Well, well, well.
Ooh! Oh, no, no.
Yes! Argh! JOANNE HISSES
Argh!
Erm...
Quite windy today. Yeah.
Christ.
Whoo! Wrong way.
That's how you do it, baby.
OK.
Oh, my God!
VARIOUS CRIES AND YELLS
APPLAUSE
This programme contains strong language and adult humour
Thank you! Hello, welcome to Taskmaster,
the show where elite comic minds unravel
like a ball of wool. We're essentially in the Colosseum,
but with a little less stabby stabby,
and a disappointing lack of... HE ROARS
Let the games commence.
Please welcome Joanne McNally... APPLAUSE
..John Robins... APPLAUSE
..Nick Mohammed... APPLAUSE
..Sophie Willan... APPLAUSE
..and Steve Pemberton. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And sitting next to me, a man who looks like
a poodle who just about escaped a house fire on his hind legs...
LAUGHTER
..Little Alex Horne. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Mm, thank you. Thank you, Greg.
Well, hi, Greg.
How was my weekend?
Well...it was one of the great weekends.
Yeah. I caught up with my aunt.
Yeah. Which was amazing, cos she's a really fast runner,
and I normally lag behind. We did our relay.
You know we do the relay in the village,
all the friends and family, and we did the 4x100.
Yeah. So 100 people doing four metres each and just...
..and I was parallel with Aunt Polly, so, erm,
overtook her in the final metre of the four and,
uh, first time I've managed to do that.
And we can came eight...
88th we came.
LAUGHTER
Woof, woof, woof, woof.
All right, prize task time.
What have we got for episode six, Alex? You asked them to bring in
the best thing that you can get into.
Hmm. There's the usual five points for
the best thing that you can get into,
and I thought it worth pointing out that there's also three points
for the most mid-table thing.
Back to you, Greg. Appreciate you, brother.
All right, John, what's the best thing that...
It's quite a tricky one to phrase, this, isn't it?
..you'd like me to get into?
Greg, you've got to get into memes.
John, I have not.
LAUGHTER
So what I have done to help you be more active
in the meme scene is I've created my very own Taskmaster memes.
Take a look at this, Greg.
Maybe I'm more into memes than I thought.
Do you want to see another meme? Second meme.
It's a bit of fun. Greg, you're having fun.
Yeah. I'm an old man sweating looking at something
I don't want to get into.
Hi, Nick.
What have you brought me that I might want to get into?
I thought, and particularly cos you are often very hot,
one of the things that you could get into
would be the concept of adding a ice cube to a glass of white wine.
Wow. Just one single cube.
Here it is. Lovely.
Honestly, tr... Don't knock it till you've tried it,
because it really works.
I'm not putting ice in my wine, Nick.
Just a single cube?
Not at all, because I'm not a pussy.
You're just not bringing anything new to me, Nick.
If I want cold wine, I'm going to put it in my fridge.
Obviously it goes in the fridge at the start,
but I'm saying that when you pour it out and it's sort of sat there...
So what you've brought in
is the ability for me to have a glass of wine, uh...
I didn't... But I didn't.
..at a certain distance from my fridge.
LAUGHTER
OK, Sophie, take over, for God's sake.
I can't really, cos I realised I've forgotten
and brought the wrong present.
Is it worth explaining at the sixth episode
of this series that these aren't presents for Greg?
Oh, are they not? I do judge it, so it's... You do.
It's very wise... I thought we had to give you a gift.
It's wise if it appeals to me.
I thought, "He's a bit greedy, in't he?"
LAUGHTER
This is a human hamster ball... Yeah?
..that you can get into and have a wheel. Roll around. Roll around.
It is big. Yeah.
Ooh!
Freedom.
It's the opposite of freedom.
Simple. Why might I like it? Why might anyone like it?
Well, who doesn't want to roll around?
Oh, come on, eh?
Would you like to go down a hill in one of those?
I would absolutely love to get in that.
OK, we'll push you down a hill.
Joanne, you all right?
Yes, so I, as you know have been, er,
been quite experiential with the presents.
And it hasn't worked in my... They're not presents!
So this time, I've gone for a sleeping sarcophagi.
So that's me in the thing.
LAUGHTER
You can be Tutankhamun at night, and you can close your eyes
and you're in the Valley of the Kings.
Yeah. It's all gold. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah.
LAUGHTER
Steve, only you can save this round.
I hope I can do something that you will enjoy as your present.
I have brought you...
LAUGHTER
As the prize, uh,
I have brought you in today's Guardian newspaper.
Oh.
I thought, like, a hobby, you could get into doing cryptic crosswords.
This better get good soon, mate. OK.
Can I say, by the way,
there was a Guardian in my dressing room today?
Yeah, and mine. And mine.
And there was also one in mine. Right.
Well, did anyone do the cryptic crossword?
No. All right.
I won't open that lefty stuff.
OK, well, what I hope someone might have been impressed by
is the fact that I wrote today's cryptic crossword.
Ah, now we're talking. We can have a look at it.
Oh, well done. Nice.
APPLAUSE
I've filled in some of the answers for you.
The other thing you can do with cryptic crosswords,
you can hide hidden messages within them
if you get the right combination of words.
As you can see, if you look at the G of ghettoes on the left there
and read down the unchecked letters,
you'll see I've put you in the crossword.
"Greg," nice! Oh!
And if you also read the rest of the hidden message...
"Greg, please give Steve...
"..all five points."
APPLAUSE
Steve, the only problem for me now is how to reward you suitably
and to punish these four.
I am points-hungry tonight, Greg. My God.
If you want to shift the four across, the three across,
the two across, I'll take 'em all, cos that took ages.
Shall I give some points out? Yes, please.
Um, obviously...
I find it very difficult to be mean to you, Nick. Aw.
One point. Thank you.
I'm sorry, John, I just...
I'm not excited by memes, and I have a reputation.
I'm an ex-teacher who despises children, so two points to John.
OK. The inflatable ball, three points,
just because I want to push Sophie Willan down a hill.
Uh, I'll give the sarcophagus four points. Thank you.
And it feels like you've been robbed in many ways
that you don't get more than five points, but that's,
that's the prize section, or as I call it...
..Greg's Gift Section.
Five points to Steve.
APPLAUSE
Right, on we go.
OK, and the first task involves a choose Mr Mohammed basket.
I'm so sorry, no, I mean a picnic hamper.
GREG GROANS, DELAYED LAUGHTER
Pleasure to see you.
John Robins. Alex Horne.
Basket. Wheel. Chair.
A lovely label here, it says, "To John, from Nick."
"To Nick from Sophie."
We're not going on a picnic, are we?
Couldn't think of anything worse.
"Make a bespoke personal hamper for Steve Pemberton."
"Make a bespoke personal hamper for Sophie Willan."
"..for Nick Mohammed."
"..for John Robins."
"..for Joanne McNally.
"You have ten minutes. Your time starts now."
Sophie, you do have to also spin this wheel. One big spin.
Something from nature... Mm-hm.
..for Nick to suit his personality.
Oh! Action.
My theme is picnic. Lovely.
Oh, yeah, perfect. It's got to all be red.
I've got to get a hamper full of red items, I would imagine. Yes.
He's older, isn't he? Older than...?
Anyone else.
So I just want to remind him of that. Ah.
Cos soon he will be dead.
I got some hot sauce, cos she's quite a spicy character.
Sunflower to match his sunny disposition. Lovely.
Right, there is a new bag in this, so... Lucky John.
Lucky John, eh?
HE GROANS
There you go.
Dog walking lead.
All the red marbles out of the big marble thing.
Oh, can I spin again? I want to mix it up a bit.
Picnic! Well, we've got the hamper, haven't we? So that's good.
And this for him in the bath, cos when you're old,
you have to be careful in the bath.
Pudding. Bungee cord.
Flowers. Obviously paper plates. Obviously.
A train. Pineapple for afters.
Juice.
Plain flour? Plain flour, yes.
What's he going to do with that? Baking. Baking.
I'm just going to attach the G clamp.
Little bit of red carpet.
I think this'll do, because this,
it's both a picnic blanket and a blanket. Right.
This cos I know he likes weird shit,
and these to keep his sugar levels up.
And I'm going to play a little joke on her,
so when she opens it, she gets a nice surprise
and she'll think of me and she'll thank me.
Love it. Can't believe you got it all in. I know!
WHISTLE BLOWS Perfect.
Well, I suppose I should give you the right
to reply about having a hamper filled with things
that suggest you're teetering on the edge of death.
Yeah. And into weird shit. Sorry, Steve.
You're suggesting that Steve needs an assisted bath.
I mean, he's a man in his 50s.
I don't know why I thought you were older than you are.
I don't know why. Oh, God.
AUDIENCE MEMBER EXCLAIMS Sorry!
For what it's worth, I was very happy with what you put.
Including litter pickers cos old people like picking up litter.
LAUGHTER
Well, look I'm excited, let's crack on.
OK, so we're going to come back to that one later on,
so for now, here is another introduction video.
There he is.
Hi, Steve. Hi.
Hello. Hello.
One, two, three, four...
..five, six, seven, eight?
Lovely. Right. Oh, God. Yeah.
One, two, three, four...
Paper. OK.
Sorry, that's a rock, actually.
..five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four...
..once I saw a fish alive.
One, two, three, four...
..I declare a thumb war. Ah.
Oh, God. Oh, why? That's... Ah! That makes sense.
"Have the most exciting thumb war with Alex."
You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
Mm.
Tequila?
One, two, three, four. I declare a thumb war.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Who do you appreciate?
Can we get some tequila?
Do you want me to get the tequila? Yeah. Ah.
And shots. Come on, a bit of craic.
You haven't had a drop since I met you.
How many of you knew what a thumb war was?
Did you? Cos I... I thought, from the VT, it looked like John was
the only one who'd heard of a thumb war.
I just forgot the intro. Yes, well, your mind was full
of how quickly you can get hammered.
Yeah.
Straight to a national stereotype. "Let's get hammered."
There's no smoke without fire. What can I say?
Yeah. Did you come out dressed as a leprechaun as well?
Too far. Oh, too...
Let's watch some people doing a thumb war,
and presumably Joanne getting hammered.
Well, first up it's Thumb-phie Willan and Knuckle Mohammed.
Here we go.
I've lost you a bit. Oh, you've lost me a bit? Hang on. I'm here.
STEADY BEAT PLAYS
One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war.
Oh, that was too easy, actually...
No, get off. It's stuck.
Yeah. I'm done.
NICK PLAYS NOTES
Declare a thumb war.
Oh, didn't go far, did it?
Cheers, Alex. Well played.
APPLAUSE
I really liked it, Nick. Oh, really? Uh, and...
You know, I've made it very clear during this series I don't like
a pun, but I didn't mind Thumbley Stadium. Yeah.
Nick is really good at thumb wars. Yeah.
And by stark contrast...
I thought we were creating high-end art here.
Right, with the guy with the pigeon on his head?
I was disappointed with the thumb war cos you're very quick.
I mean the thumb war itself was, uh, shit. But...
I've got tiny hands, though, I mean, I've got the hands of
sort of somewhere between an old man and a baby. Yeah.
They're very small and weird.
Well done with Thumbley Stadium, Nick.
LAUGHTER
Thanks, Greg. Well done. Thank you. It's good, says a lot that
so far, Thumbley Stadium is my favourite part of this task.
Time for an advert break now,
and if you don't want to watch them, try my method.
I force someone from the company who make the product
to watch them for me.
Well, they've got us scanning our own shopping, haven't they?
See how you like it, you profit-motivated barrel of rats.
See you in a minute.
APPLAUSE
Hello! Welcome back to part two of Taskmaster.
We're in the midst of some pretty exciting thumb wars.
Oh, yeah, well, the funny thing is,
this task, it just came to me one day,
and I wasn't really sure about it,
but now I feel so fortunate that it turned out this way
and gave the comedians a chance to really shine, and that, Greg...
..was a thumble brag,
Now for the attempts... AUDIENCE GROANS
..of John and Joanne.
Hello. Hello, Alex. Hello, John.
Basically, there's three condiments.
There's mustard, custard, and peri peri sauce. Mm-hm.
You've got a spit bucket here. A shot of rum here.
The game is - you keep one thumb clean for the whole game,
and if you sully that thumb, you're out. Ah.
So you dip all nine other fingers into the condiment,
suck it off.
All nine into the next condiment... BOTH: ..suck it off.
Then the last clean thumb - you dip it in the mustard, custard,
and stick it to the other person's head. OK.
"Win the thumb war.
"You may not cross the lines of fire.
"Last thumb standing wins.
"From this moment onwards, you may only communicate using
"Queen song titles."
Don't Stop Me Now.
Fee-fi-fo-thumb... Go!
OK. Hmm...
Oh, qui... Oh, no.
Sick. Oh, really?
Action This Day. WHISTLE BLOWS
Ooh! Fat Bottomed Girl.
The Miracle.
Urgh!
What the fuck is that? I forgot to keep that clean! Me too. Ah!
LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE
That's how you do it, baby.
Argh!
We Are The Champions!
APPLAUSE
What percentage of every day are you thinking about
the band Queen, John?
When you're wearing a Freddie Mercury jacket,
uh, it's on your mind. It's on your mind.
I didn't know that many Queen songs. No.
I looked up some afterwards.
We could've had Flick Of The Wrist from...
A Night At The Opera.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Uh, uh, no, no, no.
Uh-oh! Sheer Heart Attack. It is Sheer Heart Attack.
Someone's been kicked out of the Queen fan club!
I'm actually in the Queen fan club.
Joanne, the thing that I found intriguing about your game is
I felt it was a game you've played many times before.
And Joanne had a catchphrase
that was sandwiched between every rule.
Suck it off.
It was called Custard And Mustard, Oh, My.
What were the rules? I mean, I got into it... Yeah.
..but I didn't know why. I just wanted shots,
speed, custard, and then it was like, uh...
That would be such a great T-shirt.
It would be an amazing logo on a T-shirt,
perhaps with one addition.
GREG AND JOANNE: Shots, speed... Custard.
JOANNE ON RECORDING: Suck it off.
And for our final war of the opposables,
it's Steve Pemberthumb.
Oh, that's good!
Charge!
We have come to claim our territory. This is righty territory.
No, it's not!
It most certainly is.
One, two, three, four...
SOFTLY: ..I declare a thumb war.
CHARGE!
Argh!
NO!
What are we doing, leftie? Why are we fighting this war?
You said it was your territory.
We both belong together. Here, come, let me help you.
Can you come up? Thumbs up. Thumbs up!
I've lost a lot of good men in this war, you know.
Pinky, Ring, Middle, Index, all gone.
What say we go and watch the footy, eh?
I love the footy. Let's go. Let's go, then. Come on.
APPLAUSE
We wanted to go for an anti-war message... Yes.
..and I think that came across really powerfully.
Too many people have perished in thumb wars, Steve.
I thought it was, uh, well-conceived...
..moving... Yeah, very moving. ..and, at times, exciting.
Right, then, five contrasting thumb wars, Greg.
We've got to take into consideration the quality of
the thumb war.
Why am I looking at you, Sophie? It's weird, innit?
I think it's cos you...
..you're going to... give me the bottom.
My instinct is to give you one point.
What do you think? I think it's reasonable. Yeah.
LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE
I loved the production values,
and felt the same sort of excitement level
for Nick and John, if I'm honest,
so I'm going to give Nick and John three points each.
I'm going to give Joanne four, but, my God,
how can I deny... LAUGHING: ..the beautiful tribute
that was the Battle Of The Thumb? Five points.
There you go. So Steve's done it again. Well done, Steve. Five points.
I'd like to see the scores, please, Alex.
Of course you would. Well, our habitual bottom guys -
Nick and Sophie - are still there with four points each.
Joanne's got eight. Steve's in the lead with ten this time.
All right, then.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Right, let's have another.
This one has that familiar mix of darts and drinks
and awkward positions.
Hello, team. Hello, Alex. Hiya.
One on the doormat, one in the doorway, please.
One on the doormat, one in the doorway?
OK, I'll go doorway.
I'll go doormat.
Uh-oh. Hi.
Shall I go mat, do you want to go in the dome?
You go in the dome there.
I was on the college darts team, I'll just tell you that.
Were you? Yeah.
OK, go on, you go in there. You go there. Oh, I see. Right.
You've made your beds. Yeah. Oh, all right, here we go. Oh, no.
Do you want to read it? Whose is that? That's not...
That's part of the task.
Right. Part of the task. I thought someone had just left it. Right.
OK, so it says, "Make the most moves on the movement circles.
"Your team-mate must flip a bottle
"then throw a dart at each dartboard to create a move."
"If they get a bull's-eye, you have free choice.
"Also, if they successfully land the bottle flip,
"your team-mate may place a dart anywhere in the dartboard."
"Also, if they successfully land the bottle flip,
"your team-mate may place a dart anywhere in the dartboard."
And is it a bull's-eye on either of the dartboards?
Yeah, so a bull's-eye on that one would give free choice of part of
the body. Yeah. Bull's-eye on that one, free choice of colour.
OK, that makes sense.
"Longest movement sequence successfully made wins."
So Sophie's on bottle flip.
Right. John's on darts. Joanne's on movement.
Do I need to know anything, Steve, in terms of like,
uh, like, dodgy knees or anything that you, uh...?
Just dodgy body. Dodgy bum, dodgy... Yeah.
OK, everyone understand? No. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah.
Oh, hang on, the darts captain has taken his jacket off.
Can I...? Are we filming?
We're filming.
Sex sells, John.
APPLAUSE
On the college darts team, were we?
I was captain of the...
Jesus Christ, the heat is on.
Especially a man who's stripped down to a vest.
LAUGHTER
Steve, are you getting sick of the age-related slams yet?
Your team-mate asking if you had any ailments.
I think Nick was looking out for me.
It was just common courtesy, that was, really.
Oh, OK, you'd have asked anyone that.
I would've asked absolutely anyone that.
Yeah. Not just Grandpa.
Let's crack on.
Right, it's the team of two up first, as Nick steps up to the oche
to influence Steve's dodgy body. Here we go.
Here we go, and... Right. Pathetic. Unsuccessful.
So, uh, I'll try and throw a bull's-eye.
OK, no, it's bum, so that's good. Right, bum, good start.
Um, uh... Ooh, right on the line.
Brown bum or pink bum?
No, that is bum in the pink. Bum in the pink.
There you go. So that's one move completed.
I think I'm doing it too high in the air.
Right, left foot...
..yellow. Left foot, yellow.
Basically on it. Great. Fine. Here we go.
Two moves completed. Oh, every time.
Ooh, we have a left hand.
Left hand. Left hand. White'd be good.
There you go. It is white. Left hand, white. Ah!
Three movements. OK. Right elbow.
Right elbow's in play. OK.
Oh, it's white. White.
There is a white back there.
Yeah, there you go! Five movements complete.
Right elbow in the end. Oh, right elbow.
Right. So that's already in play.
Oh, I see. What would you prefer? To keep it where it is?
Oh, yeah. Quite comfortable here.
It's black and that's in the middle.
STEVE SNIGGERS Right.
That hand must stay on there.
Yeah, I know!
How can I get that to there? I think we'll count any...
If any of your bum is on pink, that'll be fine.
Is that...? Yeah, that counts. Here we go again.
That is dreadful. Oh, my God, Steve.
Right, it's over.
APPLAUSE
Nick, it feels rude of me to say that I just had
a gut instinct you'd be no good at darts. Oh!
I still think, though, we had got it the right way round.
I think in hindsight, if we'd have done it the...
You think the RIGHT way round? Yeah.
Of course. How were you going to get from brown to pink to yellow?
You'd have to sort of... In my cape.
Oh, of course. Oh, yeah.
Oh, you'd have bounced around nicely, wouldn't you? Yeah, I would've.
But it was nice for Steve to be able to have a nap, so... Yeah.
Cos I'm quite flexible, and because I'm quite small as well
I don't know if that's... Maybe that's not helpful.
I don't think that's an advantage. No, it's not an advantage. Ever.
You're not small!
Sorry. I didn't even hear what you said.
Oh, good! It's a compliment.
OK, break time.
A lot of students get in touch with me and they say,
"What do you and Alex get up to during the breaks?"
Well, I'll tell you, my young friends.
He buffs my gusset.
See you soon. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello! And a warm welcome back
to the third part of this Taskmaster festival.
Hey, guys, it's great to see so many familiar faces out there.
Before the break, we saw the teams taking part
in a task which feels like a game that already exists,
but it definitely doesn't.
It's the team of three's turn now, with Joanne in the dome,
John at the oche, and BAFTA award-winning comedian
and writer Sophie Willan standing at the side
tossing a bottle about a bit. Here we go.
I'm actually quite nimble. This is good. OK, yeah.
And how are you at bottle flipping, Sophie?
Well, we'll find out. OK, well, you may flip.
Right.
Off you go, John. Ready? Yeah.
Oh, nice. Left hand.
Brown.
Smashed it.
Well...
Yeah, that's not a successful bottle flip.
Close. Left elbow.
Uh-oh. OK, so we need pink or brown.
Oh, well done. Pink. Left elbow, pink. Yeah.
Right. So we ideally want bum, white.
Bum, white.
Bum.
That is... Oh, that is bum white! Oh!
That is, well done.
It'd be lovely if it lands on that table.
It's left hand, white.
This is actually the hardest bit. Yeah.
Left elbow, pink. Ass, black. Left hand, yellow.
YES! Oh! What have we got now?
Sophie can choose what Joanne does.
Right hand, brown, Sophie.
Right hand, brown, please. OK.
That's the bull's-eye.
It's bull's-eye. What do you want to move?
My right knee, please. Right knee. Black, please. Black.
It's black.
That's bull's-eye.
That's the bull's-eye. You've got a bull's-eye.
That's bull's-eye.
It's bull's-eye again.
Bull's-eye. Bull's-eye.
How long left?
I think infinity.
It's most moves.
I'm going to try for the right foot.
And is. Right foot.
So right foot, we want brown or pink.
Brown. So your right foot... Yeah. OK.
Uh, we need a knee on black please, unfortunately, in there.
Oh, no. Oh, shit.
Bit of a problem here. That might not be possible.
That is the end of your first movement.
Now if you all switch round one place.
What, that's the first part?
No, I'm only joking.
APPLAUSE
The bottle was a bit of a set-up really, wasn't it?
It's just to make you look like a prick. Yeah.
Yeah, he knows what he's doing. If you can't throw a bottle.
Yeah, but it's very hard.
You did pick your positions.
I was forced into mine by the darts champion.
That is true. I mean, fair play, he's good at darts.
Yeah. He's good at darts. Genuinely impressive, wasn't it?
Yeah. I'm not sure we got to test how nimble you were.
Um, in fairness...
So how many moves? Like, I was in that dome for a good...
JOHN: Hour. ..hour.
So how many different moves did they manage to do?
A total of 43.
Wow! APPLAUSE
So five points to the team of three.
And what shall I give these poor fuckers?
The old man and the little boy.
Five?
It's a thought.
Two points - let's call it charity. Five and two.
Well, there we go. Two points, and five points to the team of three.
APPLAUSE
Right, can we get going with another task, please?
Ooh! Yes, of course, and, hey,
remember what happened earlier on in the show?
Hello, Alex. Hello, John.
Right, here we are. "To Nick. From Sophie."
Is this the hamper?
I put one together for John, I think.
Aw! "To Steve. From Joanne." Is this a gift?
Do you remember making one of them?
I don't. Nah.
Oh, right, it's from Nick. That's handy.
Is it...? Was it..? Is it colour...?
Is it colour-coded for a reason?
Red. He thinks I'm angry?
Or sexual.
Oh, wow. Shall I?
"Create a picture of the person that gave you this hamper..."
"..using the contents of this hamper."
"Best hamper picture wins. You have 15 minutes."
"Create a picture of the person..." So, like...
Yeah, this is your canvas.
Ah, OK. OK. OK.
"You have 15 minutes. Your time starts now." Fab.
I've already got a human head,
which is a great start for any likeness.
Got two trifles, a baguette.
A lovely little red bit of carpet.
Uh, I met Steve years ago, and I was with my grandad,
and they actually have the same face.
They've got the same nose. It goes up.
I would say he's quite romantic.
Is that because there are some roses in the hamper?
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, she has an hourglass figure.
Ah!
I think that's sort of going to be our background. Lovely.
Well, we're going to start with his tuxedo.
A lovely round face.
We could always have this to prop up the head,
because, you know, behind every head, there is a skull.
Oh, no, do you know what? That's his tongue cos he's
a smart guy.
I'd say he could cut you.
With his tongue? Yeah.
A ski slope nose, you see?
Oh, no.
That's the shape of her.
Oh, you DO know what she looks like.
I need to make sure the face is there.
Very important, yeah.
She has lovely blonde hair,
and luckily we have something roughly the right shade.
I'm going to make his testicles the roses.
Like, I think he's respectful in the sack.
That's what they indicate.
And I think it's going to have to be beans for the face.
Oh, look, it's even sticking to the thing
because of the banana slime.
Just like her actual hair.
Just like... STEVE LAUGHS
And obviously Sophie's famously got those bright orange eyes.
Oh, the cushion? That's again for under here.
He's the kind of guy who'd offer a cushion if you needed
to be on your knees around him. He's a romantic.
I mean, it's not actually turning out to be that bad, I have to say.
It's not actually going too badly. Right.
It's not bad.
I don't think that's bad.
No, you've said that 12 times now.
Cos I know John has a certain "je ne sais quoi."
Exactly what these crisps are.
I feel like Neil Buchanan, actually.
Cos she's obviously not blue. Oh, she smells, doesn't she?
She DOES smell, doesn't she?
She's trying desperately to cover that bald spot up.
I do the centre of the eye.
Any legs for John, or not really?
I haven't seen him walking around much, to be honest.
A lot going on.
Yeah, I think that's lovely.
He shouldn't have a hat on, should he?
I don't think.
No. Thanks, Sophie.
Yeah. Really good. Fabulous, thank you.
APPLAUSE
Yet again... I know. ..Grandad is slammed.
Unbelievable, isn't it? It's incredible, innit? Yeah.
And is there any truth that he looked like... He met my grandad!
I did meet Sophie's grandad at a do.
I do actually have the photo. Yeah. Well, then let us be the judge.
NICK: Aw!
You're right! They have sort of got a similar face.
He was sloshed that night, actually. Nearly got kicked out. Did he?
Well, he insulted Melvyn Bragg from across the room. Did he?
LAUGHTER He just screamed at him,
"I've got your book, I fell asleep, it was shite."
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
It was awful!
Right, time for the last ad break.
And remember, one of today's prizes is an ice cube.
We'll see you in a minute.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello! Welcome back to Taskmaster!
It's the final part of the show, and our contestants have had to
make portraits of each other using the contents of a hamper.
Yes, but have the hampers hampered them?
Well, let's start with Steve's portrait of Joanne.
I love it! Yeah, I'm pleased with that.
Highlights look good. You're blow-drying your hair.
SOPHIE: Oh, yeah. Is she? How's she...? Oh, she is!
Yeah, she's blow-drying her hair.
Yes. There's a lot of detail in it. I love it!
What's going on with her top lip? Is it me?
Yeah, she's looking in the mirror, she's, like, giving it all...
.."Suck it off."
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
I would say one detail you can't see there is that,
underneath the face, there is a skull. Yeah.
Which is quite a detail.
That is nice, isn't it?
Memento mori. "Remember...
GRADUAL LAUGHTER
"..we are all going to die."
Yeah, and I'm not reminded enough of my own mortality, Steve,
you're right. Well, I fucking have been tonight. Yeah.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Who's next? We've seen Steve's picture of Joanne,
now it's Joanne's picture of John.
JOHN: I like it cos it looks like a memorial to me.
I think it looks someone who's dropped a hamper.
Well, it's, uh,..
My understanding was it was the essence of John,
and I knew John to be a very sweet, romantic man,
so that's kind of what I went with, and also...
That's not what I heard in your earlier description.
APPLAUSE
It's a real man puts down a cushion, Greg, I can tell you.
And roses for hands. Roses for hands! Yes.
And testicles. LAUGHTER
Good. Well, who's next?
OK, so now it's John's turn. Let's see his picture of Nick.
NICK: Oh!
Well, I wanted to represent the magic in Nick's career,
so he is bursting out of a bin.
LAUGHTER
So I used the flour to create the tuxedo,
and his face is made of beans.
LAUGHTER
I love the way you've caught the thick chinstrap that Nick wears.
Good. Who's next?
OK, well, obviously it's now Nick's picture of Sophie.
LAUGHTER
I genuinely don't think that's too bad.
He's captured an energy of sorts.
Yeah. Baffled.
Yeah. Yeah.
If you imagine that face turning round to you and going, "Huh?"
LAUGHTER
OK. OK.
One more. This is how Sophie Willan sees Steve Pemberton.
LAUGHTER
NICK: Yours is really good, Sophie. That's really good.
APPLAUSE
I look like a Mr Man. LAUGHTER
I just saw it and went, "Yes."
OK, well, here are all five of the portraits.
Well, honestly, I don't think Joanne's necessarily captured
the man. There was some detail in there,
I'm going to give it two points, not one. Oh.
Ah, thank you. I'm giving John three points.
Then I think I'm going to give Nick
and Steve four points,
because I just think that Sophie...
Yes!
I think Sophie has captured the man, somehow.
So that's five points to Sophie Willan!
What are the scores? The scores...
Well, it's very satisfying, it goes 16, 15, 14, 13,
10 for Nick.
LAUGHTER
And it's Steve at the top at the moment.
It looks like this. Let's have a look. SOPHIE: Come on!
APPLAUSE
Well done!
Well, it's that time again. Please make your way
to the stage for the final task of the show!
APPLAUSE
Hello, you lovely boy. Oh, thanks, Greg.
It's a team task. I know.
One member from each team must stand on the gold circles beneath.
Team of two, who's going to stand on the golden circle?
Me. Team of three, who's going to stand on the golden circle?
I am. Ah, Joanne.
Please, Joanne and Nick, make your way down to the golden circles.
Not that way! Oh. No, that way...
You, that way, yes, but not...
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Who will be reading the team task out?
I would like Sophie to read the task.
"Completely cover your team-mate in rubber rings.
"Catchers must face the Taskmaster at all times
"with their hands above their head.
"Throwers must stay behind the white line.
"First team to completely cover their team-mate
"in rubber rings wins."
He'll be gone in three rings.
LAUGHTER
Not with my hands in the air, surely!
I mean, Nick's a three-ring man. He's a three-ring man!
Greg, I'm going to come down into the trough to retrieve the rings
and fling them back, and then I'll blow the whistle and we'll start,
but the hands must be above the head. Good.
STEVE: And we can't go past this white line?
You can't go past. If anyone catches you going over this line,
your team will be disqualified. SOPHIE: Right.
Greg, when's the game over?
The game is only over if I shout, "I cannot see Nick,"
or, "I cannot see Joanne."
OK. Flingers, get ready. OK, good luck, hands up.
Head back, head back. Hands up. Let's go.
WHISTLE BLOWS And we're off. Oh!
JOHN: You can move, Joanne, once they're on.
AUDIENCE CHEERS
Don't cross that line, Sophie. I'm not!
Yes! We have one over here.
Good.
Argh! Oh, hands up, hands up at all times.
Oh, they're catching up.
JOHN: Lean back.
AUDIENCE GROANS
CHEERS Oh, it's close, it's close!
Oh, God!
I can just see a little bit of Nick!
Yes!
I cannot see Nick! I cannot see Nick!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
That was electric. Right, let's free them,
and let's add that to the final scores. Come and join me.
APPLAUSE
Well. It was so close. So close!
Fine margins, it's all about fine margins.
It's all about fine margins.
You want to see some fine margins? JOANNE GASPS, AUDIENCE GROANS
If you're going to show me margins, you make them fine.
Have a look at this fine margin.
JOHN: Oh!
Well, I think what I can see there... Oh, that's Steve.
..is a foot that's a little bit over the line.
Please, please. I mean, I'm not sure it's conclusive.
But I can show you this one. Yeah.
Well, that would be another foot over the line, would it?
That was about 20 seconds later, or I could show you this one.
Oh, a third? Oh, my...
NICK: Steve!
I'm sorry. No, don't worry.
You don't have to disqualify us.
You think I don't have to follow the rules of the competition, Steve?
Yeah, I do. I think it's your rules, your game.
Well, as much as it breaks my heart, rules are rules.
I'm afraid Nick and Steve are disqualified.
AUDIENCE GROANS
Listen, don't start @-ing me.
We said what the rule was -
if you cross the line, you're disqualified
so I'm afraid it's five points to the team of three.
Wow, and poor old Nick...
I know. I mean, I was at the bottom anyway, but still.
LAUGHTER
And not just the episode, the series.
The series as well, yeah. You're on 72 points. Yeah.
The next one's on 83. That's Sophie. 98 to Steve,
Joanne's on 105, John's on 113.
Joanne's doing really well.
Yeah, you shouldn't seem surprised at one person.
LAUGHTER
No, I'm not... Not surprised,
like, genuinely proud. I think it's brilliant.
So tell me some scores.
That's put the cat amongst the pigeons, so to speak.
Again. Yes, Nick is rooted on ten points.
You can't get much lower than that.
LAUGHTER
But with double that score, it's her first victory.
20 points goes to Joanne McNally. Oh!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Ah!
Joanne McNally is the winner of episode six!
Please go and get your things you can get into.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
So what have we learnt from today's show?
We've learnt it's exciting being part of a big show like this,
just as it's exciting being part of a new phenomena, OK?
Because, let's face it, it's not going to be long
until the number one Christmas game is going to be
Mustard, Custard, Oh, My.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
But, of course, it's all about the winner of episode six.
It's Joanne McNally!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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