Brace, brace! I'm bracing.
LOUD CRASH
Hm.
No, no, no, no, no!
No!
Ahh!
What?!
This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, and welcome!
I'm Greg Davies, and this is Taskmaster.
In my quest to ensure the tasks we set are righteous challenges,
I have attempted to consult with many wise people of influence.
Ursula von der Leyen's people said
she was too busy to meet.
I discovered, to my great dismay,
that Nelson Mandela was no longer with us.
And the Dalai Lama was especially insistent he would not
grant me an audience.
It was left to '90s film star Steven Seagal to give me the advice
that became the foundation for the whole series.
In a 90-minute Zoom call, he only said two words.
"Break them."
Let's meet those about to be broken.
They are Frankie Boyle... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
...Ivo Graham... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
...Jenny Eclair... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
...Kiell Smith-Bynoe... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
...and Mae Martin! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And next to me, a man who told me he doesn't know much about politics,
but he thinks that poor people should "stop moaning and
"pull their flipping fingers out." It's...
HIGH-PITCHED: ..little Alex Horne!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Did I...did I say that?
Hello, everyone.
So... So, here we are. ...what we chatting about?
Well, I thought I might just answer a couple of the viewer's emails,
if that's all right? Yep.
They keep flooding in, these questions.
Thanks for your message, Maxine.
Yes, the iPad is real, it controls the screen,
and also the heating... in Greg's throne.
Er, Patricia, you win this week's cash prize, £40,
because you were the only one who correctly located my third nipple.
Well, you can see it if you want.
There.
And that's the end of my section. Yes!
APPLAUSE
Let's crack on with a prize task.
OK. Yes, please, on we go.
I can't bloody wait.
And for show three, they've each brought in what they think is
the most heroic thing. OK?
Greg's going to judge them,
and the most heroic thing should get 5 points -
as long as he doesn't go all whacky with his scoring.
9 points, no, 1 point.
I dunno, everyone can have 17 points.
He's a wonderful boss.
The winner of the episode will, of course, take home
all five heroic things.
Yowzers. LAUGHTER
Ivo, how are you?
I'm extremely well, and excited about this prize, if I may?
I've handcrafted a model of your face out of Hero's chocolates.
Yes. Looks like someone's got himself 5 sweet points, I'd say.
Let's have a look, then. I would have a look. Here it is.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
It's a pretty strong opener,
to have my face made out of chocolates.
Heroic. Heroic.
And you're my hero. Yeah.
AUDIENCE AWWS
Oh, no. Bit desperate, that. But you've gotta...
Gotta get everything you can,
before he starts talking to someone else.
Hello, Jenny. What have you brought in?
OK, the biggest hero in my life was my father, who's now dead,
so obviously, I get some points for that.
LAUGHTER Erm, and I've got some of his DNA.
I brought his DNA in.
Here it is. Jenny Eclair's father's DNA.
It's his hair.
Oh, God.
How the hell can I score a chocolate face above this?
It's an incredible prize task.
Thank you. Incredible.
In the truest sense of the word.
- Kiell. - OK, so... LAUGHTER
Actually, before that, if you do get a point
for dead dad, count me in.
LAUGHTER
Erm...
Is dead dad anything to do with this heroic task?
It can be, if it helps?
Do you want me to press the button? Yeah, yeah.
Right, Kiell's brought in this.
It's a cape made out of a sheep,
made out of Julio Iglesia's son's face.
And that's Enrique.
LAUGHTER
Unusual way of introducing Enrique Iglesias.
Talk about why this is heroic.
Erm, cos he can be our hero, baby.
Oh, it's quite a literal...
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Sometimes, the simple ideas come through and win. Mm-hm.
Sometimes. Sometimes.
Not always.
Who's next? Frankie, you all right?
I have brought in this superhero fan art.
OK. Deep breath. Ready?
It's Wolverine and Captain America...
LAUGHTER
...being heroic.
Fuckin' hell.
Why, er, is this heroic?
I know that they're literally heroes.
This is a huge step forward.
We've had a gay Superman from DC last year,
which I loved the idea of.
It's just that things have to be approached carefully
with a gay superhero. Yeah.
Cos if you got a blowjob off Superman,
he might suck you inside out. LAUGHTER
I don't think Frankie wants to be a part of this show any more.
I mean, there is a fair amount of fan fiction in this show anyway,
about you and I, Greg. Yeah, there is. D'you know that?
There's just lots of stories,
imagining Alex and I as lovers online.
Some of the titles are "I Want To Ruin Our Friendship"...
..."Filthy Little Ferret," "Tenderness,"
"Master of the Tasks"...
Hang on, let me just enjoy "Filthy Little Ferret."
LAUGHTER
Hello, Mae. Let's go.
A hero is somebody that looks out for the little guy,
you know what I mean? Yeah, I do.
So, with that in mind, I've created and designed
the Coward's Glasses.
Phew. This one's safe.
These are the Coward's Glasses.
Oh, thank God. Yeah, OK, so...
Let's say Ivo is on a date with a brave woman.
Your go-to coward. Yeah.
If ever you need a coward, here I am. Yeah.
So... or let's say he's, like, he's trying to impress his dad,
Frankie, by being tough in there, like, watching a football game
and he's scared someone's going to get injured,
and you want to close your eyes -
you flip down the glasses... Like this.
LAUGHTER
Nobody can tell that you're a coward.
Everyone can tell.
All right, you have to judge now, Greg.
I'll go from the top to the bottom. I think you should. Right.
HE LAUGHS
Erm, obviously Jenny's father, RIP, gets 5 points.
5 points for Jenny Eclair. Yes!
CHEERING Good work.
Now, then.
Let's put the hero sculpture above the...
...above Wolverine.
Oh, right, so 4 points to Ivo, 3 to Frankie.
Yeah, that's correct.
- Yep. - Yeah. APPLAUSE
So, it's just between the glasses...
HE LAUGHS
...and that shit cape. Right.
LAUGHTER
I don't think mine's that shit.
I don't think mine's that shit, and I designed them myself.
You didn't make that cape.
I think you did make those glasses.
I did.
2 points to Mae, 1 point to Kiell.
What?! It's done, there you go.
APPLAUSE
Let's have a task.
You did really well, Greg. Thank you, good boy.
And if you maintain a herb garden, this one's for you -
because it involves some careful and dedicated "thyme-keeping".
Oh, get fucked, mate. Cos it's a pun on "time".
Hi. Hello, Mae. Hello.
Have fun in my house. Thank you.
Kiell. All right?
You may enter my fun palace.
Sick.
Oh-ho, it's damp in here, innit, hey? Hey? Damp!
Do you like it? It's very nice.
"Exit the caravan exactly 20 minutes after you entered the caravan.
"Also, to complete the task,
"you must write down and say 40 words.
"Each word must either be the same length,
"or shorter than the previous word.
"Closest to exactly 20 minutes wins."
When do we go, when do we start?
It started when you entered the damp caravan.
Oh, what?! It's started already?
Is this a minute? Are these minutes? Oh, I don't know.
The problem is, while you're working out your method,
time is passing in exactly.
It's doing its best.
APPLAUSE
I think it's pretty straightforward, so I'm quite keen to crack on.
Shall we? Yes, and up first, it's the two people
for whom time moves quickest,
because they are older than the others. That's...
LAUGHTER I knew that was coming.
It's Jenny and Frankie, of course. Here we go.
Well, having been a stand-up comedian for a lot of years
where we worked in 20-minute sets,
maybe I know what 20 minutes is.
So, I'm going to trust my internal clock for that,
and I'm going to find a pen.
Right, I'm going to concentrate on the words. So, 40 words.
You're concentrating on that, rather than the time? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm trying to think of the 20-minute stand-up set.
Oh, that's a good idea.
"Progression." I've gone for it at the top, so that's...11.
What's your first word there, Jenny?
"Imagination." Lovely.
"Progressive" is also 11.
I just thought of something.
Where does it say it can't be the same word?
It could be the same word done 40 times.
How long have you been in the caravan?
I reckon five minutes.
AUDIENCE OOHS
Which word are you going to write down 40 times?
Well, I like "imagination".
It's slightly ironic, writing imagination 40 times. Yeah, I know!
How many words have we done?
Nine. Nine, OK.
I suppose the real worry is this is going to take
a lot longer than 20 minutes.
How much time have I got left?
How much time do you think you've got left? About 12 minutes.
Can I check how long you've been in the caravan for?
I reckon I've been here about nine minutes.
AUDIENCE GASPS
The crowd are just starting to turn ugly.
That'll be nine minutes, then, yeah.
How much time have I got left?
How much time have you got left? You asking me again? Yeah.
Right, no, I still can't tell you.
I thought I might catch you off guard.
Always on guard.
This isn't working, is it? Well, it's indoors.
Oh, does that make any difference?
I'll do the 40 words now.
Imagination, imagination, imagination.
Imagination, imagination, imagination...
Jolly, lolly, sorry, silly, welly...
I thought about not going from "silly" to "willy".
I tried to stop myself, but I circled back.
Imagination, imagination...
Lamp, rams, ram, no...
Imagination, imagination,
broken.
Powerful.
Right, that's either 20-ish, or I've... panicked at 17.
I reckon I've done 20 minutes.
OK. I think that that's a 20-minute set at the Bear Cat Club, 1993.
"Thank you very much! Let's hear it, Jenny Eclair! Yeah!"
I think I might've done half an hour.
I've always outstayed my welcome.
I disagree. I'm very sorry.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
APPLAUSE
It's quite a big thing in the world of stand-up,
getting the 20 minutes right.
And it would appear at least one person's internal clock
is bang-on still.
Yeah, neither of them used any of the time-keeping devices that we...
I didn't even notice that there were any there.
No, you didn't, no. You didn't need them.
It's sort of terrifying, how accurate you are.
He walked out on 23 minutes, 21.
It's not bad.
APPLAUSE
What about Jenny Eclair at the Bear Cat, circa 1993?
Yes, well, she feared the worst - she feared she'd done half an hour.
In fact, it was ten minutes 57.
LAUGHTER No!
No, is that all?! Ten minutes. Is that all I did?
Just over. I got bored of myself, didn't I?
Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh.
At last, time for a little breather.
Lovely. Bye!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello, everybody!
Welcome to the second part of the show, where the cast are trying
to leave the caravan after exactly 20 minutes, with no obvious way
to keep track of the passing time.
They also need to write down and say 40 words,
and that each word must either be the same length or shorter
than the previous word.
It's time for Mae and Kiell.
No idea how to use one of them.
Ooh. That's interesting.
That leads me to believe there may be a...
...clock hidden somewhere.
Oh!
What have you got there? Little mirror.
Maybe I can see something from here.
Uh-huh. What're you looking at?
Not much. You?
Can I step in the sink? Yeah, you can step in the sink.
Oh, yeah!
So, right now, it's 1.31. Right.
So, when that long hand is about here.
Is that how clocks work?
"Same length or shorter."
What, in letters or syllables?
Oh, it's up to you I suppose.
You know what I could do? Look in a book.
I could look in a - if there's a book around.
Yeah, there are books around. They're full of words.
Licentiousness... licentiousness.
How many letters has the word "balloon" got?
Is this a joke?
"Misanthropic."
"Profiteroles."
19, 20 - I have to pick it up, but I'm going to check on the time.
We're going up, are we? Yep.
Uh-oh.
It's not moving.
The clock's not moving.
Clock's not moving? No!
Right.
Really annoyed that cameraman just took his watch off.
That's going to cause some problems.
Did you spot a cameraman's watch?
Yeah.
It's gone now.
Don't come now!
You've ruined it.
Great.
What happens now?
I think I've been in here about 20 minutes, I really do think so.
I've got to write some more words down fast, and then,
I'll get out of here, I think.
"Outrageous" - I'm writing.
Oh, right.
"Humiliate."
40 words.
"Vile." Oh, this is taking too long.
Crest, cross, point, course, badge.
Stop the clock, please.
Get me out of here!
Thank you, Kiell.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE
How does it make you feel that Alex would mount a clock that
doesn't work on the roof of the caravan?
Ah, now I need to point out here the clock was working,
but it rained during May 10th, and then, stopped working.
Oh! I thought it was one of your sneaky things that makes you go
all fizzy under your duvet.
I-I was outraged. Yeah.
Shall I tell you how long they spent in the caravan?
Tell me how long they spent in the caravan.
OK, well, remember that Frankie was just over 23 minutes. Yeah.
Kiell, 24 minutes, 20. Mm!
Mae left the caravan in 19 minutes and 48 seconds.
APPLAUSE
That is a tight set.
Next, it's Ivo.
So, let's say we've had 80 seconds.
Probably had two minutes now.
Broken the skull.
LOUD CLATTERING
What are you doing?
I'm looking for something that measures time in the caravan.
Oh, OK.
I reckon I've had three minutes now.
Oh, I can just work out what unit of time one of these is.
Of course. One Mississippi.
Two Mississippi. Three Mississippi.
Eight Mississippi.
40 Mississippi.
21 Mississippi.
25 Mississippi.
48 Mississippi. It looks like it's a minute.
Right, so that's a minute.
I could check it again.
Let's see if it's a set of multicoloured, er,
one-minute egg timers.
One Mississippi. Two Mississippi.
30 Mississippi.
40 Mississippi.
35 Mississippi.
39 Mississippi.
Er...40 Mississippi.
Erm, 41 Mississippi.
42 Mississippi.
That's only 45 seconds.
These one's are still going.
There are ways of working this out.
Maybe that is a minute.
I can't put you through the Mississippi again.
I-I've lost count.
I was doing a silent round of Mississippis.
There's a clock on the roof!
It's not making it easier.
We're getting quite close to exiting the caravan.
Excuse me! What's the time?
25 past!
25 past five! Thank you!
So, at 13 minutes into the task, it was 5.25.
So, the task will finish at 5.32.
Better get on with these words, though.
"Establishment."
"Establishing."
That's a minute.
"Task. Top. Sit."
That's another minute.
"Pest. Post."
Argh!
That's 40.
Excuse me! What's the exact time, please?
5.30! Thank you.
We'll just have one more of those, I think.
Nearly there.
It's now 5.32. It's been 20 minutes.
I think it went brilliantly.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Sometimes, confidence is all it takes, isn't it?
Erm, with the wisdom of hindsight,
do you regret the Mississippi system?
Yes. Obviously quite galling to watch four videos of
the other contestants not using the egg timers at all...
...knowing quite how emotionally dependant on them I became.
LAUGHTER
But then, you very cleverly opted for screaming at golfers?
Screaming at golfers.
He thinks it went brilliantly.
He does. You know what? I agree.
What? It did go pretty brilliantly.
Mae, of course, 19.48
Frankie, 23.21.
Ivo, 23.17.
AUDIENCE GASPS - It's not bad. - Oh!
But you lead him to believe he'd won.
I did but, that's partly because there's a little bit of extra admin.
I looked at the word length again for some of the contestants. Yeah.
I've gotta show you this.
Each word had to be the same length or shorter than the previous.
I don't need this.
Egg, wet, cat, dog, hat...
AUDIENCE OOHS
Also, Kiell only did 39 words.
So... LAUGHTER
On a number of counts, Kiell is out.
Mae, interestingly, went for the length of word
by syllable, not letters. Yes.
"Humiliate" is definitely longer than "outrageous".
I can't believe that's the word, too. Yeah.
You guys don't know how you pronounce that word in Canada.
Ah. How do you pronounce it in Canada?
With a letter missing?
Is it like aluminium?
It's like hoom-liate.
Is Kiell going to defend his 39 words, including "mice"
being shorter than "vet"? HE SIGHS
Well, it is in height.
LAUGHTER
What it does incredibly mean is that Jenny,
with ten minutes, gets 3 points.
0 to Mae, 0 to Kiell. Frankie gets 4,
but Ivo wins the task, and 5 points!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Erm, I'd like a scoreboard, please, Alex. 'Course you would.
Er, Kiell is weirdly on just 1 point after two tasks.
Ivo on 9! He's in the lead. There we go. Wow.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
More tasks, please!
Right. Belt up, Greg, here we go.
Hello, Alex.
Hello, Ivo.
Hello, Frankie. Hiya.
Hello, Mae. Please stand in the dangerous hole.
Lovely.
Whoa! Got ya.
Oh, this is very exciting.
It's, sort of, industrial chic, isn't it?
Yes, it's very dangerous. Oh, wow.
Oh, my goodness.
Yep, it's so dangerous, you have to wear this potato hat.
OK, OK. Right.
Based on my knowledge of my head, this isn't going to fit.
How's it look? Oh, it looks tremendous.
Thank you.
Look, there's spuds and little animals.
I don't think I've seen you this excited before.
I find this terribly thrilling, I really do.
Would you like me to read this? Yes.
"Catch the potatoes in the potato hat.
"You must be sitting on the catching stool wearing your potato hat,
"and you must not touch anything at any point."
Not touch anything?
"And you must not touch anything at any point."
"Anything in your hat that is not a potato will be subtracted
"from your potato total.
"Anything in your hat that is not a potato will be subtracted
"from your potato total.
"Highest potato total..."
Potat-otal.
"Highest potat-otal wins.
"The conveyor belt will start moving in three minutes from now."
OK. Fuck!
Oh, this sounds brilliant.
I'll be so bad at this.
Who, of our five, do you think would most likely wear
the potato hat anyway? In free time?
Er, after three? One, two, three.
Jenny Eclair.
LAUGHTER
It was one of the best moments of my life, this next task.
IÐI just thought it was great.
I can't recommend it enough.
Set one up at home. God, what a laugh.
Come on, then, let's see these potato-hatted goons.
All right. First of the goons, it's Jenny, Frankie, and Kiell.
Now, then, I've got three minutes to, sort of, think about this.
I see, I should memorise the order.
Not potato, two potato, not... oh.
Not, hot, hot, not, not, not, hot.
Potato, potato...
Miss three.
And then, I go not, pot, pot, not, not, pot, not.
Would I be allowed a piece of paper and a pencil?
If you'd like that.
I got a pen, or something.
Not, pot, pot, not, not, pot, pot.
Potato, potato, not, not, not.
Turning it on in 30 seconds.
Okey doke.
This is terribly exciting.
I want to miss the first one, so I'm leaning out.
Once that goes, I'll spring into action. OK.
I'm going to turn on the machine in five seconds, Kiell.
Yep. Pot, pot...
Good luck. Thank you.
And here we go.
Ah!
Here comes the one to miss. Where is it?
He's hit me.
First one's not!
Pot. Pot.
Oh, I fucking...
They're not going in the fucking hat!
Ah, God!
Ahh!
SHE LAUGHS
Pretty much the potatoes are the only thing that don't go in the hat.
Not! Argh, that is!
That's a not, and now, these two are.
Where are we in your sequence?
I might wet myself!
I don't think I've had so much fun in years.
Pot. Oh, another one?
Oh, shit!
Ah, gosh! What's all that?
Do you still remember the pattern, Kiell?
Yeah, but, like, it's finished now.
It might repeat.
Repeat?!
There's a lot of stuff there.
Does it keep going even after what I saw? I see.
No, I didn't want that one!
Oh, God. There! That felt potatoey.
I don't want to catch the last two.
I'm just happy to have some stuff in the hat, at this stage.
How's the system?
The system is that.
Oh, that hurt.
Oh, no, that was light! I don't want that.
Shake it out, shake it out.
Oh-ho!
And that was the last one. Hm.
Finished! Thank you very much, Kiell. Thank you.
Would you mind giving me your potato hat back?
Slightly disappointing tally.
Oh, man.
I mean, you could pretty much eat that. That's gone well.
Cheeky, that.
Very cheeky.
LAUGHTER
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I mean, I honestly don't know where to start, really.
I mean, it was a collective disaster.
Erm, Kiell, how confident were you at the not-pot-pot system?
I was like, "I've smashed this,"
and I was confident that no-one else would've thought of that process.
And indeed, they didn't.
And before I sat down, I was like, "I've won."
LAUGHTER
None of them banked on the pattern repeating.
We didn't warn them of that, and that was a sneaky trick.
But it did repeat exactly, so if you'd stuck to your
pot-pot-not-pot-pot system,
you could've reclaimed glory.
Yeah, now you tell me. Right.
OK, well, Frankie, who just ended up loading his hat full of everything,
21 potatoes and 23 animals.
HE LAUGHS
Potat-otal of -2.
APPLAUSE Ohh, well done, Frankie.
Positive potat-otals for the other two.
Er, Kiell, 22 potatoes, 19 not-atoes.
Jenny, ten potatoes, six not-atoes
so Jenny, 4, Kiell, 3, Frankie, -2 at this stage.
Oh, God, it's tense. Well-played! Well-played. It's very tense.
APPLAUSE
Serious stuff.
Right, break time.
You - get off that sofa, drop to the floor, and give me ten.
You've let yourself go, look at the state of that dressing gown.
Is it any wonder she suggested separate rooms?
It's got nothing to do with your snoring!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello! Welcome back again.
I guess it's the start of part three, then.
You guess right! Congratulations, Greg.
Before the break, they were trying to catch as many potatoes
as possible in their potato hat.
Any non-potato counts against the potat-otal.
Three have been, and sure, they gave it a go,
but now for two top-hat tato-titans, hopefully.
It's Mae and Ivo.
No, yes, yes... no, no, no, yes.
No, yes, yes, no, no, no.
No. Yes, yes.
No, no, no, yes.
No, yes, yes...
I just can't learn it in time.
One minute. Have you got a pen?
Do you want a pen? Yes, please.
Oh, no, I can't touch anything at any point!
Now you'll be sitting there, facing forwards.
Hey, wh-what are those?
No, yes, yes, no, no, no, yes.
APPLAUSE There they are! Yes!
Davies is the potato.
No, hang on.
Davies, yep.
Here it goes.
No, no.
Fuck!
There's Greg - the potato.
There's not a potato.
Two potatoes, please?
Argh, I've lost it.
Yep, yes. Yes. No.
No, that was yes. Oh!
Back on the no-potato.
Argh! I mean, I've got no idea now, obviously.
So, that's a potato, that's a potato, that's not a potato,
so we've just had double potato.
Waste of time the three minutes before this were.
Like, what a complete waste of time.
Yes, yes,
no, no,
yes, no,
yes, yes.
I can't recover this now.
No, yes, yes.
Oh, look, it's there, as well.
Maybe follow the pattern. Yeah, but...
So, that's a potato, s-so that means...
...there's probably more. Argh!
No, no,
fuck, I lost it. Yes.
I think this might be my least favourite task.
The whole thing, like, just, what, what, what...
and we should all be ashamed.
And that's your lot.
I think I've done pretty well.
So, did anything you planned work?
No. No.
But I don't care... because it's so stupid.
LAUGHTER
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
So promising, though, Ivo.
You cracked the system.
Yeah, I love to squander promise.
So, Ivo refused the pen because he thought if he touched a pen,
he'd be disqualified. You're not meant to touch anything.
Obviously, Frankie and Jenny did touch a pen.
How do you feel about that?
Oh, God in Heaven, I can't bare this!
LAUGHTER
I-I don't want to know.
Oh, no! It was one of the happiest days of my life,
and now he wants to spoil it.
And her dad's dead! Yeah!
Well, shall I tell you how Ivo and Mae did first?
Yeah, yeah, and I'll make a call on it afterwards. OK.
Mae - they cracked the system and stuck to it,
and didn't get fazed by the pattern repeating, like Ivo did.
There was no panic.
Seven animals in the hat, but 22 potatoes!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Ivo, on the other hand... Yeah.
...11 potatoes, ten animals. Potat-otal, 1.
Positive. It's a positive score.
So, without the pen problem,
it would be 1 point to Frankie,
2 to Ivo, 3 to Kiell, 4 to Jenny,
and 5 - it's definitely 5 points to Mae Martin.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Are we changing the numbers?
On this occasion, we'll let it slide.
What?!
Has he let it slide? Did you let it slide?
Yes? He's let it slide. He's let it slide?
He has! He's let it slide! SHE CACKLES
Can I have a task featuring
my favourite type of thing, please, Alex?
Oh, do you mean unreasonable and prolonged violence?
Yes, please. All yours!
One for all... Ow! I've hit my head. Oh, dear.
It's a shame you got hit. Hello, Mae. Hello.
Hello, Jenny. Hello.
Hello, Kiell. Yo. Hi.
Hello, Ivo. Hello, Alex.
This is Frankie. Hello.
Are you all ready?
Yeah. Ish.
Are you ready?
Very ready.
Here it comes.
THEY SCREAM
Whoa!
Right at nut height. Yeah.
Back to you?
Watch out! BLOW LANDS
"Choreograph the most elaborate and enthralling fight scene,
"then perform it in slow motion.
"Your fight scene must take five minutes,
"and will then be sped up so that it lasts one minute.
"You have a total of 30 minutes. Your time starts now."
How about you fight both of us?
What, you come at me together? Yeah. OK...OK. Right.
How's your fighting?
Er, I am weak... and cowardly.
So, I'm very happy to take the role of victim.
OK. Whoo-ah-ha!
Wow. That's pretty good. That's one I can do.
My initial thought is we start hand-to-hand,
then move to weapons.
Erm, yeah.
You say that every task.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Well, I'm very much looking forward to this.
I thought that the introduction from Ivo and Frankie
looked like the world's most sinister children's show.
LAUGHTER
"Welcome to the caravan."
"Hello, children."
"We're going to be making some stuff with gaffer tape today."
LAUGHTER CONTINUES
Is it time to fight?
Yes, I'm very much looking forward to seeing hand-to-hand,
followed by weapons.
The first fight of the night sees Kiell and Mae
bravely taking on Jenny Eclair.
LOUD SNORING
SPED-UP: This'll do it.
Oh, no!
Ahh! Ahh!
This was a bad idea.
Oh! Ow! Oww!
I had plans for this evening.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
I'm very interested to drill down into the narrative of your fight,
if that's OK? Who were you?
You were just a lady? I was a baddy.
You were the baddy? Super-villain.
Oh, yes! A super-villain, yeah.
You snuck up on the super-villain in the shed, but she came out
of her snooze, she opened the door,
and knocked you both out briefly.
She hoom-liated us. Yeah.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Right! That's the end of part three.
But a world of wonder awaits us in part four - by which I mean,
one of these doofuses is going to have to try and celebrate onstage
with an Enrique Iglesias cape, and some of Jenny's dad's hair!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello! Here we go, then, part four.
And we're in the middle of a melee, Alex.
Yes, we saw Jenny clobber team-mates Mae and Kiell
into submission, but now it's Frankie Boyle versus Ivo Graham.
Oh, hello.
No.
HARD ROCK PLAYS
WHISTLE BLOWS WEAKLY
ALARM BLARES
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I mean, it was powerful.
Frankie was the Taskmaster in a different universe, is that right?
I was a bailiff coming to evict Ivo,
and then, Ivo seemed to call on some kind of clone army.
A couple of him were my actual children.
Your actual children? My actual children who,
let's be honest, put the boot in.
It was such a lovely moment when Frankie Boyle's children agreed
to help beat him up.
LAUGHTER
The criteria were the most elaborate and enthralling fight scene wins.
All right, well, they were both elaborate,
and they were both -
both of them enthralled me, one slightly more than the other.
But I'm going to give them both high marks for this. Oh?
I'm going to give Frankie and Ivo 5... Congratulations.
...but I really loved theirs, as well, so I'll give them 4.
I can cope with that. 5 points and 4 points!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Let's have a quick look at the scores. Of course.
Oh, you won't believe it.
Two people have got twice as many points as Kiell,
they're joint leaders,
Ivo and Jenny both have 16 points!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Here we go, then, please head to the stage for
the final task of the show!
It's like a scene from a modern-day Oliver.
Who's going to read the task out?
Kiell Smith-Bynoe is going to read the task out, please.
"Know the most facts about sausages."
"You have 100 seconds to learn some facts about sausages.
"Best score in the sausage exam wins."
Inside their desks, they've got a sausage fact sheet.
They've got 100 seconds to look at it and learn it,
and then, Greg Davies will host the sausage exam.
LAUGHTER
Hello, Frankie.
If we already know quite a lot about sausages,
do we have to recuse ourselves?
The more pre-knowledge you have, the better, Frankie.
OK, so 100 seconds to learn your sausage facts,
and those seconds start...
WHISTLE BLOWS Sausage!
What's Frankie writing down?
I think this is his preparation.
Oh!
LAUGHTER
WHISTLE BLOWS
Put your facts away, please put your facts away.
Back in the box please. Back in the box. Back they go.
No more writing. Right.
It's time for the sausage exam. Ding-ding!
LAUGHTER
OK, here we go. Question one.
What was the first name of the Sausage Queen of 1955?
If you know the answer, please keep it to yourself.
Question number two.
How did Queen Victoria like the meat in her sausage?
Question three.
What is the minimum meat content of a pork sausage
in the United Kingdom?
So, we're looking for a percentage there.
Question four.
What nationality is a democracy sausage?
And finally, question five.
What is the casing of a sausage traditionally made from?
Ding-ding! WHISTLE BLOWS
Boards down, please, boards down.
APPLAUSE
Display the boards on the front of the desk, please.
They hang on the front.
Yeah, lovely stuff.
Well, I'm going to ask Ivo, er, to give me the correct answers.
Would you mind handing me the correct answers, Ivo?
I think you know where they are.
Swot?
You know what you did. I-I know what I did.
And it was pretty swotty.
Here's the sausage facts,
and here is a sentence saying,
"Gene chopped 42 Australian intestines."
Ohh, my God!
APPLAUSE
OK. Here are the scores.
APPLAUSE
A small observation - Kiell looks genuinely furious.
LAUGHTER
So, we'll add all those up, we'll add them to your final scores.
Please come down and join me!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
How did the sausage exam go?
Yes, Ivo was the only one who turned the exam paper over.
You should always do that. Always.
Well, that's not true. I also turned the exam paper over.
I thought...
I thought it was going to be a secret question,
and that was going to be the answer to the last question.
ALEX SNORTS
LAUGHTER
Well, I can tell you that in the series, because of all this,
Kiell is now last by quite some distance.
This episode, well, well, well.
For the second show in a row,
Ivo Graham is the winner with 21 points!
What?! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Ivo Graham wins the show!
Your heroic haul awaits you!
So, what have we learnt today?
If you get wrapped up in the stresses and strains of life,
perhaps you've been hoom-lated at work, take a moment,
breathe, re-visit this show,
and enjoy this beautiful moment all over again.
SHE LAUGHS
APPLAUSE
But we can't go yet!
Not until we've celebrated tonight's winner one more time,
it's Ivo Graham! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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