Is this some kind of joke? - Big Train - BBC comedy
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2009
- A man becomes a little defensive in the pub when he thinks his friends are making some kind of reference to him not being married. Funny short from off-the-wall comedy sketch show 'Big Train'. Starring Simon Pegg. Contains strong language.
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The fact that UA-cam recommended this video...that’s some kind of reference to me not being married isn’t it?
Lmaooo
I’m not….having a go..
hahaha, very nice!
@@RaferJeffersonIII I’m not afraid of you!
Oh yawn it’s another “joke regurgitator” in the comments section of a UA-cam video.
Mark Heap is criminally underrated as a comic actor. Why on earth don't we see him more?
Hello, Jackie! You look nice.
We see him just enough to keep him Mark Heap.
Mark Heaps greatest work for me was Sex For Houses and close second Mr Lizard the TV repair man. Absolute legend
Because he got married.
He's amazing as the pantomimic Robert Greene.
When he sang ‘I’m getting married in the morning’ it was so Jim from Friday night dinner
Chiiiiiiiiiime
Spot aunty Val?
Kevin Eldon is a brilliant comic actor. His expressions are always perfect.
I toast that comment with a glass of weak lemon drink.
That’s “the actor” Kevin Eldon
@@markc17 After taking a rubbing of a vicars arse?
I'm certain that this whole sketch is just a roundabout, sly way of attacking *me* .
Is your comment, highlighting me, some reference to me? The way you also use 'sketch' and 'roundabout'. I see what your getting at....
@@RustlingJimmies69 Tu sais? Vraimant? Tu pense que je ne comprends pas, mais JE COMPRENDS!!
I know how this story is going to end...
@@tomsdottir I don't know what you just said, BUT I'M GETTING MARRIED IN THE MORNING!
Does this comment have something to do with me not being married?
Mark Heap is great.
thenodfather he plays weird like no one else
Lost User - what are you saying? If he wasn’t so good at playing weird he’d be married?
Mr Lizard
mark grant ua-cam.com/video/SjrocTiM8gI/v-deo.html
"Wilsonnnnn" *flinches*
RIP Wilson 😳
Twist leaving Brian really messed him up.
Yep, or this could be Alan Statham long after he left Green Wing. Alan Statham has a penchant for consuming body parts, last time he swallowed somebody's gall bladder.
ended up living by himself and his dog wilson, shaloommm
who of us here *hasn't* sliced off their finger and *eaten it just to prove a well founded point*
As an unmarried man I find this very offensive
Done that like nine times. I think I've got one point left to make.
He didn t eat it to prove the point, he ate it to conceal the evidence from the other friend
Yeah loads of times. [Somebody else typed this for me.]
I know. It's a bit overused if you ask me
He didn't say Tango because it takes two to Tango.
And a "couple" of bodyguards! I know what he's saying!
Ha ha ha... Not throwing (the bouquet)
"Kicking the coke" = "single bloke" ... I would've floored 'im.
“In the carriage” - Cockney rhyming slang for marriage.
"I'm getting married in the morning, ding dong the bells are going to-" [opens door]
"chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME"
George Lally it’s not val everyone it’s not val
Oh Hi jackie, your getting... remarried?
Feel like if this didn't have a laughter track it would fit quite well in JAM
I love how big train sketches are completely random but hilarious
Is this some reference to me not beig married?
@@max1mus963 no dw I'm not commenting on you not be married
Top notch Big Train featuring two of the UK's finest comic actors, Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap.
I have known people like this.
Me too. Paranoid schizophrenics.
ERL yeap unfortunately my ex-girlfriend developed symptoms of paranoia like this. After 10 years of happy life, it turned our lives upside down. Sad. I still love her but after 3 extreme episodes, it was too much.
D'Ascoyne 😂🤣😂😂
Britains a weird place
@@leod-sigefast 'ex-girlfriend' so I assume you're not married?
As someone who has a schizophrenic, very delusional sister, I've gotta say the writing and Mark Heap's delivery absolutely nails the absurdity of their kind of talk brilliantly. That tone, where they're onto you, they know your little game, that's exactly how it is. The way Heap's character expects that Eldon's character understands his own internal logic, that Coke cans (but not Tango cans) are symbolic of marriage, in a way that to him seems incredibly obvious... It's just spot on. I've experienced a very similar talk (though relating to communication with the dead) in the past and, minus the severed finger, it was quite amazingly similar to this scene. I can see how from an outside perspective, and for myself with the benefit of many years of hindsight, this can make for some excruciatingly awkward comedy. Well played, guys! Big Train could really pull some clever stuff out of the bag and make it look simple!
Is your sister single? Sounds like exactly the kind of woman I'd ruin my life for.
Sadly my ex was an undiagnosed schizophrenic. Her dad was in an institution. She wasn’t diagnosed as she resisted all doctors and refused to go anywhere near them - fearing same fate as her dad.
It got worse and worse, and I know well what you’re saying: she wouldn’t ever explain the delusions, came home one day and she had thrown out everything made of metal and I asked why and she said “you know full well why, don’t lie to me”
I sadly had to make the decision to leave, I was young and I couldn’t cope with that. She lives with her mum now. I spent 3 years after the breakup bailing her out and supporting her financially.
What has wracked me with guilt is my breaking up with her made her much much worse and I feel partly responsible for her descent.
That is a very hard thing to deal with, but the issue is; it’s not like we were getting on. She was horrible to me a lot of the time.
I’ve never managed to come to terms with the guilt of leaving her. To this day it haunts me. We were together for about 6 years.
Guilt is a horrible thing.
@@RaferJeffersonIII you need to bear in mind that you left her for your own self protection. Having a partner with severe mental health problems isn’t easy and it sounds like it was wearing you down. What would be the benefit of staying with her and destroying your own mental health?
@@Leonards-leopard I know, I get it, it’s just still a traumatic experience. Things like death and bereavement are terrible but to be expected in life, but things like this, nobody prepared you for it.
it takes two to Tango, after all..
The commitment of this actor, cutting off the tip of his finger and eating it, just for the sake of the verisimilitude of the scene! Impressive indeed.
That's method acting for you .... Stanislaski School awesome.
Mark Heap was actually engaged to be married to his long-term partner but upon conception of this sketch cancelled his forthcoming nuptials at huge personal and financial expense.
@@thomridgeway1438 Or Stanislashy in this instance
I love how this involves both Mark Heap and a guy named “Jim”.
ding dong the bells are going to chime...
Mark did that one in Friday night dinner
Using a carrot for that finger-cut was some practical-effects-on-a-budget genius lol. "I'm getting married in the morrrrning..."
That little whimper Mark’s character does before he slices the tip of his own finger off with the cigar cutter always gets me lmao
C'mon Wilson, Good boy Wilson!
Slipped into Jim at around 1:57😂
Mark Heap - he's always brilliant!
When you get older and experience mental illness, whether it be through personal experience or through friends or family's experience..... So much of Jam and Big Train makes so much more sense. Horrifyingly so.
Totally!! I love this character so much mainly because it's close to home. I guess at least it's good if we can still laugh at ourselves.
i agree - if you've ever seen Limmy's show, about half the sketches in all the series are written from a place of mental illness. paranoia, insanity, toxic hate/self-hate etc
Oh yes! Agree with you all.
Wait.. I see what you're doing, mental illness, family experience, jam.. this is a reference to me not being married isnt it?!
@@Dannzzx Limmy's show is great, I feel fortunate I don't relate to some of the stuff he jokes about- alchoholism and drug addiction ruin lives.
Can you imagine the freaked out guy and Simon Pegg character's conversation when they left the pub? 😂
No, because it was a comedy sketch played by actors. The end of it is when it ends on screen. They didn’t discuss it afterwards or go home and talk about it to their wives you nincompoop!
@@MR-um9ck I'm guessing you're thick as pig shit. Either that or you're being deliberately thick. Comedy... Irony.... look them up 😑
You just came up with a completely pointless and unfunny scenario. What a waste of typing time on your part. I suggest you delete it because it makes you look like you have cognitive issues.
Least funny comment under this video.
@@hermanhawtrey8578 UA-cam deletes comments... Maybe you didn't notice or something? I wasn't replying to thin air... Maybe you won't see this one...who knows, eh, normie?
Comedy acting masterclass right here.
tears of laughter are literally falling...awesome
Mark Heap is just phenomenal! I love him in Friday Night Dinner, his Jim voice and character is completely different from his real one, you'd never ever guess they were the same person!
lmao that lip twitching at 1:42, he's brilliant!
Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap are brilliant actors in this sketch.
"i'm not afraid of you" LMAO
Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon in one sketch - comedy perfection!
Big train was the best comedy series of its time
Also The Office
This sketch is great; The panicked whimpering noises they make toward the end really add to the tension
Two of my daughter's favourite actors here: Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap.
Love his weird character on friday night dinner, hilarious haha.
+Kakarot When he got his alsatian drunk in the pub and said to the boys "this sometimes happens" - genius!
me too
And Brian...!!! ^_^
Yeah but I think he's more funny in FND!!!!!
Well, yes, I think so too! But I think that his character in spaced is well, not better or anything, in fact when I think about it, it is quite a lot like the character he plays in FND, a bit older and so, but he has a lot of the same well, qualities... I think. So in FND and in spaced I think he does a brilliant job as those quirky type of people, perhaps I am a beat weak when it comes to quirky people, that, that might be the reason why I love him in those roles...
One of the best sketches I’ve ever seen 😂😂
Is this some reference to me not beig marriage?
Sketches, my social life
ever seen, my never met wife...
Another great Graham Linehan comedy.
His acting is damn good
My fav sketch of all time
This is every pub I go into.
Note: Films & TV shows often show their true quality by how well the 'NPCs' are played. Pegg does a great job of setting this up as a normal situation e.g. adding in that matey little "Eh, shall ah go t' bar?" cod-Yorkshireism. You don't get that from extras.
Funniest Big Train sketch ever. Mark Heap does psycho's very well.
Was that superfluous apostrophe some reference to the fact that I'm not married?
@@stephen3654 No more than he deserves.
Psycho's what?
@@ilikethisnamebetter An accidental phone autocorrect added apostrophe, which I now can't edit and get rid of, because the original comment is so old.
Heap was outstanding in Spaced
I like how confused kevin looks
mr lizard
another mr lizard
you filled your teli with lizards.
Mark Heap is a genius.
Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon the GOAT
FND: The Jim years
some sort of …REFERENCE
etc
i imagine that being said by jim. with that pause he does before saying a word.
The pause here is what makes or breaks it. But I think Mark absolutely nailed it. "Some sort of.......REF'rence.....to me not being married?"
Can’t believe that’s Jim from Friday night dinner
Jim and Val spending some quality time together, it’s a shame Wilson isn’t there though however.
I pull this routine with people I have just met (through friends) all the time. Pretty smooth sailing after that.
How many fingers left to go?
This is absolutely hilarious
genius...watched it first time round and was glued.
So funny, every time! Wish I could keep a straight face & wind someone up with it. 😂.
the 30 second ad halfway through this sketch..is this some type of reference to me not being married?
Ah that's why Jim was like he was then, must of been through some heavy anger management therapy 😂 broke his brain haha
My wedding is tomorrow, and all I could think about today is this sketch :D
That’s probably not a good sign, Pitbull.
How is it one year later? Lol
@@octagonseventynine1253 Very good, thank you :) We've got a beautiful baby daughter now :)
Big train suffered the curse of success on the BBC. Second series had more money and more actors added...ruined the show.
First series still makes me cry with laughter
Agreed, the first series was PAINFULLY funny and innovative, whereas I barely got a laugh out of the second.
I was under the impression Graham Linehan was no longer involved after the first series which would explain the decline in, well, basically everything!
You could say there was too many cooks in... nevermind.
I think I even prefer the second series.....and that's not a reference to anybody not being married.
@@davelocke We know your caper,MY Son.....you're 'aving a pop...
Isn’t that just great that his name in this is also Jim? Haha
Loved Big Train, Smack the Pony and Goodness Gracious Me, some awesome sketch shows around back then
There really was. Also Absolutely, The Fast Show, Smith & Jones, Fry & Laurie, Harry Enfield & Chums , KYTV, Hale & Pace .... we really were spoiled in the 90s
I have been trying to find the sketch he did about the 'special' glue - funniest thing ever.
1:41: that stare 😂😂cracks me up!
Classic. I still cry with laughter ar this sketch.
You're laughing at me, aren't you? Because I'm not married
Shalom Jackie
Fancy having a go at the poor guy for not being married!
There's something wrong with that guy, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I think he's a cut above the rest
@@RealityCheck6T9 I auditioned for the role, but I didn't quite cut it.
Neither can he
I thought it would be quite easy to put his finger on it, well at least the tip.
I've always wanted to try this at a party where I don't know anyone
comedy is reference + friends. psycho is comedy - friends.
This sketch bothers me. I've cut in half the tip of my finger before and blood was just shooting everywhere.
Plus, the whole sketch kept going on about me not being married.
HAHAHAHA! this is halarious. ive never heard of "big train" its great
I'm twelve and I love this....
Jim meets jim
Henman's best French Open ever!
This is hilarious.
Kicking, not throwing...Kicking,kicking!
Dr Alan Statham is my hero.
THOUSANDS OF FLIES!
Up your fetid fanny!
‘Carrier pigeon…carrier pigeon
Carrier of….disease!’
"...starring Simon Pegg", the caption says. Why does he usually take the most credit for Big Train? The star of this sketch is Mark Heap. He is the best actor of all of them, IMO.
It's to reel people in I'd imagine. Whether or not you consider him the 'main event' of 'Big Train', he is generally the best-known actor in it. Certainly internationally. The Cornetto trilogy alone would be enough to account for that.
@@WeaselKing1000 This is before those films were made.
@@warrenrandall6936 The original show itself is, yes. The video was posted later (and its description was written later) than two of the three films came out.
I'm like this at work 😂😂
"Et el es 'voulez-vous cou--"
"Excuse me, what you were saying just there, was that some sort of, REFERENCE, to me not being married?"
the best joke here. "So Henmann has got a good chance on french open"...
LOL
Pedro Strom . Even nine years ago he'd been retired for years . That is just a very odd comment . Murray actually got very close one year too winning it .
kevin eldon, simon pegg and mark heap... i definitely have to watch this series haha.
The equestrians who desperately want to be firemen is a classic!
More Mark Heap on TV plz
“Ding dong the bells are going to chime”
Dr Alan Statham: the origins story
Haha, nice one!
They are. Both series were released on a double DVD
Then he ended up little more than a roboplegic wrongcock
Quadraspazzed on a life glug?
Two pin din plug
Genius
1:41 the twitch on his face....awesome
Jim looks different here lol
That's called delusions of reference :)
Three beers! Woohoo!
I think he reflects the real Jim in this
henman's got a good chance at the french open this year... hahaha
thats heavy
@bronc30td All three of them were in Spaced. Kevin Eldon was one of the sinister agents (dark suit, dark glasses) who tracked Daisy down after her return from Cambodia.
I'm American, so please forgive me for forgetting names, but is that the gent who played Brian Topp in "Spaced"? The guy is brilliant.
@CrispyBarney No, he wasnt talking about Simon Pegg. Pegg only has a supporting role in this clip. The mental guy is indeed the same guy who plays Brian in Spaced.
"'Ello Broy-ann......" God I love this guy. Will still never understand why you Brits only give talent like this a 1 or 2 series run and then shut it DOWN. I get not wanting to overstay one's welcome, but I could do at least 5 seasons of anything involving this loose troupe of geniuses from the '90s. Spaced--2 seasons?! That is not nearly enough Spaced for me. Don't know how you guys manage it.
@Solar phonix LoL hahah, you win the internet. Handle it responsibly.
@@andymerrett Hahahaha, oh, christ, Mrs. Brown's Boys--what is to be done w you? yes; that makes a lot of sense. Explanation appreciated. Not a native, but still solidly obsessed w classic UK TV. Mighty Boosh forever.
The Dread Parsnip generally I find that UK series have less filler episodes. Also they generally have only one or two writers, for which a tv show is a personal project and not some kind of contractual obligation. Which is why I think we have more innovative comedy. I guess ideas run out quickly when your writing team is small. Taking the example of the IT Crowd, I thought it was much weaker by the final series and really should have ended sooner. Spaced was wrapped up brilliantly - I feel the characters have reached their natural conclusion and there doesn’t need to be any more.
The Dread Parsnip Also to take the example of Only Fools and Horses, that went on for a very long time. It did what most American sitcoms do - introduce new characters and new relationships between them to keep the plot moving and provide material. In the case of Spaced, it is very contained. There are really only 6 characters. So you get more character development but not as much material.
Ultimately a big part of why British comedy is good is we let talented people move onto new stuff. It sucks to lose shows you like, but it blows my mind to see stuff like the office and Simpsons cranking episodes out for years and years. Just means those programming slots and the staff involved aren't working towards something fresh.
the finger...ouch!
Yeah, Mark Heap