1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,160 - Paul! 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,360 - Yes! 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,360 - Hi, Mum. 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,240 - Au revoir! 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:20,960 - Yah! 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:21,560 - Oh. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,280 - No! 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:23,240 - Ha ha ha! 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:27,160 - Ah! 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,760 - Kia ora koutou, and welcome to Taskmaster ― 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,440 the show that comedians say yes to because they're desperate to reinvent themselves, 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,160 or, in Jack Ansett's case, invent themselves. 13 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,920 OK. 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:52,520 My name's Jeremy Wells, and I am the Taskmaster. 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:57,720 Tonight, our five comedians will be competing in a series of wickedly complex tasks. 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,520 And for their efforts, they can win this ― 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,520 - Ooh! - A beautiful rendition of my bonce ― 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,520 a creation of which broke at least three of the Ten Commandments. 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,160 And I would like to once again apologise to my neighbour's oxen. 20 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,120 Tonight's comedic combatants are... 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,040 Alice Snedden... 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,280 ...Bree Tomasel... 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,440 ...Jack Ansett... 24 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,720 ...Jackie van Beek... 25 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,200 ...and Pax Assadi. 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,200 And beside me, as always, 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,960 is a man who would do anything for me and I would do some things for him, 28 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,480 provided I haven't got anything else on. 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,960 Ladies and gentlemen, it's Paul Williams! 30 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:50,120 What's our prize task tonight, Paul? - Tonight we've asked our contestants to bring in 31 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,400 - the thing that will be their downfall. - Ooh! 32 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,280 - What did you bring in, Jackie? - I think, let's show the image. 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,800 OK, so unfortunately, there's little contrast in this image, 34 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,800 but, um... 35 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,000 if you can see, it's a huge 5-litre bottle of white vinegar. 36 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,280 Um, now I keep it in the laundry, 37 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,960 but I also bring it to the dinner table and dress the salad. 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,320 And it's like every time, honestly, I do it, I think, 39 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,400 'Oh my God, is it bleach?' 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,600 - I feel like the mushroom lady from Australia. - Don't point at me! 41 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,600 - No, you've got to take that on the chin. 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,400 - You do have a similar vibe. - Hey, I am not related to her. 43 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:40,800 - Bree, what did you bring in? - I would say my downfall is going to be this game. 44 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,040 - Oh! 45 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,320 - There's people that know! 46 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,120 I am currently up to level... 47 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,080 12,048. 48 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,960 No, stop. 49 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Thank you. - Wow, get your flowers. 50 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,360 - It takes about 10 minutes per level, 51 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,800 so that means I've spent 83.7 days of my life... 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,560 ...has been dedicated to this game in the last five years. 53 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,880 - Bree's mum is in the audience, and she's just shaking her head. 54 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:21,520 - OK, Jack, what did you bring in? - I brought an printouts of all my toxic group chats. 55 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,440 - Here they are. - Whoa! 56 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,800 - If these get out, it's not just gonna be my downfall; it's also going to be, um... 57 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,120 Well, I'll show you some screenshots from the Taskmaster season six group chat. 58 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,920 'Hi, guys. Can't wait for the studio filming. 59 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,440 'We should get dinner before it all kicks off, right?' 60 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,800 You won't believe this. Bree comes in with, 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,400 'Can't wait to get away from those losers over at ZM'. 62 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,320 What the hell? You animal! 63 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,320 - I'm gonna sue you. 64 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,280 That's not real! 65 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,120 - Alice then comes in with, um, 66 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,200 'The gender pay gap is real and should be larger.' 67 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,720 And two love reacts! - I do stand by that. I am being paid too much! 68 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,000 - And then Pax went, um, 69 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,920 'TBH, I don't give a what the Taskmaster thinks of me. 70 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,200 'Give me one point. Like, I don't even give a single' 71 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,120 - I― I don't. - And, um... 72 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:18,880 - And Jackie's messages, we just straight up can't show on TV. Yeah. 73 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,600 - Alice, what did you bring in that's gonna be your downfall? - In fact, I brought this. 74 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,440 Yeah, that is a cauliflower. 75 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:31,920 People who know me personally will know that this is a food that I am violently intolerantof. 76 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,400 Whenever I eat even just a sliver, I am out for the count. 77 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,400 And I'll be honest with you, violent diarrhoea. 78 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,240 And these guys can attest. At the aforementioned dinner that we had, 79 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,960 Jack ordered cauliflower bites, and I did not hold back. 80 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,680 We are not allowed back in that restaurant. 81 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,840 - Pax, what did you bring in? - Honestly, Jeremy, I cannot say anything about it. 82 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,840 I just have to show you. 83 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,120 Oh. 84 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,760 I can't believe you've matched my skin tone. 85 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:10,560 - My last year of high school, uh, White Chicks is a popular movie. - Yes. 86 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,200 - And, um, there was a Halloween disco. 87 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,560 We actually won best dressed. We won best dressed. 88 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,280 Thank you so much. 89 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:22,680 And I― In 2025, I regret doing whiteface, 90 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,840 but also... crack up. 91 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,120 - Well, the whiteface is shocking a little bit, but it's more the way that you're biting your bottom lip. 92 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,120 - Yeah. - Yeah. 93 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,320 - So how would you like to score this? 94 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,480 Alice, one. 95 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,200 - Come on. A cauliflower gives you diarrhoea. - No, don't look at me. 96 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,400 - That's not gonna― 97 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,680 I've got diarrhoea now! - Own what you've done. - And I'm doing the show. 98 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,400 Jackie, two. 99 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,400 - Dammit! - Bree, two. 100 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,600 - As well? - Yeah, two. 101 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,560 - Because it's just distraction, isn't it, ultimately, 102 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,160 which leaves Pax and Jack. - Yes? 103 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,000 - Both career limiting. 104 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,080 I think Pax says more of a career to... 105 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,680 ...ruin than you do. 106 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,520 So I think you should get four, and you should get five, Pax. 107 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,520 OK. 108 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,520 I'm so sorry. 109 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,280 - OK. By round of applause, who knows who I am? 110 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:18,280 OK. 111 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,240 - Oh my God. - Oh my God! 112 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,640 - OK, Paul. - Wowee. 113 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:32,920 - Should we get into a task? - It's time for the Taskmaster ranch redemption. 114 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,680 - Oh. Ooh. 115 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,480 - I didn't do it. 116 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,360 - Where's Paul? 117 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,040 - Here he is. 118 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,520 - He looks― He looks so good. - Wow! He looks dashing. 119 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,040 - It kills me that he gets to have a photo like that of himself. 120 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,320 It's got a code on the back of it. - Oh, my God, it's an escape room. 121 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,880 - Well, we are in prison, by the looks of it. 122 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,520 - Look, I love these. Do you? - Yeah, I like them too. 123 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,880 'Bust out of this prison. 124 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,680 - 'Fastest to get outside wins. 125 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,120 'You may not leave the lab until you've found the blue key.' 126 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,280 - Do you always read the tasks like this? - Yes, Pax. 127 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,080 - 'You cannot leave the house until you found the red key in the study. 128 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,440 - 'Prison guard Paul will be on patrol. If he catches you awake... 129 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,640 - '...two minutes will be added to your time. Your time starts now.' 130 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,520 - OK, let's do it. Oh, sorry, guys. - We're finding the red― blue key? 131 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,200 - So I'm gonna... - Oh, shit. 132 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,800 OK, this is not gonna work well. 133 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,040 - You sleepin'? 134 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,240 - Oh yeah. I'll get that out. We need a combination lock. 135 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,080 So we need a three-digit code for that one. And I'm just gonna grab the... 136 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,240 - So sexy when you just handle it with brute force. 137 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,160 - Oh, it will be written on the desk, like in school. 138 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,920 - OK, here we go. - Oh! Oh! 139 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,840 - 5446. 140 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,840 Down. 141 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,640 - Oh, they think we're idi― - You sleepin'? 142 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,920 I'm thinking about my mum. 143 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,120 - Back to sleep. - I'm asleep. 144 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,800 - OK, he's gone. He's gone. Let's go, let's go. 145 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,400 - 5446. 146 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,000 Yes. 147 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,840 - What's that? 'In case.' - ALICE: The pillow case. 148 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,200 - OK. Yeah, really get in there. I can't really do much. I'll just, um... 149 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,200 - Yes! 237. 150 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,840 What have we got? Oh, a burner― burner phone. 151 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,280 Why won't it turn on? 152 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,320 - Under the bed, perhaps? Under the bed? 153 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,200 There it is. 154 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,680 - What's that? What is that? It's a map. 155 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,040 - It's prison guard Paul's patrol route. 156 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,480 - This is the route he's on. - OK. 157 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,520 - Is there something down here? Is it in the soap? 158 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,320 - Is it in the soap? 159 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,760 - Oh yeah? 160 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,280 - Aha! - Oh! 161 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,680 - We found the key! 162 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,360 OK, we can leave. No, no, we have to― Take the map! 163 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,640 - Where'd the map go? - Down, down, down, down. Bree. 164 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,480 - Wait till he comes to the lab, then we have them. 165 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,240 Oh! Mummy. 166 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,600 - Mummy! - Get back to sleep. 167 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,760 - Mummy! - Pax, you're touching my... 168 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,440 - Go. 169 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,760 He's going down the stairs now. 170 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,040 If he doesn't come in here, 171 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,240 he'll go outside for a bit. 172 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,240 OK. 173 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,040 - So he's gone outside. - Shh! Quiet! 174 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,400 - I actually... I find it fascinating how people, 175 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,520 particularly people who have less melanin― 176 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,280 I find it fascinating how that community loves escape rooms. 177 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,480 - Not so big with you? - Not so big with our community. 178 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:41,240 Particularly because my dad was a refugee, and the first 15 years of his life was an escaperoom. 179 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,440 You'd think you'd be great at it then. 180 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,000 - OK, so they still have to find the red key in the study and escape the house. 181 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,240 But so far, Bree and Alice found the blue key 182 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,480 and escaped their cell in 16 minutes and 51 seconds. - OK. 183 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,640 - Jackie, Jack and Pax found the blue key and escaped the cell in four minutes, 19. 184 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,080 - Ooh! - Whoa! 185 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,760 - Time now for you at home to be imprisoned by the shackles of capitalism. 186 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,360 We'll play some ads, and we'll see you on the other side. 187 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,920 - Kia ora koutou. Welcome back to Taskmaster. 188 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,960 Right now, we are right in the middle of watching our teams escape 189 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,200 New Zealand's least-secure corrections facility. 190 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,480 Where are we at, Paul? - So at the halfway point, 191 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,320 the team of three have a 12½-minute lead. 192 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,200 Now they must find the red key in the warden's office. 193 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,880 Here they are ― the Jacks and Pax. 194 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,120 - What is the question mark? 195 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,280 - OK. So we need to work out what this spells maybe. Let's take the first letter. 196 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,680 - OK, C. - Ooh, cup or mug? 197 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,720 - Or, or... 198 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,920 Mummy! 199 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,160 - Get back to sleep. - I'm so asleep, baby. 200 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,760 So the question mark has to mirror that. 201 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,040 - Maybe it's, what is the question, Mark? 202 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,280 - Is it the amount of letters in each word? 203 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,320 - Mug, um, three. 204 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:15,480 Net, ten ― three. 205 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,280 Star, mice ― four. - Sleep. Sleep. 206 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,200 Get back to sleep. 207 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,200 You can do this. 208 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,200 Especially Jackie. 209 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,080 - Jackie, what do you have that we don't? - OK, I'm a linguistics expert. 210 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,600 - Yeah. - That's linguistics. It's letters. 211 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,840 - I did do Shakespeare English in year 13. 212 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,720 So it's not like I'm completely... 213 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,400 - Shall I just call Jesse? He's really good at this stuff. 214 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,560 - Yes, yes, yes. - Yes, yes! OK. - I'll grab my phone. 215 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:47,560 - Hey, man. What's up? 216 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,160 - Get back to sleep. - All right. 217 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,280 - Where'd you get a phone? That's contraband. - No... 218 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,960 No. 219 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,120 - We just wanna take some selfies. 220 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,320 - Star. 221 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,720 Stop. 222 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,760 - Oh! Oh! I've got it! I've got it! - What did you get?! 223 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,000 What is it?! - They're backwards! Mug ― gum. Net ― ten! 224 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,320 - Oh my God! 225 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,920 - Oh my God! - Pax! Pax. 226 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,880 I'm a genius! - You're the smartest guy I've ever met! 227 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,440 That is brilliant. 228 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,640 - So it's pots. Pots! The pots up here! 229 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,480 - It's up here! - Oh, yes it is. 230 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,920 - It is. It is. - I'll take that. 231 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,040 - 'Oh, Jack's the weakest link. 232 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,040 'Oh! Oh! 233 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,520 'Jack's gonna let us down!' - Shh, shh. 234 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:30,800 - Go, go. 235 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,960 That way. No, no, no. That way. This way, this way, this way. 236 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,120 Oh, shit. 237 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,600 - Get to sleep. 238 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Oh my God. 239 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,760 - You sleeping? - Yeah. 240 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:42,680 - Good sleeping. 241 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:43,960 - OK, now we're in the clear. 242 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,080 - We gotta get out of here. - Just get to the cars. 243 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,080 - I wanna see my kids! 244 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:00,600 - Jack, There was a real moment of team unity there when you cracked the code. 245 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,320 - Yep. - And then you immediately started rubbing it in their faces. 246 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:12,840 - Yeah. I want to let everyone know how long it took our linguistics expert... to not know the answer. 247 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,880 - But can I also just reiterate to you, 248 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,760 like, have some grace. 249 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,200 Every time you get a win, you turn it and you, like... 250 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,960 - You rub it in our face. - ...you bat it into― so negative. 251 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,360 We want to love you. You make it very hard! 252 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,360 - OK, let's talk about some times. - Yes. 253 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:36,680 Their total time to get out of the house was 40 minutes and 32 seconds. - Oh. Not bad! 254 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:39,080 - But that's pre the bonuses. 255 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,160 So I caught them awake 14 times... 256 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:46,720 ...which adds 28 minutes to their time 257 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,840 for a total of one hour, eight minutes and 32 seconds. 258 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,000 - Whoo! Yeah. - Respectable. 259 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,400 - Yeah. - Yeah. 260 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:54,560 - Yeah, Pax. - I hate it. 261 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,360 - OK. Who have we got next, Paul? 262 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,560 - Here's 'crimin-Alice' and 'penitentia-Bree'. 263 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,560 OK. 264 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,840 - Is this a― Is this some sort of, um, phrase or something? 265 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,120 What looks out of place? 266 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:15,680 Are those pots always there? 267 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:17,080 Oh, for sake. 268 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,080 I don't know. 269 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Red key. - Red. 270 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,440 - I always wanted to be someone's prison bitch. 271 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,200 I'm so scared. 272 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,600 I'm so scared. 273 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,680 - Thank you, Bree. Thank you, Alice. 274 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,680 - See ya! - See ya, Paul! 275 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:49,960 - Bree, is that the most fun you've had doing a task? - I honestly had the best time. 276 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,160 - I just got confused cos it was so easy. 277 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,960 - OK, let's do the scoring. 278 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:01,200 - The team of two ― they escaped the house in 22 minutes and 51 seconds. 279 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,480 - How many penalties? - I caught them awake three times. 280 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,080 Oh, come on. 281 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:11,200 - For six minutes added for a total of 28 minutes and 51 seconds. 282 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,200 Happy. 283 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,600 - So the team of two won by 39 minutes and 41 seconds. - Great time. 284 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,040 - It's nice to see the positivity too, isn't it? 285 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,040 - Isn't it refreshing? - That was really refreshing. 286 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,480 I'm going to give you guys five points for that, cos I think you brought a good vibe. 287 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,480 - Wow. - Thank you. Thank you. 288 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,000 - The question is, how fewer points do you give the team of three? 289 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,560 I feel sorry for them. Give them two. - That's good! 290 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,160 - Not bad. - That's good, considering. 291 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,120 Fair. Fair. 292 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:41,320 - OK. How has that affected the scores for the episode, Paul? - It's very tight. 293 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,240 In first equal on seven, 294 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,240 it's Bree and Pax. 295 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,920 - It is a weird feeling being up there. 296 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,120 - That task, Paul, has not filled up our allotted time slot. 297 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,040 I think we should have one more, please. 298 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:59,920 - It's time to see how our contestants perform in the heat of the moment. 299 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,680 - Paul! - Bree. 300 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,160 You just woken up. - No, I have just been regrouping. - Oh, OK. 301 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,160 - Ow! 302 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,880 - What, you got a nail through your finger? - Yeah. 303 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,640 Why are you smiling so much? 304 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,440 Did you believe it at all? - No. 305 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,120 - Yeah, OK. Waste of time. Sweet. 306 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:27,760 Oh, sake. 307 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,560 'Film an extremely climactic scene. 308 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,360 - 'Most climactic scene wins. 309 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,760 - 'You must use this prop...' 310 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,560 - 'This' being this piece of paper, I assume. - No. 311 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,520 - Or the skis? - The skis. 312 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,400 - 'You have 40 minutes. Your time starts now.' 313 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,080 - Well, we're off to a good start. 314 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,960 - OK, so immediately my brain goes to somebody hanging off the balcony 315 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,960 using this holding on while having an orgasm. 316 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,960 - What's the orgasm bit? - Well, that's also a climax. 317 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,880 - Oh, OK. - A lot of people don't orgasm? 318 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,720 - My first thought is, obviously, sex. 319 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,400 - What if we recreate the moment at the end of the Titanic? 320 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,320 There's not a more climactic moment than the big door scene. 321 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,240 - What are the dogs that go searching in the snow? St Bernard. 322 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,680 So I'm gonna need a St Bernard. - OK, that might be hard. 323 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,720 - Life is hard, OK? I'm gonna need a St Bernard. 324 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,120 - I was trying to think of, like, a big cliff-hanger. 325 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:29,320 And there is something in my life that I actually think about quite frequently, 326 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,920 and I've never resolved it. 327 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,960 And I think maybe if we filmed it documentary style and then I resolved it, 328 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,440 then that would be the climax. 329 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,200 What a cliff-hanger. 330 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,800 - What were you doing with your finger? 331 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,600 Oh, just a bit of fun. 332 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,720 Trying to make him laugh. Thought it would get a bigger laugh in the room. Um... 333 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,720 Turns out, big mistake. 334 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,520 - No, that bombed. - Yeah, it did. 335 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 336 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,600 - Let's get into it. - Her prop was an umbrella. 337 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,520 It's Alice Snedden. 338 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,480 Lovely day on the mountain. 339 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,320 Yeah. Shall we go for a hike? 340 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,760 - Let's hike up this mountain. 341 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,160 - OK. Better pack up our umbrellas first. 342 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:18,040 - Let's walk up the mountain. It's a beautiful mountain. 343 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,320 - Hey, Kevin. - Yeah? 344 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,440 - Have you ever thought we could be more than just friends? 345 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,240 - I've thought about that a lot. 346 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,840 - Kevin? - Yeah? 347 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:32,240 - Do you wanna kiss? - I want nothing more than to kiss. 348 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 - Oh my God. - Whoa! 349 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,040 Whoa! 350 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,800 I― I think it's erupting. - Oh my God. 351 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,000 Oh, I am erupting. - Gross. 352 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,480 - No! - We gotta get out of here. 353 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,000 - I can't go right now. 354 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,640 Oh! 355 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,640 Whoa! 356 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,280 Whoa! 357 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,760 - Noooo! 358 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:06,760 The love of my life 359 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,800 killed by the lava 360 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,360 because he was climaxing... 361 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,520 sexually. 362 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,560 - Happy with that? - Not really. 363 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,960 - So did the guy jizz, or did the mountain jizz? - Yeah. 364 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,400 - Well, isn't that interesting? Or is the mountain a metaphor? 365 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,800 - I think where it fell down slightly was the energy of vocal performance. 366 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,360 - Well, we all know that's not my strength, but you keep putting me in these positions. 367 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:42,960 - Can we hear you try and do two different voices? 368 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,920 - Yep. This is my first one. - Yep. 369 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,720 This is my second. 370 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,200 - OK. Who's next? - Now to the Swiss Alps, 371 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,240 where the slopes are steep and the Swiss accents are undeniably authentic. 372 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,120 Her prop was a set of skis. It's Jackie van Beek. 373 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:05,360 - Harry! For God's sake, where are you?! 374 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,520 Hello there, ma'am. 375 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,480 I'm from Search and Rescue. How can I help you today? 376 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,280 - I was meant to meet my secret lover, Harry, here, up on top of this magnificent alp. 377 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,040 But he's― he's four days late, and I'm sick with worry. 378 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,680 - There was that terrible avalanche on Tuesday. - But all the snow has melted. 379 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,840 I mean, where could he possibly be? 380 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,240 - Well, no, not all the snow has melted. 381 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,120 There is a small patch at the bottom of the hill. 382 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:38,880 - What's that strange beast sniffing around for down there? - That's my St Bernard. 383 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,320 - I'm gonna have to go down there. I'm gonna need to borrow your skis. - Yes, ma'am. 384 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:43,680 - OK. 385 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,320 I'm coming, Harry. 386 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,640 I'm coming, Harry! 387 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,800 - Don't go too fast. 388 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,680 - I need a spade. - Here's a spade. 389 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,560 I'll bring it down. 390 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,120 OK. 391 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,720 Oh God. The snow. 392 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:03,800 Ohh! 393 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,960 Harry. 394 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:13,600 Nooooooooooooo! 395 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,000 - So, what accent did you tell Paul to do? 396 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,960 - I told you to do a kind of pan-Scando, 397 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,600 kind of as you see fit. - It was more Scottish, I thought, than Swiss. 398 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,800 - Yeah, I thought it was Scottish. - Interesting heritage. 399 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,080 - At one point, you dipped into my Persian uncle. 400 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,160 Accent wise. 401 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,600 - Well, it's time for what we call in the business a cliff-hanger. 402 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,680 We'll see you in a moment. 403 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,120 - Nau mai, hoki mai. Welcome back to Taskmaster. 404 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:03,520 Before the break, we saw a man drown in lava and another man die of frostbite. 405 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,640 Who's bringing us our next blockbuster climax, Paul? 406 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,240 - The back 90% of your seats will not be necessary. 407 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,600 For this one, you will only be needing the edge of your seat. 408 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,880 His prop was some sunglasses. Its 'Climax' Assadi. 409 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,000 - Paul, have you done it yet? 410 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,480 Have you killed Pax Assadi ― the employee that I hate so much? 411 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,120 - I can't do it. - You got to, man. 412 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:36,080 The only way to get rid of an employee here in Aotearoa New Zealand is to kill them. 413 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,880 So you have until the end of the day. - Yes, sir. 414 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,200 - Paul! Why are you doing this? - The boss said I had to. 415 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,640 - Surely you could just let me go. 416 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,880 Not― Not from the balcony, but just like, legally. 417 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,440 - No. It's some weird rule. - Paul, I have to tell you something else. 418 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,200 - What? - I'm in love with you. 419 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,840 You don't have to do this, man. 420 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520 How much do you love this job? - So much. 421 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,760 - Look at me in the eyes, or in the glasses. 422 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:09,760 Look at me in the glasses and tell me how much you love this job, man. - I love this job. 423 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,240 - Then I guess that's it, then. 424 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,280 No. 425 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:40,320 Sorry, can I just point out Pax had done whiteface again? 426 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,960 I just don't think it was a very good cliff-hanger. 427 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,880 You should have cut it off before you hit the ground and leave us all in the lurch, you know, like... 428 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,040 - The task was not a cliff-hanger. - Yeah. 429 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,520 - What? - It was― It was the biggest climax. - That's what it means. Climax. 430 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,120 - No, I would say a cliff-hanger cuts off. - Yeah. 431 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,920 - The cliff-hanger doesn't give you the climax. 432 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,240 - I'm working on my nice guy thing. I'm happy to bow down and let you guys have this one. 433 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,840 Hope you feel good. 434 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,880 - Three climaxes down. Three tragic deaths. 435 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,560 Can we go four in four? - It's time to get real. 436 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,240 Here is a tragic love story from Jack Ansett. 437 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,600 Blood On My Hands ― The Truth Told At Last. 438 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,280 - Yeah, OK, um... 439 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:30,120 I'm just gonna, um, message him and see if he wants to talk. Yeah. 440 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,880 OK. 'Hey, man. Random message. 441 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,880 'Can I call you 442 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,360 'to confess something 443 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,480 'from school?' 444 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,880 Sent. 445 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,960 You're probably wondering what this is all about. 446 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,560 I guess I'll just start from the beginning. 447 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,120 It was year two. 448 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:02,440 One day at lunchtime, I was walking into the cloakroom. 449 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,720 Judah Watkinson ― he was drinking out of his drink bottle. 450 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,800 I walked past him and I... 451 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,360 I smacked the bottle, and it knocked his tooth out. 452 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,680 There was blood everywhere, and I ran. 453 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,080 I just ran. I ran outside. I found my friend Daniel. 454 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,400 I was like, 'What do we do, man? This is gonna be the end of me. I'm finished.' 455 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,400 'Look at me, Jack,' he said. 'Look at me. This is what you need to do. 456 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,320 'You say you were walking through the cloakroom to the toilet 457 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,680 'and your shoulder accidentally boofed the drink bottle. 458 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,680 'You're gonna be fine,' he said. 459 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,960 So we go back to class. We're doing our silent reading, and eventually, yeah... 460 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,680 ...Mrs Royal, she goes, 'Can I please speak to Jack?' 461 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,720 I walk outside into the cloakroom. Judah is there ― blood everywhere. 462 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,640 And Mrs Royal 463 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:54,560 says, 'Jack, Judah says you smacked his drink bottle and his tooth came out. Is this true?' 464 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,560 And I said, 'No. 465 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,440 'He's lying. 466 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:04,320 'What happened was I was walking to the toilet and my shoulder accidentally knocked it.' 467 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,320 And I say, 'If you don't believe me, ask Daniel.' 468 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,520 And he pulls through. He goes, 'Jack was walking to the toilet, and his shoulder boofed the drink bottle.' 469 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,440 Mrs Royal has heard all she needs to hear, and she says to Judah, 470 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,400 'Stop making things up and go into sickbay, right now!' 471 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,360 Then she turns to me and says, 'I'm so sorry about all this, Jack.' 472 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:28,080 And I go back to my classroom, all my teeth intact, and carry on with my schooling. 473 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,200 I'm just gonna message him and see if he wants to talk. 474 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,760 Yeah. 475 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,760 OK. 476 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,520 Sent. 477 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,160 I can't cover up this blood with this glove 478 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,040 and take this blood off my hands... 479 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,480 till I hear back from Judah. 480 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,560 - So a slightly different tack here. We've gone true crime documentary. - Yeah. 481 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,240 - So the climax would be..? 482 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,800 - Seems like a cliff-hanger. - Yeah. 483 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,360 - It's the same thing. - No it's not. - It's completely different. 484 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:09,320 - Same thing. If that was the Shortland Street Christmas cliff-hanger, you would be like, 485 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,320 'I cannot wait for January!' 486 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,440 - Which then we would see the climax. 487 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,520 - Yeah. You've muddled it all up. There are courses you can do. 488 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,080 Yeah. 489 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,080 - South Seas, Unitec. 490 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:26,000 - Jack's a smart guy, and so what I think Jack's gonna turn around and say to us now is, 491 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,480 'Here's the text from Judah.' 492 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,920 I would love that to be the case, Jeremy Wells. 493 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:41,400 Judah has not responded to any communication. - Yeah, we know why. 494 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,840 - OK, who have we got next, Paul? - The final contestant to throw their hat in the ring, 495 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,840 it's Bree Tomasel. 496 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,400 - Climactic. That's, like, big moment. 497 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,920 - Do you want me to look up what 'climactic' means? - Yeah, C-L-I... 498 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,040 - Mm. - ...M-A-T-I-C. 499 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,160 - It's gonna be something about climate change, isn't it? - Relating to climate. 500 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,160 I knew it. 501 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,680 I see you love to do this, Paul, where you make people think that it's one thing. 502 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:19,160 And you know what? I actually think the Titanic scene still works. 503 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,680 Paul. 504 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,000 I love you. - Don't you do that. 505 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,760 Don't you start saying your goodbyes. Do you understand me? 506 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,760 - It's― Paul, it's snowing. It's getting colder! 507 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,120 - But we're in the Bahamas. - I know! 508 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,800 That damn climate change, Paul! Oh, there's hail, Paul! 509 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,160 - Promise me something, Bree. - Anything, Paul. 510 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440 - Promise― - Anything. - Look at me. Look at me. 511 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,960 Promise that you'll put a Multi on the Warriors to win the whole thing. 512 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,400 - Of course, Paul. You know it's gonna be our year, Paul. 513 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,240 Cos soon, there won't be any years left. 514 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,440 I think it's time to let go. - No, I can just hold on. 515 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,200 No, but I think you should― Paul, let go. 516 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,200 Paul! 517 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,560 Paaaaaauuul! 518 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,360 Probably could have fit on here. 519 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,160 There's quite a lot of room. Paul? 520 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,480 Oh, he's gone. 521 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,840 - Incredible investigative work from you again, Bree. 522 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,520 They're throwin' 'em up, and I'm just... 523 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,400 - And so you ended up actually doing your original idea? 524 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,480 - Yeah. - Made it work. 525 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,800 - Yeah. There was hail; there was snow. 526 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,600 There was― What else did we have, Paul? 527 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,360 - There was a lot of references to the climate, I will say. 528 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,600 - Mine was set in Guam, which is at risk of rising seas. 529 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:48,080 You actually say 'Aotearoa New Zealand'.! 530 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,000 - Firstly, 531 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,880 Jack made a cliff-hanger. 532 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,000 Even though I thought that was a great documentary ― it was really, really good ― 533 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,440 that's one point for you. 534 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,840 Alice, yours was fantastic with the figurines, but it didn't have anything to do with climatechange, 535 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,640 so I think it's fair that you get two. 536 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,000 Pax also didn't have anything to do with the climate, 537 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:13,000 but I thought it was quite a biting satire on New Zealand's draconian employment law, 538 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,440 so I thought― - Exactly. - So he gets three. 539 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,000 Four points for Jackie because there was mention of the climate with the skiing. 540 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,600 - Oh yeah. - And then five points for Bree, clearly, 541 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,400 because she understood the task. 542 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,040 - Well done. - Good job, Jackie. 543 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,480 - We are going to take a break now, which will give four of our comedians 544 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,840 ample time to second guess their reading comprehension 545 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,040 for every upcoming task in the series. 546 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,080 We'll see you in a moment. 547 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,280 - Welcome back to Taskmaster, 548 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:56,680 where five comedians are trying to win a cauliflower, some vinegar, and the ghost of Pax Assadi. 549 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,960 Just to change things up a bit, I would like a task, please, Paul. 550 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,640 - Sure thing, Jeremy. Let's cram in one more. 551 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,120 - Hi, Paul. 552 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,160 - Hello, Pax. - Paul 'Walliams'. 553 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,680 - It's Williams. 554 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,560 I'm the nephew of Serena and Venus. 555 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,320 Hello, Alice. Psst! 556 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,600 - Oh. Thanks, Paul. 557 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,600 - Thank you. 558 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,120 - This is a lot of reading. - Sorry. 559 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,800 'During the next task, you will hear a countdown from 40. 560 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,880 - 'The vase will fall from the shelf.' 561 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,480 - Oh, OK. 562 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,880 - 'With 29 seconds left, ping-pong balls will fall from the roof... 563 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:51,160 - '...and Paul will throw a tennis ball to you with 25 seconds left. 564 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,600 - 'You will be asked to complete the maze on the blackboard... 565 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,960 - '...and to spell the word "task" in semaphore'? 566 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,920 - What the hell does that mean? 'Semaphor-eh'? 567 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,840 You're just making words up. 568 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,800 - The flag alphabet. 569 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,720 - Oh no. 570 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:11,400 - 'The premier of New Zealand in 1874 was Sir Julius Vogel.' 571 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,720 What's that got to do with anything? 572 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,720 - Why are you telling me about the premier? 573 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,520 - What does that have anything to do with it? 574 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,720 - 'And the second wire from the right will trigger the confetti.' 575 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,640 - The second wire from the right? 576 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,000 - Well, it depends who's right. 577 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,040 - 'You may not touch anything in this room until your time starts during the next task. 578 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,200 - 'You must leave this room in eight minutes.' This is really, really hectic. 579 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,960 - 'Your time starts now.' 580 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,840 - Do you understand? - I can confidently say no. 581 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,840 - This is actual insanity. 582 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,800 No. 583 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,880 - Have you done much semaphore before? 584 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,440 - Semaphore was my first language. 585 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,960 You know, you go to school, start speaking English, and then you just kind of forget it. 586 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,040 - Then I'll come over here. Bang. And we're done ― whatever this is. 587 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,040 Leave the room, please. Oh God. 588 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,400 - So anxious! 589 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,080 - Hello, Pax. - Wazzaah. 590 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,080 - Hello, Alice. 591 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,440 - Oh no. There's another thing. 592 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,880 - It's just the task. - I thought the last task wasthe task. 593 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,680 - No, that was just prep for the task. - Oh, man. 594 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,680 'Stop the vase from breaking. 595 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,200 - 'Avoid being hit by the ping-pong balls. 596 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,040 - 'Answer Paul's trivia question. 597 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,120 - 'Spell the word "task" in semaphore. 598 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,880 - 'Catch the ball when Paul throws it. 599 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,880 'Complete the maze on the blackboard... 600 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,320 - '...and cut the wire that triggers the confetti. 601 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,600 'You may only cut one wire.' 602 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,800 - 'The least mistakes wins. 603 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,680 - 'You have 40 seconds maximum? 604 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,480 - Last line, please. - No. 605 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,320 - Last line. - No! Because it's too much for me to process. 606 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,080 Oh, that was mad. 607 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,800 - OK, there was quite a lot to process there. - Yeah. 608 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,840 So basically a lot of stuff was gonna happen very quickly, 609 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,120 but we told them what was gonna happen and gave them eight minutes to prep for it. 610 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,560 - Yeah. Which I thought was quite generous of you, actually. 611 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:21,160 Who are we gonna see first? - I'm Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jack-Alice. 612 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,520 - This is not gonna be pretty. 'Your time starts now.' 613 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,360 40, 39, 614 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,360 38, 37... 615 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,520 35, 34. 616 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,000 Who was the premier of New Zealand in 1874? - Sir Julius Vogel. 617 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000 - 'Sera-phor-eh'! 618 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,400 Ha! Ha! 619 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,360 Ha! 620 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,040 Ha―! 621 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,160 - 29, 28, 622 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,120 27, 26, 623 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,120 25, 24, 624 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,160 23... 625 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,080 25, 24, 626 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,920 23... - Caught it. 627 00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:00,640 - Who was the premier of New Zealand in 1874? - Vogel! Vogel! Mr Vogel, Paul. 628 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,040 - His full name. - John Vogel. 629 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,920 - 10, nine... 630 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,880 - Oh my God! 631 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,840 - ...six, five, 632 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,840 four, three, 633 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,840 two, one. 634 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,840 Gah! 635 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,800 - Ugh. That's anti-climatic. 636 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,360 - Are you happy with that? 637 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,760 - It's impossible to say. 638 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000 - Alice, 639 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 from you, clinical use. 640 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,760 - I remember Julius Vogel. I did the maze expertly. 641 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,120 - I saved the vase. - You caught the ball. 642 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,640 - I caught the ball. - That was great. 643 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:47,520 - So out of the seven things to do, she missed the semaphore, and she cut the wrong wire. 644 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,200 But the rest were correct. So she got five out of seven correct. 645 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,200 - Wow. - Wow. 646 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,240 - That's unbelievable. 647 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:58,240 - And what about Jack? - Uh, Jack stopped the vase from breaking. 648 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,280 He dodged the ping-pong balls, and he completed the maze, if you're accepting that. 649 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,480 - Yeah. - Whoa, whoa, what about the 'sera-phor-eh'? 650 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,480 You wrote, um, 'vaml'. 651 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:15,320 - Who is up next, Paul Williams? - It's Pax-ie van Breek. 652 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,360 - 'Your time starts... 653 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,080 - '...now.' - PAUL ECHOES: 40, 39... 654 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,760 40, 39, 655 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,040 - 38, 37... - Perfect. 656 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,040 - ...38, 37, 657 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,840 36, 35... 658 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,360 - Oh my God, it's like the Hunger Games. 659 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,320 - ...33, 32, 660 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,280 31, 30, 661 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,280 29... 662 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,520 Ha ha ha! 663 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,360 - Ah! Oh shit, I've dropped it. No! 664 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,520 - Who was the premier of New Zealand... 665 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,120 in 1874? 666 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,520 - Uh, Vogel. 667 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,800 - Jo― John Travolta. 668 00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,680 - Sir Julius Vogel. 669 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,920 - First name? 670 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,280 - Um, shit. 671 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,280 - ...five, four, 672 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,280 three, two, 673 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,720 one. 674 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,720 ...one. 675 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,120 - I did it! 676 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,120 - ..two, one. 677 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:30,800 I've stopped the clock. 678 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,560 It's the wrong one, eh. 679 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,560 Aaaaaagh! 680 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:37,320 - I think that went well. 681 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120 - And was the confetti in time? - Yes. 682 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,640 - And the semaphore was in time? - Yes, it was, in my time. 683 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,520 - I think I gave myself a new haemorrhoid cutting that wire. 684 00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:01,120 - You gave yourself anewhaemorrhoid? - Yeah, to add to the others. 685 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,480 Can I just ask the question? 686 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,120 My semaphores ― did I actually get two right? 687 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,120 - Yes. You went 'ta'. 688 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,760 Two more, if you went S and K, then you'd be away laughing. 689 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:19,680 What was surprising was that Pax Assadi, whose first language was semaphore, didn't even try that. 690 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,160 - Didn't feel like I needed to prove myself in that context. 691 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:29,080 - So that would mean Jackie and Bree ― both five mistakes out of seven; 692 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,480 Jack and Pax ― four mistakes out of seven, 693 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,360 and Alice ― only two mistakes out of seven. - Wow. Impressive. 694 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,960 - So that's one point for Jackie and Bree, 695 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,920 three points for Jack and Pax, 696 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,960 and five points for Alice Snedden. 697 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,960 - No, stop it, stop it. 698 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,400 - Right. That's all for part four. 699 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,240 See if you can make a cup of tea, grab some biscuits, 700 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,040 Fold some washing and squeeze in a wee during the ads. 701 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,440 We'll see you after the break. 702 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,440 - Welcome back to Taskmaster. 703 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,880 Now, we've just got the one live task to go. 704 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,240 But before we get to that, can I have a score update, please, Paul? 705 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:16,840 - We currently have a three-way tie. 706 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,880 Out in front, it's Alice, Bree and Pax. 707 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,800 Ooh! 708 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,040 - How?! - Lots to play for, you guys. 709 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,720 Please head up to the stage for the final task of the show. 710 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,000 OK, Paul, who's reading the task tonight? - Bree. 711 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:39,520 - Take your time. - 'Make the most unique noise. 712 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,280 'The Taskmaster will identify which two noises sound the most alike. 713 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,800 'The least passionate of these two noises will be eliminated. 714 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,280 'Last remaining contestant wins. 715 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,600 'You must make your noise with your mouth. 716 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,800 'Your noise may not be a word. 717 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,280 'You have five seconds to make your noise. 718 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,800 'Each round will have a theme that must inspire your noise. 719 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,640 'For the final round, the two most similar noises will be eliminated.' 720 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,280 - And can we clarify? So we're not in teams? 721 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,520 This is just for the placement of the mics? - We freaked out, cos we were close. 722 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:13,360 - No, you're not teams. - Oh, thank God! - Oh my God! Thank God! 723 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,440 - OK. The theme for the first round... 724 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,720 is Wednesday. 725 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:19,720 Headphones on. 726 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,000 Alice Snedden. 727 00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:29,560 - Bree. 728 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,880 - Jack. 729 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,480 Eeeh-he-he-he-he! 730 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,920 - Jackie. 731 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,800 Ooooooh-ooh! Ooooooh! 732 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,640 - Pax. 733 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,360 - Jeremy, which two sounds were the least unique? 734 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,720 - I think it's clearly Bree and Alice. 735 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,400 - And who was the least passionate? - Alice. 736 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,880 You've been eliminated. 737 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:11,880 Well, it's quite hard to argue with that, isn't it? 738 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,800 - Round two's theme ― Romeo. 739 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:16,240 Bree. 740 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:26,880 - Jack. 741 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,800 - Enough. - OK. 742 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,080 - Jackie van Beek. 743 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,040 Ooh! 744 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,040 - Pax. 745 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,080 - Its Bree and Pax. 746 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,480 And Pax is the least passionate, 747 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,640 cos the other two were completely original. 748 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,640 So Pax is eliminated. 749 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,080 - You have been eliminated. - Awwww! 750 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:20,560 - For the final round, the two least unique sounds will both be eliminated. 751 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,560 - Understood. - The theme is cow. 752 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,400 Bree Tomasel. 753 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,680 - Jack Ansett. 754 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,720 Oh, regrets. 755 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,600 - Jackie van Beek. 756 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,080 - Headphones off, please. - Headphones off? - Yes, please. 757 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,240 Jeremy, whose two sounds were the least unique? 758 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:18,360 - Bree... 759 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,880 and Jackie. - Oh my God! 760 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,160 - Well done, everyone. Come on down and we'll score it. 761 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,920 Sit on down, everyone, and let's score that live task. 762 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,760 - So, one point for Alice. 763 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,200 Two points for Pax. 764 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,000 Three points for Bree and Jackie. 765 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,800 And five points for Jack Ansett. 766 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:45,440 - There you go. 767 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,320 So, Paul, where does that leave the scores for the episode? 768 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,920 - With a one-point win on 16 points, the winner of episode four 769 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,920 - is Bree Tomasel! - What?! 770 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,600 - Congratulations on winning a truly horrible collection of items. 771 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,840 Please go up and collect your fellow contestants' impending dooms. 772 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,240 So, what have we learned this week? 773 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,360 We've learned the difference between a climax and a cliff-hanger. 774 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:23,040 And we've learned that when you're breaking out of prison, less people is more. 775 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:29,160 But most importantly, we've learned that the winner of this episode is Bree Tomasel! 776 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,800 Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time. 777 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,080 - Yah! 778 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:35,200 - Oh shit! 779 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,560 Yah! 780 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,240 - Yum! - Jesus! 781 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,680 Jesus! Jesus Christ! 782 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,200 - Yah! 783 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,600 You know what I love, Paul? 784 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,600 I love a montage. 785 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,640 Cue montage. 786 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,640 - Aaaah! 787 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:00,560 - I don't think this is possible. 788 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,160 Aaargh! 789 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:09,240 - That was the most successful moment in the history of this show!