What ruins this is that instead of just singing and showing someone else playing the piano, she's making a really bad attempt to pretend she's playing it- the lid is down, her feet aren't moving the pedals and there are no side shots of her hands. She should just have the balls to show she really doesn't play it.

Fabulous, made me laugh so much.

pure entertainment.

The worst interview where Meryl has been. Worst.

They are all terrific actors and entertain us ...but they are also all too human......and really the hero worshipping is too much.....and the exhorbitant fees they get ....is just getting rediculous... giving the state of the world ..and hunger etc...

Get me a grand piano and we can do a pretty woman reinactment... If you think yr hard enough 😊

I loved Victoria Wood, she was a bit special.

Teach me her secrets

She did it justice tbf , Catherine is ace

Goodness so difficult to replicate, but was a amazing 2nd, catherine, well done, and brave of you

On Parkinson, all the big Hollywood actors would get 20-30 minutes. Victoria got an entire hour.

Bend me over backwards on the hostess trolley is my favourite line 😂

As a Barry of a certain age.... I hate this song.

I don't even know Victoria Wood.

Well done Catherine. It's hard to follow someone like victoria. You did great. XX

Anyone else waiting for Nan to show up at the end... "What a load of old sh*t".... lol

brilliant well done ct u did vw pround

If you’re from Morecambe you have two choices: you either go bird watching on the bay or become one of the greatest comedy acts this country has ever known. I have a vision of Victoria and Eric keeping God himself in tears of laughter, making heaven a little bit more heavenly. I doubt I'll see them, but where I’m going we will have Dave Allen.

I really paid attention to the piano playing , it was superb. So good i find it hard to believe it was her. Barely looked at the keys, even during the more distant key strikes. Would love to seen a shot of her hands on the keys. Timing was brilliant

The first time I heard Freda and Barry I cried laughing, Victoria was a one off.

back when i was a kid victoria was always on tv, i think catherine tate did her proud

Very brave of Catherine Tate to show herself up like this. She hasn’t even 1% of Victoria Wood’s talent, like ability or even singing voice. Would much rather watch a repeat of VW, this was a waste of time and not a patch on the original.

Loved Victoria ,saw her live but well done Catherine.xx

Just brilliant

ELLAS DOS SON ASI. NO NECESITAN FLORITURAS. NACIERON CON CLASE. 💎💎🎇🎇

I havent watched it yet...but this is brave. Barry and Freda is so iconically Victoria Wood. Musically this would be the equivalent of covering Bohemian Rhapsody...lets see how this goes... ...yeah. As homage to Victoria it's fine, and I'm sure Catherine had a great time doing it. But as a performance, it's not even close. Maybe it's because Catherine doesn't play the piano, or maybe the style doesn't suit her, but the delivery just didn't work for me. In her defence, it's possible Victoria couldn't pull off "Am I bovvered though?" in a Lancashire accent!

Catherine Tate, you have just made me cry.

Was Catherine actually playing the piano while singing this?

I didn’t know that Catherine could play the piano… Congratulations

Fantastic 😂😂😂😂

❤The one and only Meryl Streep! ❤Greatest actress on earth! ❤Beautiful, already iconic❤love from Finland

No no no

I don't think this woman ever fully realized just how beautiful she is.

Damn!

Well a good try but not the same as Victoria who was pure magic.

We played this at my mums funeral the vicar loved it lol

This song / version brings back memories of watching Victoria on the Tv as child watching my parents laugh so much

Just absolutely brilliant Catherine ❤

Love youuuuu gays ❤❤❤

Mixed feelings about this: POSITIVE: There are people on here saying that the song is not difficult to play on the piano. That would be true if it didn't keep changing key every few verses. I've had a go at this piano part myself and it's more demanding than you think because of those key changes - it goes up in key from F-G-Ab-A-Bb in the version I did. I think this version has fewer key changes than the original but it still has enough to be awkward. NEGATIVE: The fact that we never see a shot of Ms Tate's hands is the giveaway that she's most probably not playing the piano herself. If she was, then why didn't the director show us her fingers in action? POSITIVE: Even just singing it though, those key changes are difficult to follow, and it must have taken a lot of practice to get both the key changes and timing right even singing along to someone else's piano playing. NEGATIVE: Maybe Tate was focusing on remembering the words without bursting into laughter and losing her place, but her performance feels a bit detached from the subject matter. Victoria Wood's original performance, she had the characters in her head when she sang, Catherine Tate didn't - although there are so many verses and so many key changes, it's impossible. CONCLUSION: I believe Catherine Tate's performance was a respectful tribute, but it could never be the equal of the original. I doubt anything ever could, although in my musical circle I know a married couple who could give it a fair stab. When I mentioned it to them a few years back they suggested that such a thing would require a separate narrator/pianist and promptly suggested me for the job. This was a while ago and I think we'd all forgotten about it until now. I might suggest it to them again and see what happens.

Nah. Not a patch on Victoria

I SALUTE THE BEST IMPROV QUEEN.

Look. You can pull a Steinway up on stage and place it at a 45 degree angle away from the audience. You can instruct the camera crew to pretend the actual hands on the actual keyboard simply don't exist. But the feet on those pedals don't lie. Catch yourself on.

The funniest line is about melting the buttons on the flame proof nightie. The whole song was hilarious when Victoria Wood released it but that back then seemed to be the icing on the cake beating the bending backwards on the hostess trolley.

Is she playing the piano? Just curious as you never see her hands playing the keys. Pianists generally are side on to the audience and the camera would show the keys being played on occasions.

If you haven’t seen CJ do the jackal then you haven’t seen Shakespeare the way it’s MEANT to be done!

Very cool they auctioned off the clothes to benefit Dress for Success!

Love catherine tate shes brilliant, but that song should not be sung by anyone else. Nobody can ever compete with the origional. No point in trying. She should have done the kimberly sketch imo

Meryl sums up her role perfectly by saying she's not a happy woman. She's an accomplished woman on her 5th marriage. I would add the biggest narcissist I've ever seen. It says it all right there.

The interview interested me but after 15 minutes of being interupted every 30 seconds by whomever-solven-thing interupting, full screen, wanting me to subscribe !!! Rude, annoying, etc ...