Taskmaster

[Jennaonthebeach]

He's not a Tory. Being a centrist can be an issue, TBF, but he's not a Tory.

Interesting distinction.

 

[Orang Utan]

Interesting distinction.

Why?

 

[PR1Berske]

New series started tonight

 

[scifisam]

Who's the older guy with the big hair? I haven' even caught his name yet, and don't recognise him at all.

He's barely on screen at all.

 

[Orang Utan]

Who's the older guy with the big hair? I haven' even caught his name yet, and don't recognise him at all.

He's barely on screen at all.

Andy Zaltzman - he’s better known on the radio and from podcasting. Often hosts The News Quiz on R4. He’s also a cricket nut and I think does cricket stats nerdery for the BBC in their coverage of it

 

[scifisam]

Andy Zaltzman - he’s better known on the radio and from podcasting. Often hosts The News Quiz on R4. He’s also a cricket nut and I think does cricket stats nerdery for the BBC in their coverage of it

I liked his perfume ad style thing for the bubbles task. Think I'm more used to pretty much unknown or niche people on Taskmaster being young, and the older ones being established TV types, so it's disconcerting, but OTOH yes to giving older performers more exposure.

Just hope he joins in a bit more in the next eps.

 

[Orang Utan]

Just looked him up to see what else he’s done and he’s younger than I thought - 49!

 

[kabbes]

I love the Zaltz. I’ve listened to the Bugle podcast for donkey’s years. He originally started it with John Oliver, but who knows whatever became of that guy.

 

[colacubes]

I love the Zaltz. I’ve listened to the Bugle podcast for donkey’s years. He originally started it with John Oliver, but who knows whatever became of that guy

The Bugle is consistently brilliantly.

 

[Saffy]

Catching up with this series. Rosie and Jack as team mates are brilliant.
That scary maze task had me laughing the whole time.
No way that Baba was doing a gentle walk though!

 

[Saffy]

I'm enjoying this series so much, far more than the last one.

I've just seen more of the edit of 'your Mum's a slag' with Baba and it made me laugh so much. It really sound like he's saying it.

 

[tommers]

I'm enjoying this series so much, far more than the last one.

I've just seen more of the edit of 'your Mum's a slag' with Baba and it made me laugh so much. It really sound like he's saying it.

Yeah this one is really good. Jack was made for it tbh. And Rosie Jones is great.

 

[lazythursday]

Completely the opposite for me, finding the Jack and Rosie show tedious and just turned it off the other day. But I do wonder if I'm just bored stupid by the format now.

 

[Chz]

My sense of humour is fairly infantile, so the talking poo had me cackling merrily away. Rosie can be downright mean at times and gets away with it by having a cheeky grin to go with it. That being said, I totally would have put ice cubes in Alex's trousers just to make it look like he'd pissed himself too.

 

[kabbes]

I’m also enjoying this particular mix of characters. They’re all good in their own way

 

[Santino]

I've never really enjoyed Rosie Jones on anything before this but she's been really good. I liked it a couple of weeks ago when she asked permission to touch Alex.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've never really enjoyed Rosie Jones on anything before this but she's been really good. I liked it a couple of weeks ago when she asked permission to touch Alex.

She’s been fab. I love her relationship with Jack Dee. They seem to really get on.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

She’s been fab. I love her relationship with Jack Dee. They seem to really get on.

I've liked Rosie Jones a lot too. I love the way she knowingly and wickedly 'plays the disabled card' when it suits her, in a tongue in cheek way knowing that it's impossible for Alex to push back against. She's come a long way since I saw here as a relatively unknown support act for Nish Kumar 6 or 7 years ago.

There's been a couple of times when Jack Dee has looked pretty close to breaking character from his dead-pan grumpy old man. I think there's a genuine affection and rapport there with Jones.

 

[D'wards]

I'm finding junior taskmaster an absolute delight.

Rose and Mike are brilliant at the job

 

[Orang Utan]

I lasted two minutes into Junior Taskmaster. No. Just no.

 

[danny la rouge]

I lasted two minutes into Junior Taskmaster. No. Just no.

Precocious children. Nope.

 

[D'wards]

They are not all smartarses. There's a couple of sweethearts in there too

 

[lazythursday]

Just turned over in absolute horror. Why do such a thing?

 

[Orang Utan]

Precocious children. Nope.

The sense of humour is off too. It’s a grown up show, despite the silliness.

 

[Orang Utan]

They are not all smartarses. There's a couple of sweethearts in there too

the problem is that they’re kids, not grown-up comedians.

 

[Wookey]

No way am I watching the child version, it subverts the whole point, and not in a subversive way. It's meant to make adults do nonsense things - kids do nonsense things without thinking about it, so the basic premise is fucked. Fuck em. Exploitative twat monkeys using kids to ham spank the franchise like mofos, qfly.

 

[Orang Utan]

There is apparently a bleeped/edited version of the adult Taskmaster for kids. Must be impossible to follow as it would be gutted into incoherence

 

[Nine Bob Note]

From what I've seen, it's just bleeps and an emoji over the mouth of the 'rude person'. Annoying when you DL them by accident

 

[D'wards]

Remember when they accidentally broadcast the bleeped version at 9pm on channel 4

They had a barrage of complaints. A barrage

 

[tommers]

There is apparently a bleeped/edited version of the adult Taskmaster for kids. Must be impossible to follow as it would be gutted into incoherence

We watched it with our kids. It was fine. They're old enough now that they can hear somebody say fuck though.