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not a bot posted:It's amazing how quickly people go down the rabbit hole. Is that why he looks like this 
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Unkempt posted:Is that why he looks like this Jesus, that’s got to be drugs, right?
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Lawrence Fox is the living embodiment of the "she's turned the weans against us" sketch
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Apr 29, 2021 12:06
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Dell_Zincht posted:5. Definitely series 5. Bob Mortimer just being an utter legend and Sally Phillips being totally horny (and mental.) I think the one with Dave Gorman was the worst The cast is too similar, it's not BAD exactly - it's just not as funny.
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Taear posted:I think the one with Dave Gorman was the worst Agreed. I think I posted on my last re-watch that Gorman and Murray mostly sap the fun out of it. On the podcast its been hinted at that a number of contestants took the idea of winning very seriously but not in the spirit of the game. I assumed it was in part referring to those two, certainly Murray. Has to be a little strange being Lawrence Fox. You're the superstar of ITV4, then you find you can be much more popular by wading into poo poo you know nothing about and stirring things up before getting high on your own fumes and thinking it can be parlayed into a political career with the right money behind you, only to find no one outside of your Twitter likes and your friends on Talk Radio could possibly give a poo poo about your views. You already weren't getting acting gigs, but now you're one of those names that everyone is going to look at twice before casting you in anything and now Twitter popularity is your ceiling and that's going to fade when the usual crowd find someone else to rally around.
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It's not surprising that Dave Gorman would be quite competitive, since he's written books about trying different games and competitions. I'm sure Al Murray's propensity to use money to solve a problem was irritating for the other contestants, and I definitely wouldn't want it to be the standard solution for multiple contestants or anything but at the same time I loved him just ringing a cab and paying to go places when the challenge was to get your clothes as spread out as possible and poo poo like that. When it's just one person it becomes their gimmick, rather than the normal.
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Apr 29, 2021 13:35
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Apr 29, 2021 15:27
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Less than Mark Watson spent on a single hat.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Less than Mark Watson spent on a single hat. On the other hand, Alex got his back on Mark by ruining months of his life along with Gregs to boot.
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Looks like season 12 of TM is not going to be filmed in from of an audience. Audience tickets are once again for an in cinema audio recording
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Popbitch covered Fox this week:quote:We have to hand it to Laurence Fox. Where other rabble-rousing blowhards threaten to sue people with no intention of ever actually putting their hands in their pocket, Lozza is genuinely now setting his lawyers on Twitter users who call him racist.
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/apr/29/actor-noel-clarke-accused-of-groping-harassment-and-bullying-by-20-women He always seemed a bit of a knob.
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I feel like the memory task would've been a lot better if they'd been given enough time to actually read it in the first place.
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stev posted:I feel like the memory task would've been a lot better if they'd been given enough time to actually read it in the first place.
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stev posted:I feel like the memory task would've been a lot better if they'd been given enough time to actually read it in the first place. I think the entire point of the task was less "memorize and then repeat all these tasks as best you can" and more "how do you deal with being given a big list you clearly won't have time to memorize and just have to muddle through regardless?". The task did have some rhyme to it's elements, since the action always started with the previous alphabetic letter than the object, but only one contestant worked that out. That said, because they burned the paper, every page disappeared at a different rate so some people organically got a bit more time than others. Still, the point was more to see the contestants panic and fumble to a conclusion than to have a straight memory game like memorizing the order of the deck back in season 8 or anything.
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Easy to be wise after the fact, but none of the contestants tried to do anything about it, like put out the fire or take a photo of the list. Maybe because the instructions-reading portion is usually sacrosanct (except rare things like "Alex has already started counting" in the hide-and-seek task), it's sort of a performance for the audience.GazChap posted:I assumed there'd be some gotcha, where another copy of the task list is hidden somewhere around the area if they look for it. Maybe if anyone had carried out Inspect the Jacket they would have found it there.
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They've had tasks where everyone missed the Obvious Clue before and when that's happened they shoot a little insert to play back after everyone's made a fool of themselves.
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Heavy_D posted:Easy to be wise after the fact, but none of the contestants tried to do anything about it, like put out the fire or take a photo of the list. Almost every contestant on the podcast, and multiple people on the show itself have talked about how in the moment you're just seized by panic and want to do the first thing that comes to mind, even if that thing doesn't make any sense. I can believe none of the contestants thought to try putting out the flame especially, since one of the instructions was not to step beyond the rope and it'd be hard to put out such a small flame without being close to it. You'd need a consistent water supply you could lead to it, such as a hose. Which obviously wasn't around. The best they could do is throw a glass of water from the bath, and that's probably not going to do it in the 30 seconds or so before the task evaporates. I can believe no-one thought to take a photo via a phone as well, because people in a panic don't tend to think clearly without extensive training to handle pressure; even then, training tends to only prepare you for fairly specific situations because muscle memory kicks in and overtakes your mind for a few seconds before you calm down because you're doing something you're essentially used to via training. I remember reading a few years ago that the US military tried a training exercise to check how soldiers react under pressure by loading a load of soldiers into a plane that they then instructed the pilot to put into a free fall and tell everyone they were out of control and going to crash, before someone in the back who knew what was happening gave all the soldiers last will forms and asked them to fill them out. Not one soldier gave a legible response apparently. And they're supposed to be trained for general pressure.
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DrVenkman posted:Agreed. I think I posted on my last re-watch that Gorman and Murray mostly sap the fun out of it. On the podcast its been hinted at that a number of contestants took the idea of winning very seriously but not in the spirit of the game. I assumed it was in part referring to those two, certainly Murray. Surely that's Richard Herring?
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Taear posted:Surely that's Richard Herring? He has said it himself that he didn't want to go 'full Herring' so held back on any comedy banter that may have overshone the rest. So his restraint does make him look like he was in it to win it.
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Herring has said that since he's won now he's going to really let go for champion of champions. I hope so because I think he's great usually but did seem a little reserved in TM. Current series talk - I kind of feel bad for Charlotte Ritchie, she's such a funny contestant but she scores so low! Mike Wozniak I think is my perfect contestant, he's obviously not bothered about the score that much, he's having a wonderful time and he's just the right amount of weird to really make it click.
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Aphex- posted:
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stev posted:She was on the podcast this week and said she realised way too late that she was being passive in the studio and never attempted to fight her corner. Whenever Greg says she's done badly she just replies with " That just makes it funnier to be fair. The contrast between her trying to do the task and accepting a bad score and then Jamali half-assing the task and confronting Greg about it is amazing.
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First episode of the new series of This Time With Alan Partridge is as good as hoped. The last segment in particular absolutely killed me.
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"Smell the flowers." "MMM-NICE." His knees cracking again got me too.
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Right, burger king IT'S. MY. LIFE. 
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Aphex- posted:Herring has said that since he's won now he's going to really let go for champion of champions. I hope so because I think he's great usually but did seem a little reserved in TM. Wozniak said on the podcast that he was a participant in the Taskmaster prototype back when it was on Edinburgh Fringe. He knows the competition really well, that's why he's so laidback.
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thehustler posted:https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/9511/taskmaster-edinburgh-years Henning Wehn and Josie Long would be good for a proper series
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happyhippy posted:Henning Wehn and Josie Long would be good for a proper series Seconding this strongly, if they're bringing back former champions of the stage show Josie has to be receiving the call soon. And it would be so fun to see Henning arguing his corner against Greg. It is kind of remarkable that the show's already been through 60 contestants, and yet there are still so many people it would be great to see on it.
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Who's ready for BBC1 at 9pm tonight?! I am so excited!! That's it, go back to Taskmaster posting.
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Pablo Bluth posted:One of the things I liked so much about TMNZ was it felt like the contestants took their 'homework' much more seriously. So the prize tasks felt like the early UK years, not the laziness that now plagues the series. Plus the costume task ended up with them putting real effort in to some amazing costumes. I have little faith if that was done at the moment in the UK series that the efforts would be so uniformly so well done.
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Dead Goon posted:Who's ready for BBC1 at 9pm tonight?! Oh, is Antiques Roadshow on?
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Should I be watching this "Line of Duty" then? I generally can't stand watching British drama shows, I feel really embarrassed about being British watching them. Especially when they do that thing where they just skip the first word of every sentence of dialog because it's more gritty and realistic that way.
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DaWolfey posted:Should I be watching this "Line of Duty" then? Yes
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