people in the comments like ‘he was trying too hard to act confused’ i promise this is the least confused i have ever seen joe thomas. he is in a perpetual state of anxiety

@DeSlagen8

11 ай бұрын

Yeah especially around Carli

@lonefoxproductions294

10 ай бұрын

@@DeSlagen8 *makes Radar noises*

@christhomas9221

10 ай бұрын

he's on the spectrum

@blurbbbb8397

10 ай бұрын

@@christhomas9221stop it with this spectrum shit when someone’s slightly different personality wise, he’s obviously not autistic he’s quite functional

@jpl7033

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@blurbbbb8397utistic people can be functional. Like imagine saying “this guy seems okay, he is a bit weird but he functions properly, must not be autistic” like what? 😂 I would like to know the process on how you got to the conclusion of autistic people can’t function 😂 Also if he is clearly more functional and autistic, it’s called high functioning autism

Every few seconds Joe makes a facial expression like his body has just been possessed by a disoriented ghost who's now trying to figure out who the hell he is and what the hell he's doing so as to avoid arousing suspicion and drawing the attention of exorcists.

@221b-Maker-Street

11 ай бұрын

Marvellous summation! 🏆

@kinell188

11 ай бұрын

Yep, awful actor.

@ubersteve3265

11 ай бұрын

Noticed it on Taskmaster as well

@dijkindias9757

11 ай бұрын

@@kinell188ok buddy 😂🤡

@MM-eb4uq

11 ай бұрын

he's a massive weirdo. Extremely off-putting. I don't know whether it was acting or just his 'normal' self but yikes

Joe is 40 this year and looks like he could still star in The Inbetweeners

@gemodorgon

11 ай бұрын

Joe Thomas vampire confirmed.

@GreatBeardofWisdom

11 ай бұрын

I legit had to Google that to check. He was 25 when The Inbetweeners started. Fuck me sideways with a barge pole. I ain't gonna look that good when I'm nearly 40. And I'm 33 as I write this.

@Alinxavier

11 ай бұрын

40?????

@sanfordcurtis8242

11 ай бұрын

@@Alinxavier Yep, I can’t quite believe it either

@David-no7zi

11 ай бұрын

He's hiding some hair loss under that weird hairdo, but apart from that yep he looks the same as 15 years ago. Lucky guy!

He looks like he’s entirely rebooting every 10 seconds. Obsessed.

@jamesmullen3601

3 ай бұрын

it's kinda like when you're on acid and you refocus your eyes to try and temporarily see things clearly

Who took 5 hrs to cook mac & cheese? Joe Thomas? 100% true. No discussions. That's why we love him.

@Bobby.Kristensen

11 ай бұрын

Lee would only need to buy some cheese hö hö

@SgtBaker-ol9vv

10 ай бұрын

40!!! Seriously?!!!

@johngilmore697

5 ай бұрын

But we don't

@shamsuzzoha2294

4 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊

His main mistake was trying to cook the macaroni by burying it in his mate's mum's garden

@sawibe_5710

11 ай бұрын

Soft touch won’t be happy

@samwhite4284

11 ай бұрын

niche reference

@freebeerishere

11 ай бұрын

deep cut

@Owen-wc1wr

11 ай бұрын

She has a name - Soft Touch... I mean Elaine

Having seen Joe’s performance on Taskmaster, I was 110% convinced this was true!

Didn't even have to watch it, I just read the title and went "Yeah, that's Joe Thomas".

@elifishwhat

11 ай бұрын

yeah, i instantly knew it was true just from the fact joe thomas did it

Bloke I knew mixed his roux too quickly, broke his spoon in half

@CraigNiel

11 ай бұрын

haha well played sir, well played. 🤣🤣

@dazediss6629

11 ай бұрын

What an amateur, gotta have a plan!

@CraigNiel

11 ай бұрын

@@bringbackusernames I bet you there's loads that don't get it but I heard it in Jay's voice, brilliant!

@robellett8156

11 ай бұрын

😂

@vaaggasje

11 ай бұрын

Amazing!

Joe is always fun on this show. His character is soooo slow but hilarious. He was great on Taskmaster.

@gigaleader

11 ай бұрын

He was only on WILTY once, though, wasn't he?

@TequilaToothpick

11 ай бұрын

​@@gigaleaderYes.

@nickedwards2904

10 ай бұрын

i find him painful to watch , its as if he has taken half hour out of his therapy to attend, not sure what you found hilarious about this appearance

@usernamesmeannothing

9 ай бұрын

@@nickedwards2904Why watch it then you tit?

@bennalexanderleyland9088

8 ай бұрын

@@nickedwards2904 sounds like a you problem

Seeing it was Joe Thomas, I read the title as "five-and-a-half years" and still thought it was true going in.

This is fully believable considering this man tried to cook a whole lamb by burying it in his friend’s mom’s garden. He did light up a fire in that hole before extinguishing it with damp rags. When they dig it out, it was not only uncooked, it was a rotting big slab of meat.

@finnneilson6229

11 ай бұрын

Where can I find this lol

@adventurewolf1340

10 ай бұрын

Off menu podcast

@taradoherty972

9 ай бұрын

Soft touch 😅

@oz_jones

8 ай бұрын

I mean, burying a roast and making a fire on top is a legitimate way to cook meat

@mad1739

8 ай бұрын

Just listened to this episode the other day it was brilliant haha

If I learned anything from watching TM it would be that Joe Thomas would definitely be the kind of guy who would take five and a half hours to cook macaroni.

For once I'd like someone to be courageous enough to act that befuddled and strain to come up with answers but ACTUALLY be lying. Anyone struggling this much to answer questions is always telling the truth.

@peterclarke7240

11 ай бұрын

I mean... That's just how Joe is. He's always in a near-permanent state of confusion about everything.

@katmcvicar

11 ай бұрын

@@peterclarke7240🤣🤣🤣 that’s so true. And I love it!

@Xara_K1

11 ай бұрын

And its Joe. I'd have thought he was lying if he *didn't* look befuddled and completely confused 😂

@NotoriousWhistler

11 ай бұрын

Have you never seen Claudia Winkelman on this show??

@krishnajain4391

11 ай бұрын

@@NotoriousWhistler Yes. She acts befuddled (convincingly, admittedly), but she's telling the truth.

If he struggled to make macaroni cheese, imagine him trying to cook a lamb!

@pitulanek

11 ай бұрын

Are you referring to the Off Menu podcast? If not, then it's a surprisingly funny coincidental comment!

@Kyuri85

11 ай бұрын

I understood that reference. :D

@kawaiilotus

11 ай бұрын

let alone a bolongse pasta with the cream!

@jaybee9552

11 ай бұрын

One of the best Off Menus ever. If you haven't already, listen to the Andie Oliver one, where they mention Joe's lamb and it turns out she knows Willy personally. Then the one with both Willy and Joe on it. 😅

@MrMongoose221

11 ай бұрын

​@@kawaiilotusdon't forget the two cheap bottles of Italian red wine

It once took me 8 hours (not including breaks and baking time) to make macarons and I have no idea why. The recipe said like 2 hours and that was including baking time. I did have to make new meringue but that should of only been an extra 30 minutes. I was up until like 3am making those macarons. They did turn out perfectly though and they were delicious so it was worth it. I guess I’m just really slow at baking.

@acex222

11 ай бұрын

better than taking 8 hours to give up.

@stellatilly9911

11 ай бұрын

to be fair macarons are an absolute bitch to make and im pretty sure the recipes guilt trip you at every step.

@rachelcookie321

11 ай бұрын

@@stellatilly9911 they were actually pretty easy to make so I have no idea why it took so long. It was all really straight forward. It was my second time making macarons (the first time was with my friends using a really bad recipe that definitely wouldn’t of worked) and I didn’t struggle at all. It was just very tiring whipping the meringue for 30 minutes, realising I made a mistake, and then having to fix it again for another 30 minutes. My arms were sore. But the recipe was easy to follow and I had no difficulty with it. That’s why I’m so confused why it took me so long because it wasn’t hard at all.

@cuckoobrain7999

9 ай бұрын

It's like that sometimes

@Variodyn

9 ай бұрын

It was because you were dancing bugaboo wasnt it?

Joe has that face you make when you realise the fart wasn't just a fart.

@andreaskarlsson5251

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha😂😂 weirdly spot-on!

Joe is like a funny version of my every day hourly existence.

Why didn't anyone laugh when he said the car was blocking the neighbor's ummm and Lee completed the sentence with "arteries?" 😂😂😂😂😂 that took me out for minutes holy....

I remember this guy from Taskmaster. He always has a pensive look of concern on his face.

Jesus. I Remember Lewis from the Yogscast saying him and Joe were good mates at school, I hadn't realized how similar they can be comedically until now lol.

@thepeatboggy

10 ай бұрын

Literally sound like the same person lol

Jay Cartwright: my dad taught Gordon Ramsay how to cook Neil Sutherland: what’s this mozzarella? Is it for humans?

@MisterBuffers

11 ай бұрын

He's done other things.

@mrhaltonok

11 ай бұрын

@@MisterBuffersentered a golf tournament with his dad, went to see Take That at Wembley

@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511

10 ай бұрын

@@mrhaltonok completed championship manager

@martinmaguire-music6692

9 ай бұрын

Pesto*

people confused why he's overacting when Joe is always like this permanently confused and scared dog during a fireworks display

Absolutely love Joe on every show he's been on xo

I'm fairly certain that Joe Thomas coyld take 5.5 hours to cook a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

@221b-Maker-Street

11 ай бұрын

I'm sensing he'd also take not far off that time to 'make' a bowl of cornflakes.

@Fern635

11 ай бұрын

But he would be so darn lovable doing it!

@Arghmyliver

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, apparently Joe and I have a similar defect when it comes to cooking. I assumed from the start it was boxed macaroni and cheese. When it became apparent part way through the anecdote that it was semi-homemade (not from a box) I was like, yeah, fair enough, 5hrs seems like a reasonable time.

Listening to Joe on Off Menu where he recounted his lamb story, I immediately expected this to be true.

I watched him on Taskmaster, so I immediately knew it was true.

If Jay was on this show, he'd win every time

It once took me 5 days to recover from a plate of macaroni cheese.

@221b-Maker-Street

11 ай бұрын

Were you on holiday in Cornwall at the time, by any chance? 😬

The first time i watched this i knew his answer coz... Joe Thomas

Things like these make for fun/great stories, but having to deal with a person like this is real life is so maddening.

He was almost Claudia level stingy with actual details.

@221b-Maker-Street

11 ай бұрын

Nothing though will top her 'seeing people as animals' round. Rhod Gilbert was a Red Setter, iirc. 😆

Should’ve just buried the pasta in Soft Touch’s garden like Willie

I thought it was a lie because you can't make cheese sauce with mozzarella (it melts into strings, so doesn't incorporate well) and I didn't think anyone who struggled to make it would know that. I sometimes wish they'd do a follow-up on some of these: "Now tell us the real story". Because they've obviously exaggerated or changed certain parts for comedic effect or to try to trick the other team.

@ArcadeStunfisk

8 ай бұрын

I’ve made cheese sauce with mozzarella plenty of times. Yeah it gets stringy but it’s perfectly good. Extra good if you layer it in a lasagne.

@kralevic3297

7 ай бұрын

As one of four different cheeses in a roux-based sauce, and bearing in mind he most likely means low-moisture mozzarella, I don't think stringiness would be much of a problem.

Jo looks like she matched her outfit to the WILTY card design

Joe Thomas is really handsome

Saw the title and immediately thought, "probably, yeah". With anybody else I'd be sceptical.

Took me upwards of 25 minutes to fry an egg once, I fully believe this.

A fellow student in our shared house at Uni came to my then GF (later wife) and asked how to make macaroni cheese. My wife began by explaining about boiling some water, for the pasta, and then she'd have to grate cheese, make a roux, etc. "No.." came the reply - "I've got a tin, what do I do with it?" She was a second year medical student.

@rkah6187

2 ай бұрын

Well, I once had to explain someone how to use a toaster. She was eighteen years old.

I love joe, always makes me laugh 😅

ooh don't cry Si

As soon as I read the title I knew it was true because I once took about 5 hours making a cheese toasty. 😭

He made it so obvious 😂😂😂

I still would've believed Joe Thomas even if it was a box of KD

Oh good lord, this is not even Joe's crazy food story. He once dug up his neighbor's garden to slow cook a lamp underground, but it ended up very under cooked and slightly rotten ...

@OrgaNik_Music

10 ай бұрын

Lamp, huh

@karthiknaicker8216

9 ай бұрын

​@@OrgaNik_Musiche wanted a light meal

The frog bit 👍

Willie's Perfect Macaroni Christmas

This is honestly the least confused I’ve seen him

As a person with high anxiety, me too, Joe.

I would need a snack in the middle of cooking for that long.

five-and-a-half hours to cook mac and cheese is literally what i did the day before i got tested for adhd anyway Joe is just like me fr

Takes me ages to shred the cheeses for my mac and cheese so I could totally believe that. And if someone messed up the weights I would end them.

@peterclarke7006

11 ай бұрын

Harsh, but completely fair 😂

@sacredgeometry

9 ай бұрын

You need a cheese grater.

@peterclarke7006

9 ай бұрын

@@sacredgeometry woah, dude. I get you'd be cross if someone screwed up the weights, and I guess ending them is justifiable under the circumstances, but ending them with a CHEESE GRATER?!?!

@sacredgeometry

9 ай бұрын

@@peterclarke7006 You have to tailor the punishment to the crime.

@peterclarke7006

9 ай бұрын

@@sacredgeometry but it would take so LONG.

whenever joe speaks it’s like god gave him the blessing of more grey matter than the average human being but the downside is that it constantly gets scrambled around

dug the lamb up… it was exactly the same as when it went in.

I'm not sure how different "Mac&cheese" is from it, but the Italian version of macaroni cheese, "pasta burro e parmigiano" ("butter and parmesan", but very customisable), is also nicknamed "the cuckold's pasta" (pasta del cornuto) because it's so quick to make that it's perfect for a cheating wife who has to hurry before her husband comes home. Not only it took him five and a half hours to cook a dish of pasta, but _specifically the quickest one._

@jw7073

11 ай бұрын

Not that quick, the recipe used in Britain involves making cheese sauce with flour milk (to make the roux) and cheese, which takes a probs about the same time pasta takes to cook, and then it's almost always baked in the oven for 20mins or so

Joe Thomas is like the doppelganger of Tim Rogers, it's uncanny

Getting the roux right can be a bloody nightmare

I like how this turned into a Hell's Kitchen episode at one point

It would be more accurate to say it took 5 1/2 hours after starting to finish the mac and cheese.

You don’t need to have the seats so far away from each other now

Cant believe he turns 40 this year 🤯

thought it said years at first lol

If you've listened to Joe's episode of Off Menu, you could immediately guess that this is true.

THIS GUY DOESN’T AGE

@bass3966

10 ай бұрын

Like frog's

Take the Bobby!

To be fair, to make a top tier macaroni dish, you need about 2 hours without anyone interrupting. It is so good, so much more than just macaroni and cheese, it has egg, seeded mustard, parsley, basil, breaded top, bacon or aged meat whichever you prefer, lots of cracked black pepper, 4 types of cheese, paprika, salt or msg, milk, can’t even remember everything you need, also need to time everything correctly and trim the bacon fat… lots of steps.

@highviewbarbell

11 ай бұрын

I like the one from the blue box

@ChrisDevlinMusic

11 ай бұрын

Ty for the excellent tips

@lotuseater7247

11 ай бұрын

ok Delia

@harrywhite3586

11 ай бұрын

Msg?!?! Psycho

@user-kt7qo9kz7x

10 ай бұрын

msg may aswell throw some aspestos in there aswell and a lil rat poisining

If i was drunk I'd take an hour

Yeah nah totally normal. You start preparing dinner at 5pm or so, plan to eat at about 7. Everyone's starving. Plate up at about a quarter to eleven. Delicious. Time for bed. Normal.

Damn his balls have dropped 😂

If Lee made the same Joey joke there would have been a roar of laughter, it’s too hard for guests on here to get a laugh when they’re not regulars

@alexandranur5530

11 ай бұрын

Is not just that, is the way of telling the joke as well. Bob Mortimer for example kills it each time 😂

@easycoding8255

11 ай бұрын

@@alexandranur5530 you’re right and Bob is brilliant but Joe Thomas did make me chuckle with this quip

@libbybollinger5901

9 ай бұрын

@@alexandranur5530in fairness, Bob Mortimer has been on the show so many times, the audience is quite accustomed to him.

@spencerlively3049

8 ай бұрын

what was his joey joke about? it just sounded like a word association going from kangaroo to saying something about a joey rather than an actual joke

@Nifirin

8 ай бұрын

@@spencerlively3049 It's because his name is Joe. "A little Joey" could therefore be referring to either a baby kangaroo or a baby Joe. Making the implication that a kangaroo's and Joe's child would be "a little Joey" in both forms. That's the joke.

It took me 5 hours to cook pizza, but at least it was homemade. I kept forgetting ingredients so had to keep going back to the supermarket. And I'm sure the glass or 2 of wine didn't help!

@hubertmcnuggets

11 ай бұрын

So you were drink driving were you, Elizabeth Cole? Print screened and emailed to your local police station.

@ecole1988

11 ай бұрын

@@hubertmcnuggets erm...I walked to the supermarket! (Oh yeah, and I don't even own a car!)

@hubertmcnuggets

11 ай бұрын

@@ecole1988 tell it to the judge

@bass3966

10 ай бұрын

Then the bit about the frog was incredible 👍

He sounds very different to how he does on The Inbetweeners. I wouldn't have recognised him by his voice

Is this Joe with a new account?

Joe Thomas off screen voice sounds so weird to how I thought it would be.

It took him five-and-a-half hours to get through his story as well

unrelated still feel bad that Bobby didn't get the extraction on hunted

Don't know the guy but considering it takes him so long to explain the situation, I believe he spent 5h to make it.

To be fair, I make it in the slow cooker and it takes 3 hours.

he’s a british bully maguire

Immediately I know it's true

This actually happens in an episode of The inbetweeners

So interesting that the Brit’s says macaroni cheese, while we say macaroni AND cheese in the states

@cyndi2865

9 ай бұрын

I didn’t even notice that. I had to go back & check & now I’m mad about it.

@longtallshorty5791

8 ай бұрын

My god. That's INSANELY interesting!!!! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!

what is Bobby from Indian Matchmaker doing in this show?

@bass3966

10 ай бұрын

And the total 🐸

I have only seen small clips of The Inbetweeners on KZread. But I get told by a lot of people that I look like Neil and Simon.

Sounds like an inbetweeners episode.

Looking at the comments, I think the odd faces he's making, especially before pressing the button is a joking "Why would you doubt this?" face His expressions are quite normal when he's not talking (But I've never seen him outside The Inbetweeners so I could be wrong)

No wonder he got the part of Simon he doesn’t even need to act

I don't think that's called "five hours preparing a meal". That's 2 hours laying stuff out (which I suppose you might argue is part of the cooking process), 2 hours driving, and one hour cooking the meal.

@szofiaosborne8007

6 күн бұрын

As a fellow Very Slow PersonTM, I can say that it was probably an hour or so of ingredient prep, maybe an hour of car-moving, at least a further hour of dilly-dallying and two and a half hours of actual cooking.

I never knew Joe sounded so posh

Joe Nice-Butdim

well he was busy spray painting Carly's car park in between so no wonder!

Mozzarella.....No, Not really

Joe legit looks the same its just the hair

“Joe strikes me as a man that’s not in a rush.” You’re telling me! I started falling asleep during this anecdote he took so long to explain it. If it’d been a lie I’d think he’d been doing a good job, but alas!

@kaput_hodge

11 ай бұрын

thats kinda impressive that you can fall asleep in under 4 min ngl

@TyrannosavageRekt

11 ай бұрын

@@kaput_hodge Mate, I can fall asleep standing up. Nap anywhere.

@kaput_hodge

11 ай бұрын

@@TyrannosavageRekt that sounds like narcolepsy i cant lie lmao

@TyrannosavageRekt

11 ай бұрын

@@kaput_hodge 😂

Geez. Is this what this guy is usually like? He seems kind of... unwell!

found that hard to watch. the guy is almost 40 and this story is one of his most unbelievable stories?? wow bring back bob mortimer

Wahoo

Lee Mack has the raw talent of finishing someone's else's sentence with his own joke AKA get a life?

hes so incredibly on the spectrum i love him fr

@sacredgeometry

9 ай бұрын

He isn't, he is just not particularly interesting or charismatic. We have to stop pathologising dull people. It doesn't make them any more interesting.

@beanie2571

9 ай бұрын

@@sacredgeometry did i fucking ask

@peterclarke7006

9 ай бұрын

@@sacredgeometry you stupid cretin. Joe Thomas is actually diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. Do your research before spouting drivel like it even qualifies as an opinion. I mean, you're on the actual Internet. Google is RIGHT. THERE.

@sacredgeometry

9 ай бұрын

@@beanie2571 You know how public forums work right?

@beanie2571

9 ай бұрын

@@sacredgeometry 🤓☝️

Takes 10 - 12 minutes to make the cheese sauce and ~6 minutes to cook pasta. So even if you're not being economical with time, it shouldn't take anybody more than half an hour to make mac n cheese.