that she thinks that he did tell him about Painting Birds but it was a while ago.
The funnyman continues that people often assume that comedy partners' lives are entwined: “People have always thought that with me and Bob. Do you go out in the evening? We always said no, we don’t. We see each other in the daytime, we film. We used to, when we were in our 20s, go out to the boozer, but we don’t really do that any more.”
However, fans shouldn't fret too much that the magic shared by the pair - as seen in Catterick, House of Fools, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, and Shooting Stars - will never make it to our screens again. Last year they revealed that they were working on a film based on an idea they had harboured for years.
Bob Mortimer told the Adam Buxton Podcast in 2018: “[The Glove is] about Michael Jackson. He left a glove, one of his training gloves, that he used when he wasn’t on stage, and it’s a very valuable item now. And there’s a few people trying to get ownership of it. It’s just a road movie thing.”
And it won't just be the last time we get to see Reeves and Mortimer. In November, Jim he told BBC Radio Cornwall that the film will be the last ever outing of his iconic comedy moniker.
He said: "Vic Reeves was a character I invented when I was at art school actually, I put him on stage. And I haven't done him for a while.
"Bob and me wrote a film, about 12 years ago, which we keep threatening to do and we've been asked to do, so we might do that next year. And that will probably be the final appearance of Vic Reeves."
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