xtro3000 This programme is genius. I'm only upset they they have only done two series. I know it can be silly and at points a bit childish but come on i bet when you've watched it with mates and you've had a few that you wet yourself. THe staring contest has got to be the best gag in sketch show comedy history. a mostly single shot drawing that spawned a five minute commentary. pure gold. Britain's finest moments are in this show. only surpassed by little Britain which i would score 10. Id like to know your views on this response cause i don't think I'm in the minority here.Excellent

Killa_Priest ignore the guy who's says this is rubbish- he's a bob monkhouse fan- this isn't the same kind of humour (if you can call bob monkhouse mother in law jokes humour!) so it's no surprise that he doesn't get it....after the fast show this is the best British sketch show- forget the ever cruder and less funnier little Britain, the catch phrase based Catherine Tate, the hopelessly overrated python, the sadly dated harry enfield, the inconsistent smack the pony- this is intelligent yet stupid humour that is completely reliant on it's excellent cast.we need more stuff like this..

robgas68 I'm surprised to see the largely negative response to this programme.I think it's one of the best Pythonesque shows that has emerged. I watched it religiously and was hyperventilating with laughter.There are so many classic skits: Ming the Merciless hanging around his house and singing along with the telly tubbies, A Cat and a mouse having a fight after a night at the pub, show jumpers wanting to be fire fighters and, of course, the staring competition grand finals. What made the sketches so appealing was the immense absurdity of the whole thing, yet the amazing cast was able to ground it in some reality.These great actors have since emerged in shows like "Spaced" and "How do you want me?". That's an indication of what level they were at.The best show of its kind in decades. It buries "The Fast Show".

drella-2 Unfairly written off as an attempt to replicate the cult hysteria of The Fast Show, Big Train dared to push the boundaries of a genre (the comedy sketch show) which thought it had seen it all. No, not all of it worked, but the same was true of Python, Vic&Bob and all the other groundbreakers. When it did - the manager who distracted his mutinous staff with juggling displays, the Jekyll & Hyde-type scientist, the staring competitions, Mao Tse-Tung as Bryan Ferry, it was painfully, inexplicably funny. Stick with it.