Shitake Mushrooms | The Catherine Tate Show | BBC

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

This is legit like listening to my aunt and uncle describe their first experience with 'Mexican' food. My aunt unwrapped her burrito, only to find it had another layer of wrapping (the tortilla). She proceeded to unwrap that, and then described what she saw as 'a complete mess'. They went on to say they weren't even provided with any cutlery. I just stared at them in wonder.

[@carmelellis817]

The dirty b'stards lol...

[@Mcfreddo]

Haha, fuck that's funny.

[@soundseeker63]

OMG thats hilarious! What year was this?

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

@@soundseeker63 about 1990

[@yatesy117]

Then the Guacamole came over...squashed avacados basically. The dirty bastards!

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

I love the long pause, the look of faint disgust and then” You don’t want that in soup”. 😂

[@julesg677]

you can go to any Country, every city in the world and find this couple!!!!...just translates a little different in every area

[@kmmining1359]

But they are Yorkshire folk :)

[@martinwright5000]

So true!

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Nah..these are real middle class white people. So yeah in Europe you will find most of these. But in real life they arent so hilarious.

[@TheMikewill12]

@@Stoney-Jacksman nah working class. They’ve got a van and her sister used to live Bransholme. 😂

[@stinameaner]

@@TheMikewill12 🤣

[@Jenjenilou]

Nearly pissed myself laughing watching this. She is so brilliant, her characters are so acutely observed, and spot on - every facial expression, the accents, the make up, the mannerisms .. no detail is overlooked. Not to mention as funny as hell!

[@stephensmith4025]

Really? You nearly pissed yourself ....? It’s not THAT funny.

[@debrafleury3437]

I thought it was hilarious.

[@keithfalkingham8861]

These sketches are hilarious & brilliant because if you dine out there are always people like this.😂🤣😅

[@andrewmcclure2853]

Agree, cracked me up. Used to live in the North. Wonderful people

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

I love the way that, while he keeps focussed on whoever they're talking to, she keeps looking up at somebody else.

[@barcyorky]

As funny as it is the most impressive part of the sketch is London born Catherine absolutely nailing a Yorkshire accent!

[@alison__16]

To this day we still call them shit-ache mushrooms in our house after this sketch 😂

[@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.]

Same!

[@MommeeMadre1]

Same!

[@BobH809]

Same!

[@martm216]

I had an uncle and aunt, sadly passed on now, who were so like this couple. Great show - wish it was still on.

[@farmgent]

"You went mad, didn't you." LOL

[@carmelellis817]

'I've eaten gammon with pineapple, so I'm not squeamish' lol..

[@dancox5706]

AND Whitby crab!!

[@fuffoon]

I love to eat but I have no courage for exotics. Beef, pork, poultry, legumes and starches please. Living around the world I have learned to be very polite in declining certain dishes that make me squeamish without offense to the hosts. The real problem is when a drinker wants to offer me a beer (I am an alcoholic dry for 35 years) and I say I prefer a Coca Cola. Our model club commitee threw out one aggressive ass who made every offer a for alcohol a fight to say no. Prefering a soft drink was a huge insult to that aggressive, bad tempered moron. He ousting was unanimous by the 62 members and the ambience returned to wonderful. I fear for his girlfriend. She seems trapped and terrified of him. He is a dangerous coward without the social inhibitions that most of us have. Wow, I went off subject. I don't see many people each day so I tend to ventilate here a little bit. I'm just lonely.

[@MegaStig25]

Did you shake hands with a fella who was a little bit effeminate

[@rob1979]

​@@MegaStig25I bet he was the one who suggested the pineapple on the gammon 😂😂😂

[@marcuswalters8093]

How. How do people get that small?

[@Becky_Cal]

I’m American & walked by a Gastropub in Mexico City today with my English friend and I told her every time I see the word “Gastropub” I think about this, lol. She didn’t know about this sketch! Had to send this clip to her. Classic!

[@21stcenturyozman20]

*Becca_SoCal* - Gastropub: is that an establishment that serves gastroenteritis?

[@spr30]

The pause before she says “you don’t want that in soup do you?” is perhaps the best timing I’ve witnessed in a comedy sketch. I mean an offset of half a second would cause the punchline to lose 50% of the impact

[@goodlife6145]

The pause, and the way she delivers the line. Perfection.

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

I made that pronunciation error when I followed a recipe once. I was waiting for that joke to come up.

[@mikeywooster]

I have literally come to watch this video for this exact moment after hearing it my head out of nowhere.

[@phrtao]

I think she was trying not to laugh

[@Cl4rendon]

Just like " Tomato Soup........Cold" And the way she points her lips when saying "cold" and stares with disbelief in the sky.. Just gorgous!

[@robynguy3244]

"She used to live on Bransholme " "they don't need to know that" I'm from Bransholme and he's right, you don't need to know that...

[@martymitch8375]

how come? is it a ghastly place? My British teacher (from Suffolk) keeps saying that Yorkshire is labelled "God's County". makes me want to go there 😉

[@robynguy3244]

Yeah, Yorkshire is a nice place in the countryside and villages, just not really Hull, its notorious for its council estates they're pretty rough, luckily I'm escaping for university this year! :)

[@martymitch8375]

+Robyn Guy no country (and no council estates) is perfect! cheers 😉

[@Juanitalikes]

lol

[@romeo9017]

Akin to Basildon then!

[@merdufer]

i like how the word "dried" really adds to it XD

[@argeebargee]

I love the way the Brits call fancy pubs "gastro pubs". Down Under, gastro means something quite different! We would take that to mean you'll end up with a dose of "shit-ake" 😂😂😂

[@georgemather9082]

My uncle is originally from Beverly and he found this scene really funny because he understood some of the places they spoke of. Bransome is this massive estate in Hull.

[@Amysbiblereads]

Oh god bring this show back 😂

[@soundseeker63]

Love the disapproving tone with which she says "one of these vegetarians".... as if its some shameful secret lol Having a vegetarian in the family, oh the shame! :-D

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Thats the joke...

[@MarcusCato275]

Having a fussy / picky eater (Vegetarian, Vegan, people who have food intolerances etc.) in the family is always brings great shame.

[@LoriCiani]

@Daisy Dan I wouldn't say "angry", I'd say more like...disapproving? I'm an omnivore. As long as you don't tell me what I should or should not eat then I don't give a hoot what you do or don't eat. That's up to you. I had a good friend once who was a vegan, she never lectured me once, never told me what I should or should not be eating and I respected her personal decisions. I wish that were true of all vegans.

[@liscatcat8756]

@Daisy Dan yes I do you should be vegan ... wth is a vegetarian doing ... not helping animals that's for sure

[@wintermatherne2524]

They are not killing animals and that is quite enough thank you!

[@simeonbanner6204]

she really is a fantastic observer of life.. in Britain. Always makes me laugh and cheers me up.

[@fuffoon]

I saw Shit Ake mushrooms coming from a mile away and it still made me laugh hard. I love humor that does not rely on belittling people.

[@trickleteeth3425]

The title give it away naw? Lol

[@probono3284]

So why do you like this? It’s all about belittling working-class people and sneering at their ignorance.

[@wintermatherne2524]

She does one for posh people too, it’s ok.

[@nealgrimes4382]

@@probono3284 As a working class northerner i found this hilarious.

[@Dylan-go2hi]

Grandma's from west yorkshire, Grandad is from Manchester. This is them TO A T.

[@chicago28]

Cracks me up every time, "And this .. was in Beverley!! , the dirty B@st@rds!" Classic !

[@joetrimble7953]

I think I may be a northerner at heart. Shit-ache LOL I love them "You don't want that in soup?"

[@malcolmbull4532]

This is Derren Litten, the man who went on to write the Benidorm series

[@jg769]

I keep coming back to this clip year after year. Love it.

[@2gther4ever]

Me too

[@JacquieMorton]

😂 oh my god . I'm a Northerner and every family gathering sounds like these sketches

[@Cj-ev2si]

I wish Catherine Tate would do this again. I remember watching this show when it first showed on the tv

[@pressrepeat2000]

Why did she stop her show? It was genius. Genius.

[@amandajones4549]

I think she was shut down because of the cancel culture these days: gotta be politically correct and not offend anyone. Same as Little Britain!😥😊

[@markmartindale7215]

​@@amandajones4549 "Cancel culture"? Really?

[@amandajones4549]

@@markmartindale7215 I think so.

[@markmartindale7215]

@@amandajones4549 "Cancel culture these days" you said? The Catherine Tate Show was 2004 to 2007, long before the current concept of cancel culture was invented.

[@CelticSaint]

@@markmartindale7215 We, the people, may not have heard of cancel culture back then but the powers that be were already laying the foundations by removing programs that might prove 'difficult'. The agenda had started 20 years ago and the public were blissfully unaware.

[@steerpike66]

This is more like a Yorkshire version of how I envisaged the Dursleys in Harry Potter, not as OTT reptiles or fat monsters, just profoundly small-minded and faintly hostile to everything with that little grimace of distaste on their lips all the time.

[@annieridesagain3867]

Yes but J. K Rowling wanted to make the Dursley's seem worse by making them live in a more affluent area of Britain and being business owners . Dudley their son attends an expensive private school which they can afford . The Dursley's would be showing off with all the latest food trends to impress for business purposes ,to make their drill company prosper .

[@OffGridInvestor]

And..... then they migrate to Australia and they're JUST LIKE this and can't understand why we do things certain ways because "IN ENGLAND"..... yeah but here the sun shines and there's lots of desert but almost noone lives there. And we actually GROW almost everything you can name and mine everything you can name. And eat FRESH stuff....

[@ducky5767]

If you think Yorkshire people are small minded then you need to go out and actually need meet some Yorkshire people. Shame on you for type casting an entire region.

[@LiviaOravska]

i can watch this 200 a day and still laugh. hilarious :)

[@abt7]

Hilarious! Love it! The Brits are the best with comedies!

[@calliecoolcat5061]

“Dried 💩ake mushrooms!”

[@alewinter6252]

Ahaah my grandparents are northern and they have the same attitude :D

[@martm216]

'I'm not eating anything that's got 'Dried Shit' in the title' ... 'This is in Beverley' 'The dirty bastards.' Awesome ... how does she come up with all this stuff?!

[@sloot69x]

co written by her partner in this sketch Darren Litten from Hull hence the local references,btw Catherine has a great Hull Accent.

[@ellie-tk4jy]

@@sloot69x that's good to hear. she's good at accents.

[@perdykool]

Hahhhaa... listen to this! 😂 "You went mad didn't ya." "You don't want that in soup "

[@steerpike66]

I like *Well...you went mad din'cha?* as though he always throws a fit and she always tacitly approves of it.

[@emmacook112]

Being a Yorkshire lass, we always seem to say that 😂look at your other half and say ‘you went mad din’t ya?’ when they weren’t happy with something 🤣

[@richardparker7157]

"This is in Beverley". I actually use these sketches in drama classes, they just so funny.

[@rgarlinyc]

I never knew how the TCT Show cast members were ever able to keep a straight face as they read their lines...😂😂😂

[@ElvarMasson]

We don't know how many takes it took to get it right

[@joeyskokowski9405]

So hilarious and awe inspired! comedy at a different highest level

[@PMS1950]

Simply brilliant.

[@paideia8352]

a "gastro-pub" don't ask

[@louisericketts6738]

Paideia To be honest I'm not really sure what a gastro pub is.

[@jeremysmith54565]

@@louisericketts6738 Essentially a pub serving high-quality food, probably why they use shiitake mushrooms pmsl

[@aceman0000099]

Listen to this

[@SFTantra]

Amazing actor - in the states only met her thru Dr Who and there learned of her amazing acting - thanks so much! I wish more of he work was available in the stats thanks for the posting.

[@traceycharlesworth296]

I've done the shiitake mushrooms bit in a supermarket on a friend of mine and I struggled to not laugh at it all. My friend was very embarrassed about it

[@athb4hu]

Hilarious! CT really is brilliant with those accents (speaking as a Brit), she is a good actress as well as funny!

[@Pearliff]

how could anyone not like this. its pure comedy.

[@derin111]

Ray….the backbone of this country! hahahaha! 🤣

[@lucy2beme]

Brilliant, funniest I've seen. This was posted in 2007 and even more hilarious in 2022.

[@richardandgeoff]

It's a strong Yorkshire accent You must be from abroad, Brits will recognise this accent a mile off, great sketch cheers

[@jennylong6180]

Pure class 😄

[@ModestNeophyte]

this reminds me so much of my dad! when i was young i found he loved saying words wrong on purpose... and all the times he said "shit ache" lmao

[@RosePetal17]

"Listen to this.." LOL! I was telling my British born hairstylist (I am also British born ;) about this. I hadn't watched in a few years...my morning laugh! LOL!

[@asc.445]

Good old Hull. I love the place.

[@cahinton.]

I used to watch The Catherine Tate Show on BBC America years ago, and this sketch KILLED me.

[@domsodiramona]

It's just so funny everytime I watch it!:-)

[@Tennisrox0017]

I agree

[@carlos3765]

My fave: :You don't want that in soup, do you."

[@77NARF]

This one is my all time favorite!!!

[@thomesocksup]

OMG! I was laughing so hard I was crying. She is extremely funny! Shit ake mushrooms. Priceless

[@franciswright6672]

I love all her characters.

[@ashraf2661]

Brill...Brill...Brill......please please bring her back !!!!

[@stuartashbourne-martin9629]

I hope catherine tate is well because this series was brilliant and i hope in the future we might see your on TV 😊

[@midnightdawn95]

"listen to this" *point point* hilarious!!

[@heidicash4772]

Bloomin classic 😂😂😂

[@ladanski]

I swear this may be my favourite bit.

[@supriyajoshi1347]

GOLD

[@TotallyLostSoul]

"you don't want that in soup, do you?"

[@almiacampbell5139]

🎉🎉😂😂❤😊 my favorite married couple 😊

[@mochynddu723]

Wait till they find out about Crepes.

[@BossySwan]

This is made more funny by the fact I know people exactly like these two!

[@Hannahdealer8180]

"I'm not eating anything that has dried s**t in the title" Well you're not wrong.

[@asparadog]

Bring back this show, please!

[@MogAnarchy]

They're speaking with Yorkshire accents. :) - Love this sketch! I watched the last CTS episode yesterday - so sad!

[@kevinwhelan8126]

“You don’t want that in soup, do you?”

[@rob1979]

I don't want it in anything 😂😂😂

[@kevinwhelan8126]

@@rob1979 Nice one lol!

[@markalexander3659]

"I am not eating anything that's got 'dried shit' in the title!

[@lazarelazaro52]

This. Is in Beverley.

[@HyruleChampionsUnite]

I watch this every day... I love this video so much

[@Smayemba08]

LOOOOOL She's an Outstanding Comedian

[@chelsearoses22]

Didn't know what to expect, as soon as he said the mushroom, had me laughing...good one!....not dried...

[@donnamatsyk1032]

Catherine Tate is numero uno😂!!!

[@Dead_in__side__]

You don’t want that in soup 😂

[@ukbirdman]

LMAO - I just fell off my chair!

[@alanjohnson9998]

I should have known ... before I took that mouthful of coffee! :D

[@angievgd]

FANTASTIC! STILL LMAO!

[@crc27798]

I love her, I bet she can play any role handed to her

[@CrumbleOkami]

gibb253 They don't use 'Canned Laughter' they perform it in front of a real audience, so if you hear a laugh, it's real people actually laughing. Catherine Tate Rules!

[@carolmoore0711]

The best Catherine Tate sketch ever

[@susannahkreher7270]

You went mad, didn’t you……😂😂😂💖

[@orbital151]

"You don't want that in soup." HAHA!

[@davidpgraves]

@Trevortbye The accent is Hull in East Yorkshire, the sketch refers to Beverley which is a suburb of Hull, "she used to live on Bransholme" - that's a housing estate in NE Hull.

[@ethandalton6480]

David Graves excuse me, but Beverley is NOT a suburb of Hull

[@stevewalby3524]

They don't need to know that.

[@HeleneStaley]

Catherine Tate -- I laughed soooo much watching this video.

[@Indiekiwi]

🤣🤣😂😂 Needed that laugh. Thanks.

[@tonisaparasite]

and i will not eat anything with dried shit in the title. LMAO LOVE IT!

[@jamesheath7601]

I love being from Yorkshire 😂

[@Alvyonzo]

Haha I got served Shitake mushrooms on a flight and did not know what to think! :D

[@harveylimpopo3042]

Love the bit about Velda moving from Bransholme - but we don't need to know that. lol

[@heathermarsh3425]

Omg this is the funniest 🤣🤣🤣

[@MommeeMadre1]

16 years!! Ok every. single. time I see shitake mushrooms sold, I take a picture and send to my children with a selfie of me looking disgusted. It will be forever hysterical!!!

[@pippipster6767]

Jesus this is so funny

[@thomesocksup]

I just bought some this weekend. I can't look at a shiitake mushroom without thinking of this video. LMAO!

[@gothicwestern]

Spot on 🤣

[@puiyilaw3179]

Shit-ache 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@emmabanks2171]

the second i heard that yorkshire accent. omg.