Watching Travel Man will give you the greatest bromance you never realised you needed..... Richard Ayoade & Paul Rudd P.s The clip with Richard & Jimmy on a bed was from a show called Gadget Man where they were reviewing a "Tiny house"
It wasn’t a bad attempt at a remake, and Ayoade was a pretty good host for the most parts. The biggest issue was that it was really really repetitive. The contestants didn’t get to choose their tasks and were given the same challenges week in week out, Richard would make the same jokes every week, and it just got very old very fast.
I think the hand came about because, Richard O' Brien would often grab the contestants by the hand and race them to the next trial. Ayoade just didn't want to touch them.
@@tehpickle1250 I think the main problem with it was the original had teams made purely from people who worked together and their incompetence shone through gloriously, not being able to solve ridiculously simple problems whilst each member of their team shouted meaningless instructions at them at the same time adding to the confusion. The remake had friendship groups who were just there for fun and the "spotlight" of being on TV, playing up to the camera. It threw out the dynamic.
Worth checking out "Nathan Barley" if you can find it. Written by Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror) & Chris Morris (Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam) & featuring Ayoade plus Noel Fielding & Julian Barrett (Mighty Boosh) & Ben Whishaw ("Q" from the Daniel Craig Bonds). Loony satire.
The Crystal Maze is.....hard to explain, but it's basically a gameshow with physical and mental challenges and an eccentric host. That's the show he hosts holding the hand on a stick. Travel Man is just Richard going on different (usually European) weekend trips with another celeb or comedian. A kind of comedy travel show. Worth checking out. Joe Lycett (don't know if you've come across him?) hosts it now.
As we all keep going on at you about ... All three of Richard, Noel Fielding and Matt Berry are in Darkplace (although only one episode for Noel). It's an absolute cult classic in their early years of comedy on TV. I guarantee you love it. It's off the wall, crazy and downright hilarious. It fits your humour precisely.
the show with the people in shiny clothes is called "the crystal maze"it was a reboot of an adventure game show from the late 80's originally hosted by the creator of the rocky horror picture show Richard O'brein, travel man is a show where he takes a different celeb on a weekend break all over the world, the one with Paul Rudd as a guest is brilliant!
Richard hosts a genuine game show with members of the public called ‘The Crystal maze’. I like it. It used to be hosted by richard o brien ( of the rocky horror picture show). Teams of work colleagues ( as an example) compete against other teams by completing different physical tasks. The tasks are set in a variety of themed areas. For each task successfuly completed, the team is awarded with a crystal.
The four girls and the umbrella were from The Crystal Maze which is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show Fort Boyard, and produced for Channel 4. The first four series and three specials were hosted by Richard O'Brien, he wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has since remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay along with director Jim Sharman for the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and appeared on-screen as Riff Raff. Wikipedia.
That "your mum" and "bring back Mr. Rodgers, he was a GOOD teacher" is every UK kid's school experience. As well as finding out the first names of teachers and when being told to give chewing gum and spitting in their hands saying "I swallowed it". My favourite was being told to go to the headmistress' office and saying: "Will I have, to take my clothes off again?" Actually thought I was going to get lamped, but he just went to slam the door on me 😬
Thank you K, I am just turned 61, nice to know I will understand everything in 11 years! You have to watch 'Travel Man' it will really want to stop home!
When he is wearing: Orange suit - show: Crystal maze (a game/ puzzle show that he hosts) Blue suit - (I think) it's Gadget Man (a show about new fancy gadgets) All clips where he is wearing normal clothes out and about with a guest will be the show Travel Man. It is a show about going somewhere for 48 hours normally and what you can see/ do.
The clip where Richard had that funny umbrella is from a show called ‘crystal maze’. It was a game show from the 90s I believe, which changed hosts a couple times. It came back in the mid 2010s with Richard Ayoade as the host
You need to watch the clip of Richard Ayoade and Bob Mortimer from Travel Man. It’s the clip where they are discussing Bob’s idea for changes to the toilet. One of the only times I’ve seen Richard Ayoade completely break character, it’s great.
The show you didn't recognize was "The Crystal Maze", a remake of a 90s game show. I got to help out a bit on production as a guinea pig for games and camera blocking. Show wasn't quite as good as the 90s version, but was fun to get involved in.
I enjoyed Richard as host of The Crystal Maze. The hand thing was based on Richard not wanting to be touched, he used the hand as a way of keeping people 'at arms length'. They had to place the crystals into the hand if they won them.
Travel man is a travel show. The clues in the bloody name! Richard invites a comic friend to join him for a 48hr, weekend, city break somewhere in the world. They do a travel log, visiting tourist spots, museums, bars, restaurants etc and share their views on what the city has to offer. When Richard left the show after nine seasons, Joe Lycett took over hosting duties. It's informative and fun. He does Athens with Dawn French, which I'm sure you'll enjoy.
When he was talking to those girls in the space ship it was the show "the crystal maze"...A sort of interactive puzzle game show that he presented but i think just as a one off
Travelman is basically Richard asking his colleagues n friends to go on a weekend break with him to some city in the world. They usually do stuff thats popular in the city or what the city is known for and gives some facts and history about the place. Its a simple show carried by just the 2 people Richard and his guest.
The clip with the mask and the ones with "Roy" and the snow globe were both travel man. The formula is basically that him and his guest visit a place and he takes them to do a mixture of unusual things and maybe more traditional things etc... It's pretty laid back but he's had some great guests to share the experiences with.
6:36 is from Was It Something I Said which deserves a reaction, only one series but has Richard as a regular and very much worth a watch, this is the first episode, all of the uncut episodes are on TH-cam.
@KingBoomer, I love your reactions to British humour. It's really nice to see you learning and diving into the cultural references. There's another comedian called Nick Mohammed who's very quirky. He also performed in Ted Lasso on Apple TV. He's so bonkers that I can't help but find him endearing and addictive viewing. He's so clever. He always cheers me up. Give him a shot.His memorising the Wagamama menu is epic. He often features on 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. Oh yes and definitely check out Travel Man and Taskmaster by the way.
I didn't know that something like Travel Man exists. And I am checking those episodes and I already want to watch it... especially beause I am traveller and I have been in many of those places. And this show is still rolling. :D
Chris O'Dowd, ( Roy ) was in a movie called 'The Sapphires' -- nothing spectactular just a good story 'Loosely based on true events'. Definately worth watching.
The hand is because he didn't want to touch or be touched by the contestants of the game show. So, they could shake the wooden hand and he would lead them from one part of the game to another (it was set in different zones Aztec/future etc) using the wooden hand.
I’m going to add to the pile, you and Queen Boomer should watch Garth Mahrengi’s Dark Place. It has Ayoade and Matt Berry (Douglas Reyholm in IT crowd) it’s such a good show
You will love Travel Man. He partners with several regulars from 8oo10cdc, IT Crowd... Its quite fun to watch. And, yes, the episode with Chris O'Dowd is classic.
The Show you want to know is the Crystal Maze (I'm sure I'm the 99th person to point that out) but the original 90's TV show with Richard O'Brien (Who you may know as Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Show), then Edward Tudor Pole (a Punk star that had fleeting success in the UK called Ten Pole Tudor) and later rebooted under Richard Ayoade (I Love Richard Ayoade but the Crystal maze was not his finest hour, you'd have to watch the 90s version to get the full context, if you want?)
You'd LOVE Travel Man, he goes on weekend mini breaks all over the world with other celebs, it's awesome, loads of the celebs are ones you know and love too, even the odd US film star thrown in there for good measure!
I've been watching Travel Man recently, bingeing on them actually, and you learn a lot about Richard, including the fact that he hardly ever eats. I've seen him eat two meals of the many he ordered in the shows. Amazing. It did distress me how much food was wasted in these shows but otherwise they're fun. Of course if he will order local dishes from these places it's hardly surprising. He takes various celebrities on 48 hour mini breaks to various cities and some local dishes even the locals don't like.
Crystal Maze (with the girls). The hand is to avoid touching the contestants. It a show that the writer of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' 's creator used to host. Richard took over He also has his very own gameshow, called ...(Question team,)
Richard Ayoade has a thing about bodily contact so hence the hand on a stick when he was doing The Crystal Maze. So he didn't actually have to lead anyone by his real hand.
The show is The Crystal Maze; it was a famous game show in the U.K. in the late 80s early 90s and was originally hosted by an eccentric and charismatic chap named Richard O’Brien; he is world famous for being the creator of the Rocky Horror Show starting Tim Curry & Susan Sarandon. One of the most financially lucrative productions of all time, it cost him 1.4m to make & made 170m at the box office & continues to gross into the billions today in Broadway productions in NYC, West End productions in London, and theatre districts in Vienna, Athens, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Beijing, Melbourne, Edinburgh, & more. The show was rebooted in 2016 & they tried to get charismatic hosts similar to O’Brien to host the show. They originally went with Steven Merchant; who whilst being a great comedy writer - is not a performer, he doesn’t do stand up comedy, and is socially awkward. It flopped hard. Then they tried Richard Ayoade with Adam Buxton adding cameos; it was actually watchable this time because the two guys actually had stage presence & natural charisma. But it still sucked. It was one of those shows that people watched generally for Richard O’Brien and it would never be the same without him. The general premise is that a team of contestants navigate a “maze”, competing in various games to try to win crystals. Crystals correspond to time in the final challenge, so the more cystals won, the better their chances of winning the grand prize. It was a decent attempt by Ayoade to revive the show but nothing was gonna save it.
That woman on the travel man with the mask is Jo Brand and she has a wicked sense of humour, she's sharp and pretty quick witted too, not as quick as Richard or Lee Mack but quick enough to keep up with them.
Hey King Boomer! If you want more Chris Morris (Denholm Reynholm), I'd like to recommend "Brass Eye". It was his own current affairs based comedy series. Very dark humour though and controversial. I'd also like to recommend another bunch comedy series called Cunk on Britain, Cunk on America, Cunk on Earth, Cunk on Shakespeare and Cunk on Christmas all one season per topic. They're a kind of historical mocumentary where the interviewees are perplexed by Philomena Cunk's nonsensical but cleaver questions and presentations. Hilarious stuff. Anyway keep up the good work on these reactions 😎👍
Hi King Boomer. Would love you guys to react to the 70s comedy Porridge. It really is one of the best UK sitcoms. Its unfortunately BBC so you may not be able to post it. Give it a go, please
Crystal Maze is the one with the hand, with psychical, mental, skill games again the clock in order to win crystals and collect gold times at end of game
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a must must must watch for you and Mrs Boomer. 1 season of 6 episodes (may only be 5 due to TH-cam copyright), so it’ll be such an easy watch. If you liked IT Crowd then this is a must.
You should react to Richard Ayoade speaking to Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4 News), Krishnan has a reputation for saying exactly the wrong thing during interviews and Richard is having none of it.
8:00 & 8:57 This is indeed Travel Man the guest this week being Jimmy Carr it's a mini break type show doing stuff and going to places of interest ( well some things are not of interest to the guest so thats always fun) taking guests to places around Europe. The guest trying Salty Liquorice being a favourite of mine. 14:15 Joe Brand comedian and ex-psychiatric nurse so she's lived and seen psycho's first hand.
I've recommended Travel Man in the comments, I definitely stand by that. You get the joy of Ayoade himself, plus a bunch of other really good comedians messing around with him, and an actual travel show. Great combination. I will say though, some episodes are better than others. Off the top of my head I loved Bob Mortimer, Paul Rudd, Adam Hills, Morgana Robinson, Aisling Bea, Rob Beckett and Adam Buxton. So, so many episodes to look at though.
You would love watching the Big Fat Quizes mate. Embrace the Suck are currently going through them. Mrs Boomer and yourself would enjoy the Decade Quizes.
Richard Ayode's one of my personal faves too!! 'An Introvert's hero! :) Garth Marenghi's Dark Place' is definitely what you guys should watch next- it's a spoof of an 80's horror/ hospital/ cop series, completely ridiculously funny, made badly on purpose, with Richard Ayode and Matt Berry, I think would be a better choice than Travel Man (although that's great too!) to start with as it's a comedy, only six episodes but all gold! :D Would Love that!! :) But then maybe watch Travel Man, The Crystal Maze, and Gadget Man too! :)
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"Garth meringues dark place" if u can find it, it has both richard and young renholm on it :)
They need to see this, it’s so ridiculous!
The goofiness is right up KB's street too
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He can find all the episodes right here on TH-cam.
Darth Meringue' was he another Sith Lord?
Travel Man is A-grade entertainment, I think both you and QB would love it, and it will help you plan your next trip
the snowglobe...😂
That comment made me double take cause that's my initials. Also the food additive museum and the Spanish champagne tasting, comedy gold
Watching Travel Man will give you the greatest bromance you never realised you needed.....
Richard Ayoade & Paul Rudd
P.s The clip with Richard & Jimmy on a bed was from a show called Gadget Man where they were reviewing a "Tiny house"
+ bob mortimer
Love him in Travel man
Loved him doing travel man
the tiny house was so cool
YES!
The show is The Crystal Maze when it was rebooted
I have never seen the reboot but from what I see here, I cannot imagine it being as good as the original.
@@IIChristisKingIIno one could ever really replace Richard O'Brien though. But Ayode is a good choice
It wasn’t a bad attempt at a remake, and Ayoade was a pretty good host for the most parts. The biggest issue was that it was really really repetitive. The contestants didn’t get to choose their tasks and were given the same challenges week in week out, Richard would make the same jokes every week, and it just got very old very fast.
I think the hand came about because, Richard O' Brien would often grab the contestants by the hand and race them to the next trial. Ayoade just didn't want to touch them.
@@tehpickle1250 I think the main problem with it was the original had teams made purely from people who worked together and their incompetence shone through gloriously, not being able to solve ridiculously simple problems whilst each member of their team shouted meaningless instructions at them at the same time adding to the confusion. The remake had friendship groups who were just there for fun and the "spotlight" of being on TV, playing up to the camera. It threw out the dynamic.
The Richard Ayoade being interviewed by Christian Guru Murphy on channel.4 was fantastic...unconfortable, cringe and just excellent
*Krishnan Guru-Murthy
"Don't thank me, I've done nothing for you" is my favourite from that.
I just recommended this same thing. Hopefully he'll see one of our comments. :)
That bit with Jimmy in the little room was actually Gadget Man which was the precursor to Travel Man. They were in a tiny home (hilarious).
The show with the umbrella hand is called The crystal maze.
I don't think it's occurred to KB that Noel Fielding is from The IT Crowd.
Richard is just unique, and his comedy brain and timing is as close to perfection as you can get.
Worth checking out "Nathan Barley" if you can find it. Written by Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror) & Chris Morris (Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam) & featuring Ayoade plus Noel Fielding & Julian Barrett (Mighty Boosh) & Ben Whishaw ("Q" from the Daniel Craig Bonds). Loony satire.
There is a movie where Richard Ayoade plays the similar character too moss from the IT crowd called 'The Watch" with Ben Stiller in it too.
The Crystal Maze is.....hard to explain, but it's basically a gameshow with physical and mental challenges and an eccentric host. That's the show he hosts holding the hand on a stick.
Travel Man is just Richard going on different (usually European) weekend trips with another celeb or comedian. A kind of comedy travel show. Worth checking out. Joe Lycett (don't know if you've come across him?) hosts it now.
As we all keep going on at you about ... All three of Richard, Noel Fielding and Matt Berry are in Darkplace (although only one episode for Noel). It's an absolute cult classic in their early years of comedy on TV.
I guarantee you love it. It's off the wall, crazy and downright hilarious. It fits your humour precisely.
the show with the people in shiny clothes is called "the crystal maze"it was a reboot of an adventure game show from the late 80's originally hosted by the creator of the rocky horror picture show Richard O'brein, travel man is a show where he takes a different celeb on a weekend break all over the world, the one with Paul Rudd as a guest is brilliant!
I love how he makes Mel B so uncomfortable. 😂
Richard hosts a genuine game show with members of the public called ‘The Crystal maze’. I like it. It used to be hosted by richard o brien ( of the rocky horror picture show). Teams of work colleagues ( as an example) compete against other teams by completing different physical tasks. The tasks are set in a variety of themed areas. For each task successfuly completed, the team is awarded with a crystal.
The four girls and the umbrella were from The Crystal Maze which is a British game show devised by Jacques Antoine, based upon his format for the French game show Fort Boyard, and produced for Channel 4.
The first four series and three specials were hosted by Richard O'Brien, he wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has since remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay along with director Jim Sharman for the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and appeared on-screen as Riff Raff.
Wikipedia.
Richard is not comfortable with touching / intimacy so he uses the prop to guide the contestants 'by the hand'.
the small room with Jimmy Carr is from Gadget Man
"This quiz is a marathon!"
He's not wrong, I've been in the audience of one of the Big Fat Quizzes, the recording lasted around 3 hours!
That "your mum" and "bring back Mr. Rodgers, he was a GOOD teacher" is every UK kid's school experience.
As well as finding out the first names of teachers and when being told to give chewing gum and spitting in their hands saying "I swallowed it".
My favourite was being told to go to the headmistress' office and saying: "Will I have, to take my clothes off again?"
Actually thought I was going to get lamped, but he just went to slam the door on me 😬
Travel Man - Berlin, Bob Mortimer, e-number museum. Absolutely brilliant!
Travel Man is brilliant. Helsinki with Paul Rudd is my favourite.
Thank you K, I am just turned 61, nice to know I will understand everything in 11 years!
You have to watch 'Travel Man' it will really want to stop home!
Noel is pronounced "nole", rather than like the Christmas carol of the same name.
When he is wearing:
Orange suit - show: Crystal maze (a game/ puzzle show that he hosts)
Blue suit - (I think) it's Gadget Man (a show about new fancy gadgets)
All clips where he is wearing normal clothes out and about with a guest will be the show Travel Man. It is a show about going somewhere for 48 hours normally and what you can see/ do.
The clip where Richard had that funny umbrella is from a show called ‘crystal maze’. It was a game show from the 90s I believe, which changed hosts a couple times. It came back in the mid 2010s with Richard Ayoade as the host
Also Richard and Noel on Mighty Boosh !
You need to watch the clip of Richard Ayoade and Bob Mortimer from Travel Man. It’s the clip where they are discussing Bob’s idea for changes to the toilet. One of the only times I’ve seen Richard Ayoade completely break character, it’s great.
The show you didn't recognize was "The Crystal Maze", a remake of a 90s game show. I got to help out a bit on production as a guinea pig for games and camera blocking. Show wasn't quite as good as the 90s version, but was fun to get involved in.
It's "Travel Man: 48 hours in....".
Each week is a different city with a different guest. Usually a comedian or actor
Occasionally it's 96 hours.
You would probably recognise alot of his companions. It's a really good programme 👍
@@ladykaycey Not as good as An Idiot Abroad, but still well worth watching. TM is now presented by Joe Lycett.
@@DavidZ4-gg3dm I noticed that he had taken over. I haven't watched any of his episodes though.
@@ladykaycey He's not much good as a travel presenter, but it's still worth watching for the destinations & guests.
I enjoyed Richard as host of The Crystal Maze. The hand thing was based on Richard not wanting to be touched, he used the hand as a way of keeping people 'at arms length'. They had to place the crystals into the hand if they won them.
Richard and Noel are so chaotic together on game shows, they're like the two troublemakers at the back of class.
That show was Crystal Maze I think? A game show from the 90s then Richard hosted the reboot. Worth watching just for his hosting 😂😂
you really should do the 'what we do in the shadows ' series. it is with Matt Berry, just fantastic
And he's much funnier in it than in The IT Crowd.
@@Will-nn6ux and he makes good music. that man is rediculously talented
Travel man is a travel show. The clues in the bloody name!
Richard invites a comic friend to join him for a 48hr, weekend, city break somewhere in the world. They do a travel log, visiting tourist spots, museums, bars, restaurants etc and share their views on what the city has to offer.
When Richard left the show after nine seasons, Joe Lycett took over hosting duties.
It's informative and fun. He does Athens with Dawn French, which I'm sure you'll enjoy.
Yeah, please do Travel Man. I've only seen a couple of episodes, but would love to sit through all of them on TH-cam with you and Queen Boomer.
Come on KB, I know you can guess what's going on in a show called "Travel Man". 😅👍🏻
When he was talking to those girls in the space ship it was the show "the crystal maze"...A sort of interactive puzzle game show that he presented but i think just as a one off
In Travel man, he and a guest go to cities around the world, different guests in different cities.
Travelman is basically Richard asking his colleagues n friends to go on a weekend break with him to some city in the world. They usually do stuff thats popular in the city or what the city is known for and gives some facts and history about the place. Its a simple show carried by just the 2 people Richard and his guest.
The Crystal Maze is the show it had two presenters before Richard Ayoade the most famous being Richard O'Brien the first presenter.
The clip with the mask and the ones with "Roy" and the snow globe were both travel man. The formula is basically that him and his guest visit a place and he takes them to do a mixture of unusual things and maybe more traditional things etc... It's pretty laid back but he's had some great guests to share the experiences with.
The second clip is from a game show he hosted called the Crystal maze, the hand on a stick is because he doesn't like being touched
6:36 is from Was It Something I Said which deserves a reaction, only one series but has Richard as a regular and very much worth a watch, this is the first episode, all of the uncut episodes are on TH-cam.
it's the gadget man. equally brilliant.
There's an amazing 8 out of 10 cats does countdown clip missing from here. Check out his highlights from that show
I love your channel, you make me laugh even when i don’t feel like laughing, that’s cool, keep on keeping on 👍🏻
I just liked my own like,😁
@KingBoomer, I love your reactions to British humour. It's really nice to see you learning and diving into the cultural references. There's another comedian called Nick Mohammed who's very quirky. He also performed in Ted Lasso on Apple TV. He's so bonkers that I can't help but find him endearing and addictive viewing. He's so clever. He always cheers me up. Give him a shot.His memorising the Wagamama menu is epic. He often features on 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. Oh yes and definitely check out Travel Man and Taskmaster by the way.
The first time I saw Richard was in the mighty boosh (Noel fielding) the crack fox still haunts me in my dreams 😢
Watch Bottom!
It's the natural progression!
I didn't know that something like Travel Man exists. And I am checking those episodes and I already want to watch it... especially beause I am traveller and I have been in many of those places. And this show is still rolling. :D
You must know about Travel Man. You were in an episode. Jon Hamm in Hong Kong ;)
I love the banana defence.
Crystal Maze, Gadget Man, and Travel man... al Ayoade Awesome Shows :)
The Other Show was Gadget Man Richard Started in Series 2 of Gadget Man Stephen Fry did the first series, Gadget man is the predessor to Travel Man.
Richard and Noel fielding, the guy Richard is with in some scenes, were in mighty boosh, that could be a good reaction series
I think that was the crystal maze with him in the fly suit and hand
Chris O'Dowd, ( Roy ) was in a movie called 'The Sapphires' -- nothing spectactular just a good story 'Loosely based on true events'. Definately worth watching.
Travel man with Richard and Bob Mortimer is superb
Someone may have already mentioned it, but one of the Travel Man episodes was in Miami
Richard did a Travel man episode with the guy who played Roy in it-crowd. Epic fail in there!
He's name is Chris O'Dowd . And it is a great episode .
The hand is because he didn't want to touch or be touched by the contestants of the game show. So, they could shake the wooden hand and he would lead them from one part of the game to another (it was set in different zones Aztec/future etc) using the wooden hand.
Ah the Crystal Maze! That might make an interesting reaction, 90s original Richard O Brian and a reboot with Richard Ayoade! 💎
If he does, series 3 or 4. He's never going to watch it all and the first couple of series, it's not at it's best.
0:36 "Ayoade, I hope I said that right?" 👍
"... especially at Noo-ell Fielding" 🥹
I’m going to add to the pile, you and Queen Boomer should watch Garth Mahrengi’s Dark Place. It has Ayoade and Matt Berry (Douglas Reyholm in IT crowd) it’s such a good show
The Mighty Boosh, dude, Richard is well cool in that 😎🎥
The hand on a stick is to keep contestants at a distance
You will love Travel Man. He partners with several regulars from 8oo10cdc, IT Crowd... Its quite fun to watch. And, yes, the episode with Chris O'Dowd is classic.
The Show you want to know is the Crystal Maze (I'm sure I'm the 99th person to point that out) but the original 90's TV show with Richard O'Brien (Who you may know as Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Show), then Edward Tudor Pole (a Punk star that had fleeting success in the UK called Ten Pole Tudor) and later rebooted under Richard Ayoade (I Love Richard Ayoade but the Crystal maze was not his finest hour, you'd have to watch the 90s version to get the full context, if you want?)
You'd LOVE Travel Man, he goes on weekend mini breaks all over the world with other celebs, it's awesome, loads of the celebs are ones you know and love too, even the odd US film star thrown in there for good measure!
I've been watching Travel Man recently, bingeing on them actually, and you learn a lot about Richard, including the fact that he hardly ever eats. I've seen him eat two meals of the many he ordered in the shows. Amazing. It did distress me how much food was wasted in these shows but otherwise they're fun. Of course if he will order local dishes from these places it's hardly surprising. He takes various celebrities on 48 hour mini breaks to various cities and some local dishes even the locals don't like.
In the words of Dylan Moran: "You know why it's local? Cause it's shit."
charming, even when he's mad
Crystal Maze (with the girls). The hand is to avoid touching the contestants. It a show that the writer of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' 's creator used to host. Richard took over
He also has his very own gameshow, called ...(Question team,)
He's in 'The Watch' movie too with Ben stiller, Jonah hill, Vince Vaughn
Richard Ayoade has a thing about bodily contact so hence the hand on a stick when he was doing The Crystal Maze. So he didn't actually have to lead anyone by his real hand.
You said it right.
The show is The Crystal Maze; it was a famous game show in the U.K. in the late 80s early 90s and was originally hosted by an eccentric and charismatic chap named Richard O’Brien; he is world famous for being the creator of the Rocky Horror Show starting Tim Curry & Susan Sarandon. One of the most financially lucrative productions of all time, it cost him 1.4m to make & made 170m at the box office & continues to gross into the billions today in Broadway productions in NYC, West End productions in London, and theatre districts in Vienna, Athens, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Beijing, Melbourne, Edinburgh, & more.
The show was rebooted in 2016 & they tried to get charismatic hosts similar to O’Brien to host the show. They originally went with Steven Merchant; who whilst being a great comedy writer - is not a performer, he doesn’t do stand up comedy, and is socially awkward.
It flopped hard.
Then they tried Richard Ayoade with Adam Buxton adding cameos; it was actually watchable this time because the two guys actually had stage presence & natural charisma.
But it still sucked. It was one of those shows that people watched generally for Richard O’Brien and it would never be the same without him.
The general premise is that a team of contestants navigate a “maze”, competing in various games to try to win crystals. Crystals correspond to time in the final challenge, so the more cystals won, the better their chances of winning the grand prize.
It was a decent attempt by Ayoade to revive the show but nothing was gonna save it.
They thought Merchant was too socially awkward...and then settled on Ayoade? Jeez.
That woman on the travel man with the mask is Jo Brand and she has a wicked sense of humour, she's sharp and pretty quick witted too, not as quick as Richard or Lee Mack but quick enough to keep up with them.
Hey King Boomer! If you want more Chris Morris (Denholm Reynholm), I'd like to recommend "Brass Eye". It was his own current affairs based comedy series. Very dark humour though and controversial. I'd also like to recommend another bunch comedy series called Cunk on Britain, Cunk on America, Cunk on Earth, Cunk on Shakespeare and Cunk on Christmas all one season per topic. They're a kind of historical mocumentary where the interviewees are perplexed by Philomena Cunk's nonsensical but cleaver questions and presentations. Hilarious stuff. Anyway keep up the good work on these reactions 😎👍
Spaced. Black Books. Nathan Barley. Toast of London.
Hi King Boomer. Would love you guys to react to the 70s comedy Porridge. It really is one of the best UK sitcoms. Its unfortunately BBC so you may not be able to post it. Give it a go, please
There is an episode of Travelman with Bob Mortimer in it. Not sure which one.
Definitely do travel man him with other comedians for 24hrs in other countries with his comedy style is incredible to watch if you love him
Crystal Maze is the one with the hand, with psychical, mental, skill games again the clock in order to win crystals and collect gold times at end of game
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a must must must watch for you and Mrs Boomer. 1 season of 6 episodes (may only be 5 due to TH-cam copyright), so it’ll be such an easy watch. If you liked IT Crowd then this is a must.
You should react to Richard Ayoade speaking to Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4 News), Krishnan has a reputation for saying exactly the wrong thing during interviews and Richard is having none of it.
If you want weird and want more Ayoade and Noel Fielding, you might want to look at The Mighty Boosh.
I’d love to see your reaction to a British comedy show called Rab C Nesbitt. Scottish comedy at its finest 😉😉
The show is called the crystal maze
Have you seen "Richard Ayoade’s real voice"? You need to, trust me. [The 59 second version]
8:00 & 8:57 This is indeed Travel Man the guest this week being Jimmy Carr it's a mini break type show doing stuff and going to places of interest ( well some things are not of interest to the guest so thats always fun) taking guests to places around Europe. The guest trying
Salty Liquorice being a favourite of mine. 14:15 Joe Brand comedian and ex-psychiatric nurse so she's lived and seen psycho's first hand.
I've recommended Travel Man in the comments, I definitely stand by that. You get the joy of Ayoade himself, plus a bunch of other really good comedians messing around with him, and an actual travel show. Great combination.
I will say though, some episodes are better than others. Off the top of my head I loved Bob Mortimer, Paul Rudd, Adam Hills, Morgana Robinson, Aisling Bea, Rob Beckett and Adam Buxton. So, so many episodes to look at though.
I can't believe they put in those clips of Ayoade and Jimmy on 'Was It Something I Said" and left out the Roger Federer line :(
You would love watching the Big Fat Quizes mate. Embrace the Suck are currently going through them. Mrs Boomer and yourself would enjoy the Decade Quizes.
Richard being interviewed by newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy is hilarious. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it already.
The Crystal Maze
Richard did the older seasons of travel man. Its now Joe Lycett hosting so becareful which eps you watch
Crystal Maze is totally something you should watch to be fair (possibly bullseye, big break and krypton factor)
You should check out his interview at Sundance with Jesse Eisenberg
Richard Ayode's one of my personal faves too!! 'An Introvert's hero! :) Garth Marenghi's Dark Place' is definitely what you guys should watch next- it's a spoof of an 80's horror/ hospital/ cop series, completely ridiculously funny, made badly on purpose, with Richard Ayode and Matt Berry, I think would be a better choice than Travel Man (although that's great too!) to start with as it's a comedy, only six episodes but all gold! :D Would Love that!! :) But then maybe watch Travel Man, The Crystal Maze, and Gadget Man too! :)