[TV] Bob Mortimer on WILTY

[Greg Bobkin]

In a bid to lift the mood, pass the time while on the international break and also get away from the 'X or Y' threads (or the threads talking about the X or Y threads), here's 20 HILARIOUS (IMHO, like) minutes of Bob Mortimer being brilliant on Would I Lie To You.

Feel free to add more work of the great man...

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Bob Mortimer is an absolute joy. His work on WILTY is genius. The way he just ends up making David Mitchell doubt any rational thought he has about if it’s a lie or not is brilliant.

I’ve probably seen the above clips 20 plus times but i still laugh like it’s the first time I’ve seen them.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Would I Lie To You is one of my favourite chill out programmes.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Bob Mortimer is an absolute joy. His work on WILTY is genius. The way he just ends up making David Mitchell doubt any rational thought he has about if it’s a lie or not is brilliant.

I’ve probably seen the above clips 20 plus times but i still laugh like it’s the first time I’ve seen them.

One of my favourite things is the names he comes up with

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Bob Mortimer, something the UK does well

 

[WATFORD zero]

Absolutely magnificent. Don't know how many times I have seen them and they still crack me up

I've just realised that 5 clips from the OP don't include



or



or the truly magnificent

 

[Coldeanseagull]

So you're not doing a who's better, Mortimer or Reeves thread then?

 

[WATFORD zero]

And, just to prove you don't have to be called Bob Mortimer

 

[Wellesley]

I hadn't seen this until a few days ago.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

You know when the kids find something funny these days they’ll write ‘can’t breathe’ - I finally understood this phrase when I first listened to Bob’s owl story, I think I only stopped laughing when it suddenly dawned on me that I would keel over if I didn’t get some air in.

National treasure

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I hadn't seen this until a few days ago.

Didn’t like Gervais before I saw this - like him even less now.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

He is brilliant - I agree completely about the name creation, the effect he has on David Mitchell….it’s the seemingly effortless creative genius …..his stories seem to just float around from one random concept to another - I haven’t watch the clips in this thread yet but will know most of them I’m sure - amongst my faves is the one where he’s describing the game truth or shrubbery(or something like that) - set in Middlesboro’ and involving some of his imaginatively named pals……
can‘t wait to sit down and enjoy in a bit.
A very funny man - I also loved his lockdown creation ‘Train Guy’

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Would I Lie To You is one of my favourite chill out programmes.

Yes, brilliant.

Taskmaster is my favourite though. It has all my favourite things in it, including a house near one of my favourite parts of the Thames, and the lovely interlude music. And the 'little Alex Hall' gag, with the puppet being the actual puppet master. The more he is bullied the more he wins, because it is his show, his script, and his royalties.

I hope all is tolerable, if not entirely reasonable, in your world, by the way

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Thank you for this thread, just been reduced to tears laughing at these again despite watching them god know how many times! Love the man.

 

[papachris]

I recently read Bob's autobiography. Without giving too much away he didn't come through a traditional showbiz route and has had a really interesting life.
I highly recommend it. It will make you laugh and cry

 

[GoingUp]

Would I Lie To You is one of my favourite chill out programmes.

One of the only shows on terrestrial TV that literally makes me 'laugh out loud'

 

[Questions]

I hope he’s feeling better now.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Thank you for this thread, just been reduced to tears laughing at these again despite watching them god know how many times! Love the man.

That was the intention because that's pretty much what I did while I watched them. And thank you to the YouTube algorithm, which suggested that video after whatever I was watching before!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

He is brilliant - I agree completely about the name creation, the effect he has on David Mitchell….it’s the seemingly effortless creative genius …..his stories seem to just float around from one random concept to another - I haven’t watch the clips in this thread yet but will know most of them I’m sure - amongst my faves is the one where he’s describing the game truth or shrubbery(or something like that) - set in Middlesboro’ and involving some of his imaginatively named pals……
can‘t wait to sit down and enjoy in a bit.
A very funny man - I also loved his lockdown creation ‘Train Guy’

Theft or shrubbery. Yeah, I've watched a load of WILTYs recently and no-one quite has the nack of fooling David Mitchell like Bob. His two 'egg' stories are classics

 

[countryman]

I recently read Bob's autobiography. Without giving too much away he didn't come through a traditional showbiz route and has had a really interesting life.
I highly recommend it. It will make you laugh and cry

His novel The Satsuma Complex is also worth a read. It had me laughing out loud reading it.