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One if the great things about the nz version is that Paul Williams isn't just doing the assistant thing as a role, he is one of the two people who come up with the tasks.
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evobatman posted:I read somewhere that all the UK comedians have the same manager, and either you're with that agency and get put on all the panel shows and Live at the Apollo variants, or you might as well be dead because nobody is ever going to hear about you. Agency not manager. School thing is bullshit considering the difference in ages etc. The main reasons UK comedians all know each other - Edinburgh Relatively small country but with a large amount of comedy gigs small and large all over the place all year round. Relatively small group of people.
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Was a great opener. I've had to unfollow the tsskmaster twitter as they have ramped up their spoiler filled live posting. Like posting details of each task just after they air and posting the episode results right away. Its pretty obnoxious since they must know that most people don't watch live.
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exmarx posted:sophie duker rules Brave choice of task uniform. She was nearly falling out when riding little Alex Horne
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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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Apr 30, 2022 10:11
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Another great episode. All 7 look like they are having great fun on the stage.
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Didn't know that Bridget Christy was married to Stewart Lee.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't like when tasks get too long and unnecessarily complicated, because sometimes I miss things when they're cutting between people or my attention has already drifted, and then if there's a million different things to keep track of, I just don't really know what the task was or what to look out for. Name some tasks that are "unnecessarily complicated"? The segments on the tasks are 10 mins long, if you can't maintain attention that long then I don't really know. Your second point makes me think this show isn't really for you - maybe check out The Krypton Factor?
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May 15, 2022 09:01
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Heavy_D posted:I know, he lives in Glasgow and is a full-time Twitch streamer, so it would be pretty impractical. But I think he'd be so good in the creative tasks and I think he could sell the prize tasks. They get paid to do it and not all the contestants live in London.
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May 28, 2022 16:42
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drunken officeparty posted:They can't have Dara O'Briain on because people would get confused on why Greg is doing tasks then also judging himself. Apart from being tall comedians they are nothing alike
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eke out posted:Great ep. Agreed, I can't remember seeing Greg and Alex laughing so much in the studio.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I do think they sometimes stack the deck to try to give an episode win to a contestant who otherwise has done quite badly and is definitely not going to win the series, but there is only so far they can go with that since they can't really predict how the prize round or the studio task will go. Yeah and on top of that, as the season goes on and the more subjective tasks add up it gets harder for them to find a set of good tasks for an underperformer as they have less filmed tasks to choose from.
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Pinwiz11 posted:CoC2 was great but I hate hate HATE winner take all final tasks like that. It's one thing if it's in one out of ten episodes, but for CoC? I think it was fine. The overall scoring system for Taskmaster doesn't really work for a single episode anyway.
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Yeah good cast. I only knew Dara and Sarah before and beard guy seems a bit dull but strong opener
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Loo rolls are not exactly known for their strength once unfurled, nonmatter what the puppies make you think. That said it probably was too restrictive to make them stay on the marker. Just don't let them leave the level they were on and dot random supplies nearby would have encouraged different methods.
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Oct 1, 2022 19:19
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And they do a non swear edit of the show
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oh jay posted:My understanding is that Alex tests out new tasks by making the previous season do it and not airing it. I doubt they have the time or budget to waste on making people do that many unaired tasks
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Well yes, considering none of them were over the time it seems that everyone understood that
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Also getting next cast lineup at the end
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stev posted:Why in the absolute hell did Dara not pour the cider over the nice man? He wouldnt have completely covered the nice man with one pint and there would have still been the glass
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Dec 2, 2022 01:36
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We seem to have the "who would be in a good US version of TM and why the format doesn't work on US TV" every 6 months with exactly the same conclusions and points raised.
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itry posted:Luckily he's busy with Ferguson's old job. He's leaving that early next year.
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Alex ama was recorded during filming for the next series after the one soon to be aired. He said there were some surprising elements and that the theme was one of his favourites.
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happyhippy posted:Same, and watched it all in a binge. Apart from COVID ones it's all filmed with a live audience, there is no laugh track.
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Surprised they didn't discuss "same word" being a genius workaround that no one else did, or the fact that it was such a long word.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Frankie seems to me like he's having an immensely good time but is just not that vocal or exuberant about it and I keep checking if I'm maybe watching like different cuts from y'all or something Agreed. Just because he is not constantly being like he was on Mock the Week back in the day doesn't mean he isn't having a good time. Plus taskmaster isn't that kind of show, i would imagine that there is a certain amount of self constraint to not constantly muscle in on other contestants time due to the format. Also we only see a fraction of what happens in the studio, as people who have been to recordings and the outtakes have shown.
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Apr 15, 2023 20:55
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Please don't. We've managed to go like 15 seasons without having the cast revealed in here this far in advance, all it takes is one dipshit to mess up spoiler tags. Plus if you do list them here in spoiler tags it will just be pages of people discussing stuff behind walls of black boxes.
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Pilfered Pallbearers posted:I didn’t understand why Kiel (can’t spell, not looking it up) didn’t just keep rolling the green carpet up until he got close to the bell. He started with that and it was working! I bet he had "do things for me" tasks for those two options 
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thehustler posted:Matafeo/Wozniak have the Junior Taskmaster hosting gig More importantly, who are the contestants, will I have heard of any of them?
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May 16, 2023 12:41
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I wasn't being serious with my question btw They have been running taskmaster for schools, home tasking during lockdown etc for ages. I'm pretty confident they will have a good set of age appropriate tasks and would have vetted/auditioned the kids.
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Heavy_D posted:Something I haven't heard discussed before, how the heck will the prize task work on Junior TM? The pretence that the contestants are bringing their own possessions in will surely be shattered. And how is Rose possibly going to see five submissions for "The thing that makes everyone at school the most jealous" and award one of them 1 point? The pretence got shattered about half way through series 2
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Paperhouse posted:allowing the drawn pineapples sets a dangerous precedent for future tasks. just draw a picture of a thing and you win! There is no such thing as precedent in this show
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May 23, 2023 10:52
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Paladinus posted:I hope it's not going to be like that dumb Netflix show, where contestants have to build elaborate cakes in 5 minutes. That gimmick worked for exactly one day when people posted memes with hosed-up cakes, and I don't think that attracted a lot of viewers. There was some lovely food based engineering show on Netflix a few years ago where they had to make edible boats, houses, clothes etc. It was terrible.
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I think Lucy's "what do you mean you can do things other than exactly what is written" is going to pay off
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Escobarbarian posted:Because the taping happened while the last season was still airing and my memory is horrendous I had forgotten if the cans task was in this episode or part of last season but oh my god it’s seriously one of the funniest tasks ever to me especially watching the Sue section as part of a crowd. One of the bits they didn’t show in broadcast is how Lucy literally crawled out of the room at the end of that one. Between that and the genius of putting the hairs together and Sam and Lucy just being all-timer contestants in general (I haven’t gotten there yet so maybe it didn’t make the edit [although I can’t imagine it didn’t] but “Are you a child of divorce?” killed me) it’s an episode that really has everything. They did show Lucy crawling out at the end, and child of a divorce was in too
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Seriously can we not talk about next seasons cast while we are only 1 ep into the current one? The constant black bars are annoying and some arsehole is going to slip and post them non spoilered..
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I want to know what Jacob Mogg wrote.
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jimmydalad posted:Julian Clary is everything I wanted and more.His attitude and confidence is just the best and him and Sue play the best off the other contestants and the hosts. Sue is amazing as well and is so quick to follow up on things. There was a task in a previous season to make tasks for the others
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Bertha the Toaster posted:I have a feeling that they were both on Who Do You Think You Are? which is a show about celebrity family history, I guess it must have been mentioned that they're related. Yeah Josh was on who do you think you are and traced his linage back royalty as the main bit on the show
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Another good episode, but probably the weakest team task they have ever done, not really much room for any lateral thinking or hi jinks.
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