Alex Horne's Reddit AMA - Part 1 | Taskmaster 

Except David Baddiel. My GOD was he painful to watch. The dude is pure, refined cringe in human form. I eventually had to skip parts with him in it. Hell, the lady who neither moved nor participated in, nor gave a shit about, the tasks (Jo) did better than him in almost every task. Half way through the series everyone had to stop laughing at him and just give him pity points to spare his feelings because he was that genuinely pathetic. It’s like when Sarah jokingly said in series 3 “I’m starting to think we shouldn’t be laughing at Paul” except they actually had to stop for David. Combine his complete ineptitude at the most mundane tasks with his overtly strong insecurities (“I’d like to point out that I’m the only one who didn’t get applause walking up here” as well as when he got what seemed to be genuinely mad at Ed for “wanting to win” calling him desperate for giving ANY kind of effort in challenges), and not to forget him constantly bragging about his 4 #1 singles, yet he wrote the most god awful music in every challenge that gave him the chance. How the guy ever became “successful”, or why he chose to be on the show despite never having seen it, is beyond me. Absolutely embarrassing. Edit: Jesus, I wrote a novel. I put more effort into a comment than he did the whole show. He clearly rubbed me the wrong way! 😂

I want more John Kearns making the most inexplicably stupid decisions possible.

true normally it’s the funniest people that do the worst

​@@zebdawson3687 I think it is hilarious when someone is that bad. I hate Raygun because I take Olympics seriously and I also dislike unqualified people. But this show is not a competition tbh, it has the format of a competition and is labeled that way, but I and most watch it to laugh, oh and David makes me laugh. I wouldn't put him in my favorite 5 losers but I was glad he was part of TM.

@@zebdawson3687Okay regardless of your feelings about David, the Sarah quote is being taken out of context. They had to make a snowman and Paul's was very... "interpretive" and he jokingly said something sad about it, and she said that in line in response to it. I don't think the joke was about the quality of his performance, I think it was more he made a jokingly sad backstory for the task so she gave joking sympathy. PS. Paul is one of my favorite task master members (only watched 1-3 so far, skipping 4 for now because I've seen some clips and absolutely love everyone in it, and I want to save it to watch with some friends)

This omg

Probably also the german one that got exactly 2 pilot episodes and never aired... Mainly cause the TV program they Sold it to wanted more trash shows instead.. but probably also cause it sucked? The taskmaster they chose is a mid comedian and not someone youd see as the taskmaster.. unles its in the 70s

As an American... sorry🤷‍♂️

There‘s a US version..?

@@tairneanaich don't ask...

I'm breathing in a jar and holding that for the full 15

he doesn't come across as someone who would enjoy fame, does he? Or maybe he doesn't yet know how many millions around the world would recognize him.

​@@LouCadle He has said that people have recognised him in different countries, but the fans are all respectful nerdy types who just say a polite 'hello' 😀

Exactly what I thought 😂

Tbf, it's Alex and he might want the question phrased in Latin.

Also loads of pens to Alex is apparently 2 pens.

I instantly thought they should have a task about loads of pens or sign something but there are no writing utensils anywhere

just bc they aren't allows a pen doesn't mean he won't need a few, unless the task calls for it as everything you need to know is always on the task

I like the sinister view of the set up, too. With Alex as an all-knowing, all-seeing entity, the man behind the throne, the puppet master, playing his little games with the contestants and host; Greg as this puppet king, a mad dog on a leash held by Alex; unknowingly waiting for his bravado, hubris, and tiranny to come bite him back in the end.

Yes he may not be the taskmaster, but he is the puppet master! The true mastermind, disguised as a humble servant!

Undoubtedly.

My first thought was Fern Brady. 😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My first thought was Sarah Philips

Have they got enough to do a Taskmastermaster? Each Taskmaster and assistant doing tasks for Greg and Alex...

The taskmasters sitting at a grand luxurious table and all the assistants sitting at a small children's table to the side

Surely the assistants would be stood at the side of their respective Taskmaster ready to obey and serve? And maybe after, the assistants can be oiled up and sent into a ring to fight? ;-)

The champion of champions of champions, each country has a champion out of the winners of their series, and those international winners must all compete against each other.

I equally wanna see a series of the international grand champions and the international rubbish, the 5 highest/lowest scoring players in taskmaster around the world.

Wozniak is ALWAYS the answer

Wozniak is amazing, but Sally Phillips is my choice.

@@nicholassmith3732 Oh dude Sally was absolutely amazing. She, Mike, and Jessica are always in my top 3.

Wozniak has been announced as the assistant for a new Kids Taskmaster series

sui generis, definitely.

Please explain

@@shibarmyburnz1978 The cadence on his delivery is really unpredictable. Sometimes he'll put a punchline on an in-breath, change his intonation to a point you wouldn't expect it to be, or stutter on an unexpected syllable. Which makes it more surprising and therefore more amusing.

that is absolutely the hardest I have ever laughed at someone just saying "potato"

@@Jovian999 wow I disliked someone’s asking ignorantly but this explanation is fucking brilliant

I thought it was the realization that he won’t be able to actually have 100 duck sized gregs, followed by the realization that EVEN IF HE COULD, he’d then have to fight them.

It's like the concept of editing doesn't exist and just goes with whatever mess he's saying

yeh he is a good actor

...on a Saturday.

OMG listen to his episode of Ed Gamble and James Acaster's podcast. He did a Christmas episode and it was the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. Truly insane. You can never tell how much of what he's saying is a joke.

5:25

The editing is incredibly well done as well. There's a distinct style to how tasks are presented and combined but it never gets too formulaic.

someone in the reddit ama said they would like the pictures of greg as jigsaw puzzles and i think thats a fantastic idea.

The art is always incredible. I'd be hard pressed to pic a favourite between the Arcimboldo-style, the steampunk, and the Magritte-style portraits 🥰

@@Kim-dw6gu i love that idea

@@danniantagonist I had to image search Arcimboldo and from that I see that they are selling a series 9 notebook with Greg's portrait on the cover, so it's probably worth people checking the TM store for their favourites... There's a scrollable selection under the description for this vid too, inc series 1-4 coasters with his portrait, s3 portrait hoodie, s3 framed portrait, s13 portrait notebook, s13 portrait tote bag etc etc...

Right? I spent so much time sifting through the thread to find all the answers and then they drop this lol

Same, but getting read aloud makes it more satisfying

Yep. Read it yesterday and now watching here. There were so many questions and not enough time to answer …mine not answered either but really enjoyed the responses.

I can't believe I missed it! I would have asked sooo many questions.

@@secretforreddit I’m not so sure.There were over 1000 questions. He really could not get to them all.

I also genuinely think he’s standing a bit wide-legged to make him look shorter against the table. Unless I’m going genuinely insane 😂

True, but Greg's wasn't much better so it probably fits

Yes but Greg's Off Menu menu was way, way worse

Daddy's special pudding

Recipes are suggested by contestants. Exotic sandwiches were on the menu earlier in the Series

They both seem distinctly unfussed by food. Don't even get me *started* on Greg's taste in steak! 🤣🤣

But with a quail-sized Alex.

Eventhough there's a 98% chance it's going to be smut?

@@DrZaius3141 I'm not picky

Honestly I do know how I’d draw it if I was any good at drawing a hundred duck sized Greg’s. That’s a lot of Greg’s

For some reason in my head it was a duck/Greg hybrid instead of just small Gregs 😂

Same! It was just me and my animals stuck home so Taskmaster and the home tasks kept me company.I'll be forever grateful for that.

Same here!

Plus imagine Rhod set loose on an unlimited budget. 👀

I heard that they actually cut the budget for series 2 of The Mighty Boosh for this reason.

Yeehaw cowboy

It does make me wonder if that's just a joke, because Alex's counterpart in Belgium is a woman

@@deJessias Yeah, there is zero resemblance between Alex and Ruth Beeckmans lol. Imagine if it had been Philippe Geubels, that would've been a funny voice. (Maybe that was the plan, originally?)

Bless him, and he hasn’t even got a funny voice he has got a normal voice 😂

Maybe Marc-Marie?

What tubes?!

Ohh I was wondering

Sorry mind explaining? I haven't heard of that

So from a post on Reddit titled "Alex injured during filming" >I was at the Horne Section live show in Bath last night. When Alex appeared on stage he was wearing sunglasses, and explained it was to hide a bloodshot eye incurred during Taskmaster filming -likely to be shown this time next year, so S14? >The explanation was that he'd been in a wheelie bin when it tipped and face-planted, fracturing his eye socket, and being unconscious for about 30 seconds. It may not make the edit, despite his keenness to keep it in, as the producers say it "makes them appear negligent".

@@bushratbeachbum Episode 5, during the "Get the most pleasure from all of these rubber chutes" task. Fern stuck Alex into the chutes/tubes, and his arms were inside as well. Taskmaster reddit speculates that Alex must have fallen over while trying to get out.

He is quite small, so it adds up

That would be great! They definitely need an all-toga task. And all-toga studio ep.

"Nothing -bad- fatal...."

or where Sarah Milican is involved

The Milk-Incident...

Romesh enters the chat

Hercules vs Dara O'Brien. Ultimate showdown

Nah, he'd be too successful. No competition! Mother Theresa and Jesus getting competitive about rubber ducks, though? Hell yes!

Omg a whole greek/roman god themed series would be amazing

And he'd be definitely good at lateral thinking (Augean stables task :) )

@@Hugh_Jas I'd like to see Jesus in the make a miracle task, to find out whether or not he actually used a glass table to walk on water

It counts 😂

I think that's genius. 😂

If you said "it's all written in the task" instead of "all the information is on the task" then it didn't count, sorry

Absolutely it counts!

@@martafonseca2282 haha, sorry, should have typed that. I think that's what I said, but it's been a few months.

Have you seen Champion of Champions?! They do just that, and it's brilliant! Katherine Ryan completely bosses it.... 🤣🤣🤣🥰

I second what danni says! One of my all time favourite taskmaster moments

@@danniantagonist Yes! That task also gives us a classic Bob Mortimer moment.

They just a task in TM Australia, to decorate something with vegemite, second part was to clean off the vegemite, they were only judge on the time it took cleaning it off.

I forget which series but there was a 'smash this thing as quickly as possible' and then 'put the thing back together as well as you can'

Hard agree.

I saw a credit card (or maybe it was a bank?) that **genuinely** had his 'tick tock' line as their slogan.

The current Australian one is really good too

Danish Taskmaster is also amazing. I just wish that there was more than one season available to watch here!

Literally every country but the US recreated it well 😢

@@sidhackney8831 I almost feel obligated to apologize for how bad American Taskmaster turned out.

Swede

a Champion of Champions of Champions

@@MrStaticstate there’s gonna be that after ten more seasons, but with the champions of all the champions of champions shows. would have to be called something else

I would love to see a Champion of Losers competition.. bringing back season favourites who did not win it all.. on my list would be: Joe Wilkinson, Fern Brady, Romesh, Aisling Bea & Russell Howard

@@torbar9603 me too but i think alex has said he doesn’t want to do one. my top ones for the category if it did happen would be james acaster, doc brown, asim choudhry, and mayyybe katherine parkinson and david baddiel (although i don’t know whether katherine would do it again)

​@@skw_x Good choices Love Doc Brown and Katherine.. But I guess there is also a lot of Talent that has not yet been on the show... Being Canadian I do not know many of them before watching Taskmaster and I only found Taskmaster because I saw Asling Bea on another show (8 out of 10 cats) and loved her.. so found what else she did .. then just LOVED the show! and have watched every one.. and most international versions as well..

Too soon. :-(

@@Tao_Tology Gone too soon? Or too soon to mention him? Or, too soon to say Mother Teresa should be booted?

Eh?!

@@bushratbeachbum A "No More Jockeys" reference.