Their new tactic is having one famous past it comedian (eg Frankie Boyle or Julian Clary) to draw the house. Then the rest are just dimeless shitters and diversity hires
As a non-Brit I don't know any contestant besides the guy from Inbetweeners, John Hannah and Mo Farah.
And since I'm not influenced by fame, I think that the newest contestants are generally as unfunny as the oldest.
I just watch for the tasks.
I loved the show, but agree with this. It's entirely dependent on the cast. Consistently the best series are always the one with a majority of white people. I'm not even TRYING to be racist. The show just does it on its own. All of the white people are heavily competitive sprinkled with a bit of stupid/autism which makes their tasks really interesting and sometimes clever. Meanwhile, the brown people and the woke women basically do nothing for their tasks then b***h and moan that they aren't rewarded.
Series 2 (I think) was the worst thanks to that one black guy that REFUSED to have fun. He got picked for a prank task, and pretty much the entire time he was just not having fun, not trying to win, and immediately just being grumpy about the whole thing. Consistently lost all tasks. They're clearly picking the actors for diversity and are being a textbook case of why it will never work.
I've watched 15 seasons of this show and have liked every single contestant except two people. He is one of the two. I honestly thought he was some crazed fan who won a contest to be on the show.
>talking about the things at a live show with the interesting part pre-recorded
This is why IJ is(well, was) better. Just fricking get out there doing shit
The one with the cans was fricking great though.
>British comedy >Dave slop
Dave is a distillation of everything unfunny about British comedy to begin with. It's Deano shite made for the lowest common denominator, a type of lower-middle class person who's smart enough to recognize you can't really be funny without being offensive but too oversocialized to commit to this idea in principle or even look low-brow or stupid in the first place. This is where shit like 'the absolute madman' comes from. Instead of pushing out the boundary of acceptability, British comedy pulls it back in for a few seconds so midwits can pretend they're overstepping some line and have a laugh about it. This shit is representative of 'British comedy' in the same way that Larry the Cable Guy is American comedy; you're technically correct, but only technically.
It wasn't always like this, either. I'm not sure exactly when the shift happened, or exactly why, but at some point British comedy became this printing press that only makes John Olivers. They're all identically smarmy and milquetoast; unfunny pundit-type personalities sanitized for BBC panel shows and international audiences. I also think this is why the sitcoms didn't fall off as hard. Comedy writers could focus on writing actual jokes for TV or film, they weren't beholden to manicuring an entire act out of a series of Q&A format one-liners for an audience that would die of fright if they ever heard the word 'Black person' in person.
The litmus test is this: find me one working British comic who admits that Bernard Manning was actually funny.
You can't do it. Astonishing, since he was unironically more talented than all of these c**ts put together.
As he would have said: it's a fricking disgrace.
Here is my list of people I did not like by the series in which they appeared:
1. Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan
2. Katherine Ryan
3. Sara Pascoe
4. n/a
5. Aisling Bea, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar
6. Asim Chaudhry, Russell Howard
7. James Acaster, Kerry Godliman
8. Iain Stirling, Lou Sanders
9. Kerry Godliman as a replacement for Katy Wix (I did not mind Katherine Ryan that time)
10. Daisy May Cooper, Mawaan Rizwan
11. Jamali Maddix
12. Desiree Burch
13. Sophie Duker
14. Munya Chawawa (the only series I haven't finished because I dislike him so much)
15. n/a but Mae Martin was boring
16. not seen it yet but I have always disliked Sue Perkins
Here is my list of people I did not like by the series in which they appeared:
1. Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan
2. Katherine Ryan
3. Sara Pascoe
4. n/a
5. Aisling Bea, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar
6. Asim Chaudhry, Russell Howard
7. James Acaster, Kerry Godliman
8. Iain Stirling, Lou Sanders
9. Kerry Godliman as a replacement for Katy Wix (I did not mind Katherine Ryan that time)
10. Daisy May Cooper, Mawaan Rizwan
11. Jamali Maddix
12. Desiree Burch
13. Sophie Duker
14. Munya Chawawa (the only series I haven't finished because I dislike him so much)
15. n/a but Mae Martin was boring
16. not seen it yet but I have always disliked Sue Perkins
>Kerry Godliman >Mark Watson, Nish Kumar >Iain Stirling, Lou Sanders >Munya Chawawa
I thought they were alright, at least during the tasks. I mostly skip the studio segments.
daily reminder that panel shows killed british comedy before forced diversity was was thing. we used to actually make stuff, now its just build a tv set and hire 6 of the same 25 dull, same opinion having middle class dopes instead of taking risks on scripts and making something with any sort of creative merit
The show went through some growing pains, then it got pretty good, then I stopped caring. I think 5 was the last season I cared about. Anyway, Dave Gorman was the best guest. Frick you if you think otherwise.
there's a great moment where during a team task, dave and 2 others end up shouting the names of TV shows over to a guy at the other end of a small river, and the only show the guy doesn't know is Dave Gorman, Modern Life is Goodish.
I don't speak for all of us but no, I don't watch it.
I hate our ruling elite of handpicked oxbridge comedians.
greg davies is working class
Comedian is just about the only media position that non-Oxbridge people can have in Britain.
I used to until they ran out of both ideas and comedians.
it’s unreal how many nobodies they put on there
gotta have half Black folk as the cast
Their new tactic is having one famous past it comedian (eg Frankie Boyle or Julian Clary) to draw the house. Then the rest are just dimeless shitters and diversity hires
that has always been the case
>dimeless shitters
Would Taskmaster be improved if Greg chokeslammed a c**t or two?
Season 16 has a cast of all nobodies, no nostalgia hires at all
He literally mentioned the nostalgia pick for season 16 in his post you moron
thats been every panel show since 2014
A cute.
> Martin shared that they had top surgery in late 2021.[22]
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>Martin shared that they had top surgery in late 2021.
This hurts on a fundamental level.
>the year 1156, is that like during Pangea?
>idk I spent highschool on acid LoL
she's dumb as frick, and ignorance is the opposite of attractive
Actually the worst contestant on the show. Not even for being some kind of troon but genuinely devoid of humor.
She made my pp so hard I almost forgot my waifu Fern Brady existed
This.
It was good when they had people you know but I knew they'd run out of comedians and ideas of tasks eventually.
As a non-Brit I don't know any contestant besides the guy from Inbetweeners, John Hannah and Mo Farah.
And since I'm not influenced by fame, I think that the newest contestants are generally as unfunny as the oldest.
I just watch for the tasks.
Is Inbetweeners any good? I actually liked Joe Thomas in his season.
You need to be Bri'ish to really understand it but it's fine. I hate how they feel the need to recap the episode I just watched at the end
I loved the show, but agree with this. It's entirely dependent on the cast. Consistently the best series are always the one with a majority of white people. I'm not even TRYING to be racist. The show just does it on its own. All of the white people are heavily competitive sprinkled with a bit of stupid/autism which makes their tasks really interesting and sometimes clever. Meanwhile, the brown people and the woke women basically do nothing for their tasks then b***h and moan that they aren't rewarded.
Series 2 (I think) was the worst thanks to that one black guy that REFUSED to have fun. He got picked for a prank task, and pretty much the entire time he was just not having fun, not trying to win, and immediately just being grumpy about the whole thing. Consistently lost all tasks. They're clearly picking the actors for diversity and are being a textbook case of why it will never work.
I haven't watched TV in years. Too pozzed.
Lots of old comfy TV kino though.
Yes, it's great.
I haven’t watched british tv comedy since they put in the rule where at least one female comedian has to be present
Women are actually good on Taskmaster
I'm not British but I've seen clips of this show on YouTube. It's pretty comfy.
bit weird, and yes im british
I've watched 15 seasons of this show and have liked every single contestant except two people. He is one of the two. I honestly thought he was some crazed fan who won a contest to be on the show.
thanks for the reminder
new series is showing isnt it
Why British men so feminine?
Why ESL so moron type?
Why are they wearing clown socks
I liked it best when they could bend the rules of the task and you got some funny shit.
Yeah the rules are too rigid now. I always think there's a "trick" to the tasks that would make them easier but there never is
For me? Season 5
For me it's Al Murray.
I wish Aisling was replaced by someone else, but yeah, 5 is one of my favourites. I love S4.
Shame Nish Kumar is the worst television personality of all time
I just about died when Mark couldn't blow up a balloon. I didn't know a human could be so weak.
Aisling is my wife and I want to cum on her legs
new cast is pretty shit. are these random people popular with zoomers or something?
i like the current cast, i thought i wouldn't but they are all deranged
ROSALIND IS A FRICKING NIGHTMARE
For me, it's Charlotte
My waifu
Just finished season 2 enjoying it thus far but I have to have a few beer for it to be kino.
Taskmaster is super comfy and you're a gay for not liking it
>talking about the things at a live show with the interesting part pre-recorded
This is why IJ is(well, was) better. Just fricking get out there doing shit
The one with the cans was fricking great though.
for me it's my wife Mel Giedroyc and her infectious positivity
For me it's Paul
whats with that black guy with the super lazy eye
innit
Only if they pay their loicense.
How long before they make Rosie Jones a contestant and every episode is everyone uncomfortably waiting for her to finish a sentence?
dont even shitpost about that happening
ill bin all tv programs and just read books for the rest of my life
Need Harry Hill and Adam Buxton on it
>Harry Hill
You've got to have a system
Harry Hill's TV Burp (at least the early seasons) is
silly Brit kino of the absolute highest order.
my favorite bit was placing Dara O'Brien in a team with two autistic younger people and then watch his sanity slowly erodes away with every team task
Doing literally anything with John would slowly erode your sanity
>katherine parkinson's surprisingly thicc bod
and thicc head, worst contestant all series (well, maybe not as bad as the serious indian guy)
for me its my girlfriend fern brady
>British comedy
>Dave slop
Dave is a distillation of everything unfunny about British comedy to begin with. It's Deano shite made for the lowest common denominator, a type of lower-middle class person who's smart enough to recognize you can't really be funny without being offensive but too oversocialized to commit to this idea in principle or even look low-brow or stupid in the first place. This is where shit like 'the absolute madman' comes from. Instead of pushing out the boundary of acceptability, British comedy pulls it back in for a few seconds so midwits can pretend they're overstepping some line and have a laugh about it. This shit is representative of 'British comedy' in the same way that Larry the Cable Guy is American comedy; you're technically correct, but only technically.
It wasn't always like this, either. I'm not sure exactly when the shift happened, or exactly why, but at some point British comedy became this printing press that only makes John Olivers. They're all identically smarmy and milquetoast; unfunny pundit-type personalities sanitized for BBC panel shows and international audiences. I also think this is why the sitcoms didn't fall off as hard. Comedy writers could focus on writing actual jokes for TV or film, they weren't beholden to manicuring an entire act out of a series of Q&A format one-liners for an audience that would die of fright if they ever heard the word 'Black person' in person.
The litmus test is this: find me one working British comic who admits that Bernard Manning was actually funny.
You can't do it. Astonishing, since he was unironically more talented than all of these c**ts put together.
As he would have said: it's a fricking disgrace.
tl;dr
Here is my list of people I did not like by the series in which they appeared:
1. Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan
2. Katherine Ryan
3. Sara Pascoe
4. n/a
5. Aisling Bea, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar
6. Asim Chaudhry, Russell Howard
7. James Acaster, Kerry Godliman
8. Iain Stirling, Lou Sanders
9. Kerry Godliman as a replacement for Katy Wix (I did not mind Katherine Ryan that time)
10. Daisy May Cooper, Mawaan Rizwan
11. Jamali Maddix
12. Desiree Burch
13. Sophie Duker
14. Munya Chawawa (the only series I haven't finished because I dislike him so much)
15. n/a but Mae Martin was boring
16. not seen it yet but I have always disliked Sue Perkins
>not liking james acaster
Hello James!
He's no Rowan Atkinson.
>Here is my list of people I did not like by the series in which they appeared:
t. obvious women hater
>Kerry Godliman
>Mark Watson, Nish Kumar
>Iain Stirling, Lou Sanders
>Munya Chawawa
I thought they were alright, at least during the tasks. I mostly skip the studio segments.
daily reminder that panel shows killed british comedy before forced diversity was was thing. we used to actually make stuff, now its just build a tv set and hire 6 of the same 25 dull, same opinion having middle class dopes instead of taking risks on scripts and making something with any sort of creative merit
yes, besides watching "their" wives getting fricked by pakis
i watch it for lou
Now I know you're not talking shit about Greg Davies.
The show went through some growing pains, then it got pretty good, then I stopped caring. I think 5 was the last season I cared about. Anyway, Dave Gorman was the best guest. Frick you if you think otherwise.
(me)
>I think 5 was the last season I cared about
Although, having said that, I've seen clips here and there of some of the other seasons
I can't remember a notable Dave Gorman moment besides him cheating with his tea or some shit. He's not even the best guest in his own series
there's a great moment where during a team task, dave and 2 others end up shouting the names of TV shows over to a guy at the other end of a small river, and the only show the guy doesn't know is Dave Gorman, Modern Life is Goodish.
not even british and I watch it
it's fun
God imagine Vordermann in this show, but if she was in her early 40s