Yeah, I honestly can't tell if Jeremy Wells is enjoying himself or despises the job. I enjoy a dry sense of humor, but he goes so much further than that; He's just totally blank faced and...
Yeah, I honestly can't tell if Jeremy Wells is enjoying himself or despises the job. I enjoy a dry sense of humor, but he goes so much further than that; He's just totally blank faced and ridiculously monotone most of the time, and I can probably count on my fingers the amount of times I've seen him even crack a smile in the 5 seasons I've watched so far. Like Ben Hurley said near the end of S5, "would we even be able to tell if he was [replaced by a cyborg]?" and I don't think we actually would be able to because of how robotic he already acts.
I can't remember which episode but in S6 there's a live task where the contestants have to emote and Jeremy has to guess which emotions are on display. He's terrible at it and it's not very fun to...
I can't remember which episode but in S6 there's a live task where the contestants have to emote and Jeremy has to guess which emotions are on display. He's terrible at it and it's not very fun to watch, and at the end one of the contestants says something to the effect of "it's not surprising Jeremy can't recognize emotion", and I remember thinking he didn't look particularly amused by it.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 2 - 'Cows are made of milk.' | Full Episode Note: I somehow missed the premiere episode when it was released last week, and only noticed now that they've released...
Really good episode. The Heist task is a lot of fun, and heightened a little by recent news The Technicolor Dribble task provides that "you don't see this on TV anywhere else" variety The Bop Alex...
Really good episode.
The Heist task is a lot of fun, and heightened a little by recent news
The Technicolor Dribble task provides that "you don't see this on TV anywhere else" variety
The Bop Alex task is another wacky point system one. I'd say the 'name a unique food' aspect somewhat detracted from it, though I get the purpose of it.
The final task is free-for-all and sport-adjacent, which I think suit the live environment best. Greg's - errr, acting? - was also great
The thing that has bothered me the most about this series is Reece and Maisie being too competitive - to the point of cringe, at times. I didn't notice any of that in this episode.
LOL yeah the timing on the heist task couldn't have been better! :P It's interesting how differently people can feel about the contestants. Maisie is my favorite precisely because of how...
LOL yeah the timing on the heist task couldn't have been better! :P
The thing that has bothered me the most about this series is Reece and Maisie being too competitive
It's interesting how differently people can feel about the contestants. Maisie is my favorite precisely because of how competitive she has been... and how flustered she gets whenever she does poorly as a result of that. I find it to be incredibly endearing. And Reece is up there for me too because of how prim and proper he still acts despite having to do such absurd things for the show.
Based on Alex's comments the last couple of episodes we knew the final would be close Click to expand spoiler. But oh my days I never expected it to be a three way tie to decide it. Using an in...
Based on Alex's comments the last couple of episodes we knew the final would be close
Click to expand spoiler.
But oh my days I never expected it to be a three way tie to decide it.
Using an in studio tiebreaker task vs the pre recorded ones at the house to decide it at that.
Click to expand spoiler. There was a prerecorded tiebreak in Episode 4, so they definitely still record them. I suspect they just didn't want to end the entire Series on a prerecorded tiebreak...
Click to expand spoiler.
There was a prerecorded tiebreak in Episode 4, so they definitely still record them. I suspect they just didn't want to end the entire Series on a prerecorded tiebreak video so went with their in-studio idea for one instead.
Stan Maisie. Also Spoiler The twin task was the best task concept I’ve seen in a while. I absolutely loved it! My husband cracked the code before I did though. I was thinking it was going to be...
Stan Maisie.
Also
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The twin task was the best task concept I’ve seen in a while. I absolutely loved it! My husband cracked the code before I did though. I was thinking it was going to be something like the person always tells the truth to one and always lies to the other (like that standard riddle setup) or something similar.
I also liked that the teams being 2 and 3 people changed up how each experienced it. Each person in the team of 2 was seeing the same twin each time, while each person in the team of 3 was alternating twins each time.
Spoiler Yeah, that twin task was brilliant, and the editing for it was absolutely perfect too. Like you, I also originally thought it might be the person telling the truth to one contestant, lying...
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Yeah, that twin task was brilliant, and the editing for it was absolutely perfect too. Like you, I also originally thought it might be the person telling the truth to one contestant, lying to the other, or something along that line. I didn't understand what was really going on until Maisie figured it out though, so I was way behind, and might never have figured it, TBH. The "clues" wouldn't have done me any good either since I had no idea who the Thompson twins were until I looked them up after watching the task, and the snooker cue would have totally thrown me off too. And speaking of which, hilariously enough, Ania mentioned in an Instagram story that it had the same effect on her team, but they found out afterwards it was an accident it was in the room, and it wasn't actually a clue at all. :P
And wanted you to know that I do appreciate this even though I'm behind and therefore just haven't been commenting on. And then when I catch up I forget to come back and comment. But I did want...
And wanted you to know that I do appreciate this even though I'm behind and therefore just haven't been commenting on. And then when I catch up I forget to come back and comment. But I did want you to know that I do really appreciate the reminder of these being posted here. Thank you!
I've only been watching since last season, but Alex appears to be enjoying himself and laughing a lot more this season (or perhaps it's just edited differently); I much prefer it to his more stoic...
I've only been watching since last season, but Alex appears to be enjoying himself and laughing a lot more this season (or perhaps it's just edited differently); I much prefer it to his more stoic persona from S19.
Taskmaster season 21 - Coming soon | Line-up reveal I'm honestly just as excited to see Kumail Nanjiani on Taskmaster as I was for Jason Mantzoukas in S19.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 6 - 'Is that number got curves?' | Full Episode Doesn't actually premiere for another 20min, but I'm posting it now so I don't forget.
for someone getting into taskmaster, where should i start if i only was the primo stuff before the next season comes out? i’m halfway through season five right now.
for someone getting into taskmaster, where should i start if i only was the primo stuff before the next season comes out? i’m halfway through season five right now.
Series 7 would be my top recommendation. The cast that season (James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang, and Rhod Gilbert) were absolutely incredible, and a disproportionate...
Series 7 would be my top recommendation. The cast that season (James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang, and Rhod Gilbert) were absolutely incredible, and a disproportionate amount of my all-time favorite Taskmaster moments are from that season.
This also might just be recency bias, but IMO Series 19 (Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin) was also insanely good. And this latest one, Series 20, was also better than average as well. I really liked all the cast members this season, even Sanjeev Bhaskar despite him clearly NGAF about the show. :P
Edit: Quickly looking back through the cast list, Series 1-4 were great as well, so if you didn't watch those before moving on to Series 5, I would recommend doing so. But Series 10, Series 11, and Series 16 were also standouts in my mind too.
Rhod is one of my favorite comedians (and panel show guests) too! Every one of his appearances on WILTY were comedy gold. And you're in for a treat if you haven't seen his Taskmaster appearance...
Rhod is one of my favorite comedians (and panel show guests) too! Every one of his appearances on WILTY were comedy gold. And you're in for a treat if you haven't seen his Taskmaster appearance yet. He does not disappoint.
James Acaster, another of my fav stand-ups, doesn't disappoint either. And them together on the same Series is utter madness (in the best way possible). :P
so good. I started with five because of Bob Mortimer and Aisling Bea. its a good group. I watch the normal Countdown every day because I'm rationing Cats Does.... The creative output of the UK is...
so good. I started with five because of Bob Mortimer and Aisling Bea. its a good group. I watch the normal Countdown every day because I'm rationing Cats Does....
The creative output of the UK is astounding when compared per capita to Canada. Probably because we have the US so close and anyone with any talent heads down.
Yeah, the UK definitely punches well above its weight in the comedy sphere, for sure... but I suspect Panel Shows are remarkably cheap/easy/quick to produce, so the quantity of shows they output...
Yeah, the UK definitely punches well above its weight in the comedy sphere, for sure... but I suspect Panel Shows are remarkably cheap/easy/quick to produce, so the quantity of shows they output is also a bit of an illusion.
But for more "traditional" comedy shows (sitcoms, sketch, stand-up, etc) Canada does a pretty decent job ourselves. Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Baroness Von Sketch, Red Green Show, Tom Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, Kevin Spencer, Kenny vs. Spenny, Puppets Who Kill, Due South, Republic of Doyle, Corner Gas, Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience, North of North, Son of a Critch, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Letterkenny/Shoresy, Just for Laughs, Comedy at Club 54, Comedy Now! and all the other Comedy Network/Channel stand-up specials, a number of which actually launched some pretty big international careers (E.g. Russel Peters' first special). The list goes on.
LOL, yeah and it's wasn't just a lucky guess either since he's done similar (100% accurately guessing where Alex's jokes are leading) loads of times in other seasons too. :P
LOL, yeah and it's wasn't just a lucky guess either since he's done similar (100% accurately guessing where Alex's jokes are leading) loads of times in other seasons too. :P
Greg seems to actually enjoy himself as the Taskmaster, it's a refreshing change from watching a lot of NZ lately.
Yeah, I honestly can't tell if Jeremy Wells is enjoying himself or despises the job. I enjoy a dry sense of humor, but he goes so much further than that; He's just totally blank faced and ridiculously monotone most of the time, and I can probably count on my fingers the amount of times I've seen him even crack a smile in the 5 seasons I've watched so far. Like Ben Hurley said near the end of S5, "would we even be able to tell if he was [replaced by a cyborg]?" and I don't think we actually would be able to because of how robotic he already acts.
I can't remember which episode but in S6 there's a live task where the contestants have to emote and Jeremy has to guess which emotions are on display. He's terrible at it and it's not very fun to watch, and at the end one of the contestants says something to the effect of "it's not surprising Jeremy can't recognize emotion", and I remember thinking he didn't look particularly amused by it.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 2 - 'Cows are made of milk.' | Full Episode
Note: I somehow missed the premiere episode when it was released last week, and only noticed now that they've released this second episode. Whoops.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 7 - 'Drier than you think, chalk.' | Full Episode
Really good episode.
The thing that has bothered me the most about this series is Reece and Maisie being too competitive - to the point of cringe, at times. I didn't notice any of that in this episode.
LOL yeah the timing on the heist task couldn't have been better! :P
It's interesting how differently people can feel about the contestants. Maisie is my favorite precisely because of how competitive she has been... and how flustered she gets whenever she does poorly as a result of that. I find it to be incredibly endearing. And Reece is up there for me too because of how prim and proper he still acts despite having to do such absurd things for the show.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 10 - 'Supping from the fountain.' | Full Episode
Based on Alex's comments the last couple of episodes we knew the final would be close
Click to expand spoiler.
But oh my days I never expected it to be a three way tie to decide it. Using an in studio tiebreaker task vs the pre recorded ones at the house to decide it at that.Click to view the hidden text
Maybe they don't record those anymore?
Click to expand spoiler.
There was a prerecorded tiebreak in Episode 4, so they definitely still record them. I suspect they just didn't want to end the entire Series on a prerecorded tiebreak video so went with their in-studio idea for one instead.
Replied directly via the inbox, so I didn't see that cfabbro had already responded in more detail.
Another fun/interesting video from Taskmaster:
2,000,000 Subscriber Treat: Taskmaster Set Tour
Video of all the ad break transitions from S20 that were cut from YouTube:
The Lost Links - Season 20 | Taskmaster
'Thompson.' - Season 20, Episode 3 | Taskmaster | Full Episode
Stan Maisie.
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The twin task was the best task concept I’ve seen in a while. I absolutely loved it! My husband cracked the code before I did though. I was thinking it was going to be something like the person always tells the truth to one and always lies to the other (like that standard riddle setup) or something similar.
I also liked that the teams being 2 and 3 people changed up how each experienced it. Each person in the team of 2 was seeing the same twin each time, while each person in the team of 3 was alternating twins each time.
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Yeah, that twin task was brilliant, and the editing for it was absolutely perfect too. Like you, I also originally thought it might be the person telling the truth to one contestant, lying to the other, or something along that line. I didn't understand what was really going on until Maisie figured it out though, so I was way behind, and might never have figured it, TBH. The "clues" wouldn't have done me any good either since I had no idea who the Thompson twins were until I looked them up after watching the task, and the snooker cue would have totally thrown me off too. And speaking of which, hilariously enough, Ania mentioned in an Instagram story that it had the same effect on her team, but they found out afterwards it was an accident it was in the room, and it wasn't actually a clue at all. :P
Maisie's reaction during the prize task wonderful.
Her husband's reaction was great too. :P
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 8 - 'Am I an idiom?' | Full Episode
And wanted you to know that I do appreciate this even though I'm behind and therefore just haven't been commenting on. And then when I catch up I forget to come back and comment. But I did want you to know that I do really appreciate the reminder of these being posted here. Thank you!
YVW. :)
I've only been watching since last season, but Alex appears to be enjoying himself and laughing a lot more this season (or perhaps it's just edited differently); I much prefer it to his more stoic persona from S19.
Taskmaster season 21 - Coming soon | Line-up reveal
I'm honestly just as excited to see Kumail Nanjiani on Taskmaster as I was for Jason Mantzoukas in S19.
Related interview clip from Vulture:
Kumail nanjiani explains how he got on taskmaster | Good one podcast clip
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 4 - 'Hey mate.' | Full Episode
"There's a creature on me!" Had me dying lmao
"Pffftt... There's a creature on me!"
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 5 - 'Bats, bats, hang up.' | Full Episode
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 6 - 'Is that number got curves?' | Full Episode
Doesn't actually premiere for another 20min, but I'm posting it now so I don't forget.
Taskmaster Season 20, Episode 9 - 'A 1970s camping kettle.' | Full Episode
For me it was the mannequin task. I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard during it. But the final task of the show was pretty hilarious too.
for someone getting into taskmaster, where should i start if i only was the primo stuff before the next season comes out? i’m halfway through season five right now.
Series 7 would be my top recommendation. The cast that season (James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang, and Rhod Gilbert) were absolutely incredible, and a disproportionate amount of my all-time favorite Taskmaster moments are from that season.
This also might just be recency bias, but IMO Series 19 (Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin) was also insanely good. And this latest one, Series 20, was also better than average as well. I really liked all the cast members this season, even Sanjeev Bhaskar despite him clearly NGAF about the show. :P
Edit: Quickly looking back through the cast list, Series 1-4 were great as well, so if you didn't watch those before moving on to Series 5, I would recommend doing so. But Series 10, Series 11, and Series 16 were also standouts in my mind too.
wicked — thanks! Rhod is probably my favorite all around dude. i can’t believe it took me this long to watch it.
thanks again!
Rhod is one of my favorite comedians (and panel show guests) too! Every one of his appearances on WILTY were comedy gold. And you're in for a treat if you haven't seen his Taskmaster appearance yet. He does not disappoint.
James Acaster, another of my fav stand-ups, doesn't disappoint either. And them together on the same Series is utter madness (in the best way possible). :P
so many good panel shows with pretty much the same people. So good. I think about Acaster and his cabbage quite a bit.
Oi oi savoy! ;)
Similarly, I think about Rhod trading his car for some tapas quite a bit too. :P
so good. I started with five because of Bob Mortimer and Aisling Bea. its a good group. I watch the normal Countdown every day because I'm rationing Cats Does....
The creative output of the UK is astounding when compared per capita to Canada. Probably because we have the US so close and anyone with any talent heads down.
Yeah, the UK definitely punches well above its weight in the comedy sphere, for sure... but I suspect Panel Shows are remarkably cheap/easy/quick to produce, so the quantity of shows they output is also a bit of an illusion.
But for more "traditional" comedy shows (sitcoms, sketch, stand-up, etc) Canada does a pretty decent job ourselves. Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Baroness Von Sketch, Red Green Show, Tom Green Show, Trailer Park Boys, Kevin Spencer, Kenny vs. Spenny, Puppets Who Kill, Due South, Republic of Doyle, Corner Gas, Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience, North of North, Son of a Critch, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Letterkenny/Shoresy, Just for Laughs, Comedy at Club 54, Comedy Now! and all the other Comedy Network/Channel stand-up specials, a number of which actually launched some pretty big international careers (E.g. Russel Peters' first special). The list goes on.
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 1 | Taskmaster
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 2 | Taskmaster
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 3 | Taskmaster
The absolute soul read Greg has on Alex!
LOL, yeah and it's wasn't just a lucky guess either since he's done similar (100% accurately guessing where Alex's jokes are leading) loads of times in other seasons too. :P