Big Train - Showjumpers & Firefighters 

When Simon Pegg gets hit by the axe... Classic. And their faces, especially Heap's when they're having goes on the hose. Brilliant.

Love it when Mark Heap takes the hose and is just grinning at the fireman.Pure class.

Just realised Mark Heap talks to the woman hes rescueing like shes a skittish horse

I love that someone thought of the concept of this sketch. It's perfect.

The look on marks face when he starts waggling the hose...made this 50 year old mans heart ache ...we were all kids once...brilliant acting from all of them ...nothing on tv these days to even come close to the laughs.

I love how they act as children.Thats brilliant!

British humour! There nothing that can conquer it in the whole world. Great actors, the concern of the details in the sketches, the absurd humour. I just love Big Train! :-D

the face of that female showjumper playing with the taps cracks me up every time. So tragic...

Bahahahaha Heap and Eldon's faces are the best when they get to hold the hose. hahah too funny.

BRILLIANT "They don't know what they're doin those lads"

I didn't want the sketch to end!!

I think that someone just found a bunch of show jumpers outfits and they wrote a sketch around that 😂

Very good acting - the moves, the mimics and behaviour. brilliant :-)

This is one of my favorite sketches. I love that Arthur Matthews forte seems to be angry, hysterical screaming. Thanks for posting!

aw i love when the firefighter swings his ax back onto Simon's head, hilarious :)

Mark Heap does it best - he's hilarious.

It stresses me out that they are showjumpers for absolutely no reason! I know that's the whole point but arrggghhhh 😂😂

Omg when they're all having a go hahahah

"Is there any smoke in your lungs?" Hahahaha!

What's so interesting about this is that Simon Greenall is the Fireman, and this has Simon Pegg, Mark Heap and Julia Davis, which is very interesting.

hahahahaha this is the funniest sketch next to the Monks baha !!🤣🤣🤣

This sketch is such a who's who of British Comedy

They seem really nice

i'm a firefighter and have such an urge to do it when I go down the pole.

Arthur Mathews, the writer of the sketch, is the fireman seen @ 1.23 and also later in the clip.

Michael the Geordie as a firefighter. There’s a scary thought

my friends and I sneak up on each other at random moments and say 'do you have smoke...in your lungs?' good when theyre in the middle of drinking and they go 'pffffffffffffffffffffffffff' and spray drink everywhere =D

........it's dripping. Priceless.

arthur matthews? nice one :)

LOL, I just showed this to my brother and he said "What does showjumpers have to do with firefighters? I don't get it! I won't laugh until I get the connection", and I just told him that that is British humour, lol.

Is the firefighter the same actor who played the Geordie in I'm Alan Partridge?

love this its genius

Greatest sketch show ever

The most ridiculous thing I've watched for a while 😂😂😂

haha I saw this randomly on the telly a few years ago and found it hilarious, but didnt know the show's name or anything. Finally managed to find it- love it :D

So he flips 'em over, and ff-ffuhmff, and funnily enough it lands on its wheels, and it starts first time and they just drive away

Over the last few days I've become increasingly annoyed that I never knew anything about this show ... and then I realise .. .I do now :)

thats brilliant.

The British certainly do have one thing down: Sketch comedy.

Brilliant

4:19 Looked like Simon Pegg really hurt himself at the end when he put his finger in the water jet stream.

The sound is supposed to come out of your speakers. If it doesn't, it's not my fault. I can hear it.

well spotted!!

Superb 😂😂

Many of the people who watched this at the time have kids, now. What if I told you that's Captain Barnacles with the hose? :)

I wonder are they the two dennis fire engines that were used in Londons Burning

0:23; they remind me of Meerkats the way they move!

At 00:04 there is a clipboard in the right that has a list of jobs in it, all crossed out except for "babysitter". This is virtually the same as the list of jobs Pauline writes in the first episode of The League of Gentlemen. Is that just coincidence? Weird. LoG came out the year after this but may have been filmed around the same time. It's not exactly the same list, just weirdly similar.

Honestly don't know why I noticed this but, the board next to the woman at 00:6 ish is a replica of the League of Gentleman Job Club one... :)

omg that was pretty funny

makes sense to me

❤

@urbanrootz Indeed this is true.

Brilliant. Anybody got the "Poledancing Fireman" video? from Big Train? Funniest sketch they ever did...

@Catherine3234 Ha, well observed!

When Fire get there before the HART team does.

the fireman witht he axe looks really familiar.

SIMON!!!!

@1.27 looool

@DanthemanCTU24 It sounds like him aswell.

total genious

florence nightengale sketch was second

Ive watched spaced, red dwarf etc. But i dont get this. What do show jumpers represent?

That's really random.

it's michael out of alan partridge

3:04 that's f*cking hilarious XD

What.

Can't stop laughing at @02:03

This IS the funniest Big Train sketch,the cursing housekeeper was second

I just can't suspend my disbelief that any group of them would want to do something useful to society. 😂

😂😂😂

lol

I'm not from Britain, why showjumper though? need the context lol

funny

Peggs teeth 🤣

"its dripping" god she caused more seed to be spilt in corrie than Michael J Fox at a bird feeder,shes so damn hot

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I'm not saying this isn't funny or creative, but I don't get it... and I desperately want to... (Showjumpers?)

Can someone explain why showjumpers would be so keen to help?

Can someone explain showjumpers and firefighters to Me? Why showjumpers and why do they show a child-like fascination with the fire equipment. They are like dogs, they don't take no for an answer. I find this video quite disturbing. I feel I am missing something, but I don't quite know what!

Replace the red coats with yellow shirts and you got yourself some Scientologists.

But they aren’t dressed as showjumpers. They’re dressed as hunters. One wears navy, black orteeed coats for showjumping, not one’s hunting pink.

I laughed at this and I noticed the two lady riders in this sketch, I thought lady riders in the sport of showjumping wear black jackets a stock shirt. Must be eventers.

This is in unrealistic. The police would not let them near! They are trying to be like Monty Python but Julia Davis can't act and it falls flat.