Victoria Coren Mitchell on telling jokes to silence and Taskmaster - from RHLSTP 418

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  • @stevemoisan
    @stevemoisan ปีที่แล้ว +458

    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.

    • @robertluong3024
      @robertluong3024 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      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.

    • @vl3005
      @vl3005 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@robertluong3024 And Greg gave her last place for that. So unlike him.

    • @davidwescott2632
      @davidwescott2632 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Been my favourite person for years,her smile does it for me.

    • @Arathir66
      @Arathir66 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I love when she gave Manc tickets to Alan Davies, an Arsenal fan:D

    • @alexread6767
      @alexread6767 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@vl3005but they weren't real diamonds

  • @darinfoat8410
    @darinfoat8410 ปีที่แล้ว +786

    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.

    • @flippetskater
      @flippetskater ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I was so rooting for her. It IS brave, and she just jumped right in. 💗

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Darin - Because she learned to ride a bike with cameras around??? Please....

    • @rumpelstiltskin6150
      @rumpelstiltskin6150 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jonhohensee3258 In like 4 minutes.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rumpelstiltskin6150 So what?

    • @Arareemote
      @Arareemote ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jonhohensee3258 My condolences

  • @5Amigos32
    @5Amigos32 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    David may not enjoy Taskmaster but I would very much enjoy David on Taskmaster

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks ปีที่แล้ว +43

      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…

    • @brendanberry7403
      @brendanberry7403 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oldvlognewtricks still love when they broke Paul and he admitted he was thick as pig shit hahaha

    • @flippetskater
      @flippetskater ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@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.

    • @larsg.2492
      @larsg.2492 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would think a normal length episode of TM is about three hours to short for all of David's ranting after each task. 🤣

    • @lordcawdorofmordor2549
      @lordcawdorofmordor2549 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@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.

  • @kevinbell9255
    @kevinbell9255 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    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!)

    • @grahamstrouse1165
      @grahamstrouse1165 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Victoria usually works on a different wavelength than Alex. Sometimes she intersects & it surprises him. 😊

    • @franka9942
      @franka9942 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      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
      @kevinbell9255 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@franka9942 Agreed, I'd be interested to know if you did it in less than the 33 minutes it took Victoria

    • @q-tuber7034
      @q-tuber7034 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And by calculating task scores in her head before Alex or the production crew could figure them out.

    • @franka9942
      @franka9942 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@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

  • @amonra8393
    @amonra8393 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    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
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here abilities?

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, she wasn't brilliant.

    • @beth12svist
      @beth12svist ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@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.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @RLelling
      @RLelling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@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.

  • @DrMcFly28
    @DrMcFly28 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    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

    • @a2dsouza
      @a2dsouza 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It was certainly the most ridiculous thin thing I've ever seen.

  • @MrMonkeyHat
    @MrMonkeyHat ปีที่แล้ว +296

    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
      @sittingduck6049 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hell yeh...Hugh Dennis tho...

    • @narrativium
      @narrativium ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@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!

    • @HamelinSong
      @HamelinSong ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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)

    • @GavTatu
      @GavTatu ปีที่แล้ว

      anything without nish i would watch.

  • @rufusdrumknottvgc
    @rufusdrumknottvgc ปีที่แล้ว +68

    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!

  • @pcbassoon3892
    @pcbassoon3892 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    She was my favorite person on taskmaster. I think she is so funny. And she learned to ride a bike so fast!

  • @tufty1990
    @tufty1990 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

  • @KellyVergara
    @KellyVergara ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Victoria learning to ride a bike on TV was a great, human moment. Genuinely sweet

  • @fryeday
    @fryeday ปีที่แล้ว +71

    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.

  • @Tht1Gy
    @Tht1Gy ปีที่แล้ว +48

    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!!!!!

  • @Literary_Baddie5838
    @Literary_Baddie5838 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Ah, old goosebump arm, nice to see you here.

  • @flippetskater
    @flippetskater ปีที่แล้ว +41

    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.)

  • @petercolledge8204
    @petercolledge8204 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Fantastic woman. David is a very lucky man, and I love that he realises it.

    • @cabrown308
      @cabrown308 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And she loves him as much.

  • @NadiaEldemerdash
    @NadiaEldemerdash ปีที่แล้ว +101

    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.

    • @WhatTheHell919
      @WhatTheHell919 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Baddiel is way too boring and unfunny to be a good taskmaster

    • @NadiaEldemerdash
      @NadiaEldemerdash ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@WhatTheHell919 I mean David Mitchell.

    • @WhatTheHell919
      @WhatTheHell919 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NadiaEldemerdash He's a better choice than Baddiel, sure

    • @hellen3098
      @hellen3098 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But he is smaller than alex...

    • @tappy8741
      @tappy8741 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@hellen3098 They'll put Alex at the back of the room for a perspective gag

  • @ANightworkerslife
    @ANightworkerslife ปีที่แล้ว +70

    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
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      price tasks?

    • @TPH250290
      @TPH250290 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jonhohensee3258 Going around questioning people who wrote "price" instead of "prize" doesn't make you look particularly intelligent or likeable, btw.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TPH250290 zzzzzzzzz......

    • @TPH250290
      @TPH250290 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jonhohensee3258 You're the one making the same reply on multiple comments. 'zzzzzzzzz' indeed.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TPH250290 yawn

  • @benderrodriguez6343
    @benderrodriguez6343 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I would love to see David Mitchell on Taskmaster, he would hate it, but it would be so fantastic to watch.

  • @Nabend1402
    @Nabend1402 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Just one of my favourite people on the planet.

  • @youremakingprogress144
    @youremakingprogress144 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Victoria is so ridiculously charming! She's very funny, but she also has such charisma.

  • @winterlighthome
    @winterlighthome ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I adore her. She seems so fun and to be a truly decent person.

  • @SquareNoggin
    @SquareNoggin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @kassistwisted
    @kassistwisted ปีที่แล้ว +50

    "Lots of layers" with the chickens was PRIMO! Victoria was robbed on the prize tasks over and over again.

    • @elizabeths.8683
      @elizabeths.8683 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      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.

    • @dAfoodie101
      @dAfoodie101 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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

    • @iliketrains3495
      @iliketrains3495 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @elizabeths.8683
      @elizabeths.8683 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iliketrains3495 I agree! I liked that one too.

  • @murdermittensnyc
    @murdermittensnyc ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I love her layers joke. It’s a groaner but goodie.

    • @KitagumaIgen
      @KitagumaIgen ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, but as all christmas-cracker-jokes it has to be "punished" - it is in the rules.

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s firmly in the Taskmaster canon: Greg is not swayed by puns

    • @lakrids-pibe
      @lakrids-pibe ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oooooh I get it now!
      It took me a while. Haha!

    • @murdermittensnyc
      @murdermittensnyc ปีที่แล้ว

      just in case you are looking for the layers joke 5:36

  • @chrisparti
    @chrisparti ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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... 😀

  • @ClarkeP
    @ClarkeP ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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.

  • @stefanejegod8644
    @stefanejegod8644 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!

  • @privatevendetta
    @privatevendetta ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I also thought that Victoria should have gotten more points for her prize tasks

  • @MrBrownnn696
    @MrBrownnn696 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wish David was on the show… he would be perfect… I love him…

  • @wohlhabendermanager
    @wohlhabendermanager ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      price task???

    • @elizabeths.8683
      @elizabeths.8683 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was my favorite too. She was robbed.

    • @wohlhabendermanager
      @wohlhabendermanager ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jonhohensee3258 Sorry. I meant "prize task". Yes, I do know the difference between the two. :O

  • @cmarq817
    @cmarq817 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love her and David Mitchell.
    ❤❤

  • @alamunez
    @alamunez ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Good ep! 😃
    ‘Ep’ is short for episode. ‘Good’ is short for famous character actor John Goodman.

  • @kevinbennett7615
    @kevinbennett7615 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He, naturally, disrespected Only Connect contestants. She did well to defend them without putting him down. I would have slapped him, big Willy style. 🤣

  • @TwoWholeWorms
    @TwoWholeWorms ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Victoria on Taskmaster was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. xD

  • @jessgunn6639
    @jessgunn6639 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i loved her bring an item on task master! i laughed everytime at her joke and then laughed at everyone elses reaction lmao

  • @finestjellybeansrawlol9486
    @finestjellybeansrawlol9486 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "quite a revelation" Guz Khan would be proud

  • @WobblyLance
    @WobblyLance ปีที่แล้ว +8

    She is brilliant.

  • @Margarinetaylorgrease
    @Margarinetaylorgrease ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like the chicken farmer joke.

  • @bamleith3095
    @bamleith3095 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She's Just so gosh darn amazing!

  • @tychoderkommentator2989
    @tychoderkommentator2989 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I almost always loved her prize task the most

  • @JoeBlac
    @JoeBlac ปีที่แล้ว +37

    She's glorious.

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why?

    • @davechan8613
      @davechan8613 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jonhohensee3258 I’m seeing a pattern with your replies. Did she run over your dog or something?

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davechan8613 Yes.

  • @95Gabe
    @95Gabe 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @nigeh5326
    @nigeh5326 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Victoria and David would be one couple I would love to be at a dinner party with 😊👍

    • @p4llyx4
      @p4llyx4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Victoria and David Beckham?

    • @nigeh5326
      @nigeh5326 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@p4llyx4 lol no I enjoy conversation not listening to overpaid morons who think intelligent conversation is complementing each other on what each is wearing

    • @sergeib1233
      @sergeib1233 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      there's part of me that wishes you didn't feel that way, because I want them all to myself!

  • @theseoldbeats
    @theseoldbeats 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watched all of this and it was surprisingly short.

    • @Herring1967
      @Herring1967  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      download the podcast for more.

  • @CalvinKlown
    @CalvinKlown ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That theme tune sounds like Fleetwood Mac: Coming Your Way.

  • @KellyDurgan
    @KellyDurgan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Victoria's prize tasks were my favorite. Even her gift for Alan was great. I think she's incredibly funny.

  • @boredincan
    @boredincan ปีที่แล้ว +8

    David Mitchell is a very lucky man

  • @maltanno
    @maltanno ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "I'm not very competitive" -says the person who had lists of lists on Unbelievable Truth

  • @lal2300
    @lal2300 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lurv this lady; looks, brains and humour ❤

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looks???

    • @solitaryman777
      @solitaryman777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jonhohensee3258 she does have a face

    • @jonhohensee3258
      @jonhohensee3258 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@solitaryman777 Yeah, but her body sucks.

  • @Vidal-HallPhotography-ef3km
    @Vidal-HallPhotography-ef3km 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the idea of Taskmaster - last of lasts would be really great

  • @caroline4323
    @caroline4323 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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. :)))

  • @dmgroberts5471
    @dmgroberts5471 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    All of my jokes are obscure historical and/or nerdy references. I completely relate.

    • @hanreality.7266
      @hanreality.7266 ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

  • @iliketrains3495
    @iliketrains3495 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @matteo7867
    @matteo7867 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh i adore her😁

  • @DeltaDemon1
    @DeltaDemon1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "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.

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.)

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @beth12svist
      @beth12svist ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​​@@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.)

    • @tomrees4812
      @tomrees4812 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @therealxunil2
    @therealxunil2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Victoria is a rare combination of personality, intelligence and physical attractiveness.

  • @davidmaxwaterman
    @davidmaxwaterman ปีที่แล้ว

    She's nicer than I thought.

  • @SteveMikre44
    @SteveMikre44 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I thought Victoria Coren Mitchell was brilliant in TaskMaster. Very funny...😊

  • @d007ization
    @d007ization ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @cabrown308
    @cabrown308 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’d love to have dinner with her and David. ❤❤

  • @oldvlognewtricks
    @oldvlognewtricks ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I would love to watch a nerds edition of Taskmaster… bring back Victoria and Paul and all the other eggheads

  • @GFBandCC
    @GFBandCC 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She demonstrated how intelligent she is when she got a 9 in countdown.

  • @JimC
    @JimC ปีที่แล้ว

    0:22 burn! Herring's going to pay for that one day!

  • @martynkal.1248
    @martynkal.1248 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there a full version of this interview anywhere?

  • @marknewbold2583
    @marknewbold2583 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The hard struggles of the Corens to get work in UK media is an inspiration

  • @jenkinseric2
    @jenkinseric2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Even when being rubbish Victoria is magnificent.

  • @christam949
    @christam949 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

    • @alpine_newt
      @alpine_newt ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Morgana had some sort of sex magic going on, unfair advantage in my opinion.

    • @winterlighthome
      @winterlighthome ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @singenstattatmen5096
      @singenstattatmen5096 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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. 😁

  • @guitarsimon1
    @guitarsimon1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Victoria: We don’t have a studio audience, which is amazing.
    The studio audience: 🗿

  • @unknownname1941
    @unknownname1941 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wish David did Taskmaster :/

  • @davepoul8483
    @davepoul8483 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shes lovely...

  • @mavriksc
    @mavriksc ปีที่แล้ว

    High score? What does that mean? Did I break it?

  • @richardJWAKEFIELD
    @richardJWAKEFIELD ปีที่แล้ว

    Two of my fantasy dinner party guests would be VCM and Pam Ayres - a man can dream !

  • @chrisstehlik7927
    @chrisstehlik7927 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved her on Bake Off !

  • @fulalbatross
    @fulalbatross ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They could put David and four mannequins on a TM season, and it'd be a glorious season.

  • @kevinkgillette
    @kevinkgillette 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an extraordinary blend of beauty and brains! She's the total package!

  • @dont-want-no-wrench
    @dont-want-no-wrench 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    she is one of the smartest people in any room.

  • @denniswright4807
    @denniswright4807 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can see why David fell in love with her on there first meeting .

  • @alisdairreid6998
    @alisdairreid6998 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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?)

    • @Herring1967
      @Herring1967  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Cheers Alisdair

    • @Herring1967
      @Herring1967  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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.

    • @nickes6168
      @nickes6168 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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.

    • @johnhutchinson4624
      @johnhutchinson4624 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍👍..Long live RHLSTP ☠️☠️☠️

    • @Tht1Gy
      @Tht1Gy ปีที่แล้ว +10

      WTF are you going on about?

  • @johnslaney7235
    @johnslaney7235 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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...

  • @chrisofnottingham
    @chrisofnottingham ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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.

    • @flippetskater
      @flippetskater ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep. The editing on TM is SO good.

  • @MartinandFreddie
    @MartinandFreddie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know she'd hate to hear it ,but she really is a National treasure.

  • @nicholassmith7359
    @nicholassmith7359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My crush married my man crush.

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz ปีที่แล้ว +4

    VCM Class Act All the way.

  • @alpine_newt
    @alpine_newt ปีที่แล้ว

    What happened to your podcast? It used to be the highlight of my week!

    • @bhew7409
      @bhew7409 ปีที่แล้ว

      paywalled

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bhew7409 The video versions are paywalled but the audio is still very much free

  • @snesleywipessqueegeeservices
    @snesleywipessqueegeeservices ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ...Someone likes yoghurt!

  • @johnhiscott-walsh5198
    @johnhiscott-walsh5198 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @WilliamReid-uq6oh
    @WilliamReid-uq6oh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    she is good looking

  • @FistandFootMartialArts
    @FistandFootMartialArts 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @Goblin1986p
    @Goblin1986p ปีที่แล้ว

    I wasn't a fan of her on TM, she always seemed like she was upset.

  • @Daniel-ko4mg
    @Daniel-ko4mg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Herring winning at anything only proves that the competition isn't fit for purpose.

  • @TREVONBACH
    @TREVONBACH 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    one of about 5 of the greatest sets of legs on a woman from the UK... i mean DARNIT

  • @user-ix1ki1po5r
    @user-ix1ki1po5r ปีที่แล้ว +1

    no make up and still good looking

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That explains a lot, because she's never made me laugh.

  • @12daleks
    @12daleks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't know she told jokes.

  • @diskgrinder
    @diskgrinder 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Worst part of only connect is her painfully unfunny monologues

  • @swax7124
    @swax7124 ปีที่แล้ว

    i feel like after she married david that was when her career took off. shes talented and clever nontheless.

    • @junbh2
      @junbh2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would say more of her career was before. In fact she's dialled back a lot since getting married and having a kid.

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 ปีที่แล้ว

    She's such a beautiful woman.
    I hate David Mitchell! 🤣🤣🤣
    {:o:O:}

  • @joso7228
    @joso7228 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry I am in Seagull mode today - my son was watching Taskmaster so I said I would watch 1 Episode to see what it was like.
    It was absolute drivel. Inmates at a Mental Hospital would have drooled. I almost choked on vomit at its inaneness. Absolute rubbish. Got it?!
    And TH-cam spellchecker doesn't even know that 'inaneness' is a word because its not stupid enough to watch Taskmaster.

    • @Herring1967
      @Herring1967  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Inanity?

    • @Anonymouse85
      @Anonymouse85 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just don't watch it, it's not that hard. Don't need to comment on how clever you are by not watching it. That would be the definition of saying inane things.

  • @oldman1734
    @oldman1734 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.