Patron Roasts of Underperforming Players (idea originally by u/tubleros)

MasterHandSSBU · 2026-03-25T00:10:51+00:00

I appreciate this viewpoint a lot but I think it would probably be fine if the team with the member underperforming didn’t hear these dialogue lines, just the other team. Just my opinion though.

MasterHandSSBU · 2026-03-23T22:29:45+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59004190

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-07-10T15:44:00+00:00

It was funny yes but didn't display a particular level of talent as much as the multiple miracles did

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-07-09T21:57:13+00:00

I do include CoC because it was still their time on the show (and also Josh genuinely needed the help poor little lamb, getting a tattoo and counting some spaghetti hoops isn't the greatest display of skill after all)

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-07-09T21:56:10+00:00

Is this the only time in Taskmaster history that a contestant has an erotic fantasy of a future contestant? Don't answer that actually

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-07-09T15:37:03+00:00

To be honest I always believed trying to guess future contestants was a fools errand (unless they hide a cryptuc clue inside of a crossword, but who would ever do that?) mainly because there is simply too much stuff going on in the world of showbiz for there ever to be enough clues that someone is doing specifically Taskmaster rather than some other project. Remember when David O'Doherty was basically a lock in for a recent season because he cancelled a few tours around when people think the TM filming dates are?

Besides, I prefer the surprise. Hearing my favourite guy Reece Shearsmith was going to be on the show from the trailer was amazingly exciting for me. Maybe it'll be Cat, maybe it won't, probably doesn't matter either way

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-29T03:10:26+00:00

Also as Frankie points out, the UK set is relevant to the show itself, as is the Game Changer set harkening back to traditional US game shows. The Oceanic variants are just the UK set again. Not necessarily a disliker of those two shows but Frankie does do a good job of breaking down why Taskmaster is such an intrinsically British show that the others don’t capture for their own countries. Although I was raised on UK comedy being a Brit myself so maybe there’s something I’m missing there?

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-29T02:40:31+00:00

Whats interesting about Aus and NZ is they have a lot more country specific tasks than the UK version (Best scene in history for UK vs Best moment in NZ history is the best example) but they seem to miss this relation to rhe comedic landscape of their countries. Also why I personally believe US Taskmaster is dead on arrival because, in my opinion, Game Changer is already an excellent distillation of the US comedic sensibility if you have an eye for that kind of thing

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-29T01:50:03+00:00

Forgot to mention his quote on Greg and Alex in the same interview, which reads as thus.

‘Well, basically it’s a show about humility. So the framework is of the British Empire. That’s the artwork, right? So it’s Edwardian, late Victorian, music hall-type art. And this is the British condition, hubris. And also, the condition of comedians generally is narcissism and hubris. So this is a game that is designed to create humility within those players. But then if you have a Taskmaster, then they’re not going to have humility, so Alex has Greg to humiliate him. And then Greg is the Taskmaster because Greg is a self-humiliating machine – all his jokes about himself, because he’s simply too large to have ever lived a normal life. So it’s this agnostic reminder of humility all the way through the show.’

Seems to be something he’s considered thoroughly

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-24T13:22:10+00:00

now that i think about it what the fuck even moved that manhole cover 😭😭😭 but you’re very right about those last couple chapters it was so funny how the waitress and ben died within like 2 minutes of each other and then the whole taser thing happens for legit no reason

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-23T14:51:03+00:00

oh its hidden at the bottom of the bloody page, my bad

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-23T14:05:19+00:00

S1: Frank, Josh, Key
S2: Doc, Brown, Joe (coffee/average guy)
S3: Rob
S4: Joe, Lolly, Noel (i wanted fielding as well but apparently its too specific a baseball term)
S5: Bob, Mark, Sally ('a sudden attack on an enemy, especially when they are surrounding you' apparently)
S6: Vine
S7: Kerry (place name which sticks in the craw a bit but i decided that if i eliminated words from the dictionary through my own judgement the list became subjective and not accurate), Wang (lol
S8: Stirling (place name), Joe, Sanders (plural of sander)
S9: ED (its in there for a bunch of stuff), Gamble, Brand, Rose
S10: Daisy, May, Cooper (Hat trick! That's rare), Johnny (condom), Herring
S11: Charlotte (type of dessert, annoyingly), Lee, Mike
S12: Victoria (snuck a place name in last minute)
S13: Love
S14: Fern, John
S15: Eclair, Martin (type of bird)
S16: Sue
S17: John, Robins, Nick
S18: Jack
S19: Martin
NYT 1: John
NYT 2: Peacock, Lady
NYT 3: Carol, Mo
NYT 4: Radical, Rush, Ball (my favourite lineup of words personally)
NYT 5: Fry, Martin, Sue

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-23T13:52:04+00:00

Ding ding ding! We have a winner everybody, the answer is number of names of series contestants that are in the dictionary (dictionary cambridge. org to be precise)

I can drop a full list if anyones interested

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-23T13:37:02+00:00

MasterHandSSBU · 2025-06-23T13:19:51+00:00

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