Stella!
Hold it.
What?
Yes!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, I'm Greg Davies.
I am a leggy blonde.
Born in '68 and I am 6ft 8.
Mind-blowing! But enough about me,
let's just get on with the show and meet our five brave warriors.
Please welcome them.
David Baddiel,
Ed Gamble,
Jo Brand,
Katy Wix,
Rose Matafeo.
And to my left,
a man who Tina Turner once described as simply the PEST.
LAUGHTER
And, in a separate conversation, as a complete arsehole.
It's little Alex Horne.
Did she? Did she really?
Yeah.
Interesting.
Hey, Alex. Thank you for that. How's things?
I feel like a new man, actually. Oh, yeah?
Sort of lifestyle changes recently,
I've...I've always struggled with making decisions,
so what I do now, when I'm shopping, is follow someone round
who I think looks quite cool and then when they throw away
their receipt, I take that receipt and then I buy what they've bought.
OK.
Tell you what I had this week. Oh, yeah, good.
I followed around a guy who was wearing a vest and he had long hair.
Yeah.
And he had a Soreen malt loaf, harissa smoked mackerel
and a large avocado.
Yeah.
There was a...a quite a cool priest.
Didn't have a collar, he might not have been a priest but he was...
He had Mini Cheddars, iced coffee and a mango.
Yeah, what's wrong with you?
On we go, then.
What's the first category this week?
Well, slow down, Mr Keen.
No, you're quite right, it's prize time.
It's prize time, and this week they're bringing in the best bag.
AUDIENCE GASP
Yes, it IS a good category.
You'll simply judge which bag is best.
That person will bag five points and, at the end of the episode,
the winner will bag five bags and bag about it to all their friends.
Right. Katy, hello.
Hello.
What's your bag and why is it the best bag?
I think you're going to love this.
There it is. It's, erm, a...
It's a bagpipe but with no pipes.
So it's the best bit of the bagpipe but no chance of noise.
APPLAUSE
It's quite an... I love it but it's quite an intense sound.
It's too good. Intense?
It's too good.
It's too good, Scotland.
Maybe stop playing it?
Can I just...
I think it looks like a willy warmer and joint testicle cooler.
Well, that's the bonus, isn't it?
I mean, for a very ill man.
David, have you got a lovely bag?
Well, I think I've misunderstood the point of this
because I've chosen this.
Bag of sweets.
I really like sour sweets. Yeah. And that's a bag of them.
You see, it hasn't really got any kind of reaction at all.
Have we got them here?
Here we go. There are some.
Ooh.
So these are super-sours, are they?
Yes, would you like one?
So, what's a number between one and ten?
Five. It feels like you should have five.
Ooh, super-sour.
Do I have to drink them?
No, I'll pop 'em in for you. Oh, here we go.
One,
two...
I think that's three more.
Oh, God.
Oh, man!
They ARE super-sour.
AUDIENCE GROANS
Ohh.
LAUGHTER
Pop them in your little drawer.
Lovely.
Jo Brand.
My bag... Have we got a picture of my bag?
You want to go straight to the bag? There it is. Thank you.
Oh, lovely.
Right, in the olden days,
when you had your lady monthly...
..squirty thing,
you weren't allowed to use tampons
unless you'd lost your virginity to a hobbit.
So, erm, everyone else had to wear sort of, like, towel-y things. Yep.
Basically, what you got to dispose of them in was...
I love these bags because, look at that,
it's got a Victorian lady with a crinoline on,
and that's because sanitary towels were so bloody massive,
only a crinoline would cover them up
when you're wearing one.
So I think that tells us how far we've come
and how far we haven't come cos, actually, you can still get these.
That woman is still on the front.
Yeah. Really?
Why is she lifting her skirt? Because
she's letting some of it drain.
I don't know.
Rose, what's your bag? Why is it the best one?
I made a bag, crocheted a little bag,
and it's the best bag cos I wrote "best" on it.
Here it is.
It IS the best bag.
Took me a while. Do you know how many social engagements
I had to deny to make that bag? I don't...
None!
Cos I crochet.
Until tonight I had no respect for the crocheter.
Really? I do now.
Best bag so far.
Ed.
Erm, my lovely bag is a bag that I like to call the belly bumbag.
Here it is.
LAUGHTER AND GROANING
This is the Magnus. They come in different names -
the Bobby, the Derek or the Wolfgang.
Yes, and you can keep anything you like in it.
Not anything you like. It's 40cm by 16cm, it must by within...
It's good for the larger gentleman.
It's good if you're a nudist
and you need something to keep your phone in.
OK. I hate that.
OK, here we go.
OK, from bottom to top.
At one point, David Baddiel.
What? Yeah, I mean, I should...
Well, hang on, you LOVED giving him the sour sweets.
Yeah, but that's not the bag.
The bag was shit.
Sorry, Ed, I really hate that belly thing cos it reminds me of myself,
you weren't to know that, but I do.
I DID know that.
I'm going to give the period bag three points
and I'm going to give four points...
Who-o-o-oa.
Yeah, to Katy Wix. Is it?
But you saw it. It had "best bag" written on it.
OK. Rose Matafeo!
One, two, three, four, five. Rose Matafeo!
Let's move on, then. What's first?
A WHEELIE nice one, Greg.
Here it is.
Hello.
Where's Alex Horne?
Ah, "Correctly identify which bin Alex is in."
"You must adhere to the commandments behind the curtain."
Oh, thank you.
"You may have only one guess.
"No bins are to be opened at any point during the task
"unless authorised.
"Fastest correct guess wins.
"Your time starts now, and stops when you have your guess."
Right. "You may wheel one bin three metres.
"You may wheel one bin three metres. You may gently shake one bin.
"You may strike... One bin with a frying pan.
"You may push... Push one bin over.
"You may listen to one bin with a stethoscope.
"You may avert your eyes and drop... And drop one thing into the bin.
"You may phone Alex's phone...
"You may phone Alex's phone from the phone in the phone... Alex's phone
"from the phone in the phone box."
I can do any of those?
I don't have to just do one commandment, do I?
So, I will tell you that this is the first
and only task today that Alex has told me he genuinely hated.
Well, I'm quite... As you keep saying,
quite tall, I'm quite a tall person
and I was in a bin and then I was just waiting for someone to
whack the bin with a frying pan.
Yeah.
First to try to find my body in a bin
are the modern-day Rosemary & Thyme, Katy and Jo.
I'm gonna gently shake one.
How does it help striking it with a frying pan?
BIN RATTLES
He's in here.
Oh.
LAUGHTER
Ah, number one!
It's Elaine Paige.
LAUGHTER
Never mind.
Jo, did you use all of your... all of the commandments or did...?
No.
OK, bad attempt.
Now, it seemed to me
that you just decided to use some Jedi mind trick on the bin.
No, I'll tell you what I was doing. OK.
I thought I was being genuinely clever and quite crafty because
I was checking the bottoms to see which one was closest to the ground.
And to my stupid eyes, the others had little gaps and that one didn't.
So you thought you'd outfoxed the whole system.
Yeah, I thought I'd just...
I mean, it's breathtaking arrogance. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, welcome to my world.
Right, break time.
Will anyone find Alex?
Probably not because he's so little.
See you after these adverts.
Hello!
Welcome back to the second part of Taskmaster.
Alex, you were being rubbish before the break.
Yes, I was. I was portraying the part of rubbish
by hiding in a wheelie bin.
Katy didn't find me and Jo didn't find me.
Next up, we're gonna see Rose Matafeo.
Let's give this a go.
Not that one.
"Gently shake one bin."
I mean, I know he's in that one but I just want to ring.
PHONE RINGS
Hello.
Hi, Alex, which bin are you in?
I think it's five.
ROSE GASPS
No!
"You may wheel one bin three metres." That one.
"You may gently shake one bin." Four.
"How may strike one bin with a frying pan." One.
"You may push one bin over." That was that one.
"You may avert your eyes and drop one thing into the bin."
Then I dropped that in there and then it dropped to the bottom.
Is there a sixth bin?
One or five? One or five?
One.
GROANING
Damn it.
Fuck.
Don't look at me! Don't look at me like that!
I just... Don't look at me like that! OK.
Say it.
It was the task. With the task underneath.
Oh, I know, David!
I saw that.
Well, you seemed quite forensic in your approach at first.
You did the shake, you went over to the phone,
you dropped the stethoscope in.
You were like a really great Sherlock Holmes-type character
until right at the end.
You think Sherlock Holmes has ever missed a clue that huge
at the very beginning, though?
Not Sherlock. No way. But also,
the stethoscope... No way, I'm writing that down.
Yeah, I'm sorry about throwing the stethoscope at you.
Well, it was very odd. So I was, I thought, taking up all the bin but
she dropped the stethoscope and it It just missed me completely
and struck the bottom of the bin so she thought, "Well, he's not in there."
Just wandered off... Is this how you figure out you're a ghost? I think so, yeah.
Is this your Patrick Swayze moment? Oh, that'd be so great.
Finally, it's two proper blokes' blokes,
real salt-of-the-earth types,
it's Edward Stephenson Gamble and David Lionel Baddiel.
Right, he's not in that one.
PHONE RINGS
Hello.
Hello, can you shout?
Why would I shout?
I can't hear you - can you shout?
I can hear you very clearly.
No, I can't hear you.
Well, you're responding to me.
I have no idea what you're saying. Can you just speak a bit louder?
Oh, I'm losing you. I can't hear what you're saying.
Oh, you've gone. You've gone.
That's just rude.
Not in that one.
BIN RATTLES
You may push one bin over.
This is here.
"Alex is odd."
I'm guessing that means he's in an even one.
Erm, I mean in an odd one.
That's what I mean.
LAUGHTER
PHONE RINGS
Hello?
Hmm.
I guess five.
Alex Horne!
APPLAUSE
It's this one, obviously. Can we mark the time?
I'd just like to do this as well.
It's this one.
AUDIENCE: Aw.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
It's almost like watching you being born.
LAUGHTER
Lovely start in life,
better than the grumpy old man smashing you over the head
with a frying pan.
It was an opportunity afforded by one of the commandments
that you could smash him over the head with a bin...
..with a frying pan.
To determine whether he was in there. No, no. Not to just hurt him.
It didn't say that.
It said at any point you could hit him over the head with a bin.
Frying pan.
Five points. Also, David, here's my question.
When Rose revealed the task, you leant over to me
and said, "I didn't know there was a task under there."
LAUGHTER
I know.
I'm having a slight nervous breakdown.
When you pushed over the bin,
was there a part of you thinking he might be in there? Yeah.
Everything I did, I did to bins that I thought he might be in.
Love that song. Is that a version of that Bryan Adams' song?
Bryan Adams...
LAUGHTER
Let's get some scores on the go. The men were the only ones who found me.
David took 6 minutes 53.
Ed found me in 3 minutes 40, so he gets 5 points,
David Baddiel gets 4 points.
Lovely. I think we should see a scoreboard, right? Right.
It's reasonably close.
We have one leader, though, and that leader is Ed Gamble
with seven points.
What have we got lined up next, Alex?
Oh, it's flipping paper puzzle portrait pandemonium.
Here we go.
Hello. Hello, Katy. Hi.
Oh, no.
Is this going to be some kind of sudoku-style bollocks?
"Draw a portrait." I like it so far.
"Draw a portrait of the taskmaster using 16 A1 pages.
"You may not remove the A1 pages from the flip chart
"during your drawing.
"After the task, the A1 pages will be laid out...
"..in the pattern shown on the front page."
What?
"You may only draw on the flip chart paper. Best portrait wins.
"You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now."
Am I allowed to use a pencil?
I still don't understand what this is for.
That's the front page of the...
Yeah, but why has it got different numbers on it?
That's how we're going to lay it out afterwards.
Seems a bit ridiculous.
I don't know what to do. I've kind of gone "Eugh!"
What does Greg look like?
That's not very helpful.
The only one that I wanted was too heavy. Oh.
Can you bring that in for me? The main portrait? Yeah.
How long have I got? 11 minutes now.
I've been talking for nine minutes?
Nine minutes. Oh, my God.
That's great. Thank you.
That's gone a bit mental.
Greg's got to be upside down. This is a mind fuck actually.
To be honest, he looks quite bad-tempered.
He's always angry.
Oh, no.
Hang on. Oh, yeah.
5, 6.
16.
What is that? Paint. Have you got an apron?
KATY SIGHS
PAINT SQUELCHES
Oh, my... Oh. I've really messed this up.
This is going to look absolutely dog shit.
That's going to be a completely different size to the other one.
That's upside down.
Oh, no.
Rather more pubic than I anticipated.
I'm guessing he likes a bit of Dickens.
Tiny bit of bollock.
Stick to the plan!
I hate picturing things upside down.
Here, here, here.
I think there might be too much face, but never mind.
Oh, I've done it. Have I? No.
APPLAUSE
Shall we get David's out the way? We can.
What a terrible thing to say! Oh, David.
This is how it looked when we laid it out according to the grid.
LAUGHTER
That is some kind of sudoku bullshit
You're going to give that no points,
but it's going to win the Turner Prize.
Do you know what?
There comes a point where we have to get medical advice.
LAUGHTER
That's two left halves of a face with a leg growing out of the head.
It's quite simple.
Hair...
LAUGHTER
It's a normal person, all right?
They've got hair on top, eyes, a nose, some knees.
And then some children. What's wrong with that?
And he says normal person, but just below the lip,
right in the middle, that's a little bit of bollock.
LAUGHTER
OK, only two parts to go
until someone wins Katy's useless bagpipes,
but for now, more adverts.
APPLAUSE
Hello again. Here we go with part three.
Weren't people struggling to draw me before the break? Sort of.
They had to draw a piece of you on each page of a flip chart pad
according to the number pattern provided.
So far, we've found out that David Baddiel isn't very good at this sort of thing.
Katy Wix had a go and it looked like this...
Oh, Katy, it looks great.
That's got a look of me...
LAUGHTER
It's got your eyebrows.
..when I was going through my David Bowie phase.
That's what I was referring to.
You've kind of got an Eddie Munster hairline there as well.
Or like Liza Minnelli. And your dropping nostril.
LAUGHTER
It's something you need to get sorted.
DAVID: There's three eyes. Four pupils.
Well, don't start picking it apart.
You've said it was good.
Now let's look at Rose's attempt. This is how hers turned out.
That's good. AUDIENCE: Ooh.
APPLAUSE
Hairy old guy, isn't he?
I can't remember.
I think that was supposed to be your suit,
but it could be your hair if you want.
I gave you lovely long lashes on the top and bottom.
Yeah, and two lovely lines of barbed wire for hair.
LAUGHTER
OK, I can show you Ed Gamble's if you like. Oh, yes, please.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
It's absolutely ridiculous.
LAUGHTER
I'm not as upset with that as I thought I'd be.
Did you get a primary schoolchild to do the outside bits?
David, why the fuck are you talking?
APPLAUSE
Unbelievable.
Whose next? Slightly different. It's Jo Brand's attempt.
LAUGHTER
Chips!
I thought you liked chips. I mean, you've already won.
Talk us through this set up.
The whole thing doesn't have to be your face.
I know it doesn't look like you,
but I think I flattered you quite a lot there.
LAUGHTER
I just tried to put some things in there that you might like.
Do you like cats? No. OK.
That's your one mistake because I despise them. It's a fox.
And I think...
LAUGHTER
What's that? Was the bottom there? Is that a headless body?
KATY: I thought it was a tampon.
That is, you genuinely said at the time, a nuclear power station.
LAUGHTER
I love nuclear fusion!
I knew you would!
Right, I'm ready to take your scores.
I think that the one that captures my majesty the most is Katy's,
so I'm going to give Katy five points.
OK, five points to Katy.
APPLAUSE
I think that Jo's is such a clever idea
that I'm going to give her four points.
OK, second place to Jo Brand.
Thank you, Gregory.
I don't want to be either of those two people.
I'm going to give them both three points. OK. Ed and Rose.
And how many is David getting?
I mean, David is going to get one point and he can thank me for it.
LAUGHTER OK, there we go. We're done. Katy Wix wins the prize!
There we are! Katy Wix!
What now? It's the first team task of the series.
AUDIENCE: Ooh!
Hello.
Hi, Alex.
Erm...
Hello, mate.
How's it going? Nice to see you.
Oh, good God, it's David Baddiel.
LAUGHTER
They've put us together.
I know. Elderly. Yes, I know.
Ah! Oh, no!
Hello! Hello, mate. Yes!
KATY: Hi, sweetheart.
"Complete this adventure.
"Unless otherwise stated, you must stick together
"and only open one task when you've completed the previous one.
"Fastest wins.
"Now either look in the toaster or go to the shed."
"Now either look in the toaster or go to the shed." What toaster?
It's a Choose Your Own Adventure.
Shall we all go to the shed together,
or to the toaster together?
My instinct is to do the opposite of what they're suggesting.
Of what Alex wants us to do? We could just sit here.
It's quite a nice day. The shed's by far the nearest. Yeah.
And to me, I think let's go to the toaster first.
Are we all together? Yeah, we're all together. We're all together. OK.
It smells like asparagus. Close the door.
Can we go that way to the kitchen?
You can try going that way if you want. OK. Are we going to try?
Oh. It doesn't look right.
"Find the egg in the shed
"then either go to your pigeonhole or the caravan."
Where is the toaster?
There it is. Oh, hang on. Right, OK. So there's two.
That's the left hand.
Sinister. Yeah.
"Put a kitchen implement on one person's head." OK.
"That person must wear the kitchen implement for the rest of the task."
Never watched it. "Now go to the shed."
Got it! Got an egg. Right, OK. So, the pigeonhole or the caravan?
Caravan? Yeah. Caravan.
What about a colander? Yeah, a colander won't fall off.
Do you want to wear it? I don't mind.
You look very First World War suddenly. Do I?
OK, so now we have to go to the shed? "Now go to the shed." OK.
APPLAUSE
Very interesting seeing the difference in the two groups.
I loved seeing the three young people playing Taskmaster
and I also liked watching Jo and David doing Bargain Hunt.
LAUGHTER
Let's have a look, shall we? OK, yes, it's team time.
As always, it's a team of three versus a team of two
because that's definitely fair and no-one ever gets in touch
to say it isn't.
LAUGHTER
We're going to start with Jo and David. Here we go.
"Find the egg in the shed then either go to your pigeonhole
"or the caravan."
There's not much chance of... Oh, here we are. OK.
I gave up so easy.
"Say the meaning of the word umiliante." Is that what it says?
Yeah.
Is that Italian? "..umiliante and then look in the toaster."
Is it humiliate?
That's what it sounds most like, doesn't it?
It's like an arthouse challenge, this one.
I know, I'm quite enjoying it.
Shall we have the right-hand one?
Because we had the left last time, didn't we? Yeah.
"Make and eat a sandwich." OK. Bread.
What do you like? Cheese?
Cheese is fine. Yep.
Egg mayonnaise.
Do you want artichokes in your sandwich? I don't think I do.
Cocktail sausages? I quite like those. Do you?
OK, well, do you want a sausage sandwich?
Do you mind if we put them in the microwave for a little bit?
Because they'll be nicer. I don't mind.
Yeah, let's do that.
Are you all right with a bit of mustard? Yeah. Perfect.
There we go, that's your half. Thank you.
That's delicious. I really would like a cup of tea.
I'll put the kettle on.
Yeah, I'm going to have Earl Grey. What would you like?
Have they got ordinary tea?
I mean, I'll have Earl Grey if they haven't got it,
but I find it a bit perfumed.
"Whisper three words that begin with D and end with G
"and then go to the living room or look under the doormat."
That doesn't begin with D.
With G. No, it has to begin with D and end with G. Oh, sorry.
I didn't whether to tell you. I thought, "Maybe she's illiterate." Please do tell me.
That's two.
LAUGHTER
With the tea, we might be able to sit down in the living room.
Let's go to the living room then. Yeah.
"Without making a mess, get a task out of one of these jars.
"You may not leave the room until you have read out one of the tasks."
I think we should screw it like a cork. That's brilliant.
That is so clever. Thanks, Dave.
"Without discussing, complete Alex's phrase.
"When you succeed, look under the doormat."
The winner of Taskmaster series nine is...
BOTH: ..David Baddiel.
"Say the word 'demeaning'.
"The fastest to say the word 'demeaning'...
Demeaning! Demeaning.
WHISTLE BLASTS Well done, team. You've completed the task. Have we? Oh, OK.
Is that it? You can go and have a sit down now.
Let's go and have a sit down and finish our cup of tea.
Love that!
Were you playing silly old people music?
LAUGHTER
No, we weren't! It was basically Last Of The Summer Wine
being played in the background. We couldn't put an action score on it!
We were essentially watching the Real Marigold Hotel.
You stopped for a fucking sandwich I do believe.
That's what he said! He told us to make a fucking sandwich
He told us to make a sandwich!
Yeah, but he didn't say,
"Then kick back and enjoy it while talking about the good old days."
The whole point of the task was to say the word "demeaning"
and the word umiliante means humiliating or demeaning.
Begins with D, ends in G.
Putting a colander on your head, we thought you might say,
"This is quite demeaning." Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.
I thought the whole point of the task was to,
in the most sinister way possible, whisper "Guantanamo Bay".
I won!
Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
So, I can tell you that the time to beat was 36 minutes and 26 seconds.
LAUGHTER
You're not going to do it.
Can I just tell you something?
I don't think I realised we were doing it against the clock.
Didn't you soften the butter to put on the bread in the microwave?
I did, I softened the butter in the microwave.
And I did know we were doing it against the clock
and I didn't give a fuck.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Stop it! Stop! Stop it!
Thank you. Here are your adverts.
APPLAUSE
There you are. It's the final part of tonight's show.
Bags are soon to be won, but for now, a task needs completing
and we were enjoying our first team task, weren't we, Alex?
Yes, we were and I'm just generally in a really good place right now.
LAUGHTER
So, we've seen David and Jo's pacey endeavour to complete the task,
now it's the turn of the excitable pups, Ed, Rose and Katy.
THEY SHOUT EXCITEDLY
"Say the meaning of the word umiliante then look in the toaster."
Does it mean egg?
Does umi mean egg?
Oh, maybe there's a dictionary in there.
All right, we're going in. No.
Umiliante is to hunt for eggs.
No. Egg hunt? No. Is it three people and an egg? No.
I'm sorry, it's not as fun, but here we go. What?
I didn't know this was allowed.
Humiliation. I honestly nearly said that!
Where are we going next?
All right, there's two tasks.
"Put a kitchen implement on one person's head.
"That person must wear the kitchen implement for the rest of the task.
"If the implement falls off, that person must sit on the bench
and hum the theme tune for at least three minutes." What about this?
This is a kitchen implement. Absolutely!
Are you happy to hold it? Yes. Right, let's go.
Do you think that's quite ominous that it meant humiliation?
"Find the egg in the shed and either go to your pigeonhole
"or the caravan."
Right, here we go. Come on, team. Pigeonhole!
"You must split up.
"One of you go to the phone box, one of you to the mangle..."
What's that?
"One of you behind the caravan."
I'm not going in the phone box!
I'm not going to the phone box.
Don't come to the phone box!
"Each of you must now hold an egg in each of your hands
"for the rest of the task.
"If you break any egg, you must find and hold another.
"Now go to the caravan." There's one. There's two. There's one there.
There's a blue one over there. Got one.
"Now go to the caravan." Caravan. Come on!
"Say the meaning of the word umiliante then look in the toaster."
ALL: Humiliation!
We've opened that one so if you get the other one.
"Make and eat a sandwich."
"The whole team have to have helped in making the sandwich
"and every member must have at least one bite of the sandwich.
The bread bin's here.
Chop the banana. I'd put the butter on the bread. Take a bite!
OK, I'll take a bite.
Come no, guys! Come on, team.
"You have taken a wrong turn and must start again at the bench."
No! Yay! "To complete this adventure you must stick together
"and only open one task when you've completed a previous one.
"Now look in the toaster or go to the shed." Let's go to the shed.
But now we have to find another egg. We've already got two eggs each.
There's an egg there. It's got a pigeonhole.
"You must split up." I'm not going to the phone box!
Come to the phone box!
"Each of you must now hold an egg..."
No, "..an egg in each of your hands for the rest of the task.
"If you break an egg you must find and hold another egg."
There's one there, one there and one there.
Wait, where do we go from now? Erm... Caravan. We were just there.
ALL: Humiliation!
"Make and eat a sandwich.
"The whole team blah, blah, blah, blah... Then now go to the lab."
I'm going to spread. Here you go. Right. Everyone.
OK, now go to the lab. OK, go to the lab.
Whisper three words that begin with D and end with G.
Then go to the living room.
Driving.
Dancing.
Dogging. LAUGHTER
"Without making a mess, get a task out of one of these jars.
"You may not leave the room until you have read out one of the tasks."
SUCKS
SHE SCREAMS
We've all got to go to the bench.
SHE SINGS
Are you timing, Alex? Yes, yes.
WHISTLE Three minutes is up. Right, back.
"One of you must give Alex a kiss on the forehead
"then look in the other jar."
Is that the whole thing?
Time's up, Ed. Sorry.
Come on!
"Without discussing, complete Alex's phrase.
"Then look under the doormat."
The winner of taskmaster Series 9 is...
ALL: Rose Matafeo.
Right. The fastest to say the word demeaning at any point in the task wins.
Demeaning. Thank you, guys. Are we done? Yeah. Wow!
Is that, like, three hours?
APPLAUSE
What's wrong with you guys?
You not fancy kicking back and enjoying a sandwich?
That sandwich was delicious, actually. We had a lovely time with that one.
I'm starting to think that, strangely, we might be in with a chance.
I really think you might be, yeah. It was very long. We got stuck in a loop. Yeah.
I can show you the loop you got stuck on if you like.
The minimum distance is 30m. You guys walked 131m.
This team walked 665m. LAUGHTER
And this is what it looked like.
So, we've Ed, Katie and Rose on the left.
LAUGHTER
Yeah.
It was quite close. I genuinely don't know who's going to win this.
I do.
Right. Well, we know Jo and David took 36 minutes and 26 seconds.
Yeah. The others took...
..29 minutes. APPLAUSE
That was way closer than it should have been.
I'm going to give the Fast Super Excited Egg Kids five points.
Thank you. Thank you.
And I'll give the Cheese Sandwich Gobbling Old People three.
Five and three. APPLAUSE
Give me the scores. OK. The Gobblers are now tailing off at the bottom.
LAUGHTER That can happen with Gobblers!
And... LAUGHTER CONTINUES
And leading with 15 points, it's little Ed Gamble.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
OK, everybody, please stand up and make your way to the stage for the final task of the show.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Great to see five great people up there. What's the task?
Who's going to read it, Alex? Five great people, yep.
OK, erm... LAUGHTER
Jo Brand is going to read this one. Good.
No rush.
LAUGHTER
"Make a lovely little ball arrangement.
"You have 100 seconds."
What? Make a lovely little ball arrangement. That's it. Yes, please.
What are the buckets for? All the information is on the task.
Your time starts... What?
BLOWS WHISTLE
MUSIC
AUDIENCE SHOUTS ENCOURAGEMENT Come on, Ed!
You can't shout, "Go on, Ed," you don't know what I'm supposed to be doing!
AUDIENCE CHEERS
I don't know what you're cheering about! What are they cheering?
That's a lovely little ball arrangement.
WHISTLE Stop arranging.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Feisty! Rose, what have you done?
Like a pyramid stack. Katie? Spiral.
Jo. Mine says "ball". LAUGHTER
Ed? I've done a bunch of flowers with the moon in the sky. OK.
Ambassador, with these plastic balls, you are really spoiling us.
Lovely, lovely.
OK, ready for the second part of the task. Yeah.
CLAPS TWICE
Are you satisfied that they can't see anything?
My God, I'm so satisfied.
I'm surprised by how funny I find David's glasses on his hat. OK.
Flatten all of the yellow balls. Oh, you mother... No!
LAUGHTER
Throw all of the red balls into the bucket.
And turn all the blue balls into one big blue ball.
Most balls in the right shape and place after 100 seconds wins.
Everyone ready? WHISTLE
Flatten the yellows. Flatten the yellows.
AUDIENCE SHOUTS ENCOURAGEMENT
Do they smell?
Smelling them, are you? He's eating them. Don't eat it. Is this red?
AUDIENCE: Yes! Oh!
Red? AUDIENCE: Yellow!
What colour's this? AUDIENCE SHOUTS
What was it? Blue in the bucket? Red in the bucket? Red?
Red? AUDIENCE SHOUTS
I think you need to shout their name before you shout the colour.
AUDIENCE: Red!
Come on, Jo!
THEY CLAP
10 seconds!
AUDIENCE: Red! Yellow!
Five, four, three, two, one.
WHISTLE
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Perhaps you'd like to join me down here
while we work out how that's affected the final scores.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Well, now. Well, now.
That would have put the cat amongst the pigeons, I shouldn't wonder.
I was mainly on David watch,
who was getting very close to the edge of the stage.
I was prepared to die for Task Master.
It didn't work, you came last.
So, David got 12% of his balls in the right place. Hello.
Rose put all of hers in the bucket which meant one third of hers
were in the right place, the rest were all wrong. 33% right.
Katie and Ed both got 45% right. AUDIENCE: Oh!
And get four points each for that reason,
but Jo was the runaway winner and pretty much nailed it.
Pretty much got everything right
except for the ones she threw at the audience.
APPLAUSE
I'm happy now!
So. They've all made it to double figures this time. Oh!
We have a first-time winner, who is Mr Ed Gamble.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Lovely Ed Gamble is tonight's winner.
Please go and bag up your bags and big up yourself.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
So, what have we learnt today?
We've learnt that if you find yourself in an emergency situation
up against the clock with disaster imminent,
every second a crucial second, stop,
pause, make yourself a lovely sandwich.
LAUGHTER
And we've learnt that Ed Gamble won some bags.
This is truly a day he will never forget. Night-night.
See you next time.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE