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Jack Bernhardt

British comedy writer and co-host of Taskmaster: The People's Podcast; script writer for Horrible Histories and co-author of "An Absolute Casserole: Ten Years of Taskmaster".

Sep 27, 2026

20:01
leaning that way anyway, because all the jokes are quite meta, aren't they?
20:04
There's quite a lot of meta jokes and I think it would have improved it.
20:08
I think that I suppose the issue with this whole endeavor, this whole endeavor is doomed.
20:14
Let's say it right now.
20:15
This film is doomed from almost the get go, partially because of the casting, but also because what the film is attempting to do is take a nostalgic fun knockabout radio show that was made by white people, uh, about the, like the wild west, the wild west and like the, and the interaction, the relationship between the wild, the, you know, the, the cowboys and Native Americans, or as they call them here, Indians.
20:44
Um, and that is one thing that is trying to remain faithful to.
20:48
it is also, at the same time, trying to tell a story that is authentically set in 19th century America, and therefore with real Native American characters, real Native American-like stories, and in a sense, come to terms with Manifest Destiny, with what America did to the Native people, or what the white Americans did to the Native Americans.

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155:52
Yes.

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