Big Train - Tyrant At Home

Another classic Big Train sketch

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[ElevenHymn]

Eaaaaaarrrrth.

[PowerThirteen]

Maybe he wanted him to be thrown into the see?

*badum-tish*

[playstation1980]

NOW LEAFF ME

[thebegtets]

@FilimboUK Just saw your other post on another website about no laugh track.

I really feel you are incorrect about this one, Surely if a version of this existed without the laugh track it would show up on some search of even one of the sketches. i have had this verified by friends who agree that there was a laughing track on the first broadcast of this, even though they would prefare if it wasn't.

Could you provide proof? I'd actually like to hear them without the laugh track.

[FilimboUK]

@thebegtets wiki is wrong. there was no laugh track when this went out. the key word perhaps is LATER. It was filmed, edited, they showed it once on bbc2, it did nothing, they LATER showed it to a studio audience and added the laugh track. Producers are always panicking and adding laughs, woody allen does a whole scene in annie hall about it. Series 2 possibly was shown with laughs, then they went back and added them to 1, but first time, no.

[thebegtets]

@FilimboUK

From Wikipedia: Both series were shot entirely on location (series one on 35mm film and series two on DigiBeta) and later shown to a live audience so that a laugh track could be recorded.

I caught it the first time around. It never went out without a laugh track. Never heard of a show resorting to a laugh track to save it. Maybe I wrong about that one, would love for you to tell me a few.

[FilimboUK]

@thebegtets No, the first screening had no laugh track. They added one for the repeat. The vhs you have is probably from the repeat screening. I clearly remember both this and the stare out finals having no laugh track whatsoever, the series fizzled out, they panicked and added one.

[thebegtets]

@FilimboUK

The VHS i had was from the the first time it was on and it DEFINITELY did have a laughing track. It was more of a recorded studio audience than a laughing track. As for the stare out world finals, the "Richard Gere in the audience" always got a big laugh from the laugh track. That I very much remember.

[FilimboUK]

@thebegtets Definitely no laugh track the first time it was on, i remember cos of the staring cartoon, which was always very slow, then all the versions on youtube of that have a laugh track added, which just makes it seem weird.

[thebegtets]

@FilimboUK

That was the thing with Big Train, had a laugh track throughout. Didn't bother me at all. Favourite sketch show ever. Cat and Mouse fighting in the street is my fave. Had the whole thing recorded on a VHS at the time but my friend lost it. Over the moon when it came out on DVD.

[FilimboUK]

I'm convinced this didn't have a laugh track the first time it was on

[dacptn]

I love english comedy, no one else does it better, who would of thought what an evil intergalactic overlord does in his spare time at home hahahah