And now, if there's a shared TV show, you'll be watching it while looking at your phone. And then you won't be able to talk about it because they'll have got to a different episode and they won't want a spoiler."

I laughed out loud many times and once had to go into another room because I thought I might wake my sleeping husband.' Allsopp, Ashleigh (17 December 2013). "Best apps, music, films, books, TV and podcasts of 2013 listed by Apple on iTunes". MacWorld. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe - Live at the Voodoo Bar". Edingburgh Festival. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009 . Retrieved 8 November 2015.RB: I feel like a lot of the female audience enjoy listening to men chat about parenting, because not a lot of men do. It’s that whole thing of getting men to speak more, about mental health and stuff like that. Sometimes, the female audience quite likes trying to know what a bloke’s thinking about. It’s like spying behind enemy lines. That's how we kind of understood what being a teenager was. And then there was TFI Friday, which I still think is maybe the best TV show ever made. Josh". BBC Three Programmes. December 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020 . Retrieved 22 December 2019. I lived an exciting life vicariously through the television. If people ask me for my childhood memories, the truth is the scenes in Neighbours or events in Gladiators are far more vivid to me than bike rides."

Series 2, Episode 2". BritishComedy Guide. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. The presenting trio of Australian comic Hills, Croydon-born sports journalist Brooker and Devonian standup Josh Widdicombe (“the token able-bodied white male”) might be older and beardier, but they’re little wiser, retaining the anarchic spirit which first made The Last Leg a word-of-mouth hit.It’s not like there’s been casualties,” continues Acaster. “I’ve not seen any comic say something on stage, get called out for it, apologise, and then that’s it for them. Often if you go: ‘Yeah, you’re right, sorry guys, I’ll reword that,’ you’re allowed to be a comedian and carry on. And you’re allowed to make that mistake again if you want. It’s just not as dramatic as it sounds.” a b Dessau, Bruce (20 December 2017). "News: Taskmaster Champion of Champions Result". Beyond the Joke. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

In it, they highlight their own real parenting dilemmas and disasters - Widdicombe has two children, Pearl, three, and four-month-old Cassius - and interview celebrities about their own parenting techniques and terrors. JW: I have struggled. We didn’t make friends through NCT [a charity that provides support for expectant parents], because we did an extreme two-day course. The friends I’ve got at the nursery gates are all mums, actually. I haven’t made any new dad friends, beyond acquaintances.This is a book about growing up in the ’90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).’ a b "Josh Widdicombe To Publish His First Book This September". Off the Kerb. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Insert Name Here". BBC Programmes. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017 . Retrieved 15 May 2017. Josh Widdicombe throws in the towel on Fighting Talk". Chortle. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

Some people are much more tired once they've got children. I would say I'm less tired because I'm just not hungover. I used to go out on a week night and have four pints and be tired the next day. I don't do that any more. That's the biggest lifestyle change.Taskmaster New Series – Stars Revealed - Beyond The Joke". www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016 . Retrieved 5 January 2017. SH: You’ve said that the podcast has a predominantly female listenership – why do you think that is?