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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.
Marks texting task is funnier when you find out he went on Bear Grylls’ show for two weeks and had to prepare texts for his wife to send in his absence.
For real??? 🤣🤣🤣
Are you serious? Lmao!!! 😅😅😅
Bear grylls show? With the man vs wild stuff I've seen, I'm sure he was allowed his cellphone when they weren't filming.
What might be even funnier is if she was the reason he was short by 2 messages
@@chrisnorris7527 they might not have had cellular data though
Mark's quiet devastation over doing "something which, genuinely, if I look back on this calendar year, is one of the major things I've done with it" for zero points has no right to be just as heartbreaking as it is hilarious 🤣
If I were him I would reconsider the life I was living.😄
@@olabandola9577 and friends, i.e. Alex Horne who is enjoying the moment
I can't believe they only read about three texts out loud. I want to hear the rest!
3:04 look at the pure terror in his eyes
He got a hug from Sally for it. That's worth it.
johnny yelling I DIDN'T TURN IT ON, running back, falling, and popping back up to again yell 'COS IT'S NOT PLUGGED IN! is still as great as the first time i saw it
Johnny was one of my favourite contestants.
Its one of my favourite bits of TV ever.
Johnny is a treasure! ❤
i took a tumble !
@@darkmator I suffered for me craft!
"Did you see how she reacted to the hippo drawing? She's gonna fuck you up, mate" is one of those little studio moments that gets me every time
12:38
Having no audience to play off of in the studio during COVID must've sucked big time but the "moment of silence" must've felt so so so so awkward in a funny way to them in the empty studio
Victoria Coren Mitchell said on the podcast she felt the silence in the studio was excruciating.
Season 10 felt so strange because of it, and I kinda love it for the totally different fever dream vibe.
Yet another thing the asinine stupidity of covid response destroyed.
@@louis559 At the same time it feels a lot more like they forgot that cameras are running in their interaction. They don't hold back when it comes to just giggling around - there are some great outtakes which explain why they are sometimes looking like they have just cried. Because they did - laughing. In a similar way some QI episodes feel like a bunch of friends play an improvisation game - especially with James Acaster and Joe Lycett.
@@louis559 totally love it for the fever dream vibe? Shroomhead??
Setting Josh up with a singing individual task at the Champions was deliciously evil
And he had the same reaction to his solo counting tasks of the first series haha
When they do Champion of Champions of Champions I want them to give him one more solo task for old times sake, though honestly he'd probably be looking for it by then.
@@JzanderN Yeah but how could he guess which of the bullshit task they have him do is going to be the solo task? Unless they all are..! "Josh of Josh" special episode where it's all Josh doing solo tasks :p
@@stone5against1 That sounds wonderfully evil. Tell Josh it's a special , get him to record the tasks, tell him about the other contestants but there's no team tasks. And it's only when he gets to the studio record to find it's just him Greg and Alex reviewing his tasks and giving nil , zero, nothing, no points, and DQ's only. Maybe even a deduction so he finishes the solo task master special on a minus number. Alex and Greg pick the prize tasks they like to keep, And then make Josh give back one of his trophies at the end. Might do irreparable mental damage to the poor man sure. I can't argue that point., But fuck it would make for some entertaining TV.
Greg going full teacher mode with his disappointment on the cup runneth over task is peak banter.
"I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed"
I love how they were all giggling too 😂
You can tell which of the contestants were naughty students by their reactions
And Jonny taking his hat off for the 2 moments of silence is just 🤌🤌👌👌
Reliving Mark Watson's texting task is wonderful.
I wish they had sold copies of that book
@@centurionquincy3899 Thats exactly what I was going to say...
Unless you are Mark Watson.
I don’t think it will ever get old. Every single time I love it
I'm so glad Sally commiserated him with a hug because I might have cried if I was Mark 😅
6:15 i love that the camera person was focused on the crow in the background. amazing
How had I never noticed that before 🤣
Yeah I love how they’re free to be creative, seems a super nice environment to work in. The whooshes when the sped up planes over over were nice too
Camera man
@@swift2765i didn't know for sure
@@amelialikesfrogs5778 Neither does Swift.
‘She’s gonna fuck you up mate’ is one of my favourite lines from the show
Especially because it's clearly true.
Watching Nish just utterly lose it when Mark was denied any points for the texting was wildly satisfying. I keep rewatching that scene just for Nish's reaction.
Nish's laughter is so wholesome
"You're literally disqualified. Metaphorically, you're still in with a shout" is one of my favourite lines ever from this show.
the fact that greg ALWAYS guesses hand and they didn't catch on is incredible
Watching Jonny Vegas fall over is probably the purest form of laughter I will ever get to experience. I love the man; he's hilarious, deceptively smart, and seems by all accounts to be a lovely person to be around. But watching that tumble just absolutely fills me with delight.
We're cut from different cloth. I winced.
Those years of practice making teapots have stood him in good stead.
@2nd3rd1st the FIRST time I saw it I definitely winced, but now every time I watch it and already know he's alright, I can't help but let loose witha deep, heartfelt belly laugh.
@@2nd3rd1st , same. I am ADHD and autistic with dyspraxia / developmental coordination disorder. Dyspraxia is basically clinical clumsiness and commonly co-occurs with ADHD or autism. Johnny Vegas was just diagnosed with ADHD this year, joining the ranks of Lee Mack, Rhod Gilbert, Russel Howard, Kiri Pritchard-McClean, Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry, and many other comedians who oscillate between incredibly brilliant and incredibly stupid. We ADHDers are not ones for moderation. We go to extremes.
@@2nd3rd1st , well, I misread your "different cloth" as "same cloth." Dyslexia and auditory processing disorder also commonly co-occur with ADHD. 😅
16:25 "I am 97% liquid" Apparently Richard Herring is not a herring but a cucumber.
Johnnie's suppressed laughter during the 'Everybody fails' task is the most beautiful sound ever!
16:55
@@zhouhuanyue Na, it's 17:16
Daisy looking at Mawan like she is going to break his bones and toss him in the ocean has no right being this funny 🤣🤣
they really just glossed over asim saying he likes hentai at 20:50
Can't judge a guy for based taste
I like the solemnity in which Vegas took off his hat when Greg suggested a silent moment.
I'm adding "Where's the liquid?" to my list of Katherine Parkinson quotes from the series that make her sound like she could outsmoke Bob Marley. And that's not even mentioning trying to fill a net with water.
The woman who thought wombles were mammals?
@@syd7801 pointy-nosed furry animals.. yea that's a good guess.
@@syd7801 Well, I would argue they are mammals. They just happen to be fictional ones.
Mark not getting a point for the text task is tragic 😢
No points for Jonny Vegas in any task - more heartbreaks.
if he wanted a point, he should have completed the task. 150 texts means 150 texts! in those immortal words of Wozniak, when you get a task, you do the task!
It was the funniest outcome though
Mark and Nish were so great. His reaction to Mark not getting points was a true friends reaction. And Sally giving him a hug was nice.
So Greg Davies' strategy for the hand/mouth grape game was to just guess hand every time because the law of averages suggested that he'd get them all after 2 rounds
Surprised nobody noticed and just kept it in their mouth. Maybe they kept expecting him to finally guess mouth?
But how does that fit into the no-one gets a point category. 3 people succeed the first time and don't get more points than the people that failed first time... Outrageous
@@johnnewsham5193 I think you have to get all the way through to get the points so no one got any points because they all lost
That's not how coin flipping works at all. For each of them there's a 25% chance after two rounds of guessing Hand that they'd have Won
I feel for the staff who have to cleanup the mess after each task.
You mean Alex then...
@@varjen018 😂
"She's gonna fuck you up mate."
Mawaan and Johnny are two of my favourite contestants ever on this show purely for this task alone
Mawaan Rizwan is the most influential arguer in Taskmaster history. If he hadn't pointed out Daisy's throwing of the task onto the red green, the title of Taskmaster Champion, and of Taskmaster Champion of Champions, would have been altered.
I'm pretty sure they already had that ready and would have revealed it in the end.
They already had the compilation of everyone messing it up edited and ready to go which is why Alex said "we'll look at that later" after they'd shown everyone else doing the task. Really he just kinda spoiled the surprise by being observant.
Omg Mark was fully traumatised you can tell in his voice 😂 I nearly died when he said "this task has overshadowed 5 weeks of my life" .. I love how savage Greg is no points to anyone😂
Pretty sure it was 5 months
I fell in love with Mark Watson when I watched that and will love him for the rest of my life.
@@PS-vm3we same. well, could have been seeing nish and mark having a proud hug after everyone watched their song. made me want to know them actually in my life
@@PsychoEdits thank you
@@PS-vm3we I didn't know who he was til taskmaster but he is great lool
I think the cheeky text every day for five months is my favourite thing in this show ever - I don't know if that can be topped - especially Mark's reaction 🤣🤣🤣
Every time I see Josh Widdicombe I think he must have found a way to travel back in time and appear in someone's dreams. And he used it to pop into a dream Tolkien had the night before he came up with hobbits.
You cannot have a name like widdicombe,look like that and not be a hobbit. It’s impossible.
@@Kobiwan_ Widdicombe isn't a hobbit, he just happens to have a best friend named Gandalf who happens to be a wizard. And he just likes to smoke a long pipe and lives in a hole in the ground... Hold on a second. Bitch how you not the hobbit again?
Ironically he has said before that he auditioned for that film as a hobbit and wasn’t cast 🤣
We must utilize Gregs superhuman ability to locate Grapes that have been placed in one of two locations.
If the grape is in your hand, he'll guess right 100% of the time! We must harness this power!
Perfectly balanced: as all scores should be.
🥇🥇🥇 I understood that reference
That was years ago. Find a new identity.
Johnny whimpering laughing into his hat absolutely destroyed me 😂😂😂
Johnny Vegas falling over for no reason is still my favourite ever moment on Taskmaster.
20:55 I see he's a man of culture
Season 10 is my guiltily pleasure. It was such a crackhead energy thanks to covid and empty studio. Mowan egg moment is what made me laugh so hard I had to stop watching. It was my first season too. Watched two or three episodes and had to stop and go back from s1 and catch up.
same :)
I developed a massive crush on that sneaky pasta snake.
Fascinating. It’s my least favorite. I find daisy irritating. I love 7.
So many tasks from series 10 could have made it into this one
I enjoy the cameraman getting bored and focusing on the crow at 6:15
For years now, I've watched Taskmaster as a stress relief in the background of whatever I'm doing. Weirdly enough, great content without plot makes my brain so very happy
It's compilations like this from various series that truly reminds me how much I LOVE THIS SHOW.
Alex so excitedly exclaimed that nobody got any points 😂
12:34 “I love making friends” 😂
The Decadent Sandwich task from season 4 should be on here. Everyone getting six points has the same effect as everyone getting zero. And it was an amazing performance from Mel.
Mel and Noel both got a bonus point, so they ended up with 7 and the rest with 6
@@iliketrains3495 man I do not recall that but it sounds valid. Damn I always say I love that one for it’s useless effects too.
I love the moment of silence . . . They're giggling like they got in trouble at school.
I still don't understand why Russel and Tim didn't get any points for that task. They both fooled the TM once and Tim even was the last one standing, so he should have gotten 5 points. Russel was 2nd, so he should have gotten 4.
it was an all or nothing task
Not sure why tim would get more than Russel if they both fooled once. Doesn't make sense that Tim should win just because he gets to go second
Greg’s really showing his teaching experience at the end of the cup task
Not only the hammer, but he also stepped on it more than once haha.
20:53 he let the intrusive thoughts win 💀😭
I want that cheeky text book
Crow bros just chilling at 6:16
Russel and Tim vine should've got more points than the others for fooling the taskmaster once
Mark's texts.... the injustice. I feel it was karma for the taskmasters pants.
Ahh the text task. I'll always remember that one. And The Peas!
If they ever make the "Norman Wisdom Story", they should politely ask if Russell Howard would like to play the lead.
Tim should have won the grape task since he made it to the second round and his only other competitor was disqualified
Johnny Vegas falling down will never stop making me laugh.
technically speaking, that final task never said that the grape had to STAY in your hand or your mouth, so putting it in your pocket might have been arguably allowed if he bothered to argue it
6:16 WOOOOO!! NOW THIS IS CONTENT!!!!
And so, all the contestants unknowingly (?) Imitated Gregs imitation of Chris Eubanks during the grapesegment.. :D
18:58 that's a pretty good Chris Eubank impression
Ahaha I thought the exact same thing watching it
I’ve been looking everywhere for that video of josh singing the intro
Just had a thought on the cup overflow task, you could've ripped the pole out and then used the hose.
Didn‘t know I needed this but damn that might become one of my favoutite taskmasterclips on this channel besides the full episodes. And for sure I would pay good money for that little notebook full of 148 cheekey textmessages 😂
These are the things that made the earlier seasons so good, the only thing like it in recent series was JK sabotaging task but that had a bearing on points
They forgot the team task with 100 balls & a net from Series 12.
And on the other end of the scale, the socially distanced sport commentary
@@iliketrains3495 What? That got 0 points? I don’t believe that one bit!
@@ericzubyk2329 both teams got 5
@@ericzubyk2329 quite the contrary - both teams got 5. "The other end of the scale" :)
@@petgoose32 but that was Guzball & Multi Sport right? Because the other team task I mentioned had scores in the negatives which technically meant no points all around. Also I just realized the final live task of Series 8 also had no effect on the scores either.
Alex's succinct "okay." in reply to the contestant's specific questions is the best worst thing that his character does.
How could they leave out the exotic sandwich six point saga
because Noel and Mel got bonus points
I forgot what the video was called during the last one and was completely gripped by Tim Vine's last attempt to see if Greg was going to guess correctly
"What a terrible waste of time"
If you want to see the shed, look up Alex Horne British bake off
Oh the grape task... Just sneak 2 grapes when the bowl was being passed around. Cover your mouth. Have one grape in your hand, one in your mouth. Don't get caught, can't lose... lol
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
148/150! I want to know which days he missed 😂
''BUMS ON SEATS'' leave it to Tim Vine to give us a new explicative
Waiting for season 125 where we see the champion of champion champions (i assume we'll have figured out immortality by then)
Was one of the months February? If so, he nailed that texting task 🤔
2:53 I always thought that Noel was just doing a joke here, but I found out recently that this is actually true.
I still think that grape task is one of the worst scored ever. Tim should have gotten some points (if not the full 5) for outlasting the rest, including Russell since he was technically disqualified. I'm glad they handled this better in series 14
But he wasn't really the last standing but only last to do the challenge again because of the order, both Russell and Tim made it to round two meaning neither of them were the last standing. Tim would have won the points if Russell didn't fool the taskmaster the first time.
Did the Reddit q&a make you think to post this?
I’m adding hand or mouth to my party games. Along with carrot in a box
makes me wonder was sean ever on tm? bet he would have been great.
I was wondering how Tim was going to do at the end there?........ Oh no......... No I wasn't!
See sandwich task and that task where everyone successfully yanked a fiver from under a drinking glass.
Watching these, I think there's a noticeable difference between the episodes that took place in front of a n audience, and those that didn't. When there's no audience, the cast is more subdued, and they don't know when a joke lands. Unfortunately, those pandemic episodes are just missing a certain energy that the other seasons had.
"Count every grain of rice."
Alice Levine though 😍
Dude is over here sending texts... probably could have just sceduled them and set them all up on days one and two
What series and episode is this?
The one tiny downside with this show is that equal points means the same as no points. Only the relative difference in points matters, so this video should also have included all the times where all 5 tied, either with 5 points or any other number because it's exactly the same as zero.
Group tasks are almost worthless because they normally give one team 3 and the other team 2 or similar. So at best you get a 1 point advantage over two or three people.
Why wasn’t the book of cheeky texts ever published? 😢
Every 5 series they should make a champion of champions with all the past champions, and after 25 series they should make a champion of champion of champions with the winners of each champion of champions
They did one champion of champions. I guess not enough were willing to go twice, or it didn't get enough ratings?
@@naomismith1241 Champion of Champions II was released last year but I don't think the episode is viewable outside the UK, and there's only one episode
Yay
Taskmaster should sell Mark Watson's Book of Cheeky Text Messages
I mean the text challenge should've only taken a few hours since you can preprogrammed texts to be sent out.
I would buy the 150 texts book
But they did have an effect on our hearts...
Will someone explain to me why Mawan needed the funnel?
In the grape task, the trick is to put the grape in your hand, but put something else in your mouth so it sounds like its in your mouth, then cover your mouth (use your hoody, hand or just turn around).
Why is the second clip in this?
What were US TV chiefs thinking not using Greg? No wonder it didn't really work over there, although tbf the choice of contestants didn't help either.
Could of added remove tablecloth without breaking any eggs from series 6
“I like Chinese stories. And hentai.” I’m dead