Ep 8. Richard Osman
Taskmaster The Podcast
Avalon
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week's podcast Ed is joined by TV presenter, producer, author and Taskmaster Series 2 alumni Richard Osman! The pair get nostalgic over the early days of TM, Richard reveals how being a TV Producer meant he approached the tasks differently and why the rabbits in a hat task still smarts.
They also dissect the latest episode which involves some acting, coconut water and another fabulous fall from Johnny Vegas.
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| 0:28.9 | asking store for details. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. |
| 0:46.8 | It is episode 8, hello, I am Ed Gamble, I am the host, I realise I've come in very aggressive |
| 0:53.1 | there. |
| 0:54.1 | I didn't mean to. |
| 0:55.1 | One with the show, another brilliant episode this week, some fantastic tasks, tasks, imagine |
| 1:02.9 | that. |
| 1:04.1 | Imagine not saying task right as the host of the Taskmaster podcast. |
| 1:08.8 | It's one of the basic words that comes up a lot during the show, just want to assure |
| 1:12.5 | you I do say tasks during the interview segment of the podcast, but I don't add a tea |
| 1:19.3 | onto the end of it. |
| 1:20.7 | So lots of great tasks and it's a brilliant special guest and another great episode, I'm |
| 1:27.8 | having such a lot of fun doing these. |
| 1:30.0 | So we're nearly at the end of the series, that's kind of crazy, right? |
| 1:33.4 | Episode 8, now normally at this point in a Taskmaster series we'd be like, hey, it's |
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