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Taskmaster
2015 · TV series · 22 seasons
Created by Alex Horne
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?
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I rip stuff from YouTube for the same reason. Currently watching Taskmaster which has all or most episodes freely available on YouTube, but no way am I interested in using that dumpster fire of a UX.
One of the British TV shows that I've been introduced to over the past half decade of YouTube binging was Taskmaster (its British weird / funny)... and one of those tasks was to memorize the order of playing cards in 5 minutes.
https://youtu.be/aSQnWQUyekk
The winner was really impressive in what was done (second place was also very impressive).
block_dagger was making a pun based on the sense of drill as a training exercise. A similar joke went over the heads of nearly everyone on a recent episode of Taskmaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PJkA3o_Im0
I added ErsatzTV to my Plex setup about a month ago and we honestly love it so much. I've got 2 sitcom channels, British panel shows, Taskmaster, all Star Trek all the time, British sitcoms, cartoons, and a few others.
Its really nice to just sit down and watch "whatever is on" (even though I could switch over to the main library and watch any episode I want).
Sometimes I just want a 0-effort/0-decision background noise while I work on something else or browse on my phone.
I am currently rewatching Taskmaster while waiting for the current episodes to drop and I watched this exact episode yesterday...best show ever!
Just don't follow any of these recipes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSg6aVTm4_c
(Taskmaster UK, Season 5: Make Marmite. The show is hilarious and I recommend season 5 as a jumping in point to see if you like it.)
Oh, and the absolute best advert for Marmite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFLHialhZ8c
> One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue
> 12 years old, and as perfect as the day it came out of GabeN’s mouth.
I have not pirated a game in more than a decade, I bought a bunch on sale over Christmas though I likely won’t have the time (or hardware, HL:Alyx was cheap) to play them any time soon. Though it’s a bit of a minor chore I regularly purchase music I find via streaming (I like albums, offline use, and knowing it won’t go away). I’ve never felt the need to pirate a book.
I don’t pirate tv/movies much, mostly because I don’t watch them much due to all the other entertainment available. I did pirate Taskmaster, until they started publishing the episodes on YT.
Is this finally the time and place to discuss the credibility of Sara Pascoe's 18+ meters, 3 times in a row, perfectly in the middle of the carpet landing pea throws in season 3 of Taskmaster?
Taskmaster is famous as being one of the few TV shows to release full episodes on YouTube.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/taskmaster/episodes/4/3/
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>To my own surprise the japanese are sitting facing the flusher/wall, not facing the door.
Yeah no, that is not a "Japanese" thing. I have no idea what show you were watching but it was probably just a gag, or a way to avoid having to show his genitals, or something that one person did for whatever reason.
There are some people who sit that way. For example, British comedian Bob Mortimer said on an episode of Taskmaster that he does it because his anus is unusually high.
I think you underestimate my laziness. All else being equal, I would likely binge watch TaskMaster.
Get 5 comedians, give them silly tasks with a mock authoritarian 1-man judge and 10 episodes of competition: Taskmaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YhsooE5xY (they've done 12 seasons, and there are versions from other nations, although as usual the US version stunk)
The Amazon series The Expanse.
Auto-complete just suggested the novel "A Gentleman in Moscow".
I'm amazed at how many different words UK and USA English have for the same thing. Even though I started watching UK tv shows on PBS in the 80s, I started watching Taskmaster on youtube and I hear unfamiliar words for things all the time. The one from last night was "pedal bin." Before they showed what it was I was imagining some kind of bicycle with a trash can on it but it was a trash can whose lid opens when you step on the pedal. I don't think we have a separate name for that in the USA.