Ep 52. Alan Davies - S12 Ep.6 | Taskmaster: The Podcast
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- This week on the podcast Ed is joined by comedian, actor and TM 12 contestant, Alan Davies! The pair catch up over the iron throwing task, doggy treats and what it means to have dignity.
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OF COURSE Victoria understood that. She did the Utd ticket thing for a laugh.
also for the joke to work she didn't need to buy a ludicrously expensive whole season ticket. Maybe it wasn't meant to be joky presents (justifying a low score) but she definitely knew, what she was doing.
I am 99.9% certain that Victoria fully understood what it meant to give such a bad present to Alan. That's what made it funny and all her previous prize tasks were only about being funny. I am positively flabbergasted to read so many comments assuming she wouldn't know the impact of her present. I'm not a big football person, but I completely get the tribalism involved. Any person knows how stupidly crazy (and crazily stupid) sports fans are in their religious devotion to "their" team, so this was definitely pure calculation and excedingly hilarious because of it.
She literally said "well clearly you'd want to go see the better team" she knew 100% what she was doing lmao
That didn't really come across though - she delivered it as though she was being earnest about it, there wasn't really any hint of cheekiness or similar that would show she was doing it on purpose. I didn't spot anything, anyway.
@@dingo137 That's more cuz that's her style of delivery
I pride myself on being completely ignorant on all matters football. And even I know the one defining characteristic of any team support is the tribal nature, of which football is the most egregious
@@dingo137 thats the funny thing about it
Ed didn't understand the joke when Mike brought in the smashed glass art piece and he doesn't understand Victoria's football joke. He's too focused on the competition to understand the kayfabe of Taskmaster.
Also reminded of the podcast episode where Alex was a guest and they were discussing Mike, and Alex just threw out as a joke something like "oh, Mike's not actually a doctor, he just made that up to make him sound clever" and Ed just believed him without hesitation even though he actually knows Mike.
He really is shockingly gullible for a comedian.
@@tjj2294 Maybe Ed is himself just pranking us by pretending to be gullible? We're through the looking glass now!
Is Ed delirious?! Victoria was OBVIOUSLY trolling Alan, and brilliantly. She deserved five points minimum, especially from football-loathing Greg.
Especially because they're good friends and she'd have heard regularly how the Arse are doing. Clearly a troll move saying "at the highest level".
RIGHT! i don't know if he thinks victoria's stupid or sth but it was quite obviously a joke
I sometimes have to wonder if Ed acts stupid on occasions like this in order to make viewers who didn’t get it feel better.
I mean she hosts Only Connect, and sports themed questions must have came up a dozen times. I’m sure she knows exactly what she’s doing.
@@TheCheesyNachos she hosts it for literal decades. So more than a few times.
The bathtub task was amazing. The wide shot of Alan in the water just made it even better, just really hammered home the whimsy of the whole thing.
+1 to Ed missing Victoria's point. I will admit that halfway through, I genuinely wasn't sure if Victoria was joking or not, but by the end, you can see the devilish sparkle in her eye that she gets when she's satisfied with herself.
EDIT: Also, the dome first appeared in the New Years special.
I don't understand why so many people assume that Victoria's gift for Alan was a genuine mistake rather than an attempt at trolling him (and a successful one at that). It definitely fits her weird/awkward brand of humour, and she allegedly used to be into football in her twenties, so we can assume that she still knows a thing or two about it. But hey - women and football, eh?
Yeah, it was brilliant and it was glorious.
Yeah, I’m convinced she knew exactly what she was doing
Maybe it felt a bit off for 2021, and was thus not so easily identified? If she had bough a Tottenham season ticket (voucher), surely that'd have clicked. At the height of the Wenger - Ferguson rivalry, okay, but 2021 ManU maybe didn't quite look right for that sort of play ...
By 'so many' people, do you mean three, i.e. Greg, Alan and Ed?
@@icturner23 there’s also a buttload of people in this video’s and the original episode’s comment section who assume that Victoria wasn’t trolling
Ed doesn't give nearly enough credit to Victoria. Seems she knows more about football and football fans than Ed does. It's a perfect banter gift.
Alan gives off such a pleasant energy
Jesus. Ed reminds me of the men who try to “explain” my own jokes to me, such as telling me why a statement I made ironically is not literally true.
"And then there's Victoria there as well" - it really has become quite a pattern in the last three seasons. Kathrine Parkinson, Charlotte Ritchie and now Victoria. Absolutely adorable ladies being ruthlessly obliterated into madness and last place by a large margin.
Katherine Ryan's whole 'I don't care about the ball' breakdown was a good litmus for future sport-influenced tasks..
It is more the 'respectable brainy one' that usually cracks. Think Davey Badiel
@@Burner-B I will think Paul Sinha on that one. I don't actually think David Baddiel was all that bothered.
also the way victoria couldn't find the red chair just like katherine couldn't find the spider lmao
@@remyratatata That one was just Victoria forgetting her glasses, and she actually couldn't see the chair.
I agree that the Season Ticket was a joke. Misunderstanding for comic effect. It's the sort of joke she (and her husband) has made countless times on 8 out of 10 cats.
What puzzles me, is that Alan is meant to be a friend of theirs, surely they would have talked about it afterwards. If so why is he still talking to Ed as though it was meant seriously ...
On the day he clearly knew it was done on purpose. He's just the type of person where if someone in authority suggests something he'll shrug and go along with it because he's only half paying attention anyway.
He's not. He's being sarcastic.
they know him and may have picked u that he likes a joke every now and then.
Of course Victoria was playing the game with the season ticket. She is exceptionally clever. Alan appreciated the joke. They know each other well. She and David have been on QI many times. This series is so much better than the last one. Love them all. Guz is adorable.
Alan is allways on such a good mood, its a spiring state of beign to aim for
The only person (I hate to use the term celebrity) I can think of who might love their life and job more than Alan is Ian Hislop.
"Victoria doesn't know anything about sports."
--wins millions of pounds sitting at a table
I just have mad love and respect for Alan Davies. ❤️
I have made love and respect Alan Davies.
"curly hair and all kinds of shit" - guz
Alan is one of my favorite humans.
This is one of the best seasons of TM!
I think a toilet roll with a bit of peanut butter (from the kitchen?) inside the middle and minimal decoration for cuteness would have been unbeatable.
Nah, a flat tennisball would've done the trick I think
Victoria's gift was so funny. I can't believe Ed didn't get it, despite her sarcastic tone while describing it.
you smashed it with the guests this series!
lmao, okay, so let's imagine Victoria doesn't know that people like teams, and just randomly picked Alan's most hated team (wrongly assuming them to be currently the best team): Then we still have to imagine that she thought the best thing to bring to taskmaster for that was a *voucher* to just a *season ticket* . So not just an incredibly underwhelming voucher instead of the ticket itself, the voucher is also for something completely non-special and uninteresting from a taskmaster perspective.
So basically, what is suggested here is that Victoria a.) doesn't understand the most basic and well known part of football culture, b.) doesn't know how to give a gift and c.) doesn't understand entertainment
Ye I reckon it was a serious gift
Ey! I'm from Venezuela 🇻🇪and listening to the podcast from Colombia 🇨🇴 !!!!
A Flapjack is a cake!
Victoria is/was a professional poker player. So the gift she received does make sense.
They weren't confused about the poker, they were confused about the sexiness
@@ScarcelyLucky, she has mentioned (I think in a newspaper column) that she directed a porn film in her early 20s.
@@petertaylor4980 She did, she talked about it in the Richard Herring podcast. Caveat for those expecting a very juicy tale, you might be disappointed.
Desiree's and Victoria's toys would have had more success with a cat. Thinking about making a "Chunky" for my own cat, actually. Thanks, Desiree!
I live in the USA and know nothing about either type of football and yet I know that Alan is an Arsenal man; so for sure Victoria also knows that, too!
One wonders if Victoria asked a friend what football-based gift she could get Alan and got trolled
Alan's feelings towards United are spot on... unlike Victoria's assumption that they are the 'best'... maybe if it was a ticket and time machine back to the 1990s
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I'd end that diatribe with a massive GONG.
it's clear she knew by how long ad skillfully she was twisting the knife of pretend naivity there.
And how long Alan was torn between cringy, admiration of the mean joke and insult.
Alan Davis has Richard Herring energy but unlike Richard he's actually funny and entertaining
Well, I'm from Venezuela actually.
And I'm actually from Singapore!
The dislikes are from Guz Khan!
Thanks for the therapy 🙂
How about this for a task idea: Don't let Alex Horne fall asleep. Alex has just taken some sleeping pills. Longest time awake wins, your time starts now.
Flapjack is a cake.
Did Victoria pee on her toy? There is a mention of her using wee and her saying, I was alone. I only had mine...
I haven't seen the episode, but I know dogs very well. I run a dog rescue, train dogs. Anything intimate from that area, rubbed over toy, would have been a magnet to a dog. Wee probably least exciting, but still a very canny idea. Now I am sorry I can't watch it. But the question has to be asked, How much do you want to win? On a tv show...
You can watch it Google the episode
@@atorrrand Do you mean through Dailymotion?
I always have an unpleasant experience with them. Hard to leave them. I seem to get stuck there, get agitated, trying to leave the site. I haven't heard anyone else complain, tho'.
@@georgielancaster1356 I watched it on dailymotion, and I agree with you it’s very glitchy. Spoiler answer to your Q: No, she didn’t wee. She was brainstorming ideas, and threw that out as an idea. It was funny. The idea she started with was that you can’t improve on just a simple tennis ball for engaging a dog, but then, sensing she probably should do at least a little something more, suggested she might wee on it as a joke, before ultimately creating an abomination out of felt and string.
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Ofc peoplenlisten to you in Bogotá and all Latinoamerican capitals and it would be preposterous to pretend otherwise.
She was nice...
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I totally understand Voctoria's lack of understanding of football. It's a religion. It's bizarre behaviour. You vicariously live through your team's fortunes as if kicking a ball into a goal was life or death for your family. Your team is your identity and other teams are dispised enemies. A rational person not brought up in the culture really does view the whole thing with bemused incomprehension.
Unpopular opinion: I came into this series knowing Alan from QI and not knowing anyone else but VCM. The more I watch Alan interact with VCM, the more he bothers me. He views the riddle task as her not listening to him, and of course, there is a lot edited out, but if you play it back, he wasn't communicative about having the other half of the puzzle. But he acts as if she consistently shuts him down and won't listen every time he tries to say something. His irritation with this week's prize task was real, and he didn't hide that he doesn't like her. I'll also insert here that a lot of people don't read very subtle social cues well, so may wonder where this is coming from. I read them very well.
I'm not going to name any of the -ists that are so commonly bandied about in culture these days, but I can't help but wonder if his team partner was a man, how would that have changed his behavior? Would he have pushed back? Would he have said, "No, listen, I have letters too." Would he have enjoyed the banter and teasing about the football season ticket? Of course, we won't know, but it's made me more disappointed in him and in the series, because the thing I have LOVED about this series (other than discovering Guz) is that the five really get along so well.
You were so good in Hunger Games.
@@pretzelhunt Not as good as she is at reading very subtle social clues though. But definitely better than she is at reading more obvious clues like Alan literally saying "I think I found the jigsaw pieces"
Oh so you think AD was acting sexist but wont say that; you'll hide behind two paragraphs of "supposes". Yup: that'd be an unpopular opinion alright.
@@pretzelhunt Well, it's really because I think that term is too strong and also overused. I do think he would have acted differently if his teammate were a man. It seems he wasn't forthcoming with information and then blamed VCM for not knowing he had half the cipher. Him having a puzzle doesn't necessarily translate to him having the cipher. Also, it wasn't my intention to make anyone angry, so I'm sorry if my comments did that.
@@jenniferlawrence1372 Of course he wouldve acted differently if it were a man: IT'S A DIFFERENT PERSON. You'd treat your dog differently if it were a different sex too, because you'd use different LANGUAGE to express your feelings about them biologically which is clearly WHY YOU YOURSELF sound offended by Alan's choice of verbiage. Give the man some credit; he's been funny-minded for a long time.
I just cannot understand what Victoria was thinking with that ”gift”.
100% convinced she knew exactly what she was doing
It's a comedy show, she was making a wildly successful joke.
@@bbrockert Ok even if that’s the case it still came of more as stupid than funny to me.
@@RickeGnool Even after Alan's comment about it being an ' attack' ????