I presume Ming cleaned down his floors with Flash!

I love how he gets phone messages inviting him for a few drinks with the lads.

Incredible, how well he portrays Klaus Schwab

0:40 - Aaaaaaauth - I’ve had that word stuck in my head for days. Cracks me up every time.

One of the greatest sketch comedy shows ever. Especially the first series. All hail Linehan and Mathews.

I always want people thrown into a pit of ice when vacuuming. I feel for Ming.

Mark Heap seems to be born to play certain roles and this is one!

this reminds me of the sims when you get modded characters: Theyre dramatic to look at, but all they do is the same things as us Love the interruption when hoovering

Lots of sketch shows touch people in different ways, two of my recent favourites being That Mitchell & Webb Look and Armstrong & Miller, and the British heyday of the sketch show was the 90's with The Fast Show, The Real McCoy, Naked Video, Absolutely, Goodness Gracious Me, etc, but nothing has the same effect on me as Big Train does. I might giggle at a few bits of a 90's sketch show, but Big Train just destroys me :D

Genius of a sketch!

Someone should tell him that if he destroys Earth, he'll also destroy the Teletubbies. He probably won't want to then...

Kevin Eldon is a genius. Brilliant musician. Great show.

Ming the Merciless

The vaccuuming kills me every time...

I remember Big Train by this set of sketches alone!

How come he'd never heard of 'uuuurth' but was watching Teletubbies and Cindy Crawford's favourite bras when he got home?

I think this is the funniest sketch i've EVER seen, it's just what most people prob do after coming in from work, spot on!

Whenever I say Earth, I say it like this.

@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.

I fking love this show.

Ha ha ha! fantastic

@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.

Only a Tyrant could enjoy tellytubbies

Eaaaaaarrrrth.

Genius

Maybe he wanted him to be thrown into the see? *badum-tish*

I think he might enjoy the Crawford documentary

@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.

NOW LEAFF ME

Ming loving Teletubbies is not that far fetched. Tyrants tend to have........strange habits.

Can anyone tell me which building the initial sequence was shot in?

lol!

Its the temple of Kchargn on the planet Wardorf.

Should be friends with Rassilon

Nuh uh, first he says throw him in the pit of fire, then it's the pit of ice. Of course a tyrant would have one of each pit. 8-)

Whats the film name?

@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.

uhhh fuckin 'ell

It's a parody on Flash Gordon

No it's Tom Benderson sorry :( Do I get a Long23 chequebook and pen though?

does he say the pit of eyes or ice? lol

this sketch si really fununy the only bad thing is its to long and it gets a bit stale. thats wat the problem was with sereies 2 of mithcell and webb look

chill out

@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.

and he's eating a chinese takeaway LOL

Very funny sketch of funny or die UK, very big train-esque. check it out

What is the music playing at 2 min from ?

mmmmm... English cuisine. As Homer would say.

Aha..Knew I'd seen Jason Mamoa in something else!

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

well ooh-oo-ooh, look at me i'm cultured.

@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.

cool, is this a quiz? :P

A state of mind you say? Hmm, explain. Do you think its a handicap? Seriously, i'm really interested on why you think Britain being an island is so bad. Oh and weather British cuisine is world class or not, its no worse than American cuisine is it. ;-) I'd understand if you were French or Spanish but I really don't think people in glass houses should throw stones.

I was friends with this rock star about fifteen years ago when this was out. You just couldn’t imagine her getting the hoover out or doing something mundane like cleaning the windows. I made her watch this sketch and she simply didn’t get it.

@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.

Yes. Next question - is your real name Tom Henderson?

Is that Glitter, before... everything?

3:44 - he says "throw him into the pit of eyes". It's random because it's meant to be funny

---- and even tyrant ETs give it one for Cindy ps: why didn't he just take his cape off if it was such a nuisance (the photos of him at leisure offer proof it comes off)

My little country? Where is that then? One of the richest and long lasting countries in the world with a heritage to end all heritages? Hmm. Maybe next time you go to England you should spend a bit more money on food as you obviously chose to eat like a pauper last time. If you can't afford a decent restaurant then make your own food. You can get any kind of ingredients in a first world state you know.

Hmm, well I can't speak for every English person but almost everyone I know would love the UK to be fully integrated with Europe. We can't really help what our government decides much like you guys.Most people I know love to travel and will at any opportubity and being right next to continental Europe and in the commonwealth makes it easier for us. As for changing to metric..I can't see why we would need to, sorry. Sorry if I came off hostile but you did make a xenophobic remark to begin with.