20:27. “In fact, I saw a documentary about Barry Davies recently and he mentioned it!

The kids don’t have to go to bed – they can keep watching it with their parents. !’ We just kind of put these combinations together. Think of it as a time machine where we’ll go backwards and forwards, adding unreleased content from every stage of the band’s career.Over the next two years we’ll be adding at least four albums’ worth of unreleased audio material along with many hours of video, never before seen photos and much more.Watch Greg Spawton and David Longdon’s introduction to the Passengers ClubAn introduction to the first book from Kingmaker Publishing, a new publishing house from Nick Shilton and Greg Spawton. Sometimes they were funny, sometimes they weren’t. Find out more I’m familiar with editing suites and that’s always how they speak, in that serious style. All rights reserved  |  Website Design and Build by Steve Cadman – In response, we have set up a donate button. What if Jesus and Satan worked in the same office? 50+ videos Play all Mix - Office Politics: Jesus vs the Devil - Big Train - BBC comedy YouTube The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch) - Duration: 7:35. That was really the Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris style.

“I wanted to make sure there was plenty of room for these accidents, these kinds of crazy ideas that came out of nowhere.”“There’s something about that I love,” says Linehan. Every little bit will help to keep the band operational.Updated fortnightly with new content for at least two years.Go backstage with the band with fly on the wall videosExclusive blog posts from Greg Spawton, David Longdon and Nick Shilton, Big Big Train's manager “It’s the jockeys’ innocence… they’re simple-minded and Prince is a devious animal. For me the fun was coming up with new ideas.”“It was actually based on a comic by Paul Hatcher,” says Graham Linehan. We did have a t-shirt designed (see image), but didn’t get to the stageBuy BBT music including ‘Grand Tour’ on vinyl from BURNING SHED If you prefer to buy downloads, all of our releases are available through We have received a number of requests for a facility to make donations to the band to help at this difficult time.Thank you so much to all listeners for their continuing support.© 2020 Big Big Train Limited. “We borrowed the Armando Iannucci super-realism thing. Policeman John is transformed into the future of law enforcement by a group of keen scientists, some sticky back plastic and a cardboard box. Big Train is a classic American diner serving quality comfort food. I don’t think girls would have been as interested in it as the boys. I t’s been 20 years since Arthur Matthews and Graham Linehan’s sketch show Big Train made its debut on BBC Two. But we had all these extras, so we thought we write a few sketches for these guys and that led to some of my favourite stuff, like when Simon makes this speech and runs towards enemy lines, but no one hears what he said. All of the events were commentated upon by John (voiced by real life commentator After the success of the Stare-outs, Hatcher created two follow-up books, Although the series did not feature many recurring sketches, some of the more notable included: Also sketches with businessmen because we had offices we could shoot in for a few days.”“It was just the idea that if you have someone who’s always ‘on’ like that,” says Linehan.


“You just change what they’re saying. That’s why we did a few jockeys sketches, and another example was cavaliers and round heads.“They were originally for a sketch that was a parody of Zulu with soldiers versus chickens. As was the show’s gleeful spoofing of cinema.So we get a send-up of romantic French arthouse flicks, where a woman falls in love with a pair of traffic lights (only for her former partner to find fulfilment with a garden hose), and The Birds re-imagined with working class men instead of avian menaces.Another glorious mash-up saw a Western showdown between the Bee Gees and Chaka Khan (“nooooooooooooooooooooo!”), complete with Eldon’s bafflingly long handgun, and Pegg devolving into subdued falsetto while reloading.In true Monty Python style, many of Big Train’s vignettes were funny simply because the absurdity of the situation made you laugh.There was the playboy who can seduce his friend’s wife, but can’t open a bedroom door; the unfortunate chap who initiates silence everywhere he goes (including a packed sports stadium), and the “fat-handed tw**” who keeps getting insulted, even when he saves a baby from certain death.Other highlights revolved around simple conceits such as a man telling a tourist he doesn’t speak English – while speaking fluent English.But like Python, sometimes the comedy sent up attitudes or individuals in strange but clever ways, with a subversive or satirical twist.Elsewhere, music producer George Martin is seen driving a fellow hostage mad with his endless tales of The Beatles and their exploits, after they are snatched by kidnappers.What helped all of this work were the gamely serious approaches of the performers, and the way in which they adjusted themselves adeptly to the tasks at hand; from Tate’s pitch-perfect Parisian airs in the French movie segment, to Eldon’s earnest impersonations and everymen.That, and the fact that Linehan and Mathews’ endlessly creative scenarios meant you had absolutely no idea what to expect next.Big Train ran for just two series; the first in 1998, the latter following – in appropriately unconventional fashion – four years later in 2002.Linehan, who was not involved in the second run, went on to create Among their assorted successes and hits, Big Train generally gets less recognition than it should.

Big Train at 20: the spectacularly surreal sketch show with a cast of future stars The cult comedy from Father Ted’s creators was completely unique – and is well worth re-visiting By Mark Butler “I found the principal so funny. – but played totally straight.“We were very impressed by On The Hour and The Day Today,” says Linehan. I said to Mark, ‘It’s just all that stuff you do when you’re on your own.’ Mark said, ‘Well I don’t talk to myself.’ I thought, ‘Oh, OK… that probably is a bit odd!”“And someone comes in and produces a spoon!” says Matthews. It’s actually a controversial one because a lot of people didn’t like it. He wasn’t expecting it, that really makes me laugh.“Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed at how easy some of the sketch ideas were. Big Big Train’s Rikard Sjöblom has a new Gungfly album,  released on the 4th Septermber‘Alone Together’ saw Gungfly recording as a trio, with brothers and previous collaborators Petter and Rasmus Diamant on drums and bass respectively. “It was a lot of fun playing both keyboards and guitar because I had come up with a lot of nice parts but I knew early on that I wanted to make the album with the brothers on drums and bass – luckily they were very up for it!” This ‘power-trio’ have focussed on the rock this time, and you can hear that loud and clear: “I didn’t want to smother the production with layers upon layers of keyboards and bells and whistles but instead tried to keep it prog rock with the focus on ROCK. “Simon especially, because he gets scared when he holds it.

The Complete Series 1 and 2 has been released in the US and the UK. Read our community guidelines in full It’s just a stupid idea. “He also directed the jockeys. Big Train 43rd World Stare Out Championship Finals - Duration: 20:27.


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