I recently had a similar kind of musing in a discord I'm in, except I put it differently:
"Sam Reich on Game Changer is a Service Dom Sadist Will Arnett on Lego Masters is a Service Sub Masochist Alex Horne on Taskmaster is a Service Switch Switch"
Lego Masters isn't like the other two, but I was trying to think of a game show type thing with a host who fit that category, and that's where I landed!
I do think that in general British humour is much more interested in humiliation than American humour, or more willing to show and explore it. There've been a couple British comedy shows I found difficult to watch for that reason (Green Wing, for example). So I think they have a higher tolerance for it here, as well. There are lots of moments in Taskmaster like the ones you describe and I don't think we'd see them on an American show!
Which, to your other point: they tried a US version of Taskmaster, and Alex Horne even did the assistant, but it flopped terribly (mostly due to production changes to the format).
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Date: 2024-02-15 01:01 am (UTC)"Sam Reich on Game Changer is a Service Dom Sadist
Will Arnett on Lego Masters is a Service Sub Masochist
Alex Horne on Taskmaster is a Service Switch Switch"
Lego Masters isn't like the other two, but I was trying to think of a game show type thing with a host who fit that category, and that's where I landed!
I do think that in general British humour is much more interested in humiliation than American humour, or more willing to show and explore it. There've been a couple British comedy shows I found difficult to watch for that reason (Green Wing, for example). So I think they have a higher tolerance for it here, as well. There are lots of moments in Taskmaster like the ones you describe and I don't think we'd see them on an American show!
Which, to your other point: they tried a US version of Taskmaster, and Alex Horne even did the assistant, but it flopped terribly (mostly due to production changes to the format).