Ginger Hair Safe House | Catherine Tate | BBC Studios

Barbara arrives at a safe house for those unfortunate individuals inflicted with ginger hair disease. Hilarious comedy sketch from BBC comedienne Catherine Tate. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide KZbin channel here: / bbcworldwide
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[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

This is possibly one of the best-executed socially conscious sketches ever

[@leslieshafer6343]

Yes if you're going to do comedy with a message, this is the way to do it. The humor is not ham-handed & while it's clever it's not arch. So nobody feels like they are being beat over the head with a message or talked down to.

[@southfloridaarcheryguy114]

Is it?

[@kindnessfirst9670]

Obviously "best" is subjective.@@southfloridaarcheryguy114

[@MG-bs5mr]

My goodness, I remember joining a ginger support website in the late 90's but I eventually found a much better solution. I moved to Scotland 😁

[@janicekrieger1922]

good for you!

[@Raven-ci8pk]

Yup, were always very welcoming (;

[@MG-bs5mr]

@@Raven-ci8pk 👍

[@Hiforest]

I didn't think there were that many people with Ginger hair in Scotland before I realised there are practically none anywhere else I've visited.

[@MG-bs5mr]

@@Hiforest you're right, to look at a crowd of people in Scotland you'd not see a huge number of gingers but I think I'm correct in saying that Scotland has the highest percentage in the world.

[@HannaLivingston]

Did anyone else see the posters? "Don't dye your hair another color. There is help for gingers." "Call the number for Red Alert." LOL

[@peterlewerin4213]

Catherine Tate can say so much with just speechlessness.

[@AMANOFCOLOURS]

THIS❤

[@kawaii8218]

Personally, I love ginger hair. I think it's such a radiant colour.

[@lisettecallis5329]

not good on a man. depends on the woman.

[@nickjerrat]

@@lisettecallis5329 ginger beards are outstanding

[@crystalidentity]

Isn't it funny, that back in the day of Anne of Green Gables, being ginger was considered 'homely'! Nowadays, so many ladies colour their hair bright red! It's considered sexy and glamorous now. :D

[@Narcan885]

@@lisettecallis5329 Ginger men can be beautiful too. Or ugly, just like anyone else. Your tastes are not somone else's.

[@path1024]

Well, technically we can't really know if the color is radiating or being reflected without more information, so... ok... bye.

[@Smudgie]

I can imagine the BBC advert for extras. "Wanted: Gingers needed for minor parts in sketch"

[@MorgaineRiddlePrince]

Anyone here read thar particular sherlock homes story?

[@andysoper1229]

@@MorgaineRiddlePrince shut up geek!lol

[@nicolesong6199]

Sounds like the short Sherlock Holmes red haired banker case

[@69_pigeons_in_a_trenchcoat]

@@MorgaineRiddlePrince ah, yes "The Red Headed League"

[@divaden47]

@@MorgaineRiddlePrince Yes, afraid so!!

[@jsygrl4140]

She is such an underrated actress

[@richardclarkson3016]

We’ve got ginger people living next door and they’re actually alright once you get to know them.

[@AnnaPxx]

"Some of my friends have red hair" 😂😂😂

[@nickysmileywiley2309]

Lol

[@judyannstrawn8257]

I'm a ginger and I'm fucking awesome. Gingers are the shit. Don't hate us cuz were beautiful....

[@traceyhedges6792]

@@judyannstrawn8257 I'm a ginger too and proud of it we are the unicorns of the world and we have pale skin some of us have green eyes or hazel eyes

[@kimkardussy1664]

I just not want my kids growing up around that life style

[@cafe374]

I died at "It's not the smell..." 😭😭😭☠☠☠

[@DarTunwarm]

A wonderful sage of gingers once said...’Gingers are beautiful. They are kissed by fire’

[@davidkasquare]

We all already know it, but I have to say it again: Tate is a genius.

[@aight329]

Lol no

[@aight329]

@j4Rose nope

[@basedbattledroid3507]

"It's not the smell!"

[@user-zm9yc2kb8x]

she has a ginger heart..and thats all that matters

[@path1024]

I'm an auburn. A man with no tribe. The gingers have taken my eyebrows, but they'll never take what's left of my melanin!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

You sound like a educated man i imagine you are well red.

[@splashpit]

My son is an auburn so l guess that makes me an carrier ! You can add two to your tribe .

[@Argennon]

@@PatrickKelly-lz3pv He's not red he's auburn

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

@@Argennon Did you know Rupert that auburn is the latin varient of anglo saxon phrase "Ginger Bastard" meaning they who must be ostracized.

[@Owl_bee]

Also an auburn. There is no home for us.

[@jeffcook3747]

As a ginger myself I can honestly say that it's not a "smell" it's a refreshing and comforting aroma like the first flowers of spring or a loaf of fresh bread :=

[@turtleface25]

Wait I thought the smell thing was a joke do gingers genuinely smell different

[@Autumn_Forest_]

@@turtleface25 Now I’m wondering the same thing!! Wth?!

[@davidthedeaf]

Nope. It is a stank. Sorry. Only a ginger is attracted to that smell of other gingers. It is strong, just like the dirty root.

[@davidthedeaf]

@@turtleface25 why not go up and scratch and sniff one?

[@turtleface25]

@@davidthedeaf I mean I think they'd notice

[@jeanlunt2493]

Never ceases to bring tears of laughter.

[@SailorGreenTea]

This should win a comedy award.

[@lffit]

I am a ginger too, boy did I cop it school; now they all want to be, a hairdesser told me recently wis her luvley French accent, " you 'ave bootifull 'air". You cannot get zis superbe color from a bottel !!!! We are in vogue no doubt,.... it took a while lol

[@button1ginger1]

I went on a French exchange trip. The family I stayed with were a bit non-plussed to see me. "Votre cheveux? C'est vrai?" Like it was a wig.

[@lffit]

@@button1ginger1 LOL... Was this many years ago; because in earlier times in the seventies and eighties one didn't see many, but today not the case, I am so old now!! They like blue eyes too here in the South, in hospital last year a cute cancer doctor I had never met before came to see me in my room, because obviously somebody had told her I had blue eyes, holding my hand she told me "it was so nice to see a person with blue like hers not like the people here they all have dark brown", Eager to take things further and get onto the subject of my few remaining ginger locks, ( not particularly a good look), a nurse walked in, and out she went! lol

[@jeanlunt2493]

The name calling doesn't bother me anymore but as a kid I would cry....a lot! LOL

[@garethbisgrove4482]

I never gave them the satisfaction of crying - still don't!!

[@lisettecallis5329]

youre called names?

[@crystalidentity]

What, that's horrible!! Well, these days all the ladies want red hair, it's considered sexy and glamorous, so you got the last laugh. ;D

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@crystalidentity It's always been sexy and glamorous. There was an outcry when Rita Hayworth went from red to blonde girl a film. And Stan Laurel was ginger.

[@kaysmith8992]

As someone who grew up in an all-Asian neighbourhood with only a few white kids, we never even thought there is this thing against gingers in white society. In fact many old Asian men had 'ginger' hair from dyeing their hair white.

[@maxinejacobson4006]

There is a Red Hair Day held every year in a town in The Netherlands (can’t remember the name) but my beautiful red haired daughter and granddaughter attended it when they lived in Amsterdam, and my handsome red haired son joined them one year. I personally loved being a red head, but now I’m snow white, which I quite like too.

[@Alinor24]

Lovely. 🥰 Snow white sounds beautiful as well.

[@normanpearson8753]

Nobody's gonna check my hair in my Nether Lands !

[@stikndip]

Wecome to Russet Lodge! Priceless.

[@laurengrace901]

I'M GINGER!! This is quite funny lol :-)

[@Ellis01234567890]

Be careful about telling people that...

[@tzartrex]

Ellis01234567890 wow! really?!?

[@maxheadroom3839]

Because it's true 😉👍

[@emilyclayton7019]

Same here. I thinks it is quite funny as well

[@crystalidentity]

@@Ellis01234567890 Be careful about telling people you're ginger? Or telling people the sketch is funny? I don't get it...

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Siobhan Redmond at 0:02 was the voice of The Rani in Doctor Who Big Finish and she played Karen Gillan's mother in The Party's Just Beginning. As we Whovians all know, Catherine Tate was Donna Noble and Karen Gillan was Amy Pond.

[@snuffyscorner]

My Mom has red hair and I think it's beautiful. It's so shiny!

[@alexwatts1422]

Epic. We need a lot more gingers in L.A., I love redheads. Britain, send your ginger ladies to SoCal.

[@xcargrif]

Alex M Noooooooo we'd all get nasty sun burns. D:

[@canis77]

+Alex M If you can just turn the sun down a couple of notches more gingers might come over. (I'm a ginger dude before anyone gets upset!)

[@path1024]

@@xcargrif Well, he asked for the ginger ladies, so... It's well known ginger males are sterile and only good as pack animals. Wait... I'm thinking of something else. So little is known about the ginger. It's difficult to get close enough to study them with the smell.

[@path1024]

@@canis77 (I'm an auburn dude before anyone gets upset. I live in both worlds, and yet neither. I am a lost soul with no tribe. I am.... awwwwbrrrrrrrn.)

[@KittyMcTavish]

I AM GINGER and there is no discrimination or sterotyping againts Ginger haired people in Australia, this skit is totally hilarious and has me rolling on the floor wetting my ginger murkin! Love you Katherine you ROCK!! What the general belief about ginger heads is that they are sexually frisky and excellent love makers!! how cool is that, come down under and enjoy the love!

[@thedarkness111]

There's no discrimination of ginger haired people in britain this is what's called a joke. 😂 Btw there's a ton of ginger jokes in summer height high and jonah from tonga, so I'd say the attitude is pretty similar. It's a joke prejudice.

[@adamguarnella1568]

Lol it's not the smell cracked me up

[@SailorGreenTea]

I still think this should be a series.

[@yoya4766]

I loved this sketch. I had a ginger friend at school. Put me off for life.

[@CalebHughesTheGingerNinja]

Is it sad that i've met people genuinely scared of gingers?

[@BLane-xr1ic]

To be fair, we are scary people 😁

[@lisettecallis5329]

@@BLane-xr1ic lol

[@crystalidentity]

WTF?? Why would anyone be scared of gingers!! **Bloody Great Face-Palm**

[@Isleofskye]

My Mum and best M8 were and 50+ years later I still fell slightly traumatized but I'm getting out of the woods now after long-term therapy...

[@billharris1847]

WOW really??

[@brooklyng4442]

Catherine Tate makes me proud to be ginger

[@j1701why1]

Pure GENIUS.

[@SailorGreenTea]

I wish this becomes a series.

[@linzianna]

I'm a ginger. Only 1 of my 5 kids are ginger. I have dyed mine cos I get bored and now I've ruined my hair. I wish I'd kept it my natural colour and embraced it 😩

[@elliedarling3593]

It's not too late to go back to your natural color, just let it grow out, and get it cut shorter.

[@Lumibear.]

Happily, it grows.

[@TheWitchOvAgnesi]

"I may not be ginger here..." Who else thought her hand was going somewhere else?

[@patrickkelly7085]

Just you

[@taotoo2]

@@patrickkelly7085 and the audience

[@Darkanight]

HAHAHAHA

[@path1024]

Oh geeze, I completely missed that joke... I thought the long pause was to let the audience laugh at how obvious and cliche' what she was about to say was... and then confirmation. Now that pause has all new meaning.

[@frankie7529]

😂

[@aworysse]

I keep praying that one day we all wake up as gingers

[@blank557]

Reminiscent of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, "The Red-Headed league."

[@janeparfitt65]

LMAO 😂

[@lucylincoln3285]

Where my Ginger brethren at?!

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

🧡

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

I believe I am a carrier especially if I stay out in the sun and doesn't explode or burn to death because my skin is too white my hair start having natural red highlights...probably someone in my family 7 generations back was redhead...

[@razmataz13drums]

@musikakonditori i love how Britain has its own in-jokes

[@sgd.6830]

A ginger carrier 😂

[@jonathan75801]

Its funny the way the women says a carrier.

[@TheYovilleMovies]

For people in the comments saying there isn’t prejudice against ginger people, you are wrong. Just because you haven’t experienced it first hand or seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I’ve had people throw books at me, physically harm me, shout at me in the street and scream at me to get a tan among other things. I also knew a ginger guy who had people spit in his hair “to put the fire out”. You can make jokes all you want but that doesn’t mean we will find them funny most of the time I laugh because I feel awkward or just don’t engage at all, trust me we’ve heard it all multiple times. I dyed my hair for over 7 years as I was ashamed to be ginger and thought something was wrong with me I’ve only recently just gone back to my natural colour and even then I was terrified what my partner would think about me with my natural hair and stop finding me attractive and therefore leave me.

[@phoggee]

That is horrible

[@glamladwales7056]

I'm a carrier

[@savvysearch]

This plays so well spoofing those procedural/law dramas.

[@MyNameIsRoos]

"haha Duracell!" "oh i'm a Duracell am I? because of the orange top? I guess I can live with that, after all, it means I last longer" Best Response Ever.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Especially if delivered like "where haven't I been" in this clip kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYuTc6CgqLBmjMU

[@fragglet]

I really appreciate all the effort they must have gone to to make all those posters in the background

[@benwest2112]

Gosh, if there'd be a safe house for ginger men. I'd love to work there and if they would start talking to my about their troubles in Gaeilge that would be absolute heaven for me.

[@zaimajawad4800]

Think I might open one up seeing as I fancy ginger men 🙂 not many look my way though (I'm Pakistani) and even if they did then there's whole issue of interfacial dating and marrying

[@Cihanxxx]

Best show ever ❤

[@youtubesucks494]

only a ginger can call another ginger ginger

[@markdickens968]

Its not the smell 🤣

[@liam.4454]

I’m all for equality sometimes but also you have to be cautious

[@normanpearson8753]

Yes ,there's some risks you don;t want to take . Leave that to people in Europe ...

[@McAmber]

Oh my. Love Catherine :)

[@haelotny6523]

I want to see this as a movie

[@KayleighBA92]

I wish I was a redhead to be honest. especially Catherine's colour.

[@HonestlyAnnaFun]

This has so many serious issue references

[@woolywonders5546]

🤣🤣🤣 omg y’all

[@jovetj]

The full version of this skit is better.

[@stereofidelic67]

May not be ginger up here, but definitely ginger down there!

[@fillstlauren7256]

My grandmother was a ginger. #Gorgeous

[@heeeeeresrossy]

I'm ginger, and I love my 'safe house'

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

Ur a handsome ginger

[@pigknickers2975]

Russet Lodge!!!!!

[@janetmoore8911]

I'm forever telling my daughter she is a ginger in disguise :)

[@Asmrran]

thank god they have a place for gingers :D im taking the next flight to where ever the hell this place is to mingle with my own kind

[@Yesica1993]

I love gingers! Wish I could marry a red haired guy and have little redheaded babies, just like the one in the video.

[@captal6187]

Tate brilliant!

[@brettvukovich6220]

I may not be ginger here, but I'm most definitely a ginger down there.

[@bluefire2918]

🤣🤣😭

[@pinarellolimoncello]

I had a really good mate at college who was a Jean -jere, he insisted he was Bronze, girls loved him.

[@ragnaread5548]

I went to Wales, close to the mountains we should climb. Anyway, everyone, almost everyone was a redhead! Not a ginger and orange but proper deep read.. what's that all about?

[@KerstinMamma]

welcome to jurassic park XD

[@daverage4729]

"Its not the smell...." Lmao!

[@The71boss351]

shes been using the garden when its sunny XD hahaha

[@BLane-xr1ic]

This is brilliant 🤣😂🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Sawrattan]

There's not a thumbnail of Catherine Tate videos that doesn't make me laugh

[@Padruig9]

There aren't enough gingers in Canada. Maybe I should move to Scotland and find myself a ginger girlfriend.

[@sheshahayat5117]

Ginger people 😆 Ginger phobic people 😆

[@hellybelle5]

My Mum is one of six children, they all had red/strawberry blonde hair, but she had dark brown. She was always told how sad it was that she had dark hair, and not beautiful hair like her siblings. None of her siblings children had red hair, but my oldest sister does; I'm blonde, and my little sister is dark, but her hair gets dyed loads of colours. I was always told my oldest sister has the best hair. People should just not say anything if they can't be nice lol

[@danimayb]

My dad was ginger, Mum dark brown. I had sandy blonde hair when I was young up until early teens then it went dark brown with sandy blonde highlights lol. My son's mother is blonde, My son was also blonde from a young age up until early teens then he went dark sandy blonde with random ginger bits in a certain light? lol Weird how this genetics stuff works.

[@colouredwinds]

I don’t understand why gingers are made fun of in this society. I have personally always found ginger hair very beautiful and never understood why anyone would be pointed at because of it.

[@hilaryc3203]

It seems to be a problem primarily over in the UK and it a puzzle. Why do Brits call it ginger, when ginger is light yellow?

[@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.]

@@hilaryc3203 Because when ginger is used in the UK for cooking, it's usually in cakes and biscuits, and gives the cake a reddish colour. As for the why the mild dislike..not a clue. It's a hair colour usually associated with the Celtic Highland Scots and the Irish, that could be why the Anglo-Saxon English and Lowland Scots have a mild contempt towards it, historically they have had their issues, so to speak.

[@hilaryc3203]

@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. Absurd bigotry in this day and age. DNA tests would reveal a lot of mixing. People need to grow up.

[@salviaofficinalis02]

I'm a carrier of the ginger gene. I might not be ginger here, but I'm ginger in my heart.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Where’s Gunnar Gunnarsonson?

[@katiejohnston6783]

"Im not quallified to work with ginger peopple lolx

[@sweiland75]

Why do Brits hate gingers so much? I am a Canadian and I love gingers. We need more gingers!

[@jesseward568]

It's a joke

[@Celtic_Amy]

I love my ginger hair

[@modsmum]

I have ginger friends.

[@normanpearson8753]

Hi hihih You're sooooo right -on ,Mandy !

[@JustB3NJI]

This totally inspired South Park's Ginger episode.

[@LTPottenger]

I'm a carrier, too!

[@sukhzb]

i may not be ginger here, but im ginger HERE. AHAHA.

[@AuntyM66]

I have never seen this one.

[@Coquillages]

It just reminds me of the ginger girl I went to school with who tried to tell everyone she was "strawberry blonde" to deny being ginger lol

[@umpus]

Ginger girl, you're grand. Ginger boy, oh you're in trouble.

[@Jason-ml3vs]

Russet lodge! Lol

[@sevets2000]

To me, the most beautiful women are "gingers" - ginger gene: live long and prosper.

[@lisettecallis5329]

are you one? Im so happy not to categorise beauty

[@d12kiem7]

who is this Ginger Safe House manager lady? She has a beautiful voice. I feel like I've heard it for commercials and narration.

[@mylife1221]

it's apparently Sally Ann Matthews

[@lorenzo1660]

I agree, she is a good actress and plays very well the role of an empathic social worker.

[@mohamadafifazizizaidi5625]

After the whole "Redheads Erasure & Hollywood-Hates-Gingers" issues recently, i watch this skit to lighten up mood

[@shamille724]

@musikakonditori LMAOOOO haha Welcome to the Burrow

[@katiejohnston6783]

I love catherine

[@simonf8902]

It’s not the smelll. 😂

[@halftime.7502]

The police woman should have got her own back and said "Guess many gingers are in there ...go on have a guess."

[@poorthing]

I'm from a Ginger, American via Anglo-Saxon roots. The last Anglo Saxon king was King Harold, Harold is my Father and Brothers name, although we do not claim to be descended from Royalty ( dang, I always wanted to be a princess, & my name is Anne!) We aren't typically called Gingers in US and don't get Ginger hate. But... I think Ginger safe houses are a valid and necessary option for those threatened by gingerness.

[@adrianh332]

Wrong, there's an episode of South Park that really rips on gingers and calls them gingers too.

[@poorthing]

@@adrianh332 NOT wrong. I said TYPICALLY Americans have not used the term 'ginger' for redheads. Big difference. The name Ginger was given to two different women one real Ginger Roger-1930s and one tv character Ginger on Gilligans Island-1960s. Orange cats have typically been called gingers as long as I can remember. I don't watch the tv show you referenced but I'm pretty sure it is Canadian, so using 'ginger' as a descriptive for redheads is still TYPICALLY a Brit expression. I grew up in a redhead family and my father before me....his Father before him. I would hate to say how many friggin years that goes back.....my father was born in the 2nd decade of the 20th century!! I am a senior myself!!!! So...in all those decades and decades that specific term was never one that commonly was used in my and my families experience nor in American popular culture. I remember quite well when I first started hearing it and wished it came out sooner. If you aren't red haired and freckled you have NO idea the amount of name calling! Carrot head the number 1...ugh. With the enormous popularity of Princess Diana and subsequently her son Harry the term mainstreamed here. Perhaps you are very young and think 10-15 years is a long time...not for me! Ha ha.......its all relative. Why you took a light hearted comment and tried to 'prove' some point, Idk!

[@333Vampirewillrule33]

HOW DISLIKED for the love of ginger people!?!!!!?!?!