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PriorMarcus posted:Me and the wife have recently gotten into the current series of Taskmaster. Which are some good past series to binge? All of them if possible, but 1, 2, 5 and 7 are the real standouts.
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Apr 26, 2021 00:22
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I would just say don’t jump into 10, it’s fine but ideally you want one with the studio audience.
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Apr 26, 2021 00:41
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fischtick posted:All of them, then find a copy of Taskmaster NZ. It’s just as good. Taskmaster NZ has Guy Williams as one of the cast members. It goes just as insane as you might think.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:35
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Whichever one had Bob Mortimer, and also the one with James Acaster were my favourites. But yeah, they're all good. What's your best Taskmaster moment? For me, it's either Joe Wilkinson throwing the potato into a hole or Bob Mortimer getting into his car boot for a cuddle with Alex
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Apr 26, 2021 06:55
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EL BROMANCE posted:I would just say don’t jump into 10, it’s fine but ideally you want one with the studio audience.
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Apr 26, 2021 08:12
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Mark Watson getting destroyed by his solo task was one of my favourite moments and Al Murray and Sara Pascoe casually musing independently about how possible it would be to kidnap Alex's kids as a "most surprising thing" really cracked me up.
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Apr 26, 2021 08:18
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One argument for watching them in sequence is that after S1-S5 you can watch Champion of Champions I. It's a good capstone for that era, especially because it gives you a bit more of the contestants who were in the shorter series. CoC II fan fiction task pre:Redeem yourself! Choose a task from your series that you did badly. Set up that task, recite the instructions from memory, and do that task again. Biggest improvement on worst performance wins. Your time starts now.
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Apr 26, 2021 08:32
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Bogmonster posted:Whichever one had Bob Mortimer, and also the one with James Acaster were my favourites. But yeah, they're all good. I think the single biggest laugh out loud for me was Johnny Vegas' "Had an accident at work that wasn't your fault?"
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Apr 26, 2021 09:30
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Taskmaster NZ has Guy Williams as one of the cast members. It goes just as insane as you might think. I've started watching this, and I've never heard of Guy Williams before. I understand that the Alex Horne role is done by his brother? At the moment, Guy Williams seems like an absolute bellend, but I am really liking Madeline Sami and Angella Dravid.
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Apr 26, 2021 11:51
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Bogmonster posted:What's your best Taskmaster moment?
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Apr 26, 2021 12:03
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Bogmonster posted:I've started watching this, and I've never heard of Guy Williams before. I understand that the Alex Horne role is done by his brother? At the moment, Guy Williams seems like an absolute bellend, but I am really liking Madeline Sami and Angella Dravid. He is. But he gets less-so. But never not. (imo)
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Apr 26, 2021 12:04
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My Lovely Horse posted:Rhod's creepy video. Rhod was brilliant in general, because he's friends with Greg and both of them were willing to gently caress with each other throughout due to it. Rhod constantly mocked Greg for being fat, and Greg in turn mocked Rhod for being out of shape and getting winded by the simplest things. The creepy video was the peak of it though, especially Greg's reaction to it. I'm pretty sure Alex never actually showed it to Greg beforehand, going off the little "did you know about this?" he says aside to Alex. James' frustration with Rhod was great too, culminating in the team task, because Rhod just goes off to do his own thing instead of working with James, and when Phil goes to check on Rhod for James, he just winds up drawn in and helping Rhod instead. Leaving James working alone. I thought Al Murray was great too, since he tried to weasel around almost every task, usually by just using money to solve the problem in some way.
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Apr 26, 2021 12:12
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DaWolfey posted:He is. But he gets less-so.
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Apr 26, 2021 12:31
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Anything with Hugh "Desky" Dennis has to be up there. He was great at trying to find the loopholes to make it as easy as possible for him, but doing so in a funny and creative way.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:44
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The team task where they had to interview a woman and write a song about her and perform it to her cracked me up so bad. "Rosalind's a loving nightmare, she's a theif but it keeps her out of debt" Basically watch the series with Bob Mortimer if you're only going to watch one.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:46
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tsob posted:Rhod was brilliant in general, because he's friends with Greg and both of them were willing to gently caress with each other throughout due to it. Rhod constantly mocked Greg for being fat, and Greg in turn mocked Rhod for being out of shape and getting winded by the simplest things. Rhod also nearly killed Alex by throwing a javelin through the caravan door which was certainly something.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:47
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Rhod draws from a deep well of manic energy and knows no social or legal boundaries. And that was my impression before he was on Taskmaster. I knew it was going to be a thing to behold.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:53
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sebzilla posted:Rhod also nearly killed Alex by throwing a javelin through the caravan door which was certainly something. Yeah, Rhod is just a mental person in general. Him propping his eyes open with selotape and toothpicks for something like 7 minutes to win a contest is another demonstration of his madness. Up there with Romesh Ranganathan putting chilli powder or something in his eyes to get the most tears. My Lovely Horse posted:Rhod draws from a deep well of manic energy and knows no social or legal boundaries. And that was my impression before he was on Taskmaster. I knew it was going to be a thing to behold. The only other thing I've ever seen him on in any significant amount is Would I Lie to You? and his truths on that are so bonkers that it's essentially impossible to distinguish truth from lie, because if he's willing to pay for a meal costing about £15 with a car costing £3000, spend a holiday in a Frenchman's garage with his partner for two weeks after he's realized it's just a garage etc. then how could any lie be more extraordinary? Sean Lock and Rhod Gilbert both appear to have had a huge number of weird jobs going off how they talk about their past on various shows too. Sean Lock made mention of spending a summer as a shepherd in the mountains of some other country, for instance.
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Apr 26, 2021 14:10
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Rhod's got his literal own show that's all about him trying various different jobs in case you didn't know 
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Apr 26, 2021 15:59
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My Lovely Horse posted:Rhod's got his literal own show that's all about him trying various different jobs in case you didn't know All of those are great.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:10
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Rhod Gilbert did an interview where he explained those times he just closed his eyes and thought for a spell on Taskmaster were him warding off his initial worst impulses upon reading the task. Which means the unhinged insanity on the tasks was him through a filter.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:25
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At least two comedians, on getting the instruction ‘surprise Alex’ had the immediate impulse to kidnap his children. I think they’re all more like Rhod than we realise.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:32
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It would have been hilarious. Both times.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:59
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The best one of those unnerve Alex tasks was whoever contacted his wife without his knowledge and then showed him his credit card information afterwards.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:59
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I think that was Lou Sanders. Her and Sally Phillips are both low-key insane and it really comes out in Taskmaster.
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Apr 26, 2021 21:40
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Anyone seen that smart meter advert with a weird deep fake Einstein in the bath? Wretched
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Apr 26, 2021 21:51
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tsob posted:The best one of those unnerve Alex tasks was whoever contacted his wife without his knowledge and then showed him his credit card information afterwards. Apparently that was Alice Levine.
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Apr 26, 2021 23:37
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Katherine Ryan's Make the Biggest Mess was excellent.
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Apr 26, 2021 23:42
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Pablo Bluth posted:Katherine Ryan's Make the Biggest Mess was excellent. While it's hilarious that she would be willing to sow that kind of personal chaos just to win a game the best part is that her entire family is so used to her that not one of them bought it for even a second. They didn't even have to know she was on a game show to sus out she was screwing with them; they just knew.
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Apr 26, 2021 23:54
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I finished the first series of Yes Minister. Very fun. A bit less savage than The Thick of It as far as political satire goes but they hit the same mark about corrupt politicians being utterly incompetent. I love how Bernard plays dumb a lot of the time and switches sides depending on his morals. Plus he's got some great zingers. The whole back and forth between Humphrey, Bernard and Hacker over why the UK is in the EU had me rolling.
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Apr 27, 2021 05:50
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Arcsquad12 posted:I finished the first series of Yes Minister. Very fun. A bit less savage than The Thick of It as far as political satire goes but they hit the same mark about corrupt politicians being utterly incompetent. I love how Bernard plays dumb a lot of the time and switches sides depending on his morals. Plus he's got some great zingers. The whole back and forth between Humphrey, Bernard and Hacker over why the UK is in the EU had me rolling. I often feel like shows such as Yes Minister are why boomers are so brain poisoned though. Not that I don't enjoy it but thinking of how most people take satire seriously, you know.
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Apr 27, 2021 12:28
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Taear posted:I often feel like shows such as Yes Minister are why boomers are so brain poisoned though. It does paint government as a net positive poking fun at itself. The characters are all awful scheming self serving shitheads but it has the 80s British sitcom attitude of "yes, all that is true, and that is fine." It's a show that wants you to enjoy watching Sir Humphrey humiliate Hacker for thinking he can do any progressive policy when the status quo "works" so well and then chuckle the handful of times Humphrey gets tripped up in his own mind games. It's a fun show because it does speak truth to bureaucratic stonewallling, but it definitely feels like it's an internal show that sometimes pats itself on the back too much. The Thick of It hits on the same topics a lot of time but Iannuci is a lot more adamant about making sure the audience has contempt for the entire corrupt system.
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Apr 27, 2021 15:33
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Taskmaster NZ first series felt a lot like the British one where they’re trying to understand things. The dynamic of having the brothers on was great as well
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Apr 28, 2021 14:48
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Arcsquad12 posted:It does paint government as a net positive poking fun at itself. The characters are all awful scheming self serving shitheads but it has the 80s British sitcom attitude of "yes, all that is true, and that is fine." It's a show that wants you to enjoy watching Sir Humphrey humiliate Hacker for thinking he can do any progressive policy when the status quo "works" so well and then chuckle the handful of times Humphrey gets tripped up in his own mind games. It's pretty galling to think M. Thatcher was such a big fan of YM that she coerced Eddington & Hawthorne into appearing in an awful fan skit when she presented an award to the show's writers. Here it is courtesy of the BBC Facebook page, if you can make it through all six minutes of this without cringing yourself inside out you're a stronger person than I. https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/353600081679695 And yes, that's Mary loving Whitehouse chortling away behind Thatch. The award was being presented by the notoriously censorious pressure group the National Viewers and Listeners Association, who were honouring the show as an example of "wholesome comedy." 
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Apr 28, 2021 17:52
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Bogmonster posted:
Mel taking that camel through the Baby Gap. Such a stupid joke. Tickles me every time I think about it. e: or Liza Tarbuck getting Alex to sit in a cake and then running away chortling like the chaos demon she is.
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Apr 28, 2021 19:55
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PriorMarcus posted:Me and the wife have recently gotten into the current series of Taskmaster. Which are some good past series to binge? 5. Definitely series 5. Bob Mortimer just being an utter legend and Sally Phillips being totally horny (and mental.) Series 4 with Mel Giedroyc, Hugh Dennis and Noel Fielding is excellent as well. Honestly though, there's not a single *bad* season, 10 has probably been the worst so far but even then it had its moments.
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Apr 28, 2021 19:59
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I haven't watched Yes Minister largely because of seeing the Thatcher clip. Vile.
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Apr 28, 2021 20:12
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Total Meatlove posted:Taskmaster NZ first series felt a lot like the British one where they’re trying to understand things.
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Apr 28, 2021 21:26
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Maelstache posted:It's pretty galling to think M. Thatcher was such a big fan of YM that she coerced Eddington & Hawthorne into appearing in an awful fan skit when she presented an award to the show's writers. The universal truth about conservative politicians not knowing that the things they like are actually mocking them applies to the British Tories as well, I see. Yes Minister is mainly about enforcing the status quo and being fine with that. The Thick of It is about looking at the status quo and saying "this is loving broken." That said, it must have been rough for Hawthorne and Eddington to be a part of that sketch. Everything I've read about Eddington paints him as an ardent leftist and conscientious objector so getting dragged out next to the Iron Ork to do fan fiction while a gun is held to the head of your TV programme must have been awful. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:That said, it must have been rough for Hawthorne and Eddington to be a part of that sketch. Everything I've read about Eddington paints him as an ardent leftist and conscientious objector so getting dragged out next to the Iron Ork to do fan fiction while a gun is held to the head of your TV programme must have been awful. Yes, according to this article I read they didn't have much choice in the matter, it was basically sprung on them at very short notice and they were unable to wriggle out of it (luckily for Derek Fowlds, he was on tour with a play at the time and had a good excuse not to be involved). Also Thatcher apparently had no understanding of comedy at all, every time her speechwriters included a joke in one of her speeches they would explain at great length why it was funny and she would never get it.
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