Without comedy panel show Taskmaster, the world would be a worse place. There’d be no Tree Wizard, no Bob Mortimer-designed pork pie presentation unit, a great deal less footage of the brilliant weirdness of Sally Phillips, Josh Widdicombe wouldn’t have a Greg Davies foot tattoo and the mayor of Chesham would never have been presented with the rare gift of 42 Calippos.
Created by Alex Horne and developed for television from his 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show, Taskmaster brings extreme and silly joy; it is to be cherished.
Nine series of the show that pits comedians against absurd and pointless challenges to see just how their minds work have aired on Dave since 2015. This year, it’s packing up and moving to a new home on Channel 4, a move confirmed in November 2019 with these words from Alex on the official website:
‘I promise the show won’t change & there...
Created by Alex Horne and developed for television from his 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show, Taskmaster brings extreme and silly joy; it is to be cherished.
Nine series of the show that pits comedians against absurd and pointless challenges to see just how their minds work have aired on Dave since 2015. This year, it’s packing up and moving to a new home on Channel 4, a move confirmed in November 2019 with these words from Alex on the official website:
‘I promise the show won’t change & there...
- 3/13/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Whether you’re an early adopter or finally just getting around to the whole podcast thing, now's a great time to tune in: More than a decade into podcasting’s existence, we're in the midst of the medium's second boom. The quality game has been upped, too, thanks in no small part to the popularity of "This American Life" and its spinoff "Serial," which reached larger weekly audiences than some shows on network TV. That's partially why so many of the most popular podcasts — from "Comedy Bang! Bang!" to "Wtf With Marc Maron" to "This American Life" and, soon, "Serial" — have become TV shows; of course, that's also because these podcasts set a gold standard for well-produced, entertaining, host-driven storytelling. These, in addition to John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman's long-running satire podcast "The Bugle," are as good a place as any to start; everything else ... well, it's hard to...
- 10/5/2015
- by Althea Legaspi
- Vulture
To mark the release of Alternative Comedy Experience Season 1 on 18th November, we’ve been given 5 copies to give away on DVD.
This critically acclaimed series, which proved a ratings success when it first aired on Comedy Central earlier in the year, with a second season to follow in 2014, is curated by Stewart Lee and features a cast of highly individual award-winning and break-through comedians, including Tony Law, Simon Munnery, Isy Suttie, David O’Doherty, Paul Foot, Andy Zaltzman, Henning Wehn, Josie Long, Eleanor Tiernan, David Kay and Bridget Christie.
The Alternative Comedy Experience was filmed in front of a real comedy club audience at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh, faithfully capturing the unique atmosphere of one of the UK’s favourite and longest established live comedy clubs. It showcases a mix of modern day comedians offering material possibly too clever, thoughtful, radical, satirical, strange, or downright stupid to...
This critically acclaimed series, which proved a ratings success when it first aired on Comedy Central earlier in the year, with a second season to follow in 2014, is curated by Stewart Lee and features a cast of highly individual award-winning and break-through comedians, including Tony Law, Simon Munnery, Isy Suttie, David O’Doherty, Paul Foot, Andy Zaltzman, Henning Wehn, Josie Long, Eleanor Tiernan, David Kay and Bridget Christie.
The Alternative Comedy Experience was filmed in front of a real comedy club audience at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh, faithfully capturing the unique atmosphere of one of the UK’s favourite and longest established live comedy clubs. It showcases a mix of modern day comedians offering material possibly too clever, thoughtful, radical, satirical, strange, or downright stupid to...
- 11/14/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
John Oliver begins his stint as guest host of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on Monday, June 10 at 11 Pm. Deadline broke the news in March that Stewart would be taking a 12-week hiatus to direct his first feature film Rosewater and Oliver would be filling in for eight weeks of original episodes during Stewart’s absence. Stewart will return on Tuesday, September 3. Scheduled guests during Oliver’s first week include Seth Rogen, Armando Iannucci, Mavis Staples and Fareed Zakaria. Oliver performs stand-up around the Us and his one-hour special Terrifying Times debuted in April 2008. His stand-up series, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show premiered on Comedy Central in January 2010 with the fourth season slated to air in late summer. Along with Andy Zaltzman, Oliver also writes and stars in a weekly podcast, The Bugle: Audio Newspaper For A Visual World. The Daily Show is exec produced by Jon Stewart and Rory Albanese,...
- 5/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Radio 2's look at how religions affect women was undermined by intrusive musical choices
What Has Religion Done For Women? (R2) | iPlayer
Here's the Thing (Wync Radio podcast) | Listen
Warhorses of Letters (R4) | iPlayer
Tonight (R4) | iPlayer
Ramblings (R4) | iPlayer
There is a certain type of radio listener that gets very exercised about background music. They write to Radio 4's Feedback, using quills dipped in molten ear wax, to complain that the tunes on a documentary completely spoilt their appreciation of 2,000 Years of Prime Minister's Question Time, or Why Scientists Are Just as Interesting as Artists. No, Really, or whatever.
To be clear, I am not one of those people. For me, music is a life-enhancer. I'd be very happy to have most of my conversations punctuated by a quick blast of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage". It would add thrills and I could get the kids' attention when I want it.
What Has Religion Done For Women? (R2) | iPlayer
Here's the Thing (Wync Radio podcast) | Listen
Warhorses of Letters (R4) | iPlayer
Tonight (R4) | iPlayer
Ramblings (R4) | iPlayer
There is a certain type of radio listener that gets very exercised about background music. They write to Radio 4's Feedback, using quills dipped in molten ear wax, to complain that the tunes on a documentary completely spoilt their appreciation of 2,000 Years of Prime Minister's Question Time, or Why Scientists Are Just as Interesting as Artists. No, Really, or whatever.
To be clear, I am not one of those people. For me, music is a life-enhancer. I'd be very happy to have most of my conversations punctuated by a quick blast of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage". It would add thrills and I could get the kids' attention when I want it.
- 10/29/2011
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
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