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Ed talking about his wife exploiting his type 1 for her own gain is honestly one of the best things
Trusty Hogs: Episode 9
#ed gamble#catherine bohart#helen bauer#trusty hogs podcast#diabetes#type 1 diabetes#ed talking about his t1d
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People I would love to see on Taskmaster:
Helen Bauer (THE CHAOS)
Catherine Bohart (extremely organized, literally OCD, could absolutely crush it but could equally likely absolutely melt down)
Leo Reich (the inevitable Greg flirting outtakes would break the internet plus also what would he WEAR?)
Fatih El-Ghorri (I imagine she'd be a more foul-mouthed version of Godliman, just boshing her way through everything)
Archie Henderson/Jazz Emu (although I think he'd have to participate as himself for it to make sense in the world of the show, and he's so persona-based that... hmmm... but still)
...and while I'm dreaming...
Ncuti Gatwa (he's comedy-adjacent enough, and I would just love to see his big sunshiney energy bouncing through all the tasks).
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Laughterama was brilliant, still a little sad that Tim was rescheduled but Amy Gledhill and Nish Kumar were fantastic
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CLAWFACE '80s retro slasher - teaser and trailer
Clawface is a 2024 American slasher horror film focused around a hulking madman who was presumed dead but still stalks the woods. The movie was “made in the style of slasher films of the 1980s.”
Mike Streeter directed the movie from a screenplay co-written with Josh Barbee. It was produced by Morgan Poferl and Mike Streeter and executive-produced by Nancy Jundi and Ramy Katrib.
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#2024#Alexandra Deaver#Averie Groleau-Cmelo#Brendan Patterson#Clawface#JJ Carroll#Kelly Bohart#movie film#slasher horror#trailer
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Wool-Carder Bees: these solitary bees harvest the soft, downy hairs that grow on certain plants, rolling them into bundles and then using the material to line their nests
Wool-carder bees build their nests in existing cavities, usually finding a hole/crevice in a tree, a plant stem, a piece of rotting wood, or a man-made structure, and then lining the cavity with woolly plant fibers, which are used to form a series of brood cells.
The fibers (known as trichomes) are collected from the leaves and stems of various plants, including lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina), mulleins, globe thistle, rose campion, and other fuzzy plants.
From the University of Florida's Department of Entomology & Nematology:
The female uses her toothed mandibles to scrape trichomes off fuzzy plants and collects a ball of the material under her abdomen. She transports these soft plant fibers to her selected nest site and uses them to line a brood cell. Next, she collects and deposits a provision of pollen and nectar into the cell, enough pollen to feed a larva until it is ready to pupate. Lastly, she lays a single egg on top of the pollen and nectar supply before sealing the cell. ... She will repeat this process with adjoining cells until the cavity is full.
These are solitary bees, meaning that they do not form colonies or live together in hives. Each female builds her own nest, and the males do not have nests at all.
Female wool-carder bees will sometimes sting if their nest is threatened, but they are generally docile. The males are notoriously aggressive, however; they will often chase, head-butt, and/or wrestle any other insect that invades their territory, and they may defend their territory from intruders up to 70 times per hour. The males do not have stingers, but there are five tiny spikes located on the last segment of their abdomen, and they often use those spikes when fighting. They also have strong, sharp mandibles that can crush other bees.
There are many different types of wool-carder bee, but the most prolific is the European wool-carder (Anthidium manicatum), which is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but has also become established as an invasive species throughout much of North America, most of South America, and New Zealand. It is the most widely distributed unmanaged bee in the world.
A few different species of wool-carder bee: the top row depicts the European wool-carder, A. manicatum (left) and the spotted wool-carder, Anthidium maculosum (right), while the bottom row depicts the reticulated small-woolcarder, Pseudoanthidium reticulatum, and Porter's wool-carder, Anthidium porterae
Sources & More Info:
University of Florida: The Woolcarder Bee
Oregon State University: European Woolcarder Bees
Bohart Museum of Entomology: Facts about the Wool Carder Bee (PDF)
Bumblebee Conservation Trust: A. manicatum
World's Best Gardening Blog: European Wool Carder Bees - Likeable Bullies
Biological Invasions: Global Invasion by Anthidium manicatum
#entomology#hymenoptera#apiology#melittology#bees#woolcarder bees#nature#insects#arthropods#science#solitary bees#european woolcarder#anthidium#animal facts#cool bugs#cute animals
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WHO PUT LITTLE GHOST OUTSIDE THE BOHART MUSEUM
#hollow knight#BUG SPOTTED#little ghost#i mean its a bug museum so i get it but also. hootin and hollerin
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rather than who you would like to see on the next taskmaster series, who do you think will be on it? like just your predictions or any inklings you may have!
anon if you're still around then you'll know i really took my time with this hahaha so sorry! i hope anyone reading this takes it as just a bit of fun and nbd, who knows who we'll get or who alex & the network have in mind! i'm answering thoughtfully (bc i always feel guilty not to 😩 so sorry this is long lol) but it's really just fun!!
i will say, of the more recent-ish series, i did get a few right!!! krishnan guru-murthy, nicola coughlan, alan davies, judi love, sue perkins, john robins, and joanne mcnally were people i just knew would eventually be on if the show could get their schedules right, and i was also certain sarah millican and dara ó briain would be asked — though not necessarily that they'd actually agree. when you have a level of seniority and esteem, the "it's such a great opportunity" aspect of the show isn't such a draw 😅 for some reason i feel SO PROUD about guessing nicola! i was just WAITING and wish sooooo much she had done a full series 😭😭😭 (how fun would saoirse-monica jackson be too!)
anyways, as for people who haven't been on yet — and this isn't to say i want them all to be, just that i think it's likeliest they have been asked or will be asked; i talked about who i want to see a little while ago here — it's important to consider the casting 'roles' the network has in mind when working with the producers to form a series, so i will keep that in mind too!
established comedian, typically a straight white man over 40: bill bailey, vic reeves, harry hill, geoff norcott, kevin bridges, adam buxton, ade edmondson (tommy tiernan? god i feel bad for not saying ed byrne but why do i feel like he's not gonna make it in the next few series? i'm on the fence with nick helm — unless he's friends with alex, then his chances go up significantly imo — and tom allen for some reason, and i feel like john bishop is almost too much of an ask?)
fresh talent comedian, typically a man under 40: rhys james, huge davies, ahir shah, darren harriott would be my top guesses but tbh any of the semi-recent edinburgh comedy award finalists are good bets as a majority of the winners from the last ~10 years have been on the series + throwing out tom rosenthal (i know he's not fresh fresh and also mostly an actor)...and, like, jazz emu?...just because if taskmaster know how much its audience adores weird little white twinks then they'll cast them
female or non-binary comedian: 100% sarah keyworth + harriet kemsley, maisie adam, jess fostekew, suzi ruffell. i've shifted away from betting on cariad lloyd and catherine bohart for some reason... (joanne was my no.1 lady bet for the last like 4 series hahaha)
non-comedian: this is very, very hard to predict because between comedy actors, non-comedy actors, tv presenters, news people, reality & social media stars... the potential predictions are just so endless! logically, the most likely is an established actor with a lot of comedy connections (think sally phillips, lolly adefope, liza tarbuck, sian gibson, daisy may cooper, susan wokoma; this category is where tm gets quite a few of its female contestants): matt holness, kevin eldon, amanda abbington, tom davis, sharon horgan, kathy burke, georgia tennant (also friends w alex?), su pollard, tom basden, apparently anyone from the cast of ghosts, and so on and so on and so on... + i'll also throw out maggie aderin-pocock as a serious contender + i really feel like one of the spice girls will be on new years treat
friend of alex: john robins was the prediction for the past few series, so just worth keeping in mind other people in this circle include elis james, matthew crosby, tom neenan, and so on
freebie answers because alex/greg have mentioned them before: jack dee, lorraine kelly, joanna lumley (i want jennifer saunders SO BAD give us an epic series w both ade and jen pleaseeee tm gods!!!!)
complete wild card bets that are either my instincts kicking in or my bias taking over: limmy, adam buxton, paddy mcguinness, diane morgan, daniel sloss, joel dommett, jess hynes, spencer jones??, alasdair beckett-king or josh pugh + if suzy izzard wasn't doing a big nyc show i'd say that's a good guess if only bc you know greg & alex grew up big fans
did i mention too many people?? if i had to put my money behind a single person it would be either ahir shah or sarah keyworth
these are almost all of my fr big heavy hitters when it comes to placing bets! but there are of course so many people i didn't name who i could totally see on either a main series or the ny treat — so many people just make sense and that's the beauty of taskmaster!!
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Sam Campbell Podcast Masterlist
Here's a masterlist of podcast episodes that feature Sam Campbell, in reverse chronological order. I tried to find all of the episodes that are available on the internet, do send me an ask if you find any that I did not include here!
Note: some of these links are Spotify links but usually podcast episodes are available anywhere you usually get a podcast i.e. Apple podcasts, Acast, etc.
May 2024
Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 6, Ep 7, Ep 8, Ep 9. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.
April 2024
Some Laugh Podcast - Episode 99. Taskmaster, Edinburgh Fringe & Secrets. Hosted by Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson.
Tim Key's Poetry Programme. 3. Safari. On BBC Radio 4.
Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 2, Ep 3, Ep 4, Ep 5. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.
March 2024
Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains, Ep 1. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont.
Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble - Episode 229, Live with Sam Campbell in Nottingham Royal Concert Hall. Note: the episode was recorded on October 18, 2023 and released 2 March 2024.
January 2024
Drifting Off with Joe Pera Ep 12: Australia and its Greatest Horse ft. Cut Worms. Guests: Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Guy Montgomery and Yaraman Thorne aka Yaz.
November 2023
Ep110. SAM CAMPBELL / Plato, Purses & Palm Readings. Trusty Hogs podcast. Hosted by Catherine Bohart and Helen Bauer.
BONUS: Ep111. NATHAN FOAD/ Colleagues, Cucks & Cliff Richard. Trusty Hogs podcast - Sam pulls a prank on Nathan Foad at 22:38. Nathan Foad was in Bloods, the Sky TV sitcom that Sam was also in.
Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 149. (S16 Ep.10.) Hosted by Ed Gamble.
Northern News. ‘A Spider’s Intern’. Hosted by Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill. Sam Campbell's guest appearance starts around the 21 minute mark.
September 2023
Taskmaster The Podcast. Ep 141. Sam Campbell - S16 Ep. 2. Hosted by Ed Gamble.
May 2023
WTF w/ Sam Campbell. Welcome to Meet You podcast. Hosted by Dart Sultan and Robbie Armfield.
April 2023
Mugg Off #173 Live Show Melbourne. Sam Campbell, Sam Taunton, Tim Hewitt, Laura Hughes.
November 2022
NTS - Hot Mess W/ Sam Campbell (hosted by Babak Ganjei).
October 2022
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Podcast with Lara Ricote and Sam Campbell.
September 2022
Plot Twist podcast Kevin ‘KG’ Garry and Sam Campbell. Sky TV.
June 2022
Mugg Off #139 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan, and Yaz.
May 2022
Backyard Stories - Episode Thirty Four - Sam Campbell
October 2021
Aunty Donna Podcast Ep 277 Nippers Feat. Sam Campbell and Eric Hutton. Hosted by Zach, Mark and Broden.
July 2021
The Phone Hacks Podcast 170. Sam Campbell - Hay Ladies. Hosted by Mike Goldstein and Nick Capper. (Thanks to Cambo Fans!)
June 2021
The Good Stuff - Episode 41 Feat. Sam Campbell. Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.
Australia Debates - ABC Comedy. Series 1 Episode 1 - Should Social Media Be Banned?
March 2021
Mugg Off #80 Tom Cashman and "Dingo Duggan" - Sam Campbell plays Dingo.
December 2020
Mugg Off #069 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz. Note: this episode was recorded in December 2020 but the video was uploaded June 2022.
August 2020
The Grub podcast, with Nikki Britton, Bjorn Stewart, Sam Campbell, Cameron James, and Danielle Walker. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.
July 2020
Circling the Drain - Ep1: Elouise Eftos, Sam Campbell. Hosted by Andrew Wolfe.
April 2020
The Good Stuff - Episode 3 Feat. Sam Campbell (An Expose on Women’s Bathrooms). Hosted by Sam Taunton and Tom Cashman.
January 2020
Mugg Off #20 - Sam Campbell. Hosted by Cameron Duggan, Gerard McGowan and Yaz.
The Grub - 2020 Call-in Special. With Melinda Buttle, Becky Lucas, Sam Campbell, Aaron Chen, Rodney Todd. Hosts: Anne Edmonds, Greg Larsen and Ben Russell. NOTE: Sam is only in a few clips in this podcast, not in the whole thing.
October 2019
The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Ninety. Hosted by Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt.
May 2019
Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 50. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) with Tom Walker and Sam Campbell.
May 2018
Aunty Donna Podcast Episode 97: LIVE FROM THE FACTORY THEATRE SYDNEY FEAT. SAM CAMPBELL
October 2017
The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep 18: THIS BOY FREZNO. The Dragon Friends is a DnD podcast and this episode was live. From the podcast description: "Also Sam Campbell wore a mask and an elephant trunk for all of the recording so if it helps, imagine that." Cambo knows nothing about DnD - he went on the podcast to prank his friend Michael Hing (allegedly). Sam plays the antagonist (an evil Michael Hing).
The Dragon Friends. S3 Ep.17. A Dog With Human Eyes with Carlo Ritchie
August 2017
Mike Check with Cameron James & Alexei Toliopoulos - Ep 45. The Gong Show S01E04 & S01E05 w/ Sam Campbell
January-February 2015
Sad Boys, episode 1-3 hosted by Sam Campbell, Eddie Sharp and Anith Mukherjee. Originally broadcast via FBi Radio.
November 2014
Mark Williamson Chat Show - Episode 110: Becky Lucas and Sam Campbell. With regulars Lester Diamond and Ryan ‘Special Comments’ Crawford.
June 2014
Truth Nest - Episode 1 Feat. Alexei Toliopoulos. Hosted by Sam Campbell and Craig Anderson.
Below are 'lost episodes' - I cannot find the audio anywhere, or the audio files are broken. Podcast descriptions say Sam was a guest. Please do message me if you manage to find the audio!
Special Features with Cameron James and Alexei Toliopoulos: 9. 2 Guns with Sam Campbell. July 2015.
Sydney Comedy Festival Podcast. April 2015.
The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 107- Sam Campbell & Shubha. January 2015.
Versus on FBi Radio - Witches vs Calendars w/ Sam Campbell and Claudia O'Doherty. December 2014. This episode has unfortunately been scrubbed from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and FBi Radio website.
The Loose Five with Marcel Blanch- de Wilt. Episode 96- Sam Campbell and Gearard McGeown. September 2014.
A massive thank you to @vampire-lily / Lauren for contributing to this masterlist!!
#sam campbell#cambo#comedy#standup comedy#australian comedy#australian comedian#mcdonalds comedy#cambo fans#samcampbell#britcom#podcasts
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Okay, let’s talk Taskmaster. Season 16 must get a release date soon, and it’s a really exciting lineup. I’m mainly excited for Sue Perkins (as I think most people on this site are) and Sam Campell (as I think most comedians are, based on the way every Taskmaster podcast guest who’s been asked for their thoughts on the lineup immediately gravitate to Campbell as the most exciting one). But I think Lucy Beaumont’s comedy persona might be an absolutely perfect fit for Taskmaster, the more I think about it the more I think she’s tailor-made to be hilarious in that format. The other two I know less well, even though I realize Julian Cleary is very very famous, I’m afraid “camp, gay, rude” are the extent of the words I can associate with him. I’m sure he’ll be fun though. And Susan Wokoma was good when she played that role in Crazyhead, which was a fun show, but I’ve not seen her do anything else and watching her act out someone else’s script doesn’t really tell me what she’ll be like on a panel show.
We don’t even have an exact start date yet (got to be soon, though), so I hate to bypass that already and start talking season 17… but I’m going to start talking season 17. For the last couple of seasons I saw definite spoilers of the lineup weeks before the announcement, and I avoided mentioning them on Tumblr, because I guess it’s not great to draw attention to stuff like that, even though I really wanted to talk about it I held off until the announcement. If I see spoilers early again this year, I will similarly pretend they didn’t exist in all my public posts until they’re officially announced.
However, that doesn’t mean I can’t speculate, before any spoilers appear. So that’s what this post is. Not any leaks of official stuff, just speculation based on publicly available information. But some people want to be entirely surprised by the lineup, so I’ll put a cut here just in case. Don’t click on this link unless you want to see… not definite names for the next Taskmaster, but educated guesses. With the warning that in previous seasons, educated guesses made with similar evidence to this have turned out to be correct, according to the ones I’ve seen, approximately 75% of the time.
The main evidence people use for this stuff is gaps in schedules, and the more specific the gap, the more likely. If someone isn’t performing during the whole month that the studio records are happening, then they might be in it, but it’s not all that likely (on the other hand, if someone is performing the night of a studio record, you can rule them out entirely). If someone is performing around that time but has the nights of every studio record free, then it’s more likely. Other stuff gets used as well, like social media posts. In season 12, there was a lovely bit of detective work where some people predicted 4 out of 5 people on the lineup by working out who’s recently added who on social media (because those people met each other through the show and then followed each other online – if you think about it, season 12 did have a pretty disparate group of people who mostly were not already social media friends). But as far as I can tell, suspiciously specific gaps in a performance schedule are the most reliable way to guess.
They’ve recently announced the season 17 recording dates as September 25-29. Here is some information I’ve collected from the Taskmaster subreddit, where a bunch of people did the work of looking things up so I don’t have to. Basically, the only point to me making this list is it collates the information in that that thread, which is a bit easier than reading it post-by-post. Here’s who they’ve ruled out, by finding that these people have shows that clash with the recording dates:
- Tom Allen
- Chloe Petts
- Amy Gledhill
- Rhys James
- Ed Byrne
- Ria Lina
- Tom Davis
- Larry Dean
- Kiri Pritchard-McLean
- Jack Whitehall
- Richard Ayoade
And here’s who they’ve found have that week free:
- Sarah Keyworth
- Catherine Bohart
- Maisie Adam
- Bill Bailey
- Suzi Ruffell
- Harriet Kemsley
- Daniel Sloss
- Miles Jupp
- Bec Hill
- Jason Manford
- Kevin Bridges
- John Robins
Having that week free doesn’t mean all that much, it’s worth noting. Especially since, annoyingly, the filming takes place right after the Edinburgh Festival. A lot of comedians take a bit of time off right after Edinburgh, so most of them wouldn’t be on tour anyway. But it at least leaves the possibility open. Having said that, here are some people who didn’t come up in the Reddit thread, but I’ve ruled them out through looking them up myself:
- Isy Suttie
- Shaparak Khorsandi
- Michael Legge
- Alasdair Beckett-King
- Josie Long
- Simon Amstell
- Jen Brister
- Jimmy Carr (to be clear, I was happy to rule that one out)
And here are some people I looked up myself and they were not ruled out:
- Ahir Shah
- David O’Doherty
- Andy Zaltzman
- Alice Fraser (yes I realize she lives in Australia, but she spends like half her time in the UK for work anyway, and if Sam Campbell can do it…)
- Chris Addison
- Jessica Fostekew
- Huge Davies
- Stewart Lee (I mean, it seems incredibly unlikely, but according to some very reputable tabloids Stewart Lee’s been doing a number of things I’d not have expected from him lately, so many he’s changed his policy on panel shows too)
- Paul Foot
- Susie McCabe
Now, on to a couple of specifics. First of all, here’s the big name that at this point is a relatively heavy spoiler: John Robins looks very likely. He doesn’t just have that week free. He had gigs on a couple of those recording nights, and then he canceled them. Which isn’t a guarantee, but it makes it very likely. About as likely as a piece of speculation can be in the absence of actual information.
I am fucking excited about this. I just read the news about John Robins canceling those gigs earlier today, and it has already gotten me so excited about it that at this point I’ll be very fucking disappointed if it turns out he’s not on the season. So I need this, Taskmaster, my hopes are up now. Give me John Robins. Give me John Robins in all his fucked up wildly competitive self-loathing glory. And yes, I hear he might be doing a bit better these days, and that is unequivocally a good thing, I’m very pleased for him (I also hear his Edinburgh show this year was excellent, both objectively good and the specific sort of thing I love in comedy, I really hope he records and releases it at some point). But also, I’m sure we can still get some of the solidly self-loathing and emotionally unstable John Robins we know from his previous stand-up shows. Just a little bit of emotional instability, as a treat. In a man whom I hope has got his shit together and is less miserable overall.
I was going to start writing about why I specifically want John Robins on Taskmaster so much, but then I remembered I already wrote some of that down in a post earlier this year. I dug up that post instead of writing it all again - it's from March 2023 - here's some stuff I said there:
I mentioned recently that I think it would be cool to see John Robins on Taskmaster, because among other things, we haven’t had enough of the properly self-loathing comedians on there. By coincidence, today I was reading something on a different site that discussed potential future Taskmaster contestants, and I saw something that made 100% sure I want him on there. It was someone saying his pedantry and competitiveness might annoy everyone, and someone else saying he would definitely ruin the show, with his tendency to not let a single thing go, and be too serious about it.
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I’ve recently heard John Robins’ stand-up shows from 2014, 2015, 2016, and the big award winning Darkness of Robins one from 2018. I really liked all of them, especially that last one (understandably, I think, that’s why it won the awards). This makes me think I could maybe really love his radio work with Ellis James, but the problem with that is my brain has difficulty getting into a bit of something but not starting from the beginning and hearing/seeing/reading all of it, and I’m pretty sure there are about 15,000 hours of Ellis James and John Robins on the radio. So John Robins is a dangerous entity for me, I really like him but if I get too into him it could lead to me losing 15,000 hours of my life.
However, I somewhat recently read a negative opinion on his stand-up. Someone who said they liked him on the radio, where he seemed like a nice and upbeat guy, so they checked out his stand-up, and were disappointed that that was quite a bit darker and less nice than his radio stuff. That comment made me think I’d probably still enjoy his radio shows, but I’m not missing out on the best parts of him by not getting into that.
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I just really want to see John Robins ruin Taskmaster with his pedantry and competitiveness that would annoy everyone, with his tendency to not let a single thing go. Come on, Alex. Cast your angry fucked up golf buddy. I didn’t get really into following comedy to see people’s palatable sides.
…I do realize this might be, like, problematic. It’s not ideal to specifically want to see comedians who will do damaging things due to some psychological problem. I’m very pleased for Jon Richardson that he got married and had a child and went to therapy and worked some stuff out, and I at times feel genuinely guilty that I preferred him before all that. Because the idea that people should suffer for art is a bad one. It’s a better world, now that Jon Richardson is happy. But I still want to see if John Robins can equal the James Acaster level of self-loathing destructive fury on Taskmaster, maybe break a camera with a golf club.
So I really hope that one pans out. I hope John Robins films his 2023 Edinburgh show, gives us a good solid run of wild over-competitiveness borne of deep bitterness and anger on Taskmaster, and then rides off into the sunset to be happy and healthy and emotionally mature for the rest of his life. Let him have that eventually, just give me his Taskmaster performance first.
I realize I said a few paragraphs ago that canceled gigs on the filming dates are as good as a guarantee. I need to amend that a bit, because times have (slightly) changed since I wrote that. While I’ve been writing this post, someone sent me the information that Alfie Brown has just canceled gigs on the Taskmaster filming dates. And that… that has me hoping that canceled dates aren’t a guarantee, even though that might mean no John Robins.
For those who don’t know, Alfie Brown is a comedian who was the subject of some controversy earlier this year. I actually quite liked him before that. He has a special on that Soho Theatre Live thing on Amazon Prime, called Sensitive Man, which I enjoyed. He has a couple of specials on YouTube, which are funny. And I’ve also heard a couple of other recent things he’s done. And I liked it. I didn’t like all of it. I found some of his material a little over the line. He’s dark and bitter and fucked up – which I’ve just established is something I like in a comedian. But then earlier in 2023, there was a reminder that there is a good reason why “fucked up” is often considered a bad thing. Turns out there’s a thin line between “expresses taboo emotions like bitterness and admits to less-than-savoury thoughts and actions”, and “terrible person”. A thin line. And basically, I liked Alfie Brown when I thought he was on the good side of it. Then some stuff came out about how he’s on the bad side of it.
There was a whole barrage of resurfaced clips, a couple of which I do know the context for, and actually, I think they are okay in context. There was one particularly bad one that he did apologize for when it came up this year, it was from 2015 – not ancient but old enough for it to be fair if he claims he’s a different type of person now, and he didn’t stand by it. To be honest, I was ready to forgive that one, due to the apology. Until I looked more closely and saw just how big a pattern it was, and for so long. Also, there were a couple of stories about him being a dick offstage, particularly to London Hughes, a black comedian who tried to tell him his racist routine was racist, and he told her he didn’t care, as far as I’m concerned, that makes it a lot worse. It’s worse to be told you’re being racist and be racist anyway, than to do it possibly out of ignorance. Also, I learned that one of the routines was about how all adult men want to fuck teenage girls, which would be horrifying enough even if he hadn’t built a whole lot of his career around stories of his toxic mess of an off-and-on relationship with comedian Jessie Cave (also she was Lavender Brown in Harry Potter), who has talked before about how she was raped as a teenager by an adult man.
So… those are the cliff notes. Also he’s the son of comedian Jan Ravens and that guy who played Glen Ponder in Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. Fun fact. It was a weird fucking story when it came out earlier this year, and I avoided posting about it much, though I think I mentioned it a couple of times. It’s not great. The whole thing’s not great. But it is possible that Taskmaster season 17 may have been cast before that stuff came out.
I don’t think Alfie Brown is on Taskmaster season 17. Even if they cast it before his “cancelation” in March (maybe February? Around that time) 2023, I think they filmed the tasks in the spring/summer, so they’d have had time to recast the season before filming it. When this happened, lots of venues canceled their Alfie Brown gigs, saying they didn’t want to support a comedian like that. I can’t imagine Taskmaster would have stuck by him. I think if they had cast him, they’d have fired him and recast his spot in March. That’s what I really, really hope, anyway. But I’m still writing about the possibility, because like I said, canceled gigs on those specific nights do seem like almost a guarantee.
If only one of those two comedians with cancelled gigs is on there, then there are lots of reasons why it’s more likely to be John Robins. John Robins has the relationship with Alex, doing that golfing show. John Robins did not get roundly canceled earlier this year, leading to him probably getting fired from any TV spots that may have been in the pipeline too. John Robins doesn’t seem to have non-Taskmaster-related reasons for canceling those gigs, while Alfie Brown’s venue spots are precarious at this point, it’s quite possible that the venue just decided they no longer want the controversy of hosting him. So I’m going to really, really hope all those reasons mean we get John Robins but not Alfie Brown.
Okay, there’s one other thing I have to mention. It’s still very, very unlikely. But it’s technically possible, more possible than it’s ever been before or likely will be again. And if I don’t mention it and then it happens, I’ll be really annoyed with myself for not pointing out the possibility.
…John Oliver’s got a gap that’s almost exactly the size of those recording sessions. It’s not just that he’s free for all of September. He’s doing this stand-up tour up until the week before those recording sessions start, and then picking it up again just after.
I first learned this from @lastweeksshirttonight ’s post earlier today, and my first thought was – it can’t be. Someone would have noticed. He’s world famous, there are people out there who know where John Oliver is all the time, in the age of social media you can’t just be a big celebrity in America who goes to a whole different country without people noticing.
But then, my helpful friend @lastweeksshirttonight informed me that there was talk on non-Tumblr social media that while he was visible on the picket lines for a long time, he was notably absent from them for a stretch near the beginning of the strike. Which means it is possible that he was away filming tasks at that point. And I thought that surely, if John Oliver were walking around England, someone would have taken a picture and put it on Twitter. But maybe not. He’s not as famous over there, and he could have filmed the tasks in just a few days, been in and out without much time to be seen in public. And the British tabloids have more important people to follow around, like Stewart Lee and women who are half Stewart Lee’s age.
John Oliver has been described, by himself and by many who know him, for many years, as a workaholic. No one was surprised when he announced this stand-up tour during the strike, even though he cannot possibly need the money, because he’s always described as a person who will constantly take work if it’s out there. The writer’s strike is still on. He can’t do American TV. He has to be doing something. John Oliver allegedly has to be doing at least eight projects at all times, and this stand-up tour is only one.
I Googled whether it would break strike rules, and I don’t think so. At first I thought it was okay since it wasn’t an American production, but then I did find something that said:
No, you cannot write for a non-signatory foreign producer. Guild Working Rule 8 prohibits members from working for non-signatory companies. This rule applies at all times but is particularly important during the strike because of the potential that a non-signatory producer could be used as a subterfuge to have work performed for a struck company.
During the strike, all Canadian waiver agreements are terminated, and therefore you are not permitted to continue writing on such projects during the strike.
So that doesn't look great. But what I didn't find on that page was anything that prohibited non-writing work. John Oliver wouldn't be writing for Taskmaster. Obviously he's not prohibited from working at all, he's doing the stand-up tour. I think he might be fine for Taskmaster as long as he doesn't, you know, write the autocues.
And we know he knows Alex Horne. We know he's had recent contact with Alex Horne, to make the Horne Section TV show. We know he's willing to appear in Alex Horne projects, like the Horne Section TV show.
I've written before about how maybe John Oliver will be on Taskmaster, and I've always been joking. Completely joking, like when I say my dream Taskmaster lineup is Daniel Kitson/Demitri Martin/John Oliver/David O'Doherty/Adam Hills so we can have a task where they destroy the Taskmaster cow live on stage and we find out who's really the best at that twenty years on (it is quite important that people know about Cowgate for that one, that there is at least some context for why my dream Taskmaster lineup, even one I say as a joke, would be five white cis het men). But right now, for the first time, seeing that Taskmaster-sized gap in his schedule... it looks maybe technically possible. Slightly more likely than the full Cowgate lineup, anyway. Obviously, it would be the dream.
All right, that's what we've got so far. Let me know if anyone else has thoughts/speculation/people I've missed who are or aren't free on the relevant nights.
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Hey so head canons about appearance when there is not a lot of concrete descriptors in the source material are very much up to the listener. Y’all gotta stop acting like people who don’t agree with the hive mind of this fandom are fat phobic or racist.
My personal, original, character headcanons before becoming active in the online fandom:
John:
Short, neatly combed hair. British south Asian who dressed in like elbow patches and bullshit hipster glasses he didn’t even need but wore cus he wanted to look like a distinguished professor. First edition books on his desk. The kinda dude who smokes a pipe for the aesthetic and refuses to drink well drinks at the bar. Basically a pretentious little twink so kinda on the money with the popular opinions tbh.
Martin:
Curly light brown hair. Clean shaven. Freckles and the kinda pale skin that gets blotchy/flushed easily. Grandad glasses but not like in a trendy way. In a thrift store cus he’s poor kinda way. In my head he has medium build. Like not muscled or fit, but not plus sized either. Just tall and solid with threadbare lil sweaters and he absolutely decorated his institute lanyard with vintage broaches. Rarely wears matching socks.
Tim:
Tim in my head is just Phil Wang in like California surfer fits. Dude wears board shorts and flip flops with his collared short sleeved shirts and ties. Really good at beer pong and pub quizzes.
Sasha:
Jessica Brown Findlay meets Angel Colby but like with hip style and ink smudges on her fingers and a cheekier attitude. Catherine Bohart personality vibes would be a close comparison but not quite on the money.
Elias:
Artfully dyed grey hair to hide his actual grey hair with that 1920-30 little bang wave. Lean but not like scrawny. Slacks, perfectly ironed dress shirts, douchebag Patagonia vests. His loafers cost more than a years rent in central and he has days of the week cuff links. He has the fake corporate smile that promises shitty snacks and forced ice breaker games and incredibly polished generic conversations.
Gertrude:
Lily Tomlin if she were British and way more serious. Yes, this makes me laugh now too.
Basira:
Literally just one of my friends but butched up a bit. (Sorry that’s not helpful for y’all’s imagination) intense when it comes to studying and pushing herself. Button ups and slacks and sensible shoes.
Daisy:
Long box black hair always in a bun but but with an under cut. Strong af but not bulky. Mean lesbian vibes. Sleeves always rolled up to her elbows and her shirts tucked in.
Melanie:
My self insert character. Bi bitch. Backwards baseball cap. Jeans and converse or docs. Oversized sweatshirts. Not cute knit sweaters but like old band crew necks and hoodies and soccer kits. (If anybody would love to go scream at the opposition fans it’s Melanie okay)Nose ring, messy hair to her shoulders. Always looking for a fight and a puzzle to solve.
Georgie:
Rose Matafeo if she was less chaotic and more put together. A wearer of Overall dresses with colorful tights and floral printed cardigans. A lover of tote bags and planners. She has a sticker of The Admeral on her hydro.
#the point is most of these don’t match the fandoms agreed upon visuals for fan art and fic and that’s OKAY#not going along with the group doesn’t mean you think the group is wrong#it’s not racism or fat phobia at the very least#cool good talk#tma#tma characters#the magnus archives.#my opinions
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I knew there was a reason I vibed with Nish and Ed so much.
Also explains why Ed is one of Lou's besties... XD
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an acquaintance suggested i should draw house bohart and lague together...
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36” x 36” Acrylic on Canvas.
Craig Bohart has been our friend and a part of our lives for decades.
For a number of years our good friend Craig Bohart provided us not only with assistance and support for our various art events but also with jazz and musical interaction with the numerous children and attendees taking part. He pulled together numerous of his friends from the musicians union and along with Harpist Gabriela Toro both played music and talked to the kids about music and the instruments.
Craig has been in poor health for a number of years and hospitalized for the last six months. He spent his final few days at home with his wife and family and friends coming by to say their final farewells.
We will miss him.
#craigBohart #craigtrumpet #trumpet #trumpetart #JackKnight #jacktheartist
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S22 Ep 5 Joel Dommett Rosie Jones & Ovie Soko Catherine Bohart
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