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Ok then, but I'll stay sceptical. My fear is that US versions of stuff to often devolve into angry points hunting or competition instead of trying to be purposefully stupid + charming. And why would anyone remember if they've seen someone before when they're entertaining me here and now? It's not like I'm going to enjoy a joke more the more famous someone is right?
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I don't think the tone of the show suits American sensibilities really.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Why would we need an American one, we already have the UK, Kiwi, bunch of Scandi, whoever else ones already? What's the point of a US version? I wouldn't be bothered if they made 2 UK ones, 2 Kiwi ones, and an american one. Anywhere in the language I speak is desired by me. Show like this also isn't going to be a magnet for all the most famous NA comedians anyway, and we've got dozens of pages in this thread alone brainstorming excellent groups of comedians across the gamut. Plus, we already got a US one but it was under the worst possible conditions & channel, with some really crummy casting, trapped in a 22 minute format.
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I do think Australia could pull it off well, we've got a similar but distinct comedic sensibility to New Zealand, as long as the higher ups do the casting right.
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Put Rose Matafeo on NZ season 3
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So are we going to have the "Why doesn't the US have a version, it had a go and it was poo poo, here are a bunch of suggestions for US contestants and hosts" conversation every week?
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Mr Beens posted:So are we going to have the "Why doesn't the US have a version, it had a go and it was poo poo, here are a bunch of suggestions for US contestants and hosts" conversation every week? Hot take, but I think Mark Evan Jackson and Paul F. Tompkins should be involved!
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Apr 30, 2022 12:00
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Two words. Frank Stallone.
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Mr Beens posted:So are we going to have the "Why doesn't the US have a version, it had a go and it was poo poo, here are a bunch of suggestions for US contestants and hosts" conversation every week? the conversations shall continue, until the show manifests
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Consider it the modern equivalent of chanting into the aether until it manifests.
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Khanstant posted:the conversations shall continue, until the show manifests You could even start a different thread about it
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I'd accept a Taskmaster Canada as a substitute.
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Xelkelvos posted:I'd accept a Taskmaster Canada as a substitute. True. Give me an English NA Taskmaster, I'm not picky. I'm definitely checking out the Quebec TM when it happens as well.
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what about Taskmaster:Chicago, alongside Taskmaster:LA and Taskmaster:Seattle. Taskmaster: SVU
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Taskmaster: Our Precious American-only Bodily Fluids
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Xelkelvos posted:I'd accept a Taskmaster Canada as a substitute. do canadians have their own secret TV the USA doesn't get to see? nevermind, no point in asking they would never tell.
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Khanstant posted:do canadians have their own secret TV the USA doesn't get to see? nevermind, no point in asking they would never tell. Canadian tax money goes into making Canadian programming so that US TV doesn't completely monopolize their TV. That said, a CA Taskmaster would probably end up with three non-Quebecois Canadians, a Quebecois Canadian and an American for representation. Xelkelvos fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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This was like 14 days ago....Pablo Bluth posted:A Canadian TM has just been announced. Or should I say, a Quebecois TM has been announced.
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american comedians simply aren't funny
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Khanstant posted:do canadians have their own secret TV the USA doesn't get to see? nevermind, no point in asking they would never tell. yeah those maple-y bastards horded all the Letterkenny for a long while. trailer park boys too i think
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You already had Taskmaster you just called it fear factor.
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Der Untergang posted:You already had Taskmaster you just called it fear factor. Alex telling a group of British people to eat boiled bull penis as fast as possible would mean the pinnacle of television as an art form.
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Series 84 is where they really start running out of ideas and it's always eat boiled this, lay in a big plastic coffin full of that. no room for lateral thinking anymore, just alex skulking around finding gnarly junk to pour on whatever poor souls got their NIN pulled in the Lottery that month.
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I've been going on a tangent of old Craig Ferguson interviews on YT. He seems like someone fun to have involved in TM somehow.
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Khanstant posted:do canadians have their own secret TV the USA doesn't get to see? nevermind, no point in asking they would never tell. you can see most of it with a VPN and CBC Gem, but most of it isn't good and whatever is good tends to end up on Netflix anyway (Schitts' creek, Kim's convenience, Orphan Black). Sort Of is really good if you want to see something recent that wouldn't be available to Americans. We do have a tiny bit of panel show stuff on CBC (Because News, The Debaters). It's extremely hokey in an extremely Canadian way, but there's a few regulars on there that would work on a Taskmaster style show. Get someone from kids in the hall on there as the token old guy (Scott Thompson would make a great Taskmaster), maybe someone from baroness von sketch show and there's probably a workable show there. Eat This Glob posted:yeah those maple-y bastards horded all the Letterkenny for a long while. trailer park boys too i think oh poo poo yeah these are also good and non-CBC canadian shows enki42 fucked around with this message at 13:44 on May 2, 2022 |
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Sort Of is on HBOMax surprisingly, I'll check it out edit: I've watched it all and it was great!!
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I don't think the tone of the show suits American sensibilities really. i agree - there is a hesitancy in american television for comedians to embarass themselves to the level necessary for something like taskmaster. like in japan the most famous comedians still take regular doses of humiliation, eating a bit of humble pie is acceptable in many other countries, but in america it seems like more famous performers have a level of dignity which must be maintained by them not getting embarrassed. i think roasts are the closest formal humiliation sessions and those aren't very popular. if you're going to see a show on american television where people have to do gross or embarrassing things, you're more likely to see absolute randos doing the tasks instead of known comedians
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There used to be an old maxim about how "in america they make fun of others, in Britain they make fun of themselves" but I don't know how true that is anymore
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i don't think it's worth worrying about the most famous american comedians because they are orders of magnitude more famous than most anyone else that's been on taskmaster (with maybe noel/mel excepted, given how insanely huge GBBO is) and you'd probably never get them anyways. it doesn't matter though because america has an unbelievable number of working comedians that do silly embarrassing things, such as improv comedy, all the time. and there're plenty of slightly less obscure career comedians that would be great and are already doing dumb poo poo twitch streaming or podcasting in their free time (e.g.: huebel, scheer, tompkins, etc etc) eke out fucked around with this message at 20:11 on May 2, 2022 |
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Of course there's tons of funny Americans, that's not in doubt, there's just no funny live TV production in the US. It's your producers and network exutives who suck, not your comedians. Oh, and the U.S. tv-audience who votes republican
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:i agree - there is a hesitancy in american television for comedians to embarass themselves to the level necessary for something like taskmaster. like in japan It's hosted by Downtown and it is for all intents and purposes Gaki No Tsukai
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My Lovely Horse posted:I was unable to read past this because I started to picture, and am still picturing, Taskmaster Japan you may want to check out Documental on prime https://twitter.com/DocumentalJP/status/930238937699835904
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My Lovely Horse posted:I was unable to read past this because I started to picture, and am still picturing, Taskmaster Japan Same but Kachou Arino and his partner.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:i agree - there is a hesitancy in american television for comedians to embarass themselves to the level necessary for something like taskmaster. like in japan the most famous comedians still take regular doses of humiliation, eating a bit of humble pie is acceptable in many other countries, but in america it seems like more famous performers have a level of dignity which must be maintained by them not getting embarrassed. i think roasts are the closest formal humiliation sessions and those aren't very popular. if you're going to see a show on american television where people have to do gross or embarrassing things, you're more likely to see absolute randos doing the tasks instead of known comedians I think if you started working your way down the list of people who have done Drunk History sessions you'd have a pretty good start. Which raises an interesting contrast: most of the British version of Drunk History sucked rear end because the narrators were far too sober, polished, and joke-y.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:you may want to check out Documental on prime this has gone to the top of my watchlist, thanks!
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Most Extreme Taskmaster Challenge
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𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜. 𝙱𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚜. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠.
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As a goon who watches these shows few years after their initial airing, and doesn't have a clue on who the 95% of the contestants are beyond the show, Jo Brand and her "don't give a gently caress, couldn't be arsed" attitude was really thinning out its welcome by the end of the series 9.
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Gonna re-litigate something that Ed Gamble got wrong on the podcast this week. He claims that Bridget failed to complete the middle task in the show because the monster popped up before the balls were clacking. But no. In the crucial frame of the footage, there is a blur of the monster popping, but it's superimposed over an image of the monster still squatting. That means the monster popped up during the frame. However, the ball at the end of the clacker is clearly in motion in every position captured by the frame, meaning it must have started moving while the monster was stationary. Case closed, four points, five prizes to Bridget!
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