Bother’s Bar takes on the Tunnock’s Tea Cake Challenge. Three tea cakes. No water. One minute.

I desperately wanted to get the clock in italics but I couldn’t quite manage it with my very basic OBS skills without cutting bits off, which is a shame. Also I forgot to do a hilarious “let’s hope those 50% are right!” joke.

This does give us a chance to highlight three somewhat relevant things that we quite like, well four:

• Far Out – daily estimated guess social quiz puzzle thing by FOTB and TV bod James Allison. I can’t tell you if it’s any better or worse than Wordle or whatever, but I have found myself looking forward to playing it before bed/when I get up and chatting about it in the BB Discord whereas I usually get bored of this sort of thing quite quickly, so there’s that.
• Project You Bet – Jason Williams trying to extract the Jonathan Sorrell soundtrack to You Bet! using clean-up techniques to various degrees of success. Importantly the ‘da-da-DAH-duh-da’ one is present and correct.
• Elgato Wave Link 3.0 – updated recently so you don’t need Elgato hardware, it’s pretty powerful sound routing software which with a bit of playing about with may well end up replacing Voicemeeter. So much less hassle sorting out sound levels for videos as well, which has traditionally always been a problem for me.
• Tunnock’s Tea Cakes – obviously.

If like us you’ve quite enjoyed watching Taskmaster NZ (which will all be on All 4 this week) alumni Guy Montgomery’s Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Australia on iPlayer (and, er, Youtube) you might be thrilled by this news in Chortle today, he’s doing it at the Soho Theatre, Walthamstow on September 2nd, tickets go on sale Friday morning.

If you’ve not seen it, it’s a show where comedians try and spell words, but that’s extremely reductive as there’s a ton of comedy and creativity in the set-ups – it’s basically a lesson in how to really annoy comedians. Worth a watch!

American Gladiators launches internationally on Amazon Prime April 17th, filmed on the one-series-wonder French set.

The French show had an expanded game set compared to the UK one and we see at the very least Whiplash has made it across, although surely that’s nobody’s favourite game. Trying to figure out what they’ve done with their Wall – in the French show it was off to one side with buzzers at the top as their arena in Pergy isn’t quite as tall as ours. We’ve got no idea how LEVELLED UP Gauntlet is, but it can’t be any easier as our version is currently. 16 events are promised, which is more than the 13 + Eliminator we currently have.

Just a bit of a signpost for things happening in the next few days and other stuff.

• It’s Last One Laughing UK 2 on Thursday on Amazon Prime, the first one was a legitimate sizable hit – probably the first English language one to manage it, so it will be interesting to see if the first one was “just” lightning in a bottle or whether they can repeat the feat. I can’t wait anyway. It looks like three episodes coming out this week, and presumably the other three next week. I’m not bothering with a separate post for Series Two, so I will link to the first one and you can chat about it there.
• Channel 4’s Non-Celebrity Celebrity Bear Hunt show The Hunt: Prey vs Predator starts on Sunday night and continues across Monday and Tuesday next week. This is yelling out The CW’s Capture from 2013 from its description although I don’t think they’re obviously related – hunt down other teams in a forest whilst doing tasks to earn more money and avoid getting captured, the roles will reverse, who will win up to £100,000? I’ll put up a Show Discussion post at the weekend.

I can’t find any full episodes of Capture, so here’s a twenty minute series montage.