I felt the need to make this edit after watching their performances in house of games because i was so shocked by how good they were. it was soo hilarious watching them all try and hold back and feel bad that they were ruining the game because they were clearly gonna win from day one lmaoo. also im not an editor so this is really bad but i really want to learn proper editing… for now this has to do i guess. theres also way too little edits of these guys so i am so starved for content i had to start making my own..
Coco Khan: When the rumors started to surface just before the weekend that Channel 4 were going to broadcast a potentially career-ending expose...did you know who it would be?
Nish Kumar: Yes, this is a well known open secret from the comedy circuit. It's been something that's been talked about certainly to my knowledge for at least the last five years. It's something that's been pretty openly discussed in the comedy industry. I think I remember first hearing about it in mid-2017. Subsequent to Dispatches and the Sunday Time expose, Deadline ran a story about an incident that happened on a TV show called Roast Battle where jokes were made referencing Brand being an abuser and they were removed from the broadcast... from that point onwards it was common knowledge...It was discussed by multiple comedians in Edinburgh Fringe shows the following year, in 2018. It was that well known.
Coco: But when you say it was well known like what was well known?
Nish: to be completely honest with you the story that I had heard was relating to a sexual assault it was not covered in the documentary, so it was a very specific and serious allegation. I was not aware of any of the stories in the documentary. I was surprised watching it how far back this had gone.
I think this is a real moment for everybody to consider how this was allowed to happen and how this was allowed to go on for so long.... I think if you look at Russell Brand's IMDB page you see that his television work in Britain starts to dry up around 2018, 2019 and that's simply because increasingly people were just not willing to work with him. Everyone was afraid to talk about it because of the threat of lawsuits... Watching it as a cisgender heterosexual male comedian you feel a certain sense of guilt and a certain sense of complicity because you've been working with production companies and producers who are providing an infrastructure that allows predators to thrive.
There are still people working in comedy who are the subject of open secrets...there are still people working in comedy who people will say 'oh we don't send young women into their dressing rooms'. Now at that stage for me you should be sacked... if you can't have someone be around young women they have no place in any kind of workplace.
Guys this is a really boring post but I have a Garth Marenghi blog, @theoneandonlywonton, and I'm really passionate about the show and want to share as much of it as possible. It's a comedy-sci fi-horror show that's a bit meta and it's a really underrated show.
If you're interested in watching, it's on Channel 4 in the UK and you can find the episodes on YouTube.
Here's a playlist I made:
If you like the show, you'll probably enjoy the blog too so feel free to check it out.
does anyone have audio/video clips of tim and alex saying nice things about each other or talking about their friendship? im trying to make an edit/compilation of their friendship throughout the last 20 years lmao
James May and Richard Hammond are funny, but Jeremy Clarkson is just an asshole. It's like Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington contrasted with Ricky Gervais. There's one in every trio.
I am going insane trying to find a clip to share with someone of Alex Horne from Taskmaster. He was on the set of a talk show with a lot of blond wood and bright lighting (to me it suggested a morning show rather than a late night one). He was being interviewed. One of the hosts made a passing joke that it was almost like Alex has a humiliation fetish, to which Alex deadpanned, "It is a fetish." Can anyone point me to it? Or if you're pretty sure what show he wad on, that would help. I don't think I dreamed it.