Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 81. Bridget Christie - S13 Ep.6

Episode Date: May 19, 2022

This week Ed is joined by comedian and Series 13 contestant – the brilliant Bridget Christie. Bridget shares her highs and lows of TM and answers your emails! They discuss Cat Cafes, pedometers and why she would like to live with Judi Love.  Watch Series 13 of Taskmaster every Thursday at 9pm on Channel 4. Watch 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] 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 podcast. It's Ed Gamble here. I am the host of the Taskmaster podcast and here's some things you need to know about me. I've been on Taskmaster, I won series nine. Here's something else you need to know about me. I really need to sneeze. There we go. Apologies if that happens in your headphones. We, of course, talk about Taskmaster every single week. And today we're talking about Series 13, Episode 6.

Yes, it's currently on Channel 4 every Thursday at 9pm. And we will be talking about Episode 6 with the wonderful Bridget Christie. Bridget Christie Bridget Christie a current contestant in series 13 one of my absolute favorite comedians ever is Bridget Christie she is absolutely hilarious here's some stuff you need to know about this episode as well uh for the first couple of minutes the sound quality is not ideal uh because there was a setting on Bridget's mic that we hadn't dealt with it was swiftly dealt with so if you're listening to it at the beginning and thinking don't like that little fuzz in the

background that fuzz will go it's a very funny episode of this podcast we loved speaking to Bridget about episode six you're in for a real treat keep watching Taskmaster come and see me on tour I'm doing my show electric all over the country again from September edgamble.co.uk for tickets including a massive show at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'm doing a big one at the Manchester Opera House. I'm doing loads of great shows everywhere. Do come and see me. I'm going to Ireland, for example.

But for now, let's hear from Bridget Christie about Taskmaster Series 13, Episode 6. Welcome, Bridget, to the Taskmaster podcast oh what is that how you say it that's how that's how i say it every time do you seem that threw you straight away didn't it what happened there well because it sounded like you were you know speaking to you know the audience or something it sounded sort of well i know i mean you know you thought you thought that i refer to the audience of the taskmaster podcast as bridget i don't know it's just a bit well it's an official start isn't it yeah it's you know and then what the way it normally goes bridget i'll be honest we're maybe on nearing episode 100 normally i say welcome whoever it

is to the taskmaster podcast and they say hello or thanks for having me never in the history of this podcast has the guest gone what well i didn't know if we were starting or you know i don't know i don't think i don't think there's there's a more clear start than welcome bridget to the Taskmaster podcast, I'll be honest. Oh, God. I'm really hungover. Yeah, I think that might be what it is. That might be what it is, yeah. I can do a sort of... Do you know what?

Go on. Sorry to cut you off. I know it's your job and whatnot. You know, you're the... It's your gaff. But, because I can't see you and your voice is really small through my headphones. Right.

It's just... And I'm hungover. This is a really unpleasant experience. All I'm looking at is my screen where I'm looking at where our voice, there's a little greed Normally I can see the guest, sure, but this is a non-visual one for listeners, me and Bridget can't

see each other, so if I was hungover and I could only hear a little voice in the headphones, I would also be second guessing myself thinking that I'd gone mad Do you know what? I might just go and grab a picture of you I could only hear a little voice in the headphones, I would also be second-guessing myself, thinking that I'd gone mad. Do you know what? I might just go and grab a picture of you. Well, you know what?

I'm going to draw you. I'm going to draw your face on a little post-it note. Thank you. And when you have done that drawing, we'll get the producer to make sure you send it over, and I'll put that up. I'm going to text it to you now. Thank you.

Have we got each other's phone numbers? I'm not sure you've got my phone number actually. You've got Daisy's there. You can send it to Daisy. Yeah. Did you hear me taking the picture? Yeah. Why haven't I got your number then? I don't know. You can totally have my number. Sure.

Give us it now and I'll type it in. Alright. Make sure you bleep this out daisy um it's oh how do i put the number in well hang on i've got to make a contact haven't i ed gamble right uh What's happening now? Hang on. I've gone into my contacts to add a contact. Yeah. I'm really hot actually now. Really boiling hot.

Do you know what? I'll just send it to... Shall I send it to Alex, the photo, and he can send it to you? Yeah, I'm not sure he's going to know what's going on. Will you put any explanation as to what the picture is? No. Okay, just send it to Alex and see what he says. Right, I'm sending it. Alex Horne, have I got his number?

Yes, there it is. Right. Right, I've sent it. Right, okay, good, excellent. So now, now do you feel better about the fact that we can't see each other? It's not great, mate. Also, I'm cross with you as well. Why are you cross with me?

I don't think this is your fault. I think it's Alex's fault. He said that your favourite is Judy Judy and I love Judy as well but I don't think that he should publicly say because we all love each other but when he does silly things like that it creates problems well I'd say my favourite changes every week with this series

it's a very very good series and I think everyone is marvellous so it changes all the time Bridget everyone else is my changes all the time, Bridget. Oh. So I think... Everyone else is my favourite all the time. I think this episode in particular, episode six, simply just for the reason of the pedometer task, I think you're my favourite in this episode.

What? Really? Yeah, you're brilliant in this episode. You're Really? Yeah, you're brilliant in this episode. You're brilliant. Look, everyone's brilliant in all of them. My favourite changes all the time.

I enjoy everyone in this series. I'm sorry that Alex has told you that Judy's my favourite and it's put you in a bad mood. But I couldn't love her anymore, I don't think. Yes, she's wonderful.

I want to live in a house with her. Oh, well, I mean, if Channel 4 are listening, I would absolutely watch that. I mean, you've got one viewer there straight away. Let's bring Big Brother back, but with none of the sort of insidious reality TV elements and just have Bridget and Judy living in a house together, living their lives.

Yes, just the two of us. Do you know what I think? I think she'd ignore me. I think I'd be running around like, oh, I've made you some biscuits and stuff, you know. Oh, I've just cleaned the toilet, you know, just so you know. And I just think she just wouldn't talk to me. Really?

Do you think she'd ignore you? Because you'd be too sort of like eager to please and she wouldn't enjoy that. Yeah. I think she'd be like, mate, you know know you don't just chill out you're fine you know i like i like you yeah you don't have to keep cleaning the toilet well that how often would you clean the toilet i don't think um ed yeah um i am laughed so much on your food podcast yes it's one of my favorite episodes ever i think i might have wet myself a bit well this is good behind the scenes stuff if anyone's heard bridget's episode of off menu

um it turns out she wet herself so that's good well i've only brought it up because i've not spoken to you since yeah in fact i only speak to you yeah it's only on podcasts and then because we don't have each other's numbers but you've only got half of my number now because you decided halfway through just to send the picture to a instead. Hey, he's not replied yet. Oh, hang on. No. No. I'm not sure he will reply

because that's literally what you say to a very quick drawing of... I'm presuming it doesn't look anything like me as well, Bridget. I don't know why I've guessed that. I can't. I'm really offended by that. Have you got his number? I have his number, yeah what why don't you say um can I see the picture okay it's just sent you I'm no I'm not

going to say that Bridget's just sent you because that's too easy for him I'm just going to say can I see the picture. There we go. Right. This is not what we're here to talk about, Bridget, because we're here to talk about Taskmaster, specifically episode six of series 13 that you are in. What I want to know first, Bridget,

is before you said yes to Taskmaster and took part in it, had you seen much of the show before? Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to say if you weren't, that's fine. Lots of people go into it sight unseen. Yeah, I'd seen a lot of bits, like loads of series and bits of series.

Did you have any particular favourite contestants, previous contestants that you enjoyed? I'm not going to be like you and Alex, am I? Saying, oh, this person was brilliant, this person was awful. I don't want to be like you and Alex, am I? Saying, oh, this person was brilliant, this person was awful. I don't want to know if anyone was awful. I didn't say that. I think everyone is great.

How well did you know? Had you met your fellow contestants in the series before? I had met Sophie at gigs. Yes. And that's it. Oh, really? So everyone else was sort of new to you because what's amazing about this series is if that's the case the chemistry clicks pretty much in episode one i think you all seem to get on really well or at least find find your roles within the within the gang very well very quickly i i think i think you know whoever puts people together they

are really clever yeah it's genius how how um it's it's such you put such great not you they put such great people together and yeah they really do i really love this panel yeah everyone contrasts very nicely but also seems to get on quite well and it's and then you've just got Ardell at the end just absolutely chipping away at everyone's efforts. God he's just joyful isn't he? Oh my god everyone is though I think everyone's got a really good vibe. Yeah I completely agree and especially on this series I mean I think they always pick the contestants very well but but this one just seemed to flow immediately, which is lovely. And look, you're having a brilliant series so far.

Lots of highlights, lots of things to pick up on so far. Lying on the floor, hitting the pan. How do you feel about that moment? I will tell you exactly how I feel about that moment. I will tell you exactly how I feel about that moment. And I think, you know, I don't believe in being possessed and things like that. I think things can be scientifically explained. But there were many points during the filming

of this television programme, that was one of them, where I genuinely felt that I was not in control. So you felt like something, another being took over you or a sort of spirit took over you? Yeah. Some little clown spirit. Yeah. And I just, just, just, it wasn't functioning anymore, really.

No, I mean, that's what happened there you end up on the floor just bashing the pan it was like a little broken toy wasn't it yeah well you see because it i'd been walking around for quite a long time you know trying to find uh that fucking thing and uh i had just had a moment where moment where I've been walking around for ages banging this pan now. Yeah, it was a real shame that it took you so long because you were the only one to really, to have the key to hand.

So it was in your boot rather than up a tree or something. And that would have been the most wonderful moment where you picked the key out of the boot and then immediately got the phone out. Yeah, I know. But unfortunately... What a shame. Isn't it a shame.

Isn't it a shame that that happened? Like, it's so annoying, isn't it, this show sometimes? You think like, oh my God, it was in my boot. I could have done that in a minute or something. Yeah, in a minute. And it took you about, I think, 45 minutes to actually get to that point. And you spent quite a lot of it on the floor. But it's an iconic moment already, Bridget. It's going to live with you for a long time.

But there were some victorious moments so far I think we talked about it uh it's quite recent the like of the dog recreation with the with the traffic cones is I think one of the most emotional things I've ever seen on Taskmaster it was beautiful oh yeah thanks it was really really lovely did that idea come to you straight away was that the first thing you thought when you when you thought you had to recreate something and saw the traffic cones it was the moon i think or it was space you know they reminded me of space i can't remember the thought processes yeah because it's like a year ago now isn't it um something reminded me uh and then and then it was and then i remembered there was a dog in the house that teddy yeah it was i mean you're very good at taking moments from history and making them creative

obviously you've done the show as uh as king charles But then I thought it would be better if I wrote it from the dog's point of view. Yeah. Like, like, be the dog. Be the dog. Talk about its background and how, you know, because it was a stray dog on it. Yeah, I guess no one ever thinks about the dog's point of view, do they? They just think about this moment in history where humans sent a dog up, but no one ever thinks about the dog's point of view, do they? They just think about this moment in history where humans sent a dog up, but no one ever thinks, what was the dog thinking?

What was it like? Yeah. What was it like for the, yeah. What was the dog's background? I mean, it was meant to be funny, not really sad, but. Well, it was devastating, Bridget, so. I'm really sorry. You missed funny by quite some distance.

I was nearly in tears. Yeah, actually. Do you know what? My daughter said, oh, that's just really sad. I went, oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. It was fantastic, though. And I've got to say, so far in the series, Bridget,

I think you, I mean, take this as a compliment. You are the first contestant in 13 series of Task yeah i think you i mean take this as a compliment you are the first contestant in 13 series of taskmaster to genuinely annoy alex oh it's a badge of honor isn't it it really is because the shoe task i mean wow i mean i think i think i might have um got him a few times i think i might have genuinely got him riled a few times. There's one coming up in this episode, actually, where during the pedometer task, he is genuinely annoyed with you because you can't...

I mean, we'll get to it, but it's when you can't wrap your head around how a pedometer works and you just keep saying the steps aren't going up, even though you're just stood still. Well, you know what? With a lot of them though ed it's like um it i was like what what with a lot of tasks you do think i could i could do a lot of steps you know because i i i'm i'm a i run so yeah so why didn't run? Because that would have been really boring to watch, wouldn't it? Well, I mean, we'll get to it.

But my instinct was just get the pedometer, strap it to your belt and just run out and just run as far as you can down the river in 20 minutes and get Alex to call you and it was done. Just sometimes got to go for it. But then we would have missed out on your way of walking with your very high legs. But we're going to get to that, Bridget. We're going to get to it in order. First of all, we've got to talk about the prize task, which this week is the most calming item. Did you like doing the prize tasks, Bridget?

Yeah, I loved doing them. Yeah? Did you have any particular ones that you were proud of that you can remember? Alex Horne's just replied. What's he said? replied now then just that classic classic Alex horn reply what shall I reply no I think I mean hopefully he'll get to my text now as well when I've said send me the pitch can I see the picture hopefully then we've sown the seeds hopefully he puts two and two together let's talk about this this price task Bridget because I think you should have been proud of this one and I think you were really

screwed over in in the scoring so it's the most calming item and you brought in a Cat Cafe voucher. You want to know that Greg seems to hate cats. I mean, I'm really furious about that. I think I was really unfairly marked down for that. Because many people stroke animals. They actually use animals for therapy. Yeah, I mean, you said all of this. I think maybe the mistake in pitching the prize was you took it quite dark straight away,

talking about war veterans and depressed people using dogs and cats to stroke them for therapy. I think because you had that in your mind and that's how you were going to sell it and you just barreled in with that and I think it probably wasn't lighthearted enough. Oh, am I supposed to be being lighthearted on the show?

No, no, no, no. I mean, do it in your own way. But I think that's maybe what Greg was taken aback by. And also, I think you were a bit screwed over this time with Ardell's interruptions. Because he was desperate to interrupt all of the time. And sort of ruin the flow a bit screwed over this time with Ardell's interruptions because he was desperate to interrupt all of the time and sort of ruin the flow a bit. Yeah. Oh, has it not come out well then?

No, it's come out great, Bridget. God, you really are hungover, aren't you? Anything I say, you go, oh no, what have I done now? So paranoid. Look, it was very entertaining. It came out great. It was a very funny chat. I think a cat cafe voucher is a relaxing thing.

I've been to many cat cafes in the past and they chill me out. Yeah, they chill me out. The ones I've been to are quite smelly though. They stink. They do stink. Why don't they, they should clean them up, I think. Yeah, I guess, but I guess it's, you can't constantly be cleaning. I guess it's like you, if you live with Judy,

like you can't constantly be cleaning the toilet. Occ's like you if you live with Judy. You can't constantly be cleaning the toilet. Occasionally you have to make cat biscuits and stuff. Hey, which... Have you not got... Because I've got three cats at home. I've got one cat. Oh. Pig.

Pig. Oh, pig. Oh, there's one in the back. Was that your cat in the background? Hello. Hello, little one. Yeah, he's come. Groot's come to say hello.

Groot. Groot, come and meow down this microphone. Can you hear him? Yeah, it's very calming. But I guess if you don't like cats, some people are against cats for some reason. Oh. Are you okay?

He's a lovely boy. Are you a lovely boy? Sorry. Yes Yes I am You're a lovely boy aren't you Ed? Yes thank you Greg seemed to be imagining that you walk into a cat cafe And you just get attacked from every angle by cats Which is not true, it's unfair

He did think that didn't he? He was really stressed out about it Yeah I don't know why he Maybe he has been attacked by know why he maybe he has been attacked like yeah maybe he's been attacked by a series of cats suppressing it because he didn't say that he had been he just looks really stressed and yeah because he's so massive i guess he could be attacked by loads of cats all at the same time and they'd all have a bit of body to

claw at um and they'd probably treat him like a big tree wouldn't they so i can imagine it is scary hey you know what i've got a cat tree right and yeah it's in my front room and it's the only place place really where where i can put a christmas tree so i had to move the the cat tree yeah and then one of my cats loki came in oh my god it was the saddest thing and just sat there looking up at the space where it was because it's and we were like oh my god we've got to put it back yeah because it's like you've uprooted a tree basically isn't it yeah yeah you can't you can't move where it is and then they just follow the tree around he just sat there for ages looking at the empty space i I felt really bad.

Did Loki then absolutely go to town on the Christmas tree? We put his tree back where it was. So no Christmas tree that year? We just put it in the middle of the room so we couldn't see the telly or anything. So you've got three cats. You've got Groot, Loki, and is the other one a Marvel-based cat as well? No, she's not.

She's Duchess. Oh, that's a shame. Really different, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, she should be. Yeah. I don't know. You know what?

You've just got to name them and stick to it, I think. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah. Duchess, of course, from Aristocats is that is that where that name came from no it just it just came it just came out of me when I was looking at her yeah it's also what Jimmy Savile used to call his mother it's not is it oh god that's ruined I'm gonna have to get rid of my cat now. DOGS CHATTER Dogs and cats are used to help people

with post-traumatic stress disorder. I heard a war surgeon talking on Desert Island Discs, explaining... Keep it light. LAUGHTER He went to meet the Queen and she said, I can help you. She called the Corgis and got him to stroke them and he was absolutely fine. LAUGHTER She said, I can help you. She called the corgis and got him to stroke them

and he was absolutely fine. LAUGHTER Make a point. No, no, no, I haven't finished yet. LAUGHTER Hang on, cos I know what you're going to say. But it's not a cat, it was a dog. Anyway... LAUGHTER

Well, I've been to a cat cafe and it didn't relax me. It's probably my own fault for bringing my pet budgie and my pet goldfish with me. Judy brought in a fish water fountain to be relaxing. It didn't chill me out necessarily, but I would. I mean, she made the noise of it. And I think I'd happily watch Judy just make noises for an hour. Oh, my God. Or just do anything.

Yeah. Do anything for an hour. Oh my God. Or just do anything. Yeah. Do anything for an hour. But it was two, it was two points. I think that for me, that was possibly the, the one point. Your cat cafe voucher for me should have been four points.

Sophie brought in an access all areas massager, but I think we all knew what it was. Right. Yeah. Do you remember that one no who who got one point then if i got you got one point for the cat cafe voucher oh i was last you were last in this one sadly and judy got two points for the fish water fountain sophie got three points for the access all areas massager um although it looked like it it was designed to only access one area uh but you know fair play to her uh she throughout the series has some wonderful wonderfully open and full-on uh

prize tasks and tasks themselves uh which i mean just just designed to make alex blush at every opportunity i think yeah yeah but yeah i think you can be rude and bossy to him though and he doesn't get embarrassed by that yeah i think he probably likes that doesn't he yeah oh right i think what you're saying do you know what i mean yeah i know no i don't think he'd uh i don't know would he respond... I don't think he'd respond to flattery. No. So he responds to, like, insults and stuff, you think? I think he's more comfortable with that.

Yeah, I think that's his... And I don't think Greg would... I don't think Greg would like to be flattered. No, I think Greg loves flattery. Oh, do you? This is your, this is the, you missed this. You've missed this in the series so far. You've not flattered Greg at all.

You've gone in quite hard on Greg and it's not working. So, I mean, I hark back to, you know, maybe last week or a few weeks ago where you ended up just shouting at him until you were climbing on him. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, well, it wasn't planned, you know. I just, I stood up, he came for me,

so then I stood on his chair. Chris brought in an aquarium. So similar to Judy's, they've gone down the fish being calming route which i can see how they got there um but this is chris's personal 64 liter aquarium and this is the way to greg's heart quite often is sort of stats and gadgets so listing the stats of the fish tank really seemed to get greg going and they sort of both went into this weird dad mode where they had a very boring conversation about an aquarium. It's not my sort of thing. It was a surprising four points for me.

God, yeah, I agree with you. And also, what was the other thing? Was it a lawnmower or something that Greg was really into? Yes, it was. It was the robot lawnmower that he was really into when Chris brought that in. But it's just so boring. Like, I just don't understand it.

Like, I don't know how you're giving a Cat Cafe voucher one point when you're giving fish four points. Fish are so boring. I totally agree with you. Also, how stressful to look at, like, fish in a tank. Yeah. Like, the amount of stress that that would give me if I was like, oh, God, like, jeez, they shouldn't be in a tank yeah like the amount of stress that that would give me if i was like oh god like jeez they shouldn't be in a tank anyway they should be in the in the ocean shouldn't they

that's the first thing that would stress me out and then oh god they're basically swimming around in their shit aren't they yeah it's gross just just just because just because you know some people want to look at some fish and attack, yeah, it makes me really angry. I hate zoos as well. No, it's not relaxing at all. That should not have got for. But, I mean, I know my cats are in a cafe.

They're not walking around in their own shit, are they? No. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I suppose, yeah, you hate zoos, but a cat cafe is not a zoo, right? It's a cafe cafe the cats are in charge in that cafe right I mean cats are always in charge Ed yeah that's true cats are always in charge no the anything to do with the fish and aquariums and what that should have got no points at all yeah I just think of the scum on the top of the water like and it being a bit dirty in there

and like green stuff on the glass I don't I don't like it Bridget stuff on the glass. I don't like it, Bridget. It creeps me out. I don't like it. And those little castle things they get for them. The what? Oh, the castle things. Yeah. That's weird, isn't it?

Because the castle is often bigger than the fish. Yeah, I know. But also, there aren't castles in the sea, are there? So, like, now that they... Then, oh, yeah, fish love swimming in and out of castles. Let's get a castle and put it in the fucking tank. Christ. The whole thing.

Yeah, it's not representative of the bottom of the ocean at all, is it? It's confusing for the poor fish. No, really confusing. And if they're American fish, like, you don't get castles in America, really. No. It's too... It's too new a country. They'll be like, I don't even know what this is.

I mean, what is this? That's what the fish will be thinking. Oh, there goes my shit. And here's an old building to go. No, it's just the whole thing is awful. I think Chris should have been arrested actually well what did you think about the winner of this task who was ardle who brought in a tea towel i just i give up to be honest with you i think it's just just you know boys you know same old story boys looking out yeah boys club in it you know i do actually agree with you

on that yeah i do because it was it was a tea towel he's obviously just grabbed it on the way out and he sold it quite well by saying you can hide behind it from a baby and that'll calm a baby down but i think he just gets away with a lot because of his cheeky little face ardle yeah yeah i agree you know we can all be cheeky you know yeah i mean i could have been really cheeky and flirty and, you know, yeah, all of that, you know. Yeah, all of that sort of stuff, yeah. If I'd wanted to get points, you know. Yeah.

We can all be cheeky and flirty. But some of us have got dignity, you know. Yeah. I mean, yeah, of you included. So much dignity. And we're going to, like when you lied on the floor and beat that pan. Lied? Lied on the floor? Lied on the floor.

You lied. You were lying on the floor. I think I was on the floor quite a lot, actually, across the series. Yeah, you and Ardell both, whenever you were faced by something quite tricky, you just sort of popped yourselves on the floor, which is great to watch.

Ardal, I brought in a tea towel. Woo! Here is the tea towel. Instantly calming. Well, here's the thing. I sort of do find tea towels quite calming, but why do you find it calming? Well, it's the thing, I sort of do find tea towels quite calming, but why do you find it calming? Well, it's like a little comfy blankie.

It's also great if you want to make a baby laugh, which is very relaxing. As we all know, the sound of a baby's laughter is probably the most beautiful sound known to human people. It is nice. And all you need is a tea towel and a baby, obviously. LAUGHTER You know. And all you need is a tea towel and a baby, obviously. And it works brilliantly every time.

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At York University, we work together to create positive change for a better tomorrow. Join us at yorku.ca slash write the future. Task one, use the cement mixer for something other than mixing cement. Best use of a cement mixer other than mixing cement wins. Your time starts when Alex does an impression of you. Now, his impressions are awful. He said on this podcast that his

impressions are terrible, and he proved that here. Absolutely dreadful impressions. Now, this task, Bridget, how do you feel about this one? I can't even talk about this task. It's so bad. I think about this one? I can't even talk about this task. It's so bad. I think this might be my worst in the whole series.

And I'm really angry about it. I'm not going to want... I can't bear it. You can't bear it. Well, let's remind you and the listener exactly what you did. You did some performance art. You sort of put some things in the mixer and then it mixed them around as musical accompaniment and you you sung you sung a sort of like a folk protest performance art piece is that fair to say yeah but i thought that that you couldn't even hear the um mixer. It was quite loud in the house.

Yeah. So there was no... I mean, it's just the whole thing was... I thought you would be able to hear that... Yeah. You could mainly hear your guitar and your lyrics with things like, Elon Musk, stop sending all the cars to space,

leave them on the drives where they belong, things like Elon Musk stopped sending all the cars to space, leave them on the drives where they belong, things like that. Were you dreading that one coming up? Was that one of the ones where you did it and immediately you were like, oh, I hope they don't use that. I don't want to see that back again. Well, I think then you've got to embrace it. You know, I actually, with this show,

I'm probably going to make myself watch that bit over and over and over again now. Every day. Every day, yeah. Just to, you know, keep it real, I think. Yeah, you've got to keep it real. I mean, you've got, look, you've got two points for it, which I'm going to...

God, you said someone worse than me. Yeah, delicate way of putting it. I think you actually, you were very lucky there to get two points. Because both Ardell and Judy got one point. And I actually thought... Did they? Yeah, and Ardell's I thought was great. He created a salon and used the mix of the shampoo and colour a mannequin's hair.

Gosh. And put colouring on it and stuff. I mean, it was was chaos it was like some sort of mad torture technique it was like it was like automatic waterboarding um but it was fun it was good fun but he lost his mind i think yeah uh sophie's one point um was uh she wrote some ice breakers and put them into the mixer for alex to choose sort of a lucky dip she used it as sort of a tombola an automatic tombola and you know what it was okay i i liked that i really i like how dark sophie goes sometimes with her stuff there's you know stuff about alex dying all the time alex's death is involved yeah um and she really

tried to do ice breakers for fun conversations. But even then, Sophie can't help but go for something like, you're going to die sooner than you think. She's great. There's a real sort of death obsession in Sophie Duker that I really like. She's got a goth brain. Yeah. Yeah, it's brilliant.

But it was one point. Her and Ardell won. Her and Ardell won. And two points for you for the Elon Musk protest song. And you can't believe it. You think that I should have got one. Yeah, I think you should have got one. And they should have got more.

I'm going to be honest with you, Bridget. I think maybe you and Sophie deserved one. But I think Ardell deserved two or three at least for the for the salon I thought it was good fun um and I think Judy was maybe slightly overscored as well for the love bar uh where she mixed cocktails in a cement mixer Greg gives her points because it's a possibly a realistic idea he could imagine a bar where they actually mix drinks in a cement mixer which I suppose I suppose is true but it was fairly this is Judy does this a lot in the series quite a route one idea based on alcohol and doing the least amount of work

possible. But then she just sells it so well. She sells it. I think I might've said, I don't, did I say I don't deserve any or something? Yeah. You weren't happy with it from the off.

I think you were not happy. Am I, am I, are you supposed to lie when you're't happy with it from the off I think you were not happy am I am I are you supposed to lie when you're not happy then no I think and I think you could tell you weren't happy because normally you will absolutely throw your full weight of support behind your own ideas and you will be angry with Greg if he doesn't score them in the way that you think uh it should be scored but this one you immediately held your hands up and went, well, that's rubbish. It was like you were watching back an eggy Edinburgh preview, is what it felt like. Yeah.

Where you're going, oh no, that doesn't work. I'm going to have to drop all of that. Yeah, well, well, you know, it's on telly now, isn't it? It's on telly forever.

That's there forever, unfortunately. Yeah. Let's talk about Chris's, because Chris took the five points and Judy took three points. I mean, this is possibly one of my favourite moments on Taskmaster ever. This is so up my street. I can't believe it. It's absolutely amazing.

The speed at which the sausages take off. This is so up my street. I can't believe it. It's absolutely amazing. The speed at which the sausages take off. It's, and when they hit their face, I mean, it's just, it's one of those moments, isn't it? It really is. And straight away, I mean, he must have known as soon as it happened that it was going to be one of those moments.

He must have been so proud of himself because no one was expecting the sausages to just start so quickly. And immediately as there's no slow build-up it's just like whoosh the sausages are off and they're both so scared it's so funny i mean it's absolutely amazing isn't it um that that moment that's of that that moment that sausage when they just bouncing off his off their faces as well it It's so perfect. And it actually happens. Chris manages to win the game. It's not an impossible game.

It's just a very, very high energy turbo game. Fans of Taskmaster will... Go on. Sorry, he got five. So who got four? No one. Greg wanted to establish a gulf between Chris and everyone else

because it was so good, which I agree. I do agree with that. So do I. Yeah. It was just fans of Taskmaster will sort of see the cement mixer sausage thing as like a turbo version of when Bob Mortimer brought in a device to help his children eat these cheaper meats. He put on a little thing with sausage spinning around on it.

And that's very much like a mini version of what Chris did. It was just great. I mean, I can't say much more about it. I think that's going to go down in history as one of my favourite things that's ever happened on Taskmaster. Sausage mixer. Who comes up with... Chris loves games.

He loves little games to play. And this is probably his finest i think how did he think of was there sausages in the fridge then i guess so yeah there's always a lot of stuff kicking around in the fridge in there i've never looked in i never looked in the you never looked in the fridge now in the fridge or i never looked for stuff in the kitchen weirdly so you can't change that now unfortunately isn't it's an oversight, isn't it? Yeah, there might have been things in there that would have absolutely solved all of your problems, Bridget.

It would have been amazing. The solution to every task is in the fridge. If you'd watched a bit more Taskmaster, you would have known that. Exactly. So the fridge hack. Yeah. Yeah, watch it all now. That'd be good.

That'd be helpful. No, that was fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. He should be good. That'd be helpful. No, that was fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. He should be so pleased with that. If he didn't do anything else in the whole series, that would probably be enough, wouldn't it?

Yeah. If he didn't do anything in his whole life, apart from that, you'd be happy with that. Just as an old man on your deathbed going, well, at least I did the sausage mixer. I don't know anyone who wouldn't want to play sausage mixer.

It was like a rollercoaster with sausages coming at you. Oh, fella. Rarely have I seen a sausage go from still to accelerating that fast. Well, I googled it. I don't think anyone has ever done that before. Of course they haven't. Task two. Record the highest number on this pedometer.

You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now. It's a very straightforward, simple task. Or I thought so. I thought it was when it was read out initially. And I'll say as well, I've done this task before on the horn section question sessions, which was a live show that Alex in the horn section used to do in Edinburgh. And I did it in McUnlith as well.

And as a game at the end, we had to put a pedometer on and get as many steps as we could, I think in a couple of minutes or something. And it was me versus John Lloyd and I absolutely thrashed him. So you literally just ran. I ran up and down. I was jogging on the spot I was going absolutely mad John Lloyd left in my dust and let me tell you that was in front of an audience who were mainly there to see John Lloyd and they hated me I was running around going in your face John Lloyd

just loads of nice old women sat in the audience can't believe I'm being so rude to the man running around going in your face john lloyd just loads of nice old women sat in the audience can't believe i'm being so rude to the man the man who was this awful young man yeah this awful young competitive man disrespecting and i do i do think it very much slowed down uh my chances of getting on qi for a long time i think i would have got on about three years earlier had it not been for me shouting in your face, John Lloyd. Oh, God, what a classic. Yeah. So I think it's a good straightforward task. In my head, it's straightforward.

I would have gone for a run down the river, but they're obviously immediately starting to look for hacks. Yeah, but we don't all have the same brains, do we? No, exactly. That's the good thing about Taskmaster, Bridget. I'm sorry I didn't run for 20 minutes for you. Also, mine didn't work. It wasn't counting up.

Bridget, you weren't stepping. So when you were saying, oh, none of these steps are registering, quite often you were standing still. No, I remember walking with it and it not and not changing but i think it's because you were holding it as well i think you have to sort of strap it to your belt or attach it to your leg so it can register the step you were just sort of holding it in a still hand and then stepping do you think that might be an issue do you know what i actually didn't know that you had to put like not hold it well i think that's like a very good design well i think if you're not moving your hand so obviously

like a few people just started rattling it and then it registers a step but if you're stepping and just holding it still it might not register it i think you have to be a bit more a bit more forceful with it but the the unusual steps bridget honestly the ones where you're being sarcastically walking alex to prove that you're walking it's just i think i think about that every time i close my eyes i can see that those steps like a big weird spider what just walking normally you mean when i know no where you're going oh sorry do you want me to walk like this? And then do those ridiculous high steps.

It's like something from an old German children's book. Like Struelpetter. I mean, I was trying to make the pedometer work, walking like that. And did it work like that? I think it did. I think it might have done, yeah. I thought that if I stepped if I exaggerated the

steps and stepped down harder then it would start registering yeah but I think you worked out quickly that that wasn't a sort of long game you couldn't do that for 20 minutes no I mean I could have but I I didn't I don't think I wanted to no But what you did do was you found a really neat way around it by breaking it down linguistically and saying you've got to record a number on the pedometer and then recorded the number on your phone, 11 trillion gazillion, whilst you were on the pedometer.

And it was great. Yes. And, well, I didn't know whether Greg would allow it, but, I mean that's what it said on the tag, it didn't say that you couldn't do that. Yeah sometimes he allows things like that and sometimes he gets in a bad mood about stuff like that

but he allowed it in that you've got to take the risk Bridget I think so too and Judy was livid with you absolutely livid with you she looked like she was about to walk out And Judy was livid with you. Absolutely livid with you. She looked like she was about to walk out. This is why I don't think you living in a house would necessarily work.

She'll come round. Yeah. She'll come round as soon as you stop cleaning the toilet. I'll do those... I'll get loads of fish water fountains for her yeah I'd love that Sophie tied it to a drill

and it immediately spun off and just flew away so she went with shaking it but she this is the thing with this task I think it does reward people who just throw themselves into it unless you find a clever way around it like you did so Chris just absolutely goes for it. He's in the dome for so long going,

oh God, it's so hot. And he didn't have to stay in the dome. But he just threw himself into it, went quite basic with it and got 2,789 steps. Sophie gets 1,209. Ardell spends so long trying to find a system. This is the problem. If you spend a long time trying to find a system,

it doesn't work. But ended up with over a thousand, which is pretty good. Puts it on the wooden shoe. He just takes his time with it. He sort of massages it at one point, really. He's just sort of slowly going up and down. The thing is about Ardell,

I don't know if you felt this in the studio, Bridget, it didn't feel like he was there to win a lot of the time. It didn't feel like he was there to win a lot of the time. Well, I think that there's a few of us who... I think, you know, some of us wanted to win and I think some of us were having having fun you know not yet I think you know I think you're more competitive than you're letting on and it's did you just open a bum bag Bridget no I did my jacket up well I've never on a podcast experienced someone

someone hurrying me along by putting their coat on but here we are Bridget put her jacket on I'm really cold in my house but I don't put the heating on anymore because of my bills so you just put the jacket on wear coats now

just did myself up there um do you think i'm competitive yes i do think you're competitive in your own way absolutely um yeah but uh maybe but not like you know, I don't know. I don't, you know, it's not that, oh, I desperately want to win. Sure. Like, you know what I mean? But task to task, if you get underscored or you feel like someone hasn't understood the task properly, you do absolutely go for Greg.

You're angry if you've not got the points you think you deserve. Would you say that? Yeah, I mean, i don't know stop trying to seem chill now bridget i don't believe it um judy puts uh this is the problem judy tried everything and i don't think realized what a pedometer was she put it on a skateboard which is the opposite of what you need for a pedometer and then puts on a remote control rat so there's no one stepping at any point she gets 483 steps just by virtue of the fact she was moving it between a skateboard and a rat yeah but that's funny though isn't it it is funny definitely you need people to do things like that but you

certainly do i mean but it's not going to register the steps 483 steps and then quite a big gulf you won with 11 trillion gazillion gazillion not a number so I guess trillion is what the winning number is so it was 1 point for Judy, 2 points for Ardell 3 points for Sophie

4 points for Chris and 5 points for you Bridget probably unfair that you know. We should probably have given Chris five. No, it wasn't unfair at all. Oh, don't you think? Oh, what, were you just thinking around the language of it? Yeah, I think you thought around the language. It was great.

So, there's some quite contrasting numbers. Yeah. We go from Judy with 483, Ardell about 1,000, Sophie 1,200, Chris, 2,789. Bridget's either 11 trillion gazillion or 139. LAUGHTER I mean, fair play. I think she has done it. Oh, my God.

LAUGHTER I think I'm going to have to allow it, and it's very clever lateral thinking. But I would remind you of how she walks day to day. It gives you a little lift. I got beaten by someone recording a number. Oh, you know you got beaten by everyone. Task three, hold a meeting with yourselves.

There must be eight of you at the meeting. Most dramatic meeting moment wins. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now. How did you feel about this task, Bridget? I thought that the idea was good, but the execution was terrible. Your particular idea or everyone's execution? No, mine. I thought this was not a good episode for me, I don't think.

Well, I would say this task is incredibly hard I would have absolutely panicked at this task yeah because you've basically got to write either a sketch or a mini drama you've got to make it dramatic I don't think anyone really pulled off the drama

I mean least of all Chris who had a meeting about some stolen chocolate yeah yeah it was hard for everyone that one I think yeah it was Chris's had no stakes at all the stolen chocolate and then it cut to one of them with a with chocolate on his face so the mystery was solved immediately and showed off some of Chris's acting I felt felt for him on that one. I would have absolutely panicked. I would not have known what to do. Yours was a very, I think, a great idea. Like you say, your different personality traits

all having a meeting with each other. Yeah. I liked that a lot. But the execution, maybe, yeah, none of the personality traits spoke, did they? It was just you speaking. And then you used sort of acting to display the different personality traits spoke, did they? It was just you speaking. And then you used sort of acting to display the different personality traits.

Yeah, it should have been, I mean, I think the idea was there, but then all of the, all the different me's should have, like you say, spoken. Yeah. You don't have long really to think about everything. No, 20 minutes is nothing for a task like this,

to have to play eight different characters and come up with the idea and execute it. I think it's very hard. Yeah. But yeah, I should have performed that better, I think. Well, I think a lot of people miss the dramatic meeting moment thing. Like they just came up with the idea and then forgot about the actual moment so Sophie had a good idea to do an impression of all the

different contestants uh and have Greg I mean I feel like Sophie deserved uh full points just for straddling the chair like that and having Greg with his full sort of masculine legs completely splayed out of the chair was a great visual piece. But it didn't... There was no drama again, I don't think. Like, we find out very quickly that... How did you feel, Bridget, that Sophie had you as the killer who had killed Alex? I don't mind.

No? Is that realistic? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah, go on, why not? Ardell held a meeting at the tennis club, which I think is a little insight into Ardell's life. I think he enjoys tennis. Yeah, that was sweet.

Would you like to play tennis with Ardell? Yeah, I would, yeah. I would love Ardell. Would you? I think we should all meet up but you know I don't know well we did that series 9 Bridget

we all met up and went for afternoon tea so how lovely I don't know anything about that I feel like you should organise it get a what's up group going I will

I think I might do that maybe we could all go play tennis I think everyone lives all over the place though yeah that's true that's tricky but you know if you're as good as series nine,

you'd all meet up. Good luck. And Judy's one. Judy's one was great. I see why Judy got the five points because she got the drama straight away. She did it in a sort of like old school, like Jerry Springer, Jeremy Kyle talk show thing. There was loads of drama. got the drama straight away she did it in a sort of like old school like jerry springer jeremy kyle

talk show thing there was loads of drama she was the only one who understood the assignment there was a reveal of a baby she was acting she was acting the the people being shocked and taking pictures oh it was fantastic i think yeah brilliant five points easy for judy this was right up her street well done judy fantastic so it's one point for you Bridget sadly here uh which I think again maybe an underscoring in this episode because Chris gets two points Sophie gets three points I feel like you were all on a level with each other at least Ardell's tennis club uh stuff had you know a bit of a bit of drama in it um but Judy's was clearly the best but I feel like you should have all got three points. I think one point was harsh for yours, Bridget.

Yeah, I mean, because the idea, I mean, you could argue that the idea was solid, but it wasn't executed well. Yes. But then Chris probably didn't have a good idea either. No, he didn't. And it was executed quickly. Chris's was, it was a relief it was so quick i'll put i'll say that

and i don't think chris enjoyed that he's told me there's a couple of moments that he was in the studio and he was dreading something coming up and i think that might have been one of them where he was not confident about what he'd done yeah my my three would across the whole series yeah there's there's three things that are low moments for me and two of them are in this episode yeah we've picked an absolute cork as i talked to you about when you're hung over as well what a lovely day for you this is bridget um so was one of was one of them the cement mixer and then one of them was this little play what what was the other one um a food one a food one i think i know the exact one you're talking about uh we've not seen it yet it is next week so uh so so we'll enjoy that

um some of us are joining this meeting because we've got a bit of an issue with billy uh mrs mitchum do you want to read i mean, Billy is an absolute twit. Excuse me, I'm not happy about you speaking about my husband like this. Oi, Siobhan, you're calling me a twit, but I bet you didn't tell him you're having my baby. I knew it, I knew it, because I saw them the other day. Remember when I phoned you the other day? You were sitting there all quiet and recording, but I saw it the other day, and I was telling you that I saw him!

And her! Can I? No! Speaking of not executing things properly, let's talk about the live task. Correctly guess this person's first name. You must ask a yes or no question on your turn. If you take more than 10 seconds to ask your question, you miss a go.

The person who guesses correctly wins five points. This sums up this series, I think. All of you are doing weird stuff and none of you are really doing exactly what needs to be done apart from Chris. Chris is the only practical one in the whole group yeah yeah 75 questions bridget that's how long it takes it should really be just get through the alphabet maximum 26 questions there and then you just q it begins with q someone judy guesses quantum quite early on quiz then she guesses quiz yeah

it's madness Bridget how did it how long did it take in the studio um ages I think I think that's another I think Greg and Alex were going mad weren't they yeah they weren't happy I don't think I mean one of the first questions I mean it's a big

swing from Judy quite early she asks him is your name Pimpernickel? Yeah, that was pretty funny. That's pretty funny. Also, I think we all know, you know, anyone who's been to a TV recording knows that towards the end of the night, it does tend to drag a little bit. I can't imagine at the end of a TV recording, there being a thing where they have to ask questions and it's 75 questions.

There must have been people flooding out the doors to go to the tube. Oh, there was no one left. I mean, the crew had gone. I mean, there was no one on the cameras. They just taped down the record button and all left all left furious yeah oh god so funny so funny and Quentin it was Quentin such an unusual name as well yeah did you enjoy doing the studio tasks yeah I did yeah yeah yeah they're great equalizers they want aren't they yeah they really are I was

a particular fan of uh of the one of the one where you and Judy and Sophie had to put your leg through something and your head through something. It just looked like absolute chaos behind there. Yeah, but that took ages as well and loads of things went wrong. What went wrong? I think Judy came out once. what judy popped out the front no it was one

of us or something or and she came out from behind the box before what too early and just walked yeah perfect she should have kept it in if it's an outtake or something I don't know but yeah that was they're really good fun those studio tasks it was Sophie who got the five points in this one though for guessing Quentin on the 75th question which means the final

scores Sophie and Chris joint first with 15 points then Ardell on 12 Judy on 11 and you're right Bridget not a good episode for you no nine points uh leaves us with a terrible episode i'm so sorry for making you do this one uh the tie break was sing i've won in a low voice then this tie break in a high voice greatest vocal range wins sophie smashes it a range of 25 notes meaning that sophie wins the episode overall and putting us in the series scores you're in second place at the moment bridget it's chris of 25 notes, meaning that Sophie wins the episode overall.

Putting us in the series scores, you're in second place at the moment, Bridget. It's Chris ahead with 97 points, then you're on 93. Sophie very close behind you on 91. Ardell close behind on 86. Judy falling behind a little bit at this point on 78. We have a couple of emails for you, Bridget, from the listeners. If you'd like to answer a couple of those, that would be great. Dear Bridget, this is from Natasha in Devon.

Dear Bridget, you are absolutely one of my favourite contestants in all of Taskmaster history. Can you tell me, has anyone been in touch to claim the last will and testament you found in the skip? Good luck for the rest of the series. No, they haven't. But I've still got it. I'll keep it in case someone does get in touch.

Is it still framed? Is it framed on the wall still? It's not up on the wall, Ed. It's in a box now. No? No. Okay, good. Fair enough.

But I'll keep it in case someone is... Yeah. Gets in contact. Lovely. This is from Sarah in Kent. Question for Bridget. I love your outfit so much. What made you decide to go with it?

I'm going to a Taskmaster-themed party soon and I'll be dressed as you. It is Lee Van Cleef in For A Few Dollars More. Yeah. And I remember seeing that film when I was little and just being really struck by it, by his outfit. So it just stuck with you? Yeah.

So you've sort of been looking for an opportunity to dress like that your whole life really and Taskmaster was that opportunity? No, I have been dressing like this since I was a child. So this is the first time we've seen you in your normal clothes? Exactly. Yeah, no, it was... It's quite a striking image.

If you look... If you look him up in that film or watch him in that film it's really yeah it's a classic it's an all-time classic and then what I was going to do actually was I was going to have the exact same outfit but all cream for the studio filming but I couldn't find everything so I just went with uh it's a it's a western theme so basically everything I wear every week I will wear something that's either western-y-ish really it might be a shirt a boot a dress uh a belt or yeah oh that's so cool that's brilliant I've got a theme across the series love that this is the sort of information

we like on the podcast people will be going wild for this they'll love it i'm a big fan of your outfit on that as well i think it's brilliant i think it's it's it's the right amount of a little bit funny a little bit cool and and a little bit smart i think it's perfect um one more question uh this is from polly in edinburgh i thought your coolest photo was the deserved winner for its recreation but can i ask what what were you doing in the picture um you're such a great contestant so this is when you're you're sort of hanging from the rope almost aren't you bridget yeah i was climbing i was i was learning how to climb a rope in that picture at a circus centre. Oh, it was like a circus skills thing.

Yeah, yeah, because I was working up a show just before lockdown where I, you know, it was kind of a joke about, you know, comedians telling dangerous jokes, like, ooh, dangerous, you know, comedians telling dangerous jokes, like, ooh, dangerous, you know, telling a dangerous joke, oh, it's so risky. So what I would do is I learnt how to climb a rope, and in my show, we did it at Soho Theatre. Yeah.

I'd climb to the top of a rope in the show and then tell a joke from the top there. The most dangerous joke possible, yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, if I fell off it, I would die. So how many, did you get to do that show a lot or will you be bringing that show back? So what happened, Ed, was I worked, you know, I learned how to climb a rope.

I did work in progresses at Soho Theatre, like the theatre, because there's a high ceiling. Yeah. So then we were looking at theatres on tour with ceilings high enough to hang a rope from, blah blah blah. And then it was the Covid, you know, and so the tour was postponed and then I thought I can't really, this is, I don't know if I can really justify... Going up the rope well no it wasn't that it was it was a lot of um tech stuff yeah and a lot of health and safety business and a lot of um

it reduced the number of uh venues i could play as well right i said you just wanted to get back out there yeah exactly and so i i've dropped it i've still got the rope. It's behind me, actually. But I just dropped it. Well, maybe one day. Maybe one day we'll get to see Bridget Christie scale that rope again. But Bridget, thank you. Thank you so much for coming on the Taskmaster podcast. You've been absolutely wonderful. We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the Taskmaster podcast between one and five points in the style of the Taskmaster. Now, I'm aware that right at the style of the Taskmaster now I'm aware that right at the top of the episode you said that this was a horrible experience so I'm not expecting the

full five points I'm hoping I've maybe bumped up a little bit during the during the recording but Bridget please tell me how have you enjoyed today's recording between one and five points points through two heartbreaking to hear the beginning of three there and then have it reduced to two let's go with three okay now I know that two was there I feel real bad about that I'll be honest I can't believe this it must have started at a one if you're saying it's a horrific experience were we at a one for a bit and then it's gone up to

it's gone up to three you know what you are absolutely brilliant and I could just spend all my time with you but I think it's because you know it wasn't a great you know you've i think you've done it the fact that you picked my worst episode i think it was just done on availability i think this just happens to be the one that that we had a slot for and that you

could do yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah of course yeah yeah yeah i think you're still second in the series you know it's pretty it's doing going pretty well yeah it's really close there isn't it it's close very close it's very close it's evenly matched especially the beginning of the series it felt like chris was going to run away with it and it's just it's all balanced out in a very very exciting way yeah it's nice when it balances out yeah it's nice um bridget thank you so much for coming on i give you five five out of five but i understand it's been a horrific experience for you thank you so much for coming on the dance master podcast thanks so much for having me thank you very much bridget absolutely love that chat as always love to hear from

bridget even bridget's the sort of guest that i would happily take the uh take the phrase this is a horrific experience from, early in a recording of something that I am hosting. Didn't mind one bit. Thank you very much for coming in, Bridget. Keep watching Taskmaster, everyone. Thursdays, Channel 4, 9pm. We've already done episode six, would you believe it?

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