usually i will discover a new show then watch it to the hilt and backtrack seven or eight series
and that takes quite a while but for some reason over the last kind of two or three weeks i've
discovered three or four new british comedy shows and they've been quite short they've been quite
new shows and therefore they haven't taken me that long to watch so i thought while these four are
kind of fresh in my mind now would be a pretty perfect time to do my current comedy favorites
so i will be mentioning some comedian favorites in here but that's within the context of these
programs for example i'm very much into kerry gogliman but none of these are her
shows although she is in one of them there are a lot of other comedians that i adore
however we're going to focus specifically on the tv shows just now and the first one is
ultimate warrior john richardson i love john richardson who doesn't ultimate warrior is a
panel show without the panel more of a chat show really in which john richardson talks to a couple
of comedians about things that he's worried about and then they have to try and rank them
that sounds dull the way i've described it i promise it's not it is very funny obviously like
any comedy based chat show it does rely on quality guests but i feel not the worst one i made in fact
kerry gottleman was in this one as well there are some amazing and comedians taking part in this and
there is one particular episode which if i remember i will try and find a link on their
youtube channel the video does exist online to what can only be described as the most hilarious
thing i've ever ever seen if you take two of my favorite comedians and put them in charge of a
comedy show i'm going to watch it hypothetical is a bit amazing this is hosted by josh whitaking
with james a caster making the rules and we have two teams of two and they're pitched
hypothetical situations and they have to say how they respond to that situation and the team with
the best answer wins and there are some vts showing of things james aimcaster has done
in one he went to a boxing in one he met a teacher uh josh whitaker's teacher uh it's a lot of fun
and the fact that it's hypothetical means that you never know what they're going to say and
you never know what's going to come out of james a caster's mouth which is the way i like it i'm
going to save my last recommendation until the end because i expect a lot of people groan at me
and roll their eyes so in third place in no real order is heresy this is actually a radio show i
i go to a lot of radio recordings i don't actually listen to that much comedy on the radio
but i do go to a lot of comedy recordings and heresy is hosted by victoria cory mitchell
who i love and i'll be honest just listening to her intonations and her dictionary is absolutely
beautiful and that's one of my favorite things about the show but we have two teams of two again
and they have to argue for or against something there's a little bit of audience participation
going on there it's very mixed bag of things and some of the things they argue against or for are
ludicrous like arguing against having pets and uh other things that i can't really remember
at this time arguing against donald trump being allowed on twitter it's sometimes ludicrous but
always really fascinating and really makes you think and above all it's very funny and finally
i have watched the first series of taskmaster i know i'm absolutely disgusted in myself for
having not watched this it's one of i'd say the most popular comedy panel show game show kind
of i don't know how would be categorized comedy shows i'm currently on in britain and i think the
reason i didn't watch it initially because i don't have dave i don't have a tv i watch everything on
catch up and iplayer and things and i didn't realize that uk tv had episodes
of taskmaster i've now seen the first episode the first series sorry which was um tim key
rasheen connie josh whitaker ramesh dranganathan and frank skinner fantastic absolutely loved it
that's where the program could have a bit of an issue though so for me having those five across i
think six episodes a six episode series hilarious and i loved seeing them progress throughout it
but that's where the program could fall i haven't looked at who the guests are in the following
series but if there's anywhere say the guests where maybe either one of them i just cannot stand
or maybe there are three or four i'm just like nah not really bothered you're not that funny
for my personal preference i'm not likely to watch it because it's the same guests for every
episode of that series that could be a problem but hopefully it won't be for me and i don't know if
you've if you watch it and if you've come across a batch but you're not too happy and have just not
bothered watching it i'd be really interested to know so they are my four current comedy favorites
i could also technically put judge rinder in here because i'm obsessed with judge rinder
and it's a very funny show but it's it's not a comedy and it's often very serious as well
but there are some funny judgment clips online if you're interested i would of course love to
know what comedy series you're into just now and if there are any stand-ups who
you absolutely love at the moment i'm gonna go and check out the second series of taskmaster
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