More 50’s.

In France when they dub English shows/films, they still use adult voices for the kids. It looks so odd.

It’s awesome

It's Tracy Ann Oberman, who plays the wife in the sketch.

BBC radio drama 1970's voices were both great and terrible.

I know what you mean. He's cozy with Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible films. I mean, when did that happen? Haha!

Kind of a sell out though unfortunately. In Spaced series 2 he delightfully lampooned the Star Wars prequels, then ended up in bed with the biggest hack in Hollywood Jar Jar Abrams for the risible sequel movies and the 3 abominable Kelvin timeline Star Trek films

@@GarethColquhoun He literally helped write ST Beyond, and Shaun Of The Dead wasn't exactly an obscure indie movie. Spaced I also notice how you talked about him mocking Star Wars, but threw in Star Trek. And the prequels were all directed by Lucas himself. The sequels weren't. Pegg played literally one minor character, in one movie. You're also assuming the views of his character are the exact same as his personal views. And he couldn't just change his mind in _15 years_ . IMO, you just want to complain about those movies, and you took an excuse.

Joe Cornish had an anecdote on Adam Buxton's Christmas podcast that gave some insight as to what being around Tom Cruise must really be like...

@@SpasmFunneland I still can’t remember the end. Did we ever get to the end of that story?

​@stephen noonan .... oh oh... do me next .. do me next.. correcting grammar really gets my diction hard .

@Rees Jones shut the fuck up

The dad was the Editor, right? Who did the mum play?

@@hamsandwich4243 She was the boss lady at Torchwood, on the episodes where Rose "died."

That's because Britain has 3 actors. We need to rotate them.

Probably couldn't get child actors with voice acting skills its hard to explain to a child how to talk like a upper class family from the 50s.

It's taking the piss out of films from that era where adults really were used to voice kids for legal reasons

The kids' voices were the best bit of the sketch.

@@andrewstanton3787 The first part of your statement, I'm with you. But... legal reasons? You could show kids but couldn't record their voices? I'm sure it wasn't for legal reasons. It was because the kids mumbled and were useless at enunciating properly.

@@WalterLiddy then why not just hire older kids to -immigrate- imitate the younger kids instead of fully grown adults?

The plummeting quality in british comedy coincided with the decision to prioritize ethnic diversity ahead of quality.

@@larsivar8772 citizen khan for example

​@@larsivar8772 If you think Mrs Brown's Boys is ethnic diversity then there's no hope for you

@@nealjroberts4050 Never heard of it, never seen it (not saying it's bad, i have no idea). I have seen Father Ted, Alan Partridge, Big Train, The Office, Brass Eye, The Young Ones, Black Adder, Monty Python, Mighty Boosh (and many others) on the steady production line of interesting and original comedy produced by british men from the late 1950s to around 2010 though.

ah, there you are....@@larsivar8772

Totally agree. It was absolutely fantastic. Some of the best, most ingenious humour there is. I share it often with anglophiles I meet.

Mauriiiiiice!

Ugly-hair-uh

*F I N I S H Y O U R E G G*

*_E G G E_*

Oh but it's too hard; the soldiers won't go in.

COME ALONG BABS WE CAN PLAY ON THE SWING

He's done nothing but crap since Hot Fuzz

@@mikedown1250 Apart from Star Trek,..Several Mission Impossible films,...The Worlds End,..Lost Transmissions,...

as a writer for star trek he ruined that last movie with his overt influence.@@westboundbadger

Everyone has an opinion.@@mdegauss

everything is going to be downhill after hot fuzz, its basically the perfect movie. @@mikedown1250

Good point, but the entire BBC isn't responsible for this. Just one of the people in charge of the KZfaq channel

What would you call the video?

It's so people can find the sketch when they search for it. I think that's the majority compared to people who happen upon it and see it for the first time.

@@EXCELLENTpoo So then pop "bille piper" in the tags not the title.

@@SuperMikeFender exactly.

Everyone from big train just kept going up and up. Even the actor, Kevin Eldon.

Always liked kevin eldon as the masyer of hobbies and the real rod hull.

If a comedy show is dreaming of doing something, it will do it. Big Train is a funny show, but it's hardly Monty Python or A bit of Fry & Laurie is it...

thanks i couldn't tell what he said there

It's like Patsy Kensit all over again. [sob]

They'll probably throw her in some cgi-filled attempt at reviving Doctor Who, that crap old show with the cardboard spaceships, misguidedly thinking that'll appeal to the "yoof". There's no way something like that would be a success.

@@totaltotalmonkey But she married Liam Gallagher. And wasn't that nice? Oh...

I quoted that bit because the audience didn't laugh at it and it deserved a laugh because the word "creatively" is usually reserved for musicians with more pretensions or more explicitly conceptual work.

And Jodie Whittaker and chris chibnall have killed off the whole show lol

Oh ye Simon pegg with the 9th doctor. And I think the woman is with the 10th who is in the tv

@@jonathanblake6130 She was the head of Torchwood in Doomsday

@@makeitsonumberone1358 Jodie is doing great though. Not a fan of the companions this time though tbf.

Current Dr Who is a bit rough but by no means terrible. At least it doesn't have the forehead-slapping stupidity of the Moffat years.

success does that to you

its the hair plugs

He got treatment for his alcoholism.

He's been 36 for about 20 years.

He's dead.

You forgot because you wanted to, because you wanted to.

I always forget too lol.

I don't. God, she was annoying.

@@marcuswalters8093 Still is. 😉

Well, it will be in 20 years' time.

Deadass

Yes. Terrible music attracts such people.

Kevin Thorpe And Simon Pegg became The Editor! :D

Come on David, finish your egg.

Noel Coward and Celia Johnson would be proud. Terribly, terribly proud. @@bonechip01

Maybe it's because I'm not British, but I don't get the joke. Who is Sonia? Honestly, I didn't get any of the references. But it was still funny the way they did the whole thing.

anonimuso Sonia was a U.K. singer/pop star for a short while back in the 90s, so you’d be forgiven for not getting that reference! A lot of the references in big train are quite specific - I have to look them up from time to time as they often escape me too.

Yeah, the Sonia line killed it. I was amazed anyone remembered.

@@JoePearsonGuitarist I liked Dawn French's imitation of Sonia in the Star Test sketch on French & Saunders!

@@barbarakirk3064 "Liverpool"

Up until 2004, apparently. Now it's the occasional TV role. She's suffered the complete eclipse of a career that only perhaps half a dozen older women, like Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, etc. escape. It's the classic dilemma of the unattractive or peri-menopausal actress: if the average male punter doesn't want to shag you (anymore), you'd better have a hell of a lot of talent to overcome that and stay in acting. It's brutal but that's showbiz.

Yes Mark Lenover :(

Yes Sophie Ellis-Bextor :(

That must feel incredible.

I got them all except one, but it was really subtle so I reckon i'm still quite clever

Why do they play that song so loud?

@@nealjroberts4050 I know & why they always hang around in crowds? 🤔

Clown, you know nothing about our Billie.

I didn't get that line. Who is Sonia?

A 90's singer. Her first album was produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman and was moderately successful. She entered Eurovision and released a few albums after that but soon fell into obscurity.

80s singer

@@MarkAtkin I doubt the sanity of people who don't know about perky Scouse chanteuse Sonia. She's a legend.

@@dannydorko7075 90s.

thanks. I didn't catch that.

@@StanleyKubick1 you're welcome. I wondered why they were dressed like that

you don't think she would have heard of a BBC sketch about her at the time?

He probably didn't mention it, but she would have seen it when it was on.

Wow. Replying to an 11 year old comment. Ok...she may have seen the sketch, or heard about it, even though Big Train wasnt popular, but Simon Pegg wasnt famous when he made the show. Its highly unlikely Billie would have remembered his face from the sketch. See you all in 2034.

@@TheGrenfellRatio I remember it being fairly popular. I agree that she probably wouldn't have associated Simon Pegg with that specific sketch, which she may well have forgotten even existed by the time she worked with him. By the time he did his Doctor Who episode he was best known for Spaced on TV and Shaun of the Dead in the cinema.

It's probably to show up better in the searches.

Pubis? He has the new pubis?

I've heard of it.

Right?!

It's well known in the UK. I preferred to The Fast Show tbh.

I watched it and still remember it fondly, so...

dpj1 Christina Uglyhaira

😂

Lol, the less handsome and famous one

you saved me few precious minutes

A shit tonne richer though...

Same!

No.

No because this is funny

I thought the mother WAS Catherine Tate at first! I'm that used to seeing Tracey-Ann Oberman as Auntie Val in Friday Night Dinner.

Who's Stan Twitter?

'Stan Twitter' is a term used for the masses of airheaded teenage girls who 'Stan' certain music artists (usually people like Ariana Grande). The term 'Stanning' is a reference to the obsessive fan in the video for 'Stan' by Eminem.

@@SongBillong So is Eminem's Stan the same Stan who invented Twitter?

No, haha. 'Stan Twitter' isn't a person; 'Stan Twitter' is a collective term for these megafans who spend vast amounts of time on Twitter tweeting about their favourite artist and literally nothing else.

Pegg tried to kill Piper in season 1

They make albums!?

@@anonUK It happens!

They got taken over by political activists who sucked all the fun out in favour of “messaging”

It does

@@philjones45 examples?

@@njdarda Mum (sitcom) Happy Valley (Drama) Fleabag (sitcom) Two Doors Down (sitcom). Sketch shows are a rarity at the moment, but they’ll return. I remember when Big Train first came out, and MANY HATED IT, as it was too surreal and based on Oxbridge humour. Perhaps it was ahead of it’s time. I don’t think it was consistently brilliant, but agree it was great, and this Billie sketch was amazing.

No. It was all downhill from here.

Cos it's post-war

post-war middle class men in tweed and sweater vests have limps. what's not clear?