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I'd enjoy seeing more Tim Key, his blend of manic enthusiasm and bare-faced cheating was wonderful, and he was usually good at finding an unusual way to attempt tasks too. Maybe not quite top 5 but definitely up there.
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LesterGroans posted: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. Acaster was on Rhod and his wife Sian's show "The Froth" and talked about their butting heads. Worth a watch/listen for TM fans, and sorry I can't embed because I'm mobile https://youtu.be/QCkfa9ygKNU
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kazmeyer posted: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. Yeah I've watched a ton of all of these but Taskmaster is still my favorite by a mile.
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sebzilla posted:I'd enjoy seeing more Tim Key, his blend of manic enthusiasm and bare-faced cheating was wonderful, and he was usually good at finding an unusual way to attempt tasks too. Maybe not quite top 5 but definitely up there. Tim Key knows too much about the show and comes up with most of the tasks anyway, it'd be fun for a one off episode but not a full series.
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Trig Discipline posted:Yeah I've watched a ton of all of these but Taskmaster is still my favorite by a mile. Yeah, there's something special about Taskmaster. Watching comedians apply their wit (or lack thereof sometimes) to a "thinking-outside-the-box" kind of puzzle just results in gold more often than not. And Greg Davies does imperious and capricious in equal measure SO well. Alex was a goddamn genius putting that show together.
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LesterGroans posted: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. A special where its James and Rhod VS Ed and David
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Kongen Befaler content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxsO0JCao1c
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kazmeyer posted:Yeah, there's something special about Taskmaster. Watching comedians apply their wit (or lack thereof sometimes) to a "thinking-outside-the-box" kind of puzzle just results in gold more often than not. And Greg Davies does imperious and capricious in equal measure SO well. Alex was a goddamn genius putting that show together. I think a big advantage TM has over panel shows is the extended format as well, where you get to build a sense of familiarity with the cast over the season instead of everything being a one-off. It has a way of stripping away the TV personas people have cultivated for themselves due to the fact that it's hard to maintain the façade for that long, on top of the constant embarrassment from seeing how they've performed the tasks.
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Dragonstoned posted:A special where its James and Rhod VS Ed and David This would be great, but I don't think you could ever get Rhod back; he's gone on record saying he hated doing the show because of his anxiety disorder. He liked the studio portions, but the tasks were a nightmare, and apparently that thing he does where he spends the first couple minutes of the task standing there with his eyes closed is him trying not to have panic attacks. He's said he agreed to do it because his friend Greg asked him, but he regrets not looking more into what was involved. It's a shame because he's nevertheless one of my all-time favorite competitors.
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Leatherhead posted:This would be great, but I don't think you could ever get Rhod back; he's gone on record saying he hated doing the show because of his anxiety disorder. He liked the studio portions, but the tasks were a nightmare, and apparently that thing he does where he spends the first couple minutes of the task standing there with his eyes closed is him trying not to have panic attacks. That's interesting. Did he say that on a RHLSTP or a proper interview?
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stev posted:That's interesting. Did he say that on a RHLSTP or a proper interview? I don't remember where exactly I read about it but here's one instance: https://www.chortle.co.uk/interviews/2018/08/27/41107/alex_horne_got_gagged_with_an_egg_in_his_mouth_but_they_werent_allowed_to_show_it His social anxiety is pretty well known; he had a whole documentary about it called 'Standing up to Shyness'. Leatherhead fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Okay I just found a youtube channel with Kongen Befaler English subtitled. It's no TMNZ, but it's pretty drat good.
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As the risk of  , the subreddit r/panelshow is a great source for all the TM variants. The youtube versions you found are probably using the english subtitles from there.
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Okay I have a question as a dumb American that's been bugging me since I started watching TM last year. To my ear, Greg pronounces his last name "Davis" (day-viss as it sounds in my American accent) but obviously it's spelled "Davies" and I would by default pronounce it "day-vees" if I were to read it aloud. When others on the show or other talk shows say it, it seems some say it his way and others say it my way. Is it just an accent or regional thing, or should it actually be pronounced "day-viss" regardless of accent? If it's the latter, in the UK do all people with that last name pronounce it that way?
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Ok thanks. I know it's dumb but it was nagging me every time someone said his name lol
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i watch QI fairly regularly and im still not entirely sure if alan davies pronounces it "davis" or "dave-ease" nice to see him pop up again in the new year's treat
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There's a twitter thread going around of Chiles and I'm realising he was always going to be great on Taskmaster https://twitter.com/GrahamStarr/status/1479513882607636487
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I'm binging the first seasons of the UK Taskmaster (which, because of how UK telly works, have taken me an hour) and Rob Beckett just seems...wrong. Like an off brand muppet voiced by someone with plugs in their ears who only have a vague understanding about what language is.
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Alhazred posted:I'm binging the first seasons of the UK Taskmaster (which, because of how UK telly works, have taken me an hour) and Rob Beckett just seems...wrong. Like an off brand muppet voiced by someone with plugs in their ears who only have a vague understanding about what language is. Yeah he's exactly that. No one understands what he's for.
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I've been watching old Taskmaster a lot because over the next few weeks I'm filming my own (wish me luck!) and so youtube has been throwing me recommendations of outtakes. I had never seen this one, and I love everything about it so much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfYIiK6ePY
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Superrodan posted:I've been watching old Taskmaster a lot because over the next few weeks I'm filming my own (wish me luck!) and so youtube has been throwing me recommendations of outtakes. I had never seen this one, and I love everything about it so much: I love how uncomfortable Alex is with this. I don't know if y'all have seen it but this is Taskmaster-adjacent and a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeQXreI76q0
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Taskmaster tangential but I just listened to Victoria Corren Mitchell absolutely break James Acaster on Off Menu and that was a joy.
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MikeJF posted:Taskmaster tangential but I just listened to Victoria Corren Mitchell absolutely break James Acaster on Off Menu and that was a joy. Victoria's explanation about how she'd always bring sandwiches in her purse to any dinner party (so she can sneak off to the bathroom and eat them if she hates the food) basically explains her entire taskmaster appearance
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Ha! I just re-listened to the Victoria Off Menu episode, and yeah, it's a good-un.
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what kind of sandwich, her choice either damns her or continues my neutral stance on her.
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I’ve watched this three times now and I’m cry laughing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWAlE8CfQnQ
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eke out posted:Victoria's explanation about how she'd always bring sandwiches in her purse to any dinner party (so she can sneak off to the bathroom and eat them if she hates the food) basically explains her entire taskmaster appearance Yeah I think if I had listened to this first literally nothing she did on the show would've surprised me in the least. Gamble and Acaster seem to have developed the most direct way to get at a person's soul by asking them about food. Oh gently caress now I need to see if there's a Rhod Gilbert episode.
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In the Taskmaster podcast it was implied that champion of champions airs the week after next week.
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https://twitter.com/davechannel/status/1182272065040027648 https://twitter.com/davechannel/status/1047869256027820033 They should release extended editions of the episodes that just have all the outtakes in. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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There's a fun one that's just Rhod and Greg talking about when they were living in Edinburgh during the Fringe. Part of it makes it in to the episode, but the extended one has a great part with the story where Greg breaks Rhod's Mac with a potato gun.
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DrVenkman posted:There's a fun one that's just Rhod and Greg talking about when they were living in Edinburgh during the Fringe. Part of it makes it in to the episode, but the extended one has a great part with the story where Greg breaks Rhod's Mac with a potato gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AneIpeqozM
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Been catching up on the NZ Taskmaster, bit of a rough start over the first few episodes of S1 as everyone figures things out but once they get it straight it's a really good version. Leigh had to grow on me the most but the combination of supreme confidence and consistently failing to understand the tasks is a winner. Just not in terms of scoring. And I don't think anyone's ever quite set the tone like Angella in the very first prize task. David's gonna be season 2's MVP isn't he
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David is probably the global best contestant
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I love that David only exists at 0 - happy, fine or 100 - mind-blowingly angry. There’s no dial between the two, it’s just a two position switch.
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I'm slightly concerned that they still haven't confirmed a NZ series 3.
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Apparently he served as a kind of task tester for season 1. There's a few hours of potentially great footage lost to the production process. e: the way the brussel sprout task played out was amazing.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Been catching up on the NZ Taskmaster, bit of a rough start over the first few episodes of S1 as everyone figures things out but once they get it straight it's a really good version. Leigh had to grow on me the most but the combination of supreme confidence and consistently failing to understand the tasks is a winner. Just not in terms of scoring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ceC7ERsLc You can certainly see echoes of this in his S1 solves.
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Heavy_D posted:While not essential, it's good fun to have a look at this and a related clip or two, and get the perspective of a Kiwi familiar with the previous work of Leigh Hart. I can see the inspiration behind HowToBasic now.
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My Lovely Horse posted:David's gonna be season 2's MVP isn't he The best commentary on him was on a reddit thread discussing "who would be the best 5 players for an all-stars season?" and someone responded with five Davids Correos.
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