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many happy returns, you full fat legend 🥛💙

#no idea how tumblr is going to butcher this but swageverrrrr #greg davies #the inbetweeners #man down #the cleaner #taskmaster #mr gilbert #phil gilbert #dan davies #paul wickstead #my art #traditional art #watercolour #fineliner #gouache #is this a good likeness of the man? no. is it the first thing i've painted in months? yes.#i dislike a lot of things about this but i am too tired to redo it God Bless #i have always been fond of him and looked forward to seeing him in things. like my ears would prick up when i saw/heard him #and now that i'm fixating on taskmaster to cope with the General State of Things i figured i'd do a little tribute #i really liked his looks during the taskmaster US tour and with the power of creativity i can make this trucker hat fit his head.#this was supposed to go out at 7pm tonight but fuck it we ball fuck it we ball

The Faces Of Ben: comedy vs drama

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Greg Davies in The Cleaner S1E6

#greg davies #gifs #the cleaner #britcom #mine #I put that particular gif first cause I know my people #was feeling sad so I decided to do something productive and make Greg gifs. it's been too long #I wish I could make it to a buzzcocks taping so badddd but july is going to be near impossible #also. what an episode. might make a part 2 just with the later bits iykyk #need him. bad.

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As someone only really familiar with Greg Davies through Taskmaster can you say more about his other comedy and work vs his Taskmaster persona re: queerness? Your last post made me curious!

I cannot overstate the degree to which Greg’s non-TM comedy is lately laser-focused on communicating the following:

he is old

he is huge

he is romantically and sexually attracted to well-kept men over 40

in his earlier comedy, his queerness is more about him constructing himself as both non-threatening to women and sexually pathetic, as a comedic juxtaposition with the way his height confers a kind of unearned masculine virtue

but as he gets older imo he’s just being himself in a less self-conscious way, and who he is is a theatre nerd whose genuine teenage hero was Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and he flirts with other men because it’s funny but at the same time it’s not really a joke

his character in The Cleaner only dates women, but he straighforwardly expresses sexual attraction to multiple men, and when a kid asks him if he’s gay, he says no but doesn’t say he’s straight

he flirts with a particular category of male guest so consistently on Never Mind the Buzzcocks that Noel Fielding and Jamali Maddix make targeted jokes about men who are his type (in a supportive way, not a homophobic way)

on Taskmaster he does plenty of flirting with male contestants (and Alex), but he’s noticeably less effusive and camp, especially in the earlier series, and unlike on NMTB he doesn’t often make jokes that reference queer club culture

genuinely if all I had to go on was NMTB, I would assume Greg had been out for decades, I seriously can’t get past how queer he is on that show and how straight the Taskmaster seems by contrast

#don’t get me wrong imo the Taskmaster is also bi #BUT #the cleaner and nmtb were the turning point for me #going from ‘he’s bi but probably doesn’t know that about himself’#to ‘he knows and doesn’t care who else knows’#like if i had to bet my life on it i’d say he’s never had sex with a man #(in a way he would count as sex)#but he knows he’s not straight #and that’s why you never hear him calling himself straight or heterosexual #greg davies #taskmaster #taskmaster uk #britcom #never mind the buzzcocks #nmtb #the cleaner #if i had any energy and no job this would be a full essay with citations #but i am so busy so it is all vibes and opinions

greg with piercing………greg with piercing……….😵‍💫

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