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  • Random humour at its finest!

  • noticed mark heap on 321 on challange TV the other day, he was juggling hoops and smiling a lot and pretending to be annoyed with his sidekick when he wasn't. His eyes are massive

  • This is very well written comedy. Besides the outstanding acting, the attention to structure and character is flawless. The finger amputation isn't a random thing at all- it looks like an episode of severe self-mutilation, brought on by psychotic decompensation. Shows just how mentally unwell and out of touch with reality the person next to you can be, however normal they appear. A lot of good comedy has a very dark side!

  • @nevermetpolly

    He chopped the fingertip off the guy he was talking to, not himself, just sayin'.

  • I love BBC

  • genius...watched it first time round and was glued.

  • Hilarious. The psychotic look on his face is brilliant

  • 1:45 o_O;

  • 1:41 the twitch on his face....awesome

  • I love this clip, but what do the French women say at the end? I've never been able to figure it out (I guess I should have revised for my French GCSEs instead of watching Big Train way back when!)

  • @PowerThirteen 1st woman :"Then it's unbelievable. He told me he wanted to sleep with me. (having sex) 2nd woman :No he didnt ! 1st :Yes he did 2nd : What did you say ? 1st : No! 2nd : No way !" Man talks 1st : "What ?" Their accent is a bit weird though. (Im French) They may be English
  • @asilaydyingdg Thanks for that :) Yeah, they're both English/British actresses (they're two of the regular female cast in the rest of the sketches) so their accents are probably a bit odd.

  • Oh my god. It's Brian.

  • the finger...ouch!

  • tears of laughter are literally falling...awesome

  • Funniest Big Train sketch ever. Mark Heap does psycho's very well.

  • More Mark Heap on TV plz

  • 14 persons aren't married 

  • hehehe brilliant

  • Ahh Big Train.. Imma HUGE fan of these mostly unknown shows from a while back. Big Train, Spaced, Asylum, love em all. And I'm a 20 year old dude from NY..whoodah thunk it right...

  • The angry guy looks a bit like irish snooker player Alex Higgins

  • What did he say on 0:46?

  • @Feofan74 He said "I'll put your fucking head through the wall" - But because he's talking through gritted teeth the "through" sounds like it starts with an s - so sounds like "put your heads through the wall"

  • @bub5 thank you

  • love this im 19 and american and this is way better then jeff dunhams crap

  • Fucking awesome :) and im 19 damnit this shit is awesome comedy

  • I'd marry you, Mark (':

  • 13 people aren't married.

  • Mark Heap - he's always brilliant!

  • That guy has a very one-track mind

  • @MarcusSLazarus was that some kind of reference to him not being married?

  • Well written and delivered with perfection

  • Don't get me wrong, I was also brought up on the likes of Monty Python, Douglas Adams and Norman Wisdom (I even had the fortune of meeting him), but I also appreciate different types of comedy. What irked me slightly wasn't that you didn't like this form of comedy because of the lack of wit and cleverness, but that your comment seemed to suggest that because you didn't find it funny then it has no right to be classed as comedy, regardless of what other people might think :)

  • @EccentricRichard Oh my. If you were in your 60s - 70s, I might've just smiled, nodded and put it down age and reminiscing the good ol' days. But what I see is a 19yr old commenting on a clip, which doesn't live up to his expectations of "humour" so therefore must be crap. Heaven forbid that it's just not your style of entertainment. What the BBC should've done was put in some death metal in the background and speed up this clip to make them sound like chipmunks. Here's hoping you were joshing.

  • @KingKuriify - I've been brought up on Laurel & Hardy, Norman Wisdom, Eric Sykes, Dad's Army, the Goons, Monty Python, Douglas Adams, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue etc... stuff that's clever and witty. This is just crass. As for my chipmunked metal stuff? A mate of mine asked for it and I thought its silliness would appeal to those 'in the know'. I don't pretend to be a comic genius: however, one does not have to be a brilliant musician to be a good music critic. The same applies to comedy.

  • @EccentricRichard most of the comedians you listed are *really* geeky, with a fair bit of slapstick in there too. easily the lowest form of wit. those comedians are boring and bland, fine in their day but irrelevant now (with the exception of adams and a couple of python things). also, the surrealism of big train actually reminds me of monty pythons meaning of life, you listed them. you didn't form your entire opinion off this one clip did you? oh how i pity you, a grandpa in a young mans body.

  • @KingKuriify Hey, 1 month ago I was 19, and I find many of the comedy you could maybe class as "this type", hilarious. Don't worry too much about the latest generation of nearly 20's.

  • @KingKuriify Unfair, I like death metal and I love this humor :P

  • @EccentricRichard Have a watch of Chris Morris

  • I'm pretty sure big train was shown without a laugh track to start with, then repeated with a laugh track. or maybe it was the second series that had the laugh track. strange period for edgy comedy, considering it was something as simple as the office that put the nail in the coffin of canned laughter.

  • 0:15 shall i oh teh baah

  • THEY MENTIONED RALPH FIENNES! YAY

  • advert from the bbc... ??

  • Yeah, Mark Heap

    

  • @saturdaysanswers That thing you were saying about Irish being British is that some sort of reference to supporting colonialism... Is that some kind of comment supporting colonialism? 'Cos I'll tell you now if you ever say anything supporting colonialism again I'll put your head through the f*cking wall!

    :P ;)

    (But seriously don't worry about it. Though when talking about geography I wouldn't say NI is British, not being part of the island of Britain but it's people can choose to be.)

  • @seosamhoc It was just a moment of shear stupidity. On a massive scale also. When I read about NI/Ireland I even thought to myself "How the fuck did I even forget that!? It's common knowledge!"

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  • mark heap is MY demon lover.....always was - always will be

  • Isn't it funny that this beloved British style comedy was written by people who aren't British?? :)

  • @4TheDoctor2 You mean Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan? I'll think you find they are British.

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  • @saturdaysanswers Hmm, is this some kind of joke?? I think you'll find they are Irish actually. Writers of Father Ted? Ring any bells?? Wow, go back to watching the Inbetweeners little guy.

  • @4TheDoctor2 Haha 'little guy', cute. You know Irish comes under British, right? and that "British" isn't just England, but England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales? Perhaps you need to back to school geography class, instead of watching all that 'British' TV

  • @saturdaysanswers Uh, no, it doesn't, wow, you're an idiot little guy. N. Ireland may be considered British although mostly it's not. But Ireland is definitely not considered British. Pity you're so confused about what tv shows you're watching. I have news for you: not all tv is British - 'Britain' doesn't own the world and all within it. Seriously, i worry about folks like you, get a clue.

  • @saturdaysanswers It's so funny you trying to backtrack here, when I said they were Irish, you chose to disagree and now trying to say 'yeah they are but that's British'. Haha, you're a riot. Seriously, stay in school, take an extra few classes, i recommend politics, geography, and history. Not arguing with wee ignorant 18 yr old douches on youtube any longer, good luck out there in the big bad world, you'll need it!!

  • @saturdaysanswers And the English class might help, you never know! :D Just trying to help out!

  • @saturdaysanswers wrong im afraid, Great Britain = england, scotland, wales....United Kingdom = Britain and Northern Ireland

    ...just thought you oughta know :)

  • @4TheDoctor2 Also, I'm aware I missed out the for. Before you decide to get clever and say I need to go back to English class.

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  • @4TheDoctor2 I don't know where you got 18 years old from, but anyway. After reading more into it I was actually going to apologise; I forgot about the whole N.Ireland/Ireland thing, I don't know how, moment of stupidity, call it what you will. And I'm sorry I acted like a douche. Just wanted to point out though, I never actually did any back tracking, I wasn't even aware I was wrong at the time of writing it.

  • 12 Welshmen watched this video 

  • It never occurred to me until now... does anyone know why they called the show "Big Train?"

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  • @bigfatcarp93

    Look up 'big train little train', I think that's why

  • THOMAS BROWN!!!!

  • I dont think the BBC would change the audio on a ten year old show purely for your benifit, worth asking I suppose

  • Put another one up with out the laugh track. I don't need to be notified when to laugh when watching a comedy short.

  • Mark Heap is fantastic as always

  • 12 people clearly aren't married....

  • @steveheronmusic puns about video dislikes are so clichéd...

  • @gan9e Do i care?.... No, I'm afraid i don't.

  • Thanks for enlightening me - still not funny though - gross in my view - cheers

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  • I know a guy like that. He acted all sexy and then he threatened me by squeezing my arm. I'm sensitive, I don't know, somehow this strikes me as too true

  • Nail clipper , Guillotine ??? wtf is it ? Am I in a parallel universe: or does everyone carry a device like this around . From the canned laughter I guess it is mildly amusing - pehaps.. who can tell - I feel like a Martian, lol hmmm?

  • @55mandreck LOL.... Its a cigar clipper!

  • what is the thing that cuts his finger - please tell me......

    .... then I will know if the sketch is funny....?... or not ......perhaps NOT !!!

  • @55mandreck

    It's a cigar cutter.

  • Does my bum look big in this? Oh sorry wrong sketch

  • the best joke here. "So Henmann has got a good chance on french open"... LOL

  • Three beers! Woohoo!

  • Is this video a reference about me not being married???

  • @Sesquiltera well done you copied the highest rated comment, from over a year ago... how original and funny

  • @IWILLEATYAFACE Is that a reply about me not being married? Truly I didn't know.

  • Is this Alan Statham?

  • @Curlymop92 yes, it's Mark Heap. Same actor!

  • @Curlymop92 yes, the wonderful mark heap!

  • Excellent program , if you like this sort of comedy check out 'Jam' as well. Alot of the same actors but a tad darker!

  • 12 people aren't married

  • Who's the bloke in Denim, I've seen him somewhere before.

  • @batmanofni Brian in Spaced?? :)

  • @batmanofni -- Hes in "Green Wing" as well

  • THis is funny but it's a bit too threatening for me. A tad scary and I feel sorry for him too. Big train are amazing!!!

  • Dark UK sketch comedy with a hint of mint! This is our first video and we'd like to know what you think. Please comment, rate, subscribe!

  • This actually scared me so sinister I love it!

  • It ends with me not being marries o/_\o

  • so funny this man is crazy lol :)

  • 12 unmarried men dislike this.

  • The twitch is great!

  • stop makin me laff

  • lovelove

  • I want all this videos with spanish subtitles...

  • 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.

  • @bronc30td Yeah that's Mark Heap 

  • @bronc30td Yeah, and he was also in Green Wing which is brilliant if you can get to see it somehow.

  • @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.

  • @ketmaniac Really I didn't know that! :-)

  • @bronc30td watch 'green wing', hes amazing in that as alan statham....the funniest character on telly haha

  • @hanigan696969 oh my fucksy

  • @bronc30td dear sir, open google, then search for "brian topp - spaced" in the search bar area. hopefully this should provide you with the answer you are looking for, Mark Heap.

  • @bronc30td No, it's Simon Pegg.

  • @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.

  • @bronc30td Yeah, you should watch Green Wing, he's in that too, its pretty good, weird as hell though

  • Coke cans,not Tango...coke cans...your talking about me not being married again aren't you ? PMSL

  • LOL bitter truth. Right , such a paranoid men are very hard to interact. Each our step could be quiet the last one :)

  • OMG--yuk-when he put that in his mouth--OMG--i hope that wasn't his ring finger LOL

  • empty can, not tango

  • ends with me not being married doesn't it

  • ones is mark heap ine is obvisely simon pegg the other i cant remember his name but he was in dead set skins and new willy wonka film that had mark heap in it :D

  • @harleyormro Kevin Eldon. All three are top comic actors.

  • @harleyormro The other chap is the actor Kevin Eldon.

  • @Gulftastic

    Hang on... do I detect a little Stewart Lee related gag being slipped past us there?

  • So So So Awesome! I like English humor :D

  • yep us brits are the best at comedy lol

  • @onlysweetescape

    Should probably stress that while Big Train has an amazing British ensemble, the actual writing duo is from the Republic of Ireland. Check out their other works 'Father Ted' and 'Black Books'. One of them also wrote 'The IT Crowd', which is a lot of fun too.

  • @TheConciseStatement - that surprises me, this is nothing like black books! I did like father ted though

  • @jamesjonesrocket

    Mm, I dunno about that. Things like Bill Bailey's temperature god are particularly off the wall.

  • @TheConciseStatement and 'i'm alan partridge'

  • @fuckamericanidiot

    "Lynn, I've pierced ma foot on a spiiiiyyyke!"

  • @TheConciseStatement aboot?? oh about!

  • @TheConciseStatement "butter my arse"

  • @isitluck15

    Thank you for making me look up that episode.

  • @isitluck15 cant beat a bit sir alan partridge...... funniest shit ever made in my opinion!!

  • Becuase i tell you now if you ever say anything about me not being married again i'll put your fucking head through the wall!! Haha

  • "i'm not afraid of you" LMAO

  • lmao that lip twitching at 1:42, he's brilliant!

  • @Shindai GREAT ACTOR!! lolo

  • @Shindai you rigth! what a great actor!!!

  • Can you script all this???

  • ohh british comedy you did it again

  • It's stressed eric!

  • i was thinking the same thing. =P x

  • Wrong.

  • No, that'd be you.

  • I wish all the Big Train episodes were out on DVD - I love them!

  • They are. Both series were released on a double DVD

  • They are

  • Sorry... is that response some sort of reference to me not being married?

  • It's Brian!

  • Ahh - it's Mr Lizard!

  • Is this clip some sort of reference to me not being married?

  • Haha, nice one!

  • @alsetsfire

    Thanks. =)

  • @Asarelah hahahaha

  • absolutely fucking brilliant.

  • HAHAHAHA! this is halarious. ive never heard of "big train" its great

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  • Mark looks quite fit in this compared to his neurotic character in G.W

  • he's actually pretty heavily made up/overly groomed in G.W aint he?

    took me a while to work out where I knew his voice from too.

  • He's gonna run out of fingers soon =P ^^

  • I cant stop laughing at the look on the guy's face

  • 1:39 XD

  • Paranoid much? Hahahaha

  • the person who gave you a thumbs down was stoned.... and paranoid that you were talking about him

  • oh man....mark heap is hilarious!

  • What are the french ladies saying?

  • they are saying they cove you YES YOU

    Gumbypotty they where saying they love you

    and that you are NOT MARRIED

  • Gumby, something along the lines of:

    "And then he said, 'Do you want to sleep with me?'"

    "And how did you respond?"

    "Well, 'no'!"

    I didn't catch the first bit really, so I just substituted in "and then he said", 'cos, well, it flows.

  • The first bit was "C'est incroyable"

  • The first bit was "C'est incroyable, il m'a dit..."