A biography for Vic Reeveshasn’t been written yet.
“I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.”
“I always wear ladies' scents. I like the smell of flowers and men's scents tend to smell like burnt photocopiers.”
“I've got two pigs, which doesn't constitute a farm. I just keep them in a field. They are very pleasant.”
“Most of my grudges are road-based. Parking and speeding fines.”
“People sometimes get ideas about us that are not of our creation. Journalists, for instance, have always wanted us to be something we're not. They've said that we have a big student fan-base, but that's simply not true. We have loads of older fans as well. Increasingly, ladies in their mid-fifties seem to like us.”
“Comedy and art go hand in hand, even if it's not laugh-out-loud.”
“Out Demons Out' by the Edgar Broughton Band is a good album, and they had fantastic hair - so much that you couldn't see their faces at all. But the most triangular haircut in rock belonged to Mick Box, guitarist in Uriah Heep. He had that thick, slightly curly hair that was so dense it was out in a huge triangle by the time it got to his waist.”
“When people say you can and can't say things, I don't know who's the authority on it. As long as you're kind, as long as you're not upsetting anyone. But that's a natural thing, isn't it? I would never do anything if I thought it was going to upset anyone.”
“I don't really like British comedy.”
“I can watch dramas all day long. I like 'Ozark,' things like that.That or 'Coronation Street.' I never miss it.”
“I'm in my studio at 6 A.M. every day because I work better in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I like to go for a walk. I enjoy going for a perambulation or a constitutional. It's all very Victorian.”
“In the 70s I started doing my Big Night Out on stage when I was at art school. A friend of mine owned a comedy club and sold it to me. I worked out quite quickly that if I did the comedy myself I'd make more money.”
“I don't think you should have to defend your actions to people who say: 'You've put some paintings on a wall, and if this doesn't have any deep meaning, then why?' What about the Dadaists? What were they doing? Weren't they just having a laugh with their tin hats?”
“I live in a female-dominated household, so I'm like a partial woman myself.”
“Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important - giving birth, not only to a lot of modern art, but also shaping comedy, music and political protest.”
“I used to think I'd never get married or have kids. Peer pressure suggested I might be a lone wolf forever. I've always let life dictate its own terms. Marriage just happened.”
“The comedy I do on TV came from me being at art school and seeing Gilbert and George films, thinking they were hilarious. I was trying to do that, a sketch version of art, and it ended up on TV.”
“I was a pop star at one point, and I sang the 'Shaun The Sheep' theme.”
“Within comedy, macabre is the root, and a lot of art - Goya, Bosch, Dali - is macabre. Even Van Gogh, if he paints a chair, there's an element of the macabre within it.”
“I am really trying not to eat cheese at night. It's become a real problem and I have now got high cholesterol. I have to do something about it.”