Bob Mortimer Audiobooks

Bob Mortimer, born in 1959, is an English comedian, presenter, writer and actor, and one half of the double act Reeves and Mortimer alongside Vic Reeves – a partnership that made him a fixture of British comedy. In recent years he has found a second wave of affection through Gone Fishing, his gentle series with Paul Whitehouse, and through panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? and Taskmaster, where he has become a firm favourite.

In 2026 he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance for Last One Laughing – recognition, decades into the career, for a comic sensibility quite unlike anyone else’s.

And Away… brings Mortimer’s writing to audio, and it is an easy recommendation for anyone who knows him from the telly: the same off-beam warmth, this time in book form. Comedians’ books can be thin; Mortimer’s reputation – built with Vic Reeves, renewed on the riverbank with Paul Whitehouse – rests on a voice that is unmistakably his own, and that voice is precisely what listeners come for.

For UK listeners raised on Reeves and Mortimer, or converted later by Gone Fishing and the panel shows, this is the natural next step: one of British comedy’s true originals, telling it his own way.