Jim Moir Biography
Jim Moir is an English comedian and artist. He and Bob Mortimer perform as Reeves & Mortimer. He is recognized for his weird sense of comedy. In 2003, The Observer named Reeves and Mortimer one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy.
How old is Jim Moir? – Age
He is 65 years old as of 24 January 2024. He was born in 1959 in Leeds, United Kingdom. His real name is James Roderick Moir.
Jim Moir Family – Education
Moir was born as the son of Audrey (née Leigh) and James Neill Moir (1926–2004). At the age of five, he relocated to Darlington, County Durham, with his parents and younger sister Lois. He attended Heathfield Infants and Junior School before attending Eastbourne Comprehensive in Darlington, a local senior school. After finishing school, Reeves began an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at a plant in Newton Aycliffe. Eventually, he relocated to London and attended the Polytechnic of North London and Middlesex Polytechnic.
Jim Moir Wife – Children
Moir has four children, the eldest two with his first wife, Sarah Vincent. Reeves and Vincent married in 1990 and divorced in 1999. He met his second wife, Nancy Sorrell, in 2001; they married on January 25, 2003. Moir, Sorrell, and their two girls reside in Charing, near Ashford.
Jim Moir Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Jim Moir Illness
Moir revealed in September 2021 that he had been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor known as a vestibular schwannoma. The tumor is inoperable and has rendered him deaf in one ear.
Jim Moir Art
His work is frequently described as Dada-esque, bizarre, and occasionally macabre, and he feels that art and comedy are two distinct ways of communicating the same message. Moir feels that everything he does is art, and he wants to be recognized for his art and writing rather than his comedy.
Moir feels that art should be “just for laughs” and that his work contains no statements. He feels that his work might induce laughing as a purgative, causing the viewer to flow from both ends. Moir’s work, according to artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, is influenced by Reeves.
This crossing of comedy and art is frequently seen in Reeves and Mortimer’s television series, such as The Smell, where Reeves’ paintings are used to illustrate the lyrics of the opening song. Reeves frequently produced designs for the BBC’s costume and set designers, claiming that if they simply tell them what they want, it will never look the way they envision.
Jim Moir Comedy
As well as working and acting in groups in London, including being a unique individual from the Modern/Exploratory band Test Dept and performing in front of an audience with them at their presentation gig (then, at that point, leaving soon subsequently), Moir likewise joined the elective parody circuit under a wide range of pretenses. These incorporated a loudmouthed American called Jim Chime, a beat writer called Mr Secret and in the long run, “The North-East’s Top Light Performer”- Vic Reeves, whose name is gotten from two of his number one vocalists, Vic Damone and Jim Reeves. His stage show Vic Reeves Enormous Night Out started life as a customary Thursday night gig at Goldsmith’s Bar, New Cross (presently the New Cross House). Here, he met Weave Mortimer, a specialist who went to the show and delighted in it such a lot of that he before long started to partake.
Reeves’ TV début came in December 1986 on Station 4 TV’s The Cylinder in a parody game show fragment called “Square Famous people”, suspended by a wire to ask the “superstars” questions. His next appearance was on the fleeting visit/satire show One Hour with Jonathan Ross in a game show section known as Thump Down Ginger. Reeves’ developing television profile prompted Huge Night Out being given an opening on Station 4 the next year. It was about this time that Reeves and Sway Mortimer leased a back room at Jools Holland’s office/keep studio in Westcombe Park, Greenwich where they would go through hours composing material.
Reeves kept on working close by Mortimer as a parody pair in a progression of 1990s programs, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Falling stars, and Bang, Bang, It’s Reeves and Mortimer, some of which likewise highlighted future cast individuals from The Quick Show and Little England. A 1994 pilot composed by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson entitled The Special night’s Over was because of element Chris Chime, a person from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer; notwithstanding, the series was rarely charged. That very year, Reeves made a visitor appearance on the Radio 1 series Shuttleworth’s Kickoff, facilitated by John Shuttleworth. Between August 1998 and May 1999, Reeves and Mortimer introduced the Channel X delivered BBC Saturday game show Families at Battle with Alice Lager.
Reeves played Marty Hopkirk in the BBC’s 2000-2001 spine chiller series Randall and Hopkirk (Expired), a restoration of the first 1960s series, with Mortimer as Randall, Emilia Fox as Jeannie Hopkirk, and Tom Pastry specialist as Wyvern. In 2000, Reeves introduced a series entitled, Vic Reeves Looks at on UK Play, highlighting VIPs, for example, Ricky Gervais, Johnny Vegas, Lauren Laverne and Emma Kennedy examining a subject of their decision. That very year, Reeves introduced an oddball public broadcast on BBC Radio 1, entitled Chicken of the Wood.
In 2004 Reeves and his better half, Nancy Sorrell were the two competitors in the fourth series of I’m a VIP… Get Me Out of Here!. He additionally showed up in the series Catterick with Mortimer showing up as a few characters. In September 2005, Reeves facilitated a show for Virgin Radio called Vic Reeves Enormous Night In created by Imprint Augustyn, for a brief period on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7.00pm.
Reeves introduced a verifiable ten-section series, entitled Rebels Exhibition, which was displayed on the Disclosure Channel (UK) in 2005, where he explored, and depicted Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Commander Kidd, Claude Duval, Jonathan Wild, Loot Roy, Colonel Blood, George Ransley, Elder Brodie, Blackbeard and Dick Turpin. Sorrell likewise showed up in certain episodes. Going on in this vein, Vic Reeves’ Privateers was displayed on ITV West and, thusly, on the Set of experiences Divert in 2007. In May 2006, Reeves introduced a program on ITV Tyne Tees about Upper east satire culture hit It’s Entertaining Up North with… Vic Reeves. In July 2011, Reeves and Mortimer delivered a determination of YouTube ad libbed improv shows, in relationship with Encourage’s. They delivered their “Evening Enjoyment” cuts each work day evening in July.
