WEBVTT - Jimmy Rees - Taskmasters - Comedian 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.640 TV Reload the podcast. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:04.080 Last week Deadline. 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.640 Welcome TV Reload listeners. My name is Benjamin Norris, and 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.440 this is your podcast to get all the inside goss 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.360 on the popular TV shows you may be watching from 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.720 around the world. Undeniably, our TV sets are a major 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.360 part of our home entertainment, and very little is known 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.319 about how our favorite shows get made. 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Jimmy 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.000 Rees was an Australian children's entertainer best known for playing 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.200 the role of Jimmy Giggle on ABC Kids, but now 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.920 he has switched kids audiences for adults. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.680 In plenty of comedy sketch roles across. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.680 The country, including what We're talking about today, which is 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.200 his latest series, task Masters, where Tom Gleeson and his 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.720 trusty sidekick Tom Cashman have been setting a series of challenges, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.120 each more mind bending and head scratching than the last. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.840 You can catch up on ten Play and weekly episodes 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.200 are screened on Thursday nights at seven thirty. I will 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.200 ask about Jimmy's transition from children's entertainer to mainstream comedy. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.679 We will find out more about his inspiration for last 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.960 and what the pandemic did for his career. I will 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.119 ask him about his triumphant success with viral videos. Plus 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.080 we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.560 of the first series of task Masters. Anyway, let's bring 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.640 Jimmy into the podcast and I hope you enjoy this episode. Jimmy, 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.240 I have been a huge fan of your work for 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.559 quite some time, so I'm very excited to be able 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.480 to have this chat with you today. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.800 Awesome, it's great to be here. Stop it the stop 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.120 it with the family flattering me. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.520 I'm blushing, I know, but you know it's funny because 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.440 I've got lots of kids in my life. I don't 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.720 have kids myself, but I look after my friend's kids. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.240 And I spent so much time watching you as a 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.240 children's entertainer, and then I didn't really see the transition 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.920 of you becoming sort of I'm going to say an 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.720 adult performer, but that's probably. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.360 Doesn't say I'm right, does it. I don't own a poll. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.480 Sounds like you've got your own only bands account. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.400 The hardest transition is not saying adult entertainment when you've 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.160 come from kids entertainment, but you just say entertainment. I've 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.640 learned it's just entertainment. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.320 I can imagine that you had a lot of Australian 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.080 entertainers that you looked up to, you know, before coming 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.560 into the industry, you know, growing up, who were those 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.000 sorts of entertainers that inspired you to go into television? Yeah. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.160 Look, when I was in my teens, one of the 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.120 biggest shows around at the time was like Grove Live 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.480 and Thank God You're Here was around. I did love 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.960 that show because it was just sort of improvised and 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.400 silly and funny. And I don't know why I gravitated 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.720 towards TV. I think you know a lot of people 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.760 who they're wanting to get into anament or whatever. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.400 They kind of have this oh yeah, well TV, movies, radio, whatever. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.640 It is like they'll try and get into anything, or 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.799 they might do acting, and then that involves like sort 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.200 of TV and film and stuff. But I was more 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.480 interested in just like those moments where people are having 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.839 fun and being silly. And I think, you know, Rove 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.799 Live was this huge show in the mid twenty ten 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.600 sort of thing of a two thousand sort of time 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.960 of just this Tuesday night was this fun show. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.160 It was a Tonight show. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.680 It wasn't really we didn't really get the other ones 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.520 from overseas at that time. It seemed like Rovere was 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.840 just this young guy having fun with his mates and 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.960 then played all these silly games, and I don't know, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.080 it's sort of gravitated towards that. It seemed like he 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.960 was just being himself, being fun, and that's what that's 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.920 why I enjoy it. But in my house when I 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.920 was a bit younger, my dad's originally from England and 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.040 he moved out here when he was in his teens 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:50.400 or something. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:51.920 But he's just got that. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.160 But he just loved watching British humor and British comedies 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.440 and like the Two Runnies and Hale and Pace and 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.320 Monty Python and Mister Been. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.880 They were on all the time in our house. So 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.200 that was something that I just loved. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.080 And I guess that maybe with that physical thing I 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.760 did love, you know, sort of physical comedy. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:08.600 I was brought up. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.040 My stepfather was English, so our house we played all 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.960 of those shows were always on television. A lot of 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.880 my humor that I lean towards is all of that 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.960 kind of stuff. It's kind of like a little it's 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.080 a good school of comedy really to go through. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.080 Yeah, definitely, even he had records and tapes of like 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.239 the Goon Show and like even Billy Birmingham's The Wide 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.800 World of Sports, you know, he does the cricket commentary 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.280 and Richie Beno. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.159 It's the sort of but that was on a record. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.200 We put it on the record. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.520 And he had all sorts of different bits of media, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.599 different things that I'll turn you to see these later 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.599 on and stuff, but even just radio shows that were 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.120 funny he had on in the background. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:48.880 Yeah, so it was a huge influence. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.880 And then I think watching films and stuff, I did 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.600 gravitate towards the silly kind of films like Jim Carrey 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.760 movies and yeah and stuff like that. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.599 So yeah, that's always always been my sort of bag. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.560 Don't you think that we're really missing something? And I 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.320 think you'd be perfect for this, But we're really missing 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.000 a tonight show on television. And I know a lot 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.200 of people say that they're kind of a bit dated. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.080 But yeah, when we've got people like Margot Robbie coming 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.600 into the country to promote Battle Yeah, or big name actors, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.760 we've got nowhere to take them. We've got nothing in 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.440 the Austraian industry to sit down and we don't need 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:21.600 to ask them the big questions. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.640 We want someone like you to have a relatable moment. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree, And I think, you know, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.440 some people say that that's like you're correct, you know, oh, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:32.160 there'd be dated. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.680 Oh maybe it would work here. But if you watch the. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.560 Big American shows or whatever, half their audience is not 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.680 watching the TV show. They are watching the online clips. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.280 They're watching every single else. They've built these little mini 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.960 empires of just everything going on social and you know, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.960 YouTube channels, and then obviously there's the TV show. But 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.680 I don't think the TV show, Tonight show, whatever airs 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.760 in Australia at the moment, they probably don't need to 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.599 because it's just so far penetrated across all social media 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.719 and clips and this and that the things end up 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.760 on the news because they did something silly with a 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.080 celebrity and stuff like that. So yeah, I think it's 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.120 it's just coming at it from a different angle, Like 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.480 you have the show and that's produced and it's fun, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.240 but also it can have lived this life online, I think, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.480 which is which could be absolutely perfect. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.719 Well, it's interesting that you say that because I was 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.200 talking to an American producer who works in nighttime TV 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.359 in the States, and he was saying that all of 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.440 the three shows that he's worked on, and he's worked 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.960 on the top three shows over the last twenty years, 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.760 and he said that they'd all be asked if it 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.960 wasn't for the way in which people are consuming that content. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.839 And he said, that's why they do games more. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.120 Now. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.880 There's not a lot of you know, an actual interview. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.120 It's more like you know, getting to cold kidman to 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.400 you know, to tie uself to a balloon and do. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:44.640 All this kind of stuff. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.320 But that's where the money is and that's that's you, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.360 and it leads been my question for you as well, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.720 which is, you know, being a kids entertainer and then 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.200 now working as an entertainer. But they are quite similar 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:58.200 in some ways. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.080 I think the evolution of it's funny because when I 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.719 was at kids TV, there's all this sort of research 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.200 and stuff and saying that, like, kids attention spans, especially 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.080 when they're young, we're in. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.040 The preschool, we're talking under five. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.280 You know, their attention spans are quite sure, so you've 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.640 got to sort of change tack a. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:15.920 Little bit and keep it visual. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.520 But with the evolution of TikTok and reels, I feel 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.000 like the adults are exactly the same. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:25.400 Now our attention span has gone down a lot as well. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.600 So yeah, I think you could sort of almost love 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.240 the two categories that they share a lot of similarities 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.640 where they might not have before waiting one week to 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.400 watch an episode of their favorite show like that's that's 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.000 sort of it's still around and people still enjoy that, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.239 but you know, binging something is more prevalent these days, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.200 and so yeah, I think you could argue a case that, yeah, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.600 there's these adult adults and kids audiences pretty similar. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.440 It's interesting because you know, people either want to binge 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.800 something for an obscene amount of time, like go outside, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.600 open a window. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:57.840 Maybe yes, but they want to. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.320 Binge something, or they want short sharp comedy, and you've 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.280 kind of become the king of short sharp clips. I mean, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.080 I absolutely loved your skit that you did at the Logis. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.160 I was at the Logis and I'm absolutely. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.760 Probably pretty sure I heard you because I was. I 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.640 was interested because I don't usually like if I was there, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.440 I did it, I edited up it, I said that 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.560 in I didn't need to watch it, but I was interested. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.640 In how they would play it in the room and 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.960 how would appear on TV. So I did watch it live. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.040 I was like, oh, yeah, they had the room live, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.920 you know, and the reactions and I was like, oh, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.320 it's really really cool that everyone in the room was 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.400 laughing along and it was it was fun and silly 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.040 because yeah, which was good. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.920 So I probably definitely did hear you laughing. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:36.959 It landed really well. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.839 I thought it was a really good skit, And I mean, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.000 I want to know, because if the pandemic hadn't happened, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.560 do you think you would have found because you've really 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.440 found this niche. You know, it's flourished, like you know, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.679 you've probably started with a couple of videos. But if 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.400 the pandemic hadn't happened, do you think that these skits 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:53.760 might not have surfaced. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.680 I think just the direction I guess they would have 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.800 taken because I started with a lot of parenting stuff 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.480 because I was inside. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.040 Of Victorian and we were we. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.920 Were stuck in our houses for a long period of 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.840 time in twenty twenty. And look, I knew I wanted 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.640 to post stuff online. I was, you know, contractually with 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.800 the ABC, I wasn't really allowed to do a lot, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.880 you know, like the stuff I'm doing now I never 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.280 would have been allowed to do under my contract with 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.520 as playing Jimmy Giggle, And that was fine. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.600 I'm absolutely cool with Jimmy Giggle. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.160 Doing now mine, I know exactly. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.160 Yeah, So I couldn't really live this other life online 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.000 when I was under contract with the ABC, And that's 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.840 the reasons that I signed up for, which is absolutely fine. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.440 But I'd never really thought about it until maybe a 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.800 couple of years towards the end. I was like, okay, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.400 I really I just started writing down ideas and things, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.559 and then we had you know, more kids, and then 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.600 I was like, this is chaos, you know. So when 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.160 the pandemic gave me the impetus to just get along 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.160 with it, get on with it. I mean like I'd 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.600 written down these things and I'd done different you know, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.760 had different ideas, but I was always a bit a 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.840 bit nerve wracking to put it out there, even though 0:09:59.920 --> 0:10:01.719 just spent ten years on TV. It was like being 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.760 in my pajamas. I was like, I'm trying to entertain adults. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.720 Now this has a bit more gravitas to me. I 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.880 want to I want to get it right. But having 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.200 nothing to do and being you know in TV and 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.839 entertainment during the pandemic is where everything went to zero. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.960 It was it just it really just gave me the 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.959 launching pad to just do it. But yeah, I did 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.800 start with like parenting sort of stuff, which I think 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.000 would have floated anyway. And I got I got some 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.640 really really great traction. And I guess that you could 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.199 put that down to a lot of people on their 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.240 devices and had nothing else to do anyway as well, 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.400 But I think they would have gone okay, the whole 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.760 spin on the on the States. In the meanwhile, in Australia, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.880 stuff obviously just grew from the pandemic, and yeah, some 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.079 of those clips were definitely born out of that, and 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.760 I wouldn't have I wouldn't have gone down that track obviously, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.520 but yeah, I think I think me evolving through that 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.640 it just happened faster and faster and faster because there 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.440 was new news every day. I wanted to get it 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.320 out there. I had the time to do it. I 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.760 wasn't occupied or preoccupied by doing anything else. So I 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.240 think it's sort of really throddled it and I did it, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.320 you know, really fast, and I think I would have 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.480 got it there anyway, but it was just like a 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.959 rocket ship because it was people just wanted more. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.840 They wanted to laugh. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.040 I think for you as well, you do comedy that 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.360 I really appreciate, which is a reflection on society. And 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.280 I think that was the perfect time because during something 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.720 we'd never experienced, like a pandemic, people behaved badly, and 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.400 it meant that you could tap into making fun of, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.439 you know, people who behaved badly, like the Carrots, you know. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.120 Yep, absolutely yeah, And some of those skits wouldn't have existed, 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.240 you know, like the Brighton Ladies. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.880 You know, I don't think it mattered where you live. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.120 There was a bit of press about you know, Brighton 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.800 at the time as well, which was you know the 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.200 Krent from Brighton who escaped Brighton because you'd walked all 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.760 the streets or whatever. But that was just born from 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.360 you know, someone sent me a message actually and said, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.080 the talk around Brighton is hilarious, you know, because the 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.800 father is not available, but you have to get the 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.800 astrosenica if you're if you're older. But then people in 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.640 Brighton are always trying to look younger. They're injecting themselves 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.600 with lip fillers and you know, botox and stuff. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:06.720 They want to look younger. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.920 But then if they get the vaccine that these available 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.400 to them, so in their fifties or whatever, then they 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.040 have to reveal their age and they don't want to 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.640 do that, so they want to wait for the fans. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.280 So that was just I was like, that is that 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.240 is something that's so funny and it's actually happening like 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.720 in these places where oh I don't want to get 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.080 that one just yet, you know, I'll wait even though 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.040 I want to be safe. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.800 But it's just such a weird situation. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.520 So some of those characters, yeah, I can absolutely have 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.559 to put it down to the situation we're in and 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.400 I wouldn't have created that those sort of little characters 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.720 and skits hadn't we been in that. But yeah, it's 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.720 it's funny looking around now. I just see videos all 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.960 the time. Now, oh oh that's a video, that's. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.679 A clip, it's so funny. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.200 We have to quickly talk about task Masters before I 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.480 let you go, because that's what we're here for. And 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.560 I am so excited about the show. You could not 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.520 be in better company when it comes to the comedians 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.080 of Australia. I want to know, because this came from 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.640 this concept came from England. Were you wanting to dip 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.360 in and watch a lot of that before you did 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.440 the show? I can imagine for some comedians they'd not 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.319 want to see it at all because they'd sort of 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.240 feel like they were mimicking it. You know, what was 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.320 the process like for you? Did you binge watch what 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.920 had been happening overseas or did you go into a blind. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.880 I had seen it was a bit of both. Actually 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.960 I had seen task Master. I knew what it was. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.200 I'd seen many a clip online that popped up on 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.320 I'd watched an episode or two, you know, over the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.960 last few years and stuff, so I knew what it was. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.200 I haven't watched whole series or like binge, the whole lot, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.160 and I didn't do that. I purposely didn't watch heaps 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.520 of it before I went into it. So yeah, it 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.000 was a bit of both. I knew exactly what it 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.200 was when they said you're up for task Master. My 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.120 agent called me and said, oh, yeah, you want to 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.640 do task Master. I was like, absolutely, I know exactly 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.000 what it is, and I think that's right up. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.960 My alley put me down for it straight away. But yeah, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.560 no I didn't. But then, like in hindsight, after the 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.800 wrapped the series, I'm like, maybe I should have watched 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.439 a little bit more. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.840 The only thing I would have which I had an understanding, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.959 is just some of the even watching like a couple 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.480 of episodes in a row like that were sequential, maybe 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.560 that just would have been a bit more beneficial for 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.120 I just think maybe the studio part of it, because 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.319 you actually it took me a couple of episodes to go, oh, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.560 we are we can reference back to other, you know, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.000 episodes because they are shot in order and we are 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:21.360 doing it. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:21.720 That way. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.600 It's usually some shows you record these things and they'll 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.440 be like, ah, even though that was the third episode. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.920 We recorded, we're gonna put that number one because that 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:29.520 was the best one. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.960 So if things become out of order and they're very 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.880 episodic and you you tune into that episode, it stands 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.480 alone where this one is. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.480 Actually you could grow through the episode. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.960 You can refer way back to episode one in episode 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:41.760 nine if you want to. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.600 Everyone seen everything. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.440 And obviously we don't want to do that too much 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.720 for people are just tuning in a little later, but yeah, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.560 it's that's probably something I would have just maybe watched 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.640 a couple couple more episodes and gone, oh okay. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:54.600 So they do that a lot. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.960 Theories two My Friends Series two, that's what you that's. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:05.920 What a series there is too will be new comedians, so. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.120 That's how that's how they operate. So which is really fun. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.520 Actually you do it one time and if you have 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.280 all the regrets in the world, bad luck, you're not 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.920 doing again, which is funny, Which is really funny. So 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.600 you get through the series and you go, oh, if 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.440 we did that again, and they're like, nap, sorry, we're 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.720 gonna get a fresh batch. Of people to do it 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.160 to go in blind basically, which is the cracks of 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.440 the show, and that's what makes it raw and funny 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.240 and silly because you get these tasks which is set there. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.240 I don't know how they come up with these things, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.120 but they're so random and they're really clever, and they 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.360 then they set them up with little hints in them. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.680 But the hints can actually it can be. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.280 Interpreted both like two different ways, so you might go 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.280 down one road or the other. But in the stress 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.000 of the moment, you come up with the most random 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.560 things and they don't give you any clues and anything beforehand. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.800 You just literally they roll the cameras you. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:50.560 Do the task. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.040 They don't say anything how well you've done or anything, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:54.880 and then you go on to the next one. So 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.840 it's really it's really quite fun and like stressful at times. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.680 Why did they chose to because they film parts of 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.080 this in New Zealand, like and some of it in Australia, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.360 so you're kind of doing the tasks you know, overseas 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.880 and then coming back the live audience stuff. Why do 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.320 you think they decided to make the decision to offshore 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:12.720 some of. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.800 That, Yeah, I think I think it was more of 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.480 a like a logistical kind of thing they had. The 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.160 production company has has produced the New Zealand series of 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:21.800 task Masters. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.040 So the. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:25.640 So like the house. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.360 Like if you've watched some task Master or the UK 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.200 version of the New Zealand version or whatever, you'll know 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:34.040 that the that all the tasks happen in. Like in 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.400 inverted commas, the task Master house is which they you know, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.440 rent this property for a week and they take over 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.880 it and it's yours for them, and they set things 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.960 up in a shed, they decorate it, they do everything 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.840 to it, so every single task is happening there. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.160 So the certain property. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.120 Has to have certain elements, so I think instead of 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.800