Catherine Tate returns to discuss her fastest-selling Comic Relief DVD and gets pestered by callers, plus Scott plays a genuinely disturbing 1950s public information film about the “dangers” of homosexuals.
Catherine Tate is back in the studio to promote her new Comic Relief DVD, the fastest-selling in the world, which features sketches including appearances by Daniel Craig, David Tennant, Noel Edmonds (doing a Deal or No Deal parody), and Len Henry. The sketch with Tony Blair as Prime Minister has gone down particularly well. She discusses how people approach her in public and the characters they quote at her—sometimes getting the catchphrases wrong. When asked whether she’d ever get her characters Lauren and Vicky together, Catherine says she’d love to do it, though scheduling has never worked out.
The episode takes a sharp turn when Scott plays a clip from a 1950s American public information film warning teenagers about the “dangers” of homosexuals—complete with the line “one never knows when the homosexual is about.” Catherine and the team react with disbelief and dark humour at how casually bigoted it is. Scott also shows Catherine a picture of her look-alike hired for appearances, which amuses and slightly horrifies her in equal measure.
Later, Lauren—one of Catherine’s characters—answers the phone lines at Radio 1, much to the confusion of callers trying to request songs or put out messages. One caller named Mark persistently tries to get a song about “growlers” on air, only to be told off by Lauren for not taking responsibility for his own life.
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