Brace, brace. I'm bracing.
Hmm.
This programme contains strong language and adult humour
No, no, no.
No!
Argh!
What?! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, thank you.
I'm Greg Davies and I'm the captain of televisual flight number TM154.
There are only five passengers on this journey.
Their chairs don't recline
for comfort, there are no lights directing them towards
an escape route, for there is no escape.
They're flying by the seat of their pants
and the turbulence is
nasty. LAUGHTER
But it will end well
for one of them as, when they return home safely, they will win this
tasteless memento.
Thank you for flying TM Airlines and THAT, thank God,
is the end of a broadly unsuccessful analogy.
So please welcome our five rivals once more.
They are Frankie Boyle. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Ivo Graham. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Jenny Eclair. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Kiell Smith-Bynoe. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
And Mae Martin. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
And to my left, the answer to the question
"what does a corpse look like after the hair continues
"to grow postmortem?"
It's... Little Alex Horne! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Good evening.
Double thumbs. Double thumbs. I'm just on such a high at the moment.
How's that? Well, I spent the summer in Italy and I loved it. OK.
Well, there was one afternoon with the family, we went to
a field.
Whoa, it was amazing
and you won't believe it - we saw a horse...
...fly.
No, we saw a horsefly.
We saw a horsefly. LAUGHTER
We went to a cafe in Verona and one of the waitresses watches
Taskmaster on YouTube.
Hello, Sylvia.
Let's get on with the prize task, Alex. Right you are.
And just as you wearily demanded, they've each brought in
the most fun thing to wear on your head
that you aren't supposed to wear on your head.
Greg will give five big ones to the most fun thing
to wear on your head that you shouldn't wear on your head and
the overall winner will take all five things home
and wish they had five heads,
like the love child of Cerberus
and Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Hello, Mae. Hi. Mae, what thing have you brought in
to pop on your head that you shouldn't be popping on your head?
You're just gonna have to believe me this is a lot of fun
and I don't really want to introduce it any further than that.
Here's what Mae's brought in. Oh, God.
It's me on my own head. So...
LAUGHTER
Which one's you?
No, uh-huh, no, exactly.
So basically, whoever wins this, you get
a blow-up doll - lots of fun...
Well, famously.
I can't think of any reason why it's good or bad.
Right. Well, it's a starter. That's a start, that's a start.
Yeah. Frankie. Hello, Greg. What have you brought in
that you shouldn't wear on your head but you ARE wearing on your head?
Well, I have brought in
a meticulously recreated scene
from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...
LAUGHTER ...which I have built out of
the popular figurines,
Sylvanian Families.
This is what Frankie spent his time doing. Let's have a look.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
I was hoping there'd be a sinister twist,
and I presume that's the Child Catcher?
It is the Child Catcher, but of all the movies where
children are abducted, this is the most light-hearted.
LAUGHTER Did you actually build it yourself?
No, I got an art therapist to do it.
Perfect. Ivo, can you beat the Child Catcher?
In a word, no. Um, but I do think this fits the brief
because it's been used as a joke in two of
the most popular comedy shows of all time. It's a...
- Turkey. - It's a turkey. GROANS FROM AUDIENCE
We've all had a good old laugh
at Mr Bean or Courteney Cox's Monica in Friends
wearing a turkey on their head.
Did Monica from Friends wear a turkey that was quite that moist?
LAUGHTER In an interview about
the experience, she described it as disgusting.
I don't want to be too pedantic here
but in a task where it is the most fun thing
to wear on your head,
and you've described
how a woman was deeply traumatised.
That's undeniably incisive stuff, Frankie.
And you can rest assured, Frankie,
it's gonna score VERY badly.
It's gonna score badly? Oh, God, yeah.
Worse than the Sylvanian Family?!
Yes, much worse.
Kiell is the only person who can do worse. Hello.
Obviously, a goldfish bowl.
Here it is. I should say it goes on your head,
your head does not go IN it cos the hole is not big enough.
It depends on your head.
Mae, maybe? Old Pinhead Martin.
You don't need to say MAY maybe, you just say maybe.
We'll pop it on Pinhead.
I guess it would be quite fun if we can get Pinhead's head in it.
Imagine having that on your head! Hway-yow!
Hang on...
May... may I?
Whey-hey-yow! And now try that
with a turkey on your head.
HE GOBBLES
Jenny, can you do worse than a turkey?
Oh, probably. Er, no, well,
there's two things you shouldn't put on your head.
Well, one, these are two cliche things.
Um, tea cosy - obvious. You know, everybody does it, puts it...
YAWNS
- Oh, God! - Uh, and the other thing is traffic cone.
YAWNS, GREG YAWNS
Ah, but combine the two - I had
a knitted traffic cone tea cosy made. Fun!
It is fun. It's quite good.
LAUGHTER That is good.
You CAN put your nose through that bit.
But it does fit on your head.
You look like quite a fun terrorist when you put that on.
Ready. Oh, have you decided already? Yep. Wow.
Uh, one point. To who?
Turkey boy. Well done, Ivo Graham.
I cannot believe that.
I think if I went around London with Mae Martin on my head
I don't think they'd think I was fun. I'm giving you two points.
Two points to Mae Martin. Oh, what?!
I do think your goldfish bowl's quite fun.
Come on. You're gonna die in it.
I'm not gonna be putting my head into it.
So, three points to Kiell. Yeah, three points to Kiell, yeah.
Crazy. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang recreated on my head.
Or the tea cosy in the shape of a traffic cone.
The shape of a traffic cone.
Four points to...?
Four points to Jenny, five points to Frankie Boyle.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Well done, Frankie Boyle. Congratulations.
Let's get things moving with a task, please, young man.
OK, and this one is hard to beat.
Oh, here we go. Hello. Hi, Alex.
Oh! OH! JENNY CHUCKLES
How good are you at it? Really good.
DRUMMING
They work.
Strike the most drum skins and cymbals...
With a single throw of a bouncy...
...ball. Yes. You have a maximum of 20 minutes.
Your time starts... HE BEATBOXES
...now.
Bouncy ball drum solo. A lot of balls.
I can't throw balls, I can't play drums.
Right. This might take some thought.
I'm gonna use my wits and my skills.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE Uh-huh.
Which one was it that you used just then?
Just then? The wit or the skills? Wit.
Yeah. That was quite funny. Shall we see the task?
Let's do it.
They're next to each other in the alphabet on our seats
and now in a VT. What are the chances? It's Jenny and Kiell.
This is like a sort of combination of a nightmare,
but I think that being higher up would be good. Right.
DONK!
LAUGHTER Oh, oh, oh, look that one!
Hmm. This is very, very hard indeed. Hmm.
DONK! TAP!
You want a sort of circular action.
DONK! DONG!
That is a good angle.
Big balls, give me big balls. Right.
Back off, Alex, you could get hurt. Right.
Ha-ha-ha, did you hear?! Do it again.
Do it again? Yes. All right!
This needs to go.
HE PLAYS DRUMS
DONK!
It did it but it was too light to... Why are you smirking?
Well, you keep doing the same thing over and over again.
Push!
De-de da da-da da-da.
Seven. Yeah.
DONK!
Do you think there's any way of improving your system?
There's a way, then, there's a way. There's a logical way.
There would be a way.
There would be a fucking way and I haven't got it.
VARIOUS DRUMBEATS
That's good.
It's very frustrating doing the same thing over
and over again, just not getting any better.
OK, these are your last ones.
VARIOUS DRUMBEATS
I wasn't listening! Was someone else listening?
We were filming it. But were you LISTENING?
WHISTLE BLOWS, LAUGHTER
There's no other way! There's nothing else I could do!
People will be screaming at the television, "You silly cow."
Not SUCH a silly cow!
MANY DRUMBEATS
WHISTLE BLOWS, APPLAUSE
What do you think? Are you pleased with your performance, watching it back, Kiell?
There's some damn good beats. LAUGHTER
Jenny, you spent the vast majority of that task doing
the same thing, throwing one ball at one drum. Yes.
It is the definition of madness, isn't it? It is, and I like the idea
that you think everyone's gonna be at home collectively
shouting "silly cow" at you. Yes.
It's like the soundtrack to my life.
There is always someone behind me going, "Silly cow, silly old cow.
"Don't know what she's doing, silly old cow."
Weirdly, Jenny did better than Kiell.
What?! What?! NOT such a silly cow!
What do you mean? Well, you counted to seven but you did only hit five.
That cannot be true.
You included some of the strikes that weren't the drum skins.
They were just the drums. I'm so sorry. GROANING
I mean, honestly, Kiell, you are having
a fucking nightmare on this show. LAUGHTER
It's the end of part one and it's time for Alex
and I to do some intense yoga while you watch the adverts.
First pose, my favourite, the dolphin.
Both of us? Yep. OK.
Oh... LAUGHTER
See you after the break.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Welcome back to Taskmaster. It's part two
and I'm Greg Davies and this is Taskmaster.
Uh-oh, he's finally lost it.
HE GOBBLES LIKE A TURKEY
Before the break, our cast were trying to strike
the most drum skins and cymbals with a single throw of a bouncy ball.
Jenny and Kiell have been
but I wonder if the next two can do better?
And it's a big "IF", as in it's I-vo and F-rankie. Here we go.
I think it'd be quite nice if Greg was playing the drums.
Are we going to him or is he coming to us?
We're going to him.
It makes such
a satisfying sound even just being kicked along the ground.
That's the worst bit so far.
FRANKIE CHUCKLES GLEEFULLY
It's a bouncier statue than I'd anticipated.
Very calm, Frankie.
I feel very calm, it's quite a soothing task.
All I've done is I've moved the drums. That's all I've done.
Oh, pretty good.
Two.
Two...
One, one.
FRANKIE GIGGLES
Greg's just there mocking me.
Still on three.
My first attempt, I think.
The first thing I did was
the best thing I did.
Sort of murky four.
Yeah, I'm happy with that. WHISTLE BLOWS
That can't be the last thing I do.
LAUGHTER
I don't think a single one of those got more than one.
WHISTLE BLOWS, APPLAUSE
Nice to see Kiell's smile come back.
It was the first task we did
and after it was finished, I retired to a little room
and I sent some very angry texts to some close family.
LAUGHTER
And then I thought about doing what Frankie did for about a week.
Frankie.
I enjoyed it, it was very much like art therapy.
That little giggle after you did
the first run really made my heart sing, Frankie.
It would be a sad man who didn't take joy in throwing
a bouncy ball at a cymbal.
This is the Channel 4 special,
Frankie Boyle's Moments Of Glee.
GLEEFUL GIGGLING
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
But, Frankie, in the end you got eight in a row.
Ivo, three or a murky four
but, either way, in last place at the moment.
Shall we see murky number five?
Murky number five and I apologise, you won't enjoy this introduction.
Time for a drum march,
sorry, a drum April,
no, I mean a drum Mae.
Wey!
Here we go.
A single throw, eh?
Wait a second, do you have the string?
Yeah, I've got string.
Ah. Yeah.
Why did you bring a hat?
To look good for this drum solo.
Isn't that what... is his name Slash?
Greg. LAUGHTER
Single throw.
This is the solo bit. Right, lovely.
MAE WHISTLES
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING - You finished? - Yep.
Thanks, Mae. Thank you.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
I thought it was meant to be just percussion,
not STRINGS and percussion.
Oooh! GROANING
Hoo-hoo-hoo! It's kicking off.
I felt for you there, Mae,
because uh, you expected, I think rightly, everybody
to cheer you from the rafters,
but the whole audience sat there like this.
Yeah, but this is like... Because they don't like clever people.
Am I coming across smug? What's going on?
I think people were confused - is it a single throw?
It left my hand only one time and the momentum continued
and it was travelling.
Can I just say purely for the sake of argument,
if you went to a fairground
and they said, "You've got a single throw
"to knock over this coconut," and you went, "Thanks very much, mate,"
tied a string to the ball,
threw it once, and then started swinging
the string around until you'd knocked
the coconut over,
you might get a beating. LAUGHTER
They're famously not that lenient,
the old coconut-shy guys.
I'm a little more forgiving probably.
What was the score?
Zero!
It's GOT to be zero!
It was one throw.
What I'll need is the definition of a throw, I guess, but I...
I thought you would KNOW what that word means.
But, I can... I can look it up.
Right, throw definition. Here we go.
To propel something with force through the air by
a movement of the arm and hand.
Was there a throw at all? There was definitely... There would have to be
an initial throw, otherwise I would disqualify.
Would you like to see the initial throw? Yes. Course we would.
We'll litigate this for hours.
Let's just check. Single throw.
See? There's then a jerk.
No-one said anything about a jerk! If you're going from the momentum
of the throw... A drop is not a throw.
Are you saying it's a drop? You can't call a drop a throw.
There was definite wrist.
There's definite wrist, Greg, but I don't throw
my penis across the room every morning, do I?
LAUGHTER
Do you use string?
If you throw something on a string
and then jerk it backwards, it's a cast.
Whoa!
Do you want me to look up cast?
Definition of cast.
Yeah.
This is my favourite thing ever.
I've been wrong too many times.
It is exciting, isn't it?
And do you know
the thing that's swinging it in your favour the most?
Is it swinging it or throwing it? LAUGHTER
Very nice. Yeah, well,
to cast means to move or send forth by throwing.
So, we're back to where we started. GASPING
Oh! That's clearly where I've gone wrong with fishing
because I've been doing this when I should be throwing
the fucking rod.
That's it. I'm letting them get away with it!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Which means, shall I sum up the scores for you, Greg?
Let me just drink Kiell's face in.
GREG SLURPS Mmmm!
Well, in that case, it's one point to Ivo, two to Kiell,
three to Jenny, four to Frankie and five to Mae Martin.
APPLAUSE There it is.
Let's have a look at the scoreboard.
OK, well, the winner of
the past two episodes, Ivo, is in last place with two,
but Frankie's in the lead with nine.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Despite arguably a terrible injustice,
can we have another task, please?
Yes, and it's time to test
the five on their nautical construction skills.
Hello.
Ah, goldfish bowl. Yep.
It's all wet.
LAUGHTER
Make the fastest egg boat.
Your egg boat must look like a boat and transport an egg.
If your egg boat sinks or loses its egg, you're disqualified.
That's a bit strong.
You have three minutes to order five materials.
Oh. And then 15 minutes to make your egg boat.
Also, all your materials must start with the same letter.
And you can't order anything
boaty.
OK, your time starts now.
Certainly people make paper things, don't they? Paper.
Polystyrene.
Plasticine.
But now I have to think about other Ps. Yes.
A ball, like a tiny ball, like a golf ball. Ball, ball for golf.
Balls - brackets - ping-pong.
Plastic, by which I mean like clingfilm.
Plastic inflatable water wings.
Armbands. They begin with P, do they?
Plastic inflatable water wings. OK.
Gaffer tape, gaffer... baffer, baffer tape.
Could you get some baffer tape? I don't know what baffer tape is.
It's like gaffer tape but it's better.
I don't think I can get you baffer tape.
Balloons.
A balloon.
Bras, umpteen bras.
I'll get you umpteen bras.
Banana. Bread. P...Plant.
Uh... bacon?
WHISTLE BLOWS, APPLAUSE
Baffer tape and umpteen bras?
Great band. LAUGHTER
Baffer tape's the lead singer, is he?
Do you want to see them build?
I'd like to see their boat builds, please.
Let's show them the boat builds. Here's how they got on making their egg boats.
Hello. You've got 15 minutes.
15 minutes from now?
What am I making again?
I was hoping for a larger loaf of bread
so that I could put the bucket in the plastic bag.
If it fits a golf ball, it will fit an egg.
So, that's number one, that's done.
Oh, I don't get the egg?
Oh, I've got an egg on me if you want.
Yes, I think it'd be quite good to have the egg.
Thank you very much.
Great. I'd like it to be really structurally sound,
you know fortified, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm gonna try and remember origami boats,
which I last did maybe age seven.
Quite a lot of drugs and alcohol have taken place since then.
You know these, the foamy tit cups?
They'll act as a buoyancy aid.
Awww!
I'm gonna need another balloon.
I'll take two if they're going.
It doesn't look like a boat yet. No.
Great. In you go.
Ah, it's looking like a boat now.
Why's it doing that? LAUGHTER
Egg's gonna be in there with a little hat on.
Mm-hm. You put the basket in the water like this.
How heavy's the water?
Pardon? How heavy will the water be?
You're asking me how heavy the water will be?
Yes. What is the weight of the water?
LAUGHTER What do you want me to tell you?
I want to know how heavy the water is.
Right, well, we're gonna use standard water.
Still? Still, yes, still. Mmm.
Yeah, I'm quite happy with that.
I haven't really needed Plasticine
or a plant.
There's only one thing for this, then -
decorate the fuck out of it.
HMS Boat.
I think I've slightly neglected the egg, actually.
GROANING
It's a bad omen.
You going to eat your banana? LAUGHTER
Right, first things first.
I mean, Jenny's boat is an act of madness, isn't it?
I don't think it was ANY of our finest hours.
Although I did write down the quote,
"These foaming tit cups will act as a buoyancy aid."
I find the idea of
a seven-year-old Frankie Boyle doing origami to be adorable.
There's been a lot of arts and crafts in this episode,
hasn't there? Yeah, there has.
In that little video, you said,
but quickly you moved onto drugs and alcohol.
So in this sort of biographical line,
origami was very much a gateway.
I just wish I'd kept it up during the drug years.
Who knows what I might have created?
When Kiell asked for two balloons, he did the cheekiest face.
It was THIS cheeky face.
I'll take two if they're going.
LAUGHTER
Mae's boat looked like
the most buoyant object ever created,
but it is "one shit boat", is what I wrote down.
Ivo, I haven't mentioned your lovely boat. Were you pleased with it?
I don't mind it, Greg.
It's been a terrible show, and that's far from my low point.
LAUGHTER
If you want to see the egg boat race of the century,
you're gonna have to sit on your hands for
a few minutes and be patient, thank you. Bye.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello! Welcome back to Taskmaster, where our egg boats
are under starter's orders. Race, Alex?
Caucasian, Greg. But, let's...
LAUGHTER ...not dwell on that.
It's not a bad joke, fair play to the boy.
It is now time for the great egg boat race.
CHEERING
On your marks.
EGG set.
Boat!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Aww!
MELANCHOLIC PIANO PLAYS
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
I don't think anyone was excited by the race at all. Do you?
Not even them.
I was excited. Were you? Yeah, loved it.
Where did you come, fourth? Yeah.
First in fun.
First in fun. First in fun.
Yeah, the timings were Mae 3:25,
Ivo 2:04, Jenny 1:46,
Kiell 1:45. So close but, Frankie, 1:33.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Let's watch the beginning again.
That's the most exciting bit when they jump out.
I love the beginning. This is the beginning of the race. Here we go.
On your marks.
EGG set. Boat!
AUDIENCE GROANS
Egg off? Egg off. Egg off.
Egg overboard!
I had essentially just wrapped
an egg in some paper.
LAUGHTER I can have few complaints.
Don't you put seven-year-old
Frankie Boyle's origami skills down like that.
So, because Frankie is disqualified,
the egg was released, he gets zero points.
Well, I don't know, I'm thinking it still counts,
and I'm gonna give him the five.
Huh? I just said that
to have a look at Kiell's face.
LAUGHTER
It is zero to Frankie. Zero to Frankie, I'm afraid.
It's two to Mae, it's three to Ivo,
it's four to Jenny,
it's five points to Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
I'm hungry for another task, please, Alex.
Well, let me satiate that monstrous appetite of yours
with a multitude of tasks all wrapped in one.
Welcome to the hall. Oh, hi.
Bingo. Bingo. Bingo, it is.
There's nine tasks on the board behind you
and one on the plinth.
Yes. If you could open the one on the plinth, please.
I'll open the one on the plinth.
Always check on the back.
First to complete a line or four corners wins.
The time starts when someone shouts "bingo".
So I'll be pulling numbers out of this. OK.
A ball will come out, you've got to then open
the task that corresponds with that number.
Once you've read it out, I'll shout "bingo" and we're off. OK.
Let's play bingo. Love to.
- Oh, no! - My gate was open. LAUGHTER
I wanna play bingo, I don't want to mess around.
You're not alone.
5.5 million people play it at least twice a week in this country.
Is that right? 8% of the country. All of Finland.
Really? Go on, then.
All right, first to play bingo, it's Kiell and Mae.
Let's play bingo.
Is there a number?
Heinz varieties, 57.
Two little ducks, 22.
OK.
Throw each of your shoes onto a different roof.
Sit in the shed for three minutes
and think about what you have done. Bingo!
Roof of the caravan.
Roof of the panel... house.
I did it!
All right, let's carry on playing bingo.
Oh, we've got knock on the door, 4.
Tickle me, 63.
All right.
Make the bingo bin go out of the main gates.
Get fully into the sleeping bag then get out of the sleeping bag
and put the sleeping bag fully into the sleeping bag bag.
I haven't got any shoes on!
ZI-I-IP! OK?You're fully in. Get fully out.
Oh, man!
KIELL GRUNTS I got no shoes on!
I got no shoes on.
Right, two down,
Mae, you might get 60 here, and that'll be a line.
It's not 60,
we've got Christmas cake, 38.
Put exactly four pints of water in the pot.
I've got no shoes on! LAUGHTER
Wait, the water's coming out the bottom.
I might as well just put it on the floor!
Yeah! Get out of it!
Five pints, three pints.
2,000 divided by five is 600, 600 x 4...
Come on, give me 38.
No, we've got rise and shine 29.
Scream "I have been in all four rooms of the house,"
in all four rooms of the house.
I have been in all four rooms of the house!
I have been in all four rooms of the house! 38, please.
It's not 38.
53. Get a banana down from the tree. Bingo!
That sounds like an outside job. I don't have any shoes on!
That's 2,400.
Thank you. Dirty Gerty, 30.
Pop all but one bubble on the bubble wrap.
Speak to John. Bingo!
Who's John?
This could be your line.
It's not great.
John? Argh!
I don't have any shoes on!
John?
Alex, who's John?
Oh, I don't know anyone called John.
Ah, now, then. Are we close? Oh, yeah.
Stop the clock? Yep.
RINGING TONE
Thanks for calling John Lewis.
Is this, uh, is this John Hm-mh?
John Lewis. Yeah?
Customer services, yeah.
Great, all right, thank you.
I'll stop the clock.
Line. Thank you, Mae. Congratulations, Kiell, bye-bye.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Not bad. Did Kiell have any shoes on during that task?
It's very hard to tell.
Mae, meticulous as ever.
Yes, took their time on the bubble wrap.
Lot of time, yeah, yeah. 20 minutes on the bubble wrap alone.
When will we get to meet this character more,
the "get out of it" guy?
Get out of it!
Get aht of it! I liked him.
I saw him as a farmer, mid 60s?
Yeah. What sort of other stuff does he put out, this farmer?
Rapscallions.
Is he married?
He was.
And what did he say when he got divorced?
I can't wait to get aht of it!
So, yes, Mae 26:13.
Kiell, considerably quicker, 20:30. Current leader.
APPLAUSE
Now, for the two you're most likely to find in a bingo hall.
Oh, I'm not standing for this.
I'm not standing for this shit.
It's Frankie and Jenny. Here we go, Frankie and Jenny.
Together as well.
Let's go, Jenny. Let's play bingo.
Well, we've got one.
We've got one. Sitting in the tree, 53.
53. Get the banana down from the tree.
Right I need a stick. Sticky stick stick.
No. Banana. Wow.
It's not fair to penalise the short arse.
Come to me.
Yes.
Throw each of your shoes... Onto a different roof.
Bingo! No problem.
Bugger.
Bugger. Poor show.
Make the bingo bin go out of the main gates.
Two shoes, two roofs.
LAUGHTER
Rise and shine, 29.
We're going all over the place now. It's like a cruelty.
CHEERING AND WHOOPING
Achieved, Alex,
but at what cost?
I have been in all four rooms of the house!
Lovely screaming, Jenny.
Thank you. It's one of my skills.
Speak to John.
Who's John? Bingo!
John, John, can you help me?
I do know a John.
How you doing, John, you all right?
I'm not bad, mate. What's happening?
John? John?
Right, Frankie, there's five numbers left.
Three of them would give you a line.
What have we got?
Grandma's getting frisky, 60.
Where's John? My feet hurt. Oh, John.
Pop all but one bubble.
Where's the bubble wrap?
Has fucking John got it?
This is terrible because this is not even someone I know.
This could be a line here, Jenny.
I'm gonna try and remove a bit of bubble wrap.
RINGING TONE Hello?
Oh, hi, sorry, John, I'm really sorry,
I've just picked up Jeff's phone
and I've dialled you by accident, I do apologise.
Bye-bye.
I got a John. LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Line. Bingo.
Just need some of these, man.
The tasks? Yeah.
It's gone surprisingly well.
That is bingo, mate.
I'll stop the clock.
APPLAUSE
I think we got a hint of the destruction that was
to come with you, when you were asked to throw your shoes onto
the roof and you went, "No problem."
Yes. In the middle of that task,
I decided to go back to therapy.
Was it when you were throwing a bin
over the top of an openable gate?
Jenny, uh, seemingly lost in
the garden shouting, "John, John,
"my feet hurt, John.
Normally a scene that would be followed by, "Come back inside."
Oh, don't.
I just had a glimpse into my future, and it's awful.
So neither of them brought back a banana,
but they did both bring back the word banana. Banana sign, yes.
Are you happy with them bringing back a "banana"?
No, it doesn't count as a banana.
Yes, thank you.
Even though it was a "banana".
Was there a banana up that tree? There was a banana in the tree.
Then, they should have brought back a banana.
Are you saying the word banana isn't banana?
I'm saying the word banana written on a sign is not a banana.
It quite clearly is a banana.
It's the word banana.
I would say also it said to THROW your shoes onto
the roof, and Jenny placed a shoe on top of the, uh...
I think she propelled it with her arm and hand.
LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE
Please, let's not get into throwing.
Yeah, I mean, I hate myself.
You do have a problem with this banana
so what do we do? Because they were quick.
Jenny was 8:12, Frankie 14:38.
So first and second at the moment, but what about this banana?
I might have to think about it over the break. Ooh!
You've never done that before. No.
You normally go for a wee.
Remember, though, just cos something's got
the word toilet written on it
doesn't mean it's a toilet.
I won't be pissing against the door.
I wasn't gonna eat the sign!
We're off again for a break.
We just don't have the stamina we once did, it's sobering stuff.
When you come back, someone will win a raw turkey
and consequently salmonella. LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, you sweet, sweet people, you join us for
the final part of tonight's show
and the conclusion to our bingo gala.
Yes, I can't wait to see what happens, even though
I know exactly what happens, which is just weird, isn't it?
One person left to see, and it's all his own doing.
It's Ivo Graham.
Knock on the door, four.
Get fully into the sleeping bag then get out of the sleeping bag
and put the sleeping bag fully into the sleeping bag bag.
Bingo!
There it is.
What?
That's in.
All right. Play again.
30. Speak to John.
RINGING TONE
Hello, Angie, is John there by any chance?
No worries, I'll speak to him later.
Thanks very much, Angie. Bye.
Let's go, let's go again.
Sit in the shed for three minutes. Um, let's go again, bingo again.
60. Oh, no.
This is arduous. Let's go, let's go again.
53. 38. 22.
Actually, I might leave that. Tickle me, 63.
Make the bingo bin go out of the main gate.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Get a banana down from the tree.
LAUGHTER
It's shoe time.
Shall we see the last ball? Yeah.
I wonder what it's gonna be?
I'm having a bad time. 29.
I have been in all four rooms of the house!
So, 63 will complete a line.
Every number will complete a line.
I'll sit in the shed.
It's gone terribly.
ROARING LAUGHTER
I think that was three minutes
but I didn't have a way of measuring it.
So you sat in the shed for three minutes? Yep. You're sure?
Oh, my God.
I sat in the caravan.
I'm calling my dad's friend and my former doctor.
Oh, hello, Jonathan,
I'm so sorry I've rung you by accident, I do apologise.
Well, it's lovely to hear you too. I'd...
Oh, terrific.
Oh, right.
You must shout "line" when you've finished.
Um, have a lovely weekend. Give my best to the boys. Bye.
Line!
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Sometimes, rather than
a lot of chit-chat, you can just sum things up with an image.
Yes, let's do that.
LAUGHTER
Right, let's give some points out, shall we? OK.
We're gonna drop the banana sign people by one point. OK.
I can tell you what the scores are.
Mae 26:13, just the one point.
Ivo was 25:27,
so still faster than Mae, somehow. Two points.
Kiell, three points with his 20 minutes
then Frankie and Jenny were meant to get four and five
but Jenny gets four, Frankie gets three, the same as Kiell.
That's it, Jenny wins the task but only four points.
APPLAUSE Oh, my God! Argh!
OK, well, I've done the calculations.
Ready for the scoreboards? Oh, God, am I?!
Rock-bottom, Ivo Graham with seven.
Rock top, Jenny Eclair with 15 points.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
It's that time again, please head to the stage for
the final task of the show. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, Corporal Good Boy. Good evening, Captain.
Who's gonna read out the task?
This time Jenny Eclair's gonna read it out.
Excuse me.
Pour your sand into the other bottle.
Slowest to pour their sand into the other bottle wins.
You must pour your sand
from at least a foot above your other bottle.
If there is a break in your sand stream, you are disqualified.
Would you like to discard the task, Jenny?
Oh!
So, at all times your bottle must be above that blackboard.
Are we trying to pour it the slowest?
Yes, so slowest wins.
If there's any break in your sand stream, you are out.
You must start your pouring within two seconds
of me blowing the whistle cos it'll take a while to come out.
This is electric television.
It's gonna get... it's gonna get even more electric.
Oh, God, he's got no shoes on!
Oh, he's got no shoes on.
I don't wanna get this shit in my trainers.
Why would you get shit in your trainers?
Because I'm gonna miss the bottle.
OK, is everyone ready? Last person still pouring wins.
WHISTLE BLOWS
Ohh!
Has anyone broken a stream yet? Nope.
LAUGHTER
Ivo, it's got to be a foot, Ivo, it must be a foot.
It's like having a really worryingly long piss.
Being our age, this sort of stream's quite common
for Frankie and I.
Do you know what? I thought this was gonna be
shit telly but I'm actually quite enjoying this.
It's like an art therapy themed episode.
Mae has completed the task.
Frankie's completed it.
Kiell has also completed it.
Don't go any lower than that, Jenny.
Oh, I see. Oh, you...
WHISTLE BLOWS We're done.
We'll work all that out and then work out the points.
Come back down and join me for a while. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
As someone who was just observing it,
I'd say there's some hearts gonna be broken.
Obviously, as we made clear,
if the sand stream was broken, instant disqualification.
You're out. We've analysed the footage
and there was an early disqualification.
So, I'm gonna show you the moment
the first disqualification happened three seconds after
I blew my whistle.
Kiell there. Fuck off.
Well, Kiell, there was no sand between either bottle.
I don't see any blue sand either, if I'm being totally honest.
Mae, exactly that, so I'm sorry to say we have lost Kiell and Mae.
Seven frames later, there's no red sand.
Frankie. Frankie, there was a break in the sand stream.
To be honest, the whole episode has been such
a thrilling journey through language and meaning.
Two seconds after Frankie broke his stream... Yep.
GROANING
...Ivo Graham broke his stream.
I emotionally processed that about half an hour ago. It's all right.
Just Jenny left, but six seconds after, this happened.
They're all disqualified,
zero, zero, zero, zero, zero.
- That's the end of the task. - Whoo! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
What a rush to finish on. And...?
And we need to apologise to the viewers. Sorry.
LAUGHTER It does mean we have a brand-new winner of Taskmaster.
Ivo came last, but with 15 points,
Jenny Eclair wins an episode! Oh!
Jenny Eclair is tonight's winner.
Please head up to have some fun with your things on your head!
So, what have we learnt today?
We've learnt that in the unlikely event that Morrissey sees sense
and reforms the seminal '80s band The Smiths, they need look no further
for their album cover than this.
LAUGHTER
But, at the end of the fourth episode, there is just one winner,
and that winner is Jenny Eclair. See you next time!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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