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Taskmaster legend Alex Horne teases season 23 line-up as an Oscar winner joins cast

The line-up is about to get even starrier!

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Tim Key talking about his second go round with cancer and I am actually beside myself. fucking hell what a year he’s had 😭

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I just re-listened to Episode 50 of Elis James and John Robins on Radio X, recorded in January 2015.

The phone-in topic was things you’ve fluked or managed to pull off which weren’t seen or caught on camera.

About 46 mins in Elis read out one from someone who said they’d managed to throw a teabag across the room and into the cup.

Then Elis said throwing a teabag is hard and John says it’s not a thing and they spoke about it for a mo.

So anyway Alex Horne definitely listened to this episode and nicked this idea for Series 1 of Taskmaster which was on tv 6 months later.

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So on a WILTY rewatch I’m now betting that the person who phoned in to Elis and John (and probably Alex Horne too) watched Would I Lie To You on 3 Oct 2014 (S8 E4) when Lee Mack demonstrated throwing a teabag into a mug

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Sometimes you’ll be randomly googling and you’ll come across a full length video of Alex Horne hosting a virtual corporate gig in the height of Covid featuring Mark Watson:

The Real Variety Show 2020 - JLA

The first virtual Real Variety Show, hosted by Alex Horne. Mark Watson drops in to say hello, and Jimmy Carr previews his Christmas Quiz

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Three BAFTA nominations for THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND! (x)

Outstanding British Film

Best Adapted Screenplay – Tom Basden & Tim Key

Best Supporting Actress – Carey Mulligan

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Tim Key’s podcast appearances since June 2022

**New additions in blue bold**

She’s A Rec (Jan 2026) *for the comedy / Kim Noble chat - interesting when it’s a non-comedian

Dish (Jan 2026)

A Life More Wild (Dec 2025) - not much new but gives a bit of detail on early post-Footlights Tim / Mark / Alex

Romesh Ranganathan (Dec 2025)* Great interviewer and good comedy chat.

Holly Burns (Nov 2025)

Perfect Brains with Sam Campbell and Lucy Beaumont (Oct 2025)

Great Company with Jamie Laing (Sept 2025)* Way better than I expected - really enjoyed this one

Richard Herring (Sept 2025)

Patrick Kielty radio show (July 5 2025) - can’t find this anywhere 😭

Front Row (July 2025)

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby (July 2025)

Hawksbee and Jacobs (July 2025)

Alan Carr (June 2025)

What Did You Do Yesterday (June 2025)* Love every ep of this podcast tbh

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman (June 2025)

Elis and John (June 2025)

Kermode and Mayo (June 2025)

The News Agents (June 2025)

Frank Skinner (May 2025)

Richard Herring (May 2025)

Trusty Hogs (May 2025)

Adam Buxton with Tom Basden (May 2025)* Tim’s 2018 ep of this podcast is one of my favourites ever but Tim on Adam’s podcast is always great. Adam is another great interviewer - wish he did more stuff

Chris Moyles (May 2025)

Films To Be Buried With (March 2025)

Sporting Misadventures (March 2025)

Good Times (Sept 2024)

Perfect Day With Jessica Knappett (Aug 2024)

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Patrick Kielty radio show (March 3 2024) [on YouTube]

Weirdos Bookclub (March 2024)

Tailenders (March 2024)

Rob Brydon (there’s a 30 min and hour long version of the same interview) (Feb 2024)* Got better as the ep went on as I guess Tim got more comfortable. They talk about Wallis Island post-filming / pre-release, and pre-title change, which is great

The Times Jane and Fi (Feb 2024)

Chris Moyles (Feb 2024)

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby (Feb 2024)

Hawksbee and Jacobs (Feb 2024)

Walking The Dog (Jan 2024)

Richard Herring (Nov 2023)

Private Parts with Jamie Laing (Oct 2023)

What A Combo (Oct 2023)

Chris Moyles (Toby Tarrant sitting in so we’re spared Chris Moyles) (June 2023)

Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby (June 2023)

Patrick Kielty radio show (June 3 2023) - available in the depths of archive.org

Northern News (March 2023)

Where There’s A Will There’s a Way (Feb 2023)

Richard Herring (Feb 2023)

Hawksbee and Jacobs (Dec 2022)

Taskmaster (Sept 2022)

Hawksbee and Jacobs (Sept 2022)

Richard Herring (Aug 2022)

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I hear you in the Crème Egg advert Tim Key

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Hey I finally managed to watch The Ballad of Wallis Island and it really is fantastic. Just a lovely story, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful and totally charming.

Also I cried at the end which I wasn’t expecting.

Charles’s dialogue was like an extended episode of Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme. I’m a fan of that show, so obviously loved that, but it’s nice that it works for non-Key fanatics too.

I’m SO glad they filled out Charles’s story from the original short film. I found the end of the short pretty bleak with him just left on his island all alone looking forward to lunch, but first breakfast. The full length film gave us some hope for Charles’s future, which I was really glad about.

The Herb/Nell story I liked too. Love that they were never anywhere near getting back together despite what Herb hoped. But also, I liked how everything slowly revealed itself to Herb, both Charles’s story and also his own revelations about himself and his music.

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We're gonna see Romesh and Tim together. I've grouped them, and you'll see why.

Taskmaster - 1x01: Melon Buffet

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Last year Domhnall Gleeson said that season 2 of The Paper starts filming in January/February.

Tim Key said for S1 of The Paper he was in LA for 12 weeks.

And Tim starts his tour at the end of February.

So… idk if Tim is coming back for S2 of The Paper.

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Seems unlikely…

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Last year Domhnall Gleeson said that season 2 of The Paper starts filming in January/February.

Tim Key said for S1 of The Paper he was in LA for 12 weeks.

And Tim starts his tour at the end of February.

So… idk if Tim is coming back for S2 of The Paper.

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Favourite bit of Tim's appearance on the Dish podcast is the hosts questioning him about him supposedly having once had lasagna while in the bath and him being utrerly bewildered before going 'oh that was my column!' before admitting he just made stuff up for that

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The other fun thing about that moment was him saying he’d hardly ever had a beer in the bath either.

Which could seem like a bit of a non-sequitur, except he was probably thinking about his 2011 live show Masterslut which was centred around him being in a bath on stage and included a video of him diving underwater to chase a can of Ruddles beer.

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Tim Key on Jamie Laing’s Good Company podcast is a surprisingly good listen. I thought it might not be great on both sides (expected the show would have some kind of annoying format-point, thought Tim might go too performative), but in fact it was just funny and interesting and there were no annoying format points at all.

I loled when Jamie Laing said he tried to get on Tim’s episode of Sunday Brunch.

Tim on Romesh Ranganathan’s show was similarly lovely. I loved their conversation, but it didn’t need the format-points it did have, and Romesh was right that the curry could have derailed the whole thing. I always find it so interesting when comedians who have taken different approaches to their careers, but clearly like and admire each other, talk about their work.

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Podcasts saying they’re going on a short hiatus then just never putting out another episode with no explanation ever given - name a more iconic duo