Ta-da!
Oh!
Nutsack!
Welcome along. This is Taskmaster.
My name is Jeremy Wells,
and for all intents and purposes of this licensed television format,
I am the Taskmaster.
For 10 weeks, five comedians will seek my approval
by doing things I've asked them to do.
Why are they doing this?
For attention, I suppose. Some probably need the money,
and all of them want this
my golden head, made from pure golden paint
and a hugely uncomfortable moulding process. I sure hope it was worth it.
Competing for this magnificent trophy, we have:
Angella Dravid
Brynley Stent
Guy Williams
Leigh Hart
and Madeleine Sami.
These equally talented and desperate comics
have been performing tasks for me at our secret location.
No one knows how each other did, and we're about to find out.
I will judge them on these tasks and mercilessly rank them from best to worst.
Assisting me along the way, mainly because his schedule is much lighter than mine,
is my close confidante and 2IC, Paul Williams!
Banter here.
We're meant to talk there. It just says 'banter'. That's where we banter.
- It just says 'Banter here.' - Yeah. Banter is you and I talking.
Does this count as banter?
It is bantering, basically.
Well, it's been an honour bantering with you.
Now, full disclosure, Paul is, of course, Guy's brother,
which is either a piece of casting designed to create a fun sibling rivalry dynamic
or merely a reminder that New Zealand has about eight people in it.
Now, Paul, please spare me from any further admin and explain the first task.
Our first task is a prize task.
The contestants have each been asked to bring along a thing.
Jeremy will decide who has brought the best thing,
and the overall winner of tonight's show will take home all five things.
Right. Quite an elaborate system, isn't it?
Not really. It's very straightforward.
But tonight, we've asked each contestant
to bring in the best thing they can't live without.
The most un-live-withoutable thing wins.
All right.
Let's go in the revolutionary style of left to right. Angella!
- you're up first. - Um, I brought
my anti-anxiety medication.
Quite a lot of anti-anxiety medication by the looks of it.
Yeah, I, uh, forgot to take them today.
I really hope for the sake of the show that you win today.
Same.
Brynley, what have you brought in?
Um, I brought in my partner, Adam Brown.
Whoever wins tonight will take home your partner.
Yeah, I thought maybe just for an evening. He's good fun to hang out with, so, um...
I will need him back, though.
Right. This is not just some really elaborate way
to break up with someone?
Guy, what did you bring in?
Well, it's well known that I caught the Invercargill poolpooper.
You're welcome, New Zealand. And for doing that great task,
Sir Mayor Tim Shadbolt gave me the key to Invercargill City.
Wow.
It was later found out that I caught the wrong guy,
but I still got to keep the key, and what a massive
prize that would be for anyone who wins that.
Congratulations, Guy, on being the first contestant on New Zealand Taskmaster
to start his own applause.
Yeah!
No? Ok.
Leigh, what did you bring in?
Yeah, look, I just want to say, before I tell you,
I know it's the first episode. I really hope I don't win tonight now,
seeing what's been offered up already, but, um...
Except Angella, of course. That wasn't bad. What...
What I brought in, I don't want to give it away either, which is weird.
It's my electric guitar. You might see a photo here,
and it's got a bottle opener attached to it, you see?
That's good!
Which is, it's just one of those things, and you'll see a lot of signatures
- on the guitar there as well. - Who signed it?
Well, Elvis Presley, um,
- Jimi Hendrix. - What?
John Lennon. Who else is dead?
I don't know who signed it, actually. A lot of people, in a haze, signed it,
and I don't know who they are now.
- People in a Purple Haze, eh? - Yeah!
Mads, what did you bring in?
The thing I can't live without is floss.
Wow.
Don't clap!
It's so boring!
Yeah, non-branded floss is what I can't live without.
Yeah. I have a bit of a thing where I hate the feeling of food in my teeth, and, uh,
that is- I'm boring myself just talking about it, but
it is a thing I cannot live without. Ironically, I don't like wearing thongs,
which has a similar It has a similar effect.
But you don't get food stuck in there.
Oh, sometimes.
I'm a huge floss user. I have a very popcorn-heavy diet,
and, um, I have my shirts customized.
The buttons are stitched on with floss in case of an emergency.
Well, they are too.
Look at that.
Wow!
This is an emergency, yeah.
I might have a little go of that afterwards.
Very smart.
Well, I've got, like, six more buttons, so,...
I've got to bring myself back in here, Mads, but if I'm giving up electric guitar
and you're giving up a thing of floss, non-branded...
Brynley's giving up her boyfriend.
I think he gave up first.
All right. Let's score it, eh?
Angella look, playing fast and loose with prescription medication is dangerous,
and I don't like people messing around with pharmaceuticals,
so I'm just going to give you one point for that.
Leigh, two points. I think the key three points, but only just.
And four points for you, Mads, and then I
think five points. I mean, it's a big sacrifice.
- Thank you. - It's a huge sacrifice.
Ok.
So that puts Brynley in first place and Angella in last place,
but don't worry. There are 49 more tasks to do across the next 10 weeks,
so, Angella, still an outside chance of making a comeback.
Shall we take a look at our first proper task?
Let's do that, eh?
This first task, very much like the rest of the show, is an absolute masterpiece.
The people's champ is here.
Whoa!
Ooh, lucky I didn't go too fast.
Ok.
This is quite trippy, eh?
It's like an eye exam in a nightmare.
All right. Let's do it.
Ah.
'Take one of these letters.'
Ooh! Decisions, decisions.
I'll take this one.
- Hm? - 'Take one of these letters.'
Yeah, you've got to take one of those letters.
Let's go with... S.
I'm going to take D.
D'you know what? I'm going to be really smart about this.
Real intellectual. It's what I'm known for as the people's champ
and I'm going to take a M, because it could also be a W.
- What have you gone with? - M.
- Why did you choose M? - Dunno. No idea.
Cool. I'll take a T.
Yeah, I thought you had another task, didn't ya?
- What? Did that make sense? - No.
'Make a sculpture of something, starting with your letter.
'You may only use items starting with your letter to construct the sculpture.
'Best sculpture wins.
'You have 20 minutes.
'Your time starts now!'
Ok!
First thing that comes to my mind...
is dick.
Which is funny, given that I'm married to a woman.
I'm not gonna do a sculpture of a dick. I probably wouldn't do it justice.
Believe in yourself, Madeleine, and I reckon you could do a dick justice.
Did I ever do a dick justice?
All right. Should we examine some sculptures then, Paul?
All right.
It's worth remembering that our contestants had a whole house full of items
from which to find their building materials.
First, I've grouped two of them together.
Here are the beautiful creations of Guy Williams and Angella Dravid.
I might go upstairs and have a look and see what starts with a T.
- Ok. - Yeah.
Hello. Got a melon, got some mustard and some of those mandarins.
So, I got toilet paper, a three, tea, tape, and a teapot.
Ok, and I'm going to make a... monster, or something.
So, I'm going to make up a sculpture of Tina's torso with toilet paper and tape.
- Oh, no. Man, this is hard to cut. - What is that?
- Am I not allowed to use a knife? - Well, what does the task say?
'You may only use items starting with your letter
to construct the sculpture.'
Ok. All right. Can't use a knife.
Oh, I've already cut it now.
Ah, well. Who gives a shit?
Ok. Maybe I'll put a t-shirt on it.
I guess I gotta, like, smash it on the side of the thing, do I? Quite violently.
That's yum.
- What did you use the teabags for? - Um, the...
tits.
- So, what are you doing there? - Just eating some watermelon.
- Who's Tina? - Uh, she's in witness protection.
She doesn't really want to be talked about.
Oh, sorry.
You'll notice I'm using my M my mouth to make this.
I haven't incorporated the three.
Are we allowed to show three on TVNZ?
I think so.
All right. Yarr!
- Is that the mouth? - Yarrrr!
Or just the whole head at this point.
Oh, maybe it's, like, a torso with thighs.
Yeah. There you go. I've done a monster
made out of mandarins, watermel-melon, sorry. Just normal melon.
And I surrounded it in mustard.
So, I've used tape,
toilet paper, and teabags to make Tina's torso with a t-shirt,
and these are her thighs and she's wearing how a thong.
- How do you think that went? - Bad. I'm a 32-year-old man.
What part of this would I be proud of?
- I'm going to go. Thank you. - Ok. Thank you, Angella.
Thank you, Guy.
And thanks very much to the watermelon.
That was good, Guy!
Guy, you thought you were a genius because
you used a letter M that could be used as a W.
Yeah.
And then, you then used a melon that could have been a W.
Watermelon. You didn't think of that?
- No, I did- no, I did not. - Angella, I was slightly concerned.
- Your sculpture didn't have a head. - I did say it was a torso.
Yeah, but you do realise by not having a head
on a sculpture like that, you can be beheaded.
I wasn't thinking that, cuz that's
it starts with the letter B.
I just went straight for Tina's torso.
Why was Tina in witness protection?
Uh, she was afraid of being beheaded.
Right. Well, now it's time to make three minutes
of television out of something starting with A:
Advertisements. We'll see you very shortly.
Welcome back!
Paul, please explain what I just welcomed everyone back to.
It's a television show, and the show is called Taskmaster,
and right now, our contestants are making sculptures
of different things starting with a letter,
using only things starting with that same letter.
Here, we have Leigh Hart, who has bravely chosen the letter M.
I'm guessing it's not a clay kind of thing,
cuz that doesn't begin with M.
Or is it a W?
No, it's an M. Ok. Uh...
What are you hanging these things on?
What is this thing here?
This is what we call a makeshift pole
for, um, art and things like that.
- What's that? - This is a musical tambourine.
Opposed to a...?
A non-musical one. Just, you know, your straight...
So, what I'm doing here
probably a good time to bring you guys in on it.
This is an ode to music,
called...
'Music.'
We've got the musical guitar, the musical tambourine,
the musical headphones,
where we listen to so much of our music nowadays,
the musical xylophone, the mannequin hand,
or the musician's hand double M there
and all put together tastefully on a makeshift music stand.
As a bonus, I can get that there if I want.
You know, sometimes, it's just best to leave it.
Da Vinci didn't just keep fiddling with the Mona Lisa
every morning, did he?
I don't mean that. I don't I don't- not the model.
I mean, um, the work. Once he pinned it, once he'd painted it.
What would you say to someone who says that's a guitar?
I'd say it's a musical guitar, or a musical instrument, is it not?
I'll just leave you guys with it for a while.
- Ok. - Maybe just take it in.
- Thank you, Leigh. - Thank you, Paul.
Leigh, you called that an ode to music.
Yes, I did.
Looked to me like a hatstand with no hats on it.
To you. Art is one of those things, isn't it?
It's in the eye of the beholder. That is an ode to music.
What musical instruments were on there?
Everything he had on the makeshift pole
was a guitar, a tambourine, earmuffs, a hand, a ukulele,
and are you familiar with an instrument a marimba?
- A marimba? Yes. - Yes.
Yes.
Well, he didn't have that. He had a xylophone.
It's hard to get a marimba at short notice.
And did any of those items start with M?
Yeah, just whether you go musical instrument counts.
This might be a good time on behalf of the other, uh,
'contestants' if you want to call them that, is, um,
I was under the impression this game was how we interpret things,
and at the early stage of the series, it'd be good
you know, we're going to be using our brains in different ways,
and if we nipped that kind of creativity in the bud now...
we might as well leave now.
It was a hatstand! It was a hatstand.
In Leigh's defense, in Sudanese, a hatstand is called a mastaka.
It does start with an M.
Well, I thought that was a given. I thought everyone knew.
Who's up next?
Up next, let's take a look at some sculptures
from the twisted minds of Brynley and Madeleine.
You may only use items starting with your letter.
D. The letter D. Items that start with D.
Dishcloths.
I've got some things.
The other word that's come into my head is dandelion.
I've got salt and sugar, strawberry jam, spaghetti,
string, superglue, and a sieve.
Now, I just need to figure out what to make.
I'm just gonna look for things that start was D.
- 14 minutes. - Ok.
We'll use the brown sugar as the base, because it's quite sticky.
Found some ducks. It'd be cool to do a dandelion out of dinosaurs.
S. Squirrel? I could make a squirrel.
- This is a desk. That's part of it. - Ok.
This is quite easy to mold, so maybe I will make a squirrel.
What's an adhesive that starts with D?
Duct tape!
- How long have I got, Paul? - Six and a half minutes.
Ok. Let's give him some ears.
Wow.
Ooh!
This is going to be the grass at the bottom.
40 seconds.
He just needs a face.
10 seconds.
Gotta get a couple of leaves on there. Little Dino leaf.
- Stop. Stop. Put the dinosaur down. - I did. I have!
- Take that last dinosaur off. - No!
- I'm not taking it down. - I'm taking it down.
Can you talk us through what you've made?
A beautiful squirrel made out of sugar, salt, strawberry jam...
Wow!
...string, spaghetti, superglue and seaweed.
I've made a dandelion out of ducks, dinosaurs
and duct tape and a desk.
Does he have a name?
Hmm. It should start with S, shouldn't it?
- Sriracha. - Sriracha the squirrel.
- Thank you, Madeleine. - Thank you, Paul.
- Thank you, Brynley. - Thank you! Bye, Sriracha.
- That is so cute. - That's a cute little squirrel, Brynley.
That's a great squirrel.
- That's a cute squirrel. - It is cute, isn't it?
Put it in the Louvre!
- Terrible name, Sriracha. - Why is that a terrible name?!
- Well, it's a Thai sauce, isn't it? - Yeah!
Could have been Steve. Sriracha?
No, no. We shouldn't call our animals human names.
Because if you have a kid, you can't call your kid Sriracha,
but you can call your squirrel Sriracha
and people won't bat an eyelid.
My son Sriracha is not gonna want to hear that.
Should we have a look at the sculptures
- so we can judge them? - Uh, yes.
So, we have...
- Whoa! - Oh, wow.
...a Tina, a squirrel, a monster,
an ode to music, and a dandelion.
Amazing. You put a frame around something, it always looks good, doesn't it?
It's pretty clear for me that Brynley's Sriracha, despite being terribly named,
is the best sculpture. I think everyone would agree with that.
And I think Guy, actually, surprisingly, came in second...
Yes!
...with his monster.
- People's champ. - Go monster.
Madeleine third with the dandelion.
Angella, I think you come in fourth,
and, um, Leigh, you're last, because there's no
Are you serious?
Well there's no, there's no M's.
Look, Jeremy, I've made a lot of shit TV in my time,
and most of it's been with you, actually, and, uh
I was kind of hoping it wasn't going to go down this- look at that.
And now that we're two tasks deep, I guess
it is time to have a gander at the scoreboard.
Brynley is out in front with a perfect 10 points.
Angella and Leigh lagging behind with only three.
Not to worry, though still plenty of time left.
All right. What's next?
We're going to wash down that last task with a round of lovely drinks.
- Hello, Paul. - Hello, Guy.
Hello, Angella.
- Hello. - Hello.
All right.
What have we got here?
- Ooh! Hello. - Hello, Madeleine.
I was saying that to the cocktail shaker, but also, hello to you.
There we go.
'Create the fanciest cocktail.
'You may only use ingredients that rhyme with each other.
'Bonus points may be earned if the vessel also rhymes.
'You have five minutes to plan your cocktail,
then 10 minutes to make it.
'Fanciest cocktail wins.
'Your time starts...
'now.'
Ingredients that rhyme with each other.
What do you normally put in it? Rum, and...
Yeah, no. I just got rude words.
Ok. Well, the fanciest thing is caviar.
Money? Oh, let's do money. That's fun.
Money, honey, bunny.
- What is bunny? - Bunny rabbit meat.
Cream, Beam
Jim Beam.
Gin, mandarin, with some thins.
- What are thins? - Thins. The chocolate biscuit,
to be served in a tin inside of a bin.
I've got caviar, fine cigar, lacy bra,
cancer tar? Like, the tar that goes in your lungs from cigarettes
and gives your cancer.
I'm going to be drinking the drink.
Ok. I'll take out the cancer tar just for you.
Stay smoke-free, New Zealand.
Cream, Beam,
steam, cuz you'll end up steamed, I'd say, if you drink this.
So, cup can go with syrup.
7 Up?
Runny chocolate, gummy bears, honeydew melon.
And drink it out of a machine. That'll be good.
What kind of machine?
Oh, might be something like a leaf blower or something.
Get it down quick. You'll probably want to too when you taste this.
Ok. Nunnie a picture of a nun.
I would like a picture of Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act.
- So, what have you got? - Syrup and 7 Up in a cup.
Ok, and that's everything?
Yep.
That sounds good!
I am very skeptical about these cocktails. Syrup, 7 Up, cup.
I mean, does syrup rhyme with 7 Up?
Both my parents have English as a second language.
I'm feeling it down there.
It's like a regular Lil Wayne down the end there.
Sizzurp, syr-up, in a cup.
Fill it up. Yum, yep, yep.
I'm concerned about what you're doing, Brynley,
with the rabbit meat.
Yeah, the cocktail's got raw rabbit meat in it.
So, you know it's meant to be a fancy cocktail?
That was the idea. A fancy cocktail.
Don't believe it said 'fancy' on the task.
It did.
So, I'd love to inspect these beverages, but
it's time for you at home to fix yourselves a drink,
rhyming or otherwise, because right now, we're taking a break.
We'll see you in a moment.
Welcome back to Taskmaster.
Paul Williams, what treats are we enjoying at the moment?
Our contestants have been making cocktails
with ingredients that rhyme.
While a treat to watch, drinking them was more of a mixed bag.
Who have you got next for us?
First up, with a simple and arguably effective cocktail,
it's Angella Dravid.
- Hi. - Hello, Angella.
So, what are you doing again?
So, I've got 7 UP and pineapple syrup.
- Do you like pineapple? - Second favourite fruit.
- Pineapple? - Mm-hmm.
No.
Yes, it is.
- Your second- mine or yours? - Mine.
Oh, sorry.
Oh! Do you reckon I can make this fancier by doing some cool shots?
I mean, like, um, slo-mo, or...
Can I do that to fancy it up?
- Yeah. - Cool.
It really sounds like someone's pissing.
It's delicious.
Is it cuz of the it reminds you of piss?
I've never drunk piss.
I have.
I was going to ask you a whole lot of questions about your drink,
but now, I need to ask you questions about the time that you drank urine.
- How? - No, I...
I haven't drunk piss.
Did you not say that you have drunk piss?
No!
Ok. Paul said that, um, the sound reminded him of piss.
He said it was quite delicious, and I said,
'Is it because it reminds you of piss?'
But I haven't personally drunk piss
knowingly.
I like that you just retold what we saw.
But just stopped retelling it before it got to the part
where you said you'd drunk piss.
I, like...
Did I say I drunk piss?
- Yeah, you did. - Yes.
Jeremy, if we find out that she has drunk piss,
will you be taking points off her?
Oh, I think I was joking.
I've drunk my own piss.
I did it on a radio show because I thought it'd be funny.
And afterwards, people were like, 'Why didn't
you just use some, like, Sprite or something?
'Because it's radio and no one can even see what you're doing anyway.'
Obviously, I should have done that. I'm an idiot,
but I was interested what it tastes like.
I was just kind of salty and gross and warm.
Well, yeah, at least I know now. Science.
I think we need to move on. Who's next, Paul?
Next, we have three total pissheads
- Madeleine, Guy, and Brynley. - Yeah!
All right. Here we go with the gin, the mandarin,
the or-in-ge, the thins,
the tin, and the bin.
Caviar, German car, fine cigar, lacy bra.
Honeydew melon, runny chocolate,
bunny, money, nunnie,
honey, gummy bears.
I've just realised that
I didn't actually order any alcohol or liquids.
In no way in this does it say you need to make a cocktail drink, does it?
No, a cocktail is by definition a drink.
I don't think it is. Google it.
- How long have I got? - You've got 4.47.
God, it takes a long time to get up those stairs.
I don't know if I have time to cook the rabbit.
'Cocktail: an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits
'mixed with other ingredients such as fruit juice or cream.'
- What dictionary are you using? - Oxford Dictionary of English.
All right. Well, anyway, that's a shoddy, iPad dictionary,
fake news piece of shit.
Ok. In she goes.
This probably also isn't that healthy.
- Two and a half minutes. - Two and a half minutes?
Ooh, there we go.
It's kind of quite fancy that, like, it doesn't have
any liquid in this cocktail.
Really, it is fancy.
Why don't I serve it in the melon? Yeah!
- 12 seconds. - Well, this is too high for me.
Bon appetit.
Here's your drink, sir. Godspeed.
- What's that for? - It's a straw.
- Delicious. - Can I try it?
If you want to.
- I don't love it. - It's caviar.
Sorry it's not a Woodstock bourbon, mate,
but this is what rich people have. Classy.
It's good. Tastes like orange juice.
You can really taste the notes of the money.
Guy Williams, fancy people don't have liquids in their cocktails?
I feel like I nailed it. I did five fancy things,
and mine was the most expensive and most beautiful.
Five stars.
Congratulations on being the first contestant
on New Zealand Taskmaster to award yourself five stars.
Yeah!
Yeah, well, to be fair, Brynley, I still think that raw rabbit meat
inside of a cocktail is dangerous and inappropriate.
It didn't actually taste too bad.
Tried a bit of it. Uh, yeah, and I think it was safe.
Didn't vomit afterwards or shit, so we're good. Yeah.
So we got any more contestants?
Up next, we have the wickedly talented Leigh Hart.
- Hello, Leigh. - How are you? How are you?
Good, thanks.
Yeah, so, we've got our rhyming ingredients
the beans and the cream.
What is that?
It's a clothes steamer which I'll use to steam the beans beforehand.
There we go. Cream, of course.
Beam. Rhymes with cream. Chuck that in there.
Let's get some of the beans in there.
It also mentioned there was bonus points for drinking
the cocktail from a machine,
and I've managed to do that.
Actually, you might want to put those on as well if you could.
Thanks, mate. I'll give it a pour. Look at that. Beautiful.
There you go. You just hold that.
- Top up? - Yes, please.
Actually, you might want to use the clothes steamer after this.
That might be useful.
Thank you, Leigh.
Now, there's funny, and then there's cruel, and,
amazingly, Leigh, you've managed to be both those things on this occasion.
It's all coming back to me, this one.
And, you know, extra points as well, because
we were talking about out of the special vessel.
I feel like if every drink in New Zealand was served
through a leaf blower,
we might sort of sort our binge drinking problem out.
It's not what you're drinking, it's how you're drinking, isn't it?
In terms of scoring, both of you guys put alcohol
in your cocktails.
- Yes, we did. - Thank you. Thank you.
You three did not do that, so if I'm scoring this,
you guys both get five points each.
Oh!
Well done. And out of these guys, which one was the best tasting?
Angella's was definitely the most delicious.
Yep.
It was just 7 Up and pineapple syrup.
Yeah.
Which I just want to reiterate is my second favourite fruit,
and Brynley's was surprisingly nice.
Chocolate definitely overpowered the rabbit.
And Guy's was disgusting.
Can I put my hand up and call bullshit?
The objective was to make the fanciest cocktail,
which I succeeded at. He just blasted some Jim Beam
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hold on. I haven't even scored it yet! I do not
consider Paul's taste in cocktails refined at all,
so this is the way I'm going to score it
three points to you, Guy, two points to Brynley,
and one point to you, Angella.
Oh.
And Leigh, you get a bonus point for using the best vessel.
I'm so used to seeing ones that this isn't a surprise.
All right. We've got two more tasty tasks to sip on. The digestif tasks, if you will.
They're taking place right here in our beautiful studio right after this.
Welcome back to Taskmaster, where five comedians are battling it out
to win Brynley Stent's soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend.
We've had two thrilling tasks so far. What's next, Paul?
What's next, Jeremy, is more tasks.
And if you're on the keto diet, stop watching now, cover your eyes,
because this next task involves fruit and bread.
- Hello. - Hello, Angela.
Hello, knight. Hello, cow.
- Hello, Paul. - Hello, Madeleine.
- Hello! - Hello, Guy.
It's good to be doing fun games
out in a field with my brother, Paul.
Yow!
What have we got here?
- Is it gluten free, is it? - Yes.
That's no good to me.
What's that? Roti?
Pineapple,
breads. Yummy!
All right. Let's get into a task, eh?
'Choose a piece of fruit
and hit it as far as you can with your choice of bread.
'You must use the first bread and the first fruit you touch.
'Furthest fruit wins.
'You have three attempts.'
I already touched some bread and fruit.
You touched the pineapple and the rye.
- You touched that bread. - Technically I did.
Um, touched before I read the challenge, or after.
Does it matter?
- It doesn't matter. - I'll get that then.
Oh, nutsack.
Nutsack indeed.
Leigh, Brynley, what made you guys touch the bread?
I can't help touching bread when I see it.
Who do we have first?
Let's take a look at the three contestants
who were actually able to choose their fruit and bread combos.
It's Madeleine, Guy and Angella.
I was thinking French stick.
I'm going to go...
this bread. It's a little softer than I thought.
I'm going to go with the grape.
I'm going to go...
I think that's an apricot. That's a shoddy-
where'd you get this apricot from?
That is a disgusting-looking apricot.
I grew it.
- No, you did not. - I grew all of those.
So, I'm going brown bread, I'm going apricot.
A French stick and an apricot.
- Shall we give it a go? - Ok.
Yeah, see? Very fresh rye.
What a hit! Oh, baby, what a play!
Do you mind holding that at the end of the...?
Valerie Adams Sami, hey?
Does Valerie Adams throw a shot put that far?
Not as good.
Should have quit while I was ahead, eh?
This camera is not good for my cooch.
This tape measure's pretty cool, eh? Where'd you get that from?
Bought it online.
That's a shame, not supporting local New Zealand businesses.
It was a local New Zealand website.
Oh, yeah. What's it called?
Kiwi Tape Measurers.
Final attempt.
Oh.
No good that one.
God, I think I nearly put my knee out.
How far did the bread go? Did the bread go further than the fruit?
Do I get a bonus award for that, Paul?
- No. - That's a shame.
Fascinating that two of you
compared yourselves to Dame Valerie Adams.
Big hero.
Of course, she doesn't hit anything. She puts a shot.
New Zealand's never had a good tennis player, so we had to go Val.
- Kelly Evernden! - No! Is that a real person?
- Kelly Evernden? - Serena Williams, eh?
She's, um, Sonny Bill's sister.
- What were the distances? - Ok, the official measurements,
brought to you by the good people at kiwitapemeasurers.co.nz.
Angella, 13 meters and 8 centimeters.
Madeleine, 15 meters and 47 centimeters.
And Guy with a whopping 20 meters and 46 centimeters.
- And who's giving it a go next? - Up next, we've got Brynley Stent,
who touched and selected her fruit before reading the task.
So, what have you chosen?
Well, I didn't choose it. I touched this first,
and then I touch this next. Not my choice.
- Do you like pineapple? - Love pineapple not today.
Hate pineapple today.
Stand back.
Wow. That just decimated my bat in half.
- Do I get a new loaf? - No, sorry.
- But my bat's broken in half. - I only baked one.
You don't need to measure it. That's insulting.
It's kind of gone backwards.
Hey, that was pretty good!
Pretty good for a pineapple and a chunk of bread.
- See you later. - Thank you, Brynley.
Don't hit the grape away, please.
- You should measure that one! - Not measuring that one.
Well done.
I like the way you rebelliously ran away
and then delivered it to Paul. Poor old Paul.
Her last attempt was actually pretty good.
It was 17 meters, but, um, sadly, it doesn't count.
No, it doesn't count.
- No. - Gutted.
So, her distance
was 1 meter 98.
Yeah, not a sportswoman.
And what was her shortest distance?
-20cm.
Who have we got next?
It's Leigh Hart, who, in typical Leigh Hart fashion,
couldn't keep his hands off the gluten-free option.
D'you still think the gluten-free bread is no use to you?
Well, I'm gonna have to use it.
If I could give any advice to anyone yet to come on this show,
it'd probably be always read the question in
its entirety before you interact with the props.
But now, I don't know. I think I can still win this.
I may need to think out of the square slightly one more time
to get this- the grape which I'll be using as far as I can.
So, just wait for a second there, um, Paul.
Wow.
This should give me the accuracy I need, and also the spring.
Very happy with that.
- I didn't really see where it went. - Let's have a look.
- Definitely saw it come out here? - Oh, here it is.
Oh, no, that's- oh, sorry. That's sheep poos.
Here it is!
- 26.13. - World record, probably.
That'd be a world record for hitting a grape
with a piece of gluten-free bread.
- You got two more attempts. - Don't need 'em.
- Ok. Thank you, Leigh. - Thanks, mate.
Was he allowed to use the racket? Like, I would
have done 40m if I was allowed to use a trebuchet.
He's allowed to use the racket. There was nothing
in the rules that said you couldn't use a racket.
You could have gone to the shed and got the trebuchet.
That's what the shed's there for.
Enough of this nonsense. What are the scores?
So, Leigh wins the task with 26 meters an 13 centimeters.
Which means one point for Brynley, two points to Angella,
three points for Madeleine,
four points for Guy, and five points for Leigh Hart.
Well done, Leigh Hart.
So, if the incessant product placement
of Kiwi Tape Measures wasn't enough,
we're going to take a break for some advertisements right now.
There is one task remaining when we return.
We'll see you in a couple of moments.
Welcome back to the last bits of the first episode of Taskmaster.
We have one more task.
The permanent rights to Brynley's boyfriend is on the line.
- The stakes could not be higher. - No. No.
Paul, what does our scoreboard look like?
As the scores currently stand,
Madeleine has snuck into the lead with 15 points.
Everyone else is right behind her, apart from Angella,
who is a very long way behind her.
After our last task, everything changes, and by everything, I mean
one person will get five points and the rest will get slightly less.
Ok. Let's head to our live task stage for a live task.
Paul Williams, would you mind explaining what on earth is going on?
Well, Jeremy Wells, it may look like our
contestants are attempting to flee the country,
but no, it's a live task happening right here, right now,
in front of everyone.
Brynley Stent, would you like to read the task?
I would love to read the task.
- Good luck, Brynley. - Thank you.
'Pack for a holiday. The packed suitcase that is closest to 23kgs wins.
'If you go over the 23kg limit, you will be disqualified.
'There is a bonus point for the most appropriately packed suitcase.
You have 100 seconds.'
So, you're packing for a trip.
You can't go over 23kgs or you're disqualified.
- Are you ready? - Yes. Yeah!
You've got one minute left. One minute.
- Get out of the way, Angella! - Get out of the way, mate!
You've got 40 seconds, and your suitcases must be zipped.
Oh, it's not- it's not heavy enough.
20 seconds. They must be zipped. Zip them up.
Shit. What's over here?
Madeleine, you've got 15 seconds to zip it.
- Eight seconds. - Eight.
What did you put in your bag, Angella?
I'm keen to know what you had in there.
Ok, so, I had 8kgs worth of weights in there,
so I knew how much was in there.
Smart. Brynley, I see you took everything but the kitchen sink.
You were considering the kitchen sink
and you would have taken it, but it didn't fit.
No, it didn't fit in the bag, so I took an octopus costume instead for my holiday.
Guy, what did you put in there?
Uh, I'm well-packed for a holiday. A lot of heavy books and, uh, a literal brick.
- So, well prepared for a great holiday. - Yeah.
Leigh, you took a sledgehammer.
That's the main thing I took was a sledgehammer. I suppose I was...
going to go clubbing somewhere, I suppose. I dunno, but uh
And a brick as well. Yeah.
Yeah, I just took a normal hammer, so...
I was just gonna do a little bit of clubbing.
- Sorta like a DIY holiday, really. - Yeah.
All right. Shall we let the weighing begin?
Yes.
- Good luck, Angella. - Good luck.
22.5!
- What weight are we looking for? - As close to 23 as possible,
- but not over. - Ok.
She just nailed it! Like, how No one can top that!
I think mine's over.
21.1.
Still very good.
I've been fined for being overweight many times.
27.2.
I let everyone down.
12.
- 12? - You've got to remember, Jeremy
I'm actually meeting someone
at the airport who's going to put some more shit in that.
You want to stock up on Toblerone as well.
- Ok, Mads. What have we got here? - Ok. Here we go.
What's she trying to beat here, Paul?
She has to get
between 22.5 and 23 to win.
- Ok. - So, it's going to be tough.
23.9.
- Wow! - Incredibly close,
which means the winner of the live task, with 22.5kgs
Angella Dravid.
All right, everyone. Take a seat now. There's a lot to unpack here.
All right, Paul. How did everyone weigh up?
Well, Guy and Madeline both went over 23kgs, so no points for them.
- Ugh. - What?!
But then we have three points for Leigh, four points for Brynley,
and the clear winner, five points for Angella.
Who do you think deserves the bonus point?
Well, for me, nothing says 'Go on holiday and pack as many things as you can'
as trying to pack in the kitchen sink,
so, Brynley, I think you deserve the bonus point.
Plus, I mean, all my best holidays involved octopus
costumes, so the one bonus point goes to you.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
And where does that put the scores for the whole episode?
That means that, by a hair, the winner of episode one, with 18 points,
is Brynley Stent.
I'm gonna just imagine that I won that.
Well done, Brynley. It's been an educational evening.
We've learnt that cocktails don't need alcohol or liquid,
we've learnt that one should never, ever underestimate
the power of gluten-free bread,
and most importantly, we've learnt that Brynley Stent is the winner of episode one
and is one step closer to taking home my golden head.
Most importantly, she has saved her relationship. Good on you, Brynley.
Get up there. Enjoy your boyfriend and the key to Invercargill.
To everyone else, we'll see you next week. Good night!
I regret doing that.
Oh, fuck!
I gave five comedians a set of tasks to complete with guts, passion,
and quite often a completely undeserved sense of self-confidence.
Let's get this party started!
Yeah!
Oh my God.
- Hello, Leigh. - Oh, Paul. How is it?
Do I have any regrets? Yes.
I don't even know what show I'm on.
We're reaching a point of tension.
I have no words for that.
- Thank you, Brynley. - Thank you, Madeleine.
Angella, Leigh, Guy.
I walk away with dignity.