Victoria Coren Mitchell has talked about her experience of taking part in Taskmaster in a new revealing interview with Richard Herring. She also talked about her husband David Mitchell's suggestion that he would not take part in the show. David Mitchell originally spoke about this also in an interview with Herring. Read about that here.

Listen to the full Richard Herring interview with Victoria Coren Mitchell here.

In the interview Coren Mitchell clarified Mitchell's suggestion that he wouldn't appear on the show because people think he is clever and it might reveal him to be not as clever as people think. Coren drew a distinction between Taskmaster and other more general knowledge-based shows.

"Did he say that about Taskmaster? David definitely has a view. Shows like Celebrity Mastermind and Pointless he wouldn't do like me because people think we would know things. So if we know things people go and 'I thought so, smartarse'. And if you don't know things, you're disappointing, so there's nothing to gain. Taskmaster isn't quite like that.

I don't think David would enjoy Taskmaster, but not for that reason. He'd find it uncomfortable." As for Coren Mitchell doing it, she has no regrets, despite having filmed it during lockdown restrictions.

"It's an amazing show. I absolutely loved it. I think it'd be more fun to do it in the normal way with other people there.

I was quite excited to leave the house. I enjoyed it enormously. I mean, any kind of game playing I love and also I'm not, in a way that you'll find surprising, I'm not at all competitive now. So when I've done things like the charity Bake Off, or a TV show playing games at a dinner party I couldn't give a toss about winning. It would be different if it was my own money at stake.

Of course I tried my best. I don't mind trying my best and turning out to be slightly rubbish. I didn't really mind that.

I tried really hard. I was rubbish at most of the tasks. I'm not very physically skilled, I can't ride a bike. But I was a bit crestfallen by how badly my prize tasks were. I misunderstood, I thought it was basically a comedy show. So when you have to bring in your prize thing, they're gonna want something funny. So I was in a room, but because of lockdown there was no live audience. I'm just staring into the face of Greg Davies and I bring something you know, something with a lot of layers, and everyone's got, layer cakes and this and that, and I've got a little plastic model of a chicken farmer. Because it's got layers.

And I'd say my joke. Absolute silence.

Greg would look at me silently and the other contestants would look at me. That's a different level of humiliation to trying to hit a balloon with a dart from 1000 feet."

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