Taskmaster The Podcast - Taskmaster The People's Podcast

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

If you are missing out on all the Taskmaster joy, fear not! There is another podcast - the Taskmaster People's Podcast which you can enjoy weekly. Ed will be back soon with best of, a festive treat and a Champion of Champions! Give your neighbour a polite advanced warning, it's time to crank up the volume on another episode of Taskmaster: The People's Podcast!This week Jenny and Jack are still debriefing from series 16, reliving all their favourite moments and talking about what the cast can expect in their post-Taskmaster lives. Plus Jack does his 'what if' stats for the series to see how things might have been, the pair answer a few outstanding series questions from fans (including a big ol' goof from episode 1) and producer Christine wades in to with a little musical recap of her own.Next week the pair will be opining about the New Years Treat lineup. Until then we love to hear from you - The People. lf you want to get in touch and talk about what taboo you want to see tackled on the next series of Taskmaster, then please send it to [e-mail] to get in touch. Your time starts... NOW!Get in touch:[e-mail] all of Taskmaster on All 4www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster Visit the Taskmaster Store for all your TM goodies!taskmasterstore.comCatch up with old episodes from anywhere in the worldtaskmastersupermaxplus.vhx.tvVisit the Taskmaster YouTube Channelyoutube.com/taskmaster Taskmaster the Podcast is Produced by Christine Macdonald for Avalon Television Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hey Cast.com Hello, welcome to the Taskmaster Podcast, it's me, Ed Gamble, the host of the Taskmaster Podcast, or should I say the OG Taskmaster Podcast? Because if you, like me, are already missing the shenanigans from Series 16, then fear not. We have lots of fun stuff coming up on the Taskmaster Podcast. We'll be talking about the festive treats, of course, which promises to be great. It's an amazing lineup. It always is, but this lineup, I can't wait for. And of course, there will be Champion of Champions on the cards soon, and as we know, the best

champions tend to disgrace themselves on that. However, in the meantime did you know that there is another TASMASTER podcast? That's right! Each week TASMASTER UBFFAN and STAT SUBSESSIVE JAPBURNHART and series 15 contestant and national treasure, Jenny Aclair, take a deep dive into the weird and wonderful world of TASMASTER. They talk to behind the scenes guests, super fans, and some of the most beloved Taskmaster characters from all over the world.

So rather than hearing from me this week, I will leave you in the brilliant hands of Jack and Jenny. Enjoy! Oh my goodness Jack, oh my goodness, well I'm glad you're all cheerful. I've almost been in tears. Christine and I have had a terrible battle getting me online today an absolute awful battle and she's been so patient and underneath her breast she must have been going the silly fucking old bag. What is wrong with her? Why can't she even do this? That is unfair. And also, it is, it, it, you doing this has made me feel better about me locking on because I've done this

so many times. Don't worry. Not to the extent I've just done it. We've been half an hour, half an hour. I'm at my sister's just a very, very quick paint a picture for you. The scaffolders have come for next door because you know they're building a new house and I've been so good about it. I've been so fucking good about it. I just popped down my sisters and do the podcast there. You know we're also made in Napoli and I come down here with my bloody laptop, which I hate. And I'm here now, and we've got on this app. And suddenly it starts calling me Zoom Jenny.

It's changed my name. It wasn't Jenny, I was listening. Oh, fucking hell. Anyway. I maintain this is just more evidence that your sister is the female version of Alex Horn talking to you. She does, doesn't she?

She's doesn it every time. She does it to a strange house. And something weird happens when you go there. Every time. Every time. Anyway, listen, I'm not going to cry now, because we haven't got time. I've got the grandson coming in an hour

and the old man can't cope. So anyway, I'm just letting you know that if we speed up dramatically at the end of the episode, that's why, OK. That's entirely fair. Look, we're not going to Julian Clareot will... We're not going to be language. We're Sam Canbelling it today. We're not worried about it.

Sam Rambling it. We're most certainly not Sam Rambling it. No, we're certainly not. We're going to recap on series 16. We are going to have a little look at what is to come, the feast that we are expecting to land. But in a way, I thought I don't want to get to that immediately because, you know, we have to, it feels rude to slam the door on our pals in series 16.

It's what happens Jack. It's what happens. You just get used to it. Show business. Basically. But in a week people will be going, some will say to you, oh, do you remember, series 16, you'll go, no, I can't remember any of them.

Who were they? How was it, because I've heard this, I've heard this from a lot of people actually on the show when you move, when the next series moves on, and because it is instant, like it's instant. It's instant. Like how was it, we it is instant, like it's the instant. Like how was it, we sort of like, oh, okay, oh. Well, I was on a bus actually

when they, because that is such is my glamorous lifestyle of when they announced it on social media. And I was on the 176. And that's my bus of choice. It's an excellent, it's one of the bus journeys of the world. If you're ever in London. It's a good one. And I realized it had dropped

because all of a sudden my Twitter feed was going bonkers. Which is lovely. That's, so that was when you were announced as the next, as you were in the next episode. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because that must have been what about, yeah, that would have been around this the next episode. Yeah, yeah. That was, because that must have been what about, yeah, that would have been around this time last year.

Yeah, I think it was a bit later. I think it was a bit close to Christmas. Would have been a nice Christmas. I remember that, the way they announced it as well was the musical, the one with all the musical instruments. They showed a video, they showed a tiny video of that. And I remember, that was like a clown, and there's a terrible video of that. And I remember that. The clip of the, that was like a clown,

and there's a terrible sort of tragic clown, one man band thing that was all really complicated. It was one of those memory things. You know, like they did in series 16, with the, in the last episode, with the driving of the dust carts. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Remembering sequences, remembering rules, remembering

what went with what, you know, it's so with the one that we did, the one man band, you had to wear a sort of terrible headset, you think, with a, I was going to say microscope, which I mean an organ, a mouthful. A dig fan-dike machine. One of those, you know, you got the big drum, you got the, but like, I remember, because when that was announced, I remember just your face looking very like, this will be fun. You in particular, I think of that gang looked very much like,

this is gonna be great, which I think is what was, was probably why so many were successful. But then it turned very quickly into a, we've taken you to the doctors to check on your mental health. It was a sort of memory capacity test, because the images came on the wall, I think. Yes, I was gonna say, and they didn't look like the right images.

No, I think you put them out. You were like, that's a sofa, why am I always looking? Yeah, it was meant to be in the mouth organ, but it looked like a sofa. I got really confused. And they did that really terrible trick with Kyle when they let him have another go and he did sort of, he did loads, he really scored terribly highly. But of course, they, they took what he'd done first as the gospel, you know, and he was to do

that. Yeah. That's, that's what, that's what they have to do. There's this little furious face, little furious face. Kyle, no one's quite got as angry as Kyle this series, I'd say in the most recent series. It feels like your series had a lot more, not anger, but like a lot more like despair, I suppose, as an Ivo seem quite despairing. I think what you're saying is we displayed quite a lot of emotion. Yes. I think Kyle and I and Ivo in particular are quite, where are emotions quite, obviously. Yes.

And I don't know if there was the same, looking back on Series 16 as a whole, it felt like, because you had Julian who was very sort of like cool and collected throughout the whole thing. Yeah. Sam was kind of cheeky. You had Susan who is an amazing actor.

It felt like not very less emotional, but just they were almost more, all a little bit more cunning, which I think was quite, quite. They were, a clever buzz. They were quite cunning. No, but all of us were sort of at some point close to tears, I think.

I mean, I'm permanently quite close to tears. I'm either quite close to just telling the whole world's fuck off or I'm just sort of on my knees sniffling. It's not much in between, to be honest. Or you're wearing a potato hat and having the greatest. Oh, yeah, yeah. But those say it's a few and far between. I'll tell you that.

I don't know whether were there any sort of uber joyful tasks in series 16? That's interesting. I was trying to think of the level of the potato task. I think if you enjoyed giant ducks, that was probably the most enjoyable task. That's not a good. I think there were loads, actually, but it's all a bit of a blur now, isn't it? I mean, we have discussed this and we've dissected them and I've got this notebook which if anybody ever finds on public transport, they'll just think, well, what? I've got a note here that just say ugly baby, be versus secretion ice cream, dead

mate in an urn, and hair braid, light pull. I mean, you don't really want people to be finding that, dude, they think, ooh. What's weird is I mean, it was like, yes, of course. I know what all of those things mean. Obviously. Well, I think the world would divide, wouldn't it? Into those who found that notebook kind of bustle whatever, who'd go bingo, I know exactly what this is.

And other people who would think, well, I found it in Campbell World, it's very close to the Mordely psychiatric hospital. I think I know where to take this back to. I actually, so I was just thinking about like joyful tasks. I think the, I think, because if we're talking about like highlights of Series 16 and there were many highlights, I think, so, so far, I think in the dark, I think was quite joyful task.

Blissful, blissful. I think that's actually quite similar to the potato hat task in the sense that with that one, you got a fit of the giggles on what's like, this is the greatest thing ever. Yeah, I just wish I had farted, though. I think that, I think Sue actually wins because I think it's broken a huge TV to boo, actually. I think it's a massive TV to boo,

the farting live on air. And I don't know whether anybody has been able to look back on a live television fart and thought, no, that's triumphant. There's nothing embarrassing about this. This is not a stain on my career, literally. This is something that I can't handle. I trust you should say that because that is the joyful triumphant fart.

Have you seen series 11 of Taskmaster? It wasn't something with Mike Wasnack. He was tricked into having to fart. Didn't he have to push your fart out as a task that only he had to do? And he took eight hours or so. And that was very much the opposite of fart. I think it was it was a long time. It's a long time. And he ended up doing it in another task. And it was horrible. It was the exact opposite of Sue's joyful thought. I need to check this out. So a painful thought.

That's terrible. It was painful both in terms of how long it took. And also, you should just watch the episode, because... Okay, okay, blind me. So really, I mean, it's quite a thing though, isn't it, that the whole 16 series of Tarsamers that have only been two memorable thoughts?

That's true, I'm trying to think if there have been other thoughts. I think it's because it's quite easy to hide them usually. Yeah, Greg slips a few out now and again, sitting on that throne. I bet he's got a fart, you know, what is it? It'll be a pollster, so that it kind of like swallows the fart for him. But I bet it's a big laugh. You have new technology for it, really. Yeah, but do you know what?

That's, are you say that and you laugh, but if you ever go travel a lot on the motorway, which I do and you go and motorway service stations, there are these pants, they're fart pants. I can't, I think they're called shreddies or something. And they absorb, they're like, they're charcoal blind pants and they absorb parts. And this is a real thing. Yeah. No, you can go online and buy absorbent pants that absorb with their charcoal line. That's all I'm going to say.

It sounds dangerous. It sounds like I could very easily start to fire, doesn't it? But it really does. It feels like you're mixing in many flowerable things there. Yeah, yeah, but I'm not lying. I'm not lying. That's basically what I'm saying. Christina said they use on airplanes,

which makes me think I should fart on airplanes more. I've been holding it in. Apparently, apparently though, there is a, I think that if you do those long hauls, sometimes the smell kind of builds up overnight and when they open the doors, it's like quite a mighty guff escapes. So there we go. Just people staggering out. We look, we're supposed to be talking about series Xth. Yeah. But it's a good, it's, and no, it's a good sidetrack into, you know, but how, how acceptable it is to fart on air. And I mean, I'm not

completely, I'm just one of the few shows that I think you can get away and it can, it can become a career highlight. Well, I think, I think Tarsmas is one of the few shows that I think you can get away and it can become a career highlight. Well, I think what's interesting is it's often seen as a mistake or a thing, you know, often in Tarsmasters as a more like general point, like things that in other shows you'd be like, let's take that again, or like that didn't work. We're doing that again. Like actually, they, they just leave it in and it becomes quite like part of the anarchy and part of like the, well, that's the nature of it. Like, I think, I mean, it's interesting seeing the reaction to the secret task as like

a sort of people online have been a bit like, oh, it would have been, you know, it would have been really good if someone had found it originally or would have been really good if like, if it hadn't ended up the way it had. But it's sort of that's the nature of the show. Like, you set these things up and hope that they'll go somewhere. And if they don't, then that's fine. But when it comes together, it's magical. And I feel like that's a quite similarly, Sue, in other shows, would have been like, I farted, I'm so sorry. And then I'd be like, let's start again. Well, you know, you've ruined that take. Therefore, we'll do it again. I don't think you fart in the bake off tent.

I don't think that is one of the shows where you can fart. I reckon I reckon Sue as far as a lot in the bake off tent. Oh, I reckon that she in Mel would have happily farted together in the bake off tent, but not whilst being filmed. Not whilst being filmed, that is very true. Farts aside, were there any other memorable moments on the show that you were like in this series which have sort of like stuck with you? Well, there's so many.

There's so much glee. I think the friendship between Susan and Susan was absolutely adorable. I love them. And I think, you know, bracing yourself for Lucy's price-task chat and Julian's anarchic just taking the dust cart and running with it. Lots and lots and lots of bits and bulbs. I do feel like the Sue and Susan's like camaraderie and like, I'm in a way Lucy and Sam's as well.

And then also the fact that Julian is kind of just sort of this above everyone. Elder Statesman. Yeah, and I sort of like, like a having a great time, but just sort of like, oh, is that what you like? It's sort of very, it worked really well. I thought it was a beautiful series. I think my favorite moment I have to say is probably Susan, well, two Susan bits, the mischief. I love the mischief task. Oh, the mischief. So clever. So clever. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. I've never seen anything like it. And then also Susan with the 30

grand and tricking Greg, saying 30 grand over and over again. I loved it. I've just, oh guess. Now, I've just got one more favorite Susan with coma moment as well. And that was chain bastard. Oh, chain bastard, justice for chain bastard. Yeah, I mean I think we'll always be happy to see chain bastard appear in any way shape or form. Yeah, that was a great moment. So if there have been loads and loads of really splendid, as ever I think with Tarsmaster, it's not the triumphs that really stick in your head.

It's the sort of, you know, the extraordinary lengths that people have to go to and the ridiculous, the whole ridiculousness of it finale that I was not expecting. I don't know about you. Me neither. I was excited and I was happy to see it, but yeah, it's great news about the New Year's Treat. The New Year's Treat.

Now, this is a, I've only just watched the last New Year's treat, so that I know what vaguely what I'm talking about. But the New Year's treat basically features people that you might not otherwise expect to see on Taskmaster. That's right. We'll talk, we'll talk more about it next week. We certainly will, because I need time to do some research. But the names are here, and these are the names. Debra Medin,

she off the dragon's den, co-J radical over to you, over to Jack as the other person. Of course, I know all about co-J radical, of course. A grime artist. Grime. Rush. Lenny Rush. Well, 14. Only 14 years old. rush. Well, 14, only 14 years old. That must be one of the biggest age gap in a line-up of contestants. Oh, we'll get into it. Oh, yeah. So do you stack King? But yes. Steve Baxel of nature list. Yeah, but yeah, nature list, not natureist. He doesn't do it stark as well. I have googled that a few times and I've made that mistake a few times and I have to stop. He's quite a lad, Steve Baxial.

And lovely, lovely, Zoble. Oh, yeah, I mean, it's a great, it's a great one. I love Zoble so much. And like we say, we'll talk about it a bit more next week. I possibly love Zoble more than you love Zobal. Really? Yeah, I do. I know MetZobal. I've been to Zobal. Loads times. Loads times. So they go. She's my favourite. So I'm a favourite girls in show business. I think she's a superstar.

We will talk about that. Line up more in depth next week. next week. A cast powers the world's best podcast. Here's a show that we recommend. Hi, I'm David Boros, Canadian historian and host of Curious Canadian History, a bi-weekly deep dive into the wild, worrisome, and wonderful world of Canadian history. This season we've covered not season Alberta, the Palestinian partition, and even the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We also have eight seasons worth of back episodes all right there for your listening pleasure.

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Obviously the episode came out and Sam's hair. We talked about it at the time, but I understand you have a clarification or an apology. We both do, and you've just phobbed it up onto me because you think, let it clear, breathe a silly bitch in this show. I make so many mistakes on this show that I thought maybe because you were so into Sam's outfit. Yeah, I presume that he was so into having a new look for the last episode that he had his hair bleached. I can be so gullible and stupid. Of course, it was a wig. Why did it have to be a wig, Jack? Because they've record two shows a day. I don't know way that you're going to prox, I blonde a brown-haired man like Sam in that short amount of time. But you say I completely bought it as well.

So I thought that it was, I didn't realise it was a wig and they didn't really think about the logic of it. It was only when you mentioned it. I was like, yeah, that... Well, they came up on my Twitter feed. Well, you know what people are like. They're immediately jumped on your head, don't they? And then I was still so sort of and I was still convinced that I could be right, and it was a beach number. What did I do? I texted Chrissy, who's one of the makeup artists on Taskmaster. I said, Chrissy, was that a wig? She said, yeah, cheeky little wig. Oh no. Oh, it's disappointing. The thing is, have made big leaps like for the final episodes

before. So therefore it didn't seem that unreal. No, people have had tattoos done. Also, some things have happened in the name of Tasmus. Mike was the act he had a Mohawk. I mean, like it's not unreasonable. Or did he jack or was that Mohawk a wig? No, don't, don't. Well, this is like, you're pulling back the curtain too far. I can't. We might have to look into that.

But anyway, we'll just, we'll, should we park Sam's wig there? Or, or. Well, we do have a little, a little something to do with Sam, just speaking of Sam's outfit now. Producer Christine says she has a little surprise for us to do with Sam's outfits. Oh, we're gonna hear now. Yeah, more of Sam's outfit now. Producer Christine says she has a little surprise for us to do with Sam's outfits.

Oh, we're gonna hear now. Yeah, more sat there. It's a little song called Grey Police. Are you ready? I'm very excited. Well, I just didn't know what Sam was wearing in the studio. He was all in gray. Oh, I've written a note here, Jack have said grey like the shadow.

I would take the point off every time he wears grey. That's what I would do. It's not on the day you look grey anyway. You need to go out and go for a walk and have some fresh air. Put some roses in the jeep and stop wearing grey. I've written this note here and it says Sam, fucking grey. Just says fucking grey. What's going on?

I'm begging, actually, because I think I've banged on love for this. You think grey again, you think grey. It's such a sad look, such a tragic look. No excuse now, I say, he's got no excuse and I don't get it. Come on. Gosh, that was a, no! Oh, no! What? Gosh, that was a bit obsessive, didn't it? No, it was necessary. It was necessary.

It was necessary. And it really did point out, you know, how consistently great he'd been. And then this absolute last minute change of scene, when all of a sudden he was sort of Barbie movie, look. Yeah. And he looked so glamorous. He did. change of scene when all of a sudden he was sort of Barbie movie look and it was just and he looked so glamorous. He did and in a way it made you go like like if only if only I know that you know you need to be grateful to work but you know there was so many opportunities for sound to

to look like that. Yeah. To look like a blonde Barbie man. Absolutely. I want to whether it would have really shifted his demographic of ticket sales as well. You know, it's a whole seven. Just loads of sort of 19 year old girls all giddy and they've excited and watching. I've never seen Sam as a stand-up, so I can imagine that it's quite different, and it'd be the kind of stand-up that some people who aren't used to a lot of stand up would find difficult to swallow. Am I right? I think it's quite relentless, which is really good, but it's also quite like avant-garde and weird in a way. It's sort of John Kern's level, I'd say. Okay. Is that, is that, is that, is that dressing up? Is that computer work? I don't think there's any dressing up. I'm not sure. I think, I think he's quite,

because Kern's is dressing up, doesn't he? John has, it's not, there's no, there's any dressing up. I'm not sure. I think he's quite... His curns is dressing up, doesn't he? John has... It's not, there's no prop comedy, but I think it's sort of like it's slightly stranger than your normal, uh, than your normal Edinburgh, yeah. Well, if he's going to tour the UK, um, I think we, you and I should have a date, Jack. Oh, definitely. Yeah. What?

So I'll turn up all in gray and you turn up a dress like that. I will be so flamboyant. Oh, definitely. Yeah. So I'll turn up all in grain. You turn up dress like I'm going to be. I will be so flamboyant. I will do the whole, a calm and Miranda thing. I'll be wear it. Yes. Oh, a big fruit basket on my head. That's what I'll do.

No, I am. I think that's also quite interesting as well as that out of series 16, I wonder who will win if you translate this series to ticket sales. I think everyone does well out of the taskmaster. And I think the people who benefit the most are people who you don't necessarily know at the start and then buy it. I agree. Totally agree.

So I think Fern Braini had that where it was like you sort of start and you're like, you know Dara and you know. Yeah. Actually, I think think, Sarah Milliken. You know Sarah Milliken and you know, Munya from like online stuff, but I think fun, like, it sort of, ticket sales wise, I'm sure, like, was he. Massive boost. I think because Lucy's out on tour at the moment and I, I bet it's given her a quite a big boost too.

Oh, I can definitely imagine that. And I think what's great about is it's a kind of the equalizer. It's that sort of thing where it's like, you know, Darra, massive standup alongside John and Fern. Like, it sort of puts them on the same level, which is quite an exciting in people's minds. And similarly, Julian Clarey, one of the biggest legends and superkins, these massive legends of comedy being on the same level, potentially as Sam and Lucy who aren't as well known. I mean, Julian, Julian's going into Panto again isn't he? I mean, it won't make any differences to his ticket sales. I don't think Panto is really going

to like Panto. He's just out no matter what. It's fine. But I'm sure there will be a few taskmaster fans won't there? Oh, yeah, they will. They will. But I mean, you know, in terms of someone like me who's been around for 157 years, I could always tell if taskmaster fans were on the front row, because they just didn't look like the other members of the audience, you know, they were, they were the youngest by about 20 years. But I guess I think that's a really exciting thing. I think that's sort of the, it feels like the, it feels like the Edinburgh thing where you'd go and see an act in a cabaret or like a sort of like as a part of a mixed bill.

And then afterwards you'd be like, I'm obsessed with that person. I must go to their shows. It feels a similar thing with Taskmaster where you're like, you would watch you and be like, I wouldn't necessarily go see Jenny Claire. And now I must know everything about her because, yeah. I would, because that's true. And I always remember seeing Greg in Edinburgh. I remember when he was with the, you know, the sketch group, we are clang, yeah. In basically a nissen heart in Edinburgh.

And me, my partner and Phoebe, and we were all the three of us were beside ourselves, absolutely, and ever since, I mean, I've sort of followed his career from the word go because I told you this before, it was a judge when he was in the BBC New Comedy Awards. Oh wow. I actually, I have absolutely put him on the path to Megastar, don't whether he remembers how does he or would you with a third place and Yeah, and two points for the grandson. I'll never get over that But no, I I I absolutely do think that

For the youngsters this can have a real a real career boost and in terms of ticket sales Which is really exciting and really good. Yeah, I'm just, I mean, looking at the names, I mean, I'd just go back to being a bit of a stand-up bore. In series 16, the only people really who are going to benefit from that new wave of potential new audience, Lucy is a stand-up, as a stand up. Julian doesn't need it. Sue doesn't do any stand up. I bet, I bet now and again, that it crosses her mind because I, you know, I, I just think I think there are evenings with Sue. I'm sure there's, there's another book in her. I'm saying that now and yeah. There's definitely a Sue, Sue could do stand up, but she's probably more like it's part of a like a

An evening with yeah, exactly a sort of a conversation with her like the sort of the I went to see Michael Palin just before lockdown and it was a kind of thing like that where you're like it's just talking about your life and all the things you've done that could easily be a stand-up hour, but it's not really so so it's yeah. And I think, and I think, as we talked about before, Susan Walker-Mars now got the perfect acting reel off the back of the, of the show, so you know. Well, she's on a way to Hollywood, isn't she? She's on a Hollywood, and Spielberg's going to Statland. Let's go to Statland. A couple of like, mopping up series, end of series facts and stats and all the rest of it.

Sam is obviously the winner, right? Yes, he is the third Australian to appear on the show and the third to win. Australians now have 100% Australian born contestants have a 100% rate, which is remarkable. Sarah Candle and Maghanna Robinson. It is a bit, isn't it? It's a bit uncannot, yeah. It is weird. Similarly, Canadians are at the same level. Catherine, Ryan and Mayma, both won, but there's only Canadians to be able to show and both won. It is weird that it's now been five of the past six taskmaster champions have been born outside of the UK. Like since the show moved to Channel 4, you've just had the only people who have been English to win Richard Herring

and Sophie Juka. So, you know, if you're thinking about applying and you're English, I wouldn't do it. It's going to be third place. It's going to, yeah, don't get your hopes up basically. Look, you'll have a nice time, sure, but you're not going to win, okay? That's fine. The Sam was the middle chair, which was of course your chair. My chair. First middle chair winner since Lou Sanders in series eight. Gosh.

All middle chair winners. When you were in the middle, did you find, oh, this isn't useful to argue my case. No, I love being in the middle because I didn't have to twist my neck too much all the time. Of course, much all the time. Of course, that's the key. Yeah. No, I just, I felt like you got more studio air time, actually, if you were on the middle chair.

It feels like that's happened with Sam and I'm kind of surprised that more people haven't won while being in the middle before. Like you said, it's been so long since someone's won. I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever to, you know, whether you win or not, but I do think it's a nice position to be rather than stuck out on the end. It's a bit like at the dinner party, you know, you want to be in the middle of the long side of the table. Yeah, you're not having like lean your neck in to go like, well, yeah, yeah, I can imagine

like Frankie and, uh, and, what can imagine like, um, Frankie and, uh, me and what's it? Cause May at least had, may at least had like Greg on the other side. So in a sense, May was middle, was in the middle of the, was in the middle of the middle where I see what you're saying. Yes, Frankie was, uh, Frankie and Julian are sort of at the outer beaches all the way in going, well, actually, I can, I limit, let me, let me lean in. And if you had to talk to Alex, you're right, you're having to talk over for five people, which is, you had to like pass the butter at his innitable, you're right, to get started

from Alex would be nonsense. So Sam has one of my got, oh, so Sam is the least disqualified of all the contestants of this series which is also something you did. Yeah, at least a qualified in your series. But usually the champions aren't the least disqualified. They're the ones who take risks and so it's interesting that Sam was sort of was able to be badly was able to be disqualified so few times and also gone to win. Ed Gamble, Kera Godelman, Sarah Kendall, Bob Mortimer and Richard Herring were all the least disqualified in their series as well, whilst going on to win.

It is a sort of, the thing is, with Ben disqualified, you do waste points. Even if it's only one. I'm sort of surprised that Sam, I thought was looking back and thinking, oh Sam must have been to qualify quite a lot. I think it's because there were loads of the qualifications across this whole series. It was him and Susan McCommer. Susan didn't get to qualify either very often. There are a couple of occasions where Susan, the most notable times using Gotter's Gullified was for laughing during the liquid test,

where they put it over the thing with the plate and the tricky thing that all the size people know and all the arts people go, it's magic. Yeah, and everyone's science goes, oh, well, actually, it's very simple. But yeah, she midway through that found the situation too funny and spurred to water everywhere. So that felt like it was the, that's how Susan would get to Skullfide, where someone like Julian or someone like Lucy

or someone like Sue tends to throw it away a bit more. Whereas I think both Sam and Susan were good at, as you say, not throwing it away, good at not being bottom. The, he is the, oh, this is. Oh, this is a good fact. There are 24 years between Sam and Greg in age. This is the biggest age gap between Greg and the champion ever. Oh, okay. Well, that means there's more, though, there's a bigger gap between Sam and Julian. There's a bigger gap between Sam and Julian. And there have been bigger gaps between... That's actually a good point. That's not something I've ever looked at. It's a bigger gap between Salmon Julian and there have been bigger gaps between,

that's actually a good point. That's not something I've ever looked at. It's interesting. The interesting rivalry of this series was between the youngest contestant and the oldest contestant both vying for the win. I don't think that's usually how it goes. Usually, oldest or youngest are sort of like either at the, they're not necessarily, they're not both competitive. Because you sort of youngest contestants, you had like Mania, who was Greg, I think, found his youthful energy in the end, worked against him because he was sort of like, oh, it's Mania again. Look at how young Mania is going to take some points off him. And then you've got the Julian or the Joe Brands, who are a bit more like not going to take some points off him. And then you've got the Julian or the Joe brands who are a bit more like not going to make the effort that is required to be competitive in the show. So it's interesting. I actually haven't looked that up. I don't know whether

a youngest and oldest that has ever been a rivalry before. Well, I mean, Julian is now 64 and Sam is how old is Sam? Sam is Sam is 31. When this, when the series went out, I think it was 31. So it's like Julian's twice as age. Exactly. And I think, and well, it's, it's,

it's one of the, one of the things that Sam to talk about, talks about is watching Pluckerduck, you know, as a child, when he was watching that, Julian was appearing on Pluckerduck or on the show with Pluckerduck. Around the same time, yeah. Around the same time. So it's it's not happened That's what happens Jack. Yeah, generation Lee. I mean because it would because Kyle was the youngest in your series But you guys got on you guys had a sort of a lovely connection with each other

So oh yeah, there were three children and two old kids That's how it worked out on that one. But you were sort of almost like a child. Yeah, well, right, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no youngest. And yet for some, for some reason. Yeah, I have a three year old in me. I do. I know. I can see it. Yes. I know. It's appalling. And sometimes I behave very badly in supermarkets. And you know, it's, I have to go home and be put to bed for a little while and calm down. It's ridiculous thing. But there we go. I'm potato. Yes. I sit on the naughty step. Right. Okay. So what are the steps? St steps do you have for the mopping up session that we're doing now? So a few more mopping up stats. Sam is the second

contestant to win who was born in the 90s. He is the first contestant born after 1992. Isn't that disgusting? Yeah. And he is also the first ever champion to win the main award at the Edinburgh comedy festival on his, on his own, because Noel won it. I think he was best newcomer with the mighty bush. There is a correlation between the Edinburgh's and Tarsmaster. Now, I think there are probably very few people who have been on Tarsmaster who've never done something at the Edinburgh Festival. I would say that. That'd be an interesting stat for you. Oh, it would be, and I haven't looked into it.

Although I think it's actually probably, you're right, I can only think of a few people who wouldn't have done it. You're talking more like, because even character actors who would usually be in the show. I mean, I don't know about Susan Wukomo. I don't know whether she's ever done Edinburgh, but I'd be surprised if she hadn't. I was going to say some kind of theatre troupe, surely, as a youth theatre, like going up with Radha, must be, or like Catherine Parkinson, maybe Alice Levine wouldn't have done it. Oh, Catherine Parkinson has definitely done it. Really? Because, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I know why, but I don't know whether

she did it before or after she did taskmaster because she Wrote her own play. Oh, of course. Yes, you're right about being a life model, I think and I just don't know whether she did that before or after she did Taskmaster, but I think there's very few people that haven't done a show at Edinburgh that have been on the taskmaster chairs Well, I definitely think, because obviously, Taskmaster starters in Edinburgh show, and I definitely feel like there's an edimus to it. So I think it's interesting that Sam is the first champion to win the Edinburgh Comedy Award and to be a taskmaster champion.

That feels interesting to me because I would have thought there'd be a little bit more correlation. But then obviously, someone like Dara is a Edinburgh stalwart, like there are lots of, you know, people can do very well at Edinburgh and not with the main award. So, you know, it's just interesting. Overall, stats wise, usually there's a thing where it's like, oh, if the price task hadn't been, if the price task had been taken out or if the team tasks had been taken out, the live tasks had been taken out, things would have moved around, not true in this series, how the things ended up, Sam first, Julian second, Susan third, Lucy fifth and so forth, I don't know why I did in that order, is pretty much true

across the whole board. The only time it would have been slightly different is if the prize tasks had been taken out, Sue would have finished bottom, which just shows you how. Really? That's the only thing that would have changed, really. If you don't do that, you can't pick and choose. You can't cherry pick with Taskmaster. Taskmaster is Taskmaster. That is my entire Modus Opera and the Ginny. If you take that away from it. Oh, cherry picking. Oh, sorry. I wasn't thinking straight then, wasn't I? Sorry, whoopsie. I have to make an apology for my last week.

I wasn't 100% and that'd been very feverish. You were quite a long time. You were so wonderful and how did that happen? Yeah, but I did make a mistake. And I think a couple of people have contacted me via social media. There is no upstairs at the Tars Masterhouse. Yeah. I have been sent the floor plans.

There is no upstairs. I will say that since I have so came out, we have been sent so many floor plans. You, I thank you so much for sending us all the floorpans. We don't need any more floorpans. I'll be honest, I was pretty sure there wasn't, but you've been there. I just reinvented it. I'd reinvented it in my head. I had put in a staircase and a new post. I'd even saw hats and coats hanging off the new post.

Genuinely. Children running down the stairs. It was just in my head. So in my head. But I got it wrong and I have no shame in putting my hands up and saying, I was wrong. I apologize. Look, I think the people forgive you. They must forgive you.

Well, they're going to have to because otherwise, you know, what else can I do? Exactly. Should we do that? We've got another bloop otherwise you know what else can I do exactly? Should we do that we got another boop and fluke? Should I do all that we should it says hi Jack and Jenny. Uh, it's from uh, Kirstie in the UK. Hi Jack and Jenny. Was there a bloop or fluke in series 16? Ep one, the cans toss said that you had to make the tower from the cans in the lab. But both Sam and Julian took the tower from the cans in the lab. But both Sam and Julian

took the can from the other room with them. I can't tell whether Julian used that can in his final tower, with all the other ones that fell down, it may not have ended up on his final tower. But I think it definitely looked like Sam used that can on his tower. Should that have been a disqualification? I was really expecting a reveal at the end, Aladjo Wilkinson, when they disqualified an amazing attempt at a task, and a Frankie had been on the line up, he definitely would have said, a brought up the wording of the task,

since it's a show about pedantry. Is it okay? Is the question. I don't know. I've had this, I've, I, this, this question's also been going around in my head as well, Joe. Really?

Really? Yeah. I haven't given this question to a single thought. Well, and I think I think if nobody said using only the cans in the lab, then I think it's absolutely fine. Well, so someone mentioned this to me online as well, and I was like, oh, I think it's fine. And then I had to look back on the old wording of the task. The exact wording of the task was, build a tower out of the cans in the lab. You must put on your blindfold in this room and wear it properly for the rest of the task, the exact wording of the task was, build a tower out of the cans in the lab. You must put on your blindfold in this room

and wear it properly for the rest of the task. Tallest tower wins, you have five minutes. So. Right. So I think you could argue, as Kirsty is arguing here, that the can, sorry, because when he read the task, all the cans that he used were in the study, not in the lab, therefore he didn't build a tower

out of the cans in the lab. He built a tower using a can that was outside the lab in the lab. He took a can from the study into the lab, the can is in the lab. He took a can from the study into the lab, the can is in the lab. That I think would be my argument as well or would be, it's ambiguous enough and we should have asked Susie about this to be honest because it's a good, it's a good corkour of a question. I'm going to stop you both there, both Kirsty and Jack. It was fine to use that can because the can was in the lab. They didn't leave the lab to go and get more cans. And I also think, so having, so I, so I agree with that, it was a can that was in the lab, therefore it's fine to use. I also think the wording was important, which was tallest tower wins, which means all you had to do was build a tower.

And then the tallest tower that was remaining in the lab at the end of the task was the thing that we measured. Not the tower that you built is the thing that we measured, if that makes sense. I don't understand what the word tower or cam means anymore. You know when you say the same word every day. I'm saying it is no meaning and I've lost. I am not red. I sit on the end of my bed rocking my baby going tower cam cam

up tower in lab Right okay well um Asacrasty thank you very much for that because Jack really enjoyed it And I really I really tried to keep up right I'm gonna look after him. Bearing now. No, look after A2.8 baby. Yeah. It's a mic to it.

I'm loving it. OK, Jack, I will see you next week. Christine, thank you very much. And thank you very much for your technical help. I'm so happy. That was hard. I've got it so hard. Have a good week, Jack.

Have a good week, Christine have a good week Christine. Thanks very much everybody. See ya later.