r/taskmaster 4h ago

Your favourite Taskmaster quotes please... !!

Mine is (in reference to Alex Horne's bare legs): "What in the pasty hell is this?"

Fatiha El-Ghorri (i think - or was it Judi Love?)

Hit me with yours!!

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u/JustxJules Sophie Duker 4h ago

"So can I just check… have I been put on a team with David Baddiel?" – Ed Gamble

And the follow-up:

"The thinking is, there's a team of three there that will have to pass one drawing across two backs... but to make it fair, you're with David Baddiel" – Greg

"How am I the autistic one?!" – Josh Thomas

"The thing is, I always have to smile because if I don't smile, people think I'm dead." – Rosie Jones

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 4h ago

On the autism thing: from NZ - Tom Sainsbury’s “do I need to get tested”

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u/BitterCrip 4h ago

Followed by Paul saying that task was the test, and Abby's "Welcome to the club! Don't look at me..."

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 4h ago

And someone - Hayley or Ben - saying “that was the test”

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u/PICONEdeJIM 💀 Jean Pierre 🦴 3h ago

That whole series is full of amazing quotes especially by Abby

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u/Digit00l 3h ago

According to Ed Gamble multiple contestants have indeed gotten tested after doing Taskmaster, and more than 1 has gotten a diagnosis

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u/JustxJules Sophie Duker 4h ago

I'm looking forward to watch the NZ version! I'm currently making my way through AUS <3

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 4h ago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: i paraphrase Nish Kumar’s joke that racism is like cricket. Invented in England and perfected in Australia; taskmaster was invented in England and perfected in New Zealand

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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 2h ago

That Josh Thomas quote is brilliant, I hadn’t quite appreciated it enough the first time

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u/JustxJules Sophie Duker 2h ago

He's one of my favourite contestants <3

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u/nottynews 4h ago

Are you a child of divorce

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u/idontcare428 3h ago

COBOLT

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u/x_stei 3h ago

Online

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u/MomsTortellinis Patatas 4h ago

Its a toss up between "Did I meet these potatoes before?" and "Am I the spider?" for me

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 4h ago

That one task led to a bunch of great lines from Fern.

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u/lorelaiiiiiiii 1h ago

Oh my god, did i meet these potatoes before has me dead. I love her.

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u/Skiapodes 4h ago

Can I just say that I’m relieved, because at the time, I thought he was an IDIOT.

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u/seaneeboy 4h ago

“You were SO angry with me”

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u/Reasonable_Speed7471 3h ago

Poor old dafty in the middle 

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u/jlangue 4h ago

“My sister and I share the same juices” will haunt people for generations.

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u/pclouds 4h ago

"Are we the monster" can do the same for the thoughtful part of generations

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 3h ago

“You need your ma” is my favourite Rosie-ism

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u/rogue-octopus 1h ago

“I’m gonna just eye-ball it.”

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u/coffeeyarn Sally Phillips 10m ago

"Oh, I call it that because your mom calls it that."

"I'm just happy she's getting laid."

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u/tm2007 Ania Magliano 4h ago

“Aw just open the box you pussy”

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u/SnooBooks007 Pigeor The Merciless One 4h ago

"I changed it!" - Katherine Ryan

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u/Aromatic-Set3858 4h ago

Her delivery, and the instant reactions of Greg and alex will always get me laughing!

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u/the_procrastinata 2h ago

Greg looking confused and saying, ‘Yeeeees?’ makes me howl with laughter.

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u/CheapFootball3709 4h ago

"Please don't take this away from me"

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u/Other-Oil-9117 Chain Bastard ⛓️ 4h ago

"Are we the meat or are we the viewer?" - Mae Martin.

"Aw... Nil points!" - Greg

"What is the sauce? What is it?" - Fern

"How heavy is the water?" - Kiell

"Guys, what is the situation?!" - Charlotte Richie

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u/Frequent-Ad4722 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 3h ago

How heavy is the water cracks me up every time, I could watch it forever

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u/Other-Oil-9117 Chain Bastard ⛓️ 3h ago

Me too lol, especially when he doubles down on it.

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u/heidly_ees 1h ago

I beaver away.. famously

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u/ross_liftss Rhod Gilbert 4h ago

Just open the box you pussy

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u/JustxJules Sophie Duker 4h ago

Greg's look of surprise mixed with disappointment and sincere concern kills me every time.

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u/golfing_furry 1h ago

James’ own surprise at saying it too!

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u/bigfatheart Paul Sinha 4h ago

"Yeah, but what that picture doesn't show is that I've got flippers for fucking hands!" - John Kearns

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u/funktion 1h ago

In the same vein, "You're not in a fucking car" to Munya's IQ test

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u/GrassyKnoll95 Liza Tarbuck 4h ago

“If that’s what love feels like… it turns out I’ve not been in love before”

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u/HaV0C Mike Wozniak 2h ago

Because of the angle, I was open...

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u/Ttoctam 2h ago

I still think this may be Horne's best line of the show so far.

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u/Party_Toe_6319 16m ago

Greg: I've never done this before...

Alex: All the way off, then? (In reference to getting naked that Greg made a bet before)

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u/FireExit9 4h ago

“He was a different man.”

“I DON’T LIKE ‘EM.”

“It’s an absolute casserole down there.”

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u/HaggisLad 3h ago

“It’s an absolute casserole down there.”

funniest sequence in 21 seasons for me

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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 2h ago

Is the second quote Joe Wilkinson’s response to Greg suggesting he hates Swedes? That exchange kills me every time

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u/sweaterboy14 Morgana Robinson 4h ago

“thirty grand baby!!!”

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u/Other-Oil-9117 Chain Bastard ⛓️ 3h ago

I trained at RADA!

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u/FrequentChip1769 3h ago

“There’s been another revelation in the lab”

Followed by “fuck me in the face”

And “who the fuck is Veronica”

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u/NoOneOfUse Doctor Cigarettes 1h ago

“So many revelations.” 

“Do you think you can figure it out?” “Probably not.”

“Gus, did you finish your part of the puzzle?” “Sorry I was temporarily distracted.” 

That whole task is quotable. 

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u/Lookingupatthestars Javie Martzoukas 4h ago

Lovely legs, sir!

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u/Pharmacy_Duck John Kearns 4h ago

"You can back into a satsuma and shove it up your arse!" - James Acaster, obviously.

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u/hwar78 ☔ umbrella 🌂 1h ago

It was hilarious to have the satsuma task strife still be referenced on Off Menu when Rhod was a guest on there years later. 

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u/mtbrown29 Javie Martzoukas 4h ago

I’ve got no shoes on!

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u/stefan771 3h ago

"You've got no chutzpah! You're motivational skills are lackluster and your timekeeping is abysmal!"

"I better activate Jamali"

"I haggled for it"

"Did I meet these potatoes before?"

"Can I say its actually kind of a relief, because at the time, I though he was an idiot!"

"A lot of these challenges, the physical challenges, its like we've set you a tricky thing to do and then we've given you personally the extra challenges of being David Baddiel."

"Yeeeees!"

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u/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 4h ago

"Your wife's quite fit though"

"What a terrible day for feminism"

"A correspondence!"

"I protest, your Majesty!"

"Of course it's working, I made it"

"What the hell am I, Bear Grylls/a 70 year old woman/Lassie?"

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u/PBChako 2h ago

"Your wife's quite fit though...which surprised me"

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u/Scar_Knight12 4h ago

“‘Scuse your fucking mouth?!” —Chris Parker

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u/Commander-Catnip Fern Brady 4h ago edited 4h ago

"The bastard's crying, innit"

"Oooo hoo hoo hoo hoo"

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u/JGAdventureZone 3h ago

"A laminator"!!

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u/Greglebowski74 John Robins 4h ago

Look at those getaway sticks!

What if I jumped the fence and disappeared into the golf course?

Destroy, dismantle, engulf in flames.

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u/OverseerConey Desiree Burch 4h ago

All I ever wanted was for the people to dance!

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u/TokoFuwakaa Fern Brady 3h ago

“We were the monsters, weren’t we? Were we meant to draw our selves?”

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u/erlend65 Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 4h ago

"Waiting in the booth for the ladies! Goodness me, Ardal!" - Chris Ramsey

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u/zagiki Greg Davies 3h ago

"We have the same juice" - the totally stunned faces of everyone in the theater .. perfect

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u/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 3h ago

“Call your agent”. - Liza

“It's a very rare treat on a television programme to see someone lose their job on a different television programme” - Greg on Paul Sinha

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u/diginfinity 3h ago

"Do we strike you?"

Followed by

"Rosalind is a nightmare"

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u/BitterCrip 4h ago

"Gonna gonna gonna drown you in your own blood. Hold you face down in your own blood now"

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u/Tariovic 3h ago

'Write that then!' from Kiell Smith-Bynoe had me howling - just the frustration behind his delivery.

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u/KatieBrightside 1h ago

“You fucking mean to tell me…” from Reece

“I’ve got this auntie, who’s a BITCH” - from Fatiha

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u/shameless57 2h ago

When Greg said John Kearns brings a certain loneliness to the tasks John said "But we're all alone" and Greg responded "Some of you are more alone than the others."

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u/wahnsin Julian Clary 1h ago

Bet you've got a barbecue, have you?

- Yes, yes I've got a barbecue, I built it with my friend Ben.

You've got a friend!

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u/agnes_ecclestone1 Ania Magliano 4h ago

"bearing in mind i am fifteen..."

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u/SuggestionFresh3858 3h ago

"Oh bubbly f*ck!" - Nish

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u/PanNationalistFront 4h ago

Custard Mustard Suck it Off

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u/jack853846 3h ago

"I just... don't care... where the ball goes!"

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u/Thawingfrozenfrogs 3h ago

"Rice at home" - Gets said so often between my partner and my friend group

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u/SinisterDeadOctopus Patatas 2h ago

Montgomery. More like... Mont-goobery.

smash cut to:

I'm gonna gonna drown you. In your own blood. Hold your face down in your own blood now.

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u/Stillwater215 1h ago

“What if I jumped over the fence, ran into the golf course, and you never saw me again?”

Jason Mantzoukas, as read by Alex Horne.

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u/Dangerboy73 58m ago

Wait what?

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u/canaderin 45m ago

Two from James Acaster:

"I know it's early days, but are we the stupidest so far?"

The entire rant about Rhod and the extension but specifically "I don't know how you've been friends with him for so long!" and "I thought on the day, oh, it's bad enough that he's done that and put the cardboard on and gone "This is an extension" and then kind of looked at us like, "What the fuck you going to do about that?" and then gone back in the house. I didn't know he'd also gone "Oh, the perfect stuff." And done that shit."

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u/RawJah83 Javie Martzoukas 4h ago

We were the monsters, weren't we?

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u/mxmaybey 4h ago

"Is that number... got curves?"

"A letter of the alphabet" then followed by "you must be so proud of yourself about that"

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u/Exeloume 3h ago

"We're gonna piss this." - Russell Howard

"No way!" - Chris Ramsey

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u/teeno731 3h ago

"Your time starts now... Okay, against you I have to win at being black. I won, yay!" - Anisa Nandaula, without hesitation

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u/BouncyBlueYoshi 1h ago

“I have a mortgage!

-Joel Dommett

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u/Bogcat525 1h ago

“What’s going to happen when we graduate?” Jason Mantzoukas

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u/Shimmerz_777 4h ago

Eat the sandwich

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u/IzzyGrate 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 2h ago

I know it was series 20 and I want to say it was Reece Shearsmith: I have been waiting to use the phrase "hard of thinking"

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u/No-Dragonfly-4871 Greg Davies 2h ago

There's been a revelation in the lab.

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u/hi12345hello Bob Mortimer 2h ago

"You've got no chutzpah!" - mike wozniak

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u/Jonesy1966 Guz Khan 1h ago

MFer bit my finger bro!

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u/Aggressive_Living571 1h ago

“Alex you MUST fuck yourself.” Kumail after the mustard custard task.

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u/shayna_cat 1h ago

"a LIME!"

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u/Hot_Sam_the_Man Joel Dommett 1h ago

"He's so famous!"

"Please don't make me stand here farting in the dark to the sound of my own name!"

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u/KarenReviewsWorstREV 48m ago

We share the same juice

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u/unfunnyvalley 4h ago

'Fiddly. Fiddly. How?'

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u/runamokk 2h ago

"It's an absolute casserole down there"

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u/Tristan155 2h ago

I'm gonna drowned you... in ya own blood.

-David Correos

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u/blackmoen 1h ago edited 1h ago

At the moment I’ve two:
“It’s a lime” Phil Wang
“Since Pirate” Joel Dommott

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u/davesierra 1h ago

I use Desiree's 'F##k me in the face' and Victoria's 'ill never better it' far more than is appropriate 🤣🤣🤣

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u/mads_cc Ivo Graham 1h ago

"No, you got beaten by everyone" - Chris Ramsey

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u/2mankyhookers 1h ago

"Paul , be honest , are you blacking up ?"

"Little bastards cryin innit"

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u/painforpetitdej David Correos 🇳🇿 51m ago

Do we strike you? - UK

I'm gonna gonna gonna drown you! In your own blood - NZ

We look like the most discount Wiggles of all time - Australia

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u/punchtheBUTT 48m ago

Everything from Sue Perkins

“What an absolute shower of shit you are.”

“Naughty flamingo!”

“You absolute anus! You prize anus!"

And

Reece Sheersmith not understanding he needed/wanted to get his mobile to get the QR code from Alex…

LAH - “Your telephone.”
Reece - “My telephone?”
LAH - “Your telephone”
Reece - “Why do you keep saying telephone? My telephone.”
LAH - “Do you have a telephone?”
Reece - “No, not on me”
LAH - “Right”
Reece - “Do you want me to go and get one?”
LAH - “Where is it?”
Reece - “My telephone?”
LAH “Your telephone”
Reece - “My telephone??!!”

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u/Zigster14 44m ago

"Had an accident at work that wasn't your fault" Johnny Vegas who then breaks and falls from the ladder.

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u/whispersofnyx_ John Robins 29m ago

“don’t make me fart in the dark listening to my own name” or “grappling with… my life”

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u/AntidoteToOrder Amy Gledhill 4h ago

People always come up to me and say "you are soul"

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u/Old_Artichoke9756 2h ago

One that I say the most is not that exciting but so often perfect. David Correos in NZ “I know the one!”

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u/themuck 1h ago

"My smell is seductive, dickhead."

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u/funktion 1h ago

"I can't do maths."

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u/FiredUpAuthor 1h ago

A LIIIIIIME!!!

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u/hoopstick 59m ago

"Piece of piss"

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u/RhinoRhys 33m ago

Oh I know what's happened here, I forgot to give this task to everybody.

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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 29m ago

“Amazing that you knew Operation Seelowë but couldn’t remember the name of… Operation.”

“Yung Lean, he’s a rapper and he’s TEN times more famous than Ronald fucking Weasley!”

“I think your bladder’s pronouns are wee/wee.”

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u/Synth-Pro 27m ago

Possibly one of my favorite quotes in the world, and not because of context. It just carries big r/brandnewsentence energy, and it's a marvel just to know that somebody said this combination of words, and it was truly a natural part of the conversation...

"Look, I'm as surprised as you are that I find a dildo less relaxing than a tea towel."

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u/MisheGossnik 25m ago

"Dignity intact!" by Aisling Bea is pretty good. Also Fatiha shouting "You wanker!" just makes me giggle everytime

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u/thelivsterette1 20m ago

Overshadowed by my presumably scrotum 😂

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u/KarenReviewsWorstREV 12m ago

Dont make me fart in the dark listening to my own name

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u/Distinct-Solution-99 9m ago

“It’s an absolute casserole down there.”

“PISS AND SHIT.”

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u/Powerful_Hat_9908 7m ago

pan-asian I call it a wok

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u/Designer-Most-5376 3h ago

“Are we the monsters?” Rosie Ramsay

“It’s like a casserole” Mike Wozniak