Taskmaster's season 17 line-up ...
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... has now been announced. The series itself is promised "soon". In the past few weeks Britain's Channel 4 has also aired the latest New Year Treat and Champion of Champions specials. If you're outside the UK, I'm sure you can find them somewhere online, but I don't know where.
Both the new specials are well up scratch. There's one Morgana moment in CoC that's absolutely unforgetable.
Both the new specials are well up scratch. There's one Morgana moment in CoC that's absolutely unforgetable.
For the US & Canada (not sure about other regions) they've been posting the new stuff on about a day's delay on the official youtube. The new year's treat is already up and champion of champions will be up within a day (all the older stuff is there too I believe). They've also been uploading episodes of Taskmaster New Zealand (currently in the middle of series 2).
posted by juv3nal at 5:27 AM on January 15
posted by juv3nal at 5:27 AM on January 15
Over the last few months I've started watching Taskmaster UK and I enjoy it SO MUCH! Grateful that it's free to view in the US via YouTube on the official Taskmaster channel.
(BTW, for those who aren't caught up on past series, the linked article lists the cast of a Champion of Champions special, which thus means it's a list of some past winners and would spoil you for the outcomes of some past series.)
posted by brainwane at 5:32 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
(BTW, for those who aren't caught up on past series, the linked article lists the cast of a Champion of Champions special, which thus means it's a list of some past winners and would spoil you for the outcomes of some past series.)
posted by brainwane at 5:32 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I love the show but don't know most of these people. I am looking forward to Mr Swallow, though, who is brilliant and hilarious.
Years ago I wondered why the show hadn't been remade in the US and then I discovered it had been and that Alex played the assistant but it only lasted one season. Why? Well, inexplicably they cast Reggie Watts in the Taskmaster role. Absolutely bizarre decision. It'd be hard to think of a less intimidating presence than Watts, imo.
I love Watts and believe I made the first ever post about him way back before he was known, but what a horrible decision.
posted by dobbs at 5:35 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Years ago I wondered why the show hadn't been remade in the US and then I discovered it had been and that Alex played the assistant but it only lasted one season. Why? Well, inexplicably they cast Reggie Watts in the Taskmaster role. Absolutely bizarre decision. It'd be hard to think of a less intimidating presence than Watts, imo.
I love Watts and believe I made the first ever post about him way back before he was known, but what a horrible decision.
posted by dobbs at 5:35 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
For Taskmaster fandom commentary I look on Fanfare after finishing a series, but also, the top ~30 YouTube comments on each video are honestly fun and educational and happy.
And that's how I found out about Kongen Befaler (the Taskmaster Norway franchise), which is also a delight so far -- my household is partway through Season 1. In the US (but I think not the UK), Kongen Befaler is available to watch for free on YouTube. I learned of Kongen Befaler through a YouTube comment on a Taskmaster UK episode -- the commenter said, of some task requiring handiness in physical construction, that the Kongen Befaler contestants would have shone brilliantly. It's true! They're so good at building things!
posted by brainwane at 5:39 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
And that's how I found out about Kongen Befaler (the Taskmaster Norway franchise), which is also a delight so far -- my household is partway through Season 1. In the US (but I think not the UK), Kongen Befaler is available to watch for free on YouTube. I learned of Kongen Befaler through a YouTube comment on a Taskmaster UK episode -- the commenter said, of some task requiring handiness in physical construction, that the Kongen Befaler contestants would have shone brilliantly. It's true! They're so good at building things!
posted by brainwane at 5:39 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
I really think there's a culture problem with any American version of TM. (I haven't seen the one they did make.)
Basically you need funny people who don't mind demeaning themselves and are good unscripted. We have them, they just seem to be lower tiers of famous (i.e. the cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway). I do dream of a US version with Conan O'Brien as the Taskmaster and Andy Richter* as the assistant though.
"Game Changer" on Dropout comes close. If Dropout got a license to do Taskmaster with their rotating cast of young comedians I think it would be amazing.
* or Jordan Schlansky.
posted by mmoncur at 5:42 AM on January 15 [10 favorites]
Basically you need funny people who don't mind demeaning themselves and are good unscripted. We have them, they just seem to be lower tiers of famous (i.e. the cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway). I do dream of a US version with Conan O'Brien as the Taskmaster and Andy Richter* as the assistant though.
"Game Changer" on Dropout comes close. If Dropout got a license to do Taskmaster with their rotating cast of young comedians I think it would be amazing.
* or Jordan Schlansky.
posted by mmoncur at 5:42 AM on January 15 [10 favorites]
And Youtube says the CoC3 airs in North America in seven hours (4PM Eastern). I'm unable to watch then but perhaps someone could start a Fanfare and Mefites can liveblog it.
posted by dobbs at 5:46 AM on January 15
posted by dobbs at 5:46 AM on January 15
Looking forward to Nick Mohammed. I haven't heard of the rest but I'll probably love them by the end of the show.
posted by mmoncur at 5:47 AM on January 15
posted by mmoncur at 5:47 AM on January 15
I love Watts and believe I made the first ever post about him way back before he was known, but what a horrible decision.
I haven't watched it but people who have that I've talked to seem to think Watts is not the worst of the problems. They usually instead point to the compressed runtime as a big issue. For a show like Taskmaster, a lot of the appeal is in the banter, but that was first on the chopping block when halving the runtime.
posted by juv3nal at 5:48 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I haven't watched it but people who have that I've talked to seem to think Watts is not the worst of the problems. They usually instead point to the compressed runtime as a big issue. For a show like Taskmaster, a lot of the appeal is in the banter, but that was first on the chopping block when halving the runtime.
posted by juv3nal at 5:48 AM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Taskmaster in the US needs to be done by Dropout. I am just torn on Grant O'Brian as the Taskmaster or the Assistant.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 5:54 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 5:54 AM on January 15 [6 favorites]
Looking forward to it! This was my comfort show through my recovery post-shoulder surgery at the end of last year. Somewhere in there it inspired me to think about developing a Psychology of Fun and Games special topics course.
posted by bizzyb at 6:05 AM on January 15
posted by bizzyb at 6:05 AM on January 15
The official Taskmaster YouTube channel has also begun airing episodes of the New Zealand series, which I think rivals the UK Taskmaster for sheer delightfulness. Series 2 (which is currently being uploaded at a rate of one episode per week) has a particularly fabulous cast.
The teams are tasked to produce diss tracks about each other
Laura Daniel steals everyone's girlfriends
Grant O'Brien as Taskmaster's Assistant is now a thought that's going to be seared into my brain forever.
posted by Jeanne at 6:26 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
The teams are tasked to produce diss tracks about each other
Laura Daniel steals everyone's girlfriends
Grant O'Brien as Taskmaster's Assistant is now a thought that's going to be seared into my brain forever.
posted by Jeanne at 6:26 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
perhaps someone could start a Fanfare
I tried to start this thread as a Fanfare post originally, but neither the specials nor the announcement fit the series/episode labels required for TV stuff there. They're all one-offs which sit between the series rather than within any particular one.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:26 AM on January 15
I tried to start this thread as a Fanfare post originally, but neither the specials nor the announcement fit the series/episode labels required for TV stuff there. They're all one-offs which sit between the series rather than within any particular one.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:26 AM on January 15
Joanne McNally has just finished a sell-out week in Ireland at a 2,000+ capacity venue. Next month she starts her US tour in venues that hold a couple of hundred people. Get in on the ground floor, US mefites, before Taskmaster sends her stratospheric!
posted by robself at 6:43 AM on January 15
posted by robself at 6:43 AM on January 15
Perhaps this would make more sense if I were familiar with him, but in the thumbnail Nick Mohammed seems to be cosplaying the Penguin?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:44 AM on January 15
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:44 AM on January 15
Perhaps this would make more sense if I were familiar with him, but in the thumbnail Nick Mohammed seems to be cosplaying the Penguin?
He's often playing a character in his standup, which worries me a bit because I think Taskmaster works better when they're more or less themselves, but maybe it's just a costume and not a whole persona. I believe it's Dracula/a vampire though, not the penguin.
posted by juv3nal at 6:48 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
He's often playing a character in his standup, which worries me a bit because I think Taskmaster works better when they're more or less themselves, but maybe it's just a costume and not a whole persona. I believe it's Dracula/a vampire though, not the penguin.
posted by juv3nal at 6:48 AM on January 15 [3 favorites]
I respect people posting spoiler warnings but frankly if you're watching Taskmaster to see who wins, you're doing it wrong.
My kids row on the Thames at a boathouse that's a few hundred hundred metres from the Taskmaster House (though it's carefully secluded from public view), and just up the towpath from the bandstand/pavilion. I live in hope of running into a filming session.
posted by Hogshead at 7:26 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
My kids row on the Thames at a boathouse that's a few hundred hundred metres from the Taskmaster House (though it's carefully secluded from public view), and just up the towpath from the bandstand/pavilion. I live in hope of running into a filming session.
posted by Hogshead at 7:26 AM on January 15 [8 favorites]
We've been binging TM episodes for about a year now after a colleague introduced me to it, and it is truly the purest thing. Stand up is one of those things I like in theory, but is really hard to dial in to hit me just right. OTOH, stand up comedians tackling absurd tasks is funny almost every time.
posted by deludingmyself at 9:54 AM on January 15
posted by deludingmyself at 9:54 AM on January 15
If you're outside the UK, I'm sure you can find them somewhere online, but I don't know where.
The UK episodes air the following day on YouTube! Which also has the NZ series (which I am behind on) as mentioned above, plus Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’s first seasons at least.
posted by ellieBOA at 10:05 AM on January 15
The UK episodes air the following day on YouTube! Which also has the NZ series (which I am behind on) as mentioned above, plus Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’s first seasons at least.
posted by ellieBOA at 10:05 AM on January 15
Can't claim to have seen them all but for me so far:
Favorite male participant: Johnny Vegas.
Favorite female participant: Katherine Ryan.
(A bit more on the latter: I had seen some of her standup but I hadn't really mentally separated Katherine-the-Performer from Katherine-the-Person, and in TaskMaster she was funny but more to the point she was FEARLESS and SMART. Easily the smartest of any of the players that season. One of the canonical examples of cracking a problem differently: each player had to carry some awkward collection of stuff, like two yoga balls and something else, stuff that would blow around, to the top of a hill on a windy day. And they were too big and awkward to carry up at once. So all the other players mucked around with trying to do it piecewise and would predictably end up running back down after something they had just hauled up. Katherine on the other hand looked at the stuff for a second, looked around and saw two people walking by and said "Hello, can you help me carry these up to the top of the hill?" and they were done in one tenth the time. Bravo, says me.
I didn't watch the last season (yet anyway) because I really like Fern Brady's standup and was really afraid she'd be a train wreck in the format. This is dumb, and easy for me to verify or not, but here we are.
posted by hearthpig at 10:06 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
Favorite male participant: Johnny Vegas.
Favorite female participant: Katherine Ryan.
(A bit more on the latter: I had seen some of her standup but I hadn't really mentally separated Katherine-the-Performer from Katherine-the-Person, and in TaskMaster she was funny but more to the point she was FEARLESS and SMART. Easily the smartest of any of the players that season. One of the canonical examples of cracking a problem differently: each player had to carry some awkward collection of stuff, like two yoga balls and something else, stuff that would blow around, to the top of a hill on a windy day. And they were too big and awkward to carry up at once. So all the other players mucked around with trying to do it piecewise and would predictably end up running back down after something they had just hauled up. Katherine on the other hand looked at the stuff for a second, looked around and saw two people walking by and said "Hello, can you help me carry these up to the top of the hill?" and they were done in one tenth the time. Bravo, says me.
I didn't watch the last season (yet anyway) because I really like Fern Brady's standup and was really afraid she'd be a train wreck in the format. This is dumb, and easy for me to verify or not, but here we are.
posted by hearthpig at 10:06 AM on January 15 [2 favorites]
I really like Fern Brady's standup and was really afraid she'd be a train wreck in the format
Do not worry. She was great. But we've now had two seasons since hers, so you have a bit more catching up to do!
posted by synecdoche at 10:21 AM on January 15 [7 favorites]
Do not worry. She was great. But we've now had two seasons since hers, so you have a bit more catching up to do!
posted by synecdoche at 10:21 AM on January 15 [7 favorites]
I watch a ton of UK television and I just don't get the Mr Swallow type of British comedian.
It will always be like Cockney rhyming slang to me.
posted by art.bikes at 11:09 AM on January 15
It will always be like Cockney rhyming slang to me.
posted by art.bikes at 11:09 AM on January 15
I hadn't really mentally separated Katherine-the-Performer from Katherine-the-Person, and in TaskMaster she was funny but more to the point she was FEARLESS and SMART
An interesting thing about Taskmaster is that it takes people I otherwise wouldn't have time for, like Ryan or Joe Wilkinson, and makes me like and appreciate them a lot more. Which bodes well for Nick Mohammed, I suppose.
It's insane there hasn't been a Taskmaster Canada, though on the other hand, it would probably be botched terribly.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:22 AM on January 15
An interesting thing about Taskmaster is that it takes people I otherwise wouldn't have time for, like Ryan or Joe Wilkinson, and makes me like and appreciate them a lot more. Which bodes well for Nick Mohammed, I suppose.
It's insane there hasn't been a Taskmaster Canada, though on the other hand, it would probably be botched terribly.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:22 AM on January 15
all the other players mucked around with trying to do it piecewise
Except Richard Osman.
posted by zamboni at 12:35 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
Except Richard Osman.
posted by zamboni at 12:35 PM on January 15 [6 favorites]
It's insane there hasn't been a Taskmaster Canada, though on the other hand, it would probably be botched terribly.
Le Maître du Jeu does exist but I suspect that's not quite what you had in mind.
posted by Johnny Assay at 12:48 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Le Maître du Jeu does exist but I suspect that's not quite what you had in mind.
posted by Johnny Assay at 12:48 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
What are everyone's favourite series of the UK mothership so far? With the caveat that I'm only up to #13, I particularly enjoyed #4, #7, and #9, with #5 & #12 in a still-very-entertaining second tier.
posted by Johnny Assay at 12:59 PM on January 15
posted by Johnny Assay at 12:59 PM on January 15
My memory is that a few of the seasons during COVID lacked a certain energy (the season Richard Herring won was a bit flat), and the whole world regards seasons 6 & 8 as slightly disappointing. Otherwise there's not a season of TM that someone could watch as their first that I would ward people away from.
That said, season 7, thanks to James Acaster and Rhod Gilbert and Phil Wang and Jessica Knappet, is particularly remarkable.
posted by argybarg at 1:15 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
That said, season 7, thanks to James Acaster and Rhod Gilbert and Phil Wang and Jessica Knappet, is particularly remarkable.
posted by argybarg at 1:15 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
I'm super excited about Steve Pemberton! if you aren't familiar with his work, watch Inside No 9, it is just beyond fantastic
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:20 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:20 PM on January 15 [4 favorites]
There definitely needs to be an English Canadian Taskmaster.... And I'd say that Katherine Ryan would be the perfect Taskmaster!
posted by cirhosis at 1:44 PM on January 15 [2 favorites]
posted by cirhosis at 1:44 PM on January 15 [2 favorites]
What are everyone's favourite series of the UK mothership so far?
It's definitely 7 for me. I love James Acaster to start with, but the others were incredible, too. But the last few seasons have all been very strong, in spite of featuring a lot of people I'd never heard of.
The only seasons with casts I haven't really enjoyed were 8 and 10 (though I liked Mawaan Rizwan and Johnny Vegas—mostly I didn't enjoy Daisy May Cooper and found Richard Herring boring).
posted by synecdoche at 1:59 PM on January 15
It's definitely 7 for me. I love James Acaster to start with, but the others were incredible, too. But the last few seasons have all been very strong, in spite of featuring a lot of people I'd never heard of.
The only seasons with casts I haven't really enjoyed were 8 and 10 (though I liked Mawaan Rizwan and Johnny Vegas—mostly I didn't enjoy Daisy May Cooper and found Richard Herring boring).
posted by synecdoche at 1:59 PM on January 15
I already loved Susan Wokoma for her work in Chewing Gum and Crazyhead, but the way she handled the mischief task in Series 16!
posted by smirkette at 4:06 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
posted by smirkette at 4:06 PM on January 15 [3 favorites]
mostly I didn't enjoy Daisy May Cooper
That was one of the early pandemic series I think, and it seemed through the whole thing they were figuring out how to manage having to be the necessary vulnerable and weirdly intimate flavour of TM while being so far apart all the time. And it seemed to me that Daisy May Cooper's style worked least-well in that (and she was quite pregnant which can't have made any of it any easier!).
BUT, I've just finished watching her in Rain Dogs and she is very very good! The whole series is great, but she is so smart. It'd be great if she got another shot at TM. Her wit is caustic. She should be perfect for it!
posted by kneecapped at 5:25 PM on January 15
That was one of the early pandemic series I think, and it seemed through the whole thing they were figuring out how to manage having to be the necessary vulnerable and weirdly intimate flavour of TM while being so far apart all the time. And it seemed to me that Daisy May Cooper's style worked least-well in that (and she was quite pregnant which can't have made any of it any easier!).
BUT, I've just finished watching her in Rain Dogs and she is very very good! The whole series is great, but she is so smart. It'd be great if she got another shot at TM. Her wit is caustic. She should be perfect for it!
posted by kneecapped at 5:25 PM on January 15
Oh bless, I love taskmaster.
I think having a vampire on the cast is a move in the right direction. Hopefully in a few seasons, the cast will be all / majority vampires.
My only gripe with the show is that they've given up on the conceit that the tasks are things the taskmaster sets for the contestents. The opening vid is of Greg furiously pounding out ridiculous tasks on a typewriter. But Greg the human (not vampire, sadly) is too neurotic to keep up the appearance after so many seasons. Clearly, Alex Horn (actual vampire) is the taskmaster and has hired a large buffoon to give him a shield to hide behind as he torments the contestents.
posted by rebent at 5:34 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
I think having a vampire on the cast is a move in the right direction. Hopefully in a few seasons, the cast will be all / majority vampires.
My only gripe with the show is that they've given up on the conceit that the tasks are things the taskmaster sets for the contestents. The opening vid is of Greg furiously pounding out ridiculous tasks on a typewriter. But Greg the human (not vampire, sadly) is too neurotic to keep up the appearance after so many seasons. Clearly, Alex Horn (actual vampire) is the taskmaster and has hired a large buffoon to give him a shield to hide behind as he torments the contestents.
posted by rebent at 5:34 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Just firing up the new CofC and I’m bummed there’s no Mae (not that I don’t enjoy Kiell.)
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:34 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:34 PM on January 15 [1 favorite]
Oh wow, I particularly loved Daisy May Cooper in Taskmaster because she was So Done With That in a very funny way. I am half-dreading Nick Mohammad because his schtick on 8 out of 10 cats irritates me, but as pointed out - Taskmaster shows an entirely new side of people.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 11:53 PM on January 15 [5 favorites]
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 11:53 PM on January 15 [5 favorites]
Favorite female participant: Katherine Ryan.
hearthpig: You're going to love Mae Martin, who showed the same calm competence you liked in Ryan's approach - but to an even greater degree. Time after time, we saw Martin thinking the task through for a moment, and then simply doing what was required to complete it with the minimum fuss. It was genuinely impressive.
A full line-up of contestants like that would make for very dull television, but having one in the mix to set against all the hair-on-fire people works well.
posted by Paul Slade at 4:52 AM on January 16 [2 favorites]
hearthpig: You're going to love Mae Martin, who showed the same calm competence you liked in Ryan's approach - but to an even greater degree. Time after time, we saw Martin thinking the task through for a moment, and then simply doing what was required to complete it with the minimum fuss. It was genuinely impressive.
A full line-up of contestants like that would make for very dull television, but having one in the mix to set against all the hair-on-fire people works well.
posted by Paul Slade at 4:52 AM on January 16 [2 favorites]
If you like Fern Brady her memoir Strong Female Character is really good.
posted by Morpeth at 5:51 AM on January 16 [5 favorites]
posted by Morpeth at 5:51 AM on January 16 [5 favorites]
What are everyone's favourite series of the UK mothership so far?
Series 4 is pretty good, but I remember being disappointed at how argumentative Noel Fielding was? I can't remember if it was just one episode or the whole series. I haven't rewatched it.
Series 5 is probably my favorite, even though Mark Watson is mostly a drip it makes for one amazing scene later in the series. Bob Mortimer is as surreal as usual.
I've rewatched 7 a few times now because I love James Acaster, but I don't think I can rewatch again due to Greg's favoritism WRT Rhod, and Greg's super crappy behavior toward Phil. Quite honestly I'm glad Greg's habit of relentlessly picking on someone for a full series seems to have let up.
I love Rose Matafeo, and normally am in favor of Jo Brand, but Jo was Not Fun in Series 9. Also David Baddiel is an utterly loathsome ass generally, and my views of him were only strengthened.
I don't love Lee Mack in WILTY- he's funny but I wouldn't want to hang out with that guy. I liked him a lot better in TM Series 11.
I really enjoyed 15 and 16.
I agree that NZ Taskmaster is pretty fun, because their Alex Horne is so good (Paul Williams). I'm less convinced by Jeremy Wells- he's simply not mean enough.
posted by oneirodynia at 7:19 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
Series 4 is pretty good, but I remember being disappointed at how argumentative Noel Fielding was? I can't remember if it was just one episode or the whole series. I haven't rewatched it.
Series 5 is probably my favorite, even though Mark Watson is mostly a drip it makes for one amazing scene later in the series. Bob Mortimer is as surreal as usual.
I've rewatched 7 a few times now because I love James Acaster, but I don't think I can rewatch again due to Greg's favoritism WRT Rhod, and Greg's super crappy behavior toward Phil. Quite honestly I'm glad Greg's habit of relentlessly picking on someone for a full series seems to have let up.
I love Rose Matafeo, and normally am in favor of Jo Brand, but Jo was Not Fun in Series 9. Also David Baddiel is an utterly loathsome ass generally, and my views of him were only strengthened.
I don't love Lee Mack in WILTY- he's funny but I wouldn't want to hang out with that guy. I liked him a lot better in TM Series 11.
I really enjoyed 15 and 16.
I agree that NZ Taskmaster is pretty fun, because their Alex Horne is so good (Paul Williams). I'm less convinced by Jeremy Wells- he's simply not mean enough.
posted by oneirodynia at 7:19 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
The thing about Jeremy is that he has a different history here in NZ - he appears on a nightly soft TV News show but is also known for almost surreal TV comedy so we see him in that light - I think the Jeremy/Paul dynamic is different from the Greg/Alex one, it's its own thing
BTW that episode when Paul makes his brother sit the NCSE Math exam - think O levels or SAT
posted by mbo at 10:02 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
BTW that episode when Paul makes his brother sit the NCSE Math exam - think O levels or SAT
posted by mbo at 10:02 PM on January 16 [1 favorite]
I like Jeremy and Paul, they have a whole different thing. Jeremy is a less mean Taskmaster, more of a surreal game show host than a psychotic schoolteacher. Paul has his own quirky personality without seeming like a copy of Alex. And Jeremy mostly jokes about Paul being his faithful lapdog rather than truly insulting him -- Greg can get away with that because everyone knows Alex created the show and writes mosts of the insults, but Jeremy would just seem crazy if he acted like that.
I like the hosts of the Australian version and Kongen Befaler too, each one has their own unique dynamic.
posted by mmoncur at 5:22 AM on January 18
I like the hosts of the Australian version and Kongen Befaler too, each one has their own unique dynamic.
posted by mmoncur at 5:22 AM on January 18
I don't love Lee Mack in WILTY
yea, he kind of ruins that show for me. He's got a real tendency to interrupt women that is super irritating.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:24 PM on January 18 [2 favorites]
yea, he kind of ruins that show for me. He's got a real tendency to interrupt women that is super irritating.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:24 PM on January 18 [2 favorites]
For those who liked TaskMaster NZ Season 2 here is a Covid-era Zoom-based game reuniting all five contestants:
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
posted by mmoncur at 3:38 AM on February 5
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
posted by mmoncur at 3:38 AM on February 5
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