Dave Gorman (I)

British Sell-A-Con: BT and the Brit Method

BT provide their email in collaboration with Yahoo and, at the top of my inbox, there's an ad. It's normally for something innocuous. In the example above it's for Californian holidays. I don't mind that. I do mind when it's an ad for something that's altogether less wholesome... an ad for something called The Oxford Method. ... and if you saw the fourth series of Modern Life Is Goodish last year, it might be ringing a faint bell or two. Because last year, one of the episodes had a section about something called The Brit Method. And also the Aussie Method and the Canuck Method and the Irish Method and a whole lot more.

Dave Gorman explains Mickypedia

The thing people most want to know about is Mickypedia...

The thing with Taskmaster is that the tasks happen over several days spread across various months. I'd spend a day at the house doing various tasks by myself alone (well, with a camera crew and Alex) and the others would all do the same. And when that's happening, they don't know which tasks will sit together in which episodes. And so the easiest thing is for everyone to have a particular outfit that they wear for all of those filming days. And because the tasks are sometimes messy - for example, one of them involved some people rolling in goose poo - it's essential to have more than one outfit so that you can change into something less goose-poo-y. So I had more than one of those shirts.

"King of PowerPoint comedy" isn't a viciously contested mantle, but Gorman deserves praise for having mastered his craft. His fourth series of lectures begins with a look at "extractor fans", people so keen to project expertise, they suck the joy out of the thing they like. He has a pleasing streak of curmudgeon, and is as skilled with a comic callback as he is with his slides: his climactic anecdote about an online quiz is sublime.

Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish review

Is modern life good? Sort of. Is it good to see Modern Life is Goodish back on the box? Definitely.

Online abuse? It's water off a comedian's back

"It's sort of like writing a letter to McVities saying 'I hate your biscuits'"

Taskmaster: series 3, episode 5 review

It is hard to judge how good this series compared to its two predecessors. Series 2 and 3 are both better than the first in my few, but I think I preferred the second series primarily because although he was not great at scoring points, Joe Wilkinson has so far been the funniest contestant across the three series.

Taskmaster: a funny, most unexpected comedy

Dave's Taskmaster is ace at everything but balanced representation. Sort that, and it could be one of the most enjoyable shows on TV...

Taskmaster: series 3, episode 4 - review

This time we delve into competitive clothes spreading, deceitful nodding and why Greg Davies and Alex Horne need to watch more foreign films.