(Bell Media theme playing)
(applause)
- Good evening, my name is Louis Morissette
and welcome to Taskmaster.
♪♪♪
Over the last few weeks, I've created a series of tasks
for five beloved comedians to complete.
Together, we'll see what they did
and how they did it. As the Taskmaster,
I'll give out top points to the most deserving contestants,
based on highly subjective and ambiguous criteria.
The winner of this season
will take home the greatest prize in the history of television:
a golden replica of my head!
(cheering) "Christoeuf Coulant." ["Christophe Colomb" = "Christopher Columbus" "oeuf" = "egg"]
Here are the comedians who
completed tasks for you again tonight:
Ève Côté! - Good evening, Taskmaster! Good evening!
- Matthieu Pepper! - Good evening, Taskmaster!
Good evening, everyone, good evening!
- Jo Cormier!
Christine Morency!
And Mehdi Bousaidan!
(applause)
And these tasks took place under the supervision
of my assistant and friend: Antoine Vézina!
- Ah!
- Ah, that's so nice! - Ah yes! Really?
- So, what's the prize task theme tonight, Antoine?
- Yes, we asked our comedians
to each bring in an item
for which they will be playing to win tonight.
The items have to be on theme.
You'll give them points. Tonight's theme:
"The coolest blue thing you own!"
- Wow! - Alright!
- Oh, Louis, I won't be able to help you
with regard to the colours; I'm colour-blind.
- Is that so, Antoine? - Yes!
Nevertheless, let's have a look at the items.
Christine. (laughing)
- Yes! Isn't this
the coolest thing in the world?
- Blu Tack is the coolest thing in the world?
- Well, it is the coolest thing.
It sticks, but it doesn't really stick.
You can play with it. It's starts out hard; it finishes soft.
- Oh!
- You can make a bunch of objects stick to the wall with it.
Without needing to make a hole. Is that awesome, or what?
- What on earth?
- Super. Didn't think we'd spend that much time
on some Blu Tack. Fantastic!
- That was an oral presentation! - Let's see
how much time we'll spend on Mehdi's item!
- Um, I...
(laughing)
- Those are the best cookies!
- I love these cookies. Everyone has one of these tins at home,
but there are never any fucking cookies in them.
(laughing)
There's everything but cookies in them
and I brought one in and put a surprise in it.
- Oh! Good.
Let's see what Jo brought in! - Ah! [Jo's item is the Quebec flag]
(applause)
- Does it get any cooler than that?
- Well, exactly.
I'll have to buy some new curtains now, but, yeah...
I told myself: Let the sun shine in
to take me out of the darkness.
(laughing)
- That's beautiful, eh? - It is!
- And if Roxane Bruneau [Quebec pop singer] is listening, those are my lyrics, OK?
(laughing)
- Ève! - Yes!
- What did you bring in?
- Wow! - This is amazing!
This is an enormous lighter.
You'll always have a light, and you'll never have it stolen at parties!
- It's a giant one. Is it big? - I'm telling you, it's about this high.
- You light it with two hands, right?
- Yes, exactly! - You have to jump on it!
You jump on it! - With your shoe! [makes a kicking motion]
- And lastly, Matthieu's item!
- Yes! (laughing)
- What is that?
"Vas-y, fais-le pour toi"? ["Go ahead, do it for yourself"]
- It's the guy from the [Quebec] government PSA from the 2000s.
"Go ahead, do it for yourself." [slogan encouraging people to exercise]
Yes, the guy who did the exercise.
That's it.
The photo isn't mine, but the guy
is currently in my basement.
- Thanks, Pepper! - My pleasure, everyone.
He was so annoying, wasn't he?! - He's really blue, now!
(laughing)
- OK, here are the points.
Clearly, Jo, you're getting five points.
- Five points for Jo!
(applause)
- So that the folks at home
can recover, one point for Matthieu.
- One point. - Wait, what?!
- The three others, two points each!
- What, two points?!
- Let's move on to the next task right away.
The first real task of the evening.
- The first task is a "shi-tea" one.
You'll see why. You'll see why.
♪♪♪
- Hm...
- It smells like tea.
- It's gotten to the point where I'm nervous, Antoine.
- Oh, come on! - Well, yes! After enough of these...
- "Throw a teabag..."
- "... into a mug from the furthest distance."
- "You have 30 minutes." - "Your time starts now."
- (Antoine): First thoughts?
- Reread!
(laughing) - A teabag? ["poche" can mean "sachet" but it's also Quebec slang for "terrible/shitty"]
What is this? Is this a riddle?
You always make me doubt things.
- Into a mug...
from the furthest distance.
(applause)
- OK, there seems to be some latent stress, here, eh?
Meaning: when it comes to herbs, they're not used to DRINKING them.
- Indeed.
So, it was simple. Throw a teabag into a mug.
Precision, distance; not complicated.
- From the furthest distance!
- Exactly. Let's see Mehdi, Matthieu, and Ève!
- Here we go! - Throw a teabag...
into a mug, OK.
Like this. Oof!
Needs more, more...
(disappointed sighs)
(tubes rattling)
- 3.3 metres.
- I have to go farther away.
- Oh come on, Jesus! Am I a complete moron, or...?
It's embarrassing to be this clumsy
with tape.
Imagine how bad I'd be with an actual tool.
- Maybe I should try a different strategy.
(disappointed sigh)
- OK! A table length . - A table length.
- 4'7"! - Good! OK!
- Shall we leave? - Let's go!
- Is there another way to do this?
Ah!
♪♪♪
Now we're cooking.
- Ah!
(disappointed sigh) - OK!
- I'm gonna try this, OK? Like this.
No!
Not bad.
(laughing)
Ah! Hey, hey, hey! Eh?
- What are you doing?
- I'm going to impress everyone with this thing.
- OK, throw it.
- Really, eh? Not sure that helps all that much.
- No? OK.
- Perfect!
Did it go in?
- Yes! - Applause... shit!
Thank you!
(joyful cries)
- Off the rebound!
- Yes!
- 7.85 m.
- Yes!
(laughing)
- Ah, very good!
- Did you notice Mehdi's underhandedness while you were measuring?
- No, I trust people. That's where I went wrong.
- He clearly cheated, there.
- Of course!
But here's the thing, he's still in the lead
because Matthieu's distance was 91 cm.
(laughing)
Ève, 3.65 m.
She really whipped it in there. - Not bad.
- That said...
Getting back to Mehdi...
- Yes! - This isn't payback,
but I'd like to show you something.
- What? - Oh!
(sigh)
(laughing)
(applause)
- Aww - Yes, yes, yes!
- So, Taskmaster, it's your call.
- But before that, when I tossed it in directly, it was... - 3.30 m.
- Not bad! - 3.30 m and Ève's was...
- Ève, 3.65 m!
- Ève is in the lead. After the break, Jo and Christine's attempts.
(applause)
But the idea was a good one, and I believed it would work!
- I did some exercise. Just for this...
- Yes, but Louis is the Taskmaster.
He's not your family doctor, so...
(laughing)
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster.
So, before the break, we saw Mehdi, Matthieu, and Ève try to
throw a teabag into a mug.
- From the furthest distance.
There's Jo and Christine left to see...
Two comedians, two contestants, who tend to...
...bend the rules.
- Ah, "bend"! - Bunch of cheaters! - Hey!
- Well stated. Let's see Christine first.
- Ah yes! This task went well.
So now, my plan... - Yes?
- is called, "The slide throw."
- Ah, "The slide throw"...
Like a Zipline for teabags. - There you go!
- We have a ton of this! - Hold on a second.
- All of this? - There are four sets like this one.
- Yes, but... OK.
OK, it's attached. We'll wet it by spitting on it.
- Well...
- For about a half hour.
I'm looking forward to that.
- It's gonna work.
I'm sure.
- There's still some cord left!
- Back up! - OK!
- Hey, this setup reminds me that life is always hanging by a thread
It's well-soaked.
- Lift it up!
- Here we go, oh!
(surprised cry) - Fuck!
- It came apart!
(frustrated sigh)
♪♪♪
- If only we had a...
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
No! (laughing)
The carabiner! Fuck!
- You have three minutes left!
- In three... two... one...
Perfect.
(laughing)
♪♪♪
OK! Oh no!
Careful, the teabag is going to break.
- At this point... (laughing)
- Here we go; the big finale is coming up.
Drop the water bottle.
Here we go!
Antoine!
- Wait! Well before...
- Cut!
(applause)
- Well done!
(joyful cry)
- Yes!
- No, no, please! - That's unacceptable.
- It was well thought out, but in the end,
if Antoine doesn't cut the cord,
the teabag won't fall.
- Of course! We could have had Antoine let go of it,
but I wanted him to participate, because I think
Antoine has been present during all of the tasks
and he's never asked to do much. - That's true.
(applause)
- Potentially.
- So the fall was about 4 cm, give or take?
- Yes, after a 120 m walk.
- There we go! - OK, that doesn't work!
- Louis?
I hiked up a mountain! That's worth some points!
- There's just Jo left to see.
- "Throw a teabag
into a mug from the furthest distance."
OK, of course!
- Ah, OK, OK!
That's good!
♪♪♪
♪ - On the road again ♪
Do you ski?
- A little. I used to ski a lot as a kid. You?
- Of course! I was one of those
snowbladers [snowblades are shorter, more parabolically-shaped skis]
I'm going to speed it up a bit.
- Increase the distance. - Yes, increase the distance.
- Two minutes left. I don't know if you have a plan.
- Well, we're going to get the farthest possible.
We'll park...
Hey, this is brillant.
♪♪♪
I won! - There's a good chance you have.
- That's a win!
- That's really good. (applause)
- Now that's more like it. - Admittedly, yes!
Can you just read the exact
words on the task?
- "Throw a teabag into a mug
from the furthest distance."
- So you threw a teabag...
- ... into a mug from the furthest distance from what?
- From what? - I don't know!
- Well, from the place at which you read
the task. That definitely counts.
- He was 7 km from the filming location.
- That's really good!
- I'm going to give him the five points!
- Shall we give out the rest, Taskmaster? - Yes.
For his vision, creativity, and intelligence,
five points for Jo!
- Five points for Jo! (cheering)
- Well done! - Christine?
It was a resounding failure,
but the idea was a good one, and I believed it would work!
- I exercised. Just for this...
- Yes, but Louis is the Taskmaster.
He's not your family doctor, so...
(laughing)
- I'll give you three points for the cardio! - Yes!
- I'm going to give four points
to the winner of the task in terms of distance.
- Thank you! 3.60 m!
- One Pepper Point! - Come on, come on, Louis!
- Good efforts from Mehdi and Matthieu. Three points each!
(surprised cries)
- Actually; hang on. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! He cheated!
Just one point for Mehdi.
(Surprised cries) - Oh come on!
- At this time, Jo is in the lead!
- Everyone wins!
- Good work, Jo, good work. Well done!
- Are we warmed up now for the next task?
- Yes...
(echoing): a life-sized task! ["plus grand que nature" technically means, "greater than nature," but "grandeur nature" means "full-scale"/"life-sized"]
♪♪♪
- I'll never get used to that.
- "Take a photo...
- "... of this life-sized cutout in an unusual location.
Most unusual photo wins."
- "You have two months." Where's the life-sized cutout?"
Is it you? (laughing)
Geez, he needs to be the focus of everything! - Ridiculous, eh?
(laughing)
Hello!
(laughing)
- Oh, Louis!
- This is great because it's easy to carry.
(laughing) Oops!
- His head won't fit through the doorway.
(laughing)
- Ow!
OK! - So they had two months...
- Two months! Two months on their own.
- To take a photo with a life-sized cutout of you.
And you'll judge the photos.
Let's see Ève's photo first.
- Ah, this is interesting.
- I took you to see Alanis Morissette at the Plains [of Abraham], man! [site of an 18th century battle in Quebec City; now a popular park/venue]
I took it through the security, through the whole line!
With "La gang du matin"! ["The Morning Bunch;" a radio show co-hosted by Ève]
- OK, but which one is made of cardboard; me or the guy on the left?
(laughing)
So, Louis Morissette going to see Alanis Morissette?
- There's a bunch of selfies floating around somewhere
because everyone wanted their photo taken with you.
- OK, perfect! I like that!
- Expectations are low for Matthieu's photo!
- Um, Louis!
(applause)
- You brought me for a ride on your scooter?
- We rode on the scooter together,
got some soft serve ice cream.
A nice day out for the boys.
- Is there a video? Did we actually ride?
- I wanted to take one, but they told me, "Only photos allowed for the task."
So I was like, "Well, that's kinda boring," but I'll show you
later, if you want. We were going super fast.
- You did that for real? - Of course!
- Of course not! - You did it for real? - Yes!
- Are you lying to me?
- Yes! (laughing)
- OK...
- Next photo is Mehdi's.
- Yep... (laughing)
- You pawned me? - You took him to a pawn shop?
- I pawned you for 20 bucks!
(laughing)
- But imagine if you still had legs? It would have been $40!
- Thanks for three interesting submissions.
We're going to take a break to take stock
of all of this. And we'll be back with the remaining photos!
(applause)
- For 'Antoine Vézin-egg", I'm giving you two points.
(laughing)
- Two points!
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster.
Antoine, while I steel myself for more insanity,
can you remind us of what is going on, please?
- With pleasure! We asked our five comedians
to take a photo with a life-sized cutout of you, Taskmaster --
lucky them -- in an unusual location.
We've seen three interesting and different submissions.
Let's crack on with Christine! - Oh, my god!
- Did we go to the Bell Centre [entertainment venue and home of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team -- Go, Habs!] for real, or is that Photoshopped?
- Yes, we were at the Bell Centre for a Guinness World Record! [most tickets sold for a podcast recording]
For "Sous écoute"! ["Under Surveillance," a podcast hosted by Mike Ward, bilingual Quebec comedian]
- Hey, that's boring!
- We're on the centre platform!
- Christine, I think we have some footage for context! - Yes, exactly!
- It's the record for the ugliest photo.
- So... And bam! Louis' head is under my ass.
Up we go!
- Unusual!
- You spent 1 hour 45 mins there. You were comfortable.
Comfortable, check it out. Yes!
- But how...
(laughing)
- Wow!
- Check it out!
- She sat on my face?
(laughing)
Well, thanks anyway.
I participated in Mike's Guinness World Record at the Bell Centre.
- That's awesome! - That's pretty cool.
- Taskmaster, there's just one photo left.
Jo's.
- Yes, Louis;
seeing as I wanted you to travel,
I took you on vacation with me. We went to
Oka Beach [~50 km west of Montreal] together to have a good time.
(applause)
- Yuck! Yuck!
- Ugh, I feel sick! - Unusual!
- Forget the photo. You need to take better care of your cat!
That's disgusting. - The points, now.
- The points! Well, I'm going to give five points to Christine.
(surprised cries)
- She only had your head!
- You can give five points to Ève.
- Yes, thank you!
Hey, I'm the only one...
Thanks! - Five points to Ève!
- Come on! You're a businessman.
I made a profit off of that photo!
- He's not wrong! Three points to Mehdi!
(applause)
- Really good. - And the guy who took the picture this morning?
- What do we do with that? - Three points to Matthieu! - I'm happy with that. I'm happy.
- One point for Jo. That was vile.
(laughing)
- Jo is still in the lead, though; but so is Ève!
- Yes! - It's tight.
The next task required a good "altitude."
- Oof...
♪♪♪
- Now what?
- Ooh!
Ooh!
I love colouring.
- "Using only the objects available on this table..."
- "... get the egg as high as possible.
Highest egg wins."
- "You cannot break the egg.
You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now."
- "The objects available on this table."
- They could only use the tools on the table.
- What was on the table. They had to get the egg as high as possible without breaking it.
Lots of strategies possible, obviously.
- Yes, lots of good strategies?
Because you were there... - I was there.
Let's see Jo and Matthieu!
- Shit, I don't remember what I did.
OK, let's go.
I already have a rough idea...
...That idea doesn't work. Perfect.
- I have some sheets of paper, here.
Scissors, crayons.
OK. I think I already know
what I'm going to do.
- I'm going to do this.
I'm going to make a bunch of these.
I'm going to make a second level of these. And then, the whole thing is going to collapse.
And then, I'll do something else, as soon as I have another idea.
- Hmm...
Hmm-hmm!
But, you see, I lose a bit of height if I do that.
(sighing)
(laughing)
- I can attach this there. - OK.
- Do you remember your time in the [Boy] Scouts?
The lark's head knot?
Excellent for docking a boat.
- Can you...
... come hold this, please?
I just want to test it first, OK?
- Oh boy. - Yikes.
- Ah, not bad, eh?
That's not too shabby.
- How am I gonna measure it?
(laughing)
Was I on the table in the beginning?
- Ugh. Drop it.
(laughing)
♪♪♪
I'm going to raise this in case someone else
had the same idea I did.
Hey, something tells me...
That's it! That's it!
♪♪♪
Well, shit!
I'm not a moron.
(applause)
- OK, look at these little guys. They're so proud.
It's like you have the same brain.
- No, no! - Or one shared between you two; I don't know!
Can you tell us how high the eggs were?
- Certainly! Jo, 121 cm.
(applause)
And Matthieu, 130 cm.
A little higher. 130 cm!
- I know, Matthieu, you look startled, but you're in first place at the moment.
(applause)
- Don't get too comfortable!
- Indeed; let's see Christine and Ève's attempts.
- Oh OK...
So...
That's one of the allowable items, right?
We'll make it a cozy little nest.
That's the highest egg I've had so far.
(laughing)
- It said the egg couldn't break, right?
♪♪♪
Can I hold it or does it have to be standing on its own?
- Antoine, do you know how to make paper cubes?
- Yes! - You know how to make them?
- Oh! Do you want me to ask the Internet?
- Yes!
- I'm going to have to taper it at some point.
Or just turn it the other way around!
I have to make it more solid.
- I have a good idea.
OK, my idea is: this sheet
is worth 50 m. This one is worth
350 m.
This one is worth, let's say...
2,500 m.
- OK. - That's really high!
- It's very, very high!
So you're going to try to convince the egg that it is
very, very high?
- Yep! - OK.
(whistling)
- They really gave us more sheets than we could ever need.
- Ah, not a cube at all!
- No, but it's magnificent, Antoine!
Wow!
(applause)
I'm proud of you!
So now I just have to not break it!
But it's okay.
I've had so much fun.
(laughing)
I'm going to go put it on something high outside.
- OK!
- Here's a sheet for the calculations. - OK!
- There you go! 125 m! - 125.
- Plus 55 m. - 180.
- Plus 250 m! - 430.
- Plus 700 m. - 1130.
- If I throw it up super high
and catch it, and it doesn't break...?
Ooh! That's a risky move! Do I try it now?
"Using the objects on the table."
Pass me the tape measure, please?
- Yes, OK!
- I'm going to keep it on me. - Oh, OK.
- It'll add some confidence to my hip.
It'll keep me balanced.
- So now you're going to throw it? - I'm throwing it!
Ooh...Interesting!
I don't think anyone is going to beat that.
- 300 m, 2,500 m.
- 2612.
- 350 m. - 13,000.
- And...
- Plus one length of cardstock.
- It's "Antoine Vézin-egg".
(laughing)
Ah, that's a good one!
Look at his little bald head!
Peek-a-boo!
(laughing)
- OK, before... Sorry, Antoine.
- Yes?
- For "Antoine Vézin-egg", I'm giving you two points.
(surprised cry) - Wow, lucky!
- Two points! - Thank you!
- OK, wow! OK...
Two points for that, Christine,
but the attempt was horrible.
- No it wasn't! - Usually you cheat,
but you cheat well!
This time, you cheated poorly.
- I have to explain why, OK?
I had just read a really interesting book - Oh my god...
- ...on how to develop your creative imagination.
"I'm sure Louis is on the same wavelength as you are.
He'll be able to imagine..."
- I can confirm that I wasn't!
It was very bad.
In fact, I'm giving you two points, Antoine.
You worked much harder than she did. - That's true!
Thanks for that!
I'm in the running!
- You did all that mental math.
You were really focused/
Before we... Can we just replay...
- It's so humiliating.
- ... Ève's tower collapsing.
- Hey, ten minutes down the drain!
- It's so embarrassing!
(laughing)
(applause)
- But... - That's failure!
That's failure; illustrated.
- That really hurt!
- But you really took it well.
It lasted for just a second: "Ah yes, OK, no. That's not gonna work."
- Did you see my Eureka moment?
- It happened so quickly, and it led to you currently winning this task!
- With 304 cm!
- When we come back, we'll see Mehdi's attempt!
♪♪♪
- But I found him in Laval [large suburb north of Montreal].
He was chilling at Centropolis! [shopping mall in Laval]
(surprised cries)
(laughing)
♪♪♪
(applause)
- Welcome back to Taskmaster.
My dear assistant, remind us of the task at hand.
- So we've seen four of five attempts so far.
The comedians had to get their eggs as high as possible
by using only the objects
available to them on a table.
- They all managed to do so!
- Which is pretty impressive.
- The eggs were raised and unbroken.
- None of them broke. - Just Mehdi's attempt to see!
(laughing)
- I'm allowed to use items that are on the table?
- Yes! - Yes?
- Mm-hmm. - OK!
(laughing)
So, technically, this is on the table?
(laughing)
- You do that with your teeth? - Well, I don't know how else to...
There you go!
Ten balloons should do it.
I've prepared our great explorer.
I've named him, "Christ-oeuf Colomb." ["oeuf" means "egg;" "Christophe Colomb" is "Christopher Columbus"]
- I knew it. You're the worst.
- I'm going to add a balloon, here.
I'll make a little hole.
A little hole, there.
There you go!
(frightened cry) This is some NASA shit.
- Let's go!
- Oh, it's windy today. - OK!
So, do you have anything you want to say before the adventure begins?
- That's, uh...
one small step for Man,
one giant leap for omelets.
I need more balloons! - You need more?
- You have two minutes left. - OK!
- Really? - Yes, yes, yes!
- Just a few seconds! - OK!
- Bye, "Christoeuf" [Christopher].
(applause)
Don't forget us!
Unfortunately, we lost track of "Christoeuf Coulant". ["Coulant" can mean "dripping/flowing," but also "courier"/"runner"]
But I found him in Laval. [large suburb north of Montreal]
He was chilling at Centropolis! [shopping mall in Laval]
(surprised cries)
(laughing)
- Unbelieveable, it's a skit!
- That was burlesque!
(laughing) - Unbelieveable!
- That looked like a stunt from, "La semaine des 4 Julie." [Quebec talk-show]
That was fucking great!
- I admire his intelligence; really.
But that wasn't in the spirit of the task.
- As you had written it.
- That wasn't it.
It wasn't part of the items on the table.
I can't accept it. (disappointed cries)
- No, no, no!
- Stop it, I'm becoming aroused!
(laughing)
But for his creativity, I'll give him three points,
and for the skit, two! That's five points!
- I thought -2 for the skit!
- Ève actually... - She threw it, respected the rules...
- And I really liked
that you were able to turn on a dime.
So, four points. - Four points!
- Woo!
- So, Matthieu's was a little higher than Jo's; same method.
- Well, I'm going to give you three points, Matthieu.
Two points and the pity point for Christine.
- The pity point for Christine.
- We'll have to rename that point, eh? - Calm down!
- So it's Ève who takes the lead!
(applause)
Mehdi, you're in last place...
No! Matthieu is in last place!
- Oh, come on!
- I don't know why I faltered.
- Antoine, it's time for the fourth task of the evening.
- Yes. I won't correct you too much on that.
It's a team task that puts everything into perspective.
- Ah...
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- Hello!
- Hi!
- Antoine! - How's it going?
- Good, and you? - I'm doing well!
- You can go get the envelope. - I'm allowed?
- I'll go get it.
- Ah!
- Life is good? - Yes!
Should we get the envelope?
- Now? - Yes!
- Please!
- "Make yourselves look as little
and big as possible..."
- "You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now."
- Now. - NOW, now?
- I know exactly what it is! - What?
- It's perspective? - Yes?
- Forced perspective; interesting choice!
- I don't think I understand.
- This is actually...
One of the more difficult tasks.
- Absolutely. With camera tricks, and forced perspective,
They had to create a little skit.
- Matthieu, did you understand in the end?
- Yes, quite well. - Are you sure?
- Are you proud of the end result?
- Honestly... My brain sloshes around a lot.
I have a faint memory of what we did,
but in my mind, it's kinda...
- Hey, that's OK. That's called,
"denial," and it can get you far, my friend.
- And that's coming from the host of "V.I.P."
Of all people!
That's not nothin'!
With all due respect!
- Are you OK, Taskmaster?
Am I right? - What's, "V.I.P."?
- Yeah, what is that? - It's a show that only lasted a week.
Louis was the host. It was super good.
- Hey!
- Well, he asked for it. I answered!
- Should we see his attempt? - Let's see Matthieu and Ève!
- Yes! - Are you alright, pal?
- Yeah, but it looks like it's going to rain.
- You think so?
Ah, you're right!
Look, I'll take care of you. - I knew it.
Oh, thanks!
I don't feel anything at all.
- Hey, man!
- Hey, the umbrella... - Shit, man. Don't talk to us!
- That wasn't terrible!
- You'll be able to compare it to the other skit.
Jo, Mehdi, and Christine's. - This is a story!
- (Slavic accent): Girls, girls! Be careful!
You can't stay here! I've heard there is a
giant lurking...
(frightened cry)
What the... Aaah!
Oh non! I don't want to get eaten! (Jo: This looks good)
Help! Where are my big sisters? (Jo: I will eat you, doll!)
I don't want to die!
(groaning)
(applause) (Jo: "C'est bon en c'Russe!") ["C'est bon en crisse" = "That's fucking delicious"; "Russe" = "Russian"]
- And that's how you make a movie!
(laughing)
- I did the voices. - Yes, Mehdi did the voice.
He did all the voices!
- All the voices! - All the voices were Mehdi!
- That's excellent!
- Truly!
- In the credits, you'll see: voices and stunts by Mehdi Bousaidan.
- The points, Taskmaster?
- I'm going to give four points to everyone!
- That makes no sense!
- Come on!
(everyone talking over each other)
- Before the last task of the evening, Antoine, who is in the lead?
- It's Ève in the lead, and Matthieu is still in last place!
(surprised cry)
- Will Matthieu get his act together for the live task?
- Come on! - We'll see; after the break!
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- I'm no expert... (laughing)
- He has four legs?
- A duck doesn't have four legs.
- I hesitated, but I drew four!
(laughing)
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(applause)
- We're back with "L'Évangile en papier" ["The Gospel on Paper;" a Quebec religious program from the 1970s]
for the final task of the show.
Who has been chosen to read the task?
- Christine will read it for us!
- Hey!
- I'm happy for you! - With pleasure!
- "Draw the median duck.
The person who draws the median duck wins."
- A what? A median duck?
- "You have 100 seconds.
There's a bonus point for the best duck picture."
What's a median duck?
- Here we go! No, no, no, wait, wait, wait!
This is the task: You're all going to draw
a duck without looking at the others' ducks.
- Yes, OK! - After...
100 seconds, I'll measure the ducks's length
from their tails
to their beaks...
The two biggest ducks will be disqualified.
The two smallest ducks will be disqualified.
The person who has drawn the median duck will win.
- You have to guess what the others will draw.
- Median duck wins. Your time starts now!
(applause)
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- Does it have to look like a duck?
- Well...
- No, a dog works, too!
- There's a bonus point for the best duck picture; I'll remind you.
- This is like a mix of... - Hey, seriously...
- ... a duck and a Dachshund.
- That's reassuring to me, Christine!
- I'm going to measure in a straight line.
- Uh, don't waste time drawing a sun.
- Five seconds, five seconds to finish up!
Five, four, three,
two, one.
(applause)
(whistle blows)
- OK, everyone stop.
- Mehdi, please get up and show your duck to Louis.
- So, here you go; the median duck.
- Oh yes!
- Hey, he's cute.
- So his tail is...?
- His tail is there. - 16 cm! Thank you.
(laughing)
- Ah, it's very nice! That's what I was trying to make!
- Wow!
(applause)
- I'll measure it.
17 cm.
Not bad, not bad... - Well, mine is...
This doesn't bode well.
- Ah, he's a cutie!
- Look, he's so tiny.
- Ah!
- It's a tiny duck! - It's charming!
7 cm!
- 7!
(laughing)
- His tail is all this, here. - Yeah.
- Well, the tail is here. - This thing sticking out?
16.5 cm, there! - Thank you very much!
- This is a little embarrassing, Taskmaster.
But look... - Why?
- Well, it's not very pretty.
- I'm no expert...
- It has four legs? - Ducks don't have four legs.
- They don't have four legs?
I hesitated, but I drew four.
- Hey, I drew four, too.
- 8 cm!
So, the two smallest ones; Ève and Jo.
The two biggest ones; 17 and 16.5...
The winner is 16 cm long!
Mehdi! (applause)
- And the best one...
- Come back here for the final scores!
(laughing)
- Yes, Mehdi!
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(applause)
- Five points to Mehdi Bousaidan.
There's a bonus point for the best duck.
- What do you think? - Christine's!
(joyful cry)
- Well done! - Really, high five!
High five! - A little sausage-duck.
- Which gives us...
- A winner. - One winner?
- One winner, and it's Mehdi!
(applause)
- Mehdi Bousaidan wins,
the stunt comedian. We'll see you next week
with the same five comedians.
That works out well.
Because, Mehdi, you told us earlier that there
was a surprise in your box!
- Yes, may I? - It's surprise time!
(applause)
- And it's...
"A surprise!"
Subtitles: u/the-little-kicks for r/panelshow November 2022
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