English comedienne Catherine Tate and Scottish actor David Tennant appear together in this sketch for Comic Relief 2007, produced for us here on the BBC YouTube channel.
Tennant plays Mr Logan, a new English teacher attempting to introduce a high school class to the wonder of Shakespeare sonnets. Tate plays Lauren Cooper, a troublesome student who easily slips into Shakespearean verse from Sonnet 130. The sketch was in aid of Red Nose Day.
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube (HD)
Tennant, known for his role as Doctor Who, developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he played Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Tennant is about to start in the roles of Hamlet, alongside Patrick Stewart, and Berowne in Love’s Labours Lost.
Tate has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking the role of Smeraldina in a 2000 RSC production of A Servant to Two Masters.
Transcript Notes
“Look at my face. Am I Bothered?” are catchphrases of Lauren Cooper, designed to mock the chav culture in Bristain. Here she says, “Amest I bothered? Amest I bothered for soothe? Looketh at my face…looketh at my face. Is this the bothered face thou sees before thee?”
See the whole transcript here.
Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
I love it!!!
i watched it on comic relief, it was totally wicked!!!
i watched it 2….my leash,my leash,my leash, my leash,that part made me laugh till i fell of me chair
If anyone can figure out all of these lines, I would love them. Gosh, this so funny… Love Dr. Who, love school scenes, love Shakespeare – perfect combination in the skit.
Thanks so much for the transcript! I’m a pretty hardcore Whovian/Anglophile in general, but I was missing some of the dialogue. Funny enough to begin with, but even better hearing: “Do you fancy Billie Piper?”
@Akamaru She’s not saying “My leash”, she’s saying “My liege”, because Tennant, in the skit, is her teacher and therefor superior.
She’s not saying “My leash”, she’s saying “My liege”, because Tennant, in the skit, is her teacher and therefor superior.
Notice how Lauren slips into a Scottish accent when she says, “You take the high road and I’ll take the low road.”
“BITE ME ALIEN BOY!”
Hello, i believe that i noticed you visited my blog so i got here to ?return the desire?.I’m trying to to find things to enhance my site!I suppose its good enough to use some of your concepts!!
Wow, wonderful weblog structure! How long have you ever been running a blog for? you made running a blog glance easy. The overall glance of your website is fantastic, let alone the content material!
Nice blog right here! Additionally your website so much up fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host? I desire my site loaded up as quickly as yours lol
I just could not depart your website prior to suggesting that I really loved the usual info a person supply for your guests? Is gonna be again steadily in order to check up on new posts
I was suggested this blog by way of my cousin. I’m not positive whether this post is written via him as nobody else recognize such special approximately my trouble. You are incredible! Thanks!
you are actually a good webmaster. The web site loading speed is amazing. It seems that you’re doing any unique trick. In addition, The contents are masterwork. you have done a great job on this matter!