Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 151. *Champion of Champions #3 Winner*

Episode Date: January 14, 2024

On the podcast Ed talks to the winner of Champion of Champions 3! The Champions (plus Kiell) preformed some brilliant tasks but only one can reign supreme! Here all of the CofC news plus some thoughts on the Series 17 line up! The Taskmaster Podcast will be back very soon but in the meantime you can get all your TM news at Taskmaster.tv plus the Taskmaster People's Podcast is available weekly, wherever you get your podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster Podcast, with me Ed Gamble, the host of the Taskmaster Podcast. Now a very exciting day today, we are here to talk about Champion of Champions 3. Yes, it's the third champion in champions Which is a lot of fun as we all know champion of champions is not canon if you win champion champions If you come bottom of champion of champions, it doesn't matter It does not count within the history of taskmaster. It's just a bit of fun So remember that as we go into it. It's a wonderful lineup of people, all great champions in their own right,

they won their series, but let's not forget, this is just a bit of fun. And we are here to talk to the winner of Champion of Champions. Who is that I hear you ask? Well, what I would say is if you haven't watched the Taskmaster episode of Champion of Champions 3, even though it doesn't count, go away and watch it first because I'm about to the winner, because that's who we're talking to. Okay, here we go. I'm about to speak to Dara O'Brien. Yes, you will know if you watched it Dara Rompthome and won the 3rd Champion of Champions, putting him in direct competition for the Champion of Champions. He beat out excellent competition. We will talk about

this episode. It was a fantastic episode. Everyone was brilliant, but Dara came out on top. So here we go. This is the Taskmaster Podcast. Speaking about Champion of Champion's three, with Darao Darao Briein. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Welcome, Dara, to the Taskmaster Podcast,

the champion of champions. Yeah, but you know, until I'm champion of champions, can I really enjoy that? I mean, it's just a niggling sensation that does a Josh Widdick and an original herring out there. I, you know, you know what, I didn't think I'd say this so early in the episode Dara, but I think so far in the lineup of champion of champions,

I reckon you've got this. Yeah, I know. Hearing is quiet and I'm saying cycles a lot. Look, I'm not making any plans for a TV show that may or may not be recorded in 2028. But you've worked out what year it would be. Yeah, it would have need out because he needs to know. And there's a lot of recommissioning of the show to go before that part, we get to that point. Oh, it'll happen. It'll happen.

What I would say is, I think Josh is very good, but I think may have lost the passion for it by the time we get to 2028. And I think Richard has been competent on one episode of Taskmaster, that was champion of champion. There was a... I mean, but like by then, I might have moved. I might no longer be a thing I walked down the road to, which was very much the case of I,

and just a rub salt in the wound to people who had a limo or something said to the house. I just, like I'm checking my watches, I just went, oh God, I better go down. And then walked down to the house. Yeah, it's that, is that a deal breaker for you then? If you're living a drive away by 2028, are you gonna say no?

Well actually, to be honest, actually, I'm kind of, because I'm in that and a point post-mark of going, actually, what am I doing that I don't have to walk to? I'm kind of waiting for the next TV company to hopefully send me a car for other stuff. Because right now, a lot of my TV workers have been walking to that house.

They, that's been this house. That's been it. I would love it. And champion to champion to champions like may have to be replaced on this one because they live in the States now. If you have to be replaced because you lived 10 minutes drive away from the taskmaster house and I simply can't be honest. I can't really. Oh, look, by champion, could you imagine who's like because he's dead?

Because they're like, that is like, because he's dead? Because they're like, that is like, it's perfectly possible. Which is perfectly, perfectly reasonable, you know, the lifestyle I lead for Cardsick. The, I mean, there's already always a clock ticking. At some point I'll be on North Bridge and get hit by that mirror on a bus,

which I know has my name on it. The, the perennial fear of the toll man. But, I said that to somebody once, oh yeah no I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna hit by a mirror in a bus and they went, it was on a podcast and they went really quiet and I said what's wrong, did you not think it was a funny joke, she said, I know somebody was gonna hit by a bus mirror once and I went, yeah I know. Anyway, sorry worry about that. Okay, right, sorry we can't talk about being killed by a mirror in a hospital episode.

I know we could. We could. I should, before we get into the episode, I should ask, were you quite relieved that May couldn't make it? Because I think they were your biggest comp competition. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because even before I had seen that show, I'd spoken to Alex who'd said that May is a demon for doing all types of escape rooms. Escape rooms in which they were filled slowly with water and you're going to

can't be a thing. There must be like an indicator. There must be like a glass pain that fills the water. So it looks like you're you know but she said yeah that they do all these things and so yeah I was and they were so what the how well they want to like in terms terms of pointing all that like whatever of the, yeah, I mean, because I believe my points total and Sarah Millikens may have been inflated by the fact it was John Kerns, the Indian French and, I mean, yeah, I'm the show, but, you know, let's, yeah, I'll enjoy the record that I have. Well, I do have the points, Thaisles, from your individual series in front of me.

And you were definitely the biggest point scorer out of everyone on the champion's line up. So you, by it's clear ten points. So it was you with 184 in your series, then May with 174. Then Sophie, so if you're very close with 173, Morgana 168 and Sarah 158. So you nearly beat Sarah by a clear 30 points. No, my Lord. Okay, sure. I could have missed an entire episode of series series. I could have I could have not walked down. I could have stayed in the house and just got accepted my wife. I'll blow this one off. It's only series 11 11. No, this is only matters because of that one moment. And again, I haven't seen the full ed,

I've seen bits of the ed, I've seen the full ed, where I wanted, where Sophie just said, I actually wanted her confidence constantly knocked. That was going to be her impairment. And he said, your point to tell you, as a winner would have only got your third to Dara and Sarah and their series. That would have I mean, that would have killed that would have killed me. We'll get to that in more these. Yes, of course. That was a brilliant moment. We should of course talk about

your outfit because you went with the same boiler suit with a little bit, a little bit of customization on the back with the weight catchphrase. Oh, that's not all there is on that outfit. It's very important. The outfit has a series of patches which mainly, I clearly didn't feature it very much and they should have put one or two shots of them in every so often which is our total fan service.

So, I mean, we may have to, Lequennis got a post some details. There is a patch brilliantly created patch of the bird that we drew with the paint that no one could see the bird. And only I could see the bird, that's there. There are two patches, one of sand and one of a shopping trolley. And then there's the other one which is of a helicopter next to a patch of a mountain, which is a flying machine that crashes mainly into the

definition of a helicopter as we know collectively. So there were loads of little bit of fan arts stuck onto it, which allowed me, therefore, not to have to worry about Jesus if I'm going to wear, because... Yeah, God, and 51, I'm going to give a shit when I wear. Yeah. Well, I mean, it was fantastic, and we should briefly mention as well, Sophie's, what I'm assuming was a temporary tattoo of Alex and Greg on her hip that we got a little...

Oh, I didn't see that, didn't see that. No, yeah, I just had to assume that. Presumed, Emory. You would hope, it was full of colour. Before we get into the tasks, they did seem similar for the championship champions that I definitely did well in, which was, you did a best chase sequence at the top. So it was presented to you like a task. Yeah.

But then, and then essentially you just had to create the opening credits. And I think everyone brought it in this. This made me really excited for the episode because everyone had something. And I think I just say this for the whole episode, Dara, you have essentially become a clown now. I have, I actually have. I mean, I very much made my name on, you know, write tales and maybe scientific observations about things.

And now I'm gurning like a, for cash. I'm like, it turns out I've gotten the elastic face and stuff like that. So yeah, so yeah, so quick return for, oh, what was her catch phrase that woman? Oh, no, it was on my baby. It was my baby, it was lovely to say I reckon. Oh, my baby, we got back in again.

Fan service, fan service. And like, really gonna book me from Marvel. I will do any, I will do any universe based thing. Within the taskmaster universe. Yeah. I'm very much like a co-host. Where do you see, where do you see the Umu, my baby lady, fitting in within the MCU? I think post titles, always. She's very much in the credit sequence. Or Stanley. Stanley isn't around anymore. always she says she's very much in the credit sequence she's very or Stanley

Stanley isn't around anymore so you just have my baby lady at the back of the heart I mean they are you know with the whole your man you know clang clang that clang that's right yeah but with all kind of they they're they really need something right now. Yeah, I think I think you my baby lady could be the thing that pulls the universe together for this phase phase five of the MCU and then they flash you know, for Comic-Con just me going, oh baby and the place goes, yes finally. Because of course there was the the council of Kangs is quite famous where there's all the Kangs that gather here.

All the Kangs do. The Council of Boomer Baby, so it's thousand people. It'll have to be Boomer Baby's. Loathe in different, in different ethnic clothing. Obviously starting off with you very confused, Eastern European, but wearing a poncho, initially Boomer Baby. And then really just grab bagging all different cultures.

Fantastic. It's gonna be amazing. Well if you're listening Kevin Feige we've got it sorted for you First time as a law student. Is he of course he is constantly scans all British company podcasts Let's talk about the prize task on this in a Champions. The best thing you would wish for if you had one wish from a Genie. Now I'm just going to say this, I messaged Alex about this, in the New Year's treat there was a pop-it-ums based task and then we're kicking off Champion of Champions with a with a genie base task I think you need to start getting well. Well, well, that's interesting. Yeah And it would have been nice had one person gone I went off of the pop-it-down and said no, I'll have the bread that would mean that would have been you know

In the universe that we feel it is British comedy podcast universe Yeah, that would that would in the crossover, but the yeah, yeah, the genie thing. I mean, you don't own the genie thing I just so you're aware of the the genie thing correct All pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop But it does mean that I mean, and your genie thing is very specific, but when it's completely blank page There's always it is a thing of like oh my god, what what this could be anything Which is why the first guess your first it's one of those rare things in comedy We're actually your first thought might be the best one to go with yeah rather than over thinking or try to work out too much. Yes, I think you're right, but because when it's when you're there's no sort of limit to your imagination, you could if you overthink it, you could end up coming up with something slightly too bizarre or slightly too out there that's not going to resonate with the audience.

I mean, I think we had a real mixed bag. We did. And you know this from doing this, that like that you've lived with your idea for a while of what this question means and you come up with hopefully that. I mean, when you're doing the ten of them, it's like week seven, you're like, oh, I don't know. You're looking around like this office going, that's it. I was going to bring this in, like, whatever, like anything. But you are going, when you have one question you're going to go, oh, I wonder where people are going to go on this.

And I'll be honest, I thought a lot of them were shit. I mean, we kicked off with Sarah's. I mean, Sarah is so funny. She's such a brilliant comedian. And I think it's funniest in the pocket of not really caring or being really angry. And I think this was the perfect thing to illustrate when Sarah is funniest.

It also, while straight into, we're all talking back to Greg in a way that the series doesn't, because everyone's done it. You know, I'm like, in a way that the New Year's Trees, which was delightful by the way this year. The New Year's Day was, every time it was a bit like, oh look we're here. But none of us are over here.

It's like, right, we're here. And I had some rant about, look, we're here. None of us are over here. It's like, right, we're here. And I had some rant about, about, here we are again, being judged by some cont. And while they're doing the sound check, and Greg's like, what? I was like, oh, yeah, okay. So, so yeah, so she's straight in with, I'm gonna angrily defend this.

Yeah, I'm about that. A black belt in karate is what she brought in. Greg seemed to suggest that she could get a black belt in karate if she just carved out the time. Had done the thing. And I believe I know where there was in club but I used to say you can just buy a black belt in the phrase you get.

Yeah, I mean having said, Charlie, two karate lessons, you're constantly going to this kind of obscure shops to buy, you know, Vielo belts and Brown belts and Green belts and all that. Yeah, but I think what she was wishing for was the skills, but what she said was the black belt. Yes. And yes, we all know Jeanne is a tricksy, so if you ask for a karate black belt, they will just give you the belt and not the skills.

Yes, and I don't know, whatever. I mean, I'm like, I've sat watching the skills being developed. It is an interesting kind of thing that I have watched. The kids do credit lessons and do the cation. I do this if it's what it's going on. But like a precise. That's capillero, really. I'm waving my hands around in a circular motion.

But they do the, like what looks like a routine essentially. And so they do more and more complex routines, which I have to do in a very precise way. You turn, you kick, you turn, you turn, you turn, you point, you wanna have all these kinds of things. So they learn, that's how it's done basically. It's tough to kids. The high point, by the way,

and we may be getting off the point slightly here, if you see a load of, let's say they're about seven, eight, I think, maybe seven, doing karate is that they do press ups But they don't know how to do press ups and they haven't really got the upper body saying to do press is properly So I won't say you said oh you think a demonstration and all the parents were in like week 10 of that term to see They're you know the watching week as it's called and he said okay, and now we'll do press ups all your press ups And these seven year olds lie on the ground and just lift their hips up and down

all your presops and these seven-year-olds lie on the ground and just lift their hips up and down. Basically, hammer the ground. They basically fuck a school hall. If anyone's seen the film Saltburn, you know exactly what I'm thinking about. I have yet to, but now I'm even more interested. Uh, very, very kill-han, like my several new songs just rinds the floorboards and all the parents are just like, oh Jesus, come on, they're not getting this at all. So anyway, so the karate lessons, yeah, they're a fun thing. It's, I mean, Greg was not impressed with this black But because also Sarah was the the first one to present because I guess her series was the earliest and she was the first one out of your lot to win

Um, and yeah, it just it felt like the sort of prize that she'd bring mid series and try and bury it mid series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that she'd bring mid series and try and bury it mid series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't the weird thing. I mean, yeah, they said, but look, yeah, it got the ball rolling in a confrontational way. They, yeah, absolutely. And we leave daring because they all went,

who, that's the one pointer. That's great. We can all move on. It's quite a hard task, a a hard category, because you need to bring something in that essentially is something you wish for. But if you can bring it in, then why do you need to wish for it? I know, I know, I know. We'll come to mind in a second in the inherent contradiction in that, like whatever,

because it's boss, boss. But yeah, there is an element of, yeah, I get what you're trying to do, you're trying to do. I remember I got very irritated with, I think on the last episode, there was a thing about, a thing that Greg would like, and I brought in an asteroid, it'd be named after me,

and then the conversation started, I'm like, well, are you giving it to me? And you're going to go, no, it's a thing you would like. I can't, that's, you would like that. Yeah,, you'd like I'd give you a thing you'd like whatever I don't know if I've been not getting the the nine point I expected plus bonus for the coolness of having an asteroid They've left after me. Yeah, but it's a it's actually a double asteroid. It's me's really cool. It's a kind of a self- orbiting anywhere self-obiting. But the end of time for this Dara. It was an amazing pace, really interesting thing. But the end. So this was again one of those things like, you know, that is a conceptual or rigid concrete and that is exactly the opposite. Either way, Sarah's is rubbish, so

that's fine. We all thought we offered a lot more comfortable when Sarah's had happened. Yes. Well, Sophie's, I thought, I thought it was quite good. I thought it was a strong idea. You wish to be Alex and Greg, so the thing that represents that is the taskmaster cosplay kit. Whereas, so the prize itself was not the cosplay, the prize itself was representing, you want the relationship that Alex and Greg have,

which I thought was quite a clever way of doing it. And I thought was, you know, quite unlucky to only get the two points. I don't remember being an amazing cosplay kid though, what was it? What was it? What was it? It was the sort of the costumes and Greg sort of had a blurred like a pixelated bottom. Oh, quite successful. You know trousers on, which would be no, yeah, that was, that I thought confused this cycle. Yeah, because the clarity, the purity of the idea was very much driven down a side road by why is the speed is so, yeah, it seems like that is not, it was cosplay.

I think it went from cosplay to roleplay. So I think it was for Carlos. Oh, okay. I think that's a probably for makeup at the couples outfit That's not what a couple's outfit is about. I don't do couples outfits, but I I guess I get a one is a punchline to the other setup You know and when you're at the party we walk in the party you go But he is the camera that the green girl, anyone, they, er, but someone doesn't, someone doesn't have to have their penis out. They don't, plus you can fuck him. So my husband is going to walk out with his car guy for the night.

And so that's, you know, part of the deal, isn't it, of this party? So no, but I think she was playing into the Reims of erotic fan fiction that exist Let's let's talk let's talk about yours now Dara because yes, I feel like I feel like in terms of the The fantasy and then a concrete thing you can do to represent that I think I did think you nailed it and The clip was just fantastic. It was fantastic. Now, a lot of this, including by the way, the controversial choice of the wig itself, the why do you pick it all, woman's head, is due to Taskmaster New Zealand, because

I was in New Zealand doing tours during Australia New Zealand, and we contacted them and said, we're going to have to get some visuals for this because I arrived back the day before the show. So we're going to have to get some visuals for this like whatever is there any chance we can meet up and they arranged the wig which I still have. So they arranged the wig so it heads the old woman you know blue rinsed wig which is it isn't actually it may have been sitting a little high, but when you put it, it's quite, it's quite full, I'll say that, it's quite, yeah, there's a lot there. I mean, I would, I think it works, I think it works for you. I'd like to see you with that, her. You'll see, you'll see more, now that like, when this thing goes out, I

can release, I'll release more photos, the, because it is quite a thing. But that wasn't what was supposed to be. I played Auckland and I did the show with the wig up How did you explain it? All right, just walked out. I just walked out and did the show with the wig and like just started the show and like I had three cameras at this Tasmus knew that had three separate cameras at this and And so right the central shot white shot Focus one and I walked in the wig started the show got to maybe the opening Joker so and they were and I said oh There's a weird energy in the room tonight. I said and then something in the in a perfect New Zealand man

What's with the fucking wig? And it was great, it was absolutely perfect, it was exactly what we needed and we even did it a couple of times but the footage got over late because it was like the turnstaff right in the forehead and the footage came over late so they only got, they grabbed one camera bit of me walking out. The sound was, it was all too late for them to actually do it properly.

But they did the montage of the, before we did it, they said, we'll do a few photographs and we walked around and did some photographs. And the photographs turned out to be epically good anyway. It's great. It's lovely. There was literally a group of women, I mentioned it, who were enjoying a night out.

And I said, well, I should be sitting in the middle of all the women. And the idea was, was if you should show the backs of it of all female heads, and here I am among all the ladies. That was supposed to be the implication. But for some reason, they cut them out of the photograph, and it was just me laughing on my own. Yeah.

And so the hope, and I interrupted this group, he said, how was it? Any chance I could just sit here for a second, and we'll take a photograph. And I said, for for a TV show none of them knew who I was or task was And they were just like you were but that you were bold presumed that thought you're a giant with a full head That's all who's this old woman who's bulked up. They didn't know which direction they're gone When you walked out I'd imagine when you walked out on stage with the wig, it would have felt like The first time Jimmy Car went back on stage after his hair plugs. Well, there we go. You know, I mean like I'd so I've taken a few steps in Jimmy's world

It's wonderful to know what it feels like It was it was I knew wasn't gonna last. I mean, there is a there is an idea that the constantly is that you you could do that You could just put on a wig and do the show and the whole lot is be like oh something's a bit weird here but I'm just enjoying the show really within 30 seconds. Yeah somebody goes that's right. That's weird. Yeah and then I said look this is for Taskmaster and they were like yay they're all delighted so we did a version of it where we put the house lights up so we could see them and their reactions and I did it again all of which exists on tape, but it got over too late and they didn't have time

to pull it together into it. Do you think that footage, do you think it'll be put together in a little bit? I know, I don't spend the time going through it all like whatever, because we got the laugh on the photographs. It's a pity, because it was amazing, you know, because it was properly walked out, like

it took 1200 seats to theater, like in Auckland, the, and today we're like, huh? And like, I have a full head of hair and I go, hey, it's critically in Auckland, what a pleasure it is, I'm the heroine, you know, one of the joys of being, I've come in this fine inspired like, whatever, and had to stop and go, I just know it's been weird for a while. Let's talk about Kyle's effort, of course, Kyle's standing in for May Martin. And this is where May really makes their presence felt, because Kyle has said he's wishing for an assistant.

Even though I think Kyle's doing well, I don't think he needs to ask for an assistant from the Genie. I feel like he's surely, he can get himself an assistant if he feels like he's a great person. I thought it was a bit strange actually, the justification for this, which is just to, please can I bring in another of those amazing dolls. Another of Mae's Dad's puppets. And it was fantastic. What I really enjoyed about this is when Kyle started doing the impression of Alex and he said,

he got the catchphrase wrong. He said all the instructions are on the task and that's, it's all the information's on the card or all the information's on the task. So, and Alex got genuinely shirty about that. But unfortunately, Kyle did some business that got a big laugh and shut Alex up. And that was it.

But it was lovely. It was lovely. It's a great take. It's a gorgeous thing. It's a really cute puppet like whatever and I did go. Mmm, okay. That's nice. Yeah, but the point went to the puppet and not not the interpretation of the price task, I feel. Do you know what? I sat in a bar? I sat in a bar. Oh, wait, that old woman waved on. You know, I'm going to walk to the bar to a suburb of Auckland, down to the beach, and for the beach up to a bar, I had to talk to somebody about getting a table that we could

do photographs. You might not be able to do photographs, and they said, no, because this is startled. No, mad in a weird wig. No, you can do it you want. Yeah, we'd be fine if you include Neon sign in it. They are all while doing a wig. You're not just fantastic. Get a gifted puppet master to create a puppet.

You know what I mean? Let's talk about Morgana's effort. Because this was the first point. This was the absolute insane thing. The Y was this, this, we know. I'm finding really for myself and Kyle here for what was the most ludicrous idea of it all. No, the idea was fine.

I should have more hands. Yeah. Would it be great? But the actual realization of it was just too floppy, you know, rigid, plastic hands on a belt. Yeah, I know what you mean, but it's a good idea. Conceptually, a spare pair of hands is probably the strongest wish, because it's impossible, it's impossible, right? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. But and I liked that Morgana stood up in the studio to demonstrate what it's like only having two hands. I don't believe.

Oh! And you've got to stand up to do that. Yeah. And her energy's amazing, obviously, I love Morgana. But I was surprised that it got the full five. I thought, I thought to be honest with you, Dara, and I hate to say this because I'd love to tell you that I thought yours was rubbish. I felt like yours, the idea and the execution was five points for me. I didn't know that I didn't know that.

I don't have five in the bank, man. I don't have a sufficient humiliation of myself and also a thing that I have been dying to do for ages, clearly dying to do for ages. Yeah. Actually, we get up the year's grand. You go, we get up once, then it becomes like, no, no, stuff, we get it up. So this is by waking it up moment like whatever, it's what I had. Whereas two plastic hands on a belt did sing in the... Well, look, be grateful because when I did champion the champions, I did the best price

task I've ever done. Yeah, I was wonderful price. Five points straight did the best prize task I've ever done. That was wonderful, right? Five points straight out the gate and then I came bottom. So you can't start too strong on championed champions. No, no. Hello, Sophie. I think the reason that we're all here today is because we want love. We all want the love that Greg and Alex have.

Oh! And that is why I would wish for the TASMASTER Couples Cosplay Kit. Here it is. I'm pixelated because I'm not wearing any pants presumably. That's a TASM member. OK. They come with a pixelated kit. If you close your eyes a bit, you can really make out not wearing any pants presumably. That's a toss member. OK.

They come with a pixelated tilt. If you close your eyes a bit, you can really make out the shape of your cocktail. If you just go... LAUGHTER All right, it's good. Thank you. Let's move on to task one. Be the best waiter.

You must serve Alex all his food, drink and cutlery, as it is currently set. If you drop or spill any items, you must clap for a full minute or else you will be disqualified. No running, fastest wins. Now, before we talk about this, I think there might be some inspiration here. There's an Australian taskmaster task where they had to deliver Tom, who's the taskmaster assistant Apeatser, and they've got huge grounds because they film it in the same place as the New Zealand taskmaster. They've got these huge grounds and they had what they all assumed to be Tom sat on the other side of a lake and you know people were getting in the boat and row

in the pizza across to him and then they get there and it's just a guy who looks like Tom. So I think there might have been some inspiration here from that one. I mean this is a great task. There were some wonderful interpretations. Yes. No one thought to check that that was Alex before grabbing food. Yes and that was really weird. I mean look can I just put it in context? I know that bandstand I walk a dog pastor. And which is why I and the surprise that it called it as well Went to get a dog to see if a dog could sniff her out Both of us went and stopped somebody walking your dog so can I take a dog and and I would go do I have anything of Alex Zodamy that I could get the dog to smell and they're like go go go go go go go the

Finds it with an Alex's pissed against a fence and then and Yeah, and so yes, I know that and yet You he disappeared he could be disappeared and he really was four feet away But it was like I mean and you're looking up and you're going no he can't be a long way away Because that you said he might is the upper tree. I think yeah I thought I would be yeah I'm in the roof of the stuff on top of something, beneath something, anything. Because there's going to be, at some point,

it becomes like, it's video game logic, which is like, I'm looking for the amulet. And now it seems to be walking back towards the village, and it wouldn't be valid with back here. There's something you know, there's a kind of an internal logic to this. So it must be within this area here. And yet I've walked this area and I really had not. Because I knew that one of them

wasn't. I didn't get fooled by the the dummy tech. The big hat. The big hat. You thought he might be under the big hat though. Yeah, yeah, and it wasn't. It was, it was Andy C. It was Andy C. And, and, and he's he, you know, he knows, he's a lovely man. You go, so he appears under the first hat with the Roy Gautier, kind of smiling on his face, and when you want a punch, they, and then you go back,

I think I'm still carrying stuff at this stage. Now, can I point out, I'm not, like, look at me, I'm not the most, I'm like the, the the nimblest of people You're more nimble than you give yourself credit for them. They were of course I do and we've we've discovered this physicality with in this I've got ever but I wouldn't presume that it wasn't impossible to carry this stuff without dropping it

Mm-hmm. I never had to clap No, and any stage had to clap. Yeah. And it was just, and what was up, but people were constantly dropper things. Dropping things, I think that maybe taking too much and then getting nervous or something, I don't know what it was, but there was. You just lift the plate and you look and you carry it front of you. You got big hands though I suppose. I said, yeah, I'm not, I'm not copying the not copying the stuff Just holding the plate Well, no one else thought to use their mouth as a drink pouch. Okay, right the pouching is and I did this feature in the show the pouching Oh, yeah, oh good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good As you've said, it's a perfectly valid technique for delivering drinks in a case-ring environment. It's done very commonly.

But the only, it's not one pleasant for the guest. It's unpleasant for the waiter because sometimes there's a gammon milk. And that was a kind of an almond, and you're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And so it actually leaves a kind of a rind in your mouth, like that milk. It wasn't a nice milk to carry.

Poor you. Poor you that you had to do that, yeah. You know what I mean, like whatever it was called. But I was very happy because you know, but there had to be some point when you did something sort of smart and I thought, okay, this'll be smart because that's definitely going.

So the only way to carry this would be, it's obviously just horde some of it in my mouth and we're good to taste it. Yeah. Well, it's in the long tradition of Alex having to eat things that have been in contestants mouths. Yeah.

Basically, I feel like every series apart from the ones during COVID, Alex ended up eating another contestants spit. He's even milked from my mouth. You know, Lucy Beaumont did a horrible bird thing in the last series. You know, he's eating a lot of contested spits, but never without knowing. This is the first time he's done it without knowing. And in fact, I'm not sure if it was on the regurgitation happened at a point where Alex was behind a pole.

Still, I don't think Alex Sosh, I just... Yeah, he's a blurted man, and delivered it like this. He said the first time he saw it, he was when he watched it back, which is fantastic. Well, you did very well, the 18 minutes, 42 seconds. Let's go... I was gonna just say it like, whatever. Yes, I think it was think I was one of the first to be shown. You're going 18 minutes. When I'm doing it You're going I thought this day has started bad because the first time we did. I thought oh no, this is bad. Yeah, other people will find him

Faster because they'll think to look around the building. Yeah, rather than Here's my trying to field of vision. I can't see him within this. So he couldn't be behind something. He must be where I can stand in the circle and look. Like I look in idiot. He's in the shaded area, in stealth mode. And I didn't think of doing that for 50. So it's like most of 17 minutes is trying to find Alex. Yeah.

And then the rest of it is literally just carrying stuff for crocs. They did it into the clapping thing. So the rest is me just stuff carrying stuff across because they didn't do the clapping thing So the rest is media stuff carrying stuff across Well, I mean let's talk about I mean more more Ghana and KL neither of them got any points because Morgana dropped something And then doesn't you know tries to estimate what a minute is and she estimates that 28 seconds is a minute So she's immediately disqualified and also it was too late by this point.

She was running all over the place. Her life, she must see the universe just whizzing past, constantly, like a podcast on double, everything is, the information coming to Morgana must be like a broadband, she was shooting by interiors. And going through the oddest filter as well. Yes, to the morganist.

You put that on top of it all. Yeah. Or maybe this is so much information compared to the only morganic and only pick the brightest shiniest ever thing that's got all this stuff that's going past. And to her universe is just the stuff at a stream. Like, you know, go streaming in finding Neewa.

The flage is grabbing random turtles from it. Yeah, yeah. The old rushing bastard, you know. Where the rest could meet all the turtles. Yeah, so that would make sense, yeah. Yeah, not a great effort from Bogada, but very funny, of course. Kyle has an absolute disaster.

I mean, like you say he's asking dogs, he's asking passes by, if they see Alex Horn. His solution in the end is to get the Manakin of Alex. He doesn't find Alex, he gets the Manakin of Alex and puts it in the table, which I thought was a really interesting way of doing it, but he doesn't argue it and Greg just, Greg's quite harsh, I can see why. But it doesn't argue it and Greg just, Greg's quite harsh, I can see why. But it was very funny. Do you think Kyle's approach in this episode

was bolder than it would have been if he was actually a champion? Yeah, yeah, Potho, he was more, he was loose. And there were no expectations on him. Yes. But sometimes having no expectations can allow somebody to really, rather than go, I screwed this, I'm not gonna find Alex, I'll just bring the doll over. Yeah, it but sometimes having no expectations can allow somebody to really Rather than go screw this I'm not gonna find Alex

Bring the dollar over the yeah, it's great But it was I mean sometimes you just think great. I've done a thing. I've done a clever thing I've done something funny. It's inspired. This will be worth a few points just because I've done I've twisted a bit like whatever and I'll get some credit for that like the No, never gonna get five, but I would have thought maybe, maybe a point or two for invention, but yeah, absolutely. Greg was in a harsh mood for this task, which meant Sarah actually got three points despite taking 51 minutes and 20 seconds. Ludicrous, and I mean, I mean, when she started like bagging stuff into a pouch, you know, are you going, well that's how many rounds of applause is this going to be? Yeah.

And clapping for two minutes of time as well. It was, because there's on a place, you just lifted the place and walked through. I mean, there was a torture for, I'm I missing something here. You just lifted the plate and as long as you don't go, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, again. The dead. But it wasn't, it wasn't Edding Trixie about what did you do? No, I mean, I guess the, the, the, the egg timer was Trixie because when she had the clap for a minute,

it was two minutes, but there is a shot of her clearly wearing a watch. This is like me with, when I did the hands thing, and I've forgotten that I have a wedding ring on the hand And it was like the only wedding ring in the entire wall of no, yeah, yeah I mean you just get into the universe of it. You're in the video game. Yeah, no, he checked because they're watching the middle of the video game The Sarah at Sarah's been doing sitcoms for too long. She's obviously not been doing enough stand-ups So a time estimation is way off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. You'll be your bang on, 20, you know, 20. Yeah, so.

51 minutes, man. I mean, look, I did a task in the Champions that took me 97, but 51 minutes mainly clapping is out of this world, isn't it? If that is a song shake, then you know. Yeah, and it is. Yeah, but you can see, but the minute she was like, Oh, I better just pour this into a kind of a, another container. Yeah. I mean, none of this is going to work out well. None of this is... Because then you're going to be a waiter

who's really scooping one of the long beans out. Oh, here's your breakfast. And I'm just going to dig into my pouch here. And rather than spitting from the pouch. Yeah, you were away to spitting. So let's talk about Sophie, because Sophie gets the five points. This is a genius work around that when you all saw it, you must have gone, oh shit,

literally getting Alex to stand up and come back to the table where everything was set up. Yes. Yes. I bet they were overjoyed when someone did that, because I think it is so smart. What I would say is that she pushes all the chickpeas off the plate at one point and says it's deliberate displacement so she doesn't clap. But to me, that's just spelling. You can

spill something deliberately, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. No, no, no, that part was, you know, I've done it for another minute. Was that a conversation in the studio? Is that something? No, I don't remember the, I think I think it was just say, I mean, we're so starved by the 51 minutes the Sarah talk. You know, I mean, a lot of times we do have to film a lot of other stuff here today. Yeah, I'd go back to the house. It's going back to the house and having to film something. It just takes ages. Oh my god. Yeah. So it was five points for Sophie, but I really, I really clever work around very, very good indeed. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Although, I mean, look, I would have argued, and you know, it was, I mean, an argument that it did say deliver, it did say deliver, the, you know, it wasn't bringing together. It's served. Oh! Then she's gone. Yeah, serve.

Yeah, yeah, I think she's got it there. So it was five points for Sophie, four points for you, three points for Sarah, naught points for Kyle, and naught points to Morgana. That's the waiter. It's difficult to define, but I guess I don't want my waiter to throw all of my food into a bag. I'm a lousy like a lost vagrant. my way to throw all of my food into a bag. LAUGHTER I'm a lousy, like a lost vagrant. LAUGHTER She definitely clapped enough.

That's something. I did. This task went for so long that Alex actually said, Sir, you might want to move along. We've got quite a few tasks to film today. LAUGHTER Let's talk about task two. It has two parts to it. Give yourself a disadvantage for the next task, most severe disadvantage wins. You have two minutes to announce your disadvantage

and then part two. Put your hat on the taskmaster's head from the furthest distance, the person furthest from the taskmaster when their hat settles on the taskmaster's head wins. You have 20 minutes of your time starts now. Now, his, his my question, the disadvantage part was Greg scoring that based on the best disadvantage jet like conceptually or for the particular unknown task that was following. Yeah, that's an interesting one, because we were obviously picking in terms of like

how much can I gamble? I mean, how much, how many chips can you put into the table here? How much, how much, how should have actually been done blankly. Okay. Yes. So in other words, your handcuff, that's two hands gone. Your one hand, that's, it should be easy enough to,

you're just being told you're not a good person, repeatedly. That's, that's, no. But no, I think it all got mixed in to the specific task. Yeah. Because I do think a lot of the disadvantages were very good and they were, there was a substantial, yeah, properly, properly would have screwed you over for most tasks. So, Kyle, stuffing that sum as in his mouth with one hand in his pocket is awful because whether

the task involved, if the task had involved saying something, he would have been completely screwed. And physical task is got one hand in his pocket. Morgana basically screwed herself over for any task by hand-cuffing herself. And then as to you, having to remember to click in a jazzy rhythm and having one hand tied behind your back. And there's the face again, the jazzy face, and another one of you can't face this. You can't laugh. It's very difficult to click your fingers and not go into, hey, I can't even notice

that it's got, but it is, so yes, those are obviously quite substantial. So it's a risk-reward elementally, you're kind of going, okay, I'm going to have to put something on the table here, I'm going to have to hop you something. So it's interesting that we all went for a hand, or the Morgana Christ. And for the two hats, yeah. And what are you gonna do? The, yeah. Well, yeah, she completely, I mean,

let's talk briefly about Morgana having to get the task out of the post box and saying that she felt like a vet. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Because in her mind, people deliver calves without looking at the cow. Yeah, they back away because it was a cow's shy. Yeah, the cow doesn't want to make eye contact. Love it. What are you doing?

Oh, don't mind me. I'm just going to walk up to you. Extract this. I'm looking at something else. Anyway, I'm just a passerby. You have to be admiring this meadow. And so I did been bumped into you. Yeah, I would say that Kaelz and Morgana's,

you can absolutely see why they got, why they got five points, because they did completely, you know, the hamstring themselves for future stuff. And you as well, like definitely one hand behind the back and having to click. I'd say Sarah's, which is gagging herself and not saying anything, you're basically, you've still got your hands free if it's a physical

task, it's not going to matter. And Sophie's is very funny, the low self confidence thing and they obviously loved putting that together with all the signs saying Ramsey should have won and telling the comparison of her scores to the other champions. But it's not really, it's not really a disadvantage in the task, is it? No, I think Sophie can rise above that. I think Sophie can, none of that would have landed. I think with Sophie we should be fine. So three points, yeah, exactly.

Three points for that and three points for Sarah and three points for you, I think is maybe I'm fair to yours. You got three. Oh, that's harsh. That's a harsh. I mean, not already I've been screwed. It's the wonder I did as well as a harsh. I mean, not ready I've been screwed. It's the wonder I did as well as I did.

But the air, because I've been screwed on the way, I feel. And then, yeah, because I think I remember going, come on, I got one hand tied behind my back versus, you know, insult shield over here. Is that... I think, maybe the three was because I don't think Greg felt that you were doing

the jazzy clicks enough. Now, I did a lot of jazzy clicks. There is a good 20 minutes of which 15 is me standing there wondering how can I attach this like whatever. So but the video show is going to be the bits with where you're actually doing a thing. Right. So there's obviously I'm holding a star. I can't be mad at holding it. I've already lost one arm.

So I had to do the other thing. I was just delighted I got a line in that explained it. They, and that was fine. Grant, done. They, yeah. That's the only issue. And in fact, so Kyle brought something up, but wait a minute, and he said,

I said Greg, right, you went, no, applause break joke, fight. It's done. It's done. Josh on a Kyle. You got a one-nighter in. No, I'm a plausible joke. Fight. Josh. You got a one I didn't read about it. Like you got a red applause. That's that issue settled. There's no real. Yeah, that's close. Maddie, please close. Thank you very much.

The what really made me laugh as well as when Syfus trying to come up with a disadvantage. She suggested making herself wet and then immediately panicked. It just went no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was just for the for the for the filter, but the herself wet and then immediately panicked, it just went no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not insurmountable, but an irritating amount of, and it was irritating, it was, you know, them. Yeah, I think I would have, I mean, my instance thought, because this is obviously,

we're watching it the same pace as you're finding out about what the next task is. My instance thought was, have Alex on my back for the whole task, but that would be really tricky, because 20 minutes. 20 minutes. 20 minutes of Alex on my back for the whole task, but that would be really tricky because it's 20 minutes. 20 minutes. 20 minutes of Alex on your back

and try and I work out a way of getting the hat on because that's, it's a hard enough task because it is anyway. Yeah, it was, it was genuinely, that's not an easy surface I would place the hat. I mean, I had, I had all sort of string things lined up. The, yeah, and it's a very, because it's an uneven surface.

Also, you had to pick a hat. I'm only saying that yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, and I was very lucky that I picked a flat cap. The, just by sheer chance because there was a beanie hat and all sorts of different things or whatever, the re-tight that would have been extremely difficult. Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't have had to pull it up. Sure, if you got a little sit on the hat and then that would have been okay. The, but it was not an easy surface to get some to sit on the Well, I mean Greg was obviously in a very generous mood about what counted as settling on the task My head if we talk about Kyle's effort

Because he puts the statue on the floor One point and drag when he drags it and the head Drugs along causing a sort of mud. Yeah, just this streak in the mud. It's so demeaning. I just felt that that was just so horrible. It is like a dictator has been deposed. And now we shall use him to plow the fields. Of our agrarian free agrarian nation.

Yeah, and it was symbolic yeah, it was symbolic. It was something, it was, but the hat, when he finally got the hat, apparently on, it was just touched, it was the back of the hat was touching the head, do we feel like that, in spirit? I don't think that was in the spirit of the task. Maybe not, no, look,

look, I would, the simple thing we would have is like whatever, obviously Marka down for how much it was on. Yeah. I mean, because, look, whatever, obviously mark it down for how much it was on. Yeah. I mean, because, like, my mind was 95% on. I just actually, all I could do was remove a tiny bit of an impediment and then it could happen. In fact, I don't think it did. The string pulled the thing out and it fell out, but it was, it was to get it on. Yeah.

Okay, so it was a result look like a hat on. Yes. Except, except before a picture was just a a hat on slightly raised in one corner. But I think that you thought around it right? Because that is that is smart. You sort of bent the words. I had done about eight separate attempts to get a hat. I had various things where the hat was sitting on various cones and I think we'd go over it with all collapse. I could get the cone to come off, but I couldn't get the thing to sit whenever I would fall off. So really was the last second at all,

I'll just wedge it underneath and then pull that out. But no one has ever gone, if your child ever left the house with the hat with something slightly wedge up, you wouldn't go, would you ever put your hat on? And that's clearly on. You just take that from underneath your hat. The way to point it.

I'd say what you did was an easier version of, for example, putting the hat on loads of ice and setting up a hair dryer. That true, but that was quite brilliant. In its own way. Quite brilliant for the distance, for the distance that if it had worked, for the distance, so if he was able to get, it was very, very clever. What was the time honestly on the end? It was, uh, she only got two Ronackinson's away in the end, but, um, because it was to add to be her first, her first, um, uh, attempt. And it was just a lot of work. But I think she ended up, it's how I think she

got like over a kilometer away with the second attempt. If it had worked. She's obviously just ran, you know, you know, down to the river and just kept going. She's just keep going, she's just running to Q into the queue, she's going. She's just somewhere up the West London. She went to your house. She had a cup of tea.

That's my wife is there going, what, what, what, what, but I'll just work by the way. She's not just constantly here, just assessing, attempting to running a roll call for a jasmaster going oh no it's okay We're not like a safe house for people to come to yeah Yeah, no because when we in terms of celebrity hunter we went to the taskmaster house We didn't we didn't pop over to the Udara you could I would have happily put you in the basement

I would have been you know what I mean I'm gonna say my saying that? I was gonna say, for some of the, you know, that's why I ain't gonna be lovely. It would be very, very, very, very, very, very, yeah. Next time. I didn't do that. Next time you do celebrity hunting. And it would have been me doing it with an octo

and I was like, I don't know, I would have, I would have gone, oh my baby, I don't know how to do it. And they're like, oh, we're in the MCU. And it's amazing. Yeah, very, very strong attempt from Sophie. And you've got to be bowled on Tarsamus sometimes. If that stayed off, it would have been incredible. Genuinely very, very good.

Sarah had a bit of a tricky episode, as has Morgana. I can see what Sarah tried to do initially with the rigging with the rigging with the string to try and get a sort of pulley system so that she could have the string. That was the order. Yeah, but you had to kind of had it from two different angles. The pulley system was, it was a lot of a lot of thinking. I tried pulling it up over the face once. Yes. Yes.

Well, that was the thing you tried because you pulled it from the back and you're going, yeah, and you want to be far away. There are obvious ideas. You're walking into what's my action in the distance. But the yeah, from the only thing I can think I did anyone try from behind like getting the police system from behind. No, no, I think I think because it's set up as it's here, the fence work two feet behind it, this is the space, you know, and actually, I suppose you can go into the golf course, you can hop on the stage and then go to the golf course behind and then do it from there. But it is a tea directly behind the house. And so you would be there, on a string, just going,

I have to go. They must be used to that by now. They must be used to it. I think they go, what you obviously today, I'm trying to get out of that, far away, but I've got a sense of humor in my mouth, sorry. They're like, you know? I'm trying to get out of that far away, but I've got a sense of memorandum, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

They're like, you know what I'm saying? I mean, it's probably, it's probably, we didn't have golf clubs, it's probably, like, hey, it's, it's, it's probably a hazard. They say, look, if the ball hits a task master contestant, it's not, it's not a dropped ball, you're allowed to, you're to rely the ball.

If the ball is stolen by a task master contestant who has to steal something in the area, then you get a free ball back. There's probably a whole sum check. Yeah, it's golf. You know, they probably have some. You know. So, yeah, it doesn't work out for Sarah.

And Sarah and Morgana eventually resort to using the grabber, because they both seem so fed up by this point. I mean, Morgana, I'm gonna give credit to this. It should have been impossible for her to do this to us. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. So the fact that she managed it by using the big grabber, she was only one full rowing Atkinson away, but the fact she did it, I think, is huge. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I mean, because, look, it was stupid. She should have got five for the taking a definite,

because it was the biggest impediment she gave me. Yeah. And had not taught that through. And only two minutes. But the two achieved any result at all. Yeah. I mean, how many points did she get in the end? She got one point here.

Yeah, for the impediment, she got five. Five on the list. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because also it's that she said I want to be handcuffed and when it came to handcuffing herself she handcuffs her hands behind her back. But how behind her back? There's no reason. That's another thing you have to do. Like whenever that's also, I mean, I don't think there's I don't

there's a rule about it because I don't think the police say, okay, don't wait if we put them behind her back, they'll merely step through the handcuffs. Like, because all we arrest are acrobats. They're constantly drawing their legs through and tada, and like the air. But also, if you're going to break, I'd imagine the police prefer you to have your handcuffs in front, because then you can't regurgitate a pin, and then drop it into your hand, and then do the thing behind the back, and they go, ha, ha, ha. Right? I imagine that happens all the time. The people are behind the back like doing

this business, the click and click with a hair pin, which Morgana would have. Yeah, of course. So yeah, so she should know that they like hands where they can see them. Yeah, and so then it would have helped her with the big grab a certainly So it was fine It was a one point for Morgana sadly sadly two points of Sarah who also used the grabber But only a bit got double the distance of Morgana But you would expect that because all Sarah had was a gap a gag on and she wasn't allowed to say anything Sophie got the three points Despite a very bold technique four points for Kyle and it was the big five for your lural wedging method.

A genuinely, there was genuine delight as well. I'm not sure if I showed the, I jumped in the air and I was happier than I've ever been in my life. You know, when you nail a thing, even though at the most marginalised, I managed to take a toilet paper roll from underneath the hair cap, a genuine joy. The reason people who are when I was doing the original taskmaster, AI like puzzles, and be sort of a competitor, but not normally a competitor, the boss, I really wanted to win taskmaster. No, but no, but I'm not like, I wanted to win taskmaster.

I wanted to do another day of it. Because I'm very, I instantly, and day when realized, this is great, this is a lot of joy. And the only way to get more of this is to win it, and then you get one more day. And so I was having that one more day. And now you've done that, you've pretend to have done that again. You've potentially done that again.

Yeah, I know we're all saying this will happen like whatever, but I think the urge might have worn off my gender. I like I'll be 60. And you know, what? Who? Yes, yes I am using an old smartphone. Yes, what? What?

You want me to go home? You, you, you, you and Richard, man, it's gonna be the oldest taskmaster lineup of all time It'll be amazing once you add of the ages of that. Yeah, I mean Josh is not that you like that Josh will also be you know, I mean imagine an old Josh with a com what is what is that? What is in a old Josh with a com? Yeah, it's a thing. I can't wait. I can't wait. He might good. He might like I'll just be this He says during a circle around his face. I look exactly the same, right?

The bigger a smaller, one is dramatically bigger a smaller possibly, right? But the Josh will just, he'll hit 55. VAM. He'll hit, he'll hit, he'll hit, he'll just look with it. It'll just look a Josh with it to be like, yeah. LAUGHTER LAUGHTER LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER Put your hat on the taskmaster's head from the furthest distance. MUSIC The person furthest from the taskmaster when their hat settles on the taskmaster's head wins. You will have 20 minutes. Have you read the final line? You have, haven't you?

Your time starts now. Oh, do you mean the others read it much better? Just more information. Okay, all right, yeah, it's a bit, but you're going too far. Just going started. APPLAUSE Task three. Do something really stupid, most really stupid, when you win.

Yes. You must not hurt yourself or anyone else. You have 20 minutes now. I don't remember that. Was it a line? You're about the hurting yourself. Oh, I don't remember reading that. Yeah, well, I'll tell you why that was a line in that because there was a similar task to this

that they filmed for Taskmaster New Zealand. We've spoken to both Guy Montgomery and Erzel Calsen about this. It was never shown on Taskmaster New Zealand because Erzel Calsen, it might be dangerous, maybe the word that they used, but it's in you know, similar spirit.

Ursula set up a ramp, a big ramp and went down on a bike to jump the ramp and very seriously broke her collarbone. Oh, Jesus. And when Guy Montgomery did it, he put his dick in a toaster and looked down the camera and said, COVID isn't real. So that's why that wasn't... Which is why I think they very much had to add, you must not hurt yourself or anyone else

because people want this, you know, this is champion of champions. I feel like, certainly, I'd say Morgana comes closest to actually breaking that second part of the task. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my god It was magnetism to blow yeah, I mean because it was already quite stupid

And then her mouth as you enter oh it was like what so much paint into her mouth and then put the feathers on and Blowing the green paint out through the flat feathers. It was pure art, it looked incredible. It was art. Yeah. But there's still an element of like, oh my god. That's wrong. Yeah, it was massively stupid. Massively stupid things too. I mean, look, I mean, and in terms of scaleings, I forgot the points this again because we remember these things. But like, spinning around and throwing your car keys into into into a random direction. Yeah, it's incredibly stupid thing to do. Really stupid, clearly not thought through at all, which all stupid things shouldn't be thought through.

This is another task that I think rewards going with maybe your initial instinct. Initial instinct, absolutely initial instinct. I mean, look, look, for myself, it was genuinely, they'd have to rub a band on the desk. And I walked in, and then a bit that they would not have included I said is that part of the task? He said no, so I just threw it to Alex right and then we would have started yeah But then it's like

What and you're grabbing it so who knows what would it be who? Or what I honestly like throwing actor will come up here the rubber bands I think might be one of my favourite things you've ever done. Because it is stupid, because you've literally gone round, sorry, I just do this. And then the way you just follow that instinct, and the first rubber band was so tight, I thought it was going to go all the way through your head. I thought it was just going to slice the top of your head off. It's a very dramatic effect, but honestly, I feel no lasting damage to it.

The point where my head was purple, the top of my head was purple, it's like a perfect crown of purple. And then the rest of me is normal, normal me color. They was an effect. I mean, it crinkles up in a dramatic way as well. A boy had crinkles up with a dramatic thing. So I just, I couldn't believe that, because when you started doing it,

I was like, oh, this will be a bit of the beginning, and then he's gonna come up with his actual idea, and he's gonna go outside and do something. And the fact you just followed it through so it's natural conclusion was just perfect. It's so fun, oh. 20 minutes I spent putting various, I mean, the only, I would go,

get me more rubber bands, and they brought in like a pile of rubber bands and they brought in like a High-elive rubber band. They're going how many do you actually think I'm gonna put around you because I told the key wasn't Just putting rubber bands around your face any fool Yeah, the key was having the muscular control to fire them. That was that was distance as well There's one way you're like carrying on with one pops off and you don't even see where it goes It shoots right off across the room. Absolutely. I mean it's a beautiful thing. So the danger I would have created something beautiful rather than just comes to stupid. But it was like, don't worry about that. It was very

terrible. And then I noticed the quiz. I mean had I had more time because I already spent like 17 minutes before I come with the idea of like I could hook something on and I could but I could have written who's the face behind the earluck and I'm scared and I could have me. I think there was a couple of takes that we know as in within the time like whatever I did never quite went putting as much as there may be the better way to hold the to do it like whatever I feel. I'm still to this day wondering how do we turn that into a format. Well, I feel like the makers of the Mars singer might have something to say about it.

It seems like a budget version of the Mars singer is what it is. Well, I'm not known. Look, there's no music rights we were required here. It's just the face. It's all it is. But the only thing is, it has to be, you have to be bold.

I'm not sure if her student is like a private investment here can quite contour their head and the surface area, you'll get messed up like whatever. So every week the celebrity will be bold. Well, so basically every week, the quiz now turns into, is it Dara, Greg Wallace or Ross Kemp? Yeah, yeah, that is it. And then the Christmas edition has Picard, the air because it's still... Celebrity edition is Picard the air because it's still Celebrity edition is Picard yeah, I'm like whoa, how's it getting here?

But he'll go we thought it's gonna be I am in a huge fan of the show It's it began I Contacted the producers myself Is that his voice? That'll take what you've already said here it is About all the best impressions. I don't. I don't actually experience acting. What is all about transformation?

And this is the biggest problem transformation. Also, what you hide and what you reveal. In the show as well, he should only be referred to as Picard. Can I actually have it? And no one checks what is actually linked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Picard. Not even John Lupigard. No one checked what is actually Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Roskeps coming in. It was four points and it was supremely stupid, but I don't think anything was going to beat Morgana's.

Nothing could beat Morgana. It was majestically wrong. It was like, no, don't do that. Yeah, that was on the edge of, on the edge of, it's too busy. Whereas, Kyle was just, he was wondering. What was Kyle, so he was trying to do some magic, but he was trying to get a magic trick correct. So I don't know what...

Yeah, what do you mean wrong? I feed Jonathan and then... Aha! Now you're trapped within the circle, because you're holding a thing and you're kind of scared. That would have been sort of... Smart, I don't impress him, he's smart. It would have been funny, but it does not him doing something stupid, that's him making

Alex look stupid. Yeah, and which is not the task. Not the task, whatever, and then you'd be like, I don't want you to do them. Oh, stupid, and the, but, but the fact that he could just put your hands through, there was a debate in the studio over whether it was whether it doubled around to being good stupid. Well I think there's no way you can argue that he was stupid in this task but the fact it was not an intentional intentional stupidity I think is what made Greg give him the one point because

he didn't try and do something stupid he just just was stupid. Yeah, yeah, I agree with it being marked down, I'm not going to do it badly. But there is also a lot of, like, we're back into a kind of a entomage of debate of what we mean by stupid, to have done something incorrectly. You know, if you were to look through the various tasks people did like we'll ever go,

well, I was stupid because he just got that wrong. You know, it's tough to create getting it wrong. Just things, you know, and just doing it. Yeah, yeah. Can stupidity ever truly be deliberate? It's the discussion, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, obviously you could have just gone and tried to do a crossword and really

badly, just filled in the letters. I mean, that's stupid, but is it, you know, the kind of theatrical stupid of pouring paint into your mouth? They are so dope. No, I think it has to be dramatically. What are you doing? Or I suppose with me, the amateurs of like,

this is at some level, I suppose, beneath my persona, it is like the thing you would see me do normally. I would not expect you to shoot in or to come to a theater to see me on tour and meet me going I would now do this twang. But yours had an animal garriness but I'm thinking of yours being like almost artistic stupidity of I can't believe he's committing so much of this. I would come and see you do that for an hour as a one off at the fringe. It's sort of like the old man dressed as a guerrilla on a rocking chair thing of like an exercise and stupidity pushed to the end to the degree.

I would come to a free fringe venue and watch you, Dara Brun, put rubber bands on your head for a full hour, definitely. Oh, I'm not doing the free fringe. You're paying $12.50. Well, I was going to put 20 quid in the bucket, but if you want, if you want, it's quite frantic. Oh, I'm not going to find that. And then the venue cost probably quite lower as well.

I'm not sure if I could trust that everyone would do that, though. You know, if it was just an audience of comedians and I do an hour of straining my head, of fire, of Derek, his rubber bands, just to my peers, just to, you know, and then like whatever the visiting American comic is that year, you know, like, you can go, what? And then it's a beautiful take. But think, you could, I think that'd be great, because you could hang things in the venue like, like, pans and things around the venue. And if one

pings off your head and hit a pan, imagine the uproar in the audience. Oh my God, it'd be incredible. People would lose their mind, yeah. And then at the end, we do the paper thing and it flips up and you'll go, Picard! How did he do it? How did he get him for the warm nice? It's like a Kyle Magic trick. It would be amazing.

Remind me what was, you'll have to remind me of this way. Sophie's one, Sophie's one. So Sophie decided to interpret stupidity by suggesting that disrespecting Greg is the stupidest thing you can do on Taskmaster, which I think is an interesting way of doing it, but the way she does that is get the cardboard cut out and she puts mustard, I mean, mustard mainly on his sort of penis area and then sort of sprays ketchup all over him and,

like, says rude things about him basically, and that she's, she's saying tastes like the truth, and it's like she's revealing all of this artificus behind Taskmaster that they know and actually respect him, which I understand why that's, why that's stupid, but Greg didn't seem to be that annoyed by it. No, and see, I think the Greg is a, oh, put this very domineering kind of a school masterish kind of a thing, is a thing he switches on and off. So it's not like a given that, oh no, Greg's gonna be furious from the CCs. Yeah, yeah. So I think it's a, it's a, it's a, it cannot work.

I don't think this is it. I mean, I think we do a staining like Rod, for example, did the photo show, the photographs over and over and over and over again, it's great. But even then, you know, Greg's in on the joke to say, you know, kind of, because we're comics, we have no human feeding. So therefore we're not actually hurt by anything.

The, we hurt just, you know, ragdolls essentially. I think you have to go pretty far to, to, to, Ryle Greg up in that way. So I can't remember who did it. People are gonna absolutely have my guts for guts for not remembering. Someone used the cardboard cut out of Greg

and put like dog, dog mess on it. And I can't remember who did it, but that was one where I was like, that was brilliant. That's okay. They've taken that so far. And like Joe Brand did a wrap about Greg once that seemed to genuinely upset him.

So I think you can do that. I think you can upset him. But I think just the notion of what we don't say anything to grace Yes, I think yeah, it's a yeah, it's like I mean the yeah, but I but I've heard you so I mean She says there was some moment with the scratchy scratchy wear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. Yeah But very very strong strong all around I think Sarah's maybe deserved more because I think yeah in terms of It's just absolute right. I'm gonna do this deserved more because I think in terms of it's just absolute, right, I'm going to do this, put a bucket on your head and throw your keys away.

She's an Aaron 20 minutes. It may be love so much as well. Really may be love, but she finally found the keys after an hour and 20. It is like the most baseline first thought I need this. I'm going to make it so I don't have this and I don't know where it is. Just really maybe Chuckle. I suppose you want the illegal guard, oh God I would not do that because I just, you know, an inherent sensibility. I would be ridiculous, but I'm not going to knock myself out of my house.

You know, because after reading the doorbell and my wife is there going, I'm trying to do some work from home today. What is it now? Oh, it's quite fantastic. Well, if you throw you threw your keys away, they'd probably land in your back garden. Yeah, they'd true or in my golf club. So 100 keys again, Dara, that's it. 100 keys again. It was one point for Kyle, two points for Sarah, three points for Sophie, four points for Yudara, and of course, five points for the paint drink in Morgana. APPLAUSE Wow, you ridiculous man.

LAUGHTER When you put the three bands on it, dug in so big, it looked like you had a screw top head. LAUGHTER Yeah, it did change the colour of mine. Yeah, am I cranium? I was not expecting. You know, if I was a betting man, I would have put a lot of money

on what the face was going to be behind that piece of paper. LAUGHTER So, just with a bucket. Well, I thought it was saved by the house and car keys. I was not expecting that. How long were we there, Aron? Well, we'd already had 51 minutes down the bound, down clapping.

And another hour and 20 looked into the keys. Oh, 20 minutes. Oh, god. Both. Very stupid. Let's talk about the live task. It didn't last long this live task. No, I didn't say the taskmaster's favourite thing. Alex will say a category. One at a time, you'll shout a thing that falls into that category

within two seconds of the previous person. If you pause, repeat, make a mistake, or say the taskmaster's favorite thing, you're eliminated. Last person standing wins. So yeah, quite a quick one. It was, it was actually, and it was also the longer record this one. So I think by that stage we were all a bit like, oh, flat out. Because, you know, for whatever reasons, technically this is longer than a normal episode or because you're only one in a day, as opposed to in the day, these things are flakes. So this was about three hours in. Wow, I think we were all a bit like, I mean, ankle.

It was definitely for me the point where I was in New Zealand two days ago. Yeah, I'd be crashed in like whatever it's got. So yeah, which is irritating, pretty because I love a game of categories. Yeah. And so categories with random jeopardy is, I think, a lovely idea. It's a great idea. Yeah, it's very good because there's a very little way you can,

in that he's the moment you're going to go, no, what's been said? The without going, what is Greg? Greg's in the paradigm. Or I would have really overthought it because you know I I'm makes with Greg and I would have thought oh I know some stuff about him yeah but I would have never guessed that his favorite animals are rhino I didn't I didn't know that I know but look does anyone really have a favorite

animal I mean is that always just the thing you say when somebody gives you a question there the favorite body part for example you know who did mit to that who I mean who did it's a bit of a party quietly quietly all of our favorite part but that's the thing you reveal at a moment in a relationship like an angle with actually they don't go or a national television yeah good the still of people who aren't aware of it, aware it is, obviously no one passed the age of people having children were very much aware of.

So that was probably greeted with a rice smile by a number of mothers. Yeah, that particular one. So yeah, as it was mine, Greg, is it until my children came along? So it was, so yeah, it was, it was an interesting one to say. It's a tricky eyes or something like a normal human being. I mean, I would have, I would have panicked, so I think I would have been out early because these things come around so much quicker than you think. It's like if you're playing, I've been playing a lot of the version of that game where you pick an actor and

you each, you have to say a film they've been in. So you try and do their full CV and you go round and so you have a list of films in your head. Yeah, if someone picks, if someone picks one that you're about to pick, suddenly you're like completely different. You can't remember anything. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you remember six in a row and that you just trot, trot, trot, trot, you remember anything? Yeah, it's not, no, no, no. It's not that you remember six in a row and that you just trot, trot, trot, trot, go and see them like whatever it's got.

I like them, look, I ain't got twice for that, I think, I mean, I, one point is going, oh, parts of the body, this will be easy, I'll go sternum, and then I'll go clavicle, and then I'll just go through individual meditarsal, I'll just go to Lowe's, Dorky Obrian here, with Lowe's of Latin things. I will just wear people down.

And instead of that, I'm cold. I'm like anything. Because it comes around it. And at that point, there's only three of you. So it's coming around and around and around. And also, you're going, hang on, how is this going? Because this is the last round. Who's in the running? Because they don't give you any update of scores. No. So you're kind of going, right, you know, and like the tricky thing about one episode, isn't it? It's one episode. It was, it ended up being

very close because in this live task, Kyle was at first, of course, then Morgana was out, then you were out, then Sarah was out, and Sophie was the last person standing. Yeah. Which means that you got 22 points for the win. But so if you had 21 points, it's very close. I was aware that I just had to survive a bit and I would have won the episode. And I'm going to go, please remember, I'm going to ask because the awkward thing as well is that there's no, they haven't filmed any kind of, what's called, a gig in tie breaker tasks. Right, yeah.

And they would have had to do something, I'm sure they had something in the back pocket like whatever, but it's not like during this series as you know, you drew a few extra ones, which are short little ones, that you can then they can drop in as tiebreakers. If an episode or the whole series, I suppose, goes to a tiebreaker, you can have a different winner, whatever it's got. They didn't have that one of them. They did do other tasks, some of which I think you'll see in other series, and others not, but the, so we did a couple

of extra tasks, and then found that there was one that only I did as well, sorry, which I said, what about the blue, they went, no, none of us did that, that's a good idea. Why was it, you know, and there's, oh yeah, we tried it, we're going to use something else, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, use something else, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was a, but there was a, but there was nothing else. So I was aware that I maybe, I was in my head kind of, wasn't talking at all, but I thought, I think because of the four and the five in the last couple of rounds, I'm probably so,

and Sophie's there, or there, and I've got to just, I just got to survive. So what, so when Kyle went, you're gonna lovely, lovely, thank you, that might be enough, to, to have got rid of the line here, because I was really sugar levels were just... ...from the same thing. Because in our champion of champions, it all came down to that live task. Whoever won the live task, because it was five points for the winner and nine points for anyone else. Whoever won the live task was one the opposite.

So it rendered the entire rest of the episode completely pointless. Pointless. So it was a snitch essentially. Yeah, yeah. It was the golden snitch, exactly. Well, yeah, yeah. Herring got the snitch. Oh, for God's sake.

So yeah, a solid victory for you, Dara. And I'm sure you're excited. Three years. And they have actually asked me, when would you like us to deliver the massive body? That's interesting. Are you gonna take delivery of the body?

You're gonna have it in the house? I'm gonna take delivery of the body. The office I'm in in the moment is probably, but it's already his head with a wig on it is in my front room. So it's always there. It was a hat stand for a while and now it's gonna wig on it and we put hats on top top of the wig and so that'd be fine. That's kind of

that. That's as much taskmaster joky joky as I wanted in the house. I don't need it because it's on a plinth as well. Yeah. You know, well what I'd say, Dara, is when Josh won the body, it went to the off the curb offices who represent Josh. Of course, of course, represent you. Then I got a panic message from him saying, they're clearing out the office, and I think this is going to be thrown away. Just does someone from Avalon want to come and get it.

I'd say, if you try and then palm off the body back to your agent, they are going to have a shit for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were really nice, clean, sleek office. Yeah. They do not need an age for talk. Spray-painted mannequin just standing in the corner of a comedian that they do not represent. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

I was not even, no, no, because by the way, it's not actually, it represents a comedian more than they do even. And it just not represent Greg and any actor and then on time to go away, like, it's just a mannequin body spray painted. Yeah. No, it can it can happily sit you know I like I didn't even get it. Oh you put the head on top of the thing. I think it's the ender is oh yeah. But I wasn't when I came off going there we go. I wasn't expecting to go so where would you like us to drop it? We should talk about the announcement of series 17, which came after this episode. Of course,

if you are listening to this, you should have seen the announcement otherwise this is a spoiler but take this is your announcement. John McNally, Nick Muhammad, Steve Pemberton, John Robbins and Sophie Willen. Now you're hearing that Dara, who do you think might be in with the best chance of doing well slash winning that series? And obviously we don't really know going in but what you reckon of what you know of these people. John Robbins. Yeah. Or maybe, or a selfie, William. Yeah, I don't know a selfie that much at all.

I don't know, I know the sitcom. She, you know, created a beautiful sitcom. Yeah. But then, like, bam, wah, wah, it's Pemerton. Pemerton, yeah, it's definitely. We're going to win it as nine different characters. Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton, Pemerton into a pond. You know, Hamilton, the A.I. It's a very strong lineup.

There's, and you're right, there's a lot of, I mean, with Nick, Steve, and Sophie, that's a lot of very inventive, creative comedy actors who know how to... I know exactly how you add, John's gonna be John, which is great. John's gonna be what? Yeah, yeah going to be John, which is great. John's is going to be... Oh, be like, hey, what?

But, uh, where's Nick? Oh, no, I'm now dropping all of my initial thing and going to Nick, um, because Nick, I think we'll quietly go and do it. Because Nick calls, yeah, because Nick does those shows like where he's trapped in a box and he escapes and Nick. Yeah, yeah. Nick and master at skills. I'm, yeah, but he's Nick and Steve now. I've gone on a journey, um, and I think it's going to be Nick. Yeah, yeah. Nick and Master at Skills. I'm, yeah, but he's Nick and Steve now.

I've gone on a journey and I think it's going to be Nick. There you go. Thank you so much for coming back on the Taskmaster Podcast, Dara. It was an honor to pleasure. It was a pleasure to do this. And this was the extra bonus that I get to do this again. And then when you do some sort of retro rewatch

of series 14 or something else go call me you know Yeah, you'll be cool. Don't you worry about that We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five points in the style of the taskmaster We hope we have you've had a good time, but feel free to give it an honest point score. I've had a delight time I'm gonna give it a four because things can always be more amazing. Yes Well there we are what a lovely chat with Dara. That was the end. I'll be honest. That was the end of the recording. We don't know what happened. I think there was some sort of internet fritz out. Everything shut down.

We just managed to get Dara's writing for the episode, which was a four. We didn't hear his justification. But something went wrong on Dara's end. Some champion of champions just simply aren't up to the job. And also in the intro, you will notice that I called him Dara O'Dara O'Brien. That's because I had champion of champions in my mind rhythmically, and I just did it to his name as well. And let me tell you, it was a complete accident, but we've kept it in because I thought it was funny. Thank you so much to Dara for coming on the Taskmaster podcast. We will for coming on the Tasmaster podcast.

We'll be back soon with more Tasmaster podcast. Thanks again to Dara, thanks again to you for listening. Thanks again, of course, always to the wonderful Tasmaster team. Alex and Greg, all of that gang. They make a wonderful show, even though, and I can't stress this enough, Tasmaster Champion of Champions does not count. I've been a gambleamble, bye bye!