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This week’s entertainment, streamed and live comedy club gig (Joanne McNally), was all Taskmaster-adjacent:

Taskmaster s22e04 – the banter section was quite interesting, ( spoilers )

I was so happy when I saw Isy was the guest on Ed’s podcast this week, because she’s the one I’ve been waiting for and also ( spoilers )

Someone on Reddit posted about Taskmaster contestants who look alike, using the example of Isy Suttie and John Robins – which I’ve never noticed before, but in those side-by-side photos, I do see what they mean – they’ve got kind of a similar big eyes, big mouth, long face, animated expressions thing going. Lots of people have been chiming in to say they’ve noticed the same thing, and that they have similar ways of speaking, too, including people who had no idea about a connection via Elis between them. Someone said they were sure Isy and John were brother and sister and Googled to see if they could find proof. I’m also very amused by the number of comments that say, basically, “Elis James has a type”, which was the comment I was debating leaving before coming across several people who already had.

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And Taskmaster NZ has now caught up with (and, in fact, overtaken) the current series of TMUK because of the 2 episodes a week thing and the fact that they’re released earlier in the week:

Taskmaster NZ s7e03 – almost everyone is looking very pretty! Rose looks great in this shade of green! I love Morgana’s embroidered shirt, and while I’ve enjoyed all of Dave’s outfits, I think this might be my favorite one. I was thinking Rhys was dressed as Jesus, but once he showed the treasure map, I thought maybe a pirate? Anyway, less sure about his look, and Hoani is definitely the exception to the “everyone looks nice” comment. (Also Jeremy and Paul. WTF is up with Jeremy’s glasses and Paul mustache. Are they a dare?) ( SPOILERS )

Taskmaster NZ s7e04 – Rose looks so cute in pigtails! Also, with her hair like that and Rhys’s loose, I’m enjoying the profusion of black curls on that side of the stage :) ( spoilers )

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And then on Friday evening I went back to Cobb’s Comedy Club for a visiting Joanne McNally (whom I know from s17 of Taskmaster, of course, though I then listened to a few of her podcasts, mostly as a guest on other things, like Elis & John and Off Menu, but I did also catch a bit of her own podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me). ( venue, neighbor, local support act )

( Joanne McNally, Pinotphile )

This time I also made sure to snap ( some photos )

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“Currently” meme from around the friends-list:

Currently reading: Still Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance for a value of “reading” where I don’t think I’ve opened up my Kindle app at all this week XD

Currently watching: I’m caught up on all the current Taskmaster (UK series 22 and NZ season 7), and the last thing I watched was Movie Fights on YouTube (Zoom match between Dan, Spencer, and Joe, with Danielle in the fact-checker chair, which was all adorably nostalgic).

Currently listening to: Episode 16 (May 2014) of the Elis & John XFM show (almost done with the Retro-Oner project!)

Currently doing: Drinking tea. What I should do is free up my carry-on so that L can use it for her upcoming trip to the East Coast.

Currently looking forward to: The next Yuletide Nominations Queries post on yuletide_admin (which is one of my favorite mini-traditions of the Yuletide season) and the rest of my nominations getting approved (so far my two ones with canonical tags have been, but not any of the others). Seeing cafemassolit in Chicago in about a month (also hanging out with other parts of Best Chat sooner than that, but those plans have not yet firmed up, so I don’t have a specific thing to look forward to).