i don’t think anything a celebrity ever says about fan fiction that was written about them and a co-worker/friend will beat what james acaster said wrt fan fiction about himself and ed gamble last night, to ed gamble (and a theatre full of people), which was (and i’m paraphrasing a little here), “of course you like them, you’re always the dom”.
he also told us about one where “i crawl into ed’s flat, on all fours, crying, because he hasn’t fucked me in the arse yet today”
[ID: Two screencaps from Taskmaster. Ed Gamble stands in a garden, holding a long piece of drainpipe and saying, "The only way I get out of this with any dignity is if I die right now." End ID.]
The interesting thing about seeing people discover Ed Gamble through Taskmaster is that some look at his desperation dedication to win, judge him by his general appearance and interactions with Greg and the rest of the cast, and pass him off as some stereotypical, overbearing "jock" character, when in reality he's a type 1 diabetic, asthmatic, ex-goth kid who used to collect salt and pepper pots and geodes, who dislikes sports partly due to bad school experiences, who loves food, heavy metal, comic books, board games, his wife, and his cat that he's allergic to, and who's talked openly about his mental and physical struggles with losing weight and managing his type 1.
I dunno, I just find it funny when I see people describe him as "a high school bully" or a "hostile competitor" when he's clearly just an over-excitable, super massive TM nerd whose dream was to be on the show and make love to some hummus.
[ID: Four screencaps from Taskmaster. Ed Gamble is in a garden, using a handsaw to decapitate a small yellow rubber duck. Later, in the studio, he says, "Destroyed the duck. Buried it in two separate locations so it can't haunt... haunt me." End ID.]