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All this suggests that novel-writing is a very promising new direction for comedy’s latest national treasure. Find sources: "Bob Mortimer"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

With his status as national treasure assured, Bob Mortimer can expect a lot of goodwill for his debut novel, an amiable crime thriller. Nelson, Alex (28 March 2018). "Podcast of the week: Athletico Mince's surreal look at football". inews.co.uk . Retrieved 23 April 2023. Gary also likes to engage in chit-chat with the squirrel he encounters in the park every day, imagining the other side of the conversation. He doesn’t have many mates, see: a couple of blokes he watches football with maybe, or the occasional exchange with the cantankerous old woman next door. In 1997, in collaboration with Chris Rea, Mortimer recorded Rea's hit " Let's Dance" with his favourite football team, Middlesbrough. The single reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart. [16] Mortimer co-wrote the BBC Three sketch comedy Tittybangbang with Jill Parker. The programme starred Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen, with Tony Way, and ran for three series between 2006 and 2007.

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What’s more, this foray into fiction shares common ground with the likes of Richard Osman and Rev Richard Coles, whose successful transitions from light entertainers into light entertainment authors is clearly a blueprint. The story is "about a bloke who's wife leaves him but maybe she's been taken, he's got to find out" Mortimer told The One Show. "On the way he utilises a very long shoe to solve the mystery"

Bob Mortimer – my battle with arthritis". Radio Times . Retrieved 24 October 2007– via BBC Press Office. As a thriller, it’s admittedly lightweight but because Mortimer has such affection for his characters and appetite for regular flights of fancy that can sprinkle magic over humdrum situations, it’s a genuinely enjoyable debut. I thought if I did the same character, I'll just write the same book," he said. "So I thought, you know, go do something different." But it’s the details that really set this book apart. Off the wall doesn’t quite cover it. What other fictional sleuth would write “large bananas” in tiny letters on an architrave in his office to cheer himself up at work? Or assign the names Zak Briefcase and Lengthy Parsnips to a pair of dogs he passes in the street? Fans of Mortimer’s surrealist turns on Would I Lie to You?, or his internet sketch show Train Guy, won’t be disappointed. Nor will crime fiction devotees, if only they can get over the talking squirrels. Pain, Andrew (10 August 2011). "Bob Mortimer on growing up on Teesside and North-east comedy". TeessideLive . Retrieved 11 February 2022.

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On 29 December 2017, Mortimer and Reeves starred in a relaunch and new singular episode of their comedy Big Night Out for the BBC. The show has been remade and subsequently renamed to Vic and Bob's Big Night Out. The episode remained true to the classic Big Night Out formula and was composed of various comedy songs, skits, characters and sketches. This was the first time the Big Night Out series had featured Mortimer's name in the title. A full series of Vic and Bob's Big Night Out began on BBC Four in November 2018. In 2005, Mortimer hosted his first major TV series without Reeves, a comedy panel game for BBC One, called 29 Minutes of Fame, which featured regular guests such as Jo Brand.