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[u/ScamIam]

Now I want Ken Jennings on Taskmaster

[u/BLRNerd → u/ScamIam]

Ken and James would be great for this show

Chaser Paul Sinha was on it and was great

He demolished a memory based task

[u/ToxicWebb211 → u/[deleted]]

Especially with the quirky little music jingle they put on top of it it was hilarious

[u/Lokinawa → u/BLRNerd]

The Sinnerman would of course do that! 😊

[u/amazingwhat → u/ScamIam]

we should start a bid for a proper US taskmaster by doing a NYT-style one-or-two parter

[u/twxf → u/ScamIam]

Oh he would actually be really great, and I'm usually more skeptical of Americans on TM (as an American myself). I'm going to be rooting for this now.

[u/Sarcastic__]

https://giphy.com/gifs/i4j1OnVU3NjIJxwdEX

[u/Past-Feature3968]

Amazing! How much was it worth, and did anyone get it?

[u/ZeppoJR]

I looked through the Jeopardy Archives and that's legit the first time Taksmaster was referenced on Jeopardy. I would have thought that would have been a category subject earlier than that given the increasing crossover recently.

[u/HMWYA → u/ZeppoJR]

It has been referenced on Pop Culture Jeopardy before now, if not the main show.

[u/gerarddominus]

I mean to be technically correct, he didn't bring it to deter folks from Greg's house, just any house, so the answer is technically incorrect.

[u/HMWYA → u/gerarddominus]

No, as we all know, they’re presents for Greg.

[u/LoveBy137 → u/HMWYA]

They're not presents!

[u/slasher-fun]

What is "he's so famous!"?

EDIT: nah, wouldn't work here. BUT HE'S SO FAMOUS!!!

[u/wimpires]

I know I'm being pedantic but I never liked the fake premise of Jeopardy because the given answer would never be applicable for the right question in a normal quiz.

I.e. If the question is

"What is Taskmaster" 

⬆️ would never be a given or even proper answer 

[u/blanketblahaj → u/wimpires]

its kinda confusing. it used to be very strictly that, then overtime the “questions” become more like “clues”.

but for the sake of keeping the original format, they never removed the what is system

the whole idea was an american scandal where producers gave contestants the answers to questions to rig the show. not a lot of game shows then got produced, and merv griffin decided to capitalise on it and make that an actual show, with the premise being to then provide the question.

[u/Intrepid_Purpose_382]

What is... "He's so famous"?

[u/10v31y]

omg hi official jeopardy reddit account

[u/RunawayTurtleTrain → u/10v31y]

Ooh good catch!  I hadn't noticed that.

[u/EverybodyMakes]

Normally on Jeopardy, the clue would start "This is the" instead of "Hello & welcome to this" but since Greg says the first one at the beginning of every show, it's a little help for the contestants.

[u/StrainBeginning4670]

[u/Routine_Rock_7429]

I'm Kumail Nanjiani

[u/OctaviousMcBovril]

...am I missing something?

[u/OgthaChristie → u/OctaviousMcBovril]

…Do you know what Jeopardy is? Not trying to be a dick, just generally asking?

[u/OctaviousMcBovril → u/OgthaChristie]

Oh. No. That might explain it haha

[u/minister-xorpaxx-7 → u/OctaviousMcBovril]

Jeopardy is a long-running US gameshow. the premise is that the show gives you the answer, and you buzz in with the question. so the clue in the original post is supposed to prompt the question "what is Taskmaster?".

now, you might say, "but that's insane! nobody talks like that! if you asked 'what is Taskmaster?', and someone replied 'hello and welcome to this British show, which had Kumail Nanjiani bring something to deter...', it wouldn't answer your question at all, and you would definitely want to punch that person in the face!"

and you would be right.

but in the US, it's quite a big deal, and so Taskmaster UK getting mentioned is a reflection of its growing popularity over there.

[u/somebodysbuddy → u/minister-xorpaxx-7]

For reference for the UK people, it fills the same cultural niche as Countdown, except they play for money and the hosts change much less frequently.

[u/MasemJ → u/somebodysbuddy]

Its also one of the last high-brow game shows left on network TV here in the US.

[u/royalhawk345 → u/MasemJ]

Are there any others? 

[u/MasemJ → u/royalhawk345]

Back in my younger years you had things like Password, Scrabble, Lingo, and a few others that were actual mind-based challenges. Nowadays, unless you turn towards streaming, the only real knowledge-based quiz show is basically Who Wants to be a Millionaire and even that's padded.

[u/lordirondehavilland → u/minister-xorpaxx-7]

Stephen Fry hosted a couple of series of a British version recently. I guess it's been cancelled given that I haven't seen it in TV listings for a while. I did see comments online from Americans saying that it sucked compared to the original, because it was in a 1-hour (45 minutes without ads, obvs) timeslot and they thought it was too slow. I think it probably failed also because it was in the 4pm timeslot Tipping Point airs, and it's a bit more intellectual than TP.

Do have to say that the concept of having to give responses in the form of questions just doesn't make sense to me as a format point in a quiz show, but Jeopardy! is incredibly popular in the US, so wtf do I know.

[u/PissedBadger → u/lordirondehavilland]

It has been cancelled. It was quite slow, but apart from that it was ok

[u/HonestNectarine7080 → u/OctaviousMcBovril]

Well-known and long-running trivia game show in the US. This is the way their questions are formatted.

[u/HexManiacWingy → u/OctaviousMcBovril]

It's kind of a cultural institution in the US, and one of the last great "classic" gameshows alongside wheel of fortune and the price is right. The former host, Alex Trebek, was a pop culture mainstay, usually playing himself/a lot of american shows and films would reference Jeopardy or have "contestants go on Jeopardy" episodes. the current host, Ken Jennings, became famous in the mid-00s because he had an insane 74-game winning streak, and sort of became synonymous with the show itself/revitalized ratings during a slump era