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Joanne would probably be a laugh to hang out with, but hardly a comic genius.

chap, Saturday, 6 April 2024 09:43 (eight months ago) link

> They sit in alphabetical order of first names, always have.

mind blown.

i kinda wish they'd have some of the Dave-era people back onto the bigger budget show

koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2024 10:15 (eight months ago) link

5, 7 and 9 are the best series imo. Don't think 8 was that bad either.

Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 6 April 2024 11:32 (eight months ago) link

I’ve seen Sam Campbell live and his energy is off the charts nuts

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 April 2024 01:50 (seven months ago) link

This is amazing
https://bsky.app/profile/blueno.se/post/3kqgtq5hlir2f

Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 09:08 (seven months ago) link

I watched this last night and noticed we were getting a lot of low angled shots showing the puddles but didn't twig that they'd edited out Nick Mohammed's reflection. I wonder if there's much more of that kind of thing they've included that hasn't been picked up on yet? (I know about them having the contestants sit in alphabetical order each series)

soref, Friday, 19 April 2024 09:35 (seven months ago) link

Ooh, I didn't notice about the puddle reflections, that's a nice trick. I'm sure there are loads of wee Easter eggs in the linking shots. It took me about three series to work out that Alex was holding up the number of fingers of the episode part in the inserts cutting to and from ads.

ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2024 10:44 (seven months ago) link

It was also kind of mindblowing for reasons I couldn't quite fathom that the age-split of teams has Nick on the old person team. So I looked them all up and it's because there's ten years between the four younger ones then another ten years up to Steve.

Sophie youngest by four years, Jon and Joanne about the same age, then Nick about five years older than them but still ten years younger than Steve.

ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2024 10:49 (seven months ago) link

do they always split the teams by age? I always assumed it was mostly about scheduling and who was available to film stuff at the same time.

soref, Friday, 19 April 2024 10:54 (seven months ago) link

I don't think it's always by age but they like to have the teams contrast imo, age is one way to do that.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 April 2024 10:57 (seven months ago) link

It seems quite age-based most of the time (basing entirely on Brand and Baddiel here, tbf) I haven't really looked it up.

ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2024 11:05 (seven months ago) link

Alan Davies and VCM an obvious age-split one as well

ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2024 11:06 (seven months ago) link

Season 7 for example it was gender based, Jessica Knappett is the same age as Acaster and Phil Wang but got paired with Kerry Godliman.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 April 2024 11:07 (seven months ago) link

The pairings aren't always age-based: Frankie Boyle and Ivo Graham developed a weird father-son relationship in the Series 15 group tasks, for example.

Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Friday, 19 April 2024 11:55 (seven months ago) link

I would have guessed Sophie was second oldest by a few years. She's had a hard paper round and is being played in the 'slightly crazy/menopausal woman' personality slot on the panel.

Overtoun House windows (aldo), Friday, 19 April 2024 12:26 (seven months ago) link

I was surprised as well but yeah she was born in '87!

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:28 (seven months ago) link

I honestly don't know how old I thought Sophie was, but I'd absolutely have gone "older than Joanne" every day of the week.

ailsa, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:51 (seven months ago) link

aw I thought *every* reflection of nick had been removed but it's only the ones in that task.

ledge, Friday, 19 April 2024 20:23 (seven months ago) link

Yeah I would've swapped Sophie and Joanne's real ages! (36 & 40 respectively)

chap, Saturday, 20 April 2024 12:26 (seven months ago) link

Sophie has definite eccentric aunt vibes

chap, Saturday, 20 April 2024 12:27 (seven months ago) link

I've been trying to work out who Nick Mohammed reminds me of and just realised it's Bobby G (the one from Bucks Fizz)

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 10:34 (seven months ago) link

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29186

koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:15 (seven months ago) link

^ the pembleton crossword

koogs, Saturday, 4 May 2024 17:16 (seven months ago) link

Watched the episode last night. Picking away at the crossword, I've got about half done.

ledge, Monday, 13 May 2024 13:49 (six months ago) link

aside from a kind of boring cast, this season also seems to have more team tasks and more tasks that are about creativity (like make a portrait of this person using the contents of the hamper), which are usually less fun imo

na (NA), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:14 (six months ago) link

they were more fun, dare i say it, when it was lucy and sam doing it...

koogs, Monday, 13 May 2024 14:53 (six months ago) link

(or bob or sally...)

koogs, Monday, 13 May 2024 14:53 (six months ago) link

i just prefer when the contestants are stressed out and tortured, not making fun drawings or videos or whatever

na (NA), Monday, 13 May 2024 14:56 (six months ago) link

i agree this series is lacking something, there's no great spark between any of the contestants in the studio. anyway i finished the xword, had to reveal three or four but all solid clues imo, great job.

ledge, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:05 (six months ago) link

steve and nick are the first people i've seen posting about their experiences on twitterx, which is nice. but maybe that's just an algorithm thing.

koogs, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:21 (six months ago) link

I like the creative tasks. I agree that this series has generally been less laugh-out-loud funny than some, but I've still found it enjoyable in a more low key, gently amusing way. Maybe it's because there are fewer stand up comics than usual? (or at least fewer comedians who do wisecracking, riffing stuff rather than more character stuff?)

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 13 May 2024 19:36 (six months ago) link

I find all the contestants likeable enough now (Nick is just hardcore adorable), but yeah not the funniest bunch.

Some of Greg's recent postmortems have been suffocatingly hilarious, on the other hand.

chap, Monday, 13 May 2024 19:48 (six months ago) link

the channel 4 streaming service had some episodes of the Swedish version of Taskmaster available a while ago, and the Swedish one felt a bit like this, mostly not uproariously funny but the participants were all likeable and it was fun to watch, sometimes you don't want to see people straining to be funny or wring every last drop of comic possibility out of every riff.

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 13 May 2024 19:58 (six months ago) link

I absolutely can't go Joanne McNally but the rest of them are very amiable and amusing without being annoying, and I also wish they had better tasks.

ailsa, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:12 (six months ago) link

Agree on both counts.

trishyb, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:06 (six months ago) link

Aw she's a bit grating but basically quite sweet.

chap, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 07:07 (six months ago) link

two weeks pass...

ATTENTION, PUNKS:

lady parts actually good. and quite a scoop with the cameo.

was distracted by work through the taskmaster final and the announcement of next series contestants. andy, babatundi, emma, jack, rosy. couple of names i can't quite place.

koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 12:06 (six months ago) link

Emma plays Rose Matafeo's flatmate in Starstruck. Babatunde seems mostly stand-up though he did do I'm a Celebrity recently and thus does things like Celebrity Gogglebox etc now as well. I assume you're familiar with the other three.

ailsa, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:10 (six months ago) link

banatunde's name is familiar certainly. QI? Hignfy? but i tend to avoid things with Celebrity in the title which don't involve them making things.

i have watched all 3 series of Starstruck but still can't visualise a flatmate. i hope she's even half as good as RM, one of my favourite taskers.

speaking of which, what happened to junior TM she was going to present?

koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:25 (six months ago) link

According to this official-looking page, the tasks were filmed in late 2023, but the page hasn't been updated in months. Does seem a bit odd.

trishyb, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:29 (six months ago) link

(I didn't mean official-looking, but believable-looking, really.)

trishyb, Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:29 (six months ago) link

House of Games? xxpost to koogs

ailsa, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:52 (six months ago) link

i checked imdb and there's a bunch of things under 'self' like Last Leg and 8/10 cats and as yet untitled

koogs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 20:49 (six months ago) link

We went to a filming of Junior Taskmaster late last year (it was fun) - the one we saw was a round/ heat, and the winners of each of those were going on to film more tasks and then there would be more studio business. Haven’t noticed the next round of studio sessions yet.

Tim, Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:10 (six months ago) link

Taskmasterclass (task-masterclass or taskmaster-class?)

i had forgotten some of the earlier contestants completely

koogs, Friday, 7 June 2024 15:09 (six months ago) link

the studio audience was a LOT closer when they were on Dave

koogs, Friday, 7 June 2024 15:17 (six months ago) link

that taskmaster thing was a one-off, given there's something else in the slot next week.

lady parts contained quite the euphemism this week - kfc bargain bucket for one...

koogs, Sunday, 9 June 2024 19:46 (six months ago) link

two months pass...

i've been slowly rewatching taskmaster from the beginning and am on s6 now ... this is generally not one of my favorite series as the contestants are all kind of boring but tim vine in particular is probably the contestant i find the most annoying. i googled him and of course he's been in the running for that horrible "best joke at edinburgh fringe" contest multiple times. that group task where liza tarbuck finds the answer in the first minute and then tim vine and asim chaudhry ignore her and waste time for ten minutes until she finally just does the task herself, yuck.

na (NA), Thursday, 5 September 2024 17:14 (three months ago) link

Yes season six is probably the weakest (not counting those early ones where the format's not established).

New season starts next Thursday!

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 September 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link

Tim Vine has a recurring role in Lee Macks's sitcom Not Going Out, which imo is as close as UK comedy gets to its own According To Jim.

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 September 2024 19:56 (three months ago) link


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