Big Train sketch of the week: hypnotherapy

24 May 2010 Rob Buckley Big Train, UK TV 3 Comments

Big Train

It’s Monday, so it must be time for the Monday Big Train sketch!

Oh wait, y’all probably didn’t know that since I’m improbably launching this exciting new feature for the blog this week, despite the fact I’m on holiday next week. But, yes, the plan is that every Monday we’ll have a choice sketch from late 90s/early 00s sketch show Big Train, which starred Simon Pegg, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, Amelia Bullmore, Catherine Tate, Rebecca Front, Tracy-Ann Oberman and many other talented people – it was also written by Father Ted creators Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews.

We’re launching the Monday Big Train sketch slot with one of my faves – the hypnotherapy session with Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Simon Pegg and Kevin Eldon. Enjoy, and if you’d like to nominate a sketch for week two, let me know.

You can, incidentally, get the whole of Big Train on DVD since it does have highly entertaining commentaries. But you probably guessed that already.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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