A look back at times, celebrities took thinking outside the box to a whole new level to impress Greg Davies, the Taskmaster!
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Mark being the only one who turned on the light only to then paint the worst rainbow is the definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
I never understood this judgement. Mark's rainbow IS slightly curved, and real-life rainbows only look like half-circles if you see a large portion at once---if you are only drawing the center portion in your painting then it should have pretty much the shape that Mark draws! Imo his was by far the best picture (even though it used brown, which is not a rainbow color).
@@theadamabrams It's got the brown and what looks like pink, and I'm pretty sure its upside down.
@@cinderheart2720 No, it is not upside-down. The "red paint" was pinkish-red for everyone, and I already mentioned that he shouldn't have used brown.
@@theadamabrams Except he also has red on top.
You stole that from someone else
Rhod tying him up was the biggest brain move in the entire show.
100% no one could believe that absolute maneuver
And then a decent "som'ink sharp" goes as a pleasant but vengeful afterparty where you're just melting on a couch having one of the most chilling evenings you've ever heard of... Those people and their humour are so calming.
For me its the first thing i thought
rhod was the best contestant for coming up with solutions that are completely out of the box but work ridiculously well
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Mark Watson drawing such a shit rainbow even after turning the light on will always make me laugh so much
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
@@sparo_splat hahaahhaa
@@sparo_splat the story of Mark's time on Taskmaster
Sally's remark, "that is worse than what we did in the dark." Made me scream laugh. So very true
Red and yellow pink and blue, brown and another shade of brown, Mark can paint a rainbow, paint a rainbow...
Most of this is just Rhod being a mad genius.
Rhod spent half the game finding weird little ways to go around the challenge, and the other half of the game showing that one picture of Greg
@@Eye_spye haha! too true
@@Eye_spye he must have spent a while figuring out how to hide in greg's closet to film him sleep.
@@WillSolace27 that was so funny and very creepy
He’s insane. He duct taped his eyes open for like 7 mins!!!!
Rhod is THE man. He is my lazy genius icon. "How can I both be right and do as little work as is possible?"
That philosophy is the only reason why I was good at math
Rhod and Gino's joint slogan is 'minimum effort, maximum satisfaction'.
how is digging up a hole minimal effort?
The last one ends before it gets to Hugh asking for a book, then realizing Alex is bringing whatever he's asking for, he asks for the power cord and just unplugs the treadmill! THAT is the celeb nailing the impossible.
@@paisanpane6072 ooo
What do the other contestants do? That felt like the most obvious answer to me
@@liamswedberg2827 They only had 2 minutes until the treadmill turned on and everyone but Hugh pretty much lost their minds. Noel and Joe tried to build things that would keep them on, Mel tries to keep it on with a shovel, and Lolly does pretty much the same thing as Hugh, but she overthinks the rules and tries to keep the bucket containing the ball on by piling stuff at the end of the treadmill...
@@liamswedberg2827 3
just tape the ball to the treadmill. Task didn't say it had to be on the running part
"People say my ADHD makes me shit at problem solving, no sir!" Agreed Rhod, agreed
Ikr it's probably my strongest trait tbh
It's a weird thing for people to think, given how creative problem solving is one of the traits of ADHD
Different problems for different people I would expect. A long mathematical problem requiring sustained attention would probably be harder for someone with ADHD, but a lateral thinking problem like this they've got as good a chance as anyone, or possibly even an advantage.
@@TestTestGo You just described my school career in a nutshell
@@moonyollie6977 I'm glad to hear you found a place to excel. Sometimes the education system doesn't allow the flexibility for neurodivergant people to apply themselves in a way that works to their strengths. Too many come out the other end thinking that they just aren't smart enough to keep up when that was never the problem.
Rhod having the brilliant idea of moving the hole but then not rebuilding the hole directly around the ball to achieve the first "hole in none" in the history of humankind, still has me crying with laughter 😂😂😂
I mean, a hole in none would have been disqualified, it HAS to be a hole in one after all...
Rhod tying Alex was the best lateral thinking moment of the entire show. Nothing else compares to it.
“Lunch?” “What you like?” “Something sharp” Lol
Moving the hole is pretty great
@@almostunliketea but thinking, "I'll tie up the guy who has to untie me, so he can't untie my simple rope hand cuff" is sixhead.
I'd pay good money for a Taskmaster special or season that is just tasks for Rhod, just to drool over how his brain works.
Danish version had a task with something similar, one of the female contestants told Mark (the danish version of Alex) that if he touched her it would be sexual harrassment/assault while sounding very strict, she won that round because Mark didn't want a lawsuit on his hands :D
Considering that Rhod entered purely to fuck with Greg, he was brilliant.. I think if he had played to win, he could have done so easily
I still laugh whenever I see a clip of Rhod bringing up a photo of Greg in the price task...
Nothing will ever beat Rhod hiding in Greg's cupboard for hours to record him as he slept
@@emilylittle1187 what was that from?
@@AmDeadInside it was also a price task, I think it was the final episode of the season with Rhod
@@woif00 You mean prize task
It always amazes me how different people’s minds work and this show perfectly displays this.
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Hugh Dennis, very underrated contestant.
Hugh got screwed out of a lot of points. Greg punished him for things that should have let him win, based on Greg’s decisions in other seasons
@@centurionquincy3899 yeah I'm still salty about this. He was a genius
Hugh Dennis MVP
@@centurionquincy3899 However there's always been one particular thing he won that I never understood why, I was always surprised Alex didn't point out the discrepancy immediately. For the "make the longest slide" task, a slide is how much you propel yourself in one single, continuous movement. I believe every other contestant did their own version of this, meanwhile what Hugh did in the big piece of plastic along the grass was basically the equivalent of a dog dragging his ass along the ground over and over. He only "slid" about 6 inches each time, because he came to a complete stop after every one, before pulling himself further from the rope tied to the caravan. It baffled me from the very first viewing how that was counted as one single slide.
@@kevinw712 My guess is, he was going by the idea of: If you slide halfway down a slide and got stuck then continued sliding down the rest, you would still say “I got stuck while sliding” not “I slid down half the slide then slide down the other half”
"what would you like for lunch?" "something sharp"
I am forever disappointed that Rhod didn't bring Alex a lemon
I just got that joke after so many years of thinking he just meant sharp as in sharp taste lmao
@@labradude or sharp as in quick..
@@labradude The joke was literally just something sharp to cut the rope. Yes sharp has a dual meaning to a kind of taste, but that wasn't the joke.
@@Argennon Well done for literally repeating my realisation
Rhod Gilbert and Hugh Dennis - joint kings of the lateral thinkers. I’d happily have either of them in an escape room with me.
They didn’t even show the unplugging part at the end, that was the real genius
I loved how Wang said "we'd love to hate that, but that was genius"
Of course 3 of them are Rhod
Rhod has been my favorite contestant by far
Series 7 was the best.
Aisling's annoyed sigh after Alex explained Mark turning the light on is a legal move is so adorable 😂😂😂
Aisling is adorable.
@@esper86 yeah I have such a crush on her hahaha
Very adorbs.
@@iliketrains3495 Ditto
The thing I found SOO frustrating about Paul Sinhas one is that I have that hose head and there’s like a proper laser if he just turned it a few times
Haha I think he has good memory but a poor processor
@@mitchelljack1590 worrying given he's a doctor...
@@thehotwombat he has Parkinson’s disease and was tested mainly because he was concerned about his performance on this show
Most of the other contestants quickly figured this out
@@iliketrains3495 No, he was "worrying about why a right-sided limp was now getting worse."
The fact that Rhod is in this compilation twice is amazingly telling As is Hugh.
Thrice no?
Rhod gilbert just hacked the entire show throughout that series it was brilliant 😂
They cut out the best part when Hugh has the treadmill unplugged
I would love to watch a 2nd chance series! With James Acaster, Bob Mortimer, Romesh and Rhod, for example ...
Bob won his series though. Not much of a second chance.
And Hugh!
get roisin on too i miss her
Iconic
I always liked: "Don't blink for the longest of time. Time starts in 3 seconds after reading this note". Only one contestant figured out to close his eyes before the 3 seconds were up and kept them closed.
No one figured that out actually. Alex said his kid was the one who suggested that
Alex is the one to bring it up since one of the contestants closed their eyes for a bit then opened before the time starts. Alex said that he could have just kept them closed.
I think there is another universe where Rhod is an evil villain and High is his arch enemy.
The way Mawaan's face lights up when Greg acknowledges the cow gag always makes me smile ^^
What about Joe Lycett who did a task in 0 seconds?
which task was that i can't fully remember it, i wanna see it again :)
@@georgepig3778 It was a tie break. They had to open a jar of mayonnaise that was covered in Vaseline. Joe did it before opening the task
I’m also quite fond of the one where they had to keep Alex dry under a shower and they disconnected the shower and with the extra time blew him with a hairdryer
@@ArcherOi what? which episode was that?
@@cindy85 I think it was series 6 episode 2
Rhod is the definition of “If you have to cut down a tree in ten minutes, spend the first two sharpening your ax.”
Rhod, his out of the box thinking and his banter and prize task photos of Greg is what have made him one of the most memorable people on the show!
I loved so much seeing Rhod getting around the tasks. What a madlad
Love it. What about Lolly playing Hide and Go Seek with Alex, then calling him to taunt him?
"without moving the fishbowls..."
I MUST watch this episode!
My favourite moment of the show! The photo on the beach was pure comedy gold !
Lool was the one where i got that recommended and watched all the taskmasters episodes after that
@@sunlioness1 I also love that she sent him a picture of her as a baby, with Greg saying it suggested that Lolly was hiding somewhere in time; and that’s why you should never play hide and seek with a Time Lord haha. All the best. 👍😀
When Mawaan made the perfect cow pun and didn't even realize it
I may have fallen in love with him at that moment.
I love how Rhod comes out with what he says is a tangerine then proceeds to put in into the sock and call it a satsuma 😂
I feel like if Joe Wilkinson had to do the dinner task he would've sat down and ate all of Alex's dinner.
You forgot about - Mawaan moving the doorbell from outside to the room so he wouldn't have to go run every time. - Jamali finding the receipt of the ingredients instead of looking into every pie.
LOVE how all of them do their UTMOST to manipulate the wording of the rules and in some cases stop short at nothing but all out CHEATING!!
@@DrWhoFanJ Ta I've corrected it.
Ahh so you understand the concept of the show now
(Jus like Champion of Champions) Battle of the darkhorses: Hugh, Rhod, Mike Wozniak, Sally, Tim keys
yes!
That would be a dream team
chuck in Ross Noble either as a contestant or just an agent of chaos, I'm not fussed
Doesn't fit the jew directive of including one thick brown person
@@franksimon8375 you sound lovely frank
Ok, I'm coming to untie you *struggling cause he is bound* I just love how Alex plays along with all of this 😁
When Rhod goes quiet... That's when shit gets real
That's the sound of his brain diverting power to solution processing
When he gets up during the satsuma task he's literally standing like a bad guy in a children's show
3 of these are Rhod Gilbert and 2 of them are Hugh Dennis
I have such a crush on Rhod...love how smirky he gets when he knows he’s nailed it....
He’s such an arrogant prick. No my idea of attractive personally.
I must say I would've liked to have seen the taskmaster's reaction to these included
“is it sexual ?” *no response from alex*
I’ve only noticed now, that the cow was on his jacket the whole time
Genius! I had to go back and finally spotted the cow's shadow on Mawaan's jacket.
Was looking for this
Yup, you can see the black pin the cow is mounted on, it disappears too when they move the cow out of the shot. I didn't see the shadow at first, just concentrated on the cow with pin 😂 oh, the showed it later. My comment seem a bit moo now (nobody cares what the cow says according to Joey🐮😊)
When Alex asked for something sharp for lunch, I imagined Rhod giving him a sandwich full of razors and steak knives.
All these years it never occurred to me when Alex asked for something sharp for lunch - he didnt mean like a cheddar sandwich.. he meant like a knife to cut the rope
This doesn't show that although Hugh had a smart solution to cutting the strings with flags, Noel actually did it quicker by just going through it and he was jumping on one leg IN HEELS!
It's funny, I got this video recommended to me the day my chem teacher and the class debated whether or not you could move a hole. And how one would do so.
i think about Rhod’s “People say my ADHD makes me shit at problem solving… no sir!” every time i do anything remotely clever
10:01 I JUST REALISED MEL PUT A SEATBELT ON THE CAMEL LMAOOO
sorry what about alice and russell turning the shower off, so that alex wouldnt get wet, and then ended up blow drying him so he was drier than when the task started, i will feel like that is an underrated genius moment
Instead we get paul pointing the weakest hose setting at the lower half of a sphere and being suprised it started rolling backwards...
@@arielanonymous7270yeah that was a weird choice, if I remember right Iain won that task, mostly because he realised it didn’t say you had to actually guide it through the course
Taskmaster is basically a normal dnd session
"Want anything?" "Something sharp" Alex's wit is underrated on this show
"If Davies got a problem with it, I'm knocking him out"
I’m still trying to wrap my head around what he said and why it’s clever… can anyone explain please?
@@Midori_Seabreeze there's no joke really, it's just funny because it's so unnecessarily aggressive/stereotypical thing for him to say
@@emr3114 Oh, I literally don’t understand what it is he said. So I’m just baffled entirely.
@@Midori_Seabreeze "If Davies has got a problem with it, I'll knock him out" So if basically saying he'll make Greg unconscious if he's got an issue with it
@@emr3114 Thank you. And I really do appreciate your sincerity. It's really difficult to to keep that in text form, online, with strangers. I rewatched it now and it makes more sense. :)
I think Rhod is an absolute legend on this program 😂😂 i think his accent makes it even better! It makes him seem even more cheeky and naughty but completely innocent!
0:48 My favourite version of this incidental music.
Now this is the proof of "wisdom comes with age", I mean Mel, Rhod, and Hugh is a good example of this🤣
Yeah but.....David Badiel...Paul Singha...
@@lisaporter-smith676Sinha was smart, he just wasn't very physically impressive and was a bit slow
Seen the vanishing cow clip so often, but this is the first time I’ve noticed all the visual clues…the elephant shaped shadow on his shirt, the stick coming from the cows leg, and the speed the shadow drops out of sight when the cow “vanishes”
It took me so long to notice the shadow! Not a visual clue but you can also hear the click of the mechanism that lowers the cow!
I loved the way Hugh got around the task, by using a mirror, to draw the woman behind the curtain…only to fail miserably with his sketch; I don’t understand why none of them didn’t think to just stick their phones around the curtain, and snap a picture of the lady. But I suppose it’s easy to come up with solutions, when you’re looking at it from the outside; when you’re in a situation yourself, where someone springs a weird task on you, with a short time limit, it’s easy to panic, and just follow the rules as they are written, without thinking them through, to see if there’s a better/easier/sneakier way to do things haha. Hugh Dennis definitely had the right idea, he just let himself down slightly, with the execution; though he did redeem himself completely, when got the bonus point for finding out her full name, by just asking her to write it down, instead of him having to go through the alphabet, like everybody else did; that was a stroke of genius.
Can’t believe they cut the best part of the final one, after asking for a chair and a book he realised Alex would give him anything he asked for so he asked for the power extension and just unplugged the treadmill XD
Whats that hole? "Oh its a different one" my favorite line hands down
What Paul (bafflingly) didn't recognise was that the side of the ball he was spraying with water was getting heavier as it was getting wet and therefore the ball was falling in that direction- only at the end was the hose on a strong enough setting to actually push the ball haha
Kerry Godliman is just so funny, her facial expression at the tying-up task was hilarious.
It's amazing how many celebrities are utterly insane, I mean, this show really strips people down to their most fundamental self.
Just realised that you can see the cows shadow on him right the start
And the stick under the cow.
@@Meriysi that’s what the duck is for, misdirection
@@kvoltti And it worked brilliantly! One of the best successful tasks!
You can even hear and see the cow move out of the way. But it doesn't matter because that's not where anyone is looking
“People say my adhd makes me shit at problem solving” really? Id say it generally makes us universally better at creative problem solving
Mark's rainbow fiasco was hilarious.
The guy from the chase firing water down at the beach ball...how thick can a smart person be 😂
@A.P. well...shit. 😅
That's why the normal fodder is comedians, smart people have never done well. Paul Sinha, Vicky Coren Mitchell and Richard Osman, all very smart, and usually very bad at tasks! Using comedians is what makes it work so well, especially in the studio with the banter back and forth. To be fair though a large chunk of the British comedy circuit were surprisingly well educated, for the vocation they eventually chose.
Nothing compares to how much melon Roisin can eat in a minute though....such legend!!
If Rhod had put the whole hole around the egg cup, wouldn't it have been a hole in zero?
He must have considered it and decided against it
A hole in none
I know you commented this a year ago, but I'm fairly certain the rule was to get it in the hole "in as few hits" meaning you had to hit the ball at least once :)
@@kincendium411 I'll point out there was a greased up mayonnaise jar task that I think whitticome opened before reading the task and won in nil seconds
@@johnwright6706 Joe Lycett did that one.
"something sharp" was a very clever line
Rhod proving he has the brain power that he could either save this world or completely destroy it
Someone PLEASE edit some AC/DC over that clip of Hugh hopping 😂😂😂
The yoga mat on the hill was super smart too
We need rhod and hugh on a season together
how did we not notice the shadow of the mini cow on his orange jumpsuit the first 20 times we've watched this? i cannot believe no-one noticed and argued. but really great and clever
if you can only touch the beach ball with water why don't they just push it with an ice cube? seems far more efficient than trying to hose it down the finish line haha
One of the other contestants does that, but only after he tried 18 other techniques
@@Sagalink including throwing the ice at the ball xD
Other contestants also turned the nozzle to high pressure
I love taskmaster. You really have to read the task sometimes to see loop holes lol.
When you don't know how the cow trick is done, you're looking at the duck and cow, but once you know it you might spot the shadow of a tiny cow that 'disappears' with a click when the duck is in place!
“Something sharp” kills me everytime
Noel Fielding disguising himself as a banana lying in a fruitbowl deserves to be in this compilation.
Would you like something for lunch? Yes please. What would you like? Something sharp. 😂
yep i love those types of moments, i feels like its the spirit of the taskmaster show to think outside the box
There was a shadow of the cow on the jacket on the first trick. It gives out the whole thing.
In the Swedish version of taskmaster they had the same basketball on treadmill task. One guy solved the problem by unplugging the treadmill
That's how the guy on this video solved it. They didn't show the whole clip
I’ve watched the camel in the smallest GAP so many times and I still love it
Rhod gilbert is literally a genius
But... but... I just watched this on KZhead a few days ago and this was uploaded yesterday! 🤯🤯
We need a series with Rhod and Hugh competing against eachother tbh
Hugh prob lose because when he is not thinking outside the box he is cheating.
rhod is bloody brilliant it’s actually insane
To this day I just wish Alex had caught the light stand on the way down or they'd played with the audio just so people would be less likely to work out how it was done.
alternative title: rhod gilbert on taskmaster
Channel 4 making sure their "late" investment is paying off. We've got a Taskmaster channel thanks.
Rhod tying Alex to the chair 👏🤣
The turning the light on was brilliant. 😂😂
first one is so silly lol you can see the stick holding up the little cow near the camera haha
Rhod moving the actual hole is amazing
I wish rhod would come back to this show , every moment with him was gold
Rhod is incredibly intelligent. Similar to Huw, but they both use their intelligence in such vastly different ways.
I believe he's English, not Welsh, so Hugh, not Huw. Though his actual name is Peter.
I never noticed before, but right at the start, you can actually see the cow’s shadow on his shirt