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Taskmaster s19

Started by Scoops, August 13, 2024, 12:51:07 AM

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jclarke0206

Yeah I'd be very surprised if it is that person.

According to someone on Reddit who was at the recordings it's someone they know from 2 TV shows.

lostgate

I saw the two big shows thing, that made me start leaning more towards
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Jason Mantzoukas
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The two big shows being
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Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place
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Though he's in tons of other stuff too, so I'd have thought they'd know him from those too

BritishHobo

Ahh that's a good shout -
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Brooklyn 99 especially seems to have been pretty popular here, so will definitely be well-known. He was also on the Off Menu podcast recently and talked sbout himself and Nish Kumar going to a fancy dress party as each other, so he's well-in with the group.
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souapnova

Give us the names you cowards!

hevfev

So I think I've worked out who 4/5 of the contestants are...

Going by the clues about one contestant who's been discussed here, I typed
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Jason Mantzoukas
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into Google trends out of interest to see if there was a spike in searches. After yesterday's recordings, there was a huge spike for them.

BUT if you scroll down on Trends it tells you searches that have been related to the one in question, and the people who popped up there, alongside 'Taskmaster', were:

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Mathew Baynton
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Stevie Martin
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Rosie Ramsey
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Looked at each of their trends and they had spikes around the same time too. Also couldn't work out a fifth person for some reason.

This isn't a full-proof way AT ALL and I could be totally off base, but there we go....

I don't want to be one of those people that see a name when the line-up is announced and cry out "urgh! Them Taskmaster is forever sullied!".

But... if that list checks out I may have to be.

C_Larence

Quote from: hevfev on September 19, 2024, 02:21:58 PM
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Stevie Martin
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A little familiar of you, but surely that's the huge american star


hevfev

Quote from: C_Larence on September 19, 2024, 02:35:08 PMA little familiar of you, but surely that's the huge american star



Ahah, not sure if you're being sarcastic. If not
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Stevie Martin is a young-ish British writer and comedian
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C_Larence

I was being sarcastic, it won't happen again.

dharmashark

Quote from: hevfev on September 19, 2024, 02:21:58 PMSo I think I've worked out who 4/5 of the contestants are...

Going by the clues about one contestant who's been discussed here, I typed
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Jason Mantzoukas
[close]
into Google trends out of interest to see if there was a spike in searches. After yesterday's recordings, there was a huge spike for them.

BUT if you scroll down on Trends it tells you searches that have been related to the one in question, and the people who popped up there, alongside 'Taskmaster', were:

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Mathew Baynton
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Stevie Martin
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Rosie Ramsey
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Looked at each of their trends and they had spikes around the same time too. Also couldn't work out a fifth person for some reason.

This isn't a full-proof way AT ALL and I could be totally off base, but there we go....

I'm only familiar with 3 of those names, but I can see that being a pretty good lineup so far. It's safe to say that 19 series in, we can trust that they know how to pick contestants.

If that line-up is correct surely the missing one has to be an established stand-up.

Saying that Fatiha El-Ghorri shows up in "related" when I search for Mantzukous in Google trends.

LocalTwat

Quote from: TheDevilPuppet on September 19, 2024, 03:20:18 PMIf that line-up is correct surely the missing one has to be an established stand-up.


Yeah, we haven't got a "senior" name among those 4.

Quote from: LocalTwat on September 19, 2024, 03:25:25 PMYeah, we haven't got a "senior" name among those 4.

Jason Manford's just come up for me using hevfev's Google Trends method but I've tried working out lineups this way before and it's never worked and there are probably enough of us searching those names as a result of this thread that it's started to skew the results.

What a long sentence.

Twilkes

Quote from: Wayman C. McCreery on September 19, 2024, 03:45:38 PMJason Manford's just come up for me using hevfev's Google Trends method but I've tried working out lineups this way before and it's never worked and there are probably enough of us searching those names as a result of this thread that it's started to skew the results.

What a long sentence.

If I mustered my wife I'd have a shorter sentence than that.

edit - was supposed to be 'murdered' but I like the typo.

llambert

the line up is...

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Fatiha El-Ghorri
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Mathew Baynton
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Rosie Ramsey
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Stevie Martin
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very exciting stuff!

lostgate

Is that for real? Were you there?

llambert

told by someone who went to a recording

jclarke0206

Cool if true.

Also, good detective work by hevfev

Poobum

Meh
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Jason Mantzoukas was my least favourite thing about Brooklyn 99. My only experience of Fatiha El-Ghorri is from Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled where she recounted bullying a colleague because they were quiet and awkward, and generally came across as the kind of arsehole who would do exactly that.
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Don't mind that lineup myself but if it's true then I imagine the announcement will be met with a massive WHOOOOOOOOOO? by your average Taskmaster viewer.

LocalTwat

Nerdy trivia: If this line-up is true,
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Rosie Ramsey
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would be
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the first contestant to be cast on the show after having already been a guest on the podcast.
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Is that too many spoilers?

Ron Superior

Ok.

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I'm disappointed it's not PFT, but I think Jason should be good fun, I think he'll bring a manic edge. Fatiha was funny on Outsiders and could be good on this. Stevie I like, Matthew we'll see, but he annoyed the fuck out of me in Wonka, and Rosie I'm not excited about at all, but I wasn't excited about Chris either and he ended up being decent enough.
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All in all, yeah, good enough to still be excited about it even after last series.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: llambert on September 19, 2024, 03:53:48 PMthe line up is...

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Fatiha El-Ghorri
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Mathew Baynton
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Rosie Ramsey
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Stevie Martin
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very exciting stuff!


I saw
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Fatiha El-Ghorri do a 30 minute WIP last month and it was really rough around the edges (with a lot of "Well I liked that joke, so fuck you" type comments) but I did like her stage persona and think she could be great, and I'm a big fan of Stevie Martin's so am pleased she's going to be on the show. Mantzoukas and Baynton I like as actors but only really know them that way, and I've never seen Rosie Ramsay.
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Overall I think it shows a lot of potential, and it's a pretty strong line-up imho.

DrGreggles

Quote from: llambert on September 19, 2024, 03:53:48 PMthe line up is...

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Fatiha El-Ghorri
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Jason Mantzoukas
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Mathew Baynton
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Rosie Ramsey
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Stevie Martin
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very exciting stuff!


I've heard of 2 of them. Might be a record low.

JOLT

I really don't want to sound ungrateful but this is looking to be possibly the worst lineup in the history of the entire show...

frajer

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on September 19, 2024, 04:44:34 PMI saw
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Fatiha El-Ghorri do a 30 minute WIP last month and it was really rough around the edges (with a lot of "Well I liked that joke, so fuck you" type comments) but I did like her stage persona and think she could be great, and I'm a big fan of Stevie Martin's so am pleased she's going to be on the show. Mantzoukas and Baynton I like as actors but only really know them that way, and I've never seen Rosie Ramsay.
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Overall I think it shows a lot of potential, and it's a pretty strong line-up imho.

That contestant was also good fun on
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UKTV Play's Taskmaster-knockoff-that-likes-to-play-in-the-woods-but-is-surprisingly-decent, Outsiders.
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Yeah I think that line-up looks alright too. And some former promising line-ups have produced middling results at best, with Taskmaster you never know how it's going to gel.

TheDreamIsOver

Apart from not really knowing

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Rosie Ramsey
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that's a cracking line-up

TheDreamIsOver

Quote from: hevfev on September 19, 2024, 02:21:58 PMSo I think I've worked out who 4/5 of the contestants are...

Going by the clues about one contestant who's been discussed here, I typed
Spoiler alert
Jason Mantzoukas
[close]
into Google trends out of interest to see if there was a spike in searches. After yesterday's recordings, there was a huge spike for them.

BUT if you scroll down on Trends it tells you searches that have been related to the one in question, and the people who popped up there, alongside 'Taskmaster', were:

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Mathew Baynton
[close]
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Stevie Martin
[close]
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Rosie Ramsey
[close]

Looked at each of their trends and they had spikes around the same time too. Also couldn't work out a fifth person for some reason.

This isn't a full-proof way AT ALL and I could be totally off base, but there we go....

Also great work here

Twilkes

S18 is literally dead to me now. :(

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