Woofter is a kind of gentle pejorative for a gay man in Britain. You wouldn't use it in polite conversation, but maybe as a wry reference to a friend
@DaChaGee2 жыл бұрын
The Northern Irish accent makes it so much funnier!
@danielgardecki10462 жыл бұрын
*"Woofter"* a 1970s variation of *"Poofter"* which means *A man who is seen as unmasculine, timid, or affected.*
@thecynic92322 жыл бұрын
We first saw Catherine Tate in our hotel room in London. She’s a national treasure. 🇨🇦
@MichaelYoder19612 жыл бұрын
Derek is another great character
@maudeboggins98346 ай бұрын
You two are fun. 😂😂
@neorich596 ай бұрын
Yep, "wooly woofter," was quite common parlance, a few decades ago. Probably derived from the term "poofter," also used in Australia, I believe. Tate is a genius. She appears to be endorsing stereotypes, but is doing anything but. Much the same way that Sacha Baron Cohen and The Pub Landlord _appear_ to be sexist. The fact that some people take them literally, is _their_ issue!
@anthonyglee17102 жыл бұрын
I’m “a British Gay”! Woofter is mostly a harmless expression amongst friends, my straight mates alway call me the Woofter. God knows where it’s from. Some of the younger 2000s Woofters may find it outrageously offensive. 🙄 That said I wouldn’t use the term at work unless it’s within my small team who thankfully still understand a joke.
@alankenny43352 жыл бұрын
Woolly woofter is Cockney rhyming slang for poofter (poof)
@homoerectus69532 жыл бұрын
Aye it from Willy Woofter.....Pufter.......not that I can judge....mmmm
@KernowWarrior2 жыл бұрын
As with all British slang, it's the intent behind the word. A friend calling you a woofter would be very different to a complete stranger in a pub calling you it.
@chrisrandall27102 жыл бұрын
Good on u Anthony. I only called out a co worker after a year of sly comments, one day I held the elevator for him, he said “thanks faggot”. HR was on him the next day. Some jokes are ok, some are abuse. I slept with the loser a year later, haha, most homophobic dudes are gay
@homoerectus69532 жыл бұрын
@@KernowWarrior yep I call my mates knob jockies all the time. to be fair they are homosexuals but I say it with such panache that it defiantly an insult
@Isleofskye2 жыл бұрын
The REAL Character of Catherine that you want to watch is "Nan". There are many clips of Nan on KZbin:)
@baylessnow2 жыл бұрын
Nan on the TV show 'Deal or No Deal' (this version was done for charity but it's a MUST see). A genuine game show where people had to guess the value of the card inside thier chosen box.
@Isleofskye2 жыл бұрын
I always had a problem with the authenticity of DOND. How come a contestant who never bothered, unduly, about their appearance suddenly looked much more attractive on the day they "just happened" to be picked which means the Production crew knew each show who it would be, and that lucky person was provided with their box which someone from the Production team allocated to them beforehand. It would be easy for me to choose the box with a specific amount depending on what I have seen of their personality over the last 20 shows when they were not chosen. IF the person who had been chosen for the day walked over to the 22 Boxes and chose one THEMSELVES then that would prove it was fair and, also, if it was "random" how comes in the 2,000 shows "Newbies" never got randomly picked on their first day when that should occur, on average nearly 100 times over the years but it never happened:)
@yinhungbunsik2 жыл бұрын
I love you guys! And your reactions, of course. I subscribed yesterday. This is one of my favourite Catherine Tate clips too. ❤️
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thank you David 😊🍻
@stephenmiller1952 жыл бұрын
She is hilarious this was a great sketch thanks guys .
@thatsthat26122 жыл бұрын
I love the accent attempts. please do them more often 😂
@kildogery2 жыл бұрын
"Poof" or "Poofter" is light a derogatory slur aimed at homosexuals. "Willie/Woolie woofer" is like a humorous/nonsense rhyming slang version. Hence "woofer". It doesn't really make sense, but it derives from poof, which is a British classic. Hence the shortened version
@HudsonsShotgun2 жыл бұрын
I have to say, Catherine Tate's Northern Irish accent is pretty good.
@chrisrandall27102 жыл бұрын
Now the drunk bride, as everyone else suggests m and Lauren!!!
@danielgardecki10462 жыл бұрын
*GhostOfNoMeme* who added *"Woolly"* to *Wiktionary* is incorrect, as that's not the word. The actual word has no *"O's"* but has an *"I"* instead.
@chrisrandall27102 жыл бұрын
Thx for doing this one! 🇨🇦❤️🤓ottawagay
@MultiMoomoo2 Жыл бұрын
U've got to do her nan taylor character....sooo funny!
@jamesgoodwin4543 Жыл бұрын
Part 2 of Gay Son is just as funny.
@watchreadplayretro2 жыл бұрын
is that another Canadian expression = rekoJ, eht Always fun to watch and great reactions as always the gay slang search rabbit hole at the end, omgosh :D
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
😁
@kallumleader91102 жыл бұрын
I'm gay and you can call me a woofter because I love the bantz :D
@jeffwellman83472 жыл бұрын
The drunk bride speech is funny.
@rachelchamberlain68272 жыл бұрын
Hi, I recommend Tiny Tim Transport prank call it's so funny 😂
@heathertaylor-nicholson9387 Жыл бұрын
Have you seen her character 'Nan'? It's fantastic and how I want to grow old!
@bwana-ma-coo-bah4252 жыл бұрын
Canadians get humour no matter what country it comes from. Americans find humour from any other place other than the USA hard to understand.
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
What seems to be the biggest obstacle between the U.K. and American comedy? Accents? Culture? etc?
@TheGarryq2 жыл бұрын
@@bradlucy The biggest obstacle between Brritsh/Canadian humour and the Yanks is that we can spell the word
@bwana-ma-coo-bah4252 жыл бұрын
@@bradlucy definitely culture. I could go on, but I won't. enjoy your show by the way.
@tinaosborne68372 жыл бұрын
If you have a gay mate and you called them a woofter they wouldn't take offence, it's just the British way
@roddo19552 жыл бұрын
So don't say it to a gay man who isn't your friend. 'My best friend is gay so it's okay when I say it. I saw it on Catherine Tate".
@tinaosborne68372 жыл бұрын
@@roddo1955 no you couldn't say that to gay man/woman who wasn't your mate they don't know you it would be offensive
@roddo19552 жыл бұрын
@@tinaosborne6837 that was my point😄
@FormulaProg5 ай бұрын
Maybe 10 years ago 😂 probably be offended now cus the internet tells everyone to be scared of eachother
@marcom60892 жыл бұрын
Y’all crack me up..
@sarablack25472 жыл бұрын
The guy in the painting on the wall is singer will young who won pop idol which came out before x factor it was a Simon cowell show.will is gay.
@anoldfogeysfun2 жыл бұрын
Catherine Tate also does another skit about a "posh wife" with kids - who is basically so upper class (or middle-upper class?) in her ways that she is literally scared of everything that should be normal . . . they are short sketches though - so you'd need to look out for where they have been merged into a single video for you to watch/react to them all . . . Cheers . . .
@roddo19552 жыл бұрын
You explained the entire premises.
@brianbritton36932 жыл бұрын
you 2 crack me up and haven't even smoked anything. Woofter is just rhyming slang for poofter aka poof. Not Pc but thats the point
@Tidybitz2 жыл бұрын
Willy Woofter is rhyming slang for poofter, a slang word for a gay man. Today it may be deemed offensive to the snowflakes amongst us, but to most of us older gay guys, over 40, it's funny and harmless fun. I was never a fan of Catherine Tate, but I came across this on youtube, and it's brilliant. Glad you two liked it also.
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you 😁
@roddo19552 жыл бұрын
It's about the intent. A complete stranger calling you a woofter out of nowhere is something different than a trusted friend or a fellow woofter.
@2eleven48 Жыл бұрын
Well, you may be sophisticated and urbane, but I'm 74 and I've travelled the long road of being gay from the time you could be imprisoned up till now, where you seem to think that anyone who objects to these terms is a snowflake. The fact is that they, woofter and poofter, are hate terms as pejorative as all the other terms that have accompanied being gay for years. Think of youngsters who may be called by their peers in such terms in today's world - 'funny and harmless fun', I don't think so. Shame on you.
@kilipaki87oritahiti7 ай бұрын
People like you disgust me and doesn’t represent the general gay man/woman/non binary person. Jjst because you don’t fin dit offensive doesn’t mean it’s not or that orhers won’t. Completely lack of awareness, and empathy for others. Narc much? You also use gaslighting… well done. Sounds like the typical privileged entitled cis white man to me🤡🤡🤡 Can’t stand when people hide behind “comedy” or humor to justify or glorify hate speech and bullying as well as discrimination. Humour is also relative and decided by cultural bias as well as the audience. “can’t you take a joke?” is the most common way bullies, and toxic people like narcissists use to not having to be accountable for their words and actions when they have hurt others and they try and set boundaries and let them now that’s not okay.
@kilipaki87oritahiti7 ай бұрын
@@2eleven48👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@stevepollard25712 жыл бұрын
Or it could be raining & cold & you’d say say c’mon crack on we’ve got work to do, what are ya some sort of woofter. There’s lots of different ones 😂
@Andrew_J_R2 жыл бұрын
Loved your reaction. I would say being called a woofter is offensive these days. It was more acceptable in the 90's compared to a lot worse slang that gay men had to deal with back then. That being said, some LGBTQ+ have reclaimed it and are happy. You can't please everyone. The whole premise of the joke is that it is set on a very rough council estate in Northern Ireland. I won't speak on some of their views on homosexuality - another video.
@Isleofskye2 жыл бұрын
Admittedly, I am out of the loop but do you mean you can't call someone a Wooly Woofter anymore? The World has gone mad...
@mattsmith54212 жыл бұрын
@@Isleofskye yes you can
@Isleofskye2 жыл бұрын
Thank Heavens for that. I just said to my boyfriend, "Sanity prevails"..
@mattsmith54212 жыл бұрын
@@Isleofskye it's their fault if the pansies are offended. People these days are offended by words rather than the intention. Luckily I think it's hyped up more by the media and virtue signalers than the majority of people who still have some sense left. I might be out of touch too tho as I only associate with common folks
@Isleofskye2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more Matt:)
@jona8262 жыл бұрын
Check out her "How very dare you" gay character. It's hilarious.
@leesapollo2 жыл бұрын
Ah but johnnnnnn
@jeffanway84962 жыл бұрын
Check out Rodney Carrington Live at the Majestic
@Fireglo Жыл бұрын
Poofter basically refers to farts going poof because their butt hole is so stretched. So yeah it's definitely derogatory.
@thomashernandez87009 ай бұрын
Poofter in England
@mikestokes1402 Жыл бұрын
Hi Guys, think you might like this Catherine Tate video. "Catherine Tate - Nan and her sister from Spain"
@craigwinfarrah2 жыл бұрын
Google finds it offensive the English doesn't
@FUJOE-20232 жыл бұрын
Rodney Carrington live at the majestic please!
@busterboy75052 жыл бұрын
Another great video guys, yes going back about 30 maybe 40 years ago a woofter, woolly woofter was a slang word for a puff, ie guy man. don’t really hear that these day , please no offence to anyone just explaining to are Canadian friends, 👍🇬🇧🇨🇦.
@danielgardecki10462 жыл бұрын
*Woolly Woofter* has never been a term. It's always been *Willy Woofter.*
@busterboy75052 жыл бұрын
@@danielgardecki1046 hello there when I was at school woolly was used, but like I said it’s going back along time, or maybe it depends on witch part of the country you are from.
@ndboulton2 жыл бұрын
I aspire to one day reach your relationship LVL
@andrewlaw2 жыл бұрын
Poof = derogatory term for a gay man, evolved into poofter and woofter. Popular in the 80's & 90's but rarely heard now.
@tonyrantnrave68542 жыл бұрын
Like the videos but now it's time to up your anty with "Fred Dibnah ~ Steeplejack 1979." this chap was a local hero
@KevinSmith-ki7yl2 жыл бұрын
You should check out her posh mum and two posh kids very funny
@LILWAZZA2 жыл бұрын
Need to react to her nan sketches
@johnbrookes48922 жыл бұрын
woofter is slang but not too bad
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
Omg fluckers.. is that appropriate? Cuz I'm a flucker.
@brethren1112 жыл бұрын
React to omid djalili stand up and and his show aswell, he's hilarious
@baylessnow2 жыл бұрын
REKOJ EHT is an actual place in ADANAC I suppose? X¬D
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
No, it is how I pronounce "wreck a jet" when I'm drunk 😁
@thomashernandez87002 жыл бұрын
Are you from Fargo, North Dakota?
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
No, far-gone, Ontario Canada
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
Old school sctz
@raycope20862 жыл бұрын
Sometimes here in the UK, a gay man is also described as ," a player of the pink oboe." It comes from an old Peter Cook sketch about a biased judge, based on a doddery old judge who was trying the late Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe in a hugely scandalous trial in the sixties. Pure satire folks, and you should have a squint at it sometime, just for your own edification. BTW it is now classed as " offensive", whereas back then everyone took the piss out of everyone else, irrespective of class, colour, sex, or indeed sexual preferences. ( homosexuality wasn't legalised until 1968 in the UK ) Nowadays, most people seem to chase " victimhood " and get a large charge out of it, or rush around virtue signalling about how " right on " they are. Of course these same assholes are the ones who exclaim, " cool " about every utterance, or inanimate objects that their moollusc friends have acquired. When I was young, one was cool, or not cool, but the word was never spoken, but merely acknowledged by a knowing look, a nod, or possibly a grunt. : - ) It's lie those effete or wrinkly turds on tv who go around decorating rube's homes, or gardens, who point to a sudeboard or daffodill and call it " funky . " They wouldn't know " funk " if James Brown came around and beat them over the head with the steering wheel from the van of the band " Funkadaelic ", as he pretended to almost faint, being led away from the scene by one of his minions, wiping the sweat from his head as he went. ( great clip, look it up darlings ) Anyhow, I enjoyed you two being you two, as usual. I wish you rainbows.
@RmnGnzlz2 жыл бұрын
Is that how the UK really looks like? I hope it's a filter because I would slit my wrists in 3 hours if that's how sad the city looks lol.
@IanDarley2 жыл бұрын
No, they must have spent a lot of time finding a condemned place like this. Well, I'm speaking from experience of all the places I've lived, worked or visited, but I guess every country has a shit hole area.
@danielgardecki10462 жыл бұрын
Patiently waits for a clueless person to say it's Ireland not the UK...
@bobbybingle16622 жыл бұрын
That has got to be the dumbest question I ever heard in my life. Lmfao. Firstly it is meant to be Northern Ireland and secondly that's like watching a clip of the grimy backstreets of Detroit and saying, is that what America really looks like? Lol. I am an American living in the UK and it is beautiful here. I am guessing you are a not very smart kid.
@Trudon2 жыл бұрын
@@danielgardecki1046 ROI isn't the uk NI is
@danielgardecki10462 жыл бұрын
@@Trudon And this is set in Northern Ireland. Do you need your ears testing?
@mcbikeman56732 жыл бұрын
As you liked that i think you both will enjoy this Catherine Tate charachter Derek...kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWXOlpptmNp7mJI
@flea19722 жыл бұрын
👍
@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
Always a reverb.
@l0g1cb0mb2 жыл бұрын
XD
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
Whatch more.
@Doppeldropper2 жыл бұрын
Harry (corrected) Enfield has some hilarious clips of getting used to his gay son and his partner 🙂: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5CYo6iBmr-ZqNE
@cozicoops2 жыл бұрын
Harry.. it’s Harry!
@Doppeldropper2 жыл бұрын
@@cozicoops ...autocorrect 😕
@SNMG76642 жыл бұрын
You won't get in trouble for saying it, it's kind of like... idk. About on par with "queer" in North America. Far from the most hurtful word you can say, but can be hurtful if you say it with some bite? I have gay friends who consider it harmless, and some who would rather not be described with the term
@roddo19552 жыл бұрын
It's the intent. I have known people who'd call me names and I'd laugh. Because I know and trust them. But I have also had people who said it with the intent to hurt. Especially when they repeat it over and over again with a grin on their face until you snap and then it's:"wow, you are such a snowflake! I was only joking". Especially when it's a group at the workplace.
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
Every woman's dream having a hard man at least...
@sudsy71312 жыл бұрын
SCTV
@martinbobfrank2 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of homosexual slang terms in the UK but I won't mention them. Many probably go back to when being homosexual was actually a crime. Alan Turing was autistic but one of the greatest minds that Britain ever had and was homosexual at a time it was illegal. He suffered greatly and committed suicide due to it. Being homosexual doesn't mean you are weak, look at the 'The Sacred Band of Thebes' who were great fighters and gave the Spartans a good kicking. Anyway, other terms came about, gay originally meant happy but then was used to mean homosexual without saying it. Woofter without saying gay. Now, nobody gives a sod about people being homosexual; well, where I live in Merseyside England. So, the far left have to act like everybody is offended when nobody really cares one bit anymore.
@martinbobfrank2 жыл бұрын
@silverfoxeater Okay, thanks for the feedback as that is called discussion and I appreciate that. Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to drag anything into it.
@blackbob33582 жыл бұрын
STOP trying to imitate a pseudo english accent that is unknown to 99% of the plebescite. I reckoned the pair of ya would know better. No brownie points there. It really is irritating, as loads of "non natives" do. Love ya, all the same. x
@bradlucy2 жыл бұрын
lol
@eh-i18412 жыл бұрын
I just don’t think this one was funny,at all.
@afatninja2 жыл бұрын
its rhyming slang,, woolly woofter = poofter
@kilipaki87oritahiti7 ай бұрын
All the people in the comments justifying hate speech and discriminatory terms as humor or comedy… well done👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙄🫣🫠