Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 88. Jamali Maddix - S6 Ep.10

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

On this week's podcast Ed is joined by comedian and Series 11 star Jamali Maddix. The pair discuss the finale of Series 6 and chat about wedding accessories, Asim's incredible rap skills and one of the most legendary TM moments ever! Follow Jamali on Instagram and Twitter @jamalimaddixBook tickets to Jamali's Edinburgh dates https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/jamali-maddix-king-crudWatch 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 Ontario Cannabis Store and ACAS Creative. Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, host of the Taskmaster podcast. We are here, of course, to chat about another episode of Taskmaster. And today we'll be talking about Series 6, Episode 10, the final episode of series six very exciting to get into it uh break it down task by task have a chat about how everything went how it was all scored etc you know the score by now that's what happens on the taskmaster podcast i don't need to explain it to you today our special guest to talk about all of these things and more is the wonderful jamali

maddox jamali maddox of course a former taskmaster contestant a very funny comedian you must go and see jamali on tour go and check out his social media all details are there he's also doing a few nights at the edinburgh festival towards the end of the edinburgh festival at the end of august he's doing the pleasant's grand which is a big fantastic room uh he's going to fill it out though so you better get a ticket quick we will be talking about series 6 episode 10 but before we do that I will let you know that for the next couple of weeks we will be releasing best ofs on a Thursday so we're not going straight on to series 7 that is coming up very soon we are releasing a couple of best of the Taskmaster podcast episodes which

won't necessarily be in-depth chats about the tasks themselves more the sort of fun stuff around the edge we've had some absolutely hilarious chats and we're going to edit those down into some very good best of episodes for the next two weeks but we will return talking about series 7 episode 1 on the 28th of July looking forward to seeing you then uh but now let's hear what jamali maddox has to say about series 6 episode 10 welcome back jamali to the taskmaster podcast yo what's up man thanks for having me bro not much you're very welcome back of course uh yeah what what our listeners of course can't see is that just as i was introducing you there you did a big puff of your vape and it was all coming out of your nose like a big dragon.

I'm keeping it on brand, bruv. This is the thing, bruv. When you get, if you book Jamali, you're going to get Jamali. Like, you know what I'm saying? I can't switch it up. I wish I could. I wish I could be like, you know,

I'd be like, hey, Ed, nice to do that. I've got to hit that vape, bro. The stress of this podcast, man. Look, you say you book Jamali, you get Jamali. Jamali now eats Tony's Choco Lonely Chocolate. Oh well i thought i told you that in confidence bro i got a bit of vulnerability and that's what you did to me bro yeah i eat tony's chocolate and i'm and i'm yeah it's who i am now but doing taskmaster changes you yeah it does that that's what happens here puts you in a different sphere like i'm i walk in now i I fucking, you know what I mean?

I'm Taskmaster, but I can't be eating this normal dairy fucking milk chocolate, brother. You know what I mean? It suits you. I like you eating Tony's. It's perfect. Jamali, we're, of course, going to talk today about Series 6, Episode 10. But, obviously, we've got to catch up first. So, you say Taskmaster's changed you

has anything happened since you've been on Taskmaster are you getting recognised for Taskmaster now? I get like yeah I get a lot of talk it's weird it happens in America yeah I didn't think people watched that much British TV in America because it doesn't really

British shit don't translate a lot of the time in America because Americans got this weird thing and I think that's why a lot of the time in America because Americans got this weird thing. And I think that's why a lot of panel shows aren't in America is because they got this weird concept about winning. Like they don't understand that winning isn't a part of the show as much. It's the participation. They're like, yeah, but who wins? But Taskmaster, they love Taskmaster.

I had a guy fly from Tennessee to Chicago to come watch me. Wow. Just from Taskmaster. From had a guy fly from Tennessee to Chicago to come watch me. Wow. Just from Taskmaster. From Taskmaster. That's great. What I do is I get people coming to my shows. I had one girl come to my show with a Taskmaster note. And for a second I was worried.

I was like, oh shit, am I back on the show? Like, it's just like a task that I've been set. It's like, they're like, all right, Jamali, your task has been that you haven't been, you didn't know you was booked again. Now you've got to do something. That would be such a twist that you never, you never stopped doing Taskmaster.

I never did it. They just draw you back in when you think it's done. So I was fucking, I really shit myself. I was like, oh no, they've been like filming this and now I've got to, but it was just like a girl. He opened it and he goes, can you sign my book? Time starts now and i was like you could just ask me i would i would i would it would have been the same answer no

yeah that's a classic jamali reaction uh so not involved in the spirit of taskmaster but still very good at it um it's interesting yeah i think i i agree that whole thing about americans don't seem to understand that panel shows there are no winners so they can't wrap their heads around it it's interesting I think I agree that whole thing about Americans don't seem to understand that panel shows there are no winner so they can't wrap their heads around it

which is probably why they like Taskmaster Jamali because it does matter who wins it does matter 100% it does matter but at the same time it's like

maybe that's why the reason why Taskmaster translated it's a good point it is one of the few that did you win yes Jamali oh

I see the award I didn't know if they gave you that award just because you do a pod no I won He is one of the few that... Did you win? Yes, Jamali. Oh. I see the award. I didn't know if they gave you that award just because you do a pod. No, I won fair and square. Oh, you won fair and square. You should know this already. I thought this... On a friendship thing?

I'm not really caring about... Or on a watching Tarsus? Both. Both. As a friend, I should have known, but as a... No. Oh, sorry, colleague.

I should have known. But, yeah, I should have known. I think I'm going to know the answer to this question given that conversation. But had you seen much of Series 6 before you watched this episode? That's the one I watched pre-going on. Well, there you go. I was expecting a big fat no. No, no, no. And I say I saw clips.

Okay. That and the Paul Chowdhury one. Yeah. Where I just watch Paul Chowdhury clips all day. I think that's one of my biggest pastimes. It is watching Paul Chowdhury clips. Because you find him fascinating? Yeah.

He's fascinating. As a human. I just find him fascinating. And I'm blessed to know him personally yeah um but i watched yeah so i i did i did watch some of the clips of season um i saw season six and lisa tarbuck man i love lisa i've never met her but she's fucking hilarious man yeah she absolutely is i mean this is another great episode for her i mean everyone has a good episode so you say you you've seen asim before obviously you're aware of asim liza you're aware of uh i guess i guess the others you're sort of tangentially aware of tim vine you must have gigged with before no i never worked with tim i know i'm not more of tim no i never worked with

tim i think tim was sort of like tim was like touring when I started doing the circuit, innit? So he worked like, no, I never, or like even the charity gig. No, I never worked with Tim. But,

that's a shame because that is a bill. That's a bill I'd love to see. Right? It is an interesting bill, innit? Something for everyone. Yeah. Yeah. I think it'd be weird if we went back,

if we did like an hour back to back and it was our audiences combined. Yeah. That would be a sick show, bro. I think that would be a sick show bro i think that would be a sick show but um do you know what i i i really was looking forward to watching tim uh when i got this clip over now like or this episode over and they're like yeah watch this one i was really because tim he's got an interesting mind yeah do you know what i'm saying though he's

one of them dudes there's certain dudes in this world like they just got interesting minds in it and he and i was interested to see his thinking process because it's sort of like zany but intelligent yeah yeah you know what i'm saying though he's a very smart man like he's a sharp guy but like you know i mean just just even in terms of like putting together those word plays is a certain level of do you know what i'm saying though like and sort of like not, and cause you know, people look down on puns, but he's shit's next level where he's,

do you know what I'm saying though? Yeah. And it's all within a certain style. He's got such a specific sort of feel to all of his jokes. They're very silly. They're clean, but you're sort of, you enter a whole world that he's created when,

when you do a show. And I just love that he dressed as like a safari, uh, uh, explorer. Yeah. You must've been kicking yourself. he's created when when i love the show and i just love that he dressed as like a safari uh uh explorer yeah you must mean kicking yourself yeah i didn't know black you were all black do you regret that do you wish maybe you'd gone with a sillier costume jamali do you remember we did that other show uh yeah outsiders oh we could talk about i don't know if we could talk about other shows. Yeah, we could talk about other shows. When we did Outsiders, remember they sprung it on us

that we got to dress up as animals? And I was like, nah. And then I was like, come on, pick this one. And I was like, nah. But yeah, no, I'm not. Lee Mack did dress up in our one. He dressed as Evel Knievel. Yeah.

I don't know what I'll dress up as. I don't know what I'll dress up as like I don't know like a suit or something that that for me is like a wacky outfit yeah for you but I was going to say for you it's about about stepping outside your comfort zone maybe so it even if I saw you in a green t-shirt I'd be like whoa what's Jamali yeah yeah I think that I think I think the internet would blow up I think reddit would go mental. Tell us if Reddit don't fuck around, isn't it? Are you on Reddit? Do you check out Reddit? I looked at it, bro.

People hate me, bro. People are furious at me. People are furious, bro. I wasn't aware of any Jamali Haight knocking around Reddit or otherwise. Oh, I'll send it to you. People are furious. And it's from this ocean

and they're going to talk about this podcast again and they're going to be like they're going to be like you know john he doesn't never seen the show and you know and how dare he ask alex what he does and i was like yeah i like i know that alex is the executive producer of the show like i know that i'm not but then like they're like, how dare you? I'm surprised I didn't get assassinated, bro. I don't think the Taskmaster Reddit has spilled out into violence just yet. Oh, it was...

Yeah, it was... It's a time bomb. Let's talk about this episode. It's the final episode of series six of course we're sad to say goodbye to it uh but this is another another great episode uh let's talk about the prize task now prize the prize task jamali i believe you you said that um i've got a direct quote here uh i didn't get paid enough to do homework i believe yeah yeah yeah yeah i was like but when the show ends the show ends but why am i having they're calling me at my house at 12 o'clock in the afternoon talking about can you bring in a prank no but so i think

i thought i think one i brought in was a plastic cup the one i did put effort in was a, I made a tattoo gun. Yeah, that was amazing. Best thing you can operate with your hand and you won that one. Did I win that one? I think I won that one. Because that was the one that annoyed me is I remember once I really,

a hot potato, I didn't win that one. It was one thing that, yeah. And it pissed me off so much, I stopped giving effort. Yeah. Because I was like, I should have won that. Yeah. And in fact, when I try, I don't win.

Yeah, so the game's rigged. So you've got to just give up. Well, you won three prize tests, which for someone who said you didn't get paid enough to do homework, you did really well in your homework. Do you know what's really good? I got this weird talent where when I don't give effort, sometimes it comes off.

That's dangerous though, isn't it? Yeah. All I'm saying is I'm on a nice edge. This prize task is least appropriate accessory for a wedding. It's a good prize task. Did you have any thoughts, Jamali, what you might have brought in? I was stumped on this one.

Genuinely, I don't think I would have to bring back in a plastic cup or something. I think any of yours would work. Any of yours that you brought in. A tattoo gun. A baseball bat with a nail in it. Yeah, that was one of my favourite ones.

A baseball bat with a nail in it. But yeah, I look back on it and I go, yeah, I'm surprised I was booked for the show. I think Russell should have got more. I look back on it and I go yeah I'm surprised I'm surprised I was booked for the show I um I think some I think I think Russell should have got more I think that's a solid that's a good bit

and it's the most inappropriate thing I wouldn't give him first place I think nunchucks was the best yeah here's what here's what I thought about Russell's because it is a good bit and it was funny to bring vouchers for a divorce lawyer. I wouldn't say it was an accessory.

I hear accessory, I'm thinking something you can wear, something you're carrying, something people can see when you walk in, you're making a statement. One thing I will say, though, is the problem is with this show, is you let Asim pull the cat. I know this is late,

and we're going to talk about that in a bit, and I'm going to talk about my absolute fury at this. But if you're going to allow Asim to pull it, which when I would think about how I would do it, I would have done exactly the same thing. Yeah. But you got to allow some, do you know what I'm saying though?

Like, it's like maybe if Russell did it as a voucher that you made into a tie then you think that would have been better yeah but then it gets complicated doesn't it then it muddies the clarity of the joke yeah which is what Russell's I mean look Russell's a brilliant comedian so

Russell's thinking about the bit all of the time he's thinking about the laughs he's not thinking about getting points and sticking to the rules of the task like you and me she only got one point for that lisa i thought the sandwich board was really funny and i wasn't judging funny walking in with a with a with a sandwich board that says i love tom hanks to a wedding feels inappropriate yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's solid i like the pregnancy test one two that was good yeah i think again it was complicated alice's positive pregnancy test belonging to the mother

of the bride i think one you should the positive pregnancy test is a really good thing and she even said i'll wear it around my neck or whatever to make sure people can see it yeah i think it was then the mother of the bride being introduced made it a little bit more confusing but it was good it'd cause a stir at a wedding right yeah okay what do you what would you have bought i think i think i would have bought another woman in a in a wedding dress but then i think that would have been uh inappropriate because it's accessory yeah and maybe like a maybe like a uh like a black wedding dress with like cobwebs hanging off it or something. Yeah, well, you would have worn it. Yeah, if I wore it, yeah.

But also, I mean, so let's talk about Tim's briefly, which was the Waspinator belt, which is, again, you say he's an odd guy with a completely unique way of thinking. That is a genuinely odd thing. He couldn't really explain why he wears it to weddings. He does wear it to weddings already, which I i think rules it that's one point for me because it's clearly an appropriate accessory for a wedding because he's worn it to multiple weddings before and no

one's got annoyed with him see that's the thing though because if you're inviting tim vines to your wedding you just gotta accept you gotta accept that you know i'm saying it's like if you invite me to your wedding i'm gonna be a be a bit late. You've got to accept it. Don't invite me, bro. I might be, I'm going to be late. I'm not going to wait. I've got to see you be in love at 9 a.m. Come on, fam.

Come on, bro. How late would you be? So say it's a 10 a.m. start. Yeah, what's the latest you've ever been to a wedding? Oh, like, I think I just walked into the, you know when they give the speech of why they want to do this? Yeah.

I've walked in at that point. Hang on, so after the wedding, like the reception? No, no, no, no, you know during the vows? Yeah. I come in vows. That's when I come in. I'm like, all right, vows. But then I was there early, but I was smoking outside.

I was like, all right, I'm going to let this. You know what I'm saying? So you see the bride go in. Yeah. I think it should just be I do. Yeah. Let's get straight to I do. Do you want to do this?

But you definitely missed that then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm an after party guy. Yeah. You're on time for the party. You're on time for the reception all the time. Yeah, I'm late for weddings yeah so 10

so the wedding starts at 10 i'm getting there for like maybe 10 45 yeah that i mean that's inappropriate yeah i think if you could if you could distill that lateness down into an accessory i think i think that would be perfect a shirt oh do you know what I would have worn and I threatened my boy this is what I would have done I threatened my boy to do this at his wedding and he made me promise not to or his wife said I wasn't invited anymore

because his wife hates me I was going to wear a shirt that had a suit on it you know them old school jokes where you've got the button and that I think that's an inappropriate a tuxedo t-shirt yeah because I would have gone for three points I wouldn't have got the five I would have gone for three

that's an interesting technique Jamali we've never had anyone come on the Taskmaster podcast and say that they would have gone for three points yeah that's how you do because that's the people who normally win all over the people who win overall aren't people who five five five five there's normally people that normally win all over. The people who win overall aren't people who 5-5-5-5-5. It's normally people that

they stay consistent within the median. But surely you're always shooting for five points. Listen, yeah, but you've got to live in reality, bro. Not every day's Eid. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, sometimes you've got to... Do you know what I'm saying, bro?

Like, yeah, you want steak, you've got to get a hamburger, bro. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, we've got to go with what's... You know what I mean? It's a long Like, yeah, you want steak, you've got to get a hamburger, bruv. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, we've got to go with what's, you know what I mean? It's a long game, isn't it? It's 10 episodes. It's a great attitude.

It is a great attitude. It's 10 episodes, but this is the final episode of the series and I love that you'd still be shooting for the three points. Yeah, because the first one, Asim won as well, didn't he? Yeah, this was a really exciting moment.

Asim had not won one for the whole of the series and we'll get to it, but yeah, this was a really exciting moment Asim had not won one for the whole of the series and we'll get to it but yeah this was a wonderful end to Asim's story on Taskmaster Did you like his nunchucks? I loved his nunchucks, I think the nunchucks was the deserved winner

I think nunchucks are hugely inappropriate for a wedding, just hanging off your belt and you know whipping them out of reception I think that's quite fun to do the you know do a little display but at the ceremony itself would feel would feel wrong did you uh did did joel domic come to your wedding joel domic did not come to my wedding i went to his wedding oh you're a fucking snake i. He was invited, but I'll tell you why. Because our wedding was on his wedding anniversary. Oh, I see. That's a real nice way to not have Joe Dorman come to your wedding.

I see your game here. You're like, listen, I don't fucking want Joe coming. Let me in. Because he does the nunchucks, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, he does nunchucks. And I didn't want him coming doing nunchucks. I didn't want him coming looking all handsome. Yeah, I think that's the main point. Yeah, I don't want him showing up at myucks. I didn't want him coming looking all handsome. Yeah, I think that's the main point.

Yeah, I don't want him showing up on my wedding day. Too fucking handsome, bruv. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want him coming to my knee if I'm looking handsome, bastard. I love Joel. Yeah, actually, my least appropriate accessory for a wedding would be Joel Dommett

because he'd show the groom up. Right, let me ask you a question, Greg. So have you been to an Indian wedding before? I have been to an Indian wedding. I had a right old time of it. Good, but have you been to an Indian wedding before? Ha-ha! I have been to an Indian wedding. I had a right old time of it. Good. But have you been to an Indian wedding in Hounslow? I haven't. OK. Weddings can get quite rowdy in Hounslow. So, my least appropriate thing, it's quite inappropriate, sorry,

but it's also essential, and it is... Nunchucks. LAUGHTER Nunchucks. And you're going to wear these to the wedding? Yes, I have. I've worn them before to a wedding. Have you? I did a little kind of choreographed, drunk, Bhangra dance. Put off your own bat?

Yeah, and got thrown out. Ah! Sick night. Task one, knock over the fewest skittles. now. Sick night. Task one, knock over the fewest skittles. You may place one item on each of the three ramp sections or you may place two items in one of the ramp sections. Your items must be found on this table and may not include either you or the table. You may not tamper with the balls or the ramp. The bowling balls will be released in five minutes. Your time

starts now. Slight. These rules confused a lot of people. Yeah, they confused me because in my head, I automatically do, because when you watch it, you automatically play along with what you would do. I would have done exactly what Asim did was the first place my mind went. Yes.

Was the two things to then hold the thing because he was thinking, you push it back and then it's thinking you push it pushes it back and then it's holding and then it slows it down and that stops it and that's what i thought that that was my full process um so i was very i i thought exactly what what asim did is exactly what i would have done yeah what i what i didn't take into consideration was how the mannequin falls apart yeah really i i didn't think that it breaks off into bits i thought it would be a solid thing um i and that was confusing because i thought it was two can go in one but then one can still be in one yeah do you know what i mean no that's what

i got from it too so yeah i mean it was it was slightly baffling i think everyone sort of struggled with one item in each or two in one you would have thought the natural thing would be to do one in each and then three in one right so you still use three items but you have to position them differently but yeah anyway they eventually all got there they realized they realized what was going on um this was really hard yeah no one the bowling balls were mad heavy yeah and i know that sounds stupid but like i didn't i really didn't do you know what like moving on from asim's one if we can i really thought the string but it just went through like it went through the string weirdly like it's sort of just like it went in between the strip like i don't

know how it went in but like obviously i know how do you mean for was that who's tim's well yeah tim's was tim's was almost like a simpsons joke it was so it went so badly yeah like he had the pipe and the string and you were like that's perfect and they literally ducked under. They went, oop. Oh, one second, though. Tim only had pipe and string, or he had something else on his one? I think he only had pipe and string in one section. So he had two in one section. Okay. Tim then wouldn't have been. No.

Tim had two things. Tim had the pipe, and then he also had the bar that was set. Right. Tim technically cheated, because you're only allowed to have two in one, or one in each. two things because tim had the pipe and then he also had the bar that was set right tim technically cheated because you're only allowed to have two in one or one in one in each so technically tim should have been fucking disqualified anyway well it didn't matter because it was an absolute disaster it fucking matters mate yeah it matters bruv because he should have been straight disqualification i didn't notice that he he'd been disqualified but at that point they literally it may as well have not been there they the balls the balls snuck under they tiptoed

under and then just went full pelt towards the skittles yeah maybe laugh how bad it was if anything it made it go faster yeah it's all good spin on them yeah like i don't know how that works in physics but it just went like faster and harder. Like, it was honestly, I really thought Tim had it, bro. Yeah, I thought it was genius. It looked great. Yeah. And I think the way Tim either had to have it so it was a complete wall,

like so he threads it over and over and over. I'm sorry for the people listening, but it's like I'm interlocking my fingers to create sort of like a cocoon of my hand. Yes. And I think that would have worked or if it was cross-stitched yeah it would have worked because I think it's the two lines there was the gap was too big maybe but I don't know yeah it just gave them a little gate really

didn't it yeah it was like it was creepily it went through creepily easily like I don't know why but it really freaked me out of how it just slips right through um yeah I yeah I and the other one um everyone else I mean Alice Alice Alice completely lost her mind I think like Tim's actually made sense uh from an engineering perspective yeah Alice panicked and put down banana skins as if they would slip the slip up. I think she'd given up at that point. Like it's a Mario Kart. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then also Russell just used tape. But I thought that was a good idea.

I think I would have done something like that. You can build, but I think you just need more tape. You just need as much tape as possible. And I don't know, you weren't allowed to tamper with the balls or the ramp. I don't know if that included the gate that the balls were sat behind. Yeah. So if you push like a bomb.

Yeah. Or the closer you get the tape, if you can get the tape right up to that bit as much as you can, you really hope that by this, they've not built up any speed. So they just rest on the tape, but I don't know. You know,

they only had five minutes. It's panic stations really, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You did not, it wasn't long, was it? No.

To get that one together. But yeah, I think if I would have done it, I probably would have done what Asim did. Yeah. And it was the one thing and then having the two things to then, once it hit, to slow it down. Yeah, it was smart.

It didn't work for Asim, though. Him and Alice both knocked over 28 pins and Alice put down banana skins so it wasn't it wasn't a great system yeah the banana skins was an awful idea lisa i'm not like i'm not convinced lisa cared about this one at all it's a very hard task but i think sometimes she looks at what she's like why am i doing this so i'm just gonna let me just get on with this i'll just whack a bucket down, whack a mannequin down. Yeah. And it's like you,

it's like you were saying when you don't care, sometimes things work out and Lisa got four points out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, cause, cause Lisa's one is the,

cause it's like the mannequin did slow it down somewhat. Like, I think even though it fell apart, it did slow it down. The water didn't really do much. No. I don't remember the bucket really did much but this mannequin i think that was more luck and chance yeah i think so i think there's

almost something if you can use the items you pick to funnel the balls off to one side you're taking speed out of them and then send them down in a line and then you're just knocking over one side maybe and i think that's the problem and it's a problem i would have done too and we're looking at it from hindsight yeah definitely bouncing around ideas the problem is everyone tried to stop the balls completely when what you kind of got to do is limit damage yeah yeah yeah very good point yeah and i think it's like what everyone was doing was everyone was like all right let's try and stop all of the balls so it stops everything and it's really yeah the funnel system of having it so it just hits the side or it you know i mean because it's like that that probably you know because you're going to knock down some pins and it was who knocks down the least amount

of pins yeah you've got to hope and assume that everyone else is trying to stop it and in five minutes you're never going to come up with a system that stops it completely no but you don't yeah i guess you're right you don't know that at the time you're like well come on we can we can pull this off we can get the zero pins but there's no there's no way it's it's almost impossible i'd say it's worth aiming high for it but in hindsight you kind of think, yeah, maybe you should just have collateral damage and just be like, all right, I'm going to knock down six, seven pins. But there's a certain amount of...

Although your system during Taskmaster was just to smash everything up. Do you think you might have resorted to that in this one? Just smash the whole thing up? What I would have done is I would have got... You know, I had like a pipe or something. I would have got um you know i had like a pipe or something i would have smashed the the floor so it so it so when it when it hit into like a pothole yeah i would like yeah so i probably would have smashed something so it so it breaks the actual track down but you weren't allowed to

do that would you would you would that have mattered well it said you can't tamper with the ramp so you don i feel like smashing smashing is tampering i think smashing might be tampering yeah i think so too yeah so setting it on fire or nothing can't do that i think that's tampering yeah no all right yeah yeah that's cool but i mean if you can think of anything else i think i would have loved to have seen you set that ramp on fire and then watch the bowling balls watch the bowling balls go down and still look over all the pins it would have been a laugh yeah it would have been a laugh it would have been a good clip um tim knocked over 33 pins and got one point alice and asin both

knocked over 28 and got three points l Lisa knocked over 23 pins, four points. And Russell knocked over 20 pins, five points. Again, it's sort of sporty, physical action, instinct task that Russell's very good at. And that proved right there as well. Natural athlete. Natural athlete. Well, I'm excited because there's two rope systems going on.

There's rope and drain pipe going on, as you said. There's the brilliant system of a flat, wet cardboard box. And it's not like you just did that. You also put down the vitally important banana skins. So that the balls would... Yeah. ..like, in the car. I thought, what's happened to me? I'm not going to knock anything down now. Hi, it's Terry O'Reilly, host of Under the Influence.

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earlier jamali a controversial task um let's talk about asim straight away asim's system and he's so proud of himself when he comes up with this is to tie a piece of string around the candle then he goes as far away as possible um and then back a little bit because it gets tangled up uh and then he yanks it and that's what that's what makes the candle go out. But does blowing make the candle go out there, Jamali? Well, it's what you define. It's like there is some type of blowing of air as the candle's falling. The gravity is blowing it.

Yes. Do you know what I'm saying now? The atmosphere is blowing it. If he were to blow what I'm saying now? The atmosphere is blowing it. If he would have blew on the string as he's pulling it, does that count? I don't think that makes a difference to what you did, whether he blew on the string or not. Because it was actual pulling motion.

Not, look, he cheated, but Taskmaster, yeah, is what I realised with Taskmaster. You can cheat, but you've got to cheat well. It's what my old high school teacher used to say to me. I don't mind you cheating, but just don't cheat to the point that I can catch you. Yes.

Do you know what I'm saying though? Is that really what a teacher said to you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you've got to understand this, bro. Like, you know, in school, they're only going to get so much out of me. Yeah. So they were just like, yeah, he's handed in something.

Yes, it's been, you it's been you know obviously copied from wikipedia but he's changed some he's changed and to a yeah so you know even though that's not grammatically correct yeah but i'm making effort but yeah so i i um i think i yeah i'm happy asking cheated like i i root for the cheaters like i'm not one of them guys where it's like what are you cheated like yeah good you know i'm saying like yeah you beat the system i don't think he realized he was cheating though and i i actually i dispute that he was cheating i think it is how you define blow and i think if there's if they chose to define it as any air going over the candle and making the making the candle go out and he created he moved the candle which created a blow around the candle i'd say i'm

being very generous i think they were being generous to ask him as well because i think they did want this narrative of us and winning an episode to come true and also his was the one that thought outside the box the most i think yeah. Yeah, yeah. My initial one was to throw something at the candle. So I was going to throw the racket. I was going to throw the ball. You know what I'm saying? Like I was going to throw a shed of candle and knock it over.

So it's the same thing, really. Yeah, not the string. But I didn't see what was on the table. Maybe I would have thought it was. But it was knocking. I was just going to throw and knock it. So yeah, I'm happy with Asim winning. I ain't got no issues with him doing it but it was knocking, I was just going to throw and knock it. So yeah, I'm happy with Asim winning.

I ain't got no issues with him doing it that way. Lisa's was smart because she interpreted the furthest person when the candle goes out wins to put the hoover on and then run away as fast as possible to be like, right, well, that's how far away i was when the candle went out i thought that was smart but she was she was foisted by the fact that the hoover did not blow the candle out i think as well as people think that the motion of sucking is the same as the motion of blowing right i hope someone doesn't rip that. But it's that you're less likely, because sucking motion is that I'm guessing,

this is not scientific, Ed, I'm guessing it has a less radius. I feel like blowing is a bigger radius. So you're less likely with the hoover, with the sucking motion. Like if I blow just as hard as something is sucking, I feel like the blow will hit the thing, an item, more likely than it will suck the item

to walk closer to it. Yes. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. So I don't, I think when people were using the hoover, it was miss, I think they were, they weren't on, i think they were kind of cutting their arms off a bit that's but that's interesting i i didn't realize i thought maybe

it was one of those hoovers that has a blow function i've never heard of a hoover blow function you maybe i'm just am i going mad i don't know if hoovers can do that i'm glad you said that this isn't a podcast this is is an intervention. We all think you've gone mad, mate. You've lost your mind, Ed. I've lost my mind because what use would that make? There's no such thing as a Taskmaster podcast, bro. No one, this is literally you and your roommate. Like, no one's here, no. This is Shutter Island.

Yeah, this is Shutter Island, bro. But no, yeah, like, it's, I think that if unless there was a blow function but i doubt i don't think they were trying to suck the candle off yeah you suck the candle off and i don't think you can i think the radius is too small so i think yeah i it would never work well it didn't work but i i do love lisa running away and then getting so into it and getting so committed that she hid behind a car. Yeah. They had to find her and she ran off towards the river. Like, great.

So funny. It was very funny. But I say that one. And also what I love is when Tim thought that his lungs and air for a straw would last forever like because you're blowing in the straw it doesn't mean that

the air is always going to come out like it's going to it would dissipate within the straw yeah do you know what I mean well also

his system he thought was foolproof I can't remember the exact rhyme or the exact song he came up with now but yeah he was

folding folding once folding twice pinch and push or whatever it was and the thing is those straws are not going to the exact song he came up with uh now but yeah he was folding folding once folding twice um pinch and push or whatever it was and the thing is those straws are not gonna they're not gonna work are they um they're really not gonna work and they bend the hole that because you think about it if you blow it i'm sure it's like you blow it and it goes through a little hole because the holes have to be like the straws have to bend

within the straw for yes within the straw yeah and i'm sure there's something where but you can't blow that little bit and then that little bit that's coming through concentrated has to then go through further i don't know if i'm looking too deep into it but it goes through and i don't think it would work yeah basically because like the one that did work was the the hose yeah the hose the hose is one level all the way through yeah exactly yeah you're not having to pinch different segments together and the yeah the straws is basically it's it's a human centipede and it's it's just not it's not going to work i'm glad tim worked out the hose because he'd said very early on this well that's not going to work that's a red herring and then the look of joy on his face when he blew down the hose and it immediately came

out and hit him in the ear it was great it's like he discovered some huge thing it looked like he worked out a new vaccine and it was and it was good when he um he got the bench and put it through the bench yeah that was great i thought that was a really nice little touch to work out he had to have something to hold it um alice didn't work that out at all she sort of just left the hose to do its own thing like a snake yeah yeah and it was just completely not nowhere near yeah just pointing the other other direction yeah yeah yeah but she still did well i mean she still to use the hose i think was was the way to go really unless you think outside the box like Asim or cheat as you put it um Russell had the right idea with but he just needed the hose he was trying to blow down a massive pipe

yeah and it's again I think the area circumference is too big isn't it it's like didgeridoo you don't it's no it's never gonna work I was surprised by Russell there I would have thought he worked it out because normally he's quite plucky at these and he really throws himself into them yeah but it's always like you, like the natural athlete he is. It's just, you know, it's just brawn, isn't it? Yeah. Blow as hard as you can with the biggest pipe. I think people think it's going to sound bad, but the biggest pipe is best.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And it's like, you know, sometimes it's not the biggest pipe. It's what you do with it. It's what you do with it, Ed. Yeah. That's what we tell ourselves. Yeah.

But it's, but yeah i i just think that um asim had the right idea and i think it's asim like how it worked out in terms of the scoring i think it was very fair yes so yeah you're right it was no asim five points two four points alice three points russell two points and lisa nought points Um, Alice was the same length as the longest ever moose, 3.5 metres. Oh! Tim, who folded it once, folded it twice, tucked it in a test tube... LAUGHTER It's a system that doesn't work.

LAUGHTER And that meant he got my lucky number, 13.8 metres. Ooh! But nowhere near that, since 29 metres. But, listen... Here we go. He didn't really blow it out. I like the guy and I want to see him win, but I also respect the rules. Passive aggression like that. Yes.

It would be remiss not to bring it up. It was a tug, not a blow. Yeah. LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE We chatted about it and we decided it was the movement of air over the flame. And I've never backed down to the concerns of contestants before. Asim wins. Leave it as it is. Task three.

Tell the taskmaster you love him in the most meaningful way. You have half an hour. Your time starts now. This is great yeah i really think very good asims he's a rapper isn't it you know you still do rap music yeah i mean that definitely comes across because when it started no using your skills absolutely not yeah it's handicapped though isn't it yeah but if i think if the task was write a rap about the taskmaster then that would feel not cheating but that would feel unfairly weighted yeah i think when it's

something as broad as tell the taskmaster you love him the most meaningful way and he uses a skill that he already has i feel like that's absolutely fair okay yeah because it's good and the way they edited it i was not hopeful because he was sat there at the keyboard trying to come up with stuff and i was like oh i seen you're panicking mate and then they cut to that video that they'd shot for it and it's very good one cut in there that's so fucking funny is when alex is nodding his head and he's like in the background that for me i lost my mind on that part that's such like a it was such a nuanced little thing but yeah that made the whole video when alex pops his head out man that was just i want to see alex in more rap videos bro i think the

rap the rap community need to embrace alex horn more like i think because i think you know me he needs to get more phone calls be like yo alex i beg you run up on this video real quick do you know what i mean just a little task not enough rappers use Taskmaster references isn't it yeah almost none I'd say absolutely none I think I think

Asim's the first guy who's ever rapped about Taskmaster well Doc Brown did do a rap in his series oh yeah you can't stop that guy

rapping don't you yeah I mean again he used the skills he's got he loves to rap which is another very good task actually he punches a fish at the end of it yeah it's very good but let's talk about assims because yeah i thought it was actually quite tender it was funny but i love we go together like steak and cheese

i think that's great and the greg's greg's reference double entendres great yeah and i think uh greg was very impressed by it too yeah he was quite taken aback uh and that's good and that it bagged five points for good reason but i tend to forget about that one let's i mean let's talk about lisa's last um russell um unfortunately i think doesn't necessarily cover himself in glory in this one uh he says he's gonna tell the taskmaster he loves him by not having sex with his mum but that seems to basically involve going back into his dressing room for a bit which i respect of course you respect that yeah i like i like doing doing doing the least amount of work for for midi for medium results yeah sorry i forgot who i was

talking to for a second, Jamali. Of course you love that one. You think that should be five points? Oh, mate, I think that should give him the fucking crown for it. Yeah, I thought, you know, I understand what he was doing, but I think to really pull that off,

you have to get Greg's mum there and actually not have sex with his mum. Yeah. Or at least call her or something yeah call her take her out on a date yeah and then just be respectful and just like no i'm just dropping you home i think that would have you know i think that would have made the toss more yeah i mean but um yeah tricky to do in half an hour i guess yeah it is very tricky it's very tricky i yeah so i understand i don't

think i don't think his one came off how would how would you have done it if you you know how do you show mom no no no the the task in general the show the task master you love him is there any is there any particularly uh jamali languages of love how do you show someone that you love them, Jamali? Gifts. I would have got him a gift. Yeah? What sort of gift? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a nice knife or something.

Like a lovely knife. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't know. It's like a nice engraved knife. I would have sent him a voice note because I have his number from when I was on the show. Yeah. Yeah, when I sent him the voice note of the days,

I would like rang him. Because I think as men, it's hard for other, like as men, we find it hard to talk about our platonic love for other men. Yes, yeah. And I think that a nice phone call and checking in. Just checking in on him. Just ringing up Greg on, why is that?

Asking how he is. Yeah, that is nice. And I think that would have gone down a treat because i think he would have been very upset that i was calling him on his day off so the two options from you are a call to check in and express platonic love for another man because men find that tricky in their sort of toxic masculinity uh within society or uh knife yeah yeah very toxic masculinity yeah exactly it's about it or i would have bought him a puppy knowing that now because of the tv show he has to just have a puppy yeah so already it's nothing to do with love now you're just trying to give him the most annoying gift

yeah i think i would have gone that way i think i would annoy him so i would have gone i would have given like a real puppy but that was your puppy now i did that to my mom with a cat i bought her a cat for her birthday she had no indication she wanted a cat and i just got her a cat and now she just has a cat i mean she's like who's fucking cat is this i was like bro it's your cat bro i don't know so i would have done that uh favorite bit about that you calling your mom bro absolutely yeah i'll call my mom she goes i'm your mother i go bro you're my brother stop love that um i i really liked alice's i think alice got a rough ride with the points here um but you know the the animation of a model plane flying the banner reading uh i love you

greg professionally i really like that there was a little bit of a kick in the teeth for Greg there. I think that was the animation department showing Greg Love. Okay. I think if Alison weren't chopping that up in the studs. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying though? She never,

she didn't do a lot of the legwork on that one. I think you're right there. But I think we have to, I personally tried to take it as a whole thing. Although we did, we have had arguments about the editing and stuff on the show before whether it counts as part of the task

whether people should be getting points for that when it's clearly the great production team who are doing it and it certainly wasn't within the half an hour that all of that was animated but she did come up with the idea within the half an hour so I feel like it deserved one more point at least I did like it though i

think that the plane and the sort of the banner of the plane especially was kind of that thing of because of the time constraints it couldn't be a real plane yeah yeah so do you mean yeah the idea the idea was there i think um but i think what maybe would reduce the points is that she had the asterisk saying professionally i I love you, Greg, professionally. Yeah. So Greg didn't get the wrong idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's, you know,

that's fair and fine. Fair and fine. Absolutely. Boundaries, isn't it? I mean, I'll say this for Greg. I don't think if she hadn't put the asterisk, he would have thought that she was interested in him romantically.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think Greg would have either. Tim gets the three points, though though this is the correct way to do a task involving greg's mum when she's not there he dresses up as greg's mum and says that greg's her favorite child and he's he picks it perfectly he gets a photo of her he absolutely recreates that outfit on the red carpet. It's so funny. I think it's such a Tim thing to do. I felt this was a four points for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think as well as him getting the dress right from that photo is what would have bumped the points up. I think if he just would have wore bin bags and said, I'm your mum, it would have been good, but I would have put you in the three. But that, for for me was a four yeah yeah joyous um so let's talk let's talk about this is the uh attempt at a task that ends the whole series before we get to the studio uh Lisa I mean seemingly very quickly immediately

comes up with the idea of Alex sitting bare bottoms on a cake in a shed. I think she's been, had that in her mind since season one. And been trying to find a way to crowbar that in. Because you don't just come up with that. And I think, do you know what? There was so much enjoyable stuff about this one. I think it's him saying it's in me. Yeah. Just fucking 10 out of 10. her running away laughing yeah oh my god it's so funny

that part for me the funniest part is her running away running away giggling so funny so and two two out of three tasks this week she's run away she's just run away into the distance it's the yeah and a Alex describing the angle of the chair and meaning he was open when he sat down it was funny man it's so funny it's just so odd as well

no one else would think of that and I think you're right she must have thought of that ages ago and has just thought what possible I need a task

that's broad enough that I can make Alex sit bare-bottomed on a squishy cake you know what yeah and I don't want to get too deep about it, but for me,

that was the most Taskmaster thing to happen on Taskmaster. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying, though? Yeah. Like, that is the reason that this is a great show. Yeah. You can get Alex to sit. And it was nice to see Alex, you know,

having to do some shit. Yeah. You know? Like, having to have cake up his ass is just, for me, give her 10 points. I loved it, man. I'm 100% behind it. And that was the real start.

I mean, Alex has since then, I don't know if that was the first appearance of Alex's ass. I think it might've been since then. I mean, in the series coming up that we're going to talk about series seven, he has to get his ass out twice, I think, thanks to Rod Gilbert. Yeah, he had to get his ass out twice i think thanks to rod gilbert um yeah he had to get his ass out on champion of champions 2 that i i was in recently because kerry made him put his

ass through a through a plasterboard to do a painting so his ass has been out a lot and it's sort of become his thing however much he protests it's very much very much his thing do you think he now he knows that there's a risk his arse is going to be at do you think he does squats to try and like get it like TV ready get his booty popping I think he's going to go

to BBL yeah he's going to imagine imagine he has to come out of a BBL and he's like

bro he's going to be on TV bro unfortunately we've had to postpone the recording of the next Taskmaster series because Alex isn't feeling well and then there's a video of him coming off a plane from brazil lying in his front

oh great it's one of the all-time great reactions to a task i think and it's so funny that she's clearly thought about it before it is absolutely wonderful and it was a joy to watch it again of course it was five points to l course it was five points to Lisa. It was five points to Asim, three points to Tim, two points to Alice and one point to Russell. I hope you enjoy this. It might be the only time in your life you put your bare ass in a cake, but I'll let you get on with it.

All right. You all right? I'm all right. Trousers are down. Good. Right, here we go. You ready? Yes.

Ooh! Good right here. We go you ready yes Enjoy it for a bit longer. I think I've had enough. Oh! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE What did that feel like? It felt like nothing I'd ever felt before. It was so...in me. Thank you. thank you let's talk about the final live task of series six display a number you get one rosette if your number is higher than the number of the person on your right you get one rosette if your number is lower than the number of the person on your left if you display the same number as someone else in the round you both lose all your rosettes most rosettes after three rounds wins the one problem with this is that it seemed every single time

tim couldn't hold up the correct number do you see what i mean there was no there was no way of him doing this i mean it's an absolute mind fuck one. The only way he could hold up the number is if... Yeah, because it's like, there'll be a time where it's like, he can't hit lower because her number, say her number is 86. He's got to be lower than that. But he's also got to be higher than the number that's less yeah than that number so it doesn't make it's it's mathematically impossible all he can do is always get one so that's why i'm saying if i just hold up 99 there's no way you can be higher than me if you get so you you would get

one rosette for 99 because you would be higher than the number of the person on your right but you would not you'd not get the next one because it wouldn't there's no way it would be lower than the number of the person on your left but if i but then i would play it as that's fine because i'm i'm always going to win at least one round yeah you get one one rosette every time yeah it's like it makes sense that if i just aim for one rosette each time i would have won that i would have won that task yeah that's smart i think that's a really good way of doing it i i would not have had any idea what to do and i would have picked a new number every single time and i don't know what i don't know what i would have done i mean for me the highlight of this

whole task was alex desperately trying to work out where to put multiple rosettes on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she just said, I'll take it from here. Yeah. That was very funny. But you could see that happening. He was panicking about that from the first second when he had the rosettes. He was like, right, pop one on the shoulder. And you just saw the look on his face

as he realised if this goes on much longer, I'm going to have to really, really do some work to not accidentally grope someone. And Lisa and Russell get nought points there because they lost all their rosettes. Three points for Tim, four points for Asim, and five points for Alice,

which brings us to the final scores of the episode. It is the first victory for Asim. It's a wonderful way to end the series because he's been great, Asim, throughout the series and quite often so baffled i don't i don't think he knew what was going on for quite a lot of it uh he's provided us with many highlights and it's nice that i can finally be rewarded with a victory i think you did you only win one episode

jamali i think i only won one yeah and how did that feel to win when you when you won an episode were you excited by that yeah yeah because i was like i it was me and charlotte always in the bottom yeah i think i came third didn't it like overall i think you might have come fourth fourth do you know what someone equaled it someone did the maths on it and they said yeah if i would have won some of the ones i should have won i could have won the series yeah it was a very close series you're on yeah like someone someone did the maths on reddit i was too deep on this reddit diet someone did the maths and someone said basically they can they centralize it all to the part where i lost the pin the pillows with it yeah the conjugal yeah

i still get messages about that. Yeah. People message me going, hey, Jamal, I just want to say big fan. And that pillow, fucking disgrace, mate.

People are so mad that I didn't win the pillow spinning one. Still mad about that. But yeah, it felt really good to win an episode. You know, it's like you're sort of there and you know,

because at first I was like, I don't care. And then you sort of see them on stage at the end dancing with the stuff and keeping the prizes and you kind of go well i want to keep over someone else's tat and i like this because whenever you've been on the podcast before and your your general demeanor around taskmaster has been i don't really give a shit it's gonna be fun let's go in smash some stuff up and i like that now we're seeing seeing some parts of your personality that are like well i saw everyone with the fun stuff and i wanted to go on the fun stuff i should have won that you've clearly not stopped thinking about the pillow spin yeah and i'm feeling

vulnerable today i think we put you on a good day yeah you call me on a vulnerable day no um and also like i you know i think there's something quite fun about um you know like someone brings in their you know their prized possession of their, you know, their prized possession of their kid's mug. Yeah. And then they're like, oh, can I get my mug back? And you're like, nah. Okay, my mistake.

You've not changed at all. That's my mug, bro. But yeah, no, I was very happy to win so it's the final scores of series six the series scores Alice comes in bottom with 1-5-2 Asim comes in fourth with 1-5-9 comes in third. I was very surprised by that. I always thought Russell was second. Yeah, second or a victory with 170. Tim nabs 175, despite the fact he won very few tasks

across the series, I think. He proves your point about just getting three, threes and fours, you know, and he always did very well in the prize tasks. And Lisa, who was the most consistent and the highest scorer, that's an obvious thing to say, but she was a flair player as well.

I think she had some really big, big tasks. Wins the series, of course, with 1-8-1. Which is a good score. It's a very good score. It's a very good score. And she's an amazing Taskmaster contestant and was equally brilliant uh on champion of champions too

uh we got some jamali emails oh Oh, no. From the Reddit. Hi, Ed and Jamali. This is from Amy in Newcastle. If you could choose one task from your series to be removed from your memory, which one would it be and why? Oh, that's a very good question. Do you know what?

The one at the airport? Yeah. Infuriated me the the check-in the secure airport security no no it's not even that one not even that one not even the airport's q1 pissed me off because i felt so dumb but it was the one where sarah activate jamali i hated that i was standing there for literally it felt like an hour and then and then and i in your blindfolded you can't see the ground's bumpy you're gonna fall yeah and i just felt i hated that and i decided walking at one point i was like i'm not standing fuck this i'm walking and yeah that one I wish, it just, it never ended. I mean, it's very funny. I mean, I could maybe see why you'd want that one

removed from your memory. It is a very funny task. And I think one of the only episode titles to actually have a name of a contestant in it is Activate Jamali. It's so funny, but I don't think you, you don't like looking silly do you Jamali you like to be in control of how you

come across on stuff and having a blindfold on and just standing there must have you must have felt like a prize plum it was too much I couldn't handle it like and it was just the fact that and I was hot it was like a hot day and I picked this outfit with a jumper

and I can't take the jumper off and I'm just miserable and it was horrible, man. I hate, that's the one task where I was like, I'm not having fun right now. I'm standing in a golf course blindfolded and there's nothing I can do about it.

Well, we all loved it. We can remove it from your memory as long as we don't remove it from the show. And edited, it did look very funny, to be fair. Mine is fairly obvious. It was from Champion of Champions 2. And you might have seen this, Jamali, I don't think. We had to get a duck into a pond from quite far away.

And everyone else did it in about 20 minutes. No, just a little toy duck. And I tried to build a river um and i spent 97 minutes doing it and i still couldn't make it work so i chopped the duck's head off and buried it and it's the worst afternoon of my life 97 minutes yes that's a movie yeah bro that's that's that's that's an early 2000s comedy movie bro that's fucking ages, bro. Yeah.

And I still didn't do it. That's the problem. Still didn't get it done. So obviously I want that to be removed from my memory. Thank you. Understandably. And I'm going to watch that tonight. This is a lovely email.

This is just a hello, really. Hi, Jamali. Thanks to your incredible pillow spinning skills. It's an activity my family do regularly and it gets very competitive. Can you say hello to my son moses who is the reigning champion in our house thanks samantha in south london no that's nice are you gonna say hello to moses i was trying to get no i'm joking of course hello moses what's going on bro i heard you the champ well when you when you when you're trained up and you're ready come find me bro uh and i'll show you how to really you know i'm saying i know you the champion in your house but you ain't the champ of the world in it so you know i'm saying like you took me to

the yummy because when people start throwing words like champion it's like that i'm not the best yeah you can't be having that no that's right you you'd go through a moses needs to go through a sort of karate kid style montage and then he can come and find you. Yeah, man. But no, yeah, look after you. And happy birthday when it's your birthday. Lovely. This is a great question from Thomas in Glasgow. Hi, Jamali. Do you think you would have beaten Mike at the fart task

if you've been given the chance? Oh, you know what? I'll be honest with you. I ain't farted in ages, you know. Like even recently, bro. I can't remember the last time I really farted, bro. So I don't farted in ages, you know. Like, even recently, bruv, I can't remember the last time I really farted, bruv. So I don't think I would have, you know. Like, I generally can't remember when I farted, bruv.

Like, I ain't farted in ages. It's probably bad, I should probably go to doctors. But I ain't farted in a long time. You've got no memory of farting recently? No, bruv, I ain't farted recently. So I don't think I would have, man. Did it suddenly stop? Did you used to fart a lot and then suddenly yeah i used to fart crazy and then i don't know but i ain't farted in a hot minute like like a real and i love fart like i think farting is one of the funniest fucking like

oh mate when someone farts like with right timing i remember there's like i was at my auntie's uh i was at my auntie's party and they were all like these like skateboarding punk guys and um one guy his name was a maggot and he told ozzy to like he goes i'll bend over for a second he goes get on your knees for a second he goes what he gets any farts in his face and it was honestly and i was like eight at the time i saw nothing funniernier than that. That I lost my mind. Yeah, of course. I think I'd still lose my mind if I saw a maggot fart in Ozzy's face.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just the names of maggot and Ozzy. It's fucking perfect. They're dudes that fart in each other's faces. But no, I, yeah, like I haven't farted in ages. Yeah, I haven't farted in years. So you wouldn't beat Mike in that at all, would you? I would have pushed out a hemorrhoid like he did.

Yeah. Well, do keep us updated here on the podcast if you do fuck, because we're all very worried about you, Jamali. So just drop us a text if that happens. Thank you very much for coming on the podcast. You are, of course, you're doing some shows at the Edinburgh Festival and then you're back on tour after that. Yeah, Edinburgh Fest, I'm doing the last weekend of that and also i'm doing some extended tour dates of like

littler towns uh because you guys been hitting me up and that's about it really all stuff on the social medias jamali maddox and everything and um thank you so much for having me ed i really appreciate it man you're most welcome we always ask before you go jamali to rate your experience on the taskmaster podcast between one and five points in the style of the taskmaster uh so just if you've enjoyed it give it a five i guess but you can give it whatever point rating you feel like you want to do you know i'm going to give it a four i had more fun the first time well that's interesting because you gave it a four last you gave it a four last time as well oh i'll give it i'll give it a two then i'll give it a two i. I'll give it a two.

I'm walked into that. You want to be a smug bastard? No, I'd always have a great time, man. It's always nice to talk about Ask Master and chop it up, man. I'll proudly take my two points. Thank you very much, Jamali. See you soon. Good luck with the farting.

Bye. There we are. Thank you very much, Jamali, for coming for coming on everyone out there don't forget to go and see jamali's show if you've not seen it already he's doing extended tour dates around the uk and also doing the edinburgh festival 25th of august the 27th of august at the pleasant's grand thank you very much for listening i have loved going through series six again we will be back with series seven on the 28th of July and in the interim on the 14th and the 21st we've got brilliant best of episodes best of the fun best of the chat best of the silly stuff that happens

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