Damiwho? Never heard of him.
Television Taskmaster | Series 18 starts tonight
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Damiwho? Never heard of him.
I mainly did it for you in case you hadn't watched.
Thanks for all the replies. On reflection you're all right.
I really enjoyed the two one-off episodes. Especially the champion of champions one.
Looking forward to the new series. It seems a decent enough line up. Thinking of all the comedians around, almost all my favourites have already been on the show by now. I'd say just a couple from WILTY (David Mitchell, Rob Brydon), and the wonderful one-liner Milton Jones, are the main ones I'd be delighted to see. But I'm not necessarily expecting any of those to appear.
I recognise all the latest group from various panel shows, and it seems a promising enough line up.
Looking forward to the new series. It seems a decent enough line up. Thinking of all the comedians around, almost all my favourites have already been on the show by now. I'd say just a couple from WILTY (David Mitchell, Rob Brydon), and the wonderful one-liner Milton Jones, are the main ones I'd be delighted to see. But I'm not necessarily expecting any of those to appear.
I recognise all the latest group from various panel shows, and it seems a promising enough line up.
John Robins is a wonderful standup and his radio show is great too. As well as his podcasts. Think he’ll be one of those who point out how silly it all is, rather than just accept it and be very silly and playful. Very funny fella though.
The only exposure I've had to John Robins is as Alex Horne's golf buddy and as far as I'm concerned he comes across as a narcissistic knobhead.
New series starts on Thursday
Looks like another sub standard series. Two contestants trying too hard and one going for the crown of most annoying ever.
I quite enjoyed the first episode.
I don't generally find any of the Bolton comedians funny, but I know the other four well enough from other shows and they seemed OK on here.
There's no one on there I find hilarious, but there's enough that I'm hoping / expecting it to be a pretty decent series.
I don't generally find any of the Bolton comedians funny, but I know the other four well enough from other shows and they seemed OK on here.
There's no one on there I find hilarious, but there's enough that I'm hoping / expecting it to be a pretty decent series.
I thought it was a decent start big fan of Nick who looks like he is going to be excellent in it. Slight worry on Joanne who can be annoying but the rest look very good
Yeah, Nick Mohammed in his Dracula gear was definitely the highlight. I thought Steve Pemberton was a bit cringy in his desire to do well. Like Dara O'Brien on steroids. And Joanne thingy is really not doing any favours for the general perception of people with Bolton accents being a bit thick.
I like Sophie, but then I'm northern and we're just much better people.
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Joanne (McNally) is the Irish contestant.
The Bolton one is Sophie Willan - who I agree isn't great.
The Bolton one is Sophie Willan - who I agree isn't great.
I blame the fools before me
Sophie trying to throw the hoops on the gorilla is totally like I would do - one hoop in a tree, another going miles off. I'd probably do the same in going in the water and nearly drowning too.
Felt like the wind was kinder to the middle three as they didn't have to throw as far.
Steve will probably end up winning the whole thing. The giraffe was impressive even if they did mess up the orientation.
Felt like the wind was kinder to the middle three as they didn't have to throw as far.
Steve will probably end up winning the whole thing. The giraffe was impressive even if they did mess up the orientation.
I'm also northern and have plenty of friends with Bolton accents, but they don't wind me up like she does!
Charisma vacuum season ahead
I"m hoping it's going to be a decent enough series, even though it's likely to be lacking that one great contestant that comes around every so often like an Acaster, Mortimer or Wozniak.
I've seen four of them on plenty of panel things and Steve, John and Joanne are usually pretty decent at banter type humour. While Nick - when 'in character' on shows - is normally pretty eccentric and far from boring (though hit and miss for me). A bit like John Kearns, it'll be interesting to see him if he's dropping the character (it worked for John, in a doddering, useless way!)
Sophie is the one I've seen least of, but I'm not a big fan of all the Bolton comedians that are about and so she's not really for me (I'm from the North West myself, but don't really find any of those particularly funny).
Interesting the views on Sophie as i felt she was the best on the first episode and was the person i knew least about beforehand.
It will be interesting to watch John Robins as the episodes go by. I have a feeling he could be taking this a bit to competively and explode at some point especially in a team task.
There were already a few signs in the final task on Thursday he was close to losing it with Joanne.
Did anyone notice the river task there was a long shot of Alex and Nick with only Alex having a reflection which was a nice touch
It will be interesting to watch John Robins as the episodes go by. I have a feeling he could be taking this a bit to competively and explode at some point especially in a team task.
There were already a few signs in the final task on Thursday he was close to losing it with Joanne.
Did anyone notice the river task there was a long shot of Alex and Nick with only Alex having a reflection which was a nice touch
Yeah, but I only noticed as there was a thread on reddit mentioning it so probably doesn't count. Guess it'll be a recurring theme through the series if there's any reflections involved.
Agree on John. He went overboard with the egg task knowing that cinematic type edits tend to do well points wise. Last series or the series before it felt like there were way too many of them, which is like: well done to the editing team at Taskmaster but doesn't really showcase the contestants abilities that much and surely all that setup takes longer than the 20 mins.
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They're all fine IMO, no problem with the season so far.
The two who made it to the duck should have just picked it up and chucked it as far as they could before resuming the asking questions thing. Don't think I ever would have got the answer - would have struggled putting the animals in the right categories.
I have started watching this show. Just finished season 7 which I think has been the best so far along with sesson 5. Rhod trying to piss off Greg was the best thing. Love how he thinks outside the box for each task.
The watermelon task 
I'm really enjoying this season. Nick is a delight.
Last night's episode was great. That team task... my word.
You've got so many treats in store. I'm kinda jealous - would love to see it all "for the first time" again.
He's great, and that costume just adds another layer, but I don't think there has ever been a cringier contestant than Steve Pemberton. I expected weirdness - to be fair, like in his mannequin task - not a teacher's pet.
Yeah, really enjoying the series.
Probably no real stand out 'classic contestant', but all have been good and entertaining and it's been a very good series.
Probably no real stand out 'classic contestant', but all have been good and entertaining and it's been a very good series.
Genuinely laughed out loud 2 or 3 times during the botched attempt and I’m usually a very reserved person. They couldn’t have fecked it up better (and the umbrella winks/laying down thing added so much absurdity to an already chaotic spectacle).The watermelon task
So I believe tomorrow is the last episode of the current season. I feel it was medium really not the worst and far from the best hampered by lack of banter in the studio and John basically rubbing away with it every week.
I wonder how the next season will go as from what I gather Rosie Jones and Jack Dee will be among the contestants
I wonder how the next season will go as from what I gather Rosie Jones and Jack Dee will be among the contestants
Jack Dee should be excellent.
Just watching the opening episode of the second series of Australia Taskmaster...
...Looks a promising start. Series 1 was decent. Not as good as the NZ or English versions, but very watchable.
...Looks a promising start. Series 1 was decent. Not as good as the NZ or English versions, but very watchable.
I'm re-watching the NZ one now, and it's very good. Except for the cardboard host. Also that one task which is practically (or literally in the case of one contestant) designed to put as many helium balloons into nature as possible.
He is, because he has to do all the work. With the UK one, Greg does a lot of the work when it comes to banter with the contestants and with Alex. In the NZ one, he basically doesn't do anything except lead in ad breaks. He doesn't even score the tasks most of the time.
I am watching season 10 which I find to be the weakest. Specially did not like how the contestants dont care about prize tasks specially Daisy and then not speaking for half episode because she didnt like how much points she got.
I think not having an audience in the studio had a big impact, but agree about Daisy, she was a bit bitter for a comedy show.
I liked Katherine and how she would quietly go about tasks without caring whether she would succeed or not. She would always try to involve Alex in her tasks which was fun. Daisy I found bitter and sore loser. But I think you have rightly pointed out that absence of audience also had big impact on the show.
I was shocked that Sophie is only 36
It's a decent series, but John being so good at it kinda ruins it a bit sometimes.
It's a decent series, but John being so good at it kinda ruins it a bit sometimes.