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CatstropheWaitress posted:Where. Are. The. Aunty. Donna. Boys. They've only started with people from The Project, so you'll have to wait for 3-5 series more.
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I'm not sure if I could process seeing Broaden Kelly act like, well, Broden Kelly, and not some kind of cartoon man come to life. I'd half expect him to stomp across the room, brow furrowed, and chuck the Alex-equivalent into a plant (which after a camera cut would turn into a large ragdoll of course)
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Paladinus posted:They've only started with people from The Project, so you'll have to wait for 3-5 series more. How long will it take for one of the Do Go On hosts to get on there? I’m guessing forever
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Can someone do a brief intro to who the Aus contestants are? (What they known for/persona/style of comedy)
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Snowy posted:How long will it take for one of the Do Go On hosts to get on there? I mean, you can't have a geriatric ancient and slightly confused man on there, and a virgin absolutely not. Jessica is probably very busy anyway
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Pablo Bluth posted:Can someone do a brief intro to who the Aus contestants are? (What they known for/persona/style of comedy)
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Put Demi Lardner on Aussie TM!
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Peter Helliar is the only Australian contestant I recognize. He's a somewhat mainstream but low-tier celebrity in Australia and the others appear to be people you need to be into the comedy scene to know. I've never found his actual comedy to be that great, just very standard stuff. Take a look and imagine what his comedy is like and you're probably right. But he's happy to be self-depreciating and is able to just roll with whatever is happening so he has potential for sure.
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Phigs posted:Peter Helliar is the only Australian contestant I recognize. He's a somewhat mainstream but low-tier celebrity in Australia and the others appear to be people you need to be into the comedy scene to know. I've never found his actual comedy to be that great, just very standard stuff. Take a look and imagine what his comedy is like and you're probably right. But he's happy to be self-depreciating and is able to just roll with whatever is happening so he has potential for sure. I’ve never liked him, even back in the Rove Live days, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Julia Morris always gave me the shits as well, but turned out to be brilliant on TM. If Dave Hughes or Wil Anderson showed up on TM however I’d have to really force myself to watch it. They’re unsalvageable.
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I expect we'll see Hamish soon enough.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Yes. The best series tend to be the one's where the show gets an almost 'summer camp' energy by the end of it. See Series 13 where it ends with them all doing Bridget's goofy dance in a circle together. Or TMNZ S2 where the cast did a bunch of things afterwards together. I've not seen it past the Herring season because it was so flat that it made me stop watching, like I was tired of the format at that point. You can always tell a bad series because Greg reads out from his card saying "I wrote down..." for like half of every episode, because nothing natural happens
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Does anyone know how many tasks they actually film? I always assume the ones used for tiebreaks are ones that were a bit boring but they weren't specifically picked as tiebreaks before
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Taear posted:Does anyone know how many tasks they actually film? I always assume the ones used for tiebreaks are ones that were a bit boring but they weren't specifically picked as tiebreaks before It was be very weird if singing "I won this tiebreak" was not meant to be a tiebreak.
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They specifically film tiebreakers meant to be tiebreakers, but sometimes some one does something so crazy it gets turned into a regular bit.
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Tiebreakers are explicitly designed to be short, they had one on NZ where they messed up and forgot to add a limit so it had to be turned into a regular task because people got inventive.
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oh jay posted:It was be very weird if singing "I won this tiebreak" was not meant to be a tiebreak. Never seen them do it, they just look surprised when they see the tiebreak tasks up to now when I'm watching it
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Surprised in the studio? They may have filmed a couple and don't remember doing a particular one 6-8 months before.
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They film them doing about a lot more tasks than we get to see in the end. 10 shows, 4 tasks filmed, 40 tasks out of 50/60/70 they would get them to do. LITTLE ALEX HORN mentioned it somewhere they do more. I wish they would bring back the 'only one of you did this lovely task' surprise. Those were great.
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happyhippy posted:I wish they would bring back the 'only one of you did this lovely task' surprise. SOMETIMES it felt like the person was genuinely really loving mad I know of course it's acting, but it could be a little uncomfortable
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Taear posted:SOMETIMES it felt like the person was genuinely really loving mad The Mark Watson one was a wee bit too far.
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"You mean I was the only one who kept this up my bum for an entire MONTH!"
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"I thought it was an extra weird prize task!"
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Wozniak being made to fart lol
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Kaiho posted:Wozniak being made to fart lol "fart"
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"joined by five celebrities" -- i do wonder if it's actually maintaining the format where they hang around for a full series or if they're going to have five new people every week
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Probably keeping a similar format to regular Taskmaster but maybe slightly shorter runs, like 6 episodes instead of 10 or something. If it gets picked up obviously. Maybe they'll use it as a way to get old contestants back on, Alex Horne said he doesn't want to do a loser of losers cause he wants them to still be slightly trying to win the main show but having a spinoff show that's pretty different could work. Have a mix of new folks and some old favourites. Ed Gamble as the host makes sense, he's grabbed onto the Taskmaster adjacent stuff role with both hands and he's enjoyable enough. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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People are going to be watching his scoring like a hawk after all the times he's brought up Greg's on the podcast.
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Taear posted:I've not seen it past the Herring season because it was so flat that it made me stop watching, like I was tired of the format at that point. Herring's season is one of the harder ones, yeah. Fwiw, 11, 14, and 15 are really solid seasons. S13 was among the best the shows done. 12 was the only lukewarm of the recent series.
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12 was great, though? Victoria alone is well worth the price of admission. I feel 11 was a bit on the weak side myself, even though I like Mike Wozniak very very much.
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I agree with 12 as the weakest of the last five seasons. I can remember maybe four things total that even happened on that entire season, and it's the only time since season 6 I think I was ever bored watching taskmaster.
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Leraika posted:12 was great, though? Victoria alone is well worth the price of admission. I feel 11 was a bit on the weak side myself, even though I like Mike Wozniak very very much. im with you on this as far as 12 goes-- id need to think a bit about 11. As far as 12 goes, well, as Ive said here before, I immediately fell head over heels for Victoria. It's interesting how much different seasons play to different tastes.
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12 was my favorite of the recent ones (everyone loves Victoria, but in my opinion the unsung hero of that one was Guz Khan and his attempts to intimidate Alex), but for some reasons 13 never really clicked with me. I thought Sophie Duker fit the whole "competent but boring contestant" type way more than Mae did.
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I think that Duker was weird enough to be funny. Like Greg said when the task was to surprise him: "I'm surprised, but not surprised that Sophie Duker bought an entire can of worms"-
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I thought she was a bit low key. I can't really remember her doing anything where I wondered what the gently caress she was thinking or where we saw her fail miserably. She was mixed in with some real crazies though so I don't think it mattered much that season.
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Has there ever been a "bad" season of Taskmaster (UK only, I'm trying to forget the US one existed)? Everyone seems to have a season that "isn't great", but I don't think there's ever been a truly awful, unwatchable season. There's still great moments even in the seasons people don't like.
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Has there ever been a "bad" season of Taskmaster (UK only, I'm trying to forget the US one existed)? Everyone seems to have a season that "isn't great", but I don't think there's ever been a truly awful, unwatchable season. There's still great moments even in the seasons people don't like. 6 seems to be the consensus for 'worst' season (and lots of people are down on 10, which I actually like pretty well), but even then I never thought 'I should stop watching this.' I just kept hoping it would get a little better.
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I'm watching series 13 now and Sophie Duker seems great so far. I'm surprised the thread loved Victoria in series 12 so much, she just came off as pompous to me. This thread made me learn that she's married to David Mitchell though and that makes a tonne of sense.
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