Can Australia’s best-known comedy power couple survive the inspired silliness of Taskmaster Australia?
Comedy is a competitive business. Every performer on a crowded pub comedy night bill knows the desperate, sweaty urge to get more and bigger laughs than the others on the lineup, and it’s only by being better than your rivals that you can move up the ladder to bigger and better gigs.
“Alex Horne would send you an email each month,” the Welshman recalls. “So you’d get 12 emails in the course of a year, with a task in each month that you had to try to complete. And then you all got brought together in August at the Fringe, live on stage, and he’d go through the tasks and how different people approached them. It was total chaos, but it was a lot of fun. And I could immediately see, I think a lot of us could, this was a brilliant idea.
“The pressure is genuinely intense,” says Edmonds. “It’s not just … pretending on there. You really have to confront some things about yourself on that show, like am I, and have I always been, very dumb? Because you’re standing in a field most of the time with a camera crew and some absurd piece of paper in front of you and a clock ticking down, and it’s just you – no one helps you.”
Langford chips in: “It’s quite an isolating experience, because you’re basically kept in a room that you’re not allowed to leave and you’re not allowed to even open the curtains because they could be setting up a task outside the window.
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