This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
Hello. Good evening to you and a warm welcome to
Taskmaster or, as my nan calls it,
"What, that silly thing you do where you pretend you're cross
"because a comedian hasn't counted some ducks properly or something?"
"Get lost, Nan, you haven't even seen it!
"You've been dead for 15 years!
"You're such a chopsy nan. Why can't you just say, 'Ooh!?'"
Have they not got a ghost knitting club?!
Back in this dimension, things are going well for some
and really badly for others.
Please welcome our earthly five
who are still alive - they are
Dara O Briain,
Fern Brady,
John Kearns,
Munya Chawawa
and Sarah Millican.
CHEERING
And next to me a man who dots the I's
and crosses the T's, he wets the bed, he likes to please,
he cries a lot, his winkle smells,
and he still shoplifts to get attention.
It's horrible Alex Horne!
Hi.
Hi! Hi. How have you been since the last show?
Terrific, thank you. I've joined a cult.
Oh, have you? Love it, love it. Love the cult.
Yeah. Just a small one, just the three of us.
Me, my wife, Alan.
That's it, just the three of us in Alan's vehicle.
Right, and what do you do in there?
Never you mind, Greg!
Right, then, on with the show proper.
What's the old prize task then?
Hmm. Great question, Greg.
I'm on it, Papa GD,
and today you have asked them to bring in the best thing
you've ever received in the post.
Ooh!
Hey, guys, remember post?
They shove stuff through a hole in your door.
Greg here will give five points to the person he thinks has brought in
the best thing they've received in the post
and then at the end of the show the overall winner will take home
all five things to start a new life in a new home.
It's very post- uh, modern.
LAUGHTER
Munya!
So I have bought in the Suckertron 3000.
Here it is. This isn't the official name, so don't Google it cos I,
I don't know what's gonna come up.
Greg, have you ever been sat there on your laptop devouring a bag
of crisps and you look down at the keyboard
and there's enough crumbs to feed a small family? Yeah.
That ever happen to you? Of course it has.
OK, now. Have a look!
This thing here sucks those crumbs.
Although I have googled Suckertron 3000.
Yeah? Ooh!
God!
It comes up some...
That looks like it smells!
Sarah, can you beat a mini vacuum?
So, from the age of about ten or 12, I've loved Phillip Schofield
and I had a lot of posters of him
and I took a photo of myself, of me in my bedroom,
with my perm and all of my posters of Phillip Schofield
and I sent it to him, presumably for him to keep.
He sent it back.
This came through the post to Sarah.
Aww!
Whoa.
Shit's weird.
Look how pleased I am!
He's not on the, uh, crucifix, is he?
LAUGHTER
A true fan!
It's sort of so on the line between being quite sweet
and being terrifying.
This is very strong so far.
So far. Who's next? Fern.
I don't know if this is the best thing or the worst thing
but for years now my mum has been sending me
the most unbelievably ugly pants, uh, that I've ever seen.
Here are Fern's mum's pants.
My mum I believe was sending me these as some sort
of ch-chastity belt type thing.
Uh, and was there a note with them?
Uh, just, "This is a little present for you."
"Love, Mum."
Yeah.
John can you beat some, erm, special pants?
I've gone down the same route Sarah has.
OK. Nostalgia.
Yeah. My, uh, Dennis the Menace Fan Club
membership and badges.
Here it is. Sweet.
I'm surprised, John,
because I was a member of that as well.
But surely there's a significant gulf in our ages.
Yeah, two generations I had down. All right!
You know if you met a, uh, another member...
Which you just have.
..Yeah, so I say, "Ding," you say...
Dong!
Dong stood for Dennis Owns Naughty Gnasher.
Can't, I can't remember what Ding stood for!
"Dennis Is Never Good," is the ding one. Ah.
Yeah. That's really sweet, John,
and very clever cos you've tapped into my childhood as well.
Um, Dara.
I brought a thing that shouldn't be sent in the post,
uh, which is an entire turkey.
Here it is.
LAUGHTER
Wow!
My mother's cousins lived in County Mayo, they had a farm,
uh, and every Christmas they would send us
the turkey we ate at Christmas.
This was full turkey,
head squeezed in, box just wrapped around it,
misshapen. You'd pop it up, like, whatever, "Bwark!"
Uh, and it would appear.
Proper pre-butcher turkey in the post.
And we had to collect it from the post depot
every year round about mid-December.
Yeah, someone's gonna win that tonight.
It's best thing to receive through the post, Greg.
What's the worst thing to receive through the post?
I mean probably the worst thing to receive,
and I think she'd agree with me, is Fern's mum's pants.
Don't, but don't keep saying "Mum's pants" cos she might be upset
when this goes out!
You're only getting one point and she's gonna be angry anyway.
What?! I'm only getting one? It's the best thing.
Oh, yeah. I see. The competition was the best thing.
Yeah, yeah. Right so one point to Fern Brady.
I mean in many ways it's the thing that makes my heart sing the most.
But I also think it's awful to get a turkey through the post.
It's not the best thing.
It was at Christmas. I'm not suggesting for a second
that your Christmases weren't heartbreaking, Dara.
OK, so two points to Dara O Briain.
He tapped into my childhood.
We crossed the generations like the true Ding-Dongers we are.
I'll give him three points. OK, three points to John Kearns.
Yeah, yeah. Well done. So, it's the top two now. Munya or Sarah.
Let me tell you - my keyboard looks like a war zone.
But I'm only gonna give it four points. Oh.
Obviously the best thing to get through the post is
a picture of Sarah Millican surrounded by Philip Schofields.
Everyone knows that. There it is, five points.
Five points. Well done, Sarah Millican.
What's first, please?
Mmm-mmm...mmmilk!
Hello. Hello, Munya.
Oh. I love milk!
Microwaves on plinths.
Milk on microwaves.
Oh, what we having for tea?
Bread.
Peas.
Yes, there's five minutes to go on that.
And there is just a minute
to go on what appears to be just bread.
Is this just your lunch? There's a lot of peas
for one person. I would worry about your guts.
Do you like peas?
Erm, I don't like milky peas.
And there's a little bowl there as well. Yeah.
So stuff's gotta get mixed. Stuff's gotta get mixed.
Shall I open my task?
I wouldn't open it yet.
OK. Mm-hm.
I wouldn't open it yet.
I wouldn't open it yet if I were you. No?
I wouldn't open it just yet.
Why? I'm just saying I wouldn't open it yet.
I should open this because, you know, this thing's counting down.
Yeah. And you just said, "Well, I wouldn't if I were you," kind of...
I wouldn't if I were you. But that's the kind of thing where it'll get
to two minutes and you go, "Why didn't you open it?" Mm-hm.
So I'm not allowed to look at this yet?
You're allowed to look at that whenever you want.
You said no, though. You're allowed to.
I just said I wouldn't if I were you.
Why? I know what's in it.
Let me ask you, er, Sarah, uh, all of you,
how does it make you feel when Alex does something like that?
What emotional response?
No, no, I'm, I'm sorry are we doing therapy now? Uh...
Just wondering how it makes you feel about Alex, that's all.
I feel powerless. Uh, I feel...
SARAH HONKS WITH LAUGHTER
Come on, milky peas.
Ooh, I've got a nickname.
Well, we're gonna begin by standing firm with John and Fern.
Well, when do I open it?
Whenever you want.
Wouldn't open it yet if I were you. Yeah, but you're not me.
What's your name? John.
Star sign? Kearns.
Really? What did you ask me?
Star sign.
Oh! Well, people usually go "First name...
Right.
..then they go, "last name".
Right. Aries.
Hmm.
28 minutes.
Place of birth?
St Thomas' Hospital.
Are you opening it? Do you want me to open it?
I wouldn't open it. But why are you saying that?!
What's your star sign?
Gemini.
How high can you jump?
Ooh.
A foot?
PING!
Ah, bread's ready.
What's with all the questions?
Who's your favourite singer, John? Uh, Rufus Wainwright.
Yuk.
Ah.
Got more questions if you want them. Yeah, go on, then.
Phobias? No, nothing.
Biggest regret? I'm not gonna say
I live my life without regrets but I tend not to dwell on them.
Just give me a regret.
I don't really have any but I'm not one of these kind
of people that doesn't have regrets.
So you do have regrets. I've got regrets, yeah.
Right, what's your biggest one?
Fuck this. You been to Greece? No, no, you're mad. Huh?
Have you been to Greece? No. All right.
Within 30 seconds of opening this task...
You must pick up both milk bottles
and hold them directly above the microwaves.
The clock stops when a milk bottle, hand...
Or arm... BOTH: Touches the microwave.
Or is no longer directly above a microwave.
Lowest number on the clock wins
but if the clock reaches zero you're disqualified.
I'm a strong boy.
I'm not joking. I've had a shoulder injury recently that,
er, and I cannae... Mm.
You can put...there we go. Thank you.
Few regrets now. Mm-hm.
Well, I tried to warn you.
Um...
It's just struck the microwave there so I'll stop the clock.
That's why I didn't want you to open the task.
Why?
Well, so the clock would go down more.
Oh, so it's OK, so I'm... Someone might do worse.
Yeah, someone might do worse. OK. OK, bye!
I quote John during the actual task - "Fuck this!"
Cos he kept asking me my biggest regret.
You don't have regrets.
Although you're not someone who DOESN'T have regrets.
I've got regrets, we've all got regrets.
We've all got regrets. But I don't live with them.
So where are they?
Oh, they're up there.
But I don't go there.
You shut the door. Oh, they're high, they're top shelf.
They're top shelf. You can't reach them.
Oh, they're too... You can't get to them!
Uh... I, I can't get to my regrets!
Fern, enjoy that task?
No, like, I did have a shoulder injury.
How'd you injure your shoulder?
I went to the gym
and then I was trying to compete with the man next to me.
Do you regret the whole thing down the gym or not?
Yeah, uh, I, I do really regret it!
It really messed me up for ages
and then meant I messed up that task.
Well, maybe take that regret and pop it in John's mind shelf!
All right, it's the end of part one.
We're gonna have a break while you have
a conversation about doing an online food shop.
You used to make love, so make love, now!
He'll time you! Go!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Hello, again! welcome back to Taskmaster.
It's part two and there's a lab-based task in play.
Yes, and it's a fiendish one.
Next up it's Dairy Dara,
Sarah Milkycan and Milkman Munya. here we go.
What's your star sign?
Uh... Aquarius.
I've got more questions. I bet you do.
What's your name? Sarah.
Sarah...? Millican.
How high can you jump, or what's the highest you've ever jumped?
Just little. Like, the size of a mouse.
What's your name?
no, I'm not playing. Let, let me, let me check this.
Within 30 seconds of opening this task you must...
"Pick up both milk bottles and hold them directly above the microwaves."
Any opinions on milk?
Gives me the shits.
How much do you need to have?
I wouldn't want THAT amount.
That's six pints.
Might as well just pour it straight through. Um...
Well, Jesus, "but as the clock reaches zero you are disqualified."
Oh, well, you've...
Wait, what?
Hang on, what? Wait. Wait, what?
Lift them above the microwaves, ready?
Right, OK.
BREATHES DEEPLY
MICROWAVE DINGS Yes.
Well done. You see that? Yeah.
Gotta keep my biceps contracted.
Like a constipated eagle.
MICROWAVE DINGS Oh.
It's exciting, isn't it, even after all these years?
Isn't it exciting when a microwave pings?
Wait, what, what, what clock?
Have I, have I stopped? Yeah, you stopped.
Yeah, you put the milk bottles on the microwave. Oh, no!
Arse.
Oh, you know what? We're gonna do it.
Uh, hold them up.
Ooh, I need to lift them up like that. This is heavy.
Yeah.
Shoulders are starting to hurt a bit.
Could technically raise my arms.
Yes, you must be over the, directly over the microwaves still.
I don't know if this is more difficult or easier.
It's impressive.
Ah.
How long have I been doing this?
Three minutes.
At no point did you say they had to be full though, did you?
Take that off. Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was tempted to throw it on you.
AUDIENCE WHOOPS, APPLAUSE
Sorry, everybody.
Ah, like a milky torture.
Ooh.
That's it, milk just got the microwave.
Yeah.
Well, now that's just touched there I'm afraid. Oh, has it?
Yeah, so that's enough.
Oh, no. Look at my boots.
No, look at the floor, Sarah.
Oh, I should've tipped them out before.
I could've brought that to you.
Sorry, everybody.
APPLAUSE
To drain the milky vessels.
Mm. Very clever. Very clever.
I felt, I didn't wanna make a mess
and I felt really bad I made such a mess.
Throughout the series whenever,
when Munya, when you came into the lab, every time he went,
"It stinks in here". Oh.
Throughout the series. That's her.
Uh, and if you,
if you think that's bad you should go round to Dara's at Christmas.
So they cleaned and there was a pocket they couldn't find
cos it still stank and then eventually it was found.
It...it was under the flooring.
Millican's milky pocket.
Now stark contrast,
get a bit confused, old man?
That has haunted me, that task.
And it is on a low rung of the regret shelves. Uh...
Oh, one you can easily access.
Oh, it's eye level. It is absolutely eye level.
But much like on a summer's day if you wandering through a meadow
and you might just catch a beautiful butterfly.
We've caught the moment where Dara realised
that he's totally fucked this.
Wait, what?
Hang on, what? Wait.
Wait, what?
Yes.
So it's "wait, what?" Yes. "What? Wait. Wait, what?" "Wait, what?"
Uh, yeah.
Munya does everything with absolute commitment.
It's incredible.
I imagine you clean your teeth like let's do, let's do this.
In my mind I felt like Moses and the Red Sea.
Know what I mean, just holding the milk.
Fricking, the microwave is blowing that's Jesus whispering to me.
Honestly it, it, I had a vision.
Well, yeah, I mean, Sarah did it well in every single way.
She, she delayed the most with the questions
and then she found a technique so she did well.
Lowest number wins. Dara, unfortunately, comes last.
26 minutes 55.
Fern gets two points with 26 minutes and four seconds.
Then Munya who held them up for over four minutes, which is amazing.
They're, each one is the weight of a chihuahua, genuinely.
Uh, 25 minutes and four seconds.
John held out longer than you, though.
23 minutes and 30 seconds. Sarah wins it, though,
with 16 minutes and 58 seconds and five points.
Wow.
CHEERING, APPLAUSE
Right, scoreboard, please.
Well, I can tell you Dara and Fern are in joint last,
John and Munya in joint second.
Sarah, though, is in the lead with ten points.
Well, I, for one, am ready for another.
Oh, well, I'm ready for a holiday.
Hello. What's on your iPad?
Oh, Fern Brady.
Is that you?
Uh, that's me, yeah.
Dara O Briain?
Yes, that's me.
I'm waiting for Munya Chawawa.
Yes, that's me, you even spelt my name right. Sick.
Hello. Welcome home. Is this your suitcase?
No, that's your suitcase.
Oh, no.
Where are we off to today?
"Get to the end of the lanes in exactly the same amount of time."
One lane, two lanes.
"That time must be under one minute."
"Closest two times wins."
"Also, you must mirror yourself during your attempts."
"There are two bonus points for the most stylish mirroring."
Mirroring.
Mirror-ing.
"Both attempts must take place within the next ten minutes."
This is lane one, there... Yeah.
..on the flat. Yeah.
This is lane two, it's a travelator. Yeah.
And you wanna reach to the ends of them at exactly the same time.
I can tell you, if you were stationary on that... Yes.
..takes about one minute 25.
The time I do it in must be under a minute,
so I cannot be stationary on it.
Hmm, sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.
Well, there's no, there's no point going quick on here
because that'll mean I have to go double quick there.
Can you go double quick?
Greg will give style points to the most stylish people.
From Greg?
Style points from Greg.
APPLAUSE
Right, it's a pretty straightforward thing.
just a personal note, I absolutely love those things.
I genuinely could ride one of those all day.
It's not that interesting, but I'm, I'm never more at peace.
Shall I show them what they did?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, have a look at them, yeah.
First up it's Sarah and Sarah.
Good luck. Thank you.
WHISTLE BLOWS
CHEERING, APPLAUSE
Well, it was very accurate.
Thank you. It says do it stylishly.
I had a nice coat on.
She had a nice coat.
APPLAUSE
Who's next? Next, here's what the Daras did.
CHEERING, APPLAUSE
Quite a 70's Soviet vibe you went for.
Really wasn't that image that was in my head for that.
Uh, that was applied retrospectively. Uh...
LAUGHS
Now it's time for Kearns' turn.
APPLAUSE
I mean, pretty impressive, John.
I don't think you'd expect me to skip like that.
C...correct.
That's quite Willy Wonka vibe you had going on, I thought.
Yeah, I'm, I'm faster than I look.
I'll make a note, I'll make a note. Yeah.
You make a note. "John is faster than he looks."
Oh, well, I'll have to go into notes.
We're at the halfway point of this episode.
We've reached the top of the hill. It's all downhill from here.
Whee!
Uh...
APPLAUSE, CHEERING
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Taskmaster.
Can you remind us where we were please, Alex?
Yes, we were at Gatwick airport, Greg.
The current task involves having two walks down two different lanes
and trying to get to the finish line at the same time,
mirroring your movement on each attempt.
The only problem is one of the walks is on a moving travelator.
Also,there are two bonus points for
the most stylish mirroring, mirroring, mirror-ing.
Talking of mirrors and styling, here is Munya.
Right, here we go, here we go.
So one, two, three, turn.
Wow.
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
Oh. 22.
Spin that round.
Drop it low.
Ah...
Ah.
What do you think?
Have you finished?
Yeah, yeah.
Quite a thing of beauty to watch, I thought. I was in awe. Yeah.
Dara. Um, did he ever cross the line?
Oh, we're like that, is it?
Oh, Dara, is this the man who held milk for a microsecond?
Microsecond.
Talking to me Mr Wait What Who What What What.
And you all had a big fucking party about that.
Hold me back, John, hold me back, hold me back.
It would seem monstrous to strip him of his points,
but I guess if that's what Dara wants.
Would you count that as the end of the walk, Greg,
I suppose is the question?
Yeah, that's, that's the big question, isn't it?
I think enough of that case is over the line, that's what I think.
Yeah... Yeah, Dara.
Who's left?
Well, finally it's Fern.
Ready...
Ready.
APPLAUSE, CHEERING
Sounds like you're a people's champion anyway.
You talk us through your performance, uh, Fern I, uh...
From my point of view, I've written down,
uh, "lacklustre and wildly inaccurate".
SOBBBING: I...I tried really hard.
I feel like I don't know what's real any more because...
..because, because at the time,
I kind of thought that there was some airport staff
and they were looking at me funny.
But I thought, "Oh, they're just really jealous of my costume".
I didn't know it was that bad.
Unfortunately, Fern, on one side of
the path she did it in 29 seconds,
the other in 45 seconds, so there was a 16-second difference.
In comparison, the two Daras had a four-second difference,
the two Munyas a three-second difference,
the two Johns half a second difference.
Sarah negligible difference at all.
Wow. So Sarah definitely gets the five points.
Oh.
Between Munya and John for the style points.
It's most stylish mirroring.
I think one style point is fair.
One bonus style point to Munya and one to John.
OK.
I'd like another little task, please.
Good, well, here's a lovely little task
where they wear some lovely little messy hats.
Hello. Oh, hi there.
Chri...
Hello, Dara.
FERN: Hello, do you like this?
I think so.
And, actually, before you open it, I just need to do something.
Wait one second.
What you doing?
Nothing. What you doing? Nothing.
Oh, no.
Here it comes.
DARA: What are you doing? FERN: What are you doing?
PAINT SQUIRTS Nothing.MUNYA:That's just rude.
You're really pushing me today, Alex, you know this?
Did you just pour paint in my hat?
Yes.
Oh.
May I ask what you're doing?
No. Oh, right.
Thanks, buddy.
You haven't made me... Wow.
Yeah.
DARA: "Strike the bullseye with your paint."
SARAH: The bullseye must be round there, then. OK.
MUNYA: "You must only step on the stepping stones
"and you must step on all the stepping stones."
You're, wait, what? No. Oh, Jesus.
"Also, your hands must be below your waist at all times."
"Fastest wins. Your time starts now."
APPLAUSE
Interesting, um, reaction from Dara after he'd spilt
a little paint down his front when he was trying
to get his head 'round the task. Oh, do you wanna hear it? Yeah.
You're, wait, what? No.
LAUGHTER
Good, let's go. Yeah, so you've gotta hit the target with your paint.
You can only step on the stepping stones.
You must step on all the stepping stones.
Hands below the waist, off we go. First up it's Mun and Fun.
Munya and Fern.
Your time starts now.
OK, Alex, can you talk whilst I walk, yeah?
I think so.
What the hell? Alex. Yes?
Shit. OK, I need to go back. I need to get some more. Ah, sh...
You've put paint on the flag.
Oh...
Oh, no.
Right, we're back in this.
Argh!
Is there paint in my hair?
Would you like a shower cap? Yeah. Yeah.
Right, I'm in.
This is something I learnt... being a shot girl at uni.
I've done it! Yeah, I've stopped the clock.
I don't think of the other people I'm competing against often enough
so I'm thinking of them now, trying to think how I hate them.
Be careful on this bit.
Oops. Did you see that?
No.
Fuck's sake!
Ugh.
No, it's a bit further than that.
You're nearly there.
Ugh.
APPLAUSE
A bigger contrast between the two approaches
you couldn't possibly see.
No, I was trying very hard during that one,
but I'm not all, like, Munya, leaping about and stuff.
No, I wrote down, "Munya is an unnecessary action hero."
LAUGHTER
He does action hero moves when he could just step over something.
When I was at uni, I used to be in an American football team. Yeah?
And our motto was "speed and violence",
so basically what that means is everything you do in life,
speed and violence.
What about, like, knitting?
Speed and violence!
I have a motto, er...
Oh, yeah.
It's in Latin, it's, er, "waitus, whatus?"
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Hmm, I mean, Munya was breathtaking to watch.
There was a tiny little speck of paint in the bull's-eye.
He did it in 1 minute 30. It was unbelievably quick.
Yeah, but I thought that Fern was breathtaking to watch as well.
Yes, yes.
What did she do it in?
Uh, five-and-a-half minutes.
Come on let's crack on.
All right, well there's two more people now
and I've fudged their names together to make Sarah MilliKearns.
Sarah and John.
So hands below your waist.
Hands. Can that not do for balance?
Yeah, that's perfect. That's a bit unfair.
Did you wanna check the task? Yeah.
Well, you can only step on stepping stones.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Oh, no.
Oh, you're kidding me!
Yeah, right.
I mean, yeah, I knew it.
Ooh, bugger.
I mean, I've gone from there to there!
I mean, it's madness, how far I've gone.
Hold on.
Ah, you're reversing.
Right, you've just got to stretch, ain't you?
Ah, well done, John.
Yeah.
How high is my camera?
Oh, I've got paint on my..!
You're through. Oh.
Ah...
HE EXHALES
Right.
Bull's-eye.
Is there one on the bull's-eye?
Yeah. Yeah.
Whoa. Yeah.
The contrast with John was sensational.
It's literally like watching an alien pretend to be human.
Significantly worse than Fern.
Yes, eight minutes and three seconds.
Eight minutes?
Eight minutes and three seconds, yes. Christ, what was I doing?
Fern's now looking pretty good,
especially because we can see a picture of Sarah's hands,
er, just slightly above her waist.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, yeah, fair enough, they are a little bit...
I had very high-waisted trousers on there.
And sadly I do have to show you this photo as well, Greg, this one here.
Yeah.
I do have to show you one other thing as well, which is this.
Oh, no.
Step on all the stepping stones.
Yeah.
Got to speed this up.
Shall I go in here?
All the information's on the task, Munya.
You must step on all the stepping stones.
You're labouring that a bit.
You put paint on the flag.
Yeah, OK.
I need this.
Right, OK.
Right, we're back in this.
We're back in.
APPLAUSE
They're dropping like flies!
I tried to warn them. I tried to help.
Just sounded like you were being really monotonous.
And I just sort of tuned you out.
Sorry, Alex. "All of them, please, all of them, please."
It's like a bored bloke operating a funfair ride.
It's the end of part three
and we're another step closer to someone being poisoned
by Dara O Briain's raw turkey.
APPLAUSE
Hello, welcome back to Taskmaster.
It's part four of four.
Yes, and there are four losers over there who failed in obeying
the simple instructions to step on all the stepping stones.
Hands below their waists before striking the target with the paint.
It's such a shame.
Thankfully, there is still one ray of hope,
but his name isn't Ray O Hope - it's Dara O Briain.
Ray O Hope!
Only stepping stones.
OK.
Lovely.
Wait, what?
Jesus.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
All right, that should be enough for now.
Ah, right.
Oh, bull's-eye!
I've stopped the clock.
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That's got to make up for some of the
other things in this episode, hasn't it?
Wait, what?
"Wait, what?" aside, exemplary work.
Thank you. How are you feeling now, though?
Ah, there's this faint chink of light.
Er... I'm just waiting for the shoe to drop.
Waiting for you to go, "But then..."
Come on, stop waiting for the shoe to drop.
No, it was great. Yeah, it was great.
Do you wanna see his best bits cos he was so graceful?
Oh, yeah, that'd be nice.
OK. Here's Dara's best bits. Yeah.
How much paint do I have now?
Shoe.
That seems a little harsh.
I think it's awful, Dara.
It's an awful way to end, but that's Taskmaster.
Mm-hm. He would've been quick. 4 minutes 45. I mean, not...
Oh, it's quick as well.
Yeah, not as quick as Munya, of course, 1 minute 30,
but nobody completed the task.
So nobody gets a point.
GROANING
Is there any point in looking at the scores after that?
Probably not, but let's do it anyway.
She's in the lead with 15 points, it's Sarah Millican.
Hey!
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OK, everyone, before you head up to the stage, Alex has
a very important question for you.
Yes, I do.
I'll start with you, Dara. Inches or feet?
Inches.
Fern, inches or feet?
Feet.
John. Feet.
Munya. Feet.
And then, finally, Sarah Millican.
Inches. Thank you.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Good. Please make your way to the stage
for the final task of the show!
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They got what they wanted.
I don't know what's more heartbreaking, short or long.
Who's going to read the task, Alex?
John is going to read the task.
All right, John.
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"Paint a picture of a unicorn using your head brush.
"You may not handle your head brush at any point.
"You have two minutes."
That's it - paint a picture of a unicorn.
Would you like them to paint a specific unicorn?
I'd like him to be prancing.
You have two minutes starting...
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AUDIENCE: Five, four, three, two, one!
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WHISTLE BLOWS
OK, please step back on your circles.
Show me them prancers.
We're going to start with Dara O Briain.
The short brush has got to be an advantage, surely?
Is it, though? Is it?
Oh...
Oh!
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That is one jaunty prancer.
Hello, Fern. Hello.
Here we go!
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Which end's which?
Well! Well, it's got a horn coming out with some green
and different colours and... Oh, yeah.
What I see is two fences, a big orange and a pepper.
Hello, John. Hi, hi.
Going to regret this?
Yeah, cool.
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You know where the horn is, though, at least.
I know where the big red line is.
It's next to the four green lines.
Not bad, not bad.
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"Not bad"? It looks like a long-legged lobster.
But at least it looks like a creature.
And, finally, hello, Sarah. Hi.
Oh.
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Lovely.
I tried to show movement, but that just ended up as flowers.
It looks like Troy's horse.
It's a powerful beast. Thanks.
Oh! So you lot chose inches.
Greg, you need to judge these right now.
OK, well, I'm giving John Kearns
one point because he's done a series of lines.
One point to John.
I'm giving two points to a woman who's drawn two fences,
a pepper and an orange. Fern Brady.
I'm giving three points to the long-legged lobster.
Congratulations, Munya.
I'm giving four points to the majestic horse of Troy, being as it
is standing in twilight, waiting,
but there's only one unicorn prancing in that row.
Bam - Dara O Briain takes the five points. Well done, Dara.
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Come down, let's see how that's affected the final scores.
Well, well, well. Exactly.
Yeah. Yeah, I think we've learnt a lot there.
Oh, God, we have.
Much easier to have a six-inch paintbrush
than a six foot paintbrush.
Strapped to your head. Yeah. Yeah.
And I guess that's why that's what size they normally are.
LAUGHTER
Well, it has been a...
..a one-unicorn race.
With 19 points, the winner is Sarah Millican!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Sarah wins! Please pop up to pocket your post.
Bye, everyone.
Before we go, please cheer one more time for today's winner,
Sarah Millican!
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