Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 71. Chloe Petts - S6 Ep.4

Episode Date: March 10, 2022

On this week's podcast Ed is joined by Comedian Chloe Petts to discuss all the ins and out of series 6, episode 4! They discuss manly things you can do in a box, what they think is 'fun' and how their Mums might fare on Taskmaster. As well as this Chloe explain why Liza Tarbuck is her all time favourite Taskmaster contestant. Follow Chloe on Instagram & Twitter @ChloePetts For info on Ed's tour visit edgamble.co.ukWatch all of Taskmaster on All 4www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster Visit the Taskmaster Store for all your TM goodies!taskmasterstore.com Visit the Taskmaster YouTube Channelyoutube.com/taskmaster Get in touch with Ed and future guests:[e-mail] Taskmaster the Podcast is Produced by Daisy Knight for AvalonTelevision Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi, it's Terry O'Reilly, host of Under the Influence. Recently, we created an episode on cannabis marketing. With cannabis legalization, it's a brand new challenging marketing category. And I want to let you know we've produced a special bonus podcast episode where I talk to an actual cannabis producer. I wanted to know how a producer becomes licensed, how a cannabis company competes with big corporations, how a cannabis company markets its products in such a highly regulated

category, and what the term dignified consumption actually means. I think you'll find the answers interesting and surprising. Hear it now on Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly. This bonus episode is brought to you by the Ontario Cannabis Store and ACAS Creative. Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble here. Hello, the host of the Taskmaster podcast. We are going to be chatting about a specific episode of Taskmaster, going through it forensically like detectives picking out our favorite bits scoring the tasks where we think they should have been scored differently and mainly just talking about how much we love the brilliant show that is Taskmaster. Today we'll be chatting about series six episode

four and my special guest this week is the wonderful Chloe Petz. Chloe Petz is a brilliant comedian if you do not know the work of Chloe P pets or you've not seen chloe pets she's relatively new i suppose uh i urge you to seek her out she's on tour uh starting in may i think she's also doing the edinburgh fringe check her out on social media chloe pets on twitter and instagram for more details on that uh she's also my support act i can vouch for her i've seen her 22 times in the last what feels like five days that's how many gigs i've done um so do go and see her check her out and if you've seen me on tour you will have seen chloe and you'll see her supporting me on upcoming tour shows as well uh because i'm doing my tour electric all over the uk ed gamble.co.uk for tickets right that's the plugs out the way

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But for now, this is Taskmaster Series 6, Episode 4, as discussed by the brilliant Chloe Petz. Welcome, Chloe Petz, to the Taskmaster podcast. Hello, mate. How are you? Very well, thank you. I know that you're a fan of taskmaster you wouldn't be on the podcast otherwise we do chat about taskmaster a lot a lot of big tm chats in the car um tell me look you've obviously you've obviously not been a contestant on taskmaster yet uh i hope

it's in your future of course i also want to say i can't do anything about that some guests come on here they think they can sweet talk gamble and he can get them onto the show absolutely not but what are your favorite taskmaster moments well i think we've discovered throughout the duration of your tour thus far that my favorite genre of person and comedy is a slightly mad woman um so anyone who's like slightly odd uh and a woman i'm into it so lou sanders has always been my favorite and i think when she in that task where she needlessly got in the bin and then yeah shuffled shuffled around in the bin totally sneaking up on alex in the railway bridge where if anything she made herself more conspicuous by getting in a bin and her

legs sticking out the bottom that one but that that is lou sanders all over isn't it of like how can i overthink this to make my life far more complicated than it needs to be totally yeah and that's why she's the perfect taskmaster contestant because you know you put a slightly mad brain in in the pressure cooker of of these these tasks and they will do weird stuff um but i think my all-time favorite uh contestant is from this series it's it's lisa tarbuck yeah now i can vouch i can vouch for this in case anyone thinks chloe is just sort of back engineering this reverse engineering this because this is the episode that she's on and that's not before we invited chloe on the podcast chloe told me that

her favorite contestant is lisa tarbuck tell me more won't stop banging on about old lisa um i just think she's so effortlessly funny in a way of just like her whole existence is just like she's so aware of her own brand that everything she delivers is just so perfectly on point and i do think re-watching this it is like if you put your mum on Taskmaster, she comes out in the denim skirt and the nice scarf and the comfortable shoe. And she's just very practical about it, isn't she? And I think the two best moments of hers are when she gets annoyed at the men and hops on the spot and just does the task while they're just sort of not listening to her and discussing amongst themselves.

And then on the first episode of this series where she just goes for a lovely walk. Yeah, that's very strong, cool mum energy, the lovely walk. But also I think she's too much of a badass to be like full mum energy. Unless, look, talking about my mum, lovely too much of a badass to be like full mom energy unless look talking about my mom lovely lady not a badass i would say uh she wouldn't be as sort of like dismissive as elisa tarbuck is sometimes if lisa doesn't care she's not doing it right my mom would probably give it her best bloody shot uh does that mean that uh jill pets is a badass

you know jill pets is a badass you know that you don't you're only asking that question because you're being the listener because you know that jill pets is a badass um yeah mother of a stand-up comedian and car salesman that's what jill pace is um that's her twitter bio everybody but no jill pets would i I think she'd give it a bloody good go, but there'd also sort of be a bit of a, she wouldn't really know what was going on. And I think that that could be, it would seem like even if the task

wasn't like spin round in a circle 10 times and then do the task, every task would seem like she'd spun round in a circle 10 times. She'd just be very sort of confused, but she'd give it her everything. So that would be a nightmare, wouldn't it? If the task was then spin round 10 times. She'd just be very sort of confused, but she did it everything. So that would be a nightmare, wouldn't it? If the task was then spin round 10 times,

because that'd be like 20 times. But what I always think on the spinny tasks is, why don't they go, if you have to spin round 10 times, why don't you do five one way, five the other? Because I find that if I reverse it, it undoes the spin. Well, Chloe, that's not true at all. You know that's not, that is not scientific at all, that if you spin round in the other direction, it undoes the spin well chloe that's not true at all you know that's not that is not scientific at all that if you spin around in the other direction it undoes it yeah it's not it's not

true that's like saying if you get car sickness you can just stop the car reverse back to where you came from and you won't feel ill anymore yes yes as we as we've done many times on the tour whilst you've been asleep what do you we're doing during youraps. You wake up and we haven't got anywhere. It's because we've gone forward. I've got a bit sick and Paul's reversed us backwards. All right, fair. All right, I didn't know that had been happening, but now I hear about that, then fine.

So, Aurore, do you have any other sort of favourite Taskmaster contestants or favourite Taskmaster moments from across the years? It doesn't just have to be Series 6. Yeah, come on. It's Bob Mort have to be series six. Yeah. Come on. It's Bob Mortimer. Obviously it's Bob Mortimer. Bob Mortimer in anything is obviously astoundingly perfect.

But the thing that we said the other day is, do you remember the sausage presentation unit? Yeah, I love the sausage presentation unit. What a mind. And then he also just reused that for champion of champions with a bit of broccoli on it instead of a sausage i think so it might be the other way around but yeah just outstanding stuff i mean i think yeah good good choices i think my favorite all-time moment is of all taskmaster maybe even the whole of television

and i've i've watched it all is um rosalind's a nightmare yeah when i watched it for the first time i cried with laughter because again i think it's a genre of comedy that i love so much which is just being like really unnecessarily out of order to a nice person like there was that that woman rosalind was an an absolute delight and there was no need for them to call her an effing nightmare, but sure as hell they did. You know? Let's get on now, Chloe, to this episode, series six, episode four.

It's called BMXing. It was broadcast in May 2018. It's the prize task here we go uh the prize task is the most thought-provoking thing i'm gonna say it up top i think they all did an absolutely awful job here really appalling really terrible and you know what i think this is this is what's so great about this show is that sometimes it is just absolutely dog shit and you're thinking what the what the hell am i watching there's no redeeming moment in the whole of this task but it's richer it's all the richer for it and um yeah yeah i think i completely agree sometimes yeah especially

when look i don't think it explicitly mentions that these are all bad uh bad choices but i don't think any of these provoked much thought on me at all uh do you have any idea of what you might have brought in if you were told to bring in the most thought provoking thing well this is the thing i was saying to you again before as well that because you're essentially my greg davies because you did support for him and now I'm doing support for you. So I wondered if I could put myself on the line and just sort of play along and have you rank me if you will. Happy to.

But please bear in mind I did this, I forgot that I said I would do this so I've just did it five minutes before the podcast. So I didn't think it was going to be quite bad but I think I'd bring along it's going to be quite bad. But I think I'd bring along the Myers-Briggs personality test. Oh, interesting.

And how would that be presented? Is it in a little book or on a sheet? I've never really done one before. I think I'd frame it on a sheet. I think I'd print it out on nice paper and frame it. Have you ever done one of those before? Yeah, big time. Yeah. I'm classic entertainer. Classic entertainer. Is that one of the categories? You'd be entertainer too. You're the gregarious personality that's an entertainer.

Yeah, totally. But I just think it's one of those good things where everyone likes to be asked a question about themselves and then everyone discusses what they're like on a on a sort of deep psychological level everyone loves that so i think it's very thought-provoking um i think if you sold that right absolutely then yeah greg would enjoy that personally for me better than a fucking picture of ass in me... I mean, it's better than a fucking picture of Asim. Do you know what I mean? It's better than that.

It is better than that, definitely. I mean, let's talk about... I think it's somewhere in between Asim's picture and the files belonging to Nikola Tesla. Let's talk about... Asim has done this before, where he's just brought in a photo from his holiday. He's gone through his phone and he's just found some pictures that he can sort of desperately attach to some of the prize tasks. So this is a painting of an Iranian prince that was in a restaurant in Los Angeles that actually he didn't even take.

His friend took it and sent it to him. It does look like him. Well, no, I just think that all of these prizes say so much about the person that's bought them because you can see the thinking of why he's bought that and he just hasn't like explored it properly where he's clearly going for a thing of like wow how could there be someone throughout history who looks like me like is this a time travel thing is this like a generational mirroring thing right you know it's very post-modern it's very interesting but all he said is like oh look it looks a bit like me and i just don't think he's presented it that well

now chloe all of that you just said there you use the phrase generational mirroring i don't think i don't think asim was going to say that at any point i don't think that's what he was going for i think he found a picture that looked like him and he brought it in i think he would have tried to put that with every task if he could i don't think he's gone oh wow it's like time travel generational mirroring it's it's not that he couldn't get that out of his head it's that it wasn't in there to start with so what so what's he thinking then nothing just i think he's thinking that the thought that it would provoke is wow that looks like asim that's all that's all that's all he's come up with there and look it does right but it's not really a thought it's it's

more of just you know it's there isn't it it's it's yeah it's right in front of you oh yeah it goes no deeper than that but i do like the picture but you know earlier on in the series he brought brought in a picture of him stood next to a painting of hercules that looked a bit like him and we were supposed to enjoy that. You know, he's just not, all he's done is scroll through his phone. I love him to bits, but absolutely awful. Two points went to Lisa, who I think, so she brought in these files that belong to Nikola Tesla, but that wasn't really the prize, was it?

The prize was sort of the concept of Nikola Tesla. Yeah, and you know, to be be honest maybe she's before her time because someone might have done one of those um what's that not an nft on her an nft of Nikola Tesla maybe that's what she was getting at can I I've just spotted that you love Lisa tarbuck so much you will defend her for everything, including this dreadful prize stars. NFT? We don't know what Nikola Tesla's middle name is. That could be his initials. She's a prophet, okay?

No, I think, again, it really demonstrates exactly who she is as a person, which is that she's just incredibly earnestly answered this thing of, what's the thing that I find most interesting at the moment? And that is the concept of Nikola Tesla. She wants to bring us along on the on the ride if you'll pardon the pun um and i don't think you will i won't disgraceful um yeah i i think okay i think you're probably right it is she's genuinely tried to provoke thought um but i think the sillier things tend to go down better i don't think g't think Greg wants to feel like he's being educated necessarily. So in a way, I think Alice is possibly deserved more.

Alice brought in Don't Peel My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining by Judge Judy, which, you know, there are many thoughts that provokes, and I'd imagine many thoughts within those pages that it would provoke, but not the thoughts that Judge Judy wanted to provoke. She wanted to sort of elucidate injustices in the American judiciary system. Yeah. And instead she just evoked laughter and mocking.

Yeah. I mean, laughter and mocking. And then the main thought he produced in me was never put pee in your book title. I feel like that's... I'm never going to pick that up off the shelf. Well, you pick it up off the shelf, go, oh, look at at this and then put it back down again yeah yeah yeah but she's basically like named her book like it's a taskmaster episode yeah that would be a great task actually

produce weather around alex that's a really good one uh yeah and then everyone would start pissing on him wouldn't they no probably not actually yeah again i think it's it says a lot about alice that she's gone i think she's gone for the similar thing as lisa where asim's tried to provoke one thought they've tried to provoke multiple thoughts that's how they've interpreted the task judge judy very much the nik Nikola Tesla of her day anyway. So quite similar to, quite similar to Tarbucks. We've always said it on those big car journeys, haven't we? We always say it,

mate. And finally we get to say it in a recorded medium. This is when we get up to the better stuff, I think, certainly with Tim's. I think Tim, Tim's might've been my favourite, was the disturbing cover of a vinyl album by Billy Cotton and Kathy

Rain. And it's quite haunting, isn't it? And I think Tim was right that it produces questions and questions do then lead to thoughts, I think. So, you know, there's debate going as to what happened there. It covers the main questions, doesn't it? You look at it and you think, who, what, where, how, why? you look at it and you think who what where how why those are the main questions why being the opposite of one why why and how i think am i too what's happened here i mean where it's america isn't it surely but you had to think about it i didn't look this is provoked thought it's prov. It's provoked questions. I am going to look up. Where do we think they're from?

Georgia. Oh, no. I've got bad news. England. What? They're English, mate. It all makes sense now. I can't believe how many thoughts I've just had.

Right. Sad to say as well uh william edward cotton slash billy cotton uh died in 1969 but he did die in the banter year so exactly and oh my god he died in 1969 the banter year guess how old he was when he died chloe stop it 69 he was 69 when he died he was 69 squaring oh my i can't believe it look i mean what a guy clearly uh produced a lot of uh incredible music in his time uh but he died in 1969 when he was 69 nice um well done well done bill Billy Cotton so again look at all that look at all those

thoughts we've had so many thoughts like that's my personal winner of the task but a fidget spinner Russell why do you sound

so disapproving what's your thoughts on this to be honest I would have put that in second and Tim Vines in first because yeah i like the story the story is very yeah it's a personal taste thing and like i do think for me

it it says it asks a lot of it raises a lot of questions about society you know you've got the the sort of ancient right of buddhism you know know and and that's they're wearing the traditional attire it's lasted the test of time with the very modern fidget spinner you see yeah yeah i hope people don't what i thought was like well shouldn't a buddhist monk just be allowed to play with the fidget spinner without anyone thinking that was weird you know just just because they're sort of religious leaders it doesn't mean they can't play with fun things you know if i saw an if i saw an imam with a yo-yo i'm not gonna i'm not gonna stare at him you know let him get on with it i think i would have a look because i look at anyone with a yo-yo okay fair point it's interesting though because fidget spinners are there to like

help you concentrate so maybe he sees it as like some kind of like religious it's like though because fidget spinners are there to like help you concentrate so maybe he sees it as like some kind of like religious it's like the buddhist equivalent of the virgin mary or something i don't know yeah there's something to like a to focus on it's like a sort of religious icon you can yeah and there's a i guess a lot of uh interesting uh religious parallels about the fidget spinner about maintaining something for no purpose other than just to keep it going. Oh, that's lovely.

Maybe it did deserve the five points. It did get them. Tim Vine got four points. Alice Levine got three points. Two points for Lisa Tarbuck and a well-deserved one point for Asim Chowdhury. Just quickly, what would you give me for my Myers-Briggs personality?

Oh, yes. Oh, so sorry. If you were a sixth contestant in this lineup. Yeah, yeah. I think if you sold it properly, I'd probably be sneaking in for a three, I think. Yeah, I'd be happy with that.

I was thinking you might be kind of a four, but I'll take a three, absolutely. Well, you're not beating Bill and Kate, mate. So, as you well know, it's three points. So you can write that down. In last place with one point is... Asim. Oh, come on!

Asim gets one. Just up from that, a lot of thought, and it made me scream into the air. But yeah, pound for pound, it's a little bit dry. It's Tesla Tesla These against two points then I'm gonna pop Allison and I've made some really good notes about yours. I wrote this note ready made me think In second place with four points controversial, uh-huh because whatever they're up to, Bill and Kate, it provokes so much thought in me, it still is.

But Buddhism, it's a worthy winner, isn't it? Russell Howard wins. Task one, do something manly with this cardboard box. Manliest thing wins. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now. Chloe, would you like to tell me first what you would do with the cardboard box?

Have you thought about this? Yeah, it is unfortunate. I think I probably would have done almost exactly what Russell Howard did. Tops off, beard on my belly. Just say some manly things. what i think i would have done is um said i would have just done loads of keepy uppies and i know that when we've been watching taskmaster before and i've said that what i've done is i just do those keepy uppies i've got

more in my locker but i would utilize keepyuppies at some point it feels like you're almost exactly the same person as Russell Howard really because later on he does loads of keepyuppies yeah I was like that's my thing yeah yeah how many keepyuppies do you think do you think you could do because I know we've had this discussion because you're you're obsessed with keepyuppies if you were called upon it in taskmaster to do keepy-uppies to impress people how many could you do in a box i'd struggle i will say that but if it was just free freestyle keepy-uppies yeah ed i could go for as long as you wanted me to right interesting you say when and i'll stop but you do have to use the box i guess so is there a more inventive way

of using the box my issue with some of these tasks box I guess. So is there a more inventive way of using the box? My issue with some of these tasks is that the box isn't used in an inventive way. Could you put the box over your head and put your arms through it and draw a football shirt on it and then do keepy uppies forever or would the box hinder you then? Yeah, I love that.

Yeah, I think that's one of the best things I've ever heard in my life ed right well i i think i think you should have done that but you weren't on it so that is what i was gonna do i wrote that down yeah but i mean the you would you yeah yeah no i wrote that down yeah you should definitely give me the points based on rather than my you wrote down that whole thing about the shirt thing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah take top off, put the right beard on my belly, put the box over my head, start doing keepy-uppies forever. Chloe, why, if you're putting the box over your head,

why do you still need to take your top off and draw a beard on your belly? Because have you ever heard of acting? It's all about motive. It's all about motive and about, like, you'd be able to see it in my eyes do you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so we could see in your eyes that you have a beard drawn on your belly and you've taken your top off tops off beard beards on tops off beards on the classic phrase um because this is this is my issue with some of these is I think Tim's made me laugh so much.

So much. Because it's such a simple, dumb idea of just standing in the box, flexing your muscles. But I feel like he could have used the box in an inventive way. Like Russell does the same thing. His thing that he does is very funny. And I love that he's drawn on himself. And he's got the pipe. And he's giving Alex really bad sort of old school manly advice.

But he's just stood in the box. He could have used it in such a in such a different way it doesn't say standing about stand in the box and do something manly it's just do something manly with this cardboard box to be honest i hadn't thought of that dynamic and i think you're absolutely right that's the way you've got to go with it you've got to utilize the things available to you um i've put of tim vines it's one of the most disturbing things i've ever seen in my life that's what i've written down i loved i thought it was genuinely sweet he's got clearly got no like body issues he was like popped himself into the middle of the street tops off no beard on and started flexing and it's just such i bet he came up with that idea in 12 seconds. He was like, right, tops off,

I'm going to flex in the street. And I thought it was genuinely sweet and funny. No, you're right. It was really lovely. But again, I cannot emphasize enough. I think you're so right about the boxing. Yeah. And I found Tim's, I think, marginally funnier than Russell's

simply because it's always funnier when people take their tops off if they have a nice body it's slightly less funny yeah because you can see what russell's like russell's clearly in that phase where like he's gone from like weedy little t-shirt comedian to actually like quite ripped so he clearly was just like okay if i gotta get my muscles out i will i've gotta show people this um and fair play to him uh but i would have knocked a point off because i'm jealous of his abs and his little dick arrows well done russell um but i liked the performance of russell's very much um but yeah get out the box lads whereas Alice's play she did a play illustrating the the manly

gender pay gap which I think she said in the studio afterwards she thought would be funnier but it actually just came across quite as just a serious point that she was making I think yeah I think if I was ever on Taskmaster I would have a few moments like that where I'm like, oh, I'm going to do some social satire here and then it would get back to the studio and I'd be like, oh, oh, I played it wrong. Because she could have really upped it to GCSE drama levels. Do you know what I mean?

There could have been some really nice bit of interpretive dance. She could have been all in black and then that represents a metaphor. I don't know. Yeah, but she just made the point she played it with quite a straight bat and you know what it's very good point and bravo four points but um she looked mortified that she hadn't added more jokes to it and i get i get that i had that a few times as well i also think it's interesting like of the generational divide of how they decided to do it because I doubt Asim is like probably a similar age to Russell Howard but there was just something

about Asim and Alice doing like really socially conscious stuff in their task and then everyone else just doing like I guess Russell's was a bit socially conscious but like yeah well I think they all made Tim was the only one who didn't make a point about masculinity everyone else made a made a point didn't they and tim literally popped his top off and stood in a box i just think that lisa's was so funny that she like she wasn't like critiquing it she was just like well this is just how men are i'll just bring him a cup of tea yeah i really liked it it just reversed that old school comedy thing

of what the old male comedians used to be about women and then it just sort of flips it on its head and I thought that was a good use of the box the box is watching the TV and has got the remote with a little hand whilst Lisa makes the box a cup of tea I thought it was lovely

I thought it was great and the detail that they said about she put the sugars in after is just such beautiful world building from such a kooky little mind. Yes, absolutely. And also her point there is about to be proven next week

in the solving task, in the hop task. Of course, yeah. She makes that point about men just sitting around and not listening. And then her point is proven in real life the week after. And it was five points for Lisa. I enjoyed Asim's, I feel, box robot.

But it's the second cuddle bot in as many series. Aisling does the cuddle bot in series five episode one uh and then series six episode four here comes another cuddle bot a slightly more high-tech one if i might say so it's almost like you you know you've got the iphone 10 and then asim comes in with the iphone 11 with a little upgrade yeah i really i really liked it and i like i liked his point about about you should be okay to you know check in with the iPhone 11. With a little upgrade, yeah. I really liked it. And I liked his point about you should be okay to check in with your friends and see how they feel and give them a little cuddle. You know, it's a silly way of doing it, but I think he made his point.

Yeah, I think it was really lovely and really well executed. But Greg couldn't divide them. He gave Russell four, Alice four, Asim four, Tim four, and then Leezer got the big five. I feel like they should have, that Greg should have been a bit more, a bit more ruthless with it and marked them as he saw fit. But I think he was worried about if he gave Alice, Alice's play about the gender pay gap two points, then that might come across quite badly. Alice's play about the gender pay gap two points then that might come across quite badly yeah I think he possibly was slightly concerned but I do think it was one of those like subjective tasks where they all did about the same there was no like there was no tragedy there there was no one that really mucked up it's difficult to muck that one up i guess um i think within within the pantheon of those

tasks i think chloe pets if you'd put on a box that looked like a football shirt and done keepy uppies for like an hour do you think that would be possible to do them for an hour a whole hour well actually hang on you have 20 minutes to do something manly so if you did it and then just did 10 minutes of 10 minutes of straight keepy uppies yeah fine you could do that yeah five points easy if you did like how many keepy uppies would that be like a thousand million something like that probably a thousand million yeah fine if you did a thousand million keepy uppies i i can i cannot see any way that you wouldn't have got the full five so write that down down. Thank you, Chloe. Thank you. It's in. Do something manly with this cardboard box. Manliest thing wins.

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Odd that it's very rare in Taskmaster that you will be alerted to the fact there's a follow-up task so surely the brain's whirring there thinking what's this going to be it's mad that they all went into it so quickly yeah but do you think that that's with like do you think that's with like sort of the gift of hindsight? Or do you think you would have gone, hang on a minute? Well, I guess your time starts now. You have three minutes sort of pushes you into starting quite quickly. But in the back of your mind, surely you're thinking,

what's the second task going to be? And what else could it be? But you've got to recreate it. Yeah. Or tidy it up, really. So, yeah, I mean, look, obviously we know what you'd do you'd do the same as russell howard again uh you do keepy uppies for ages uh alice sat in the bath with a glass of sherry it didn't look like they were having fun but i suppose that that's ultimately worked in their favor because it was so minimalist, their fun. They recreated it

disturbingly accurately. Yeah, I know it's subjective fun and I don't like baths or football so I guess that's why it wasn't fun for me to watch. But you do love making jokes about old ladies rubbing one out. That's true.

You could have got on board with that. That made me laugh. A, that that made me laugh a the joke made me laugh um the old the old ladies uh rubbing one out uh to alice in the bath and russell doing football what then made me laugh is when they had to recreate it russell self-edited himself because he was clearly like i'm not saying that again. And Alice had to remind him that he said about the old lady, he's rubbing one out. No, no, no, Russell. Please say the old lady masturbation thing again. You simply must.

Do you remember what you said, Russell? Come on, little Russell. Again, please, with enthusiasm. You're right. The two clips side by side, sometimes it looked like the same footage because they absolutely nailed that part of it i thought but that's because alice was like sedentary she was just sat in one spot yeah having a glass of wine and russell was just sort of

like peacocking around her yeah i suppose it was the easiest to recreate wasn't it but you know that that doesn't necessarily matter that just means they're a bit smarter than the chaos of asim lisa and tim i lost it just went mad i don't think i think they were ironically having fun here's my point i think by the end they might have been having fun but tim vine lifting a fence up and down that is not fun asim putting the uh putting the fruit tray on his head and shouting absolutely mental banter was very funny but it was not it was ironic fun they weren't genuinely having the most fun possible well you don't mean you don't mean to say that when lisa tarbuck shouted can

you catch my potato she wasn't being deadly serious when she said, that's fun. That's my favourite line of the whole thing. Or Lisa simply finding a BMX, wheeling it over to her bath and putting it in. How's that? That's not fun for anyone. But do you not think it's a bit like, sometimes like when you start laughing ironically,

like you're not actually laughing, then you start laughing properly. Yeah, I do think do think it's that yeah i think towards the end they were having fun by ironically having fun totally but i don't know what i do you know i'd probably end up doing something similar but what sort of what sort of fun i just go on my phone for a bit scroll up scroll do wordle yeah do a wordle bit of social media text my wife that sort of thing fun that's really lovely actually

such an indictment on my life though isn't it she said I'm going to the shed for some fun everything she said in that task was just absolutely cracking me up and then yeah yeah tim with his rhythmic tapping of the fence was also fantastic i could i can't actually imagine tim vine at home with a little fence doing that up and down this is fun yeah this is fun isn't it actually but do you feel like the point of the task was not because it as you say

it was only three minutes it wasn't to like curate some actual fun it was just sort of go and run around like um little imbeciles yeah i guess so and then get themselves into such a pickle that they couldn't recreate it but they both did a really good job of recreating it um to the point like the potato throw was in there uh the fruit tray on the head was in there the getting the hula hoop over tim first time was in there that was very impressive or actually i'm sorry over leaves the first time was in that was really impressive yeah it was stunning um i thought they did a really good job it would have thrown me i could not remember what i do like minute after minute to be honest but i think it could be a little bit like one of those things i was thinking about this

psychologically you know when you do when you try to when you want to remember something you should try and like assign it to something more memorable so if you wanted to like remember a list then you would imagine like going around a shop like picking up that stuff so it sticks in your brain a bit more and because i think they were doing such like weird outlandish stuff it probably stuck in their brain so much and because like they were going on the route that they'd been it was like triggering memories in them yeah that's interesting that's interesting yeah that i think i think you might be right especially it's like oh i was here and that's when i i had a potato didn't i and i threw because that's it yeah probably potato that's fun so even though it was more chaotic than russell and alice it was probably

easier to remember because russell and alice were just sort of stood there and sat there existing do you know what they reminded me of those three they reminded me of you know on love island when you've got a contestant and all of the other contestants are like oh my god he's got such a good sense of humor his banter is so good and you've seen no evidence of the banter apart from people talking about his banter that's what they were doing with the fun they were it was like you know show us the fun don't tell us the fun yeah yeah it was a little impression of the fun yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna narrate the fun i thought you meant it's like on love island where they say god he's so funny like

he's just so funny his banter's so good cut to ass him with that glass fruit bowl on his head look at what he's doing now he's so funny he's just oh my god he's so crazy look look at the way look at him he's eating a banana upside down yeah his banner's great and they always just mean he's insanely arrogant is what that means so no he's just he's bullying you and he's a misogynist actually and his trunks are too small um so it was it was everyone five points for the recreation but the fun uh Asim, Lisa and Tim got three points and Team Funk got two points there but it's a high scoring

game so far. Everyone's doing very well. BMXing. That's fun. Stashing it in there. So much fun.

Are you having fun? This is so much fun. Let's do this. How many minutes have we had, gents? One minute 45 left.

I'll try hooping this over your head. OK, that's good. Back at you. Oh! You know how much more fun I can have? So much fun. I'm going to try and hit you with a mailbox. Nice work.

That was immediately fun. Can you catch my potato? That's fun. Through the hoop My shins are loose. Back in the car, please. Back in, back in, back in. That's fun. Right. Task three. Make the best art using the entire contents of this can of squirty cream. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.

I would have hated this, Chloe. Yeah, I would have hated it too. The smell. These are the ones where I think I'm flailing. I'm not an artist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had exactly the same thing. Do you have any initial thoughts of what you would have painted

with the squirty cream? I think that I would have spent ages trying to think of... I would have done like what Tim did, but I would have tried to think of a pun on a famous piece of art and then recreate the famous piece of art so kind of like a mixture of what alice and tim did yeah um but then i think i would have spent so much time trying to think of a piece of art that has cream in the name that i just would have run out of time and then just done my face just sprayed it all over your face or sprayed it yeah maybe my body is the canvas yeah that's nice

that's very post-modern isn't it so it's a case of tops off again i guess is it look if i can get my top off it's coming off you know me you've you've seen me in the tour car oh no chloe your top's off in the back again pop it on come on i wake up during it out chloe's top's off and we're reversing down the m1 and you wouldn't have it any other way i this reminded me we had to do a task in series nine that was cut out uh it was one of the lost tasks and the task was um do the most sensible thing with this silly string so you had silly string and you had to do the most sensible thing and i guess it was cut out because doing sensible things regardless of what you're doing them with is quite boring um so i did uh on the drive i did

my taxes uh on the drive with um with the silly string i went and got a spreadsheet off my laptop and like did the spreadsheet on the on the floor good idea but not great telly i'd imagine um but just the idea of having to come up with that and you've just got this can and then the first spray you do that's done then you've just got to carry on with it that's what i didn't like about it um but let's i mean ask him again he's not had a great episode, to be fair to him. Has he ever had a great episode? No, that's true. I love him to bits. I think he's so funny on this series.

There's a bit coming up later on in the series where he has to list some animals and then do impressions of those animals. And he does something absolutely mad and shits himself when he finds out. It's so funny. I think he just sprayed some stuff everywhere and then decided he would come up with what it was afterwards i can't even remember what

he so he had the bell jar an egg timer and some toy animals and he said it was themed on global warming because it was snowing and all the animals were around see it's another socially conscious task from him maybe he's just come on taskmaster not to not to win or do well he's just got an agenda you know yeah yeah he wants to soften masculinity and solve global warming can you argue with that yeah maybe i'm not giving him enough credit the guy's great five points um uh so was your suggestion for what you would have done is body canvas right because i need to score you at the end of this, don't I? Body canvas, but I would have done like... Oh, I know what I would have done. Body canvas, and then I would have done the scream,

but the dash cream. Oh, yes. Come on, that's great. And maybe I could have been munching on some of the cream like Edvard Munch Greg would have hated it no but this is not I'm being Greg in this aren't I

so strap in for a 5 Tim writes the letter ER and calls his piece Her Majesty the Cream dead shit dead shit dead shit dead shit s scream is is a better pun you have beaten the master there um the only reason this gets two points is for the pun though it gets a point added on i think this is one one point written all over it i think maybe asim should have got two because just writing er is so bad you've got to

make the piece of art look nice and the pun is the additional thing he could have done a picture of queen elizabeth the second is that who i mean yeah yeah is that one yeah yeah yeah r1 now yeah yeah um yes i agree uh he didn't put much into the art thing, but maybe that's not his thing either. He just wanted to focus on the pun. Fair enough. I enjoyed this. This was inventive from Russell, I think,

drawing around Alex to make it look like a crime scene. I thought that was a good inventive thing and I thought it deserved more than three. What did you think about it, Chloe Pets? Well, I'd forgotten what it was and then I look back at my notes and I've just written the word fine. He had a story behind

it. Alex had been attacked and killed and someone had chopped off his nuts. My only issue with it was there was a joke about diabetes and I don't like those. It was very badly researched, Russell, naughty boy. But apart from that, I think this was my four points. I really liked it.

It's a three for me, and I'm so sorry he's done that. That must have been so traumatic for you to watch. Thank you, thank you so much. Alice is the only one who used the paintbrush. She's the only one who tried to do a proper painting. She thought outside the box. She recreated the Mona Lisa. I thought she did a smashing job,

and I thought that was surely the winner. It had to be the winner. She did a clever thing which is empty the cream and then mix it with another agent yeah it's smart and then she executed it pretty well like it didn't it didn't look like the mona lisa but it didn't not look like the mona lisa exactly i think if i looked in you gone this is a replica of a famous piece of art i would have gone mona lisa there we go yeah totally and i i think it deserved it deserved the five um because lisa's i didn't i do how this got the five points is beyond me i know you're going to try and protect her but i liked the idea of using other mediums

using the uh using the materials of the paper or whatever i like bringing that in but i don't know i don't know it just didn't you're not you're not making the best art using the squirty cream i feel like the squirty cream has to be the focus i don't need to defend her on this because she got the five points okay i don't i'm all about i'm all about punching up i'm not about punching down she doesn't need protecting on this one sure sure sure i think my favorite thing she said on this task was that she's got a bit of a thing about gaffer that was a lot what do you mean by that liza um never explained maybe that could have been her most thought-provoking thing just the quote of her saying i've got a bit of a thing about gaffer yeah role of gaffer so thought-provoking the only thing

i can think and i don't think greg would think, so I don't know why he's given it five points, is that there is something cool about art being live and like the art degrading over time and that being part of the piece. So when you arrive to the piece, you're seeing like a different thing every time. That's cool. Yeah.

But like, you could bullshit very well on Taskmaster, I think. You're coming up with good bullshit for other people's tasks i reckon yeah you could do really well i could be like a bullshit um correspondent on taskmaster i could write for people if they need bullshit just be in people's ears during going like no no no say say it's like live art it degrades over time and it's he's gonna love it he's gonna love love it. He's going to love that. Just like a really shit version of that Ant and Dec game. So it was five points for Lisa, four points for Alice,

three points for Russell, two points for Tim and one point for Asim. Well, you're the artist. You better talk us through your thinking. A powerful social statement. Yeah, global warming. you know, just... It was snowing two weeks ago, we're in spring or whatever it is. Yeah. Mental.

Now I came out onto my balcony and saw the snow and I thought, oh, this is like... This is like putting a giraffe in a bell jar. The very quick task four here, which is remove the £5 note from under the pint without spilling any of the pint. may not touch the pint glass if you spill any of the pint you're disqualified fastest wins your time starts now this uh is one of two uh tasks in this series where they had to whip something out from something else this one's slightly more difficult uh getting the five pound

out from under the pint it this feels chloe if you don't mind me saying the sort of game you would have played in a pub after going to see a crystal palace football match this is the sort of game that i play in the dressing room after i've done my bit and you're on stage this is just my private time yeah great um yeah i would have gone uh as soon as someone got a straw and started drinking um i was like yeah that's the way you've just got to get it down so it doesn't spill and then you whip it out but i think the problem is is that i wouldn't have got i wouldn't have been as quick as russell and i might have not have been as quick as asim because he was only one second after because i think i would have got so obsessed with finishing the pint with a straw to show off.

Yeah. That I probably would have been going in. You would have been there for 20 minutes. Not, Ed, come on. What do you think of me? Yeah, you can get, but it looked like a very fizzy pint and I don't know if it was actual lager either, you know.

It looked like it might have been a shandy. And it would fizz up with coming through the straw as well. So I think I'd be looking at, I think I'd get to two minutes and then give up and then whip it out. So I think I'd probably get about three on this. Well, you can write that down then, I believe you. Thank you.

Yeah, Russell tries to drink out the straw and then he's obviously like, he's so full up after a few sips that he's like, yeah, wriggle the note out. And he did very well on that. Asim, this was bananas to try and do this, to pour water on the note. I think he was hoping the whole thing would immediately dissolve.

And then he panics by saying, oh, no, well, they're waterproof, aren't they, the new fibres? That's why that's not working. No, with the old fibres, if you poured a glass of water on it, it's just not going to disappear. It's not rice paper what's he talking about he thought it was one of those like sugar notes that you get from the corner shop yeah yeah yeah he's he's had a mare there he's gone he's gone mad and i think it's

another piece of evidence that he has just got elevator noise elevator music just going on his head the whole time because the things that that man does is completely inexplicable because they were so right I think Greg and Alex were so confused and surprised that they didn't they came back to it a bit after and was like hang on a minute

but there'll still be like a disc of £5 notes a perfect disc he couldn't even justify his gonna get he couldn't even justify his past self he couldn't even remember what he was thinking but i think at the time he thought the whole thing would dissolve or it would tear in the middle and he could get it off that way just a bananas thing to do but luckily saw the error of his ways uh and managed to get it off in a respect very respectable 1 minute 20 russell at one minute 19 um tim has a good technique of trying to sort of add structure to the middle of the pint by like ballast trapping the pint and then pulling but he was trapping it too hard i think there's a

middle ground i think he could have done it if he just teased the fiver out at that point um but i also do think there's you're just always running a risk of a bit of spillage. So you need to get rid of a bit. And I don't know how he got the cleaning brush out of the pint with all the lager on it and didn't spill any because he then used it to push the pint. So he must have somehow had no drops or dried it or something. It was incredible.

This is full-blown classic Leez gives it a bloody good go spills the pint goes back to her dressing room she just doesn't give a fuck does she no that's i think that's would jill pets have done that no jill pets would have gone let me think about this and then maybe prayed a bit and then you're hmm and then probably just forgot what was on the task picked it up and moved it and then that would have been it i am surprised that no one did that normally there's one person who just ignores all of that and just moves and moves things and picks up things they shouldn't um but i love that someone tried i'm so glad someone tried to whip out like a magician um but it was never gonna work uh but she couldn't have

cared less um which was great so disqualification for her and disqualification for alice sadly who again tries to drink then tries to empty the contents using a tiny little teacup but along the way spills one drop which was very very harsh, but those are the rules. And it was one drop. I wanted it to not be that because I like Alice, but unfortunately, yeah, that was it. Rules is rules. A drop may as well be the whole pint. So it was nought points for Alice,

three points for Tim's cleaning brush, four points for Asim, and five points for Russell. Alice, bit slow. Minor breakdown halfway through, we decided to start using a cup that was bigger than the glass. Yes. Yes. It was pretty sound up to that point. Give me some statistics. It was 3 minutes 27. There was a hint of spillage, just a little bit.

Oh. What? Alex, you're such a snitch. It is my job and, well, I've just put it in a little replay package. Are you... Just because if there's any spillage, you're not... I've got so much dirt on you. Just remember that. Live task. How do you think you'd fare in the live task, Chloe?

Do you think you'd get under pressure? Yeah, and I've got surprisingly small hands for my frame. So he'd be guessing... Is that a child on the stage, he'd be saying?'d be getting a child on the stage he'd be saying we've got a random child off the street it's when tapped on the shoulder shake hands with the blindfolded taskmaster without revealing your identities you may not speak during the task everyone must shake hands with the taskmaster once for at least two seconds if the taskmaster guesses your identity you are eliminated the task continues until we have a winner so like you say

you think would you would you switch it up would you do anything with your hands or would you just go tiny hands he's gonna he's gonna absolutely think this is someone else he's gonna think this is a little a little child a little trial no i think i would have relied on my child hands but i also would have relied on what Alice and Tim did, which was just to like disguise my hand a bit. I might have like tried to like spit on them or something. Do you know what I mean? Just to like distract him and change the quality.

And I also don't think, I think once Greg got to know me, he wouldn't expect it of me. He'd expect better of me. So he'd be like, oh, that's got to be, that's going to be a Russell Howard kind of me right he'd be like oh that's gotta be that's gonna be a russell howard kind of yeah russell will do that but he just he doesn't realize the the depths that you'd sink to oh yeah yeah yeah dribble all over my hands and put it in a in a grown man's put it in a grown man's put it in a grown man's um alice did great here she was the only one not to be spotted uh she used three fingers she her lady's hand with three fingers greg assumed it was russell

howards and russell did not look happy about this he was genuinely so upset that even his hands had been mistaken for a little slender ladies yeah i really like russell's shoe tactic but i think that's what gave him away in the end because I think he was clearly the only one who was going to pick up his shoes and throw them really hard on the floor to try and scare Greg definitely he's the only one who would have done that exactly why I think he

would be mistaken for me with my dribble technique yes yeah yeah the old shoe dribble so everyone else got nought but Alice got the full five, which was not enough to win her the episode. It was still Russell's episode. 24 points.

Alice very close on 23. Then Tim on 21. Lisa on 20. Asim on 18. Look, the series is, I mean, Lisa wins. I think she's doing pretty well already. 78 points. Russell 72, quite close.

But then a bit of a gulf between them and Tim, Alice and Asim here on 61, 60 and 58, respectively, which I think it's sort of how it ends anyway. Although I think Alice came bottom. But lovely to see Lisa riding high this early in the series. Chloe, thank you so much for coming on the taskmaster podcast you've been a wonderful guest you're welcome back anytime of course thanks mate i appreciate it so much and i'll look forward to seeing you again tomorrow yes literally tomorrow we're seeing each

other to go to south end um i'm on tour of course with chloe pets if you'd like to see chloe pets do a short set you come see me on tour But Chloe Pets is doing her own tour, so you should probably go to see that, see an extended show. You're going all over the place, aren't you, Chloe? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm going back to the big main ones that you've been to, to sort of poach your...

Yes. I say to them, look, Ed's good, but if you like lesbians, then I got something for you. That suggests they've mistakenly come to see me thinking I'm a lesbian. And you're going, well, guys, if you like lesbians, you should really come and see my show. No, they've probably come to you thinking that you're the closest thing available. But I'm like, look, we speak too funny on stage.

Lesbians do comedy too. Yeah. Yes, and where can they find out details of your tour, Chloe? Follow me on social media, Instagram, Twitter. It's Chloe Pets. I'm not going to spell it out for you. Actually, I will. I'll do that in the outro.

Pepper, Echo, Tango, Tango, Sierra, Pets. Love it. But yeah, I'm going to like everywhere. Salford, Bath, Bristol, Southend, London, Brighton, others. And Edinburgh Festival as well, of course. Edinburgh Festival, yeah. I'm all over the shop. All over the shop.

Do go and see Chloe's show. It's excellent. chloe's show it's excellent uh now chloe always on the taskmaster podcast we ask our guests to rate their experience on the taskmaster podcast in the style of the taskmaster between one and five points tell me you'd be brutally honest points wise what do you reckon? I haven't grown tired of you. And I think that's all I could have asked. I'm going to give it a strong, solid five. Yes, I'll take it. Well, you've got nowhere to go next time you come back on the podcast.

Oh, but before you go, Chloe, actually, we need to give your score. I need to give you your score. Now, the fun task, I gave you five for the fun did i and or no i gave you five for the recreation i think five for the recreation but for the fun are you doing what you're doing the same as russell so it should be two really shouldn't it yeah probably i think that's all right so what's what's your total okay hang on five plus seven is twelve plus another five is a number 17. and then add three is 20 and i think that's it 20. is that right 20 so i think you didn't win unfortunately hang on a minute oh twist i'm missing the live task oh you're missing

the live task uh yeah i think the child's hands thing i think you've sold it to me that you would have got you would have got five there so 25 you won the episode thank you sorry i have coerced you into that but i my ego needed it so thank you you take it bye bye bye thank you very much to chloe for coming on hopefully we can have her on again sometime soon don't forget to go and see her on tour uh check out her social media chloe pets p-e-t-t-s uh instagram and twitter for more details on that my tour ed gamble.co.uk uh it's called electric it's a lot of fun come on to that and don't forget to check out taskmaster supermax plus.vhx.tv for information on the specific task

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