catherine tate - seargant sam speed

[@ewanoxborrow1024]

“You keep your eyes out front, and your smiles for your mother” One of her funniest sketches 😂

[@Harmonical1]

Catherine Tate is a genius and I reckon this is in fact her best sketch. My favourite line is when she says 'They usually go into show business, don't they'!

[@simonyip5978]

Catherine Tate is not just a very funny comedian but also a great actress as well. Her period accent and her facial expressions and timing are brilliant.

[@TheMargaretfletcher]

This was the first time I had seen Tom Ellis, and I thought at the time "oh wow,this young man going to go far ". Very glad that I was right.

[@PaulO-se6nl]

TheMargaretfletcher yes...Lucifer lol

[@andydrew2003]

Don't forget Miranda!

[@audreyt7931]

Lol you should seen him now Netflix

[@jess5427]

Yeah, I don't watch a lot of T.V and so I had no idea who he was, but I'm in love tonight, anyway 💕.

[@tangsanglimbu7102]

So the police is Lucifer!???

[@ffic4life]

Lucifer Morningstar, Donna Noble, and Mrs Hudson! Lmao I didn’t realize they all did something together. Hellavu crossover lmao

[@crystalidentity]

Even better - the 'Gene Genie' himself makes an appearance in Part 2! 😹 *Philip Glenister in The Catherine Tate Show* kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHSrioSaZ8t3eqc

[@tivasparis]

Not to mention Tom Ellis was actually in an episode of doctor who with Martha (sound of drums/last of the timelords)

[@michaelkeates7838]

Remember what your grandmother used to say "slow and steady wins the race but no good'll come from a one eyed sailor"

[@richardwilliamson9763]

My favourite line

[@grainnegowen5758]

😂

[@crystalidentity]

@Sergiu Stanciu At the risk of sounding indelicate, 'one-eyed sailor' or 'one-eyed trouser snake' is a common British euphemism for a penis! 👖🐍

[@benzathine]

To late, I think I've met that one eyed sailor, *MAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHA*"

[@carlcookson9693]

Absolutely Class...nearly pissed myself at these

[@fordlandau]

Catherine does a perfect job here. Promised to the farmers son : we need the onions!

[@stephenwright1069]

You keep your eyes out front and your smiles for your mother.... pmsl

[@gaggymott9159]

Oooooh the GORGEOUS TOM ELLIS!!! Grrrrrrrrrr

[@MegaStig25]

Lucifer

[@bins5186]

when the land lady started speaking I checked my playback speed if I forgot to set it back to normal.

[@wildernesstraining1957]

This is the funniest sketch ever. The end is an absolute gem. As a Londoner born in the fifties, the similarities are so true of that time!

[@limeykl]

Born in Manchester 1951…..love this sketch !

[@mylife1221]

Let's all go down the strand, _HAVE A BANANA!!!_ lmao

[@andrewmark2783]

I always end up singing this drunk...

[@mehhandle]

@@andrewmark2783 me to lol, and everytime I go shopping in the fruit and veg Isle, once it's in your head you can't get it out. 😁

[@laurawellauer33]

Tom Ellis doing a good Miranda 'talking to the camera' at the end!

[@dollcefina]

He should've mimed the desperate wave and drowning in the water!

[@visitingstatue171]

@@dollcefina haha yes!!

[@ThomasHarding1990]

"They usually go into show-business don't they?" LOL.

[@danielcox3152]

@Michael G How Very Dare you!

[@kaitlyne1870]

This must be Nan when she was younger. I know that laugh!

[@patagualianmostly7437]

Maybe so.... but look what she developed into. Something not funny at all.

[@tangsanglimbu7102]

Well you're right! I never even thought of it!

[@imanacer]

That is EXACTLy what I thought, as well!

[@IndigoAngel1448]

Nah, it can't be because nan in the 50s had long hair and got married to Jake, who wasn't a bald fat man.

[@thedolphin5428]

My God, Catherine is sharp, both in writing and in performance!

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

First time I’ve seen this. I’d have happily watched a full series based in this.

[@robertdullnig3625]

It's a parody of an actual show, Life on Mars.

[@stevezpj]

Waking up in 1951 and it's Hell on Earth, but then you realise you'll be the ruler of Hell anyway

[@alicelu5691]

Mukatsuku wake up in your house but full of strangers so burnt that house 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@crystalidentity]

@Mukatsuku - your Japanese name is so weird and hilarious! (What is it that makes you so 'nauseated', though?? 🤢)

[@stevezpj]

@@crystalidentity technically it translates closer to "pissed off". It was the first Japanese word I learnt from a friend after she got off the phone following an argument with a company :D

[@thegeezerdan]

I love how the cop whispers at the end please help me

[@Harmonical1]

For this incredible sketch alone, The Catherine Tate Show should have received a BAFTA.

[@chrisemsley7840]

I keep coming back to this gem. Catherine Tate is the goddess of comedy so she is maaaahaaahaaa!

[@FrankNFurter1000]

"Well don't stand there on the doorstep galling like a dullard, people will think I'm a scarlet woman so they will. *_MAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHA_*"

[@Aritul]

Thanks for that. I couldn't understand her.

[@Me-hs4jj]

Thanks as well. I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

[@luisferr2001]

@@hilarybarker1386 yes, but a little less nasal! Janice was more like Fran Drescher in The Nanny.

[@gingerburns9125]

"bones through their noses" killed me hahahahahahahahahahaha

[@greggi47]

I'd almost forgot watching Lifr on Mars a few years ago. Glad I did see that!

[@greggi47]

I saw it , too-and this reminds me that I want to watch it again.

[@fordlandau]

So gorgeous! And still is.

[@zoeymckeown3194]

"Slow and steady wins the race but no good'll come from a one-eyed sailor." 🤣

[@Fabaret]

Tom Ellis in a police uniform!! Why haven’t I discovered this sooner 😍😍😍

[@juliaconnell]

He's got such a lovely singing voice - never knew

[@mrsteel9026]

she really is a good comedy writer

[@Kevmacc1000]

OMG.... !!!! This is one of the best sketches she has ever done....... so funny. It's genius. :):)

[@MegaTonytheboss]

This guy can actually sing

[@Vesnicie]

Of course he can, he's Welsh.

[@crystalidentity]

He sings all the time in *_Lucifer_* - have you not seen it yet? 🎤😈🎶

[@grahamburbage7686]

She absolutely nails it every time. A classic. As good as the two Ronnie dare I say.

[@dixonrain]

I love how everyone loves Catherine Tate, not one thumbs down! America needs more like Catherine!

[@markfox1545]

She's English.

[@indiosse]

love the put the pipe down moment, when the old man hears the intro to 'let it be'

[@coolwahl]

Nan in the 50s!

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

correct! Same hair, same laugh!

[@patagualianmostly7437]

@@TheWizardOfTheFens Love CT...But that Nan character does nothing for me. Sorry. I want to laugh at comedy... not regret what we have become as a society.

[@cliveford314]

Back to the year I was born... Catherine Tate , just brilliant

[@RoryP22]

I would watch this as a time travel show.

[@seb389]

I am a massive fan of english language and this accent is soooo well done ...

[@martinward10]

Seb maybe because she's English... It's also very overdone

[@littlered1666]

That’s because they are English...

[@booth2710]

London accent of a certain era exaggerated for comedy.

[@geordiechris121]

I swear to god Una Stubbs's face on the 2nd "have a banana" is comedy gold! I piss myself laughing everytime

[@anniemaull3599]

This show has two of my faves Catherine Tate and Tom Ellis

[@siriosstar4789]

Tate is so brilliant and convincing with her characters that it's sometime hard to tell that it's her . total genius

[@audreyt7931]

I LOVE THAT I HAVE FOUND THIS VIDEO

[@abidivino]

i can't believe i only recognize tom ellis from his singing voice.... he looks like a young darren criss back then

[@steelsheen]

goodness look at Tom Ellis here looking soooo young like he just graduated from Uni 😂, he still defies age now but hot dayum growing a beard really accentuated his good looks 😍👍👍

[@walterr.5638]

best ever C. Tate piece.

[@mathewwalentowicz3081]

This really reminds me of the proper Ealing comedies from the 50's

[@SLAmey-mu9hd]

Genius and incredibly funny!!!.... Nothing more to say ...😆

[@falloutgirl902]

LOOOOL i loved this show

[@nitelite78]

"A good Suffolk sausage every second Sunday." Poetry

[@annidiivan797]

OMG he played Let it be 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@tommycawley9133]

We neeed the onions 😃😃😂😂😆

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

MY Mum is is a really good nursing home and they have singers { and other varied events} on all the time, I wait with baited breath during a sing song because any song they can fit a "have a banana" into they always do and the best part is they are so deadly serious when they do it, oh I love it so lol

[@RK-ep8qy]

Ron Wylie I'm gonna make it a mission to find a nursing home where they do this.

[@crystalidentity]

Why were they so obsessed with having a banana, though? Was it because it was an exotic imported delicacy in those days? I recall an old sketch from *_Alexei Sayle's Stuff_* where he plays a spiv trying to sell black-market bananas hidden inside his trenchcoat!

[@sarahray7124]

Looks like I'm not the only one looking for my anything Tom Ellis fix until "Lucifer" Season 4! What a powerful actor, and genuinely kind and funny man!

[@averytiredaunt4708]

I've been watching alot of Tom Ellis since discovering Lucifer

[@crystalidentity]

I love how Tom's been tweeting anti-Trump messages, and he and his bride kindly asked fans who wanted to send gifts or donations, to send money to Planned Parenthood! What a leftist darling!

[@SteffJPendragon]

Tom Ellis, look up 'Gary and Miranda'... you won't regret it... also he was in Doctor Who, Merlin and many other things...

[@neszi3]

Which Doctor Who season???

[@dollcefina]

Which episode???

[@liliantorrente1494]

Last of the Time Lords

[@crystalidentity]

@@liliantorrente1494 Thanks! :D Who'd he play in *_Merlin_* , though?

[@crystalidentity]

@@neszi3 S03 E13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_of_the_Time_Lords

[@Miranda-vj8yy]

Its Gary from Miranda series!!! :D :D :D

[@TheAuroraamor1]

All i see is catherine tate and tom ellis in a scene together. I cant really hear anything else

[@crystalidentity]

And Mrs. Hudson from _BBC Sherlock_ as the racist neighbour!

[@emmas5000]

Catherine Tate is an incredible actress and singer. Underrated I reckon

[@markfox1545]

She's immensely successful with her own tv show, sell out tours and great dvd sales. What part of that makes you think she's underrated? Just copying others' inane comments?

[@thewanderingconservationist]

What a talent..

[@Kyle-rj8gi]

I was absolutely poorless when she interrupted him playing let it be

[@SilverSurfer5150]

This is gold!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@esthervaneijk4586]

Donna Noble, Mrs Hudson and Lucifer in one room. Lucifer doesn't stand a chance.

[@proangelosannuntiator4571]

5:22 I wanna hear the full Tom-Ellis-Cover, pliiis D: 5:41 Amazed-letting-pipe-down-moment XD

[@colleengalea7767]

Tom Ellis looks so young here Dashing as ever He is sooooo very good at comedy

[@dronexfun8469]

"Well blow me down". Genius, after a spinach reference.

[@chengwang411]

Is this Gary in Miranda?

[@katherine_arizona]

Tom Ellis sings at 5:36 Love it.

[@johnromberg]

I like Tate's stuff well enough, although it's not exactly my favorite. But this right here is up there with the best sketches ever made!

[@alphadragon7645]

I really want more of this. Like a series

[@dollcefina]

Have you seen part 2 of Sam Speed, featuring the Gene Genie from _Life On Mars_ ?

[@crystalidentity]

@@dollcefina kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHSrioSaZ8t3eqc

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Nice reference to "Life On Mars"

[@terrys461]

Wow you must be the brains in your family

[@crystalidentity]

@@terrys461 And you must be the arse in your family...

[@Aritul]

@@crystalidentity 😂

[@crystalidentity]

​@@Aritul Anyway, not everyone knows about *_Life On Mars_* . I just saw a reaction vid by a 20-yr-old kid who was watching the two Sam Speed sketches, and he was shocked why people were laughing when the cop gets knocked down by the speeding car, so I explained the whole thing. I was a bit shocked that he didn't even recognise the Beatles song, but I'm not gonna mock him, because not everyone has music-savvy parents or older relations who expose them to music from before they were born... "Let's all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born... Though she was born a long, long time ago, your mother should know... Your mother should know." ~ The Beatles

[@douglasparkinson4123]

its called a parody

[@martycrow]

Brilliant! I'm a bit late to the party, but isn't this also the themes of two other ..."things"...Life on Mars (TV) and Yesterday (film)? (Didn't check before commenting. I was that excited!)

[@crystalidentity]

This sketch is _totally_ a send-up of *_Life On Mars_* (note the year - the show ran in 2006 - 2007, this was uploaded in 2008). Have you seen part 2 of the sketch? *Philip Glenister in The Catherine Tate Show* kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHSrioSaZ8t3eqc

[@crystalidentity]

And thanks for reminding me - now I _really_ have to watch that *_Yesterday_* movie. I'm a massive Beatles fan, I can't believe I haven't seen it yet! ;D

[@martycrow]

@@crystalidentity hey! Thannks for that! Haven't seen it. Good point about LoM and dates.

[@martycrow]

@@crystalidentity I haven't seen it either! Not living in the UK at the mo.

[@timothyj1966]

She kills me!!!

[@JanLilyJing]

Yes, Tom Ellis! If you are in the U.S. go to Hulu dot com and watch Miranda, starring Miranda Hart from Call the Midwife. He has a major role on that and I fell madly in love with him watching it! It's very funny.

[@crystalidentity]

Oh - I didn't know Miranda was in _Call the Midwife_ .

[@kaysmith8992]

She really nails the accent you hear in old films.

[@stellaluna92]

I was about to say all they need is Gene Hunt to appear, but then in the next skecht when here on the beach he appears. This couldn't be more perfect Catherine Tate and Life on Mars

[@crystalidentity]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHSrioSaZ8t3eqc

[@JohanR888]

So Funny...Brilliant! Thanks for uploading.

[@davidthomas-ot4cl]

I think we can all safely say that Catherine Tate is a comedic genius.

[@TheMayneofDeath]

i love Tom Ellis.

[@teeejaaay1]

luv this, brill

[@RikAlessi]

❤ Catherine Tate

[@Sawrattan]

@dickinsonstarkey I don't think it's meant to be Queen's English. It sounds like the same accent as her Nan character - like when working-class people tried to sound posh by rolling their R's.

[@olivercuenca4109]

I always presumed that the lady in this was Nan if I'm honest. She's the right age for it.

[@benpayne2836]

Sawrattan Queens English!? Far from it HA! This is East End friend.

[@Ploddypop11]

Insert Name Here same laugh

[@EclipseOfTsuki93]

@@olivercuenca4109 Nan is 75 in the show, which puts her being born in 1933. If it's 1951, then Joanne Taylor would be 18, and I doubt that this woman is 18 with an adolescent daughter who's engaged. Maybe it's her aunt, one of her relatives, and they all share the same cockney style of speaking and that odd laughter.

[@wordoflife8158]

@@EclipseOfTsuki93 Maybe Ginnie in this became Joannie/Nan... she could be about 18 here easily. The woman could be her mum lol

[@harenrussel]

So funny. Cheers Cathy Tate ❤️😁😁😂😂👍

[@DanLTjoe]

people will think i'm a scarlet woman say they will...mwohahahahahah....Lmao! xD

[@adrianaprieto7767]

Tom love you

[@crystalidentity]

Tom loves you!

[@douglasparkinson4123]

this is the best LOM parody ever

[@stonesinmyblood27]

Love this

[@lauraopper2571]

it's Mrs. Hudson...

[@crystalidentity]

A very racist, narrow-minded Mrs. Hudson, sadly! The _real_ Mrs. Hudson has all sorts 'round her. Mrs. Turner next door's even got married ones...! 👨‍❤️‍👨

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Just like my gran’s house. Copnor, Portsmouth.

[@kyleleigh3215]

Tom Ellis sings that song to me whenever he's in United States, Arizona. Ever since I called him detective sergeant Sam Speed and no one knew why

[@crystalidentity]

Why does he visit Arizona? That seems a bit out of the way...

[@SDoesNotKnow]

@@crystalidentity Arizona is popular vacation spot for those living in Los Angeles, where he probably filmed Lucifer.

[@fishfake]

I wonder if Danny Boyle got the idea for his new film yesterday.by watching this 5:24 ??????

[@crystalidentity]

Haha - maybe you're right!! ;D

[@luigi24908800]

5:42 kills me

[@FoTwenny]

What is the song playing at the start when he is on his motorbike?

[@nathanieltaylor894]

Is it just me or does that laugh sound strikingly familiar..

[@coolwahl]

Nathaniel Taylor I thought it was the nan when she was younger 😂

[@emcutts2575]

@@coolwahl it is x

[@coolwahl]

SimplyEm is it? She has a different name though

[@emcutts2575]

@@coolwahl hmm maybe not. I don't know x

[@coolwahl]

SimplyEm we will never know 😂

[@hugh0221]

What a 'Life on Mars' parody!

[@jovetj]

5:22 Beautiful piano arrangement of a song I don't even care for...

[@dollcefina]

I believe he's playing it for real. Tom Ellis says 'Let It Be' is the only song he knows how to play on the piano! I saw a candid video clip of him playing it, with Lauren German next to him.

[@louisethompson2044]

Catherine Tate,is brilliant x

[@xmanu4lifex]

and we need the onions stop talking jibberish and eat ya jiblets hahaa x

[@SJ-is2os]

That is Mrs Hudson!

[@crystalidentity]

A very racist, narrow-minded Mrs. Hudson, sadly! The _real_ Mrs. Hudson has all sorts 'round her. Mrs. Turner next door's even got married ones...! 👨‍❤️‍👨

[@crystalidentity]

I wish someone could provide a transcription of the dialogue! I could barely make out half of what they were saying, lol...

[@RK-ep8qy]

Crystalline Entity what part didn't you get? I can transcribe it but to do the whole video would take too long

[@ronaldcustard4636]

Crystalline Entity I thought you were destroyed near Melona IV

[@crystalidentity]

@@ronaldcustard4636 I was about to remark on your own demise, but you've had so many incarnations and reboots, I've lost track of what happened to you.

[@ronaldcustard4636]

Crystalline Entity At least I came back you where destroyed lol

[@crystalidentity]

@@ronaldcustard4636 Awww, shit - Touché!! 🌞❄️😰💦

[@Xyru]

lucifer

[@chloephillips867]

TOM ELLIS!!!