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  • Haha, though this is hilarious I would just say "well, you've got to laugh at yourself sometimes!".

  • But .... but ... If this happened in real life, you couldn't really blame her could you? "I'm in a silly mood" while holding beer in your hand COULD be interpreted as .... ahhh fuck it ...

  • how awkwardly funny!

  • all these giant elephants walking in the room! loved that they milked that uncomfortable moment so much!

  • hahah, I can't stop watching it :) great :D

  • Even though i know it is only acting it still makes me cringe! reminds me a bit of myself to be honest.

  • I am like this. I say something or do something and try to to get out of the situation with dignity,but I get nervous and the more I try the worse it gets.

  • Keep on pressing 1 creepy.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! -enough said.

  • This is spectacularly unfunny

  • oh my god that lady with the cleft palate is so fucking cute!

  • it's looking into the future two weeks from now going to these stupid Xmas parties

  • 53 people arent in silly mood too

  • That was quite possibly the best way to save yourself from an awkward situation.

  • Oooooooh,this makes my toes curl and my sphincter jam shut,lol.We've all been there,either as the 'victim',the 'culprit' or the 'bystander'."Ding dong merrily on high...",indeed.

  • Still looking for a funny video of her. This is number 5...

  • @PATCHES7RF619 - Try this one, put " Catherine Tate the offensive translator" in search - if you don't find this one extremely funny then you really need to give up on your sense of humour cause you might not have one.... :)

  • So. Awkward.

  • hAHAHA I love catherine.. She is just amazing. 

  • ive got a cleft soft palate

  • The woman in the red reminds me of Dawn French.

  • @jesse2282 OMG!! i was wondering who she looked like!!

  • Awkward potato.

  • OMG LOL! i would totally do this

  • I feel bad laughing now because there's an ad for Cleft Palate on the side

  • ohmygod i'm dead

  • That isn't how someone with a cleft palate sounds it's not just about having a 'comedy lisp'.  No adult with a cleft palate would sound like that nowadays unless they are from a third world country . Lazy writing on CT's part.

  • For those that don't get it - the joke is how the second woman embarrasses herself so much. Susan says, 'Hi I'm susan, I'm in a silly mood'. The other woman reads into the content of the sentence, puts together how it is spoken with what she says, and assumes she is making a 'silly voice' deliberately because she is in a 'silly mood'. That, and her subsequent embarrassment for appearing to be prejudiced, when in fact she wasn't, is where the humour is. It is a social faux pas - that's all.

  • fucking hell LOL that's hilarious

  • omg propper made me laugh!!! hahahahahahaha

  • "Hello shushun so am I" HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • the 50 dislkikes are people who have cleft palate. and people who tried out for ali's part :)

  • Hmm yeah yeah god i know yeah i mean i gotta you know that *keeeee* i didnt mean hmm pardon?

  • LOOOOOOOOOOL

  • I have a cleft palate to. This video is offensive as fuck. Catherina Tate is a bitch!

  • @brukernavnmisbruker

    NO SHES NOT. you stupid paint palate fuck

  • whats a cleft palate?

  • @MegaPyromainiac google

  • @MegaPyromainiac a disfigurement of the inner part of the mouth which while can be fixed can scar people with speech impediments. They often occur with other deformities. Catherine Tate saw this as hilarious because she's incredibly self centred.

  • @Calumaniac Did you miss the point of the sketch entirely, or are you being intentionally factitious?

  • @RockingJamboree

    There is so much tasteful humour out there and yet she takes a cheap shot at people who, whether you like it or not do have a disability. If someone finds it offensive you can't tell them they're wrong, it's subjective. Having a cleft palate means people are viewed as less intelligent than they really are as the aren't as able to be spontaniously articulate.

  • @Calumaniac I don't think you understand where the humor in this piece stems from. This is not a piece about mocking those with speech impediments. This is a piece about mocking the people who mock people. I understand how socially agonizing a speech impediment can be, but the person with the speech impediment comes across as perfectly sane and intelligent in this sketch. It's Tate's characters (the mocker) who is portrayed as the boob! Would you rather the subject NEVER be mentioned?

  • @RockingJamboree I'm largely with you - though I wouldn't say that either of the two women is attacked in this. The CT character just misjudges the situation and the woman with the cleft palate finds it difficult - for understandable reasons, of course (prejudice, etc.) - to forgive the mistake (cf. her angry staring), which in turn leads the CT character to weasle her way out of the situation by way of an Xmas carol (coincidentally reminding people that this is no season to be angry).

  • get a grip of your self and chill,why did you watch it then, were you in a silly mood .

  • I think she could have been honest with her and said, she thought she was putting it on, I'm sure other people would have made that mistake....though it destroys the joke.

  • lmao so awkward

  • akward...

  • AHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHA

  • I love Catherine Tate. She's great here and she was great as Donna. Wooo!

  • LOVE THIS WOMAN.

  • how can all these other actors stay so serious haha. shes my favorite

    

  • Great tips from the Catherine Tate Show on dealing with awkward social situations. I'm gonna try that one next time. Thanks, Catherine!

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  • I've got a messed up palate and while you mostly can't tell now (non-surgical alterations and speech therapy), when I get a few drinks in I talk so weird. My friends rip on me for it, but I ain't even bovvered.

  • 47 people are Cleft palate

  • @Carlosborghehe you are a retard

  • 47 are Cleft palate

  • AHAHAHAHA :D

  • Ooooohhhh I'm shoow exxshiitted!

  • MMM? Oh yeah yeah yeah, oh god, nno, I didnt mean, MMM? Didnt...pardon...hooo

  • this is something id do seriously lol (except for the singing ding dong merrily on high i will leave that to the professionals :P)

  • Hello Shushun sho am i XD

  • WEN SHE SINGS THE CAROL ON 1:11 I WAS LAGHING AND FELL OFF ME CHAIR THUMBS UP IF U DID ASWELL =)

  • I know this is exaggerated for humour, but the lady's reaction is too outraged. I would expect that most people in her situation would be used to people making stupid mistakes and would not hold it against them if they apologized. It's not as if she meant to insult her by mimicking her.

  • @marjorykempe OMG you just don't get it, do you? Are you American by any chance? Does your email address end in "...@aol.com" ?

  • @heelfan1234

    I'm American, and I get every bit of British humor that I see, Catherine Tate is perhaps my favorite comedian.

    You can be dense regardless of what country you come from, so please don't be so quick too judge.

  • @SydneyJadeHutchinson Yes sorry about that. It's just that most Americans don't get British humour, it's too subtle for them. The person who didn't get was actually from Canada, and Canadians are usually on the ball. It just shows one can be wrong!

  • I have a cleft palate and I can't stop laughing. I love Catherine Tate! (though its not the correct lisp.)

  • I love this because it is so true to real life. EVERYONE has been there

  • bwahahahahahah

  • hahahahahahahaha

  • a cleft palate wouldn't cause that type of lisp

  • @gabbacadabra07 What a load of old shit! FACK OFF!

  • @MasterTenku You mean: "sccccchhhhit"

  • the song she wwas singing was the song i sang in our choir.

    GUES WAT I SAW PRINCESS ANNE!

    NOT A LIE I SWEAR!

  • @CapturedFace wat is the song called ???? lol :D

  • @MrBerkzz ding dong meroly on high sumtin lik dat i dnt no cuz im only 13!

  • " 'Allo Thhosan, tho am I!! Are you two in thilly mooodthhh too??!??"

    " Sh..she's got a cleft palate..."

    " Hmmmm?... Yeaaaaahhh yeaaaa goood, yeea,no... no I mean... right, I mean I've got a... you know that Thhh.... Thhhh. I didn't mean... Ttthhh... didn't, I mean,  didn't... ... Pardon?? "

  • I think the dude in the black jacket is very hot ;p

  • Almost peed myself laughing HA HA HA!

  • wow cathrine has got a good singing voice thumbs up if you like it

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  • she has got a great singing voice.

  • too funny :)

  • ding dong merely on high, in heaven the bells are ringing, ahaahahaaahahaaahaha,

    AAAAaaaa*

    LoL hahahahahaha :-p love it

  • 0.57 to 1.07 pure genius , keep on watching it over and over , still makes me laugh

  • That would never happen in real life. The two men and the woman with the cleft palate would not have been accusatory about it. This just wouldn't normally happen in real life.

    Just saying.

  • @pleasance thats why its not real life...its a sketch xD

  • @pleasance FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUC­CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK­KKKKK YOU!

  • @pleasance People are different.

  • CT has said this is the only sketch of hers based on her own life--she apparently used to do this sort of thing at parties all the time.

  • it's actually a lateral lisp.

  • One of her funniest sketches

  • LMFAO Cathrine Tate is the ssszzzit!

     lol

  • She NEEDS to stop going to parties... :S lol

  • Ally goes to a lot of parties :) unless all the clips are meant to be from the same one lol

  • i have one to why do ppl who have it allways says unforchantly its not who we are but what we do that defines us we are all unique

  • Comedy that truly at times mirriors life - so funny - I too have a c.p and this so works.

  • Hahahahahaahahahahaahahahaha

    She's my idol!!!!!!

  • so funny. :) bt wats a Cleft palate??

  • @frank5686 Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects that affect the upper lip and roof of the mouth. They happen when the tissue that forms the roof of the mouth and upper lip don't join before birth. The problem can range from a small notch in the lip to a groove that runs into the roof of the mouth and nose. This can affect the way the child's face looks. It can also lead to problems with eating, talking and ear infections.

  • @frank5686 not so funny that people are so ignorant about a cleft palate

  • awkwardness

  • hahahgahahagghahagagagagaaaaaa­ahaaaaaaaaa!

  • uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuber

  • XD LOL XD LOL XD LOL XD LOL XD LOL XD LOL

  • think she took it poorly! honest mistake by catherine

  • @Obsidian1392 no, i think you took it poorly

  • @djfreshtraxx SHUP FOOL

  • lol is everyone watching this got a cleft lip lol

  • I have a cleft lip and palate and I do have a bit of a lisp apparently (although I personally can't tell, but others have told me) but I found this to be hilarious! Perhaps if I had been in the other woman's shoes at the time I would not have thought so, but as it is, the moral of the clip makes it all pretty damn funny. Thanks for sharing.

  • the cleft palate lady, kinda looks like a chubby Liv Tyler

  • She has a really good voice lol x

  • Ooohh Awkward. This is not unlike what happened to me in class. I asked the guy where he was from because he had an accent-turns out he just had a speech impediment. lol Oops! I told him I couldn't tell, I just heard a little bit of Boston in his voice, turns out his mother is from Boston so that diffused the situation pretty quick.

  • need a moment?

    grab a Snicker!

  • I have a cleft pallet and lip and I think that this is very funny.

  • @Tired0Wombat I mean palate

  • This is super funny:)

  • lol she sings " shaaa la la la la laaa la la la la laaaa la la la la aaaaaaah!

  • omg. what a plump!!!!!!!!!!

  • a cleft palate wouldn't necessarily cause a lateral lisp like that. on the other hand...it was hilarious!

  • i have a cleft palate i thought this was really funny too

  • @456aaron Whats it like?

  • ahahah xDD the end was the best

  • LOL

  • Haha! I'm not laughing atthe fact that she has a cleft palate, it's how she reacts when she find out!

    Ding dong, merrily and high,

    LOL

  • I have a cleft too, and that was sooo funny! I've met a few people like Tate's character. Tate's a very perceptive and brave comedienne, it could go wrong, but this is so on the mark.

  • Pretty good comedy too!!

    @tumadoireacht: Funny..!!

  • I Think, don't think too much, this is Comedy!

  • my friend has a cleft lip and palate and he thought this was funny as hell.

  • @northman01

    i have it to and i couldnt stop laughing!! fuckin luv her haha

  • @northman01 doeshhhh heeee

  • @northman01 I had a cleft palate when I was born and I can speak normally I sound like anyone else this is a bit over-exaggerated but still hilarious!

  • if you find it offensive then you should get a sense of humor. your far to sensative. the point of the joke is not to take the piss but to laugh at catherine awkwardness.

    she makes jokes about ginger people and how they smell diffrent and calling them carrots. she is ginger and she is able to make fun of it. get over yourselves

  • calm down. the video is more about making fun of assholes (the person who catherine tate is playing) and awkward moments rather then people with celft palates. and before you get angry at my comment, i have a cleft palate as well. i don't find it that offensive. you should learn to laugh at it rather then feel sorry for people who have it. it's no big deal.

  • Mmm...awkward hahaha

  • I think that you may have missed the point of the joke, then...

  • i have a sense of humor, and I find you offensive.

  • i have a cleft humerus and i find this grossly palatial

  • Then you should check out Lisa Lampanelli!!!!

  • The fact she had a cleft palate isn't the joke. it's the awkwardness afterwards. well it is for me anyway.

  • LOL

  • I think the video's moral is 'think before you do something' what so offensive in that?

  • lol

  • at 1:10 it could have been "...i'll get me coat".

  • All I can think of is South Park.....

    Thtop Thtaring at my headgear Sthtanley!

  • I LOVE THIS !!!

  • hello, thuthan, tho am I!!

    aww poor thing lol ;)

  • i swear i just had a similar embarrassing momment.. i thought there was a piece of lint on someones upper lip and i gently tried to remove it only to learn it was part of her body..it was sticking out like an antennai. i wanted to crawl under the table what could i say..i nearly damaged the woman...it was attached to her..like a birthmark but sticking out. never seen anything like it. A very awkward silence

  • @Pisces31660 hahahaha, oh man, im embarrassed just reading this, that must have been a nightmare.

  • Catherine Tate has said that 'Ally' is based on herself.

  • she fucked up everything :D

  • Reminds me of the time at a party when I sauntered up, cool as you like, to a group of friends. They were talking about babies as my sister was heavily pregnant at the time and I asked the slightly chubby girl talking to my sister when she was due. It was like some one had ripped the needle of a record. Everyone in the group suddenly found their shoes and nails extremely interesting. 'Ah..' I said and smoothly turned around and walked off.

  • Well at least you had the sense to walk off. I stayed around and dug a deeper hole for myself. "the extra fat suits you". Famous last words.

  • the same happened to my mum :D

  • Damn i did something like that D:

    i feel sorry for you lol. x3

  • I also asked that question and she went on a diet afterwards and lost loads of weight. So I did her a favour I think.

  • That happened to me a couple of times.Matter-of-factly reply: "Oh no, dear. I'm not pregnant. I'm just fat." That' always gets a smile out of someone.

  • @AsterixTG999 i dont get it lol

  • @wcmaster776 It meant she asked someone that was just fat, if they were pregnant :P Then it would've gotten EXTREMELY AWKWARD...ooops

  • @AsterixTG999 This happened to me a time or two, also. Some fat women carry the fat as if pregnant, look just like they are expecting. I finally decided I just won't ask any more, too risky.

  • Hi Alli, Watsh out, im in a shilly mood.

    Hi Shushan, So am I!

    Are you two in shilly moodsh too?

  • Sid from ice age!!!!!!!! XD

  • what an awkward situation hahahahhaha

  • OMG this was incredibly funny!

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  • theres another one ofr this where she's talking to a guy with a big afro whats it called???

  • yh ive seen that one try typing "catherine tate Ally (or Tactless woman) hat

  • i recite this entire video a lot! catherine is such a great actress. would love to meet her!