Doctor Who and Red Nose Day

Comedy for Charity

David Tennant, the actor who is currently the star of the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who, appeared alongside his Doctor Who companion from the 2006 Christmas Special, The Runaway Bride, Catherine Tate, who will reprise her role as Donna Noble in the fourth season of Doctor Who for the March 16, 2007 Red Nose Day charity special.

Anyone who has seen Catherine Tate's sketch comedy show, The Catherine Tate Show, knows how brilliant she is. Her comedy is fantastic. Hilarious. Some of the best characters she does include Nan, a grandmother with a potty mouth who loves to talk about people but will not stand for others who do it, and Lauren Cooper, a mouthy student who when upsets asks the question, "Am I bovvered," (playing on the British accent to ask if she looks bothered by the attacks on her character).

Red Nose Day, which is a British Charity Organization founded by comedy writer Richard Curtis in response to the famine in Ethiopia, was launched in 1985 and this past year's event was held in March of 2007. Anyone not in Europe or the UK has a hard time getting these special episodes, but by chance and good fortune a viewing of this episode was held and it just goes to show the magnificent talent that both David Tennant and Catherine Tate have.

David Tennant enters the classroom of Lauren Cooper as Mr. Logan, the new English teacher and begins his lecture on Elizabethan literature, mostly specifically William Shakespeare. Catherine Tate, as Lauren Cooper, begins disrupting the class and wanting to know if Mr. Logan is Scottish (which David Tennant is Scottish).

Tennant then asks if her name is "Lauren Cooper" and explains that he had been warned about her. She continues to be upset that he is Scottish teaching English, saying they are not learning Scottish. She then asks him is he is The Doctor.