Series 8, Episode 2 | 'A Novel About Russian Gulags.' | Full Episode | Taskmaster
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- In series 8, episode 2 of Taskmaster Iain Stirling, Joe Thomas, Lou Sanders, Paul Sinha and Sian Gibson create something that looks like a moustache (but isn't), run as far as they can whilst making a variety of noises and team up to work out what's in a box.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion. - Комедії
On the left of the panda painting, the Chinese reads "the deep love of mother and son". Love it.
Lmfao makes it funnier
Oh it's deep alright.
holy shit
Oedipus and his mother really did commission some weird artwork.
How deep are we talking about?
If they ever do a loser of losers show they should compete for a trophy of Alex's head.
Or of Greg's buttocks.
And they should absolutely do a losers of losers show. The worst participants, scorewise, were often the most entertaining.
Any excuse to get Paul Chowdhry back in the mix is fine with me.
Absotuduluduly!!
@@joeshafer now that would be awesome innit
I desperately want to see Nish and Paul back!
Sian continuing the grand Taskmaster tradition of not knowing how to use a siphon
As established in S01E01.
But this was the worst I've seen yet
I think the first sucessful use of a siphon happens in the Norwegian version, Kongen Befaler.
@@wohlhabendermanager is that pre-Al Murray
It’s happened successfully exactly once, but only because of bribery lol
I'm convinced that Joe just walked onto the set with no idea what was going on and they let him play anyways
He's so cute.
Listening to the Taskmaster podcast they revealed that’s exactly what happened
@@yeshua7238 then who would have been the real 5th candidat3?
I'm pretty sure that's at least 50% of the contestants to be honest.
Like, even when he's winning he still looks totally bewildered.
Never have the contestants been so puzzled by the concept that they're supposed to be in the same room doing a task together as Joe and Sian
Yeah, you can just see that Joe's first thoughts are "Oh no, did I walk in on her task? Am I not supposed to be here? What do I do?" before slowly realising that it's a team task and trying to be friendly but by that time it's just too awkward.
I like to think Joe wasn't told about the team tasks, went in thinking "this is great, I don't have to interact with anyone but Alex, except for at the end. amazing." and then was horribly surprised
I love Joe cause he's just so awkward throughout the entire show 😂
This show really reframes what's normal in my brain. They come up with this ridiculous rice moving game and 1 minute in I'm like yes Joe make a bowl of the mango skin and push it in with breadsticks, exactly what I would have done, classic strategy.
I thought to do the same thing, except I thought they were mangoes
funny, the first thing i tought and i guessed everyone watching would do the same..... wash the honey pot and use the wooden stick to move the rice out the table on the pot and to the other pot.....
Before anyone even started I thought I was genius for thinking of using the fruit skin as a bowl. Then Lou just washes the jar and I realise I'm actually an idiot!
Weirdly enough, this was only my second idea. My first one was exactly what Iain did. Including just dropping the honey on the floor. Then I saw Lou wash out the glass and though "yeah well.... that would work a bit better now, wouldn't it?"
Just cut off the top of the balloon and use it as a funnel, from jar to bottle. No grains wasted. 🤷♂️
Joe Thomas is the human embodiment of Panic - he doesn’t know what’s happening, where he is, why he’s there but he’s absolutely lovely and I’m proud of him
Basically a Harvie version of me
To be fair Iain also seems like he was snooping backstage and got told "What are you doing here, the show started already" so he got on stage and is just winging it with absolutely no idea whats happening.
How is that an embodiment of Panic?
Edit: Ahhh! YOUR Panic. Got it now! 👏
Yes, joe, just like panic is absolutely lovely and I'm proud
I think it's part of what makes him oddly sexy, I may be in love
Joe consistently has that look like he has no idea where he is or how he got there.
And then he was watching a human transform into a lizard.
That's drugs for ya 🤷🏻♂️
My theory is that he's so normal that he comes across weird.
he looks baffled
@@tomhammersley9664 ? He does/did drugs?
i can't believe they made josh widdicombe count all that rice
😂😂😂 that made me laugh harder than it should have 😂
How in the world Joe got more rice into the glass with the wet peel of a mango than Lou with a perfectly clean glass jar is one of the universe's great mysteries...
I think the rice funnelled in better with the mango peel than from the larger jar
@@22grabage That's just how those little islanders are.
Did Joe start his funneling faster? It seems that way from the clip. Also, it would have taken Lou a fair amount of time to empty the jar, wash it out, and dry it to prevent the rice from sticking.
He probably dropped less on the floor when loading the peel due to the wider dia, and dropped less on the table when pouring due to better funneling. Also the wetness of the mango would only wetten a single layer of grains at a time.
I think it is justified to say this now: "because he is a MAN".
You may not take the bottle out of the living room.
You may not move the hoops.
Without moving the fish bowls.
There is a loaf of bread in the lab.
@@mannequin_mu Am I the spider?
Only for Taskmaster fans these sentences make sense completely out of context 😂 love it
Illuminati dialect
I cannot express how much I hope we're going to be given a compilation of these in the future
Joe seems like he's going through an existential crisis in every task
He's just always puzzled
He somehow looks both sad and surprised in every shot lol
the awkwardness between joe and sian was unbearable XD i loved it
That is exactly the interaction i have with every woman at our first meeting
Honestly such a mood, I would react the same if I was put with someone in a room that I don't know well
@@sturmklinge9642 Yeah but sian is so cute you just couldnt do anything besides being happy😂
@@kingofrivia1248 thats EXACTLY why i would be so awkward lol
I miss Phil...
Phil: "Diamond earrings!"
Greg: "How much were they?"
Phil: "Well, they were 2750, but I haggled, I said, 2200, he said 2750, I said 2500, he said 2750, so I paid 2750."
Series 7 is my favorite cast, for sure. It's taking a while for this group to grow on me.
@@chiptovar it will grow don't worry.
That’s what she said
That joke was funny the first time. Only then. And yet he just kept doing it.
“Sometimes my mind is not my friend.”
I want to get that on a T-shirt.
That'd be a great t shirt
Also “ a BETTER woman”
And “I’m more of a dancer’
The latter one is from 8OO10C does Countdown, but in my opinion it’s one of Lou Sanders’ most memorable moments.
time stamp please?
@@evanthorn408 it's when she's thinking about what to make her mustache out of.
I had brain damage for 17 years, and I have (according to me) recovered, and got back a whole lot of memories that I hadn't known were missing.
Also, a deep appreciation for how hard the mentally disabled struggle, and how no one deserves ridicule. Kindness is the best gift we can share with the world.
I need this shirt.
Hell, I need that as my book title.
Happy Hindsight!
Greg's face when he realized he was beatboxing was adorable lmaooo
i was also trying the boots and cats thing and just beatboxed along with him :D
Joe Thomas and Alex's awkward energies clashing is amazing
I know this comment is 2 years old, but I was losing it at Alex and Joe. They're both awkward in different ways and as somebody who is awkward myself (probably the same as or moreso than Joe's TV persona) I thought it was the funniest thing.
I keep thinking Joe is doing a character: bemused, dithering, failingly earnest. Now I realize: it's just Joe.
Don't forget modest!
I think I'd be a lot like Joe would I ever make it on! 😂
Gotta say, Paul in shades nonchalantly naming birds and eating grapes is a pretty badass vibe, this is the only thing all series that played into his strength 😂
Joe thomas definitely took a giant leap towards becoming one of my favorite contestants I've ever seen.
He's adorable 😍
I just about pissed myself watching him being chased by Little Alex Horn while making that noise.
Finally a positive commentary about him.
I love his reaction, facial expressions. He is a very intelligent creature ;) and the compass thing? I mean - come on :)
@@katarzynaborzecka6458 I don’t think the comments are negative, his interactions were mostly awkward but so are many people so why not laugh kindly at that sort of situation? :)
He's so relatable hahahaha
I’ve never seen someone move with less urgency than joe
And yet he won the running task.
Wait till you see Jo Brand‘s series😂
Remember phill wang
@@echo3841 Phil's wang moved quite a bit, as I recall.
Paul Chowdhry, innit.
“I don’t want a dead mouse on my face....”
“Well, do you want a live mouse?”
Joe always looks like someone has just startled him awake, but especially this episode.
Oh god, that's such an accurate description
He was definitely dragged out of bed by the Taskmaster crew the middle of the night and made to do tasks at gunpoint. There is no way he is there willingly.
Perfect description
Joe and Sian was quite possibly the most uncomfortable exchange I've ever witnessed.
Thanks for that
I think Sian said on the podcast she didn't really know how to interact with Joe, and Ed was like "he's like that for everybody", lol.
Not even in my top ten personally
I like to think that all of Joe’s baffled, just-woke-up, confused faces are the result of him constantly jumping back in time into his own body to prevent a terrible tragedy that happened during the filming of Taskmaster in the prime timeline.
I will think about this every time I see him for the rest of the series.
I like this whimsical narrative very much
Billy Pilgrim became unstuck in time
Alex Horne, if you see this, thanks for getting me through 2020.
Yeah, thank you Alex ❤
"Woodcock. Ian." was one of the most badass things I've ever seen on television
You just saved the evening of every people who has go celebrate new year on their own. I hopd you realise how great that is.
facts
Happy new year!
I think that was the intention! They released the first episode of the series on Christmas Eve as well
And that are working while at it
That doesn't make me feel better....out of 7 billions i am being counted on the list of 5k lonely ones
Heartbreaking to see the early signs of Parkinson's disease when Paul Sinha is doing the rice task. You can almost see the tremors in his hands. He also keeps his right hand stationary while clapping. Wish him well!
oh man I had no idea!
I think he also had a stiff shoulder during the filming so that didn't help
D:
@@themoolag rigidity of muscles is also a Parkinson’s thing :(
@@Kimmie9553 he had shoulder surgery not long before they filmed some of the tasks
Props buyer: Laurie Law
I see you you are a vital part of this whole opperation.
The lady is a saint. All her life is buying eggs, coconuts and ballons...
@@ericjourdain892 And that one season where they used a ton of potatoes
@@WandererTheLost And a truckload of rubber ducks!
@@ericjourdain892 And replacement Ukeleles.
@@ericjourdain892 She's the lady from all the math problems.
Joe and Sian have to be one of my favorite teams to come out of Taskmaster if only for the unintentional comedy of their interactions
in the first task paul tried to open a mango like an egg lmfao
Still better than Romesh's watermelon opening techniques.
maybe 'better' in an effectiveness sense. nothing is better than Romesh and the watermelon in my book though.
The number of human beings I've fallen for from this show is outrageous. This series has added Joe Thomas and Paul Sinha to the list. Right next to last season's Phil Wang and Jessica Knappett
Hahaha Pam I do the same thing for one of the girls every season. Sarah Pascoe, Sally Phillips, now Lou... There's nothing more attractive than someone who can make you laugh.
@@tradtke101 so true. Nish Kumar is one of my favorites for that exact reason.
That Nish/Mark song duet had you swooning?
all of them are very easy to crush on in my opinion
I feel that... Jon Richardson, Mark Watson... this show is ruining all of us
Oh I am all for this Sian and Joe mom and son team lmao
Is Joe aware of how utterly adorable he is?
i'm not sure he's aware of ANYTHING tbh lmaooo
@@evanthorn408 ASDFGHJKL
@@evanthorn408 but at the same time he seems to be aware of EVERYTHING
Jo with his awkwardness and bird knowledge has become my favorite I think
Man, seeing Paul auto-pilot reading the rice task and then just...breaking *all* of the multiple, well-defined rules was so painful to watch.
“Honestly dehumanizing” is really the point of the whole show.
It's peak human, I argue.
As much as I love Greg's face when he laughs really hard, Alex's losing it face is just so good
I love that joe has that face that he doesn't wanna be there at all
Being from the Orkney Islands, the rice task was one of the best things I've ever seen and Joe is my new hero.
Discovering Taskmaster was easily one of the most enjoyable things to come out of 2020 for me. Thanks for the laughs this year, they were often very much needed.
Agreed. I started watching when lockdowns started, and love every episode that gets put up on YT 🥰
True, but my q is how did you only find it now, & not years ago?
@@kurtsudheim825 I live in the United States, so I don’t have access to British TV channels.
I never knew how much I needed the Taskmaster house with anime eyes
Greg’s anime eyes, per the portrait!
Joe is the definition of the guy who got on the show against his better judgement, and he can't get out of it because he's signed a contract so he's just suffering through it 🤣
I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at Joe like "Where do I know you from?" ... and then having that moment ... "Oh, Greg shouted at you in The Inbetweeners."
OMG I knew who Joe was and that they where both in the Inbetweeners, but it only just occurred to me, that Greg and Joe knew each other before taskmaster 🙈🤦♀️😂. (It doesn’t seem like that on the show.)
My first thought for the moustache task was to just get a marker and write “ceci n’est pas une moustache” on my face
The look on Lord Davies' face as he realises he is beatboxing is precious.
Paul's face when Greg lists him in the beginning as one of the participants ist just like "wait, I'm in here as well?"
This is why Joe and Sian are my favorite team. So mismatched, just having a lovely time.
Taskmaster channel owner(s): would you please consider adding professional subtitles to these videos to make them more accessible? I would really like to share them with one of my friends, but she needs subtitles to follow along. Also, they'd just be helpful for me, even though I have normal hearing--as an American, I sometimes don't understand or don't catch super fast jokes that include British slang, which is kinda sad not knowing what happened to make everyone laugh so hard.
That would be wonderful!
I would volunteer to do the subtitles for free.
I would love that. I mean I am not fluent in English and sometimes I did not catch everything.
The moment Greg learns how to beat box is adorable. His face at 36:03 XD
No one is going to talk about Iain casually throwing out "ball gag" at 28:38?
One of my favourite things about this show is introducing me to hot guy comedians.
Joe's real cute.
Me but with hot female comedians.
Except Jessica Knappett. She's annoying as hell.
Joe's awkwardness is frankly award winning
They way Sian says "I think you're lying" has cured me, it's so cute
Everyone is all "Joe Thomas this" or "Joe Thomas that" idk yall I've already emotionally attached to Iain. Hes like that extremely extroverted theatre kid in the DnD club
I'm a big fan of both
Extroverted for Dnd, introverted for Theater kids
He's a British version of Benjamin Wheeler
As a member of a DnD group made of theater kids, I can confirm this energy is a match
I love both.
I also have a strange emotional attachment to Paul Sinha.
Watching Paul's hands shiver after knowing his diagnosis breaks my heart.
I'm confused. What did I miss and was it part of this episode? I watched it straight through and missed that bit.
@@tonythreepies9272 oh no! Poor guy. Thanks for informing me.
I think one time is during the rice task, when he’s scooping the rice into the balloon. His hands seem to be quite shaky
It was noticable during the baby monitor task.
@@nicholelarue2499 the comment got deleted , can you share the answer?
It been almost every series that somebody has attempted to siphon as a part of a task, and thus far, we are yet to see anybody succeed.
Didn’t Al Murray succeed one time after Alex carried the bucket for him?
@@MrMonsterjesus You are correct, and PokerJoker is wrong. Al Murray correctly used a siphon in Series 3 moving water from one bucket to the other bucket task (without touching the buckets). He paid Alex to move the buckets closer but Alex refused to pour the water from the start bucket to the destination one, so Al used the included hose to create a siphon and Alex was willing to raise the start bucket for the siphon to begin working correctly.
Joe is one of my all time favorite contestants. He just always looks so lost and confused, even when he's absolutely crushing a task.
I love Greg’s face when he realizes that ‘boots and cats’ does sound like beatboxing.
what is the line between "sounds like" and "is"!
Apparently I'm in love with all the Joes. First Lycett, now Thomas. 😍
same... I think I have finally a type.
what about wilkinson, and, if you count the different spelling, brand?
Watching Paul try the rice task after learning of the diagnosis he got directly following the show is heartbreaking 🥺🥺
10:25
I hope this year goes happy as Iain was with his Liphook mustache.
Oh man people coming in to a room and hugging. Remember those days?
You mean like Joe and Sian? :D
"Mhmm... yeah... that is weird, isn't it?"
Joe Thomas providing the most underrated TaskMaster moment in history 😂
It's good to know after that team meeting that all the characters Joe plays are actually just himself, not acting.
"Aaah... AAAAH! Ah."
I love Joe
I'm glad somebody thought to wash the honey jar.
Can't think of a better way to spend New Year's Eve, just me and the dog, a microwave dinner and 'Taskmaster'.
That sounds outstanding
can't let go of how much Joe Thomas reminds me of a flabbergasted Sam Rockwell...
Right? Good to know I’m not the only one who sees that
Never noticed that until you pointed it out! I love Sam Rockwell!
That anime painting of the Taskmaster is just the best
Unfortunately it's anime as drawn by someone who doesn't know how to draw anime.
the weird orientalist styling of this season slightly ruins it for me.
@@sirleebutler Aside from the painting what else did u find orientalistic disturbing if i may ask?
@@Kyrieru Maybe its supposed to be a bit goofy too?
@@rachelkim6134 Well too bad u dislike the art, at least u can admit thats what they were going for right? ^,^'
The shot of Joe and Alex at 37:22 is possibly my favorite moment in the show.
That moment of pure joy on Greg's face when he learned the 'boots and cats' beatboxing beginners trick just so beautiful to see.
Hilarious episode! The whole time I was thinking why the hell is Paul Sinha wearing a bathrobe where ever he is? Is he ... Arthur Dent?
I love the jammies!
I also immediately thought Arthur Dent!
Dent Arthur Dent, if you please.
@@jzthompson9598 As in the late Dent Arthur Dent?
@@roundaboutrequiem98 Indeed! From the best radio show ever performed!
I wanted to thank everyone here. 2020 was pretty hard for me and at a point was I was at a particularly low point I discovered your show. It made me laugh out loud for teh first time in so long that I was surprised by the noise. I can't tell you how much that meant to me, thank you.
I hope you're doing better now.
This series... I simply loved this cast from episode 1. Usually it takes a bit to warm up to everyone, but these people are just so lovely. 💜
When they enter the room for the team task: British social awkwardness at its best
"Oh, of course. It's mango, isn't it? Mango's different. It's different to a bowl."
Quote of the episode.
I love Paul’s laugh. It’s so happy 😃
FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG
I’ve never been happier that season 8 and hopefully 9 are here !!
That painting of the Taskmaster is probably the best one so far.
The audience really does make a difference
idk dude. i really like how series 10 felt. it felt like comedians having a good time rather than showing off to an audience.
Funny, how when under pressure, they went for the weird birds and not for the basic ones, like duck, goose, stork, albatross, robin, pidgeon,... from the tip of my head
...or Balaflew.
2020 comes to an end today and a new episode of taskmaster is still the best thing that happens today
I know that every time a contestant calls something "dehumanizing" they name the show after Greg's response to it, but I really feel like this show should have been named "Balaflue."
“It’s little Alex Horne!”
Dear Lovely Taskmaster Merch Department,
Please make prints available of the striking and variously styled portraits of the handsome Taskmaster displayed in the house.
I would also be interested in a coffee table book of all Taskmaster related artworks presented throughout the run. I'll bet I'm not the only one.
They do have some coasters with the different portraits for sale, if you dare put something on his magnificent face.
it just occurred to me--joe thomas constantly looks like a mildly offended cat
I’ll be honest Iain said ballaflou so confidently that I, a fellow Scot, went oh yeah I’m sure those are a native Scottish bird 😂😂💀
Each season there is a contestant I would not hesitate to die for, So far I’m thinking it’s gonna be Joe (something about him is so relatable)
omigosh gregs face at 10:25 is hilarious. he just looks so unimpressed lol and then the comment, "the lip hook things annoyed me" haha i love this show
I love how in every season there is atleast one attempt at syphoning something, but no contestant ever knows how to syphon something properly
*please dont touch that just yet" Paul looking so scared 26:00
In fairness to Sian and Paul, I cannot think of a single noise that would convey "compass."
It's not a single noise, but a series: heh huh hee hi hee huh. "Never eat slimy worms." A mnemonic device for remembering North, East, South and West.
Ah yes, the famous bird the Balifloo lol
I heard Ballaflu.
I really liked the flies n worms stache the best!
That "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" joke is golden
"There's just a fundamental difference between what Alex and I find funny." ...I think Alex is the funniest person in the world and he can the smallest things funny, be it slight facial expression changes or little phrases like "big if!" or "yet!" I do find Greg funny too though.
They are really great friends off camera it is just a persona for the show. Alex is actually the mastermind behind the whole thing and writes a lot of the jokes!
@@TurkeyMeat Yes... I know that. Their humour is very different though.
Mert Aksac!
@@TurkeyMeat great friends? Didn't Greg make fun of Alex genuinely not knowing jack**** about his personal life?
@@goldenpony822 when?
Sian and joe's moment, I can totally relate to Joe