Vic and Bob are inviolable. As a pair, they’ve given us untold delights. Characters, stories, songs, sitcoms, dances, spoofs, silliness, the best gameshow that ever existed … all a product of their madly inventive comedy minds. Together, they’re perfect. Apart?

They’re still splendid – Jim Moir as an artist and Bob Mortimer as a podcaster and amateur fisherman. To celebrate the return of Bob’s other TV double-act, Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, starting on Friday at 8pm on BBC Two, Den Of Geek presents just some of the many times Bob Mortimer has turned up unscripted and sans Vic on TV and made the world a brighter, funnier place, including…

When he played darts for Comic Relief as Bobby “Carpets” Mortimer (2015)

“It’s just through my love of carpets, really.”

The darts world wasn’t ready for Bobby “Carpets” Mortimer, who emerged for the match wearing a suit of carpet armour, playing exuberant air guitar with a roll of polyester short-pile.