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'''''The Catherine Tate Show''''' is a popular British SketchComedy (2004-2007) show written and performed by comedienne Creator/CatherineTate, as [[TheEponymousShow the name suggests]]. It is based on a number of regular characters and introduced many catchphrases, including "Am I bovvered?", "What a fucking liberty!", "How very dare you!", "Who, dear? Me, dear? Gay, dear? No, dear!", "Have a guess!", "I can do that!" and "The dirty bastards!"

The best-known recurring characters are Lauren, a cheeky "chav" schoolgirl with attitude; and Nan, a foul-mouthed grandmother.

A one-off ChristmasEpisode, ''[[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Nan's Christmas Carol]]'', aired in 2009 and Nan got her own sitcom pilot in 2014 followed by a short series during the 2015-2016 holiday season, and [[TheMovie a movie]] in 2022.
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!!''The Catherine Tate Show'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AllThereInTheManual: The script books gave names to some of the characters who were never named in the show, including the office workers (Kate and Ellen), the croupier from series two (Hayley) and the spy from series three (Laura Powers).
* AmbiguouslyGay: Derek... kind of? Everything about his behavior says he's in the TransparentCloset at best, but he takes terrible offense ("[[CatchPhrase How very dare you]]!") at anybody who assumes he's anything other than straight.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: A mild example. In one sketch, Lauren and her friends are in science class, and her teacher quizzes her on the periodic table. After naming quite a few correctly, the teacher asks what "Mi" stands for, which gives Lauren the opportunity to say "''Am I'' bovvered?" "Mi" isn't an abbreviation on the periodic table, but as "M" by itself isn't either, this was presumably the only way they could get the catchphrase in.
* AwfulWeddedLife: ''Nan's Christmas Carol'' shows that Nan and her husband had one (although she remembers it very fondly.)
* BerserkButton: Derek, whenever someone assumes that he is gay.
-->'''Derek:''' How very dare you!
* BreakoutCharacter: Nan became the show's most popular/successful character, overtaking Lauren after [[spoiler: Lauren was killed off in the 2007 Christmas special]]. She has made appearances for Comic Relief and Children In Need, and had a Christmas special and sitcom pilot all to herself.
* BritishStuffiness
** The Aga Saga Woman.
** The uptight [[GassHole farting]] woman.
* BurgerFool: Lauren is revealed to work in a fast food restaurant called Billy's Burger Bar in one sketch, where employees are required to wear a bear mask for an hour during their shifts. When her friends make fun of her while she's masked, she says still ain't bovvered.
* CassandraTruth: A lot of what Nan says turns out to be true, although most characters are hesitant to believe her because she regularly speaks in hyperbole and will accuse anyone of anything if it amuses her.
* CatchPhrase: Most of Tate's characters have at least one. In 2006, "bovvered" was named Word of the Year by the [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2006/oct/12/bovveredwinsw1 Oxford English Dictionary]].
* CatchphraseInterruptus: In the Lauren and Nan sketches.
* ChristmasEpisode: ''Nan's Christmas Carol'' and three Christmas specials.
* ComicBookTime: Lauren remained 15 years old throughout all three series (though one episode in the second series showed her (abortive) wedding, for which she would have had to be at least 16). Nan's date of birth was once given as 1933, but in the ''Nan'' pilot (aired in January 2014) she stated that she was 75 years old.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Elaine Figgis, completely oblivious to the fact that Creator/DanielCraig has moved in with her.
* CringeComedy: The Tactless Woman sketches.
* DistractedFromDeath: One sketch involved a woman out with friends who would go to buy a snack and discover on her return that her friends had been killed horribly (such as a shark attack or drive-by shooting)
* TheEponymousShow
* EvilOldFolks: Nan, in spades.
* {{Expy}}
** Some say Lauren is a lot like Vicky Pollard from ''Series/LittleBritain''. One key difference is that Vicky is genuinely dim, but with Lauren there are some sketches where it's quite clear she's [[ObfuscatingStupidity smarter than she pretends to be]], though she seems [[BrilliantButLazy not to care]] - she's able to quote Creator/WilliamShakespeare, hold a conversation in French and recite part of the periodic table of elements.
** It's pretty clear that Creator/DavidTennant's Ghost of Christmas Present is a parody of Creator/RussellBrand.
* FailedASpotCheck: In one sketch, a police detective is forced to take her kids to a crime scene with her as she can't get a babysitter in time. When they play around with a dead prostitute's corpse (even drawing cat whiskers on the body and poking it with sticks) she treats this as a minor irritation and just casually asks another officer to put the deceased back how they were.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: The entire point of the Posh Family sketches, where something very mundane and ordinary ''(eg. almost running out of extra virgin olive oil or not using organic eggs in an egg and spoon race)'' is treated as a massive crisis.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the second and third series.
* GratuitousFrench: Lauren's French teacher accuses the girl that she can't be bothered to learn the language or understand its people, and threatens to fail her for the entire module. [[HiddenDepths What follows is Lauren's]] [[CatchPhrase catch phrase and other mannerisms,]] ''[[ObfuscatingStupidity en français]]''.
-->'''Lauren''': Suis-je bovvéred? Regardez mon visage. Est-ce que mon visage bovvéred? ''(...)'' '''[[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Est-ce que vous disrespectez ma famille?!]]'''
* GraveHumor: With [[spoiler:the death of Lauren]] in the 2007 Christmas special.
* HiddenDepths: Lauren reciting all of Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s Sonnet 130 ("My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun") from ''memory'' in the 2007 Comic Relief sketch featuring Creator/DavidTennant. This comes after she says "Reading's for losers," which means she either secretly enjoys reading Shakespeare or she memorised the sonnet out of pure ''spite''.
* IResembleThatRemark
** The Ghost of Christmas Present when Nan calls him effiminate, [[ImmediateSelfContradiction although he then excitedly shrieks "Ooh, risotto-risotto-risotto!"]].
** Derek when he is assumed to be gay denies is while mentioning something about himself that seems gay.
* IncompatibleOrientation[=/=]ObliviousToLove: Bernie doesn't notice a lesbian nurse's very obvious flirting with her, until the girl passionately declares that she loves Bernie, at which Bernie is shocked: "I like a bit of Patsy Cline but that's as far as I'm willing to take it!"
* IWasQuiteALooker: Nan; her Christmas Carol episode had flashbacks to her past where she was an adorable little girl, a SexySweaterGirl type in the 50s, and an attractive housewife in the 70s. Of course it helps she's played by Catherine Tate without the make up.
* {{Jerkass}}: Does it really need to be said?
* LowerClassLout: Lauren plays the chav stereotype for laughs.
* MistakenForGay
** Derek, though in this case he's probably just in deep denial.
** Nan constantly refers to Grandson as gay, but it's probably ForTheEvulz - she sometimes sees him with a female partner.
* MistakenForPregnant: After spending several episodes trying to get pregnant via a sperm donor, Elaine thinks she's finally succeeded, only to find she's actually having an early menopause.
* MisterSandmanSequence: "Nan's Christmas Carol" has several: A big band style instrumental of "Winter Wonderland" for the late 30s/early 40s, Music/ElvisPresley's "Christmas Is Back In Town" for the 50s, and Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" for the 70s.
* MotorMouth: Lauren especially. After she says "Am I bovvered?" the first time, she doesn't stop.
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Happens to Elaine in series three, causing her to decide to have a baby by way of a sperm donor.
* NoLongerWithUs: In one of the "information-desk worker" sketches from series one.
* NorthernIrishAndNasty: PlayedForLaughs. John's mother is a hard-talking Belfast woman who's aggressively supportive of her gay son.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In the ''Nan'' special, the council worker Nan visits to ask for her taps fixed.
* OneOfTheKids: Bunty, a woman in her 30s who demands to perform in a children's majorette team since [[LoopholeAbuse technically]] there are no rules against it.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted - the show features two recurring Sandras and Amandas played by Tate.
* RepetitiveName: Aga Saga Woman's son is Thomas Taylor-Thomas. There's also a Fergus Fitzroy-Ferguson and a Henry Harvey-Henry in his school.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: The Aga Saga family are horrified by simple tasks like running the dishwasher themselves. They're also convinced frozen food, yogurt one day past its sell-by date, and egg-and-spoon racing with non-organic eggs will kill you, and treat anyone who's working class or from OopNorth like unstable troglodytes.
* RunningGag: Arguably OverusedRunningGag.
* ScreamingWoman: One sketch featured a character who would constantly scream at everyday occurrences or quiet noises, such as crunching, a phone ringing, or finding a Post-It note left for her.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Nan, and '''how.'''
* SirSwearsALot: Nan. [[{{Catchphrase}} "What a fucking liberty!" "Take a fucking chill pill, you!" "It's too fucking late.co.uk!"]]
* SoundEffectBleep: Used to censor Nan during her appearance in a charity sketch for Children In Need 2013.
* SpecialGuest: Including Creator/BonnieLangford, Creator/PeterKay, George Michael, Charlotte Church, [[Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums Paul]] [[Series/TheFastShow Whitehouse]], Creator/UnaStubbs, Patsy Palmer, [[Series/ThePaulOGradyShow Paul O'Grady]], Creator/DanielCraig, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/PhilipGlenister, [[Series/DealOrNoDeal Noel Edmonds]], Leslie Phillips and even the then Prime Minister UsefulNotes/TonyBlair (for a charity sketch).
* StraightGay: The whole point of the "Have You Heard about Our John?" sketches. A young, working-class Irishman named John tells his parents that he is gay, and they're accepting of him--and ''really'' interested in his homosexuality. John isn't stereotypical in any way--he loves football, hangs out with straight friends, and is generally very masculine--but everyone else he knows, from his mother to his grandmother to a local priest to a gang of tough-looking guys, constantly ask him questions about fashion and interior design, or press him about his sex life. It's taken up to eleven in the Christmas special, when John's mother gives him a chocolate penis as a present, and his grandmother offers him money to "go out and get himself a rent boy, on her."
* SuckECheeses: B.B.J.'s, the burger restaurant featured in the "Amanda the Waitress" sketches. Most of the customers are harried people who want a simple bite to eat, but the overly-perky Amanda insists on treating everyone like they're five years old. That, coupled with the fact that ordering nearly everything on the menu makes the entire waitstaff start singing and dancing, leads to an unpleasant experience.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Derek's responses when people assume he is gay.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The "Snack Lady" sketches go completely over the top with killing off Catherine's character's acquaintances--for instance, an ''entire apartment complex'' implodes on itself with her boyfriend inside, or her newly-engaged friend is hit about twenty times in a bloody drive-by shooting.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the Christmas Special, when Nan refuses to let her family members stay and leaves them out in the cold, her grandson decides this is the worst thing she's ever done and cuts her out of his life. With intervention from [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol The Ghosts of Christmas Present, Past, and Future]], she decides to treat them better.
* TransparentCloset: Derek ... maybe.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Bernie has a large number of siblings all identical to her.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The punchline of the "Snack Lady" sketches. Each one features Catherine's character briefly leaving an exciting scenario (her and her boyfriend buying their first flat, a friend telling her that she's engaged, and a coworker joining her for a beach vacation) to get a bag of snacks. While she's gone, something ludicrously horrible happens to her companion (in order: the entire apartment building violently collapsing with the boyfriend inside, the friend being attacked in a drive-by shooting, and the coworker being eaten by a shark). When Catherine's character returns, she doesn't react in the slightest, and simply munches on the snack while observing the carnage.
* YetAnotherChristmasCarol
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