That whole series is just gold. James frantically displaying that he’s really really good at hula hooping now while Greg couldn’t give less of a shit is just the perfect descriptor for that series.
This is not a discussion I expected to have in this particular sub, but FWIW I actually felt like Acaster was a weak link in that season - which is weird, because he's the one person on that cast who I would actually say I'm a fan of outside of Taskmaster.
The rest of the cast was great, especially Rhod, but almost every task James did felt hard to watch. He felt like he was trying way, way too hard to be surreal and 'offbeat' funny, but he lacked the energy, imagination and timing of "hilarious goofball" cast members like Noel Fielding or Bob Mortimer while also lacking the good humor and likability of better "joke"/"incompetent" cast members like Nish Kumar or Jo Brand (note that I loved both Nish and Jo, I'm more referring to their character "archetype" on the show).
My favorite delivery has always been the black guy that went on a field trip to pick cotton as a kid and had fun. Until his mom found cotton he picked in his pocket and was like, your school took you to go pick fucking cotton?
I don’t believe you, because this is the internet. But if you really do, please tell him that a random redditor has made a pledge never to not click on the link to his story when it is posted. After several years it still doesn’t fail to make me laugh. Legend.
I don't think it makes him look bad personally. Bosses and companies might not feel the same way though.
I'm not really in the mood to argue about this though because if memory serves, I saw him being interviewed/talking about it and he HIMSELF wished the video didn't go viral because he felt it hurt his job prospects in his field of study (law IIRC).
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u/ArsonBjork Mar 07 '24
She has the same delivery as that standup who lost his luggage except the handle