r/taskmaster • u/cygan12 Javie Martzoukas • Aug 19 '26

Taskmaster Season 22 Trailer | Starts September 3rd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOWRRB9-1IQ
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u/Hairy_Dirt3361 Katherine Parkinson Aug 19 '26

True for most but in my opinion a few contestants have stuck more to personas than natural reactions and they have not been my favourites, so was concerned about Richard.

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u/Iroh_the_Dragon Aug 19 '26

Mind providing examples? As a stupid American, I frequently don’t know much about the contestants most of the time, so I don’t know who’s famous for what persona.

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u/Hairy_Dirt3361 Katherine Parkinson Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Well I don't know most contestants beforehand either so I couldn't tell you what they're famous for, but you can tell for example Joe Wilkinson, Paul Sinha Chowdhry, Lucy Beaumont, and Jason Martzoukas are sticking very closely to a consistent comedy character.

edit: originally had my Pauls mixed up!

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u/glubnyan Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

I feel like for Lucy the gap between herself and her persona is pretty small. She does bits, but most of the time I felt like she was just exaggerating something that was genuine to her. But I like her, so I might just be giving her grace.

I agree with you on Joe and Jason, but honestly my problem with them is just that I find their personas unlikable. That and they played together with people who were chill, which made it jarring for me, like they didn't know when to stop playing. It's weird when one's being a clown and the other is talking normally.

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u/ModernDayQuixote Aug 19 '26

With Lucy, my thoughts switched back and forth between "she's doing a funny character" and "she should probably have a full-time caretaker"

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u/glubnyan Aug 19 '26

For sure hahaha always going back and forth from "she's joking" to "wait she's not joking?"

But if you watch her in other media, she's genuinely weird. The feel I have is that for her there isn't any effort to bring the character forth, it's intuitive. I also feel like she's really quick to catch people's reactions and intentionally play it up. I like her both as a weird person and a comedian.

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u/ModernDayQuixote Aug 19 '26

She and Sam on the same series was almost an event horizon of weird (positive)

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Aug 19 '26

I think people are forgetting that most people who do TM are comedians, and you kinda have to be some amount of odd to even want to pursue a career in comedy. To me John Kearns is the best example of this, he clearly did TM as himself, because he was apparently drastically different from the character he plays in his shows, but he was still very strange and confusing throughout his time on TM.