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The World Inferno posted:What's the deal with the Baroness for us U.S. fans?
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The World Inferno posted:What's the deal with the Baroness for us U.S. fans? Used to be a minister of parliament for the Conservative Party, got a peerage and is now in the House of Lords (upper house of the Parliament). Has had some issues regarding not declaring every financial thing she should have and used her position to get her business partners to meet with bigwigs. Very much a homophobe who has softened her (public) views due to backlash, agreed with literal Nazi party about immigration (a Nazi party who founded a paramilitary terrorist organization named after Hitler no less) and thinks the Church of England is the basis for the whole society and should be in the center of politics. Basically if you can imagine a vile view concerning any issue whatsoever, she's for it.
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Jan 2, 2022 09:18
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God, Winkleman could beat Nish for the worst contestant ever. Her task failures were incredible.
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Jan 2, 2022 16:12
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Pablo Bluth posted:"It is orange" had me sidesplitting. Jesus wept. It just sounded like one of those things you say before your brain kicks into gear and stops you.
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Jan 3, 2022 03:07
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Jesus wept. It just sounded like one of those things you say before your brain kicks into gear and stops you. The whole episode was on point. A prize task with good effort from all of them, good 'simple' tasks that worked and good banter in the studio.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:15
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Where can I sign to bring back Adrian Chiles and Ryan Clark-Neal for a whole season?
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Jan 3, 2022 16:54
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I knew Chiles would be good. I said as much, I think, in here. Maybe.
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Jan 3, 2022 17:04
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thehustler posted:I knew Chiles would be good. I said as much, I think, in here. Maybe. Yeah he's the perfect blend of 'useless old man' and 'actually funny' that the series has only managed a handful of times. (I don't mean useless at tasks necessarily since he actually won - but that whole demeanor). stev fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jan 3, 2022 18:19
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I really wish we had had Winkleman for a whole season. The insanity would be epic.
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Jan 3, 2022 20:23
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Jesus wept. It just sounded like one of those things you say before your brain kicks into gear and stops you. I don't think Alex has ever been that rude to a contestant which makes me suspect the two are on very good terms or the joke was run by Winkleman in advance.
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Jan 3, 2022 21:58
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Probably sorted it out while they were having their pot noodle and whatsits.
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Jan 4, 2022 13:55
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The episode is up on YouTube now.
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Jan 4, 2022 19:40
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Unkempt posted:Last episode of Kongen Befaler is loving amazing for a number of reasons. So I just got to the "make the next minute of this film" task in Kongen Befaler and I don't think I have laughed harder in at least 6 months than at Einar's film. Victorkm fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Jan 5, 2022 00:54
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Some dots that connected in my head, and I guess I gotta share it. Eggs are actually designed specifically for not breaking when they fall onto grass. That's a bit of an odd fact that I only really know because I heard about it on Taskmaster season 1, when Josh Widdicomb got ridiculously lucky. Claudia Winkleman is also mentioned on season 1 when Josh Widdicomb was trying to talk to the swede about people he might be attracted to. Am I saying that Claudia Winkleman ended up watching the season of Taskmaster that she was mentioned on? I guess I am.
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Jan 5, 2022 05:03
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I don't care how orange she is, everytime I see Claudia Winkleman on TV I fall in love with her that little bit more. I think it's the combination of funny and crazy, along with her self deprecating humour. I can't stand Adrian Chiles normally but he was very funny. I'd be perfectly happy to see him and Claudia in a full series.
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Jan 5, 2022 07:25
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Victorkm posted:So I just got to the "make the next minute of this film" task in Kongen Befaler and I don't think I have laughed harder in at least 6 months than at Einar's film.
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Jan 5, 2022 10:57
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Dell_Zincht posted:I don't care how orange she is, everytime I see Claudia Winkleman on TV I fall in love with her that little bit more. I think it's the combination of funny and crazy, along with her self deprecating humour. Taskmaster's format allows relatively boring people to shine when contrasted with bombastic comedians. Even when they try too hard to be funny, it comes off endearing.
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Jan 5, 2022 15:56
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The format of the show ensures that all the contentants get roughly equal airtime, unlike most panel shows where they can be dominated by individuals. EVen somelike like Charlie Brooker, who clearly isn't boring, has tended to struggle on shows such as HIGNFY. And I think it's unlikely that many truely boring people make it far enough in entertainment to become famous enough to be invited on the show.
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Jan 5, 2022 16:15
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There's a good quote from Chiles about that aspect of the show in the contestant interviewsAdrian Chiles posted:There's a breed of comedian which doesn't laugh at other people's jokes - which is fine, it's a way of doing it - but Greg's very generous. It was interesting during filming when Alan said a couple of really funny things which didn't come across because I was talking, or somebody else was talking, and Greg went back to see what Alan said. There's plenty of comedians who wouldn't do that - remember how 8 Out Of 10 Cats used to be like a bear pit, you could never get your words out? - but Greg wanted to share it, which was really good. He wanted to make sure that everyone got the glory of what Alan had said. I enjoyed the moment where Claudia asked why there was an egg next to the task, and Alex replies "Ah, now that's probably an accident". Also thought having a penalty deducted from your rod's height when you touched things was an elegant way to score the task. Sometimes the convoluted scoring system is part of the joke, but I think you want a solid scoring system if the task's part of a one-off, without the long run to smooth out any imbalances.
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Jan 5, 2022 16:54
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Victoria and Claudia are in my top five contestants. I love that they consider their habits (Claudia’s refusal to drink water, Victoria’s bag of snacks) completely normal and it’s everybody else who’s weird. (Bob Mortimer, Mike Wozniak and Lou Sanders are the other three)
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Jan 5, 2022 18:04
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Creature posted:Victoria and Claudia are in my top five contestants. I love that they consider their habits (Claudia’s refusal to drink water, Victoria’s bag of snacks) completely normal and it’s everybody else who’s weird. Not a single season 7 contestant, shameful. I honestly think that I'd have a hard time not making my top 5 "literally just season 7 again". Kerry I guess I could take or leave.
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Jan 5, 2022 21:08
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Mortimer, Wozniak, Acaster, Wang and Gilbert would make an insanely good series (the lack of women aside)
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Jan 5, 2022 21:22
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Replace Acaster with Lou Sanders and Wang with Katherine Ryan
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Jan 5, 2022 22:00
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Replace them both with clones of David Correos
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Jan 5, 2022 22:09
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i recently listened to winkleman's guest hosting of james acaster and ed gamble's podcast "off menu" and she was pretty self depreciating and laughed freely at the bad orange tan jokes from ed and james and made a few her self iirc. im sure she wasnt really pissed at little alex horne. also, everyone should listen to that podcast, especially the one with bob mortimer. it is ostensibly about famous people picking their dream meal course by course, but it is very funny
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Jan 5, 2022 23:22
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A lot of smart people go on Taskmaster and get shown as a massive idiot, Victoria I think went on Taskmaster and managed to look like the smartest person ever on Taskmaster, although she was also a weird alien who couldn't do athletics. Very unique mind. I guess Richard Osmond looked like a traditionally smart guy too, but he didn't stand out as much. Victoria also did very weird in the prize tasks, not even particularly because she had bad ideas, but because she couldn't present well at all. Greg often doesn't like joke answers to prize tasks, but he likes it much less if you announce "This here is a joke! Look at my joke!" the way she did. But then when she got a voucher for tickets to the soccer team that Alan hated, it genuinely sounded like she believed her reasoning, even though that could be a joke as well. Maybe that was too good of a delivery?
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Jan 6, 2022 01:26
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Richard Osman is a dumb prick when he's not reading answers off a laptop.
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Jan 6, 2022 01:34
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SlothfulCobra posted:A lot of smart people go on Taskmaster and get shown as a massive idiot, Victoria I think went on Taskmaster and managed to look like the smartest person ever on Taskmaster, although she was also a weird alien who couldn't do athletics. Very unique mind. In general, I agree; but her ManU tickets were the greatest prize round submission since the tattoo in season 1
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Jan 6, 2022 02:14
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I think my favorite Victoria moment was when she blew the multiple-negatives task in the church because that kind of poo poo was her wheelhouse and failing it absolutely killed her But yeah she was a hilarious broken robot during that entire season. That codebreaking stunt where Alan was almost entirely incidental to the process was great. itry posted:Replace Acaster with Lou Sanders and Wang with Katherine Ryan But if you replace James Acaster on this dream season you lose one of the best parts of having Rhod Gilbert there, and that's absolutely loving infuriating James Acaster. kazmeyer fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Eat This Glob posted:i recently listened to winkleman's guest hosting of james acaster and ed gamble's podcast "off menu" and she was pretty self depreciating and laughed freely at the bad orange tan jokes from ed and james and made a few her self iirc. im sure she wasnt really pissed at little alex horne. also, everyone should listen to that podcast, especially the one with bob mortimer. it is ostensibly about famous people picking their dream meal course by course, but it is very funny Yeah that was the feeling I got. I think it was more the surprise that it was Alex of all people to say it. Victoria’s episode of Off Menu is the one I keep going back to. Absolutely bizarre from beginning to end. The recent one with Sarah Kendall is another favourite and is proof that Australians are not to be trusted.
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Jan 6, 2022 04:16
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I didn't know we had a Taskmaster thread! I started watching it a couple of years ago and am absolutely obsessed. It is easily my favorite non-scripted show.
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Jan 6, 2022 04:27
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Trig Discipline posted:I didn't know we had a Taskmaster thread! I started watching it a couple of years ago and am absolutely obsessed. It is easily my favorite non-scripted show. There's so many great shows that come out of just jamming a bunch of British comedians together and filming the results. 9 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, the Big Fat Quiz of the Year, and Would I Lie To You are other dear, dear favorites of mine. Highlights you can look for on Youtube: Countdown, carrot in a box game or pretty much any best-of involving Sean Locke or Joe Wilkinson Big Fat Quiz, Mr Blobby, "bad dong," Richard Ayoade's mental breakdown WILTY anything involving Brian Blessed or Rhod Gilbert or frankly any bit where Lee Mack is trying to defend a lie (There's acres more, these are just my personal favorites.)
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Azhais posted:Replace them both with clones of David Correos I’m doing a rewatch of NZ S2 and I honestly don’t know if there is even any competition against him for greatest contestant of all time. He cared so much all the time, he failed spectacularly 99% off the time, but had the right idea so often. And then the milk task.
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Jan 6, 2022 07:35
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A lot of fighting between Rhod Gilbert and James Acaster didn't even make it in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_KQwMPV_o Although honestly, while James Acaster really hated Rhod Gilbert, Rhod really just seemed to hate his apparent longtime friend Greg Davies.
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Jan 6, 2022 07:46
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SlothfulCobra posted:A lot of fighting between Rhod Gilbert and James Acaster didn't even make it in. Eh, hate's a strong word. Rhod is just a really, really loving odd duck. That's why he was so deadly on WILTY, because he could tell you the most insane story and you couldn't write it off because he was just that nuts. The fez task was amazing. That, and hiding in Greg's closet. He was just a tour de force on that series.
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Jan 6, 2022 07:52
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kazmeyer posted:But if you replace James Acaster on this dream season you lose one of the best parts of having Rhod Gilbert there, and that's absolutely loving infuriating James Acaster. Hmm. I see what you mean. 
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Jan 6, 2022 07:56
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Yeah, if you did an All Star season you'd need both James and Rhod. And they'd be the two person team for team tasks.
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Jan 6, 2022 15:11
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Nono: they need to be the three person team together with Iain.
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Jan 6, 2022 15:25
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I know I've gone on about this before, but I watched another couple of Kongen Befaler and once again I was pleased by how good they are at the prize tasks and reminded at how annoyed by the poor effort put in to our prize tasks (NY special aside).
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My Lovely Horse posted:Nono: they need to be the three person team together with Iain. As long as he's done absolutely zero self-reflection in the interim.
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