Vic Reeves

He released this love song called She's Gone.

And it's, oh man, he sings it like Vic Reeves, his club singer.

And it's a tender love song.

It's not intended to be funny at all.

If I don't win the WWF title, I'm going to go to fuck, set myself on fire.

I don't know why he's Barry White I was gonna say it's Vic Reeves as Barry White

I didn't mean I meant it to be only Anderson come on Sting you want a piece of me came out like I'm big cane and I'll set myself on fire if I don't win that fucking belt on Sunday Oh, champion, man.

Put another log on the fire.

Your mum and dad ate back from the big core for a few hours.

Oh, let me see your bra.

I like to say this isn't the first, this is the first time that we've been sidetracked by Barry White played by Vic Reeves, but it's not.

It's not at all.

Please welcome your hosts for this podcast, MJ Price and Paula Wiseman.

Hello and welcome to Cuadabos, a podcast dedicated to the work and genius of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.

My name is Matt Price, founder of the Reeves and Mortimer Depository of Curious Stuff Facebook group.

And I am Paula Wiseman, curator and founder of the Divine Comedians podcast.

Miller's passion wouldn't let her lie.

Vic Reeves.

Speaking of Margaret Sixel, she was the editor and George Miller's wife.

Sixel had never edited an action film before.

And that rhyme allowed me to take a deep dive into the lives of every individual king and queen named.

It also gave me the chance to write the book of the podcast, which is still available in either hardback or paperback and contains not just the stories of the monarchs in sequence, but is also brought to life through the brilliant illustrations of Jim Moyer, who you might know better as Vic Reeves.

Now, when I finally got to Charlie III, I still can't quite believe we've got a King Charles III on the throne.

It always sounds odd when you say it.

It was a government scheme that got him a job at Impulse Studios.

In a very similar way, Vic Reeves took advantage of a youth enterprise scheme to start running Vic Reeves' Big Night Out in New Cross.

So, yeah, instead of being on the dole, they would basically give you, you'd go and you'd pitch a business idea and they would give you money for it.

And so for whether it's six months or a year, Vic Reeves ran Vic Reeves Big Night Out as part of a Thatcherite youth enterprise scheme.

And Conrad Lance, similarly, I actually need to, I'll put in a footnote this here on.

He started working at Impulse Studios in Walls End in 1979 as part of the Thatcher government's Youth Opportunities Programme, which got people off the dole and into training.

But this one we had requested by Danielle.

This is Meals on Wheels by the wonderful Vic Reeves.

That was Meals on Wheels by Vic Reeves, who was also on Hole in the Wall last night, apparently.

So I can't believe I missed it, but check it out on BBC iPlayer.

If you missed last week's show, well, you didn't miss anything on my show, but you certainly missed an explanation of why it's socially justified to watch fat people play.

This is the time he, in an Irish bar, in some enclave of English alcoholism in Spain, performed an act that stays with me to this day.

If you're familiar with Sir Vic Reeves and his approach to singing...

This northern legend cut the wheat from the chaff when he serenaded the bar with his rendition of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.

Nice.