In a Taskmaster prize task, when Victoria chose a bag of diamonds as the nicest thing to sit on, saying "I'm looking for the greater comfort of long-term financial security", she became my new favorite person.
Underrated to me as a guest. Her gifts were the best because it always seemed she was going for something so unexpectedly sly. Her buying ticket for Alan to his rivals football team saying that he would enjoy it because they're the best football team so he would enjoy it was so great.
When she learned to ride a bike, on her own, on TV, it was one of the funniest, and bravest things, I'd seen in ages. She is just such a marvelous person.
He’s both right about the likelihood of looking ridiculous, and missing that that is a lot of the appeal. There is almost always an unreasonably bright contestant who is hoist on their own ingenuity (plus occasional flashes of spectacle). Paul Sinha, Hugh Dennis and so on…
@@oldvlognewtricks That's exactly right. Taskmaster rewards being able to think outside the box - and that's NOT the same as traditional 'smarts'. Sometimes it can be, but more often, it's a type of thinking that usually helps you fail in the kinds of activities you're most familiar with, so typically-smart people generally avoid it. There's a reason why kids often do really well at the TM tasks. They don't know what's 'impossible', so they don't discount it, and are more willing to jump right in to the imagination of it all. But that IS the appeal - that 'smart' people maybe really don't see the obvious, or actually, the not-so-obvious. The best laughs on TM come from really smart people fucking something up - and being able to laugh at themselves for doing it. (That's why some of my favorite bits are Greg fucking up the jokes, or fucking up his lines - he's playing a part that's 'supposed' to be 'in charge', but that's why it's even funnier when he borks it. AND he's able to laugh at his own sheer ridiculousness and inability to consistently get it right.) The ones who have the worst time are the ones who discover that they're not used to laughing at themselves and letting it go, and they have a hard time finding the sweet spot of yes, actually trying in a way that's satisfying to their need to do things 'right' and find the 'smart' way, but yet not caring so much that getting it wrong stings in a way they can't let roll off their back. I wish David would go on TM, because I think he might be better at it than he thinks - but even if not, if he embraced the silly, I think everyone would find it very enjoyable. I don't think that most viewers care who 'wins', it's not about that - it's about finding the funny, wherever it is, even if that's in landing on your own face. Turn it into a pratfall, and you've won.
@@flippetskaterWhile I think Taskmaster might be rewarding for him personally, I understand his reservations about appearing on it because his personal brand as a comedian kinda relies on being the hyperlogical smart one, making cynical one-liners or long-winded angry deconstructive rants, which might not suit the Taskmaster energy. As much enjoyable as Mitchellian "angry logic" is, in a show like Taskmaster, it might come off as being a sore loser instead of the comedic persona. I guess he could lean into the old "posh and repressed" thing, but he's sort of moved passed that since his marriage to Victoria.
She destroyed the riddle task alone with no help from Alan, she had a phenomenal moment of displaying here abilities in maths, she learned how to ride a bike on the show and the best moment by far - she gave Manchester United games tickets voucher to an Arsenal fan as a present because "he likes football so he should be able to watch the best one". She was brilliant on Taskmaster!
@@jonhohensee3258 She was. It just happened to be in a way that went perpendicular to most people's expectations. Case in point: the Scrabble square as the best square. I immediately thought "that's brilliant!" And then Greg hated it.
@@beth12svist Too many tasks where she was befuddled by the instructions. And then she had this habit of "forgetting" her glasses. She was actually too vain to put them on when they were needed. Not smart.
@@jonhohensee3258I wouldn't be so sure it's vanity unless she's said that. TV people usually don't have their glasses because there is a powerful light directed straight at you, and there's glare. If you don't usually wear glasses to set, it would be annoying to the lighting people to suddenly put them on, so even though Taskmaster is more of an unusual shoot, she probably forgot to bring her glasses out of habit.
For all the times she did badly on the tasks, she more than made up for it by single handedly beating the riddle task which Alex and the whole production team thought was unsolvable by one person, that was truly spectacular (especially when you see how the team of three stuffed it!)
It's actually possible to solve that cryprogram without any of the clues just by looking at certain words and patterns and guessing what they could be (like 'taskmaster') and then working your way from there. Source: I had too much time on my hands and paused the episode
@@kevinbell9255 I didn't time it but I doubt that it took longer than half an hour. Of course, doing it in a calm environment is certainly an advantage compared to solving it in front of a production crew with the stress of wanting to do well on tv, so it's probably not a fair comparison
Victoria often complains how badly she did on the prize tasks but her bringing that crappy plushie second time in a row was my absolute favourite prize task moment in the entire TM series
I’d love to see a “2nd chance” taskmaster with the last place contestants trying to redeem themselves. Nish, Baddel, Joe Wilkinson and VCM were all brilliant
@@sittingduck6049 Hugh Dennis didn't come last. It's not going to happen though, because the producers don't want contestants to try to fail in the hopes of getting onto Loser of Losers as a compensation prize. It stays funnier if they're competitive - but at the same time, I think this is why Champion of Champions isn't a full series, because the show also needs people to fail badly!
@@narrativium As Victoria said, I don't like contestant being 'competitive' in Taskmaster, I want to see them doing their best whatever the result!🙂 If I have to watch another season with another Lou Sanders I'm going to drop it, I loathed her so much! So competitive it wasn't funny anymore, just stressful.
It would only work once, where no contestants knew when they had their series that there was a potential 'losers return'. Once it was announced or filmed any other losing contestant might be tempted to do worse (and even if they * weren't * deliberately trying to be worst, the audience would then wonder)
I'm so happy to hear that Victoria loved being on Taskmaster. imo Taskmaster is all about the laughs and winning the crowd over, which Victoria definitely did. I loved her work from before the show but after seeing her on Taskmaster, I was completely enamoured. She was wonderful, gave everything a go, and was snarky to Greg Davies. Can't ask for anything more than that!
I think David would actually be a great taskmaster, if they ever had to replace Greg. I feel like his brand of angry logic would play really well off some of the more bizarre attempts of the contestants, and it would be fun watching him point out all the flaws in the contestants’ approaches to various tasks.
While I had seen Victoria on a number of things in the past, I had no strong feelings about her one way or another. That changed when she was on Taskmaster. I mean she was great with the riddle and the jokes about customized inhalers, but the exact moment I fell in love with her was when she not only learned to ride a bicycle sixty seconds before the task, but when she declared she had found a new skill and wanted to continue to practice.
Even though she had to learn how to ride a bike as an adult on national television, she did it with panache'! VCM always rises to the occasion with grace!!!!!
When they announced her for Taskmaster I thought I like her but I don't know about that, she seems pretty uncompromising and might not fit into the vibe of the show. The first prize task with the diamonds I remember thinking no I was wrong, she's terrific. I just adore the way she is so unashamedly herself, they tease her a bit about it on Taskmaster calling it eccentric, giving her low scores and she takes it so well but without ever backing down from who she is and even though I'm not an Only Connect fan I love how protective she is of that fanbase.
Victoria is one of my favorite people, period, and I loved watching her on TM. Her combination of off-the-charts smart and completely-relatable awkwardness is just the best. And the way that she's both entirely serious, and yet not taking herself too seriously, all at the same time. That's skill, and it's completely charming. Yes, she's a kind of smart that maybe people thought might do a little better on TM, but the best/funniest bit is that, as a poker player, you'd think she'd have a poker face....and yet, Greg could read her like a book, without even trying. That was FUNNY. She's so charmingly NOT cryptic. But the other best bit is that her empathy showed through. I absolutely loved how she said that she doesn't like practical jokes, she thinks they're aggressive - I'm like, YESSS! I SO related to that. And when she (and Desiree) sweetly clapped back at Greg for making fun of Alex using Rachel Horne's name - again, that was so humanly lovely of the both of them. I really think that Victoria is someone I'd love to know. 💗 (The bit with Rachel's name - honestly, Alex flubbed that one up. The 'Rachel Horne' that Greg uses to make fun of Alex isn't really 'Alex Horne's wife', but rather, "LITTLE Alex Horne's wife' - she's somewhat of a 'character' in the world of the show, to a degree - and Alex's reaction to Greg's joke there was a bit more 'serious' than it should have been, in the context of the joke, and as a result, it really triggered Victoria's and Desiree's empathy, to the point of actually missing the joke - and that's on Alex, not the ladies.)
Victoria's price tasks was brilliant, i just think Greg played her to get more laughs from the viewers.. but VCR won in the end by learning to bike on TV with absolutely no hesitation . I would LOVE to see David on cause he would be absolutely livid with rage because nothing is logical.. Such fun!
@@jonhohensee3258 Going around questioning people who wrote "price" instead of "prize" doesn't make you look particularly intelligent or likeable, btw.
I agree! I also think she was robbed on the prize task where she bought a Manchester United voucher for her friend Alan, who’s an arsenal fan. Her deadpan delivery was perfect, Greg loved it and cracked up laughing, but then he gave her one point because it was a prank gift even though that’s what he seemed to want them to do. I think Victoria got on the wrong side of Greg early with a couple snarky remarks, and he under-scored her from then on out.
@@elizabeths.8683 definitely got on the wrong side early with her diamonds as a seat pitch, and dennis kind of got screwed too because they just started underscoring him as a bit
Another prize task she was robbed on was the final one in which she got one point for bringing in a DVD as a 'floppy thing' due to it not performing well, yet many contestants in the past have gotten the full 5 points for a clever reinterpretation, i.e. Mike Wozniak for 'carrying' a tune and Sally putting hip bones on a balaclava for 'hippest headwear'. Not that those two didn't deserve it (Mike certainly did) but it feels a bit too inconsistent.
She said she struggled with bringing prize tasks in but I thought in general hers were great (and did get strong reactions from the audience that wasn't present) - in particular she brought in one of the best in all of Taskmaster history. Obviously I'm referring to the prize for Allan. The whole exchange was hilarious, especially after all the other contestants had brought in sappy heartfelt prizes that just made eveybody go "awww". The whole segment risked being a bit cringe but then she swooped in and made it hilarious with what Allan I think described as "the most vicious personal attack..." She turned the whole round into a cohesive routine where her prize was the big punchline. Couldn't have been scripted better. She performed exceedingly well on Taskmaster.
I played bridge against VCM at a charity event a couple of years ago. She gave a good impression of trying hard, certainly she made no mistakes, scored well and was charming too.
Regular person now knowing how to ride a bike: "Oh damn, I won't be able to do this task... I guess I'll have to forfit" Victoria: "All right, let's just LEARN to ride a bike!" Victoria was Awesome in Taskmaster and it shows that she genuinely tried her best, and her being able to enjoy her own failed attempts just shows off what a remarkable character she is. I was genuinely happy to see when Richard finally got to have a go at it, and in the beginning he seemed to be struggling, but he found himself and he looked like he genuinely just enjoyed all of it. And then winning was a great feat! And the actual price will now be that he will bring up Taskmaster at EVERY occation he sees fit. ...Not gonna lie, I would definitely do the same!
I remember practicing my best man's speech alone, speaking it out loud to complete silence, and then imagining that silence when I cracked my jokes, it made my nerves so much worse... Once I actually started on the day, it went so well from the beginning that I relaxed and everyone laughed and cried at the right bits.... Phew, I felt more relieved than anything else... 😀
He, naturally, disrespected Only Connect contestants. She did well to defend them without putting him down. I would have slapped him, big Willy style. 🤣
I thought her best price task on TM was gifting Alan Davies (half of) a season ticket for Manchester United and then acting all oblivious as to why Alan doesn't want to have it. :D
"I don't mind trying my best and turning out to be slightly rubbish." Words to live by, honestly. Especially for people who don't want to try a new hobby in case they suck at it, which is something I'm guilty of personally. But that's not the point of a hobby! Enjoy it, suck at it if you've got to, but give it a proper go and don't mind if you aren't good at first (or ever)!
@@p4llyx4 lol no I enjoy conversation not listening to overpaid morons who think intelligent conversation is complementing each other on what each is wearing
To me, Victoria is utterly captivating. I could watch her for hours. She was great on Taskmaster, but then again, that show brings out the best in most people.
I make my jokes for myself, things that make me smile though they meet with incomprehension. It’s that sweet comparison between the two states, my amusement and the eye rolling of my family. Cracked it!
Although I didn't find it to be quite as good overall as the one before, I thought her season had the strongest studio environment out of the three socially distanced ones, and was the least awkward.
i was really hoping for victoria to absolutely crush taskmaster. she was still a great contestant and morgana was just too hard to beat. i just hope we get david to go on at some point.
I also really liked the supportive relationship that sprung up between Morgana, Desiree, and Victoria. Watching through the series, they were continually hyping each other and had each others' back with Greg.
I'm afraid we'll have to wait for his daughter to be old enough to watch and love Taskmaster and then bullying him into participating. I truly believe that's our only hope of him ever coming on, since he has stated he doesn't actually want to do it. And his daughter will even be able to use "But mummy's done it, why not you?!" as an argument now lol. 😁
"I'm not AT ALL competitive"...I've seen her on Cats Does Countdown and other shows...She's VERY competitive. She'd have to be to win at poker. Nothing wrong with that BTW...But she IS VERY competitive.
She's not really competitive, there are just things that she's incredibly good at and she destroys the games and her contestants because she's just naturally incredibly good at them, but when people beat her at things she's not one to try to fight for that victory, which is what she means when she says competitive (Ed Gamble, Richard Herring, Lou Sanders, etc.)
It seems like maybe she's competitive about certain specific types of things. But maybe she means that she doesn't care so much about coming in first as she does about getting it right? I feel like even on things like countdown where she seems very competitive, she might not be satisfied with winning if it was with words she didn't think were very good. It sort of seems like she wants to get the longest word that was possible or the most exact calculation that was possible, more than she actually cares how the other team does.
@@junbh2 That's basically it, I think. The non-competitive nerdy approach, which I can very much relate to. I hate games that are purely competitive, where the point is to pit the players against one another. The point is to get it right, not winning, not beating someone else. The thrill is getting it right, or knowing the answer. Truly competitive people are, instead, probably the cheaters on Taskmaster. (I remember her describing somewhere how she got into poker: she described it in terms of wanting to get to the bottom of it, to understand it, to crack it, something like that. So she didn't get into it because she wanted to be the winner, she got into it because it was an intellectual challenge.)
I assume she means not being competitive in the way an ‘unnamed for legal reasons’ premiership footballer might go out to cripple an opposing player if it prevented them scoring a goal.
I absolutely loved when she bought tickets for some sportsgame (sorry, sports idiot here) as a gift for Alan Davies. It was a top notch deadpan pile-up of making fun of something, most hilarious. :)))
I'm embarrassed that I'm leaving something here, but here it goes... *** i apologise if I'm being hyperbolic or if you feel like I'm including you unfairly in the following body but it's worth considering your tact when leaving comments on people's channels. Do a wee bit of research to see if what you've said has been commented or covered elsewhere, what the tone of the responses are and consider the wording or the impact and you'll probably not find yourself in the same situation as the worst offenders *** The people demanding full video episodes for free on all these clips make me cringe so, so much - you don't read back your comment or someone elses and think it makes you come off as incredibly ungrateful? "other creators do it for free" he's not ya divorced dad, you shouldn't be trying to guilt trip someone out of their livelihood and you should conduct yourself with a bit more decorum than a stroppy toddler. It's sad that you feel like you've had something taken away from you, that's reasonable. Like, i honestly feel for you, no shame. But the way you voice that opinion and argue back with Richard isn't getting you anything and it really puts a downer on these clips that everybody else is trying to enjoy. I'm all for the market place of ideas, but arguing with him when he's taken the time to reply and point you in the right direction is miserable to see. And if he's being a bit snappy then take a step back and see how you're the nth person to make the same claims about being robbed or giving shortsighted business advice to someone whose business it is to do all of this. Nobody should be made to feel small or have their pov or feelings rebutted or scorned for the worse, but just check the wording and read the links, description and other comments before you pile in and you might not find yourself being let down or angered by Richards response. That being said, it's a shame if you don't want to watch or listen anymore because that means you used to enjoy the show. If anyone reads this far and still feels like they want to chip in their two cents vis what I've been talking about, please don't because you'll only end up disappointing yourself and making these comment spaces uncomfortable for everyone else. Instead please Just think, if other content creators give it away for free, so does Richard. There's a podcast after all and how many other content creators are audio only? AND you're getting the chance to see free video clips up to 10 minutes from this audio podcast, isn't that more than you'd get with a lot of other podcasts? And if you want to see the whole thing pretty badly you can. He hasn't taken anything away from you. It's still there, just support the man and be glad you have the chance to miss it, because that means you once had it. As a sort of PS, I've been watching for years and years now and he's always been reluctant to put in adverts or hide the show behind a pay wall. Always. I remember his first advert was from an independent brewery (i think) and it was honestly good to see! Look around at how expensive everything is in day to day life, how awful our country has been ran, the energy crisis, the strikes, the constant bad economic news... I doubt Richard is screwing you because he's a disaster capitalist, i don't think he's turning the screw at all. He's finally putting the proper price on something he's done for free for you for ages because he has to. This itself is a really cringe comment but i felt it's worth adding one that's at least positive. Thanks for the show Richard, I'm glad you're making it all work for you and hope you're feeling OK (it was nice seeing you on Gone Fishing, if that's ok to say?)
@@nickes6168 I honestly think you're reading my responses in the wrong tone of voice. I was just trying to direct you to what you wanted and trying to be amusing whilst doing so, with the mildest possible sarcasm about you saying you didn't have time to check out the provided links. I've apologised for upsetting you, but you have read into my comments stuff that was not there.
@@Herring1967 I might have been reading them wrong. In the future, If I wish to look into your work in video form, I'll buy a ticket for an episode from that website, as I now know you wish not to muck about with youtube channel memberships. Sorry for any trouble this caused. Had I known, maybe effort would have been made to check out the video/s without need for me to have comment in the first place. That's on my end for not knowing, or maybe i should have just asked if there was video instead of dismissing everything entirely. Lesson learned, sorry again, all the best.
I'll watch almost anything if VCM is on. I find Tastmaster tedious, but you bet I watched her learn to ride a bike! I admit; when it comes to VCM, I'm a total fanboy! YOWZA!
She’s a very good presenter. First noticed her when she was in a series about the derivation of words. Then other presentations. But now she seems to have stopped that and she’s somewhat of a bore.
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In a Taskmaster prize task, when Victoria chose a bag of diamonds as the nicest thing to sit on, saying "I'm looking for the greater comfort of long-term financial security", she became my new favorite person.
Underrated to me as a guest. Her gifts were the best because it always seemed she was going for something so unexpectedly sly.
Her buying ticket for Alan to his rivals football team saying that he would enjoy it because they're the best football team so he would enjoy it was so great.
@@robertluong3024 And Greg gave her last place for that. So unlike him.
Been my favourite person for years,her smile does it for me.
I love when she gave Manc tickets to Alan Davies, an Arsenal fan:D
@@vl3005but they weren't real diamonds
When she learned to ride a bike, on her own, on TV, it was one of the funniest, and bravest things, I'd seen in ages. She is just such a marvelous person.
I was so rooting for her. It IS brave, and she just jumped right in. 💗
Darin - Because she learned to ride a bike with cameras around??? Please....
@@jonhohensee3258 In like 4 minutes.
@@rumpelstiltskin6150 So what?
@@jonhohensee3258 My condolences
David may not enjoy Taskmaster but I would very much enjoy David on Taskmaster
He’s both right about the likelihood of looking ridiculous, and missing that that is a lot of the appeal.
There is almost always an unreasonably bright contestant who is hoist on their own ingenuity (plus occasional flashes of spectacle). Paul Sinha, Hugh Dennis and so on…
@@oldvlognewtricks still love when they broke Paul and he admitted he was thick as pig shit hahaha
@@oldvlognewtricks That's exactly right.
Taskmaster rewards being able to think outside the box - and that's NOT the same as traditional 'smarts'. Sometimes it can be, but more often, it's a type of thinking that usually helps you fail in the kinds of activities you're most familiar with, so typically-smart people generally avoid it.
There's a reason why kids often do really well at the TM tasks. They don't know what's 'impossible', so they don't discount it, and are more willing to jump right in to the imagination of it all.
But that IS the appeal - that 'smart' people maybe really don't see the obvious, or actually, the not-so-obvious. The best laughs on TM come from really smart people fucking something up - and being able to laugh at themselves for doing it. (That's why some of my favorite bits are Greg fucking up the jokes, or fucking up his lines - he's playing a part that's 'supposed' to be 'in charge', but that's why it's even funnier when he borks it. AND he's able to laugh at his own sheer ridiculousness and inability to consistently get it right.)
The ones who have the worst time are the ones who discover that they're not used to laughing at themselves and letting it go, and they have a hard time finding the sweet spot of yes, actually trying in a way that's satisfying to their need to do things 'right' and find the 'smart' way, but yet not caring so much that getting it wrong stings in a way they can't let roll off their back.
I wish David would go on TM, because I think he might be better at it than he thinks - but even if not, if he embraced the silly, I think everyone would find it very enjoyable. I don't think that most viewers care who 'wins', it's not about that - it's about finding the funny, wherever it is, even if that's in landing on your own face. Turn it into a pratfall, and you've won.
I would think a normal length episode of TM is about three hours to short for all of David's ranting after each task. 🤣
@@flippetskaterWhile I think Taskmaster might be rewarding for him personally, I understand his reservations about appearing on it because his personal brand as a comedian kinda relies on being the hyperlogical smart one, making cynical one-liners or long-winded angry deconstructive rants, which might not suit the Taskmaster energy. As much enjoyable as Mitchellian "angry logic" is, in a show like Taskmaster, it might come off as being a sore loser instead of the comedic persona. I guess he could lean into the old "posh and repressed" thing, but he's sort of moved passed that since his marriage to Victoria.
She destroyed the riddle task alone with no help from Alan, she had a phenomenal moment of displaying here abilities in maths, she learned how to ride a bike on the show and the best moment by far - she gave Manchester United games tickets voucher to an Arsenal fan as a present because "he likes football so he should be able to watch the best one". She was brilliant on Taskmaster!
Here abilities?
No, she wasn't brilliant.
@@jonhohensee3258 She was. It just happened to be in a way that went perpendicular to most people's expectations. Case in point: the Scrabble square as the best square. I immediately thought "that's brilliant!" And then Greg hated it.
@@beth12svist Too many tasks where she was befuddled by the instructions. And then she had this habit of "forgetting" her glasses. She was actually too vain to put them on when they were needed. Not smart.
@@jonhohensee3258I wouldn't be so sure it's vanity unless she's said that. TV people usually don't have their glasses because there is a powerful light directed straight at you, and there's glare. If you don't usually wear glasses to set, it would be annoying to the lighting people to suddenly put them on, so even though Taskmaster is more of an unusual shoot, she probably forgot to bring her glasses out of habit.
For all the times she did badly on the tasks, she more than made up for it by single handedly beating the riddle task which Alex and the whole production team thought was unsolvable by one person, that was truly spectacular (especially when you see how the team of three stuffed it!)
Victoria usually works on a different wavelength than Alex. Sometimes she intersects & it surprises him. 😊
It's actually possible to solve that cryprogram without any of the clues just by looking at certain words and patterns and guessing what they could be (like 'taskmaster') and then working your way from there.
Source: I had too much time on my hands and paused the episode
@@franka9942 Agreed, I'd be interested to know if you did it in less than the 33 minutes it took Victoria
And by calculating task scores in her head before Alex or the production crew could figure them out.
@@kevinbell9255 I didn't time it but I doubt that it took longer than half an hour. Of course, doing it in a calm environment is certainly an advantage compared to solving it in front of a production crew with the stress of wanting to do well on tv, so it's probably not a fair comparison
Victoria often complains how badly she did on the prize tasks but her bringing that crappy plushie second time in a row was my absolute favourite prize task moment in the entire TM series
It was certainly the most ridiculous thin thing I've ever seen.
I’d love to see a “2nd chance” taskmaster with the last place contestants trying to redeem themselves. Nish, Baddel, Joe Wilkinson and VCM were all brilliant
Hell yeh...Hugh Dennis tho...
@@sittingduck6049 Hugh Dennis didn't come last. It's not going to happen though, because the producers don't want contestants to try to fail in the hopes of getting onto Loser of Losers as a compensation prize. It stays funnier if they're competitive - but at the same time, I think this is why Champion of Champions isn't a full series, because the show also needs people to fail badly!
@@narrativium As Victoria said, I don't like contestant being 'competitive' in Taskmaster, I want to see them doing their best whatever the result!🙂 If I have to watch another season with another Lou Sanders I'm going to drop it, I loathed her so much! So competitive it wasn't funny anymore, just stressful.
It would only work once, where no contestants knew when they had their series that there was a potential 'losers return'.
Once it was announced or filmed any other losing contestant might be tempted to do worse
(and even if they * weren't * deliberately trying to be worst, the audience would then wonder)
anything without nish i would watch.
I'm so happy to hear that Victoria loved being on Taskmaster. imo Taskmaster is all about the laughs and winning the crowd over, which Victoria definitely did. I loved her work from before the show but after seeing her on Taskmaster, I was completely enamoured. She was wonderful, gave everything a go, and was snarky to Greg Davies. Can't ask for anything more than that!
She was my favorite person on taskmaster. I think she is so funny. And she learned to ride a bike so fast!
I think David would actually be a great taskmaster, if they ever had to replace Greg. I feel like his brand of angry logic would play really well off some of the more bizarre attempts of the contestants, and it would be fun watching him point out all the flaws in the contestants’ approaches to various tasks.
Baddiel is way too boring and unfunny to be a good taskmaster
@@WhatTheHell919 I mean David Mitchell.
@@NadiaEldemerdash He's a better choice than Baddiel, sure
But he is smaller than alex...
@@hellen3098 They'll put Alex at the back of the room for a perspective gag
While I had seen Victoria on a number of things in the past, I had no strong feelings about her one way or another. That changed when she was on Taskmaster. I mean she was great with the riddle and the jokes about customized inhalers, but the exact moment I fell in love with her was when she not only learned to ride a bicycle sixty seconds before the task, but when she declared she had found a new skill and wanted to continue to practice.
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@@mac5565 Cool. And?
Even though she had to learn how to ride a bike as an adult on national television, she did it with panache'! VCM always rises to the occasion with grace!!!!!
When they announced her for Taskmaster I thought I like her but I don't know about that, she seems pretty uncompromising and might not fit into the vibe of the show. The first prize task with the diamonds I remember thinking no I was wrong, she's terrific.
I just adore the way she is so unashamedly herself, they tease her a bit about it on Taskmaster calling it eccentric, giving her low scores and she takes it so well but without ever backing down from who she is and even though I'm not an Only Connect fan I love how protective she is of that fanbase.
Victoria is one of my favorite people, period, and I loved watching her on TM. Her combination of off-the-charts smart and completely-relatable awkwardness is just the best. And the way that she's both entirely serious, and yet not taking herself too seriously, all at the same time. That's skill, and it's completely charming.
Yes, she's a kind of smart that maybe people thought might do a little better on TM, but the best/funniest bit is that, as a poker player, you'd think she'd have a poker face....and yet, Greg could read her like a book, without even trying. That was FUNNY. She's so charmingly NOT cryptic.
But the other best bit is that her empathy showed through. I absolutely loved how she said that she doesn't like practical jokes, she thinks they're aggressive - I'm like, YESSS! I SO related to that. And when she (and Desiree) sweetly clapped back at Greg for making fun of Alex using Rachel Horne's name - again, that was so humanly lovely of the both of them. I really think that Victoria is someone I'd love to know. 💗
(The bit with Rachel's name - honestly, Alex flubbed that one up. The 'Rachel Horne' that Greg uses to make fun of Alex isn't really 'Alex Horne's wife', but rather, "LITTLE Alex Horne's wife' - she's somewhat of a 'character' in the world of the show, to a degree - and Alex's reaction to Greg's joke there was a bit more 'serious' than it should have been, in the context of the joke, and as a result, it really triggered Victoria's and Desiree's empathy, to the point of actually missing the joke - and that's on Alex, not the ladies.)
Victoria's price tasks was brilliant, i just think Greg played her to get more laughs from the viewers.. but VCR won in the end by learning to bike on TV with absolutely no hesitation . I would LOVE to see David on cause he would be absolutely livid with rage because nothing is logical.. Such fun!
price tasks?
@@jonhohensee3258 Going around questioning people who wrote "price" instead of "prize" doesn't make you look particularly intelligent or likeable, btw.
@@TPH250290 zzzzzzzzz......
@@jonhohensee3258 You're the one making the same reply on multiple comments. 'zzzzzzzzz' indeed.
@@TPH250290 yawn
Victoria learning to ride a bike on TV was a great, human moment. Genuinely sweet
"Lots of layers" with the chickens was PRIMO! Victoria was robbed on the prize tasks over and over again.
I agree! I also think she was robbed on the prize task where she bought a Manchester United voucher for her friend Alan, who’s an arsenal fan. Her deadpan delivery was perfect, Greg loved it and cracked up laughing, but then he gave her one point because it was a prank gift even though that’s what he seemed to want them to do. I think Victoria got on the wrong side of Greg early with a couple snarky remarks, and he under-scored her from then on out.
@@elizabeths.8683 definitely got on the wrong side early with her diamonds as a seat pitch, and dennis kind of got screwed too because they just started underscoring him as a bit
Another prize task she was robbed on was the final one in which she got one point for bringing in a DVD as a 'floppy thing' due to it not performing well, yet many contestants in the past have gotten the full 5 points for a clever reinterpretation, i.e. Mike Wozniak for 'carrying' a tune and Sally putting hip bones on a balaclava for 'hippest headwear'. Not that those two didn't deserve it (Mike certainly did) but it feels a bit too inconsistent.
@@iliketrains3495 I agree! I liked that one too.
Just one of my favourite people on the planet.
Two of
She said she struggled with bringing prize tasks in but I thought in general hers were great (and did get strong reactions from the audience that wasn't present) - in particular she brought in one of the best in all of Taskmaster history.
Obviously I'm referring to the prize for Allan.
The whole exchange was hilarious, especially after all the other contestants had brought in sappy heartfelt prizes that just made eveybody go "awww". The whole segment risked being a bit cringe but then she swooped in and made it hilarious with what Allan I think described as "the most vicious personal attack..."
She turned the whole round into a cohesive routine where her prize was the big punchline. Couldn't have been scripted better.
She performed exceedingly well on Taskmaster.
Fantastic woman. David is a very lucky man, and I love that he realises it.
And she loves him as much.
I love her layers joke. It’s a groaner but goodie.
Yeah, but as all christmas-cracker-jokes it has to be "punished" - it is in the rules.
It’s firmly in the Taskmaster canon: Greg is not swayed by puns
Oooooh I get it now!
It took me a while. Haha!
just in case you are looking for the layers joke 5:36
Victoria is so ridiculously charming! She's very funny, but she also has such charisma.
I adore her. She seems so fun and to be a truly decent person.
I would love to see David Mitchell on Taskmaster, he would hate it, but it would be so fantastic to watch.
I also thought that Victoria should have gotten more points for her prize tasks
I played bridge against VCM at a charity event a couple of years ago. She gave a good impression of trying hard, certainly she made no mistakes, scored well and was charming too.
Ah, old goosebump arm, nice to see you here.
Regular person now knowing how to ride a bike: "Oh damn, I won't be able to do this task... I guess I'll have to forfit" Victoria: "All right, let's just LEARN to ride a bike!"
Victoria was Awesome in Taskmaster and it shows that she genuinely tried her best, and her being able to enjoy her own failed attempts just shows off what a remarkable character she is.
I was genuinely happy to see when Richard finally got to have a go at it, and in the beginning he seemed to be struggling, but he found himself and he looked like he genuinely just enjoyed all of it. And then winning was a great feat!
And the actual price will now be that he will bring up Taskmaster at EVERY occation he sees fit.
...Not gonna lie, I would definitely do the same!
I remember practicing my best man's speech alone, speaking it out loud to complete silence, and then imagining that silence when I cracked my jokes, it made my nerves so much worse... Once I actually started on the day, it went so well from the beginning that I relaxed and everyone laughed and cried at the right bits.... Phew, I felt more relieved than anything else... 😀
Victoria learned how to freaking ride on bike before her task! That’s freaking amazing!!!
Victoria on Taskmaster was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. xD
Love her and David Mitchell.
❤❤
I wish David was on the show… he would be perfect… I love him…
"quite a revelation" Guz Khan would be proud
She's glorious.
Why?
@@jonhohensee3258 I’m seeing a pattern with your replies. Did she run over your dog or something?
@@davechan8613 Yes.
She is brilliant.
i loved her bring an item on task master! i laughed everytime at her joke and then laughed at everyone elses reaction lmao
He, naturally, disrespected Only Connect contestants. She did well to defend them without putting him down. I would have slapped him, big Willy style. 🤣
Good ep! 😃
‘Ep’ is short for episode. ‘Good’ is short for famous character actor John Goodman.
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I like the chicken farmer joke.
I thought her best price task on TM was gifting Alan Davies (half of) a season ticket for Manchester United and then acting all oblivious as to why Alan doesn't want to have it. :D
price task???
That was my favorite too. She was robbed.
@@jonhohensee3258 Sorry. I meant "prize task". Yes, I do know the difference between the two. :O
"I don't mind trying my best and turning out to be slightly rubbish." Words to live by, honestly. Especially for people who don't want to try a new hobby in case they suck at it, which is something I'm guilty of personally. But that's not the point of a hobby! Enjoy it, suck at it if you've got to, but give it a proper go and don't mind if you aren't good at first (or ever)!
I almost always loved her prize task the most
I watched all of this and it was surprisingly short.
download the podcast for more.
Victoria's prize tasks were my favorite. Even her gift for Alan was great. I think she's incredibly funny.
Is there a full version of this interview anywhere?
Victoria and David would be one couple I would love to be at a dinner party with 😊👍
Victoria and David Beckham?
@@p4llyx4 lol no I enjoy conversation not listening to overpaid morons who think intelligent conversation is complementing each other on what each is wearing
there's part of me that wishes you didn't feel that way, because I want them all to myself!
That theme tune sounds like Fleetwood Mac: Coming Your Way.
To me, Victoria is utterly captivating. I could watch her for hours. She was great on Taskmaster, but then again, that show brings out the best in most people.
David Mitchell is a very lucky man
Why?
"I'm not very competitive" -says the person who had lists of lists on Unbelievable Truth
She's Just so gosh darn amazing!
I would love to watch a nerds edition of Taskmaster… bring back Victoria and Paul and all the other eggheads
0:22 burn! Herring's going to pay for that one day!
All of my jokes are obscure historical and/or nerdy references. I completely relate.
I make my jokes for myself, things that make me smile though they meet with incomprehension. It’s that sweet comparison between the two states, my amusement and the eye rolling of my family. Cracked it!
She's nicer than I thought.
Lurv this lady; looks, brains and humour ❤
Looks???
@@jonhohensee3258 she does have a face
@@solitaryman777 Yeah, but her body sucks.
Although I didn't find it to be quite as good overall as the one before, I thought her season had the strongest studio environment out of the three socially distanced ones, and was the least awkward.
I’d love to have dinner with her and David. ❤❤
Love the idea of Taskmaster - last of lasts would be really great
i was really hoping for victoria to absolutely crush taskmaster. she was still a great contestant and morgana was just too hard to beat. i just hope we get david to go on at some point.
Morgana had some sort of sex magic going on, unfair advantage in my opinion.
I also really liked the supportive relationship that sprung up between Morgana, Desiree, and Victoria. Watching through the series, they were continually hyping each other and had each others' back with Greg.
I'm afraid we'll have to wait for his daughter to be old enough to watch and love Taskmaster and then bullying him into participating. I truly believe that's our only hope of him ever coming on, since he has stated he doesn't actually want to do it.
And his daughter will even be able to use "But mummy's done it, why not you?!" as an argument now lol. 😁
"I'm not AT ALL competitive"...I've seen her on Cats Does Countdown and other shows...She's VERY competitive. She'd have to be to win at poker. Nothing wrong with that BTW...But she IS VERY competitive.
She's not really competitive, there are just things that she's incredibly good at and she destroys the games and her contestants because she's just naturally incredibly good at them, but when people beat her at things she's not one to try to fight for that victory, which is what she means when she says competitive (Ed Gamble, Richard Herring, Lou Sanders, etc.)
It seems like maybe she's competitive about certain specific types of things. But maybe she means that she doesn't care so much about coming in first as she does about getting it right? I feel like even on things like countdown where she seems very competitive, she might not be satisfied with winning if it was with words she didn't think were very good. It sort of seems like she wants to get the longest word that was possible or the most exact calculation that was possible, more than she actually cares how the other team does.
@@junbh2 That's basically it, I think. The non-competitive nerdy approach, which I can very much relate to. I hate games that are purely competitive, where the point is to pit the players against one another. The point is to get it right, not winning, not beating someone else. The thrill is getting it right, or knowing the answer. Truly competitive people are, instead, probably the cheaters on Taskmaster.
(I remember her describing somewhere how she got into poker: she described it in terms of wanting to get to the bottom of it, to understand it, to crack it, something like that. So she didn't get into it because she wanted to be the winner, she got into it because it was an intellectual challenge.)
I assume she means not being competitive in the way an ‘unnamed for legal reasons’ premiership footballer might go out to cripple an opposing player if it prevented them scoring a goal.
I absolutely loved when she bought tickets for some sportsgame (sorry, sports idiot here) as a gift for Alan Davies. It was a top notch deadpan pile-up of making fun of something, most hilarious. :)))
She demonstrated how intelligent she is when she got a 9 in countdown.
I thought Victoria Coren Mitchell was brilliant in TaskMaster. Very funny...😊
Victoria is a rare combination of personality, intelligence and physical attractiveness.
Victoria: We don’t have a studio audience, which is amazing.
The studio audience: 🗿
Even when being rubbish Victoria is magnificent.
Oh i adore her😁
VCM Class Act All the way.
Shes lovely...
I'm sure the studio audience is great fun for the people involved but as for the people watching, we agree with Mrs Coren Mitchell.
I wish David did Taskmaster :/
High score? What does that mean? Did I break it?
she is one of the smartest people in any room.
she is good looking
...Someone likes yoghurt!
The hard struggles of the Corens to get work in UK media is an inspiration
Victoria is a goddess!
Two of my fantasy dinner party guests would be VCM and Pam Ayres - a man can dream !
My crush married my man crush.
I'm embarrassed that I'm leaving something here, but here it goes...
*** i apologise if I'm being hyperbolic or if you feel like I'm including you unfairly in the following body but it's worth considering your tact when leaving comments on people's channels. Do a wee bit of research to see if what you've said has been commented or covered elsewhere, what the tone of the responses are and consider the wording or the impact and you'll probably not find yourself in the same situation as the worst offenders ***
The people demanding full video episodes for free on all these clips make me cringe so, so much - you don't read back your comment or someone elses and think it makes you come off as incredibly ungrateful?
"other creators do it for free" he's not ya divorced dad, you shouldn't be trying to guilt trip someone out of their livelihood and you should conduct yourself with a bit more decorum than a stroppy toddler.
It's sad that you feel like you've had something taken away from you, that's reasonable. Like, i honestly feel for you, no shame. But the way you voice that opinion and argue back with Richard isn't getting you anything and it really puts a downer on these clips that everybody else is trying to enjoy. I'm all for the market place of ideas, but arguing with him when he's taken the time to reply and point you in the right direction is miserable to see. And if he's being a bit snappy then take a step back and see how you're the nth person to make the same claims about being robbed or giving shortsighted business advice to someone whose business it is to do all of this.
Nobody should be made to feel small or have their pov or feelings rebutted or scorned for the worse, but just check the wording and read the links, description and other comments before you pile in and you might not find yourself being let down or angered by Richards response.
That being said, it's a shame if you don't want to watch or listen anymore because that means you used to enjoy the show. If anyone reads this far and still feels like they want to chip in their two cents vis what I've been talking about, please don't because you'll only end up disappointing yourself and making these comment spaces uncomfortable for everyone else. Instead please Just think, if other content creators give it away for free, so does Richard. There's a podcast after all and how many other content creators are audio only? AND you're getting the chance to see free video clips up to 10 minutes from this audio podcast, isn't that more than you'd get with a lot of other podcasts? And if you want to see the whole thing pretty badly you can.
He hasn't taken anything away from you. It's still there, just support the man and be glad you have the chance to miss it, because that means you once had it.
As a sort of PS, I've been watching for years and years now and he's always been reluctant to put in adverts or hide the show behind a pay wall. Always. I remember his first advert was from an independent brewery (i think) and it was honestly good to see! Look around at how expensive everything is in day to day life, how awful our country has been ran, the energy crisis, the strikes, the constant bad economic news... I doubt Richard is screwing you because he's a disaster capitalist, i don't think he's turning the screw at all. He's finally putting the proper price on something he's done for free for you for ages because he has to.
This itself is a really cringe comment but i felt it's worth adding one that's at least positive.
Thanks for the show Richard, I'm glad you're making it all work for you and hope you're feeling OK (it was nice seeing you on Gone Fishing, if that's ok to say?)
Cheers Alisdair
@@nickes6168 I honestly think you're reading my responses in the wrong tone of voice. I was just trying to direct you to what you wanted and trying to be amusing whilst doing so, with the mildest possible sarcasm about you saying you didn't have time to check out the provided links. I've apologised for upsetting you, but you have read into my comments stuff that was not there.
@@Herring1967 I might have been reading them wrong. In the future, If I wish to look into your work in video form, I'll buy a ticket for an episode from that website, as I now know you wish not to muck about with youtube channel memberships. Sorry for any trouble this caused. Had I known, maybe effort would have been made to check out the video/s without need for me to have comment in the first place. That's on my end for not knowing, or maybe i should have just asked if there was video instead of dismissing everything entirely. Lesson learned, sorry again, all the best.
👍👍..Long live RHLSTP ☠️☠️☠️
WTF are you going on about?
They could put David and four mannequins on a TM season, and it'd be a glorious season.
You can see why David fell in love with her on there first meeting .
What an extraordinary blend of beauty and brains! She's the total package!
I know she'd hate to hear it ,but she really is a National treasure.
What happened to your podcast? It used to be the highlight of my week!
paywalled
@@bhew7409 The video versions are paywalled but the audio is still very much free
Yes, trying to be funny on taskmaster is a rookie mistake. You just try to do the task well, and in the edit it will be funny anyway.
Yep. The editing on TM is SO good.
I loved her on Bake Off !
VCM is such an intelligent, charming, witty person. No insult intended to DM, but how did he possibly manage to marry her? I'm in awe...
❤
Herring winning at anything only proves that the competition isn't fit for purpose.
I wasn't a fan of her on TM, she always seemed like she was upset.
I'll watch almost anything if VCM is on. I find Tastmaster tedious, but you bet I watched her learn to ride a bike! I admit; when it comes to VCM, I'm a total fanboy! YOWZA!
one of about 5 of the greatest sets of legs on a woman from the UK... i mean DARNIT
That explains a lot, because she's never made me laugh.
no make up and still good looking
Didn't know she told jokes.
i feel like after she married david that was when her career took off. shes talented and clever nontheless.
I would say more of her career was before. In fact she's dialled back a lot since getting married and having a kid.
She’s a very good presenter. First noticed her when she was in a series about the derivation of words. Then other presentations.
But now she seems to have stopped that and she’s somewhat of a bore.