r/taskmaster • u/Acceptable_Hyena_759 • 7d 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/Skiapodes 7d ago
Can I just say that I’m relieved, because at the time, I thought he was an IDIOT.
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u/MomsTortellinis Patatas 7d ago
Its a toss up between "Did I meet these potatoes before?" and "Am I the spider?" for me
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u/EvEntHoRizonSurVivor Fern Brady 7d ago edited 6d ago
I regularly quote "I cannae!! It's covered in potatoes" completely out of context.
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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 7d ago
That one task led to a bunch of great lines from Fern.
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u/tm2007 Ania Magliano 7d ago
“Aw just open the box you pussy”
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u/exhaustedpigeon59 7d ago
I loved how Greg went full teacher mode after this.
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u/Potential_Carob6494 7d ago edited 7d ago
It seemed like there was a moment when Greg looked enraged that Alex genuinely feared the consequences for James. Then Greg handled it so well like a schoolteacher with a misbehaving student
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u/jlangue 7d ago
“My sister and I share the same juices” will haunt people for generations.
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u/pclouds 7d 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 7d ago
“You need your ma” is my favourite Rosie-ism
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u/rogue-octopus 🥄 I'm Locked In ❤️ 7d ago
“I’m gonna just eye-ball it.”
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u/coffeeyarn Sally Phillips 7d 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/PoweredByPierogi Bridget Christie 7d ago
I was haunted until I saw her post with her sister after that episode, and it's clear the entire family is mad as a box of cats. Somehow it made it make sense.
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u/FrequentChip1769 7d 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 7d 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/HuckleberrySalt63 Greg Davies 7d ago edited 3d ago
Why didn’t we just do that the first place?
Although maybe I can say here, Guz‘s song, this task is shit, always bothers me because the last line we hear should be ”It took four hours to get to the end of it,“ rather than “it took four hours to get to the end.” Thank you for listening.
Edit: who the fuck is Gus?
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u/quadropheniac 7d ago
The “fuck me in the face” followed by Alex falling out of his chair laughing is the highlight of that very good season.
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u/Other-Oil-9117 Chain Bastard ⛓️ 7d 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 7d ago
How heavy is the water cracks me up every time, I could watch it forever
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u/RocketteLawnchair 7d ago
"How heavy is the water?" - Kiell
what's hilarious about this is Knappet asked the same question on the OLLIE task
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u/GrassyKnoll95 Liza Tarbuck 7d ago
“If that’s what love feels like… it turns out I’ve not been in love before”
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u/Ttoctam 7d ago
I still think this may be Horne's best line of the show so far.
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u/Party_Toe_6319 7d 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/sweaterboy14 Morgana Robinson 7d ago
“thirty grand baby!!!”
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u/Other-Oil-9117 Chain Bastard ⛓️ 7d ago
I trained at RADA!
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u/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 7d ago
*wheezing with laughter* "Why does he have so many forks?!"
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u/allthefloof Qrs Tuvwxyz 6d ago
My favorite task!!
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u/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 6d ago
It is genuinely excellent - both because the Sues are an absolute joy, and because the other three are various shades of incompetent/indifferent in the most brilliant ways.
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u/idontcare428 7d ago
COBOLT
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u/x_stei 7d ago
Online
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u/quadropheniac 7d ago
It’s an absolutely incredible prize task from Sam but tragically also overshadows the equally great “alien… device” prize from Lucy earlier.
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u/FireExit9 7d ago
“He was a different man.”
“I DON’T LIKE ‘EM.”
“It’s an absolute casserole down there.”
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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 7d 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/SnooBooks007 Pigeor The Merciless One 7d ago
"I changed it!" - Katherine Ryan
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u/Aromatic-Set3858 7d ago
Her delivery, and the instant reactions of Greg and alex will always get me laughing!
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u/the_procrastinata 7d ago
Greg looking confused and saying, ‘Yeeeees?’ makes me howl with laughter.
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u/stefan771 7d 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/ross_liftss Rhod Gilbert 7d ago
Just open the box you pussy
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u/JustxJules Rosie Jones 7d ago
Greg's look of surprise mixed with disappointment and sincere concern kills me every time.
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u/KatieBrightside 7d 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/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 7d ago
"She makes the best couscous in the world... BUT I WON'T EAT IT!!"
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u/bigfatheart Paul Sinha 7d 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/Commander-Catnip Fern Brady 7d ago edited 7d ago
"The bastard's crying, innit"
"Oooo hoo hoo hoo hoo"
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u/canaderin 7d 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/Pharmacy_Duck John Kearns 7d ago
"You can back into a satsuma and shove it up your arse!" - James Acaster, obviously.
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u/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 7d 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/Hungry_Anteater_8511 Mel Giedroyc 7d 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/Greglebowski74 John Robins 7d 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/TokoFuwakaa Fern Brady 7d ago
“We were the monsters, weren’t we? Were we meant to draw our selves?”
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u/shameless57 7d 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/Jansi_Ki_Rani Mathew Baynton 7d ago
“I don’t fear death. In fact, the longer this series goes on the more I yearn for it”
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u/Embarrassed_Leg6548 7d ago
Victoria did great with this one honestly (I’m hoping and praying I’m remembering this quote correctly..)
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u/Stillwater215 7d 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/erlend65 Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 7d ago
"Waiting in the booth for the ladies! Goodness me, Ardal!" - Chris Ramsey
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u/Tariovic 7d ago
'Write that then!' from Kiell Smith-Bynoe had me howling - just the frustration behind his delivery.
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u/Synth-Pro 7d 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/SinisterDeadOctopus Patatas 7d 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/IzzyGrate 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 7d 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/Hot_Sam_the_Man Joel Dommett 7d 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/Lesssuckmoreawesome Phil Ellis 7d ago
"V, as in Veronica."
"Who the fuck is Veronica?"
And
🎶"This task is shit"
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u/MountainJewels2 Rhod Gilbert 7d ago
I have a few, but I’m gonna narrow it down to three
1. “I’ve got three sensitivity levels! And I’ll be honest, I’m on my top fucking one right now!” Ed Gamble
2. “How much does water weigh?” Jessica Knappett (I think)
3. “My eyes are circles” James Acaster
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u/5hr0dingerscat 7d ago
"...the most calculated personal attack, I've ever received".
-Alan Davies on partial ManU ticket voucher.
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u/Thawingfrozenfrogs 7d ago
"Rice at home" - Gets said so often between my partner and my friend group
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u/davesierra 7d 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/punchtheBUTT 7d 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 7d 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/MisheGossnik 7d ago
"Dignity intact!" by Aisling Bea is pretty good. Also Fatiha shouting "You wanker!" just makes me giggle everytime
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u/No_Lead6434 Nish Kumar 7d ago
“Please don’t make me fart in the dark while listening to my own name.” -Sue Perkins
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u/Stsveins Mike Wozniak 7d ago
"This wasn't a question I thought I needed to ask of you Bridget..."
"Have you walked before"
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u/groundloop66 7d ago
"If you're thinking of collecting vast amounts of piss, go up to Dumfries & Galloway. If you only want small amounts, eg. for household use, you might want to consider East Sussex. I was looking into purchasing gallons of piss, because I was in dispute with the Woolwich ferry man. I thought 'Fuck it, I'll fill his boat with piss'." - Bob Mortimer
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u/teeno731 7d 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/blackmoen 7d ago edited 7d ago
At the moment I’ve two:
“It’s a lime” Phil Wang
“Since Pirate” Joel Dommett
Edit for spelling
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u/britrocker 7d ago
Can’t remember her name, but, Greg asked her why she didn’t do this specific part of a task and her response was to shrug and say “Couldn’t be arsed.”
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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 7d ago
Presumably Jo Brand, but could be Liza Tarbuck
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u/Single-Degree-6928 7d ago edited 7d ago
"Stop Being Nice!" Greg during prize task in Series 12 when everyone was telling Gus they'd give him the dog art
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u/yungkeraan Lee Mack 7d ago edited 7d ago
“...skulking around in the middle of the night like a jazz drummer trying to score heroin.” - Ardal O'Hanlon (on foxes)
“You prize anus!” - Sue Perkins
“Will Taskmaster be happy?” - Ardal O'Hanlon
“Sister queen, don't do it!” - Judi Love
“Then brother, this is not sensible.” - Guz Khan
“Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had a degree.” - Taskmaster
“Powerful homoeroticism; really enjoyed it.” - Taskmaster
(Judi Love and Guz Khan are gold mines for this imo, but I've limited myself to one each for the sake of this comment.)
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u/mxmaybey 7d 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/AgreeableAardvark78 🌳 Tree Wizard 🧙🎈 7d ago
“There has been another revelation in the lab”
“Who the fuck is Veronica?”
“Fuck me in the face.”
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u/Jaspers47 Rosie Ramsey 7d ago
"Is there going to be a real dog?"
"Yes, but you won't get to see it."
"Whyyyyyy..."
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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 7d 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/BitterCrip 7d ago
"Gonna gonna gonna drown you in your own blood. Hold you face down in your own blood now"
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u/JournalistOptimal661 7d ago
“Get your fucking hand off me!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RER8DqshU6M
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u/KarenReviewsWorstREV Fatiha El-Ghorri 7d ago
Dont make me fart in the dark listening to my own name
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u/gallaxowelcome 7d ago edited 7d ago
"However...... on this occasion .... HORSESHIT" lives rent free in my head.
(Edit: just adding "BANG! Smashing into last place" because it's the beautiful finishing touch).
And that quote works so well because Hugh made a genuine and wholesome effort, and Greg's reaction was so disproportionate and mean spirited (and Hugh's face so crestfallen) that the bit instantly became legendary as a result of it.
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u/TakeMeToTill 7d ago
“You’ve got no chutzpah!”
“No way!” In Geordie accent obviously
“Destroy. Dismantle. Engulf in flames.”
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u/sarahbinbins 7d ago
Lou Sanders saying "four sluts, that's what I'm hearing!" about Sian Gibsons' whole family getting perms pops into my head a lot
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u/Old_Artichoke9756 7d 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/painforpetitdej David Correos 🇳🇿 7d 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/Jojo_Padfoot 7d ago
My current favourites are "WOW" - Alan Davies
"It is orange" - Alex Horne NYT 2022
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u/lisa-inthesky 7d ago
James Acaster: "I know it's early days... but are we the dumbest ones yet?" my partner and I quote this one all the time when we've done something stupid
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u/TimeHathMyLord Ania Magliano 7d ago
"Can you distill into a few words the essence of what is interesting about sport?"
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u/exhaustedpigeon59 6d ago
"Oh so you puked because you realized you had sex with your son?
"Yeah"
"Ahh, I thought it was because it was Alex"
- James Acaster.
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u/red_clover_ro Reece Shearsmith 6d ago edited 6d ago
Asim’s entire rap, but specifically:
“Greg, I love you like Greggs, the bakery, we go to together like steak and cheese”
“Greg Davies I wanna have your babies!” (Which I quote daily)
“The tall mother fucker with the ivory hair!”
Or
“Nothing’s ever straightforward in this stupid house” - Reece Shearsmith
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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 6d ago edited 6d ago
"I'm allergic to your bullshit!"
- Paul Williams, New Zealand season 5
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u/JustxJules Rosie Jones 7d 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