"No More Jockeys is a three-pints-and-a-packet-of-crisps pub game"

February 12, 2021 9:14 AM

No More Jockeys. Nine months, 29 episodes and nearly 1.5 million views later, No More Jockeys (S1E1, trailer) has become a lockdown phenomenon. There are rules. There are three comedians you may know from Taskmaster (Fanfare). And there is a lot of drinking.

The three players are @alexhorne, @timkeyperson & @watsoncomedian

posted by jessamyn (13 comments total)

This is very relevant to my interests! I’m a little disappointed in YouTube that it couldn't figure that out for itself.
posted by Going To Maine at 9:48 AM on February 12, 2021 [2 favorites]

This is extremely delightful and I am also unsure how the YouTube algorithm never got around to showing this to me.

I think the S1E1 link is missing a character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIulxG7_k8
posted by Kybard at 10:03 AM on February 12, 2021 [1 favorite]

I love the feeling of just sitting in on their personal nonsense.
posted by lucasks at 10:24 AM on February 12, 2021 [1 favorite]

Thanks, jessamyn! Just watched the first episode. Had not heard of it before. Yay!
posted by Bella Donna at 2:04 PM on February 12, 2021

I love Tim Key from Mid Morning Matters, i will check this out! The game itself does sound like a perfect idle zoom + beer diversion, too. I am assuming unreasonably broad categories like "no more humans" are disallowed, but even broad categorical swipes like "no more adults" or "no more residents of the western hemisphere" seem like they would whittle at least my working set of candidates down to dangerous levels a little quickly...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 6:55 PM on February 12, 2021

Yeah they talk in one of the articles about how No More Women (or Men, or other super broad categories) is against the rules but how an early version of the game was called No More Women. I did not know about Tim Key before this and between this and the Taskmaster... he's delightful!
posted by jessamyn at 7:08 PM on February 12, 2021 [2 favorites]

For those that have not discovered the rich vein that is 8 of our 10 cats does countdown, you'll find a lot of the same crowd over there. (8 out of 10 cats too, but who doesn't love a good game of countdown?)
posted by How much is that froggie in the window at 4:01 AM on February 13, 2021 [1 favorite]

I watched the guys, then started up a game over text with a pretty sharp theater-type friend, and I thought I’d be cute with “Geena Davis, no more humans” just to have a laugh and get that rule established, but he came back quick with “Ted Cruz, no more sub-humans.” We’re off to a grand start!
posted by TheAliceMunroSingers at 6:08 PM on February 13, 2021 [2 favorites]

"Time is ticking down..." I love how they're a bit short on time as the time is very clearly on zero and it just keeps remaining on zero.
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:53 PM on February 14, 2021

I also think the dual version of this game would be fun. I call it More Alan Rickman.

Player 1) Name a category, then a person NOT in that category.

Player 2) Name a category containing all people named so far, then a person not in the newly-named category.

Etc.
posted by middlethird at 1:24 PM on February 21, 2021

I think the one thing that would fix this game would be a back-challenge: if you can't think of something, challenge the person before you to name at least one individual who fits all the remaining constraints. If they can’t do it, they take the loss for having eliminated too many possibilities.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:03 PM on February 21, 2021

How can anyone possibly remember all the categories?
posted by chaz at 3:09 PM on February 21, 2021 [1 favorite]

How can anyone possibly remember all the categories?

That's part of a good pub game.
posted by Miko at 4:34 PM on March 4, 2021