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Jason Mantzoukas Didn’t Go on Taskmaster to Win
“Being an outsider on the show was like being a giant piñata wheeled into a birthday party full of kids.”
On a recent episode of the 19th season of the British comedy panel show Taskmaster, contestants were placed in a room where a red lightbulb, a clock, a plate of raisins, and a few wooden tokens sat on a table in front of them. The other four contestants — Mathew Baynton, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin — put it together relatively quickly, but Jason Mantzoukas sat there for nearly an hour. My colleague Anne asked David Mitchell about why panel shows have never really succeeded over there, and his theory was that there’s a cost element to it — TV is more expensive over here, and the stakes feel higher to “deliver.” I like that — that’s definitely a component of it.
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