History YMMV / TheCatherineTateShow

** In one sketch with Derek (played by Catherine Tate under heavy makeup), he meets Bonnie Langford for her autograph. In 2023, Bonnie Langford would reprise her role as old companion Mel Bush and co-star with Catherine Tate (reprising her role as fellow companion Donna Noble) in the final 60th anniversary special of Doctor Who.

** In one sketch with Derek (played by Catherine Tate under heavy makeup), he meets Bonnie Langford for her autograph. In 2023, Bonnie Langford would reprise her role as old companion Mel Bush and co-starred with Catherine Tate (reprising her role as fellow companion Donna Noble) in the final 60th anniversary special.

* HilariousInHindsight: The 2007 Red Nose Day special with David Tennant, for a few reasons:
** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Shakespeare Code" would air just weeks after this sketch, where Tennant as the Doctor would get to save the Bard himself.
** Tate would return to star opposite Tennant in ''Series/DoctorWho'' the following year for Series 4.
** Tate and Tennant would star as Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' in 2011, so Lauren would get another chance to bust out her iambic pentameter.

** Lauren Cooper straight up ''dies'' in a kayaking accident. The audience is heard quietly gasping when her friends are shown at her grave, "I'll Be Missing You" in the background. Her epitaph? "I still ain't bovvered".

** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Shakespeare Code" would air just weeks after this special, where Tennant as the Doctor would get to save the Bard himself.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's bad enough a mother was showing her newly-outed gay son pictures of men from magazines and asking if he found them attractive [[CringeComedy in front of his friend]], but then shows him the last photo and says "oh but John, I bet he's got a really nice ''[[PrecisionFStrike cock]]''."

** The behind the scenes video is also funny, featuring the actors playing a game that involves throwing around {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s that are either funny or [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny are funny because they aren't.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Lauren consistently stupid with brief flashes of genius, or is ObfuscatingStupidity? The girl can recite Sonnet 130, and knows how to say her signature catchphrase in at least 3 languages (English, French and )

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Lauren consistently stupid with brief flashes of genius, or is ObfuscatingStupidity? The girl can recite Sonnet 130, and knows how to say her signature catchphrase in at least 3 languages.

** The behind the scenes video is also funny, featuring the actors playing a game that involves throwing around {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s that are either {{actually pretty funny}} or [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny are funny because they aren't.]]

** it's been implied by her teachers that she's perfectly smart but would rather chase boys and court attention than apply herself.

* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Some of Tate's critics claim that she copied elements of ''Series/LittleBritain'', which itself has been accused of ripping off ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' and ''Series/TheFastShow''.

* RecycledPremise: Some of Tate's [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks critics claim that she copied elements]] of ''Series/LittleBritain'', which itself has been accused of ripping off ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' and ''Series/TheFastShow''.

** "No one's come up t' see me ... No one's come up t' see me ..."

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The ''Drunk Bride'' sketch, in which a very drunk bride gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her new husband and his entire family at her wedding.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Creator/DavidTennant as the Ghost of Christmas Present in ''Nan's Christmas Carol''.

** The embarassing [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Irish mother sketches]], especially the Christmas episode in which the son was given a chocolate penis by his mother. When his grandmother learns "he's a gay man now", she gives him money for a rent boy as a gift.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The end of ''Nan's Christmas Carol'' when Nan throws a nice party for her family and friends and a young relative thanks her for being nice to them.

* DudeNotFunny: The end of the Christmas special when Nan fed the dog crisps, knowing that [[ResetButton the last time]] it happened he ended up dead.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's bad enough a mother was showing her newly-outed gay son pictures of men from magazines and asking if he found them attractive [[CringeComedy in front of his friend]], but then shows him the last photo and says "oh but John, I bet he's got a really nice ''[[PrecisionFStrike cock]]''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: It's bad enough a mother was showing her newly-outed gay son pictures of men from magazines and asking if he found them attractive [[CringeComedy in front of his friend]], but then shows him the last photo and says "oh but John, I bet he's got a really nice ''[PrecisionFStrike cock]]''.

** "In Loving Memory / Lauren Cooper / 1992-2007"
*** Averted: "I Still Ain't Bovvered"

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: DavidTennant as the Ghost of Christmas Present in ''Nan's Christmas Carol''.

* RecycledPremise: Some of Tate's [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks critics claim that she copied elements]] of ''LittleBritain'', which itself has been accused of ripping off ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' and ''TheFastShow''.

** it's been implied by her teachers that she's perfectly smart but would rather chase boys and court attention rather than apply herself.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - The ''Drunk Bride'' sketch, in which a very drunk bride gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her new husband and his entire family at her wedding.

* RecycledPremise: Some of Tate's critics claim that she copied elements of ''LittleBritain'', which itself has been accused of ripping off ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' and ''TheFastShow''.

* CringeComedy: The Tactless Woman