Whatever the reason, I decided at the end of last year to detach myself from the news of Covid and Brexit and instead methodically catalogue the top 100 tasks in Taskmaster history, and I really need you to get on board.
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Or perhaps I just like watching Hugh Dennis carve a cake horizontally and arrange it like a serial killer in an episode of Hannibal. At a time when we are isolated from friends and family, and days meld into one, that kind of intellectual intimacy – getting inside someone’s head – is precious. Perhaps it’s the way that it provides an insight not just into what people think, but how they think.
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Perhaps it’s the way that it’s a funhouse mirror of lockdown – for most tasks contestants are stuck in a house, alone, where they are given a series of arbitrary rules to obey and steadily lose their minds. Call me when he’s had a Frasier-inspired breakdown and thinks he’s Eddie the dog.”īut there’s something magical about Taskmaster that elevates it above my usual substitute-for-therapy fare. “Oh, Bernhardt’s become fixated on the tiniest details of a television show as a coping mechanism for the horrors of reality in the 2020s? Change the record. Regular readers will know this is entirely predictable. I have dreams where I’m being sprayed in the face with a power hose manned by Rob Beckett dressed as a grandmother. The premise – five comedians desperately compete to impress a famous comedian – is basically a concentrated version of my worst Edinburgh fringe anxiety dreams, the ones where I’m back in the Underbelly, Cowgate, but I’ve forgotten all the lines to the show, I’m naked and the only people in the audience are David Mitchell, Josie Lawrence and my horrible PE teacher from year 7.īut as it turns out, I don’t hate it, I love it. A s someone who tried to make a career out of live comedy, I should probably hate Taskmaster.
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