Kind of a sell out though unfortunately. In Spaced series 2 he delightfully lampooned the Star Wars prequels, then ended up in bed with the biggest hack in Hollywood Jar Jar Abrams for the risible sequel movies and the 3 abominable Kelvin timeline Star Trek films
@@GarethColquhoun He literally helped write ST Beyond, and Shaun Of The Dead wasn't exactly an obscure indie movie. Spaced I also notice how you talked about him mocking Star Wars, but threw in Star Trek. And the prequels were all directed by Lucas himself. The sequels weren't. Pegg played literally one minor character, in one movie. You're also assuming the views of his character are the exact same as his personal views. And he couldn't just change his mind in _15 years_ . IMO, you just want to complain about those movies, and you took an excuse.
The quality of this sketch is just amazing...the conceit...the acting...the kids voices...it's just perfect and you just don't get this kind of stuff any more. Brilliant...never fails to make me laugh.
@@nealjroberts4050 Never heard of it, never seen it (not saying it's bad, i have no idea). I have seen Father Ted, Alan Partridge, Big Train, The Office, Brass Eye, The Young Ones, Black Adder, Monty Python, Mighty Boosh (and many others) on the steady production line of interesting and original comedy produced by british men from the late 1950s to around 2010 though.
@@andrewstanton3787 The first part of your statement, I'm with you. But... legal reasons? You could show kids but couldn't record their voices? I'm sure it wasn't for legal reasons. It was because the kids mumbled and were useless at enunciating properly.
Haha. There are some fantastic little details..like his 'war wound' limp and the kid's hobnails on the wooden floor. The ending is pure Python of course.
If a comedy show is dreaming of doing something, it will do it. Big Train is a funny show, but it's hardly Monty Python or A bit of Fry & Laurie is it...
I ALWAYS laugh when he says "Adam Rickitt", just something about the delivery and the banality of it, but the point ofthe sketch is actually quite moving.
They'll probably throw her in some cgi-filled attempt at reviving Doctor Who, that crap old show with the cardboard spaceships, misguidedly thinking that'll appeal to the "yoof". There's no way something like that would be a success.
I quoted that bit because the audience didn't laugh at it and it deserved a laugh because the word "creatively" is usually reserved for musicians with more pretensions or more explicitly conceptual work.
i wish bbc would stop putting the entire plot in the titles for me this sketch would have been better if i wasn't waiting for a Billie Piper reference surely the sketch is juxtaposition these kind of people in this kind of tv program/film shouldn't be talking about Billie Piper
It's so people can find the sketch when they search for it. I think that's the majority compared to people who happen upon it and see it for the first time.
Maybe it's because I'm not British, but I don't get the joke. Who is Sonia? Honestly, I didn't get any of the references. But it was still funny the way they did the whole thing.
anonimuso Sonia was a U.K. singer/pop star for a short while back in the 90s, so you’d be forgiven for not getting that reference! A lot of the references in big train are quite specific - I have to look them up from time to time as they often escape me too.
Up until 2004, apparently. Now it's the occasional TV role. She's suffered the complete eclipse of a career that only perhaps half a dozen older women, like Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, etc. escape. It's the classic dilemma of the unattractive or peri-menopausal actress: if the average male punter doesn't want to shag you (anymore), you'd better have a hell of a lot of talent to overcome that and stay in acting. It's brutal but that's showbiz.
Ah! Dear Miss Piper... Sent a birthday drink over to her table in The Zoo Club off Oxford Street a few years ago. She was very gracious and I was thanked, but her large 'friends' found it disturbing that I knew it was her birthday. Simple; it is also mine. When quizzed by them as to my reason for 'interrupting Billie's evening' I could only reply, 'Well as Arthur Lowe from Dad's Army is dead and he can't have a drink on my birthday, Billie Piper better had. Also, chaps, Fay Weldon doesn't come in here much, so she's proper dipped out on a wet!'
This is definitely up there with some of my favourite Big Train sketches. Along with the Cat and Mouse post-pub fight, the new office manager ("no way! I cannot believe it. The guy is a w*nker!"), and Stephen Randygland.
I'm watching this again because in a 2018 sitcom Derry Girls, at a party they all dance to Saturday Night by.... Whigfield! I instantly remembered the Adam Rickett line and had to watch it again.
Wow. Replying to an 11 year old comment. Ok...she may have seen the sketch, or heard about it, even though Big Train wasnt popular, but Simon Pegg wasnt famous when he made the show. Its highly unlikely Billie would have remembered his face from the sketch. See you all in 2034.
@@TheGrenfellRatio I remember it being fairly popular. I agree that she probably wouldn't have associated Simon Pegg with that specific sketch, which she may well have forgotten even existed by the time she worked with him. By the time he did his Doctor Who episode he was best known for Spaced on TV and Shaun of the Dead in the cinema.
A 90's singer. Her first album was produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman and was moderately successful. She entered Eurovision and released a few albums after that but soon fell into obscurity.
They are making fun of a technique often used in British 50s B-movies where children were dubbed with the voices of adults pretending to be children. Don't ask me why that was done in the 50s (actors' unions, minimising retakes?), but it's typical of Big Train's attention to detail.
@@njdarda Mum (sitcom) Happy Valley (Drama) Fleabag (sitcom) Two Doors Down (sitcom). Sketch shows are a rarity at the moment, but they’ll return. I remember when Big Train first came out, and MANY HATED IT, as it was too surreal and based on Oxbridge humour. Perhaps it was ahead of it’s time. I don’t think it was consistently brilliant, but agree it was great, and this Billie sketch was amazing.
'Stan Twitter' is a term used for the masses of airheaded teenage girls who 'Stan' certain music artists (usually people like Ariana Grande). The term 'Stanning' is a reference to the obsessive fan in the video for 'Stan' by Eminem.
No, haha. 'Stan Twitter' isn't a person; 'Stan Twitter' is a collective term for these megafans who spend vast amounts of time on Twitter tweeting about their favourite artist and literally nothing else.
@@Sawrattan That really depends on your opinion of 37... I guess it's more inbetween her music not being big enough in Germany, while her outfits were not being tiny enough to override my usual taste in music... I mean... It's not like I wasn't there: I went and saw the virgin Britney Spears live in concert while wearing full goth attire
@aberdeenstu1 Although Tracy-Ann Obermann was in series two of Big Train (see the Ralph 'Streets of London' McTell and Meeting the New Girlfriend sketches, for example), I'm pretty sure this is a sketch from series one. You might also recognise Amelia Bullmore from Brass Eye and Jam (the TV lizards sketch)
The kids' dubbed voices are a hilarious touch.
More 50’s.
In France when they dub English shows/films, they still use adult voices for the kids. It looks so odd.
It’s awesome
It's Tracy Ann Oberman, who plays the wife in the sketch.
BBC radio drama 1970's voices were both great and terrible.
It will never not be bizarre to me that Simon Pegg is a big Hollywood actor now
I know what you mean. He's cozy with Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible films. I mean, when did that happen? Haha!
Kind of a sell out though unfortunately. In Spaced series 2 he delightfully lampooned the Star Wars prequels, then ended up in bed with the biggest hack in Hollywood Jar Jar Abrams for the risible sequel movies and the 3 abominable Kelvin timeline Star Trek films
@@GarethColquhoun He literally helped write ST Beyond, and Shaun Of The Dead wasn't exactly an obscure indie movie. Spaced
I also notice how you talked about him mocking Star Wars, but threw in Star Trek. And the prequels were all directed by Lucas himself. The sequels weren't. Pegg played literally one minor character, in one movie. You're also assuming the views of his character are the exact same as his personal views.
And he couldn't just change his mind in _15 years_ .
IMO, you just want to complain about those movies, and you took an excuse.
Joe Cornish had an anecdote on Adam Buxton's Christmas podcast that gave some insight as to what being around Tom Cruise must really be like...
@@SpasmFunneland I still can’t remember the end. Did we ever get to the end of that story?
Fab sketch. Pre-Doctor Who too. Interesting that both the mum & the dad ended up playing opposite Billie Piper’s Rose in The Long Game, and Doomsday.
@stephen noonan .... oh oh... do me next .. do me next..
correcting grammar really gets my diction hard .
@Rees Jones shut the fuck up
The dad was the Editor, right? Who did the mum play?
@@hamsandwich4243 She was the boss lady at Torchwood, on the episodes where Rose "died."
That's because Britain has 3 actors. We need to rotate them.
The quality of this sketch is just amazing...the conceit...the acting...the kids voices...it's just perfect and you just don't get this kind of stuff any more. Brilliant...never fails to make me laugh.
The plummeting quality in british comedy coincided with the decision to prioritize ethnic diversity ahead of quality.
@@larsivar8772 citizen khan for example
@@larsivar8772
If you think Mrs Brown's Boys is ethnic diversity then there's no hope for you
@@nealjroberts4050 Never heard of it, never seen it (not saying it's bad, i have no idea). I have seen Father Ted, Alan Partridge, Big Train, The Office, Brass Eye, The Young Ones, Black Adder, Monty Python, Mighty Boosh (and many others) on the steady production line of interesting and original comedy produced by british men from the late 1950s to around 2010 though.
ah, there you are....@@larsivar8772
This is even funnier now, knowing that Billie's stint as Rose Tyler made her more famous than her music career.
I love the obviously fake children's voices.
Probably couldn't get child actors with voice acting skills its hard to explain to a child how to talk like a upper class family from the 50s.
It's taking the piss out of films from that era where adults really were used to voice kids for legal reasons
The kids' voices were the best bit of the sketch.
@@andrewstanton3787 The first part of your statement, I'm with you. But... legal reasons? You could show kids but couldn't record their voices? I'm sure it wasn't for legal reasons. It was because the kids mumbled and were useless at enunciating properly.
@@WalterLiddy then why not just hire older kids to -immigrate- imitate the younger kids instead of fully grown adults?
Big Train was such a hugely underrated show. Some real genius sketches.
Totally agree. It was absolutely fantastic. Some of the best, most ingenious humour there is. I share it often with anglophiles I meet.
Mauriiiiiice!
Is that some. . . Reference to me not being married?
this is way funnier than i thought it would be! christina aghhhuiyyerhhja and the sound of the gramophone winding up
Ugly-hair-uh
Ha ha ha, the record playing cranking up slowly 🤣
Haha. There are some fantastic little details..like his 'war wound' limp and the kid's hobnails on the wooden floor. The ending is pure Python of course.
This is EXACTLY what being a grown-up pop fan is like.
Because we want to, because we want to.....BANG!!!!
Massively underrated show. Big Train and The Fast Show - trendsetters for comedy, they did things other comedy shows only dreamed of.
Everyone from big train just kept going up and up.
Even the actor, Kevin Eldon.
Always liked kevin eldon as the masyer of hobbies and the real rod hull.
If a comedy show is dreaming of doing something, it will do it. Big Train is a funny show, but it's hardly Monty Python or A bit of Fry & Laurie is it...
Come on, David, finish your EGG.
*F I N I S H Y O U R E G G*
*_E G G E_*
Oh but it's too hard; the soldiers won't go in.
COME ALONG BABS WE CAN PLAY ON THE SWING
Pegg has achieved huge success as an actor and writer but I'm not sure he was ever as purely funny as he was in this show.
He's done nothing but crap since Hot Fuzz
@@mikedown1250 Apart from Star Trek,..Several Mission Impossible films,...The Worlds End,..Lost Transmissions,...
as a writer for star trek he ruined that last movie with his overt influence.@@westboundbadger
Everyone has an opinion.@@mdegauss
everything is going to be downhill after hot fuzz, its basically the perfect movie. @@mikedown1250
Big Train. A modern Monty Python. Fantastic.
I ALWAYS laugh when he says "Adam Rickitt", just something about the delivery and the banality of it, but the point ofthe sketch is actually quite moving.
the little boys voice is brilliant
'Creatively, she'll be finished'.
thanks i couldn't tell what he said there
It's like Patsy Kensit all over again. [sob]
They'll probably throw her in some cgi-filled attempt at reviving Doctor Who, that crap old show with the cardboard spaceships, misguidedly thinking that'll appeal to the "yoof". There's no way something like that would be a success.
@@totaltotalmonkey But she married Liam Gallagher. And wasn't that nice? Oh...
I quoted that bit because the audience didn't laugh at it and it deserved a laugh because the word "creatively" is usually reserved for musicians with more pretensions or more explicitly conceptual work.
I completely forgot Billie Piper was also a singer.
I just remember her from Doctor Who and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
You forgot because you wanted to, because you wanted to.
I always forget too lol.
I don't.
God, she was annoying.
@@marcuswalters8093 Still is. 😉
Simon Pegg seems to have gotten younger since this was filmed lol.
success does that to you
its the hair plugs
He got treatment for his alcoholism.
He's been 36 for about 20 years.
He's dead.
If he’d only lived to see her acting career boom
i wish bbc would stop putting the entire plot in the titles
for me this sketch would have been better if i wasn't waiting for a Billie Piper reference
surely the sketch is juxtaposition
these kind of people in this kind of tv program/film shouldn't be talking about Billie Piper
Good point, but the entire BBC isn't responsible for this. Just one of the people in charge of the UA-cam channel
What would you call the video?
It's so people can find the sketch when they search for it. I think that's the majority compared to people who happen upon it and see it for the first time.
@@EXCELLENTpoo So then pop "bille piper" in the tags not the title.
@@SuperMikeFender exactly.
Billie needs to make a singing come back if only to cheer up Simon Pegg.
Every aspect of this is absolutely hilarious. 😂
Billie became the Doctors 'companion' & the wife in this sketch became the head of Torchwood & then a Cyberwoman. But she still did her 'duty'.
Kevin Thorpe And Simon Pegg became The Editor! :D
Come on David, finish your egg.
Noel Coward and Celia Johnson would be proud. Terribly, terribly proud. @@bonechip01
And Billie is responsible for both their Doctor Who deaths
And Jodie Whittaker and chris chibnall have killed off the whole show lol
Oh ye Simon pegg with the 9th doctor. And I think the woman is with the 10th who is in the tv
@@jonathanblake6130 She was the head of Torchwood in Doomsday
@@makeitsonumberone1358 Jodie is doing great though. Not a fan of the companions this time though tbf.
Current Dr Who is a bit rough but by no means terrible. At least it doesn't have the forehead-slapping stupidity of the Moffat years.
Amazing just as a sketch idea...cannon fodder. And the executed so beautifully. Sublime.
The misdirect of Pegg having a limp to imply the telegram is about someone in a war is so very clever.
This is literally k-pop fans.
Well, it will be in 20 years' time.
Deadass
Yes. Terrible music attracts such people.
Cant believe ive only just discovered this absolute comedy gold
"she certainly won't have to make hats like Sonia"
Maybe it's because I'm not British, but I don't get the joke. Who is Sonia? Honestly, I didn't get any of the references. But it was still funny the way they did the whole thing.
anonimuso Sonia was a U.K. singer/pop star for a short while back in the 90s, so you’d be forgiven for not getting that reference! A lot of the references in big train are quite specific - I have to look them up from time to time as they often escape me too.
Yeah, the Sonia line killed it. I was amazed anyone remembered.
@@JoePearsonGuitarist I liked Dawn French's imitation of Sonia in the Star Test sketch on French & Saunders!
@@barbarakirk3064 "Liverpool"
Even Patsy makes the occasional film ...
DOES she? Does she REALLY?
Up until 2004, apparently. Now it's the occasional TV role. She's suffered the complete eclipse of a career that only perhaps half a dozen older women, like Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, etc. escape. It's the classic dilemma of the unattractive or peri-menopausal actress: if the average male punter doesn't want to shag you (anymore), you'd better have a hell of a lot of talent to overcome that and stay in acting. It's brutal but that's showbiz.
it's really the AH! in the shot that makes it for me 😂😂😂
They joke about it but this is a very big deal for us in *BilliePiperLand*
There, there, we all have that one musician we think deserves more recognition.
Yes Mark Lenover :(
Yes Sophie Ellis-Bextor :(
One of the best sketch shows.... Ever! Just facts
Wigfield, Brother Beyond LOL!
"Adam Rickett!" ahahaha
Simon pegg is always awesome at comedy
I love the bitterness of the 'Adam Rickett'
Ah! Dear Miss Piper... Sent a birthday drink over to her table in The Zoo Club off Oxford Street a few years ago. She was very gracious and I was thanked, but her large 'friends' found it disturbing that I knew it was her birthday. Simple; it is also mine. When quizzed by them as to my reason for 'interrupting Billie's evening' I could only reply, 'Well as Arthur Lowe from Dad's Army is dead and he can't have a drink on my birthday, Billie Piper better had. Also, chaps, Fay Weldon doesn't come in here much, so she's proper dipped out on a wet!'
This is definitely up there with some of my favourite Big Train sketches. Along with the Cat and Mouse post-pub fight, the new office manager ("no way! I cannot believe it. The guy is a w*nker!"), and Stephen Randygland.
I'm watching this again because in a 2018 sitcom Derry Girls, at a party they all dance to Saturday Night by.... Whigfield! I instantly remembered the Adam Rickett line and had to watch it again.
Simon Pegg could've been Pete Tyler. Remember that.
This was random so fun
. ❤ a huge fan of Billie Piper 🌟💖
Merry Christmas Billie n family 🎄🎅
I wonder if Simon Pegg mentioned this to her when he did those episodes of Doctor Who? Or if he kept very quiet about it.
you don't think she would have heard of a BBC sketch about her at the time?
He probably didn't mention it, but she would have seen it when it was on.
Wow. Replying to an 11 year old comment. Ok...she may have seen the sketch, or heard about it, even though Big Train wasnt popular, but Simon Pegg wasnt famous when he made the show. Its highly unlikely Billie would have remembered his face from the sketch. See you all in 2034.
@@TheGrenfellRatio I remember it being fairly popular. I agree that she probably wouldn't have associated Simon Pegg with that specific sketch, which she may well have forgotten even existed by the time she worked with him. By the time he did his Doctor Who episode he was best known for Spaced on TV and Shaun of the Dead in the cinema.
I get each and every subtle reference, love it.
That must feel incredible.
I got them all except one, but it was really subtle so I reckon i'm still quite clever
ADAM RICKETTS!!! Class.
Such a brilliant sketch!
I almost killed myself when Honey to the bee chartered outside the top 20.
Clown, you know nothing about our Billie.
This sketch should come with a trigger warning.
Not about the suicide, about the playing of that bloody song.
Why do they play that song so loud?
@@nealjroberts4050 I know & why they always hang around in crowds? 🤔
Ah, Simon Pegg before he bought his new hair
Pubis? He has the new pubis?
She certainly won't have to make hats like Sonia.
I didn't get that line. Who is Sonia?
A 90's singer. Her first album was produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman and was moderately successful. She entered Eurovision and released a few albums after that but soon fell into obscurity.
80s singer
@@MarkAtkin I doubt the sanity of people who don't know about perky Scouse chanteuse Sonia. She's a legend.
@@dannydorko7075 90s.
How on earth has no-one heard of this show? This is criminally underrated 😂
I've heard of it.
Right?!
It's well known in the UK. I preferred to The Fast Show tbh.
I watched it and still remember it fondly, so...
All good comedy plays with reality. There are some souls whose entire existence is focused on a celebrity.
One big mistake. They totally shouldn't have put the spoiler in the title. If you see this for the first time the twist is already ruined.
It's probably to show up better in the searches.
They are making fun of a technique often used in British 50s B-movies where children were dubbed with the voices of adults pretending to be children. Don't ask me why that was done in the 50s (actors' unions, minimising retakes?), but it's typical of Big Train's attention to detail.
Absolutely brilliant .
"COME ALONG BABS WE CAN PLAY ON THE SWING"
solid 24 carat gold
What also add to the hilarity is they dress as if it was the 1940s Ha LOL
thanks. I didn't catch that.
@@StanleyKubick1 you're welcome. I wondered why they were dressed like that
Man, this show was so great
I had to look it up, different Chris Evans.
😂
Lol, the less handsome and famous one
you saved me few precious minutes
A shit tonne richer though...
Same!
LMAO i love watching this... it's sooo funny
Please tell me that Miss Piper saw this sketch!
I can't say that I understand any of this, but it's pretty fun to watch.
Brilliant. Anyone else get strong notes of Catherine Tate’s “Aga Saga Woman” during the setup?
No.
No because this is funny
I thought the mother WAS Catherine Tate at first! I'm that used to seeing Tracey-Ann Oberman as Auntie Val in Friday Night Dinner.
Very funny. Wish the BBC could still make classy comedy like this.
They got taken over by political activists who sucked all the fun out in favour of “messaging”
It does
@@philjones45 examples?
@@njdarda Mum (sitcom) Happy Valley (Drama) Fleabag (sitcom) Two Doors Down (sitcom). Sketch shows are a rarity at the moment, but they’ll return. I remember when Big Train first came out, and MANY HATED IT, as it was too surreal and based on Oxbridge humour. Perhaps it was ahead of it’s time. I don’t think it was consistently brilliant, but agree it was great, and this Billie sketch was amazing.
Pegg is a hoot!
I believe he played the Editor in the Long Game.
Comedy gold!' ADAM RICKETT' gers me everytime!
Christina Aghielheira
dpj1 Christina Uglyhaira
You could make this exact sketch today and it would still work as a parody of Stan Twitter.
Who's Stan Twitter?
'Stan Twitter' is a term used for the masses of airheaded teenage girls who 'Stan' certain music artists (usually people like Ariana Grande). The term 'Stanning' is a reference to the obsessive fan in the video for 'Stan' by Eminem.
@@SongBillong So is Eminem's Stan the same Stan who invented Twitter?
No, haha. 'Stan Twitter' isn't a person; 'Stan Twitter' is a collective term for these megafans who spend vast amounts of time on Twitter tweeting about their favourite artist and literally nothing else.
Literally all Whovians after watching Doomsday
Does he call his sister 'Old Babs' ?? hahahahaha!
I really like that jumper.
The limp.
Adam Ricket!!! Genius.
The funny thing is Pegg’s a huge Doctor Who fan so Piper was Rose in S1 and 2
Pegg tried to kill Piper in season 1
Little did he know that he would work witt her 5 years later on one of his favourite shows
Brilliant
I had literally no idea that she made music?!
You must be young!
@@Sawrattan That really depends on your opinion of 37... I guess it's more inbetween her music not being big enough in Germany, while her outfits were not being tiny enough to override my usual taste in music... I mean... It's not like I wasn't there: I went and saw the virgin Britney Spears live in concert while wearing full goth attire
@@DerWeltraumcowboy ah sorry thought you were British!
@@Sawrattan I'm amazed people outside the Anglosphere know she exists at all!
DerWeltraumcowboy
she didn't 😱🙉🙉🙉😨
I was devastated as well lol
That is one helluva punchline!
This is me when/if a Blue Nile or Prefab Sprout album misses the top 20.
They make albums!?
@@anonUK It happens!
I love Billie Piper .
Why does Simon Pegg have a limp?😂
Cos it's post-war
post-war middle class men in tweed and sweater vests have limps. what's not clear?
Good child actors are hard to find.
Looveee Billie Piperrr ;)))
oh hey i didn't know ashens was on a real tv show! good for him!
And of course both adult actors then took on parts in Doctor Who later when Billie was in it. Wonder if any of them remembered this sketch...
Genius.
@aberdeenstu1 Although Tracy-Ann Obermann was in series two of Big Train (see the Ralph 'Streets of London' McTell and Meeting the New Girlfriend sketches, for example), I'm pretty sure this is a sketch from series one. You might also recognise Amelia Bullmore from Brass Eye and Jam (the TV lizards sketch)
@Mikemaniax Oh the things I've blown out over Billie Piper...
this is fab
Wait until he discovers secret diary
Don’t worry dear. Who knows, Billie may star in a popular science fiction tv show.
2:04 I just realised that both of these actors would end up playing opposite Billie in years to come.
Interesting comedy.