Paul Merton: Driving Amazing Trains
Created by Ben Duncan
Paul’s fascination with trains stems from his childhood. His father was a driver on the London Underground and when, as a young boy, Paul witnessed his dad driving a train across Putney Bridge, it sparked a lifelong fascination of railways. Now, he is following in his father’s footsteps by joining the drivers upfront and in control of some of the world’s most amazing trains and experiencing the best views as he… From TMDB
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60 of 126 · most liked firstPaul Merton: The Series should be seen as one of the great sketch shows, and yet it’s almost forgotten by the public in general
positive · AI labelView post →In that there Inverness for a naughty weekend of birding and theatre. A fab walk along the River Ness this morning gave us great views of this male Goosander and a couple of not bovvered Dippers. And this evening we’re at Eden Court for Paul Merton & Suki Webster’s Improv Show 👏🏼 #highlandbirds
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show with guest David Tennant 😜 It was fab, they were all hilarious 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →David is joining “Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show” tonight (March 26th) as one of the guests! 🎭🥳 To everyone attending have a fantastic evening! 🥳
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching “Paul Merton - The Series” and this slice of Network South East pops up. Surely it has to be the best regional livery of the British Rail era?
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul Merton, The Series, is free to watch on the Channel 4 site, in poorly upscaled 1080p. I'm not sure how it was upscaled but I think they cleaned up the 576p version then simply resized it. Very poor. So I've just bought the DVD to do it properly.
negative · AI labelView post →Have I Got Views For You… lovely surprise to bump into Paul Merton in Barmouth today. Filming for his new series about scenic train journeys. Talk about picturesque places to visit! #Barmouth #HIGNFY
neutral · AI labelView post →Great to wake up to a lot of love for Paul Merton: The Series. Well done everybody.
positive · AI labelView post →And as is tradition, we high-fived each other at the end of the wedding and immediately went on separate tours. I'm back with Paul Merton & Suki Webster in their fabulous improv show: www.paulmerton.com/improv-show And Hound is starring alongside the phenomenal Susie Blake in: www.murderplay.com 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →That wouldn't be as funny. It's a comedy panel show and it's always funny to hear: "Paul Merton, that was a correct challenge, you now have 1 seconds to talk about the fall of the Ottoman Empire" "[Paul starts talking nonsense]"
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d say it was butchering Paul Merton: The Series for DVD, but what do I know?
negative · AI labelView post →Was great to chat all things last night comedy with Paul Merton & Suki Webster. It was a fun show, available on the @TimesRadio app.
neutral · AI labelView post →Little interview with Paul Merton and Suki Webster, with a couple mentions about David Tennant's upcoming debut at their improv show at the Comedy Store. Been lucky enough to see them a fair few times and they're so good, we're in for such a treat! metro.co.uk/2025/03/13/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching ”Paul Merton - The Series” from 1991 and this glorious street scene turns up. That Ambassador was only 10 years old at the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →The joy of Star Wars is that an escapist Hollywood epic is full of "hang on, is that...?" British character actors. Fake Wedge/Col Takbright is in this Paul Merton The Series sketch. youtu.be/3aPZs_MRwq8
neutral · AI labelView post →Just into high school, I would studiously record Absolutely, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Drop the Dead Donkey and Paul Merton: The Series. No wonder the girls couldn't stay away. Incidentally, Absolutely is on C4 on demand but be warned, it's got those bloody awful Dominoes bumpers.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll always love how Paul Merton tackled that in his documentary series about silent film. "He made *ridiculous* claims like having invented the closeup" just perfectly dismissive, no point by point becuase he was clearly just lying.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 69th birthday, comedian, and game show panellist Paul Merton. 🎂
neutral · AI labelView post →'Have I Got News For You' is a long-running (since 1990) satirical news show with guest presenters. The 'team captains' are comedian Paul Merton and Ian Hislop (editor of the satirical magazine 'Private Eye').
neutral · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay 1994 : The first edition of Room 101 was broadcast on BBC2. It was initially hosted by Nick Hancock who stayed with the show until 1999 when Paul Merton took over and then later Frank Skinner. #90s
neutral · AI labelView post →30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Paul Merton was so dominant on Have I Got News For You that for a short period the show tried to handicap him at the end of the series, hence Tub Of Lard MP two years earlier and now Dutch comedian Raoul Heertje. www.dailymotion.com/video/xrtazo
neutral · AI labelView post →Good news a new series of the #Radio version, with Paul Merton as host, of Room 101 First episode with the very funny Miles Jupp 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
neutral · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay 25 September 1991 Fresh from his success on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Have I Got News For You? #PaulMerton was given his own sketch show. PAUL MERTON - THE SERIES ran for twelves episodes on Channel 4.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ahead of his visit to #rdguk next weekend, I had a moment to ask Paul Merton about the first time he worked with Ian Hislop - the forgotten TVS satirical sketch show Ectectera. @dirtyfeed.org @franticplanet.bsky.social @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social - this could be right up your streets.
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Patrick Godfrey He was Tor in The Savages, Major Cosworth in The Mind of Evil, and also appeared in The Sandbaggers, Crown Court, Edge of Darkness, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The New Statesman, Minder, Medics, Sleepers, Paul Merton: the Series and was Buck in Bioshock 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d like to add Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, Paul Merton: The Series, The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer, KYTV, The Day Today, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Hale & Pace, Canned Carrott, Three of a Kind, Naked Video, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Is It Bill Bailey? to this list.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep. Definitely The Paul Merton Show from Channel 4.
neutral · AI labelView post →You may have seen Paul Merton visiting the Isle of Wight on his TV show #DrivingAmazingTrains. You probably didn't wonder how they got the footage of him riding a tandem on the former railway cycle track... Our embargo is released and our blog post tells more! #CargoBike #IsleOfWight keert.uk/blog
neutral · AI labelView post →30 YEARS AGO TODAY: before taking the rest of the series off Paul Merton takes a place alongside Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You, opposite Eddie Izzard and Charles Kennedy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Loving the Paul Merton series on Channel 4 “Driving amazing trains”. Father-in-Law was a train driver too. Wonderful scenery and great commentary by Paul. #PaulMerton #DrivingAmazingTrains
positive · AI labelView post →I only recently learned that Sue Perkins presents Just a Minute now, and that Paul Merton and Julian Clary are regular panelists, and that Joe Lycett has just started being on it too. So I’ve binged two whole series since the weekend
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul & Suki will be joined by Marcus Brigstocke, Rachel Parris and Richard Baker on the keyboard. “Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show” is a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories, songs and laugh out loud surrealism.
neutral · AI labelView post →David is going to be a guest at “Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show” on 26th March! The show will be taking place at The Comedy Store in London and tickets are available now! 🎭 More info - london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/paul-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 5 TV themes/soundtracks (no particular order) GBH (Harvey/Costello 1991) The Singing Detective (Harris 1986) Arena (Eno 1975) Paul Merton: The Series (Thierry/ Durbet/Laurent/Thierry-Mieg, 1989) The Stone Tape (Briscoe/Radiophonic Workshop 1972)
neutral · AI labelView post →Still incandescent with moderate disgruntlement over Paul Merton butchering his immaculate series for the DVD release, and failing to mention that on initial release.
negative · AI labelView post →"I am a man-eating Triffid" It's a permanent frustration to me that Alexei's other series aren't on DVD (nor is KYTV or Who Dares Wins or Paul Merton or a bunch of others from that time).
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad how there are only two series of the excellent Paul Merton Show and 1009 series of Have I Got News For You with him looking like he's given up.
negative · AI labelView post →Paul Merton: The Series Sketch comedy Channel 4 (Hat Trick) 25 September 1991 - 8 October 1993 2 series - 12 episodes The cast includes: Paul Merton John Irwin Robert Harley Neil Mullarkey Ben Miller Caroline Quentin Robert Daws Hugh Dennis Felicity Montagu Nick Hancock Bob Holness Paul Whitehouse
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming up this afternoon from 1pm, we've got another first round match in the #WorldCup of Sketch Shows. Today it's Paul Merton The Series vs Goodness Gracious Me. Plus more Blake's 7 and the top 10 World Cup moments (upto and including 2002) twitch.tv/alidoolalli #twitch #TV
neutral · AI labelView post →Then you weren't listening. Or looking at Paul Merton. Gove came across as the flaming asshole he is. If appearing on the show was a path to PM, David Tennant would get the vote.
neutral · AI labelView post →@andy-pearce.com and I had a marvellous time at the @thecomedystore.co.uk tonight seeing @marcusbrig.bsky.social and @rachelparris.bsky.social perform with the Paul Merton and Suki Webster Improv Show. Such good fun and a much needed night out!
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this is the first time I've seen Paul Merton live? Apologies to my own improv troupe whose show I'm missing for this.
neutral · AI labelView post →26 January 1996 - ITV debuts comedy series Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's.... 2001 - Channel 5's soap Family Affairs broadcasts its 1,000th episode. 2021 - 6 part wildlife documentary Secret Safari: Into The Wild begins on Channel 4 with all episodes available to stream.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw him along with Josie Lawrence, Sandi Toksvig, Paul Merton and s couple of others i forget in an improv show when I was about 14 and utterly fell in love with him
neutral · AI labelView post →A game show format where comedians have to make Paul Merton laugh.
neutral · AI labelView post →"you would like... a pig on a stick." (This is a reference to an obscure sketch from the Paul Merton Show).
neutral · AI labelView post →I think part of the panel show venom was a long-running feud with Paul Merton, who accused Enfield of pinching the "exploding dogs" gag in Norbert Smith and has snubbed him ever since
neutral · AI labelView post →At a low, I yesterday found my self watching an episode of Paul Merton: The Series on Channel 4 player (I remember liking the closing credit theme music and wanted to revisit!), and there’s a whole riff on a man obsessed with chicken-based magazines which overlaps a bit with your dream. Just fyi.
positive · AI labelView post →First time I ever heard of The Mousetrap was Paul Merton giving the ending away in his Palladium show (1994). "It must've made its money back by now." He might've been lying, 'cos I still haven't seen it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My picks for the next last one laughing series #lastonelaughing - Greg Davies - James Acaster - Jo Brand - Lee Mack - Rob Bryden - Paul Merton - Aisling Bea - Catherine Tate - Katherine Parkinson - Miriam Margoyles - Miranda - Diane Morgan (winner) - Jim Howick - Alan Carr
neutral · AI labelView post →This show is sure to sell out to be quick! Paul & Suki will be joined by Miles Jupp, David Reed & Yshani Perinpanayagam on the keyboard. “Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show” is a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories, songs and laugh out loud surrealism.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a great sketch on Paul Merton: The Series, about Bobby Lomax, the world's worst continuity guy, and has a very similar theme. I wonder if he subconsciously got the idea from this.
neutral · AI labelView post →While I'm on the subject, I want to show some love for "Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...". It doesn't all work - as he freely admits, putting him up against Hancock was never going to end well for him - but it's become something of an essential document now. Some really good stuff in there.
neutral · AI labelView post →HIGNFY's riff on Iain, Duncan, and George Smith may have been the last time I actually laughed at Paul Merton on that show
neutral · AI labelView post →Here Paul Merton on Parkinson not long after the Angus Deyton scandal about how the presenter was sacked to protect the show. It’s funny but also incredibly raw. This sort of thing has migrated to podcasts: youtu.be/j9ESt1NYYms?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Paul Merton: The Series and he's selling Spira bars in his kiosk. 😋
positive · AI labelView post →Same show, probably, I remember Paul Merton being aghast that Archer's books went through 13 drafts. How bad could the originals have been?
neutral · AI labelView post →You've once again taken me to Paul Merton on the hit BBC show Have I Got News For You. They were watching a video of Trump. I nearly wet myself at the way that Merton exclaimed "Oh look, he's dyed his hands white.".
neutral · AI labelView post →Which once again takes me to Paul Merton on the hit BBC show Have I Got News For You. They were watching a video of Trump. I nearly wet myself at the way that Merton exclaimed "Oh look, he's dyed his hands white.".
neutral · AI labelView post →When I'm exercising or doing any other kind of activity that I have done so often that my mind is free, I like to listen to audiobooks or podcasts. My current favorite: Just A Minute, a venerable BBC radio show that published a podcast. I'm a Paul Merton fan so I love this: podbay.fm/p/1767854856
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