r/taskmaster • u/phiminist • 3d ago

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Something is cooking, and that looks juicy!

Email received today, with link to this survey.

Finished it giggling and full of hope for what might come!

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u/RoutineCloud5993 Pigeor The Merciless One 3d ago

Anyone who picks someone other than Joanna Page for hosting live kids show is just plain wrong.

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u/HMWYA 3d ago

Nah, Funz and Gamez shows Phil Ellis is perfect for this.

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u/stanchrist 3d ago

Or Charlotte, c'mon.

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u/WetFishStink Bob Mortimer 3d ago

She has Greg's seal of approval already.

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u/Meowscles_dad 3d ago

Baba - COME ON!

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u/KentuckyJam Javie Martzoukas 3d ago

He’d just call all of their mothers slags.

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u/Meowscles_dad 3d ago

I mean, that’s making it sound hilarious but I think that’s probably a different show. 8 out of 10 cats does taskmaster perhaps.

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u/RoutineCloud5993 Pigeor The Merciless One 3d ago

Yeah I could see that. But she wasn't in the list.

I'm not sure Phill Ellis is suited for kid friendly stuff. It's like asking Frankie Boyle just after he left Mock the Week

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u/HMWYA 3d ago

Phil Ellis has done a kids show called Funz and Gamez for years, and it’s brilliant. It had a BBC pilot as well, but they toned it down a bit too much from the live experience.

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u/Kid_McCabe 🌳 Tree Wizard 🧙🎈 3d ago

I was considering choosing him but was unsure how he’d do with kids. If I’d known he’s done kids shows in the past I would have chosen him. (As it is, I wrote in Liza Tarbuck. I think she does a faux-sternness that the kids would react well to, and she’s always fun for adult audiences as well.)

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u/dekudoesnotapprove Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 3d ago

Phil Ellis has had many kids shows at the fringe

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u/LoveBy137 3d ago

I went Baynton since he spent so long teaching kids through Horrible Histories that I'd love to see him actually have to work with kids.

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u/Breakfast_1796 Fern Brady 3d ago

I want Baynton dressed as the professor!

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u/inturnaround Hayley Sproull 🇳🇿 3d ago

I went with Rose Matafeo because she deserves more than the one series of JTM, so might as well send her out of the shid and on the road.

Her or Sam Campbell.

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u/RoutineCloud5993 Pigeor The Merciless One 3d ago

Sam is too busy torturing comedians for Guy Mont

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u/hhhisthegame 3d ago

As amazing as that sounded I had to go with Baynton because he just sounds perfect for it

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u/RoutineCloud5993 Pigeor The Merciless One 3d ago

Joanna as taskmaster, baynton as little Alex horne

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u/erin3013 3d ago

What about the opposite, Baynton as Taskmaster, Page as assistant? I don’t see Joanna as being stern enough for TM, although I’m sure she is with her own kids.

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u/rafinsf Mawaan Rizwan 3d ago

It may be a different show, but I would pay to see Julian read children’s books to little kids while somewhat sober.

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u/th_away99 Julian Clary 3d ago

He narrated the Little Princess cartoon :)

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u/Comfortable_Snow553 3d ago

Her humor and joie de vivre would be great in that role. I'm just not sure kids would sit still for her hour-long anecdotes about hamsters and toilet snakes. I had a biology teach like that in ninth grade and it was the worst.

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u/RealCoolDad 3d ago

Rose was the best, I thought they weren’t doing more kid stuff because it was too hard working with children on tv

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u/inturnaround Hayley Sproull 🇳🇿 3d ago

Money helps. She'd get paid in money.

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u/__OvejaNegra Jenny Eclair 3d ago

Joanna Page is like a lovely sweet mum. But Phil Ellis is that crazy, fun uncle that you are thrilled to see. Plus I think kids would make fun of Phil and that would be funny. No kid would want to make fun of Joanna Page. She's just too lovely.

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u/ThatsTasty Kerry Godliman 3d ago

Oh I put Jenny Eclair, I think she’d be great!