My daughter's dad is Italian, and he was laughing so hard when i showed him this sketch, cause he understands how Italian must sound in the ears of foreigners. And may i add that he is the most patriotic person i've ever known, and the Italian language is like the finest art to him. I myself is Danish, and if someone from another country made a fun sketch of my language, i am sure i would laugh hard about it, cause i know the rest of the world would think my language sound like someone are trying to speak with a potato in the throat. People nowadays are so affraid of offending others, due to wokeness on steriods in the western societies.
You are so right , it's just great British comedy which makes people laugh. It is not meant to offend , it is just made to make people laugh. Something sadly missing in this day and age.
You're right. Nobody in their right mind would be offended by this. The only target of ridicule is Catherine herself. Her character is appallingly fabulous.
Catherine Tate is a well known British comedian. Yes, this was a comedy sketch but I feel you’re killing it. The chinese woman held up the taping because she was laughing so much. NO-ONE TOOK OFFENCE because it WAS FUNNY and really it was all about her, the translator displaying ignorance and stereotyping the people at the table.
Without the context of the running character gag, people viewing this RUclips clip may in fact be laughing at the ridicule of foreign people, as my coworkers recently did as they watched this. They all have little patience for migrants and people that "don't speak English".
Also the rest of them, too. Particularly the Asian lady and African actor. Ms Tate’s character always believes she’s good at everything, but is actually useless at anything.
It’s the sort of thing that many would say is offensive. But they don’t understand that the joke isn’t on the people from different nationalities. They don’t come off badly. The joke is on Catherine Tate’s character and how she doesn’t realise how inappropriate she’s being. Love it.
Aye, it's satire. It's taking the micky out of people who have an abundance of confidence, and little to no cultural awareness when it comes to people from other nations. It's making a mockery of the idiots who fall for racial and xenophobic stereotypes, rather than it being a joke aimed at the people from those nations.
plus it's a really careful escalation - she starts out with the safer ones and moves towards the more controversial ones - imagine if it had started at the other end of the table. And it helps that the people she's talking to aren't offended, they're just confused. I think it's definitely very careful about what it's doing really
@@storageheater Agreed. The moment when her colleague puts his head in his hands speaks volumes here. It’s clear that we’re no supposed to condone her characters actions. I think that was an important little addition to make sure the right tone was set.
Just because someone doesn't find this funny, there's no need to say they don't have a sense of humour, or they're too woke. I think the sketch is hilarious, but I admit it is pretty juvenile to mock someone's accent. 🤣
She said: Well I can do that. Yeah. I did a TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) in my gap year (a year between finishing secondary school and going to University)
I’ve done a TELF course, which is short. It in no way qualifies anyone to be an adept translator of any language, let alone 7. That also makes it so funny. Ms Tate’s know-it-all character failing as usual 😂😂😂
Catherine Tate, what a breath of fresh air she was!! Her sketch show was incredible and gave birth to sole iconic British comedy characters. She also featured in Doctor Who as one of the best companions in the entire show, Donna Noble.
Yeah, I can't think of any other comedian with so many catchphrases "How very dare you?" "He's a gay man now" "Am I bovvered?" "What a f#&%ing liberty", the list goes on and on!
The running joke of this character was that she keeps volunteering for tasks she has absolutely no experience or ability for and always causes a disaster. That's why the audience laughed when the manager said that the translator hadn't turned up.
Sadly many people watching are laughing at what they are perceiving and ridicule of foreign languages. my boss showed this to me and a colleague yesterday, it turned my stomach how they were laughing, not at the character's imbecilic sounds, but rather at the unfamiliarity of foreign languages.
British humour at its very best. Unfortunately, nowadays you could never do this, too many wokes and people who's main objective is to be offended by anything and everything. What a humourless world we know live in.
What i find most funny whenever someone reacts to this there is a much bigger reaction and shock to the Asian and African sections which i feel is a sad reflection of our times. Loved Catherine Tate show back in the day and so many of the sketches still make me giggle today
Because Africans and Asians experience more racism and people looking down on them in majority white countries than white people do. Maybe that's why they're a tad more sensitive to racism or perceived racism. You know, a bit like why gay people may be a tiny bit more upset by homophobia than a staight person whose never been criticised for their sexuality? It isn't really difficult to work out why unless you're a moron. That being said, this comedy sketch is very funny and clearly not racist. But to act like you don't know why certain races may be a bit more sensitive about racial stuff is just silly.
Please digest the responses. This is not offensive. As a European, we all gave different accents, and its why when English go abroad, they will, for example, speak English with a French accent in France. Goodness knows how this woke culture wants to tell us how to think and what we can say. This is humour plain and simple. How anyone could be hurt by the sound of an accent is beyond belief. Love your videos but on this one find your reaction way off mark 😢
The character isn't specifically offensive. What she is, is delusional and a bit of an attention seeker. What ever you say you need, she claims she can do it. The new computer system doesn't work and needs to be re-programmed. Oh I can do that. One of the solar panels has come off the roof. Oh I can fix that. She then goes on to do the worst possible job of whatever the task is. On this occasion... We need a translator!
Yay Catherine Tate! I have all three seasons of her show on my computer. I must have watched them probably 10 times over the years since it's been off the air. She is hysterical and this is one of the funniest Skits the other skits that she does is a character called Nan who is hysterically funny. I'm an American but I love almost all British humor. I think it's because they can get awy with a lot more. America still has a stick up it's ass. All of my favorite humorous television and movies come from Britain.
You nailed it with "I don't know how cancel culture is across the pond". I'm an Aussie. Americans, despite their proclamations of freedom, seem very puritanical to me. You can be insular, and just watch your own TV, or explore the TV of other countries, whereupon you will encounter stuff like this. That's how the world works: you pump out sh1t remakes of British TV shows, and the rest of the world ignores them. I should stop ranting now and have another sherry.
@@richardarmed4847No she's not being a hypocrite at all. The title of the sketch is literally "the offensive translator". It's SUPPOSED to be so bad that it's funny, that's what's so funny about it.
Turn off the captions, please, and never use them. The voice recognition software they use is garbage. It only will confuse you even more. To illustrate that check "Eleven. Voice Recognition In A Lift In Scotland". Thanks!
"I did a TEFL in my gap year". TEFL is a course many in the UK take and stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language, where they spend some time in typically a European country to teach English to the locals. Typically in a gap year before or after university.
Catherine Tate, sketch comedy with literally dozens of various and recurring characters she plays outstaningly. This one is Helen Marsh, who always enters into some situation where somebody needs some kind of specialist in something, immediately claims "I can do that" and of course, can't do it at all. Catherine Tate is a genius.
Ty for explaining. As a kid watching this i was either shocked or just baffled. When you get context it makes more sense and is actually very intelligent and funny 😂
You can't trust closed captions-I've seen some strange ones. What she said was, "I did a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) in my gap year."
The “ this is not my sandwich” was a ad lib, during the lunch break on set the African Nation actor made a fuss about his sandwich choice, so she threw that into the monologue, it took hours to film that short segment as the actors lept breaking character with laughter 👍
The British people have humour of laughing at themselves, the joke is her making herself look stupid. No one took offence the Japanese lady, couldn’t stop laughing . They all found it hilarious. Anyone finding offence is finding offence for the sake of it. It showed up the stereotyping of different people.
That was from the Catherine Tate show which ran from 2004-2007. You may also recognize her as Nellie from the American version of the Office, Donna Noble from Doctor Who, and the Jack Black movie Gulliver’s Travels.
My daughter's dad is Italian, and he was laughing so hard when i showed him this sketch, cause he understands how Italian must sound in the ears of foreigners. And may i add that he is the most patriotic person i've ever known, and the Italian language is like the finest art to him. I myself is Danish, and if someone from another country made a fun sketch of my language, i am sure i would laugh hard about it, cause i know the rest of the world would think my language sound like someone are trying to speak with a potato in the throat. People nowadays are so affraid of offending others, due to wokeness on steriods in the western societies.
These actors were in hysterics while filming this sketch that it had to be filmed multiple times. It is not offensive at all. Many people from all walks of life found these sketches hilarious and didn’t take any offence whatsoever.
Don’t know much about Catherine Tate but she did a funny impersonation of an old lady on the Graham Norton show at the behest of Tom Cruise. I think it was the inspiration for the character Nan.
Why you terrified ...it's called having a laugh. ..the people in the room are actors they are all actors ...it's comedy ...it's a sketch show .very funny.
Im Italian and I’m not offended one bit…this is hilarious…I’ve watched this sketch a million times over the years and I still cry laugh 🤣
My daughter's dad is Italian, and he was laughing so hard when i showed him this sketch, cause he understands how Italian must sound in the ears of foreigners. And may i add that he is the most patriotic person i've ever known, and the Italian language is like the finest art to him. I myself is Danish, and if someone from another country made a fun sketch of my language, i am sure i would laugh hard about it, cause i know the rest of the world would think my language sound like someone are trying to speak with a potato in the throat. People nowadays are so affraid of offending others, due to wokeness on steriods in the western societies.
You are so right , it's just great British comedy which makes people laugh. It is not meant to offend , it is just made to make people laugh. Something sadly missing in this day and age.
You're right. Nobody in their right mind would be offended by this. The only target of ridicule is Catherine herself. Her character is appallingly fabulous.
Spaniard here. Neither did I take any offence. The whole joke is about her being silly AF. It's not like she's trying to do actual accents.
Spot on my friend , it's just genius comedy. Have you seen Catherine Tate "Gay Son" sketch ? It's hilarious and well worth a look.
Omg it's called having a laugh! She's the best British comedy woman I love her! 😂🤣
Catherine Tate is a well known British comedian. Yes, this was a comedy sketch but I feel you’re killing it. The chinese woman held up the taping because she was laughing so much. NO-ONE TOOK OFFENCE because it WAS FUNNY and really it was all about her, the translator displaying ignorance and stereotyping the people at the table.
Without the context of the running character gag, people viewing this RUclips clip may in fact be laughing at the ridicule of foreign people, as my coworkers recently did as they watched this. They all have little patience for migrants and people that "don't speak English".
Apparently they had to do several takes because the Chinese actress couldn’t stop laughing.
I didn't know that. I would have thought it was the African character. You can tell he is just about to explode with laughter.
Also the rest of them, too. Particularly the Asian lady and African actor. Ms Tate’s character always believes she’s good at everything, but is actually useless at anything.
@@claredyson9936 The actor playing the Afrucan had been given the wrong sandwuch at lunch, so Tate threw that line in on purpose to make him laugh.
It's a joke . A JOKE ! the people were involved in THE JOKE.
It’s the sort of thing that many would say is offensive. But they don’t understand that the joke isn’t on the people from different nationalities. They don’t come off badly. The joke is on Catherine Tate’s character and how she doesn’t realise how inappropriate she’s being. Love it.
Aye, it's satire. It's taking the micky out of people who have an abundance of confidence, and little to no cultural awareness when it comes to people from other nations. It's making a mockery of the idiots who fall for racial and xenophobic stereotypes, rather than it being a joke aimed at the people from those nations.
plus it's a really careful escalation - she starts out with the safer ones and moves towards the more controversial ones - imagine if it had started at the other end of the table. And it helps that the people she's talking to aren't offended, they're just confused. I think it's definitely very careful about what it's doing really
@@storageheater Agreed. The moment when her colleague puts his head in his hands speaks volumes here. It’s clear that we’re no supposed to condone her characters actions. I think that was an important little addition to make sure the right tone was set.
Laughing is funny
The character genuinely believes she is helping, just as she thought she was helping in all the disasters she caused with office equipment, etc.
You weren't installed with the humor chip during the manufacturing process, were you 😂
@joanneentwistle7653 - the w0ke chip is strong in this one!
Just because someone doesn't find this funny, there's no need to say they don't have a sense of humour, or they're too woke. I think the sketch is hilarious, but I admit it is pretty juvenile to mock someone's accent. 🤣
It’s comedy honey lighten up.
She's a black American? Be realistic please
I miss comedy like this..
She said: Well I can do that. Yeah. I did a TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) in my gap year (a year between finishing secondary school and going to University)
Catherine Tate Show, which is a sketch show. She also was on Dr Who as his assistant.
I’ve done a TELF course, which is short. It in no way qualifies anyone to be an adept translator of any language, let alone 7. That also makes it so funny. Ms Tate’s know-it-all character failing as usual 😂😂😂
Catherine Tate, what a breath of fresh air she was!! Her sketch show was incredible and gave birth to sole iconic British comedy characters. She also featured in Doctor Who as one of the best companions in the entire show, Donna Noble.
so love Donna Noble
is she dead?
Catherine Tate as "Nan" are all hilarious sketches, as are "Derek", "Gay Son" and "Posh Mom". Tate is such a talent!
How do I go by sending her a music video request?
Posh Mom is hilarious
Yeah, I can't think of any other comedian with so many catchphrases "How very dare you?" "He's a gay man now" "Am I bovvered?" "What a f#&%ing liberty", the list goes on and on!
I remember watching this on tv with my Nigerian born neighbour. She laughed so hard she almost rolled off the couch 😂
The Nigerian actor laughed so much they had to do many retakes
In rehearsals there was some kind of mix up with the catering and he got the wrong sandwich hence "this is not my sandwich"
Can I find it on RUclips
Apparently the Asian lady couldn’t stop cracking up too 🤣
@@drummerboy2834 I can't find the outtakes
@@frozengamer3030 can’t even find them on google now… WOKE, cancel culture 🤷🏽♂️
Catherine Tate is a genius comic. Highly recommend more of her sketches.
This was great! Hurdy gurdy reminds me of the Swedish chef from The Muppets! "Bork, bork, bork!" 😆
Catherine Tate "Gay Son" , a must watch !😂.
If she's offended by this, I doubt she's gonna find anything funny.
It’s called comedy 😂
Dont be so serious, it's funny! It's humour!
The most offensive part of the sketch is thinking that a Swedish person would need a translator to understand English.
@ingsve
I never thought about that. Very true.
The running joke of this character was that she keeps volunteering for tasks she has absolutely no experience or ability for and always causes a disaster. That's why the audience laughed when the manager said that the translator hadn't turned up.
Sadly many people watching are laughing at what they are perceiving and ridicule of foreign languages. my boss showed this to me and a colleague yesterday, it turned my stomach how they were laughing, not at the character's imbecilic sounds, but rather at the unfamiliarity of foreign languages.
Catherine Tate was known for in your face humor. Her characters Lauren and Nan were my favorites.
We all had a Lauren in our class! 😂😂😂
Humour. She's British.
First time I hear someone saying the accent from my country (Spain) sounds sexier specifically because of our "lisp"! 🤣 You made my day!
It's not offensive it's funny comedy in my opinion 😂
Catherine Tate is a British legend in comedy. You need to watch her "Nan" character! More Catherine Tate, please!
Literally the funniest thing on the internet.😂😂😂
British humour at its very best. Unfortunately, nowadays you could never do this, too many wokes and people who's main objective is to be offended by anything and everything. What a humourless world we know live in.
What i find most funny whenever someone reacts to this there is a much bigger reaction and shock to the Asian and African sections which i feel is a sad reflection of our times. Loved Catherine Tate show back in the day and so many of the sketches still make me giggle today
Because Africans and Asians experience more racism and people looking down on them in majority white countries than white people do. Maybe that's why they're a tad more sensitive to racism or perceived racism. You know, a bit like why gay people may be a tiny bit more upset by homophobia than a staight person whose never been criticised for their sexuality? It isn't really difficult to work out why unless you're a moron.
That being said, this comedy sketch is very funny and clearly not racist. But to act like you don't know why certain races may be a bit more sensitive about racial stuff is just silly.
She REALLY shouldn't watch come fly with me. She'd have a stroke. Personally I keeled over laughing
@@JennySparkz Me got noooo paper cups 🤣
@@yiepie 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You definitely need more of Catherine Tate. Am I bovered?
She has so many great characters and skits - gay son, Derek, Lauren, Nan, Drunk Bride, Boob Job Babe...
This is the best laugh I have had in long time. Catherine Tate is fantastic..
Catherine Tate show was sketch comedy with some reoccurring characters check out her character "Nan"
But you’re laughing !😂
Please digest the responses. This is not offensive. As a European, we all gave different accents, and its why when English go abroad, they will, for example, speak English with a French accent in France. Goodness knows how this woke culture wants to tell us how to think and what we can say. This is humour plain and simple. How anyone could be hurt by the sound of an accent is beyond belief. Love your videos but on this one find your reaction way off mark 😢
The character isn't specifically offensive. What she is, is delusional and a bit of an attention seeker. What ever you say you need, she claims she can do it. The new computer system doesn't work and needs to be re-programmed. Oh I can do that. One of the solar panels has come off the roof. Oh I can fix that. She then goes on to do the worst possible job of whatever the task is.
On this occasion... We need a translator!
Yay Catherine Tate! I have all three seasons of her show on my computer. I must have watched them probably 10 times over the years since it's been off the air. She is hysterical and this is one of the funniest Skits the other skits that she does is a character called Nan who is hysterically funny. I'm an American but I love almost all British humor. I think it's because they can get awy with a lot more. America still has a stick up it's ass. All of my favorite humorous television and movies come from Britain.
You nailed it with "I don't know how cancel culture is across the pond". I'm an Aussie. Americans, despite their proclamations of freedom, seem very puritanical to me. You can be insular, and just watch your own TV, or explore the TV of other countries, whereupon you will encounter stuff like this. That's how the world works: you pump out sh1t remakes of British TV shows, and the rest of the world ignores them. I should stop ranting now and have another sherry.
I wonder how many times they had to do this - they did a pretty good job keeping straight faces omg lolol
“Is it a sketch comedy show?” Wow, there’s no flies on you is there…..
Catherine Tate- comedy gold. This is British comedy at it's absolute best- it just takes the p*ss
But hysterical!! Lol ❤❤❤❤
I love that you said that she’s offensive, but you still continued to mimic the accents at the end. 😂
Yeah...She doesn't realise what a hypocrite she is.
It must hurt her that no one agrees with her 🤣
@@richardarmed4847No she's not being a hypocrite at all. The title of the sketch is literally "the offensive translator". It's SUPPOSED to be so bad that it's funny, that's what's so funny about it.
She has way funnier stuff.
Catherine Tate is hilarious. Check out her nan character.
The best act ever
Your reaction was hilarious please do more Catherine Tate...
Thank you!! Will do!
Turn off the captions, please, and never use them. The voice recognition software they use is garbage. It only will confuse you even more. To illustrate that check "Eleven. Voice Recognition In A Lift In Scotland". Thanks!
"I did a TEFL in my gap year". TEFL is a course many in the UK take and stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language, where they spend some time in typically a European country to teach English to the locals. Typically in a gap year before or after university.
What I find always amusing is how uncomfortable American reactors are and struggle how they should react in case Big Brother is watching them.
Fake it til you make it 😂
It’s not offensive. Europeans aren’t as touchy as Americans.
Catherine Tate, sketch comedy with literally dozens of various and recurring characters she plays outstaningly. This one is Helen Marsh, who always enters into some situation where somebody needs some kind of specialist in something, immediately claims "I can do that" and of course, can't do it at all. Catherine Tate is a genius.
What some people don't get is that it was making fun of people that think like that not people from other countries.
Based on 70 years London experience and making allowances for individual personalities and exceptions to the rule then I would say that is Spot On :)
Ty for explaining. As a kid watching this i was either shocked or just baffled. When you get context it makes more sense and is actually very intelligent and funny 😂
it took 25 takes as the chinese woman kept laughing
The Asian Lady and the Gentleman from Africa caused shit because they could not stop laughing, the amount of takes was stupid. ❤️🇬🇧
It's a long explanation but she is The Doctor Donna on Dr. Who. A TV series that just celebrated it's 60th anniversary on British TV.
Should watch her Lauren cooper classroom skits like the English teacher and French teacher ones as well as the posh mum and Nan
Oldie but gold. 🤣
TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language. You don't learn other languages.
You can't trust closed captions-I've seen some strange ones. What she said was, "I did a TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) in my gap year."
If you think shes offensive then you really need to check out her nan 😂😂😂
Girl she's an amazing comedian it's funny and she's totally awesome amazing woman I always laff out at she's brilliant and the actors are awesome 🎉🎉🎉
The “ this is not my sandwich” was a ad lib, during the lunch break on set the African Nation actor made a fuss about his sandwich choice, so she threw that into the monologue, it took hours to film that short segment as the actors lept breaking character with laughter 👍
Too funny-wish she'd have someone from the Caribbean-feel left out lol 😆 😂 🤣
It is comedy.....She is a very well known comedienne....It is a joke...
The English irish and Australians aren't as up tight as most countries
The British people have humour of laughing at themselves, the joke is her making herself look stupid. No one took offence the Japanese lady, couldn’t stop laughing . They all found it hilarious. Anyone finding offence is finding offence for the sake of it. It showed up the stereotyping of different people.
Lighten up😂😂😂😂😂
Where's her Oscar? Give it to her! 🏆
That was from the Catherine Tate show which ran from 2004-2007. You may also recognize her as Nellie from the American version of the Office, Donna Noble from Doctor Who, and the Jack Black movie Gulliver’s Travels.
This is Hilarious!!! 🤣😂😆No South-Central L.A. isn't a part of Compton, they're 2 different cities.
😂😂😂
My daughter's dad is Italian, and he was laughing so hard when i showed him this sketch, cause he understands how Italian must sound in the ears of foreigners. And may i add that he is the most patriotic person i've ever known, and the Italian language is like the finest art to him. I myself is Danish, and if someone from another country made a fun sketch of my language, i am sure i would laugh hard about it, cause i know the rest of the world would think my language sound like someone are trying to speak with a potato in the throat. People nowadays are so affraid of offending others, due to wokeness on steriods in the western societies.
Sadly, this sketch really flew over this woman's head. It's a joke about stereotypes and the people who believe them!!
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE SHOW IN FULL VIEW IT SHOW THE FLAGS ON THE TABLE.
Fun fact: when they were filming this skit it took a long time because the Chinese lady kept laughing when it was her turn
Love Catherine Tate! Nan is hilarious ... also, need to bring up the character Lauren ... who isn't even bothered though ...
She is a genius, please react her nan character
These actors were in hysterics while filming this sketch that it had to be filmed multiple times. It is not offensive at all. Many people from all walks of life found these sketches hilarious and didn’t take any offence whatsoever.
you need to get out more luv ....... its HILARIOUS
People who don't find this funny have had a humour bi pass.In fact its shows them up as very band and stupid
"I did a TEFL in my gap year" TEFL = Teaching English (as a) Foreign Language.
Look up "Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Adriano Celentano (1972). It's a nonsense song of what English sounds like to an Italian speaker.
Knew you'd love it 😂
Indeed 😂
Don’t know much about Catherine Tate but she did a funny impersonation of an old lady on the Graham Norton show at the behest of Tom Cruise. I think it was the inspiration for the character Nan.
Funniest skit I ever saw!
I can only imagine how many takes this needed as I bet the 'victims' found it so hard to keep a straight face.
Brilliant reaction.
If you laugh your not allowed to be offend simple, enjoy it for the comedy that it is
"I did a TEFL in my gap year" (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
This Catherine Tate character says "well, I can do that" to any impossible request...and she's useless at everything.
We get humour outside the UK, i am from India and I am not offended. It's the funniest thing ever. Catherine is a genius! 😂
The Catherine Tate show ,top entertainment on bbc tv if you liked this get a load of Catherine Tate as gran hilarious
Why you terrified ...it's called having a laugh. ..the people in the room are actors they are all actors ...it's comedy ...it's a sketch show .very funny.
the show is actually called the Catherine Tate show
I don’t think Britt wanted to like what they had to say, but I think she did.
Again someone is offended on someone elses behalf
Typical woke, who's had a humour bypass, I feel so sorry for these people
Wait until she see's the football chants.....
My hovercraft is full of eels.
You should react to cathrine tate nan anger management