by jonnymac1979 » Tue May 09, 2006 10:57 am
I don't know if anybody has saw a sketch show from about eight years back called Big Train? Absolutely superb laugh out loud comedy. It's not a sitcom though as it's a sketch show but even now nearly ten years later it still makes you piss.
It's on one of the UK Gold channels on a Monday night. I've been watching it for the last three weeks and I think I'm going to get it on DVD as there was two series of it.
If I was to tell you it was written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews might not mean much to you, but these two men are responsible for writing some of the funniest stuff of the last ten years.
A short list of their work includes:
• Black Books
• Brass Eye
• Father Ted
• Harry Enfield
• The Fast Show
• The Day Today
• Little Britain (Pilot Episode)
• Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
They also appeared as the two Irish TV producers as actors in I'm Alan Partridge: To Kill A Mocking Alan. If you've watched this series I don't need to say any more about that episode.
The cast who actualy perform the sketches are all cut from the same comedy cloth.
(The Actor/Actress you will have in seen in This/These Programmes)
• Kevin Eldon (Nighty Night, Spaced, I’m Alan Partridge)
• Mark Heap (Spaced and Brass Eye)
• Simon Pegg (Brass Eye, Spaced, now a Hollywood player in Shaun Of The Dead and MI:3)
• Amelia Bullmore (Brass Eye, I’m Alan Partridge)
• Julia Davis (The superb Nighty Night's main star as the sinister Jill)
• Rebecca Front (Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Nighty Night)
• Traci-Ann Oberman (Eastenders?? ?? ?? ?? Dirty Den’s missus apparently, still a funny lady though, check out “the man with the big hands” if you ever watch this show)
• Catherine Tate (has her own sketch show which was a massive hit in 2005 for BBC)
If you like any of the shows listed above, you know where the humour is going to come from in this show so I urge you to watch this if you missed it first time round like me. I'm lucky I just caught an episode of it a few weeks back and now I'll be buying the box sets.
I mean it, it's really, really funny.