Ah yes, who could forget the scene that started with Romesh walking in and obliterating a watermelon on the ground, and finished with him spurting a vaguely pink liquid from his mouth.
I mean, he brought his wedding ring, a motherhood statue that was a gift from his wife, and a car...that was also a gift from his wife. ...I get the feeling he was using the show as an excuse to get rid of his wife /s
Their reactions after their introductions EVERY TIME are: Frank: looks down and smiles politely Josh: looks up and opens his mouth in disbelief Roisin: looks down in embarrassment them nods unapologetically Ramesh: death glare Tim: absolutely no response
@@meow-px6kk to be fair, it was the first season and nobody knew at that point that the show would be that big by now :D but yeah, 4 grand still seems a little low
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm eagerly awaiting the Director's Cut of "Tree Wizard", where Romesh overdubs a xylophone score onto the sound track.
Everyone else is talking about how Josh won from the beans, but I'm just glad Tim finally won an episode considering he consistently had the most creative solutions and was often punished for them.
@@WatanabeNoTsuna. He just signed on to do season one when they had trouble finding contestants. Since he was a very respected comedian at the time that gave way to more people signing on to do the show
@@erikpeterson611 i mean I’d argue that every contestant was in the height of very prolific careers at the time this aired. They were all pretty highly regarded in their fields at this point that’s why they got their very famous friends to do the first season. Literally everyone here are friends of Alex and Greg and this is actually a game Alex had been playing with his friend for years before they decided to expand and monetize it
34:16 "Tastes like honest food ... but also if you got served it during the war, you'd understand." Great quote. Not sure whether it's a diss or a compliment though hahaha
Reminds me of all the derogatory acronyms for military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), the best ones being 'Meals Rejected by the Enemy' and 'Meals Rarely Edible'.
If Josh wouldn't have gotten his extra point for counting, he would have been tied with Romesh and Frank - I'd have liked to see a three-way tiebreaker event of them having to race to find Alex in the studio
It's 2023 and I've just finished binging the series for the 7th or 8th time. I just want to send an enormously huge thanks to this 5 brave people who took the risk and participated in this "madness", and eventually helped Alex and his crew to convince the TV bosses that Taskmaster has a place in the panel show pantheon. :bow:
I think Romesh actually puts in 💯 effort on this show but he tries to act all chill and hide it. It’s why he always brings personal items that mean a lot to him for the trophy challenges.
i think its a bit common to state that Series One's score layout was a bit more unfair than it is in later seasons, its kinda natural since its kind of balancing the line of "the points are pointless" and "traditional gameshow point system" with this series since it hasnt figured out what it wants to be yet. I much prefer the later seasons where the contestants have figured out that it doesnt matter and only really get competitive if its in their nature (my mind is thinking of Lou from S8 who seems to just be a pretty competitive person naturally). I do think its probably just a bit of dry humor and he wasnt being serious serious, but i do think he (and the other four as well) might have taken their run on the show a bit more seriously than Alex and the other creatives really intended for them to simply because it was their first try at it, but no, i dont think Romesh actually feels slighted by the show.
@@rodanandmeBut they were five comedians on a game show with no valuable prize on a satellite channel based on an Edinburgh Comedy Fest show. Comedy excuse-game panel shows were already a thing on British TV. I think any of them taking it too seriously is just making excuses for being awkward on the first go and not having a previous series to watch first.
Also - 31:45... this ain't no Xylophone, it's clearly a Metallophone (xylo=wood -> meaning the keys have to made of wood) - defly not Romesh's, but the crew's fail!
Here's my alphabet recipe: You need: Apple (one) , Butter, Cucumber, Duck (a breast), Eggs (2 maybe?), Flour, Garlic, Hoisin sauce, Ice cream, Jackfruit (slightly unripe), Kale, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Nuts, Orange (two, maybe?), Pepper, Quinoa, Rocket, Salt, Tomato, Unpasteurized milk, Vinegar, Water, Xylitol, Yogurt, Zucchini It's a 3 dish meal: - A salad with a light yogurt dressing - duck and vegetable-curry with quinoa - Crepes with ice cream, nuts, and apple compote For the salad, use: Cucumber, Lettuce, Rocket, Onion, Tomato, Vinegar, Yogurt, Garlic, Salt, Pepper. - cut up your lettuce, onion, cucumber and tomatoes, plate with rocket. - Combine spices, vinegar and yogurt for the dressing. Add on top. For the main dish, use: Butter, Duck, flour, garlic, hoisin sauce, tomato, jackfruit, kale, mushrooms, onion, orange, quinoa, water, zucchini, salt, pepper - season duck, roast in butter and put into the oven to cook through and crisp up. - combine quinoa, salt and water, bring to a boil, let simmer. - caramelize the onion in butter, add in the different veggies according to cooking times. Use pureed tomato as the sauce base. Add hoisin sauce and otherwise season to taste. Use orange juice to balance out the acidity and sweetness. - Add the cooked quinoa onto a plate, put some vegetables next to it, and put the sliced duck on top of the vegetables. For the dessert, use: Apple, butter, eggs, flour, ice cream, nuts, orange, salt, unpasteurized milk, xylitol - peel and chop up the apple, add the juice of one orange and some xylitol (which is a sugar-alternative), set on the stove - combine u-milk, flour, eggs, and a pinch of salt for the crepes. - heat butter in a pan, make crepes. - take each crepe, add a scoop of ice cream, and add your still-warm apple compote. All this took me about half an hour to come up with and I have not yet tried my recipe, nor do I intend to do so. The letter U sucks balls.
@@notAshildr HA! I wanted to write the same and I crumbled up the note and forgot about it. And now it turns out you wrote it down! I will too! :D A-Apples, B-Bananas, C-Cinnamon, D-Dades, E-English tea F-French toast G-Grapes H-honey I-Ice-Cream J-Jam, K-Kiwi, L-Lychee, M-Mandarines, N-Nibbles, O-Onions, P-Paprikas, Q-Quinoa, R-Raisins, S-Spaghetti, T-Tomatoes (Peeled) and U-Undersized Strawberries, V-Vegetarian meatballs, W-Whip Cream X-Xtra large cookie, Y-Yoghurt, Z -Zorro mask. It's all very sweet, but you cut the Apples, Bananas, Grapes, Kiwi's, Lychees, Mandarines, Strawberries up and put yoghurt in as well. You can make it into a smoothie or serve it as a fruitsalade. And eat it with the French toast and put the jam into the mix ór on the toast. Meanwhile, wear the Zorro-mask. Just because it's cool. Then get the English tea, drink that as it is. Get the peeled tomatoes, put those in a pan. Add spaghetti (cooked) and some Paprika-parts and some onion-bits and some raisins. Also, add the vegetarian meatballs. Then, the dessert. You take one last apple, put it in the oven. You crunch up the nibbles (sweet nibbles) and cut the dades. Cinnamon into the nibbles-mixture. Quinoa into the mixture. Honey into the mixture. Raisins into the mixture. X-tra large cookie will be crumbled into the mixture. And then you stuff the mixture into the (removed) core-part of the apple and you 'bake' it in the oven. And serve it with Ice Cream and Whip Cream. Tadah.
I like how I’ve seen Roisin, Josh and Romesh’s blooper posted on its own with people going “this isn’t very funny he looks genuinely upset :(“ in the comments and fully believing it so clearly Greg was wrong about the convincingness of their acting
Yeah, I thought their acting was good! And the other group's acting was terrible ha. But the image of just half a body sticking straight up out of the ground I think was the deciding factor haha.
yes!! i'm so glad somebody said this because i also thought the roisin, romesh and josh's video looked so much more like a realistic home blooper video! the acting in the other video was so much worse!
Interesting seeing the ol' days before they lowered Alex chair and he became 'little Alex Horne'. He's actually quite tall. Just not as towering as Greg Davies, the "human Easter Island monument" as Rhod Gilbert called him in series 7, amongst many other things...
Not really... it's like 10min from cold water, or 3min from when the water starts boiling. People mix up the 3min. But also, and this will shock Americans... We eat SOFT boiled eggs. Dippy eggs. With little bread or toast 'soldiers' to dunk in them. It's amazing. But you can't do that in the USA coz American eggs are full of salmonella. We also DON'T put our eggs in the fridge.
@@juliemichellerobinson1841 We eat soft boiled eggs in the US. Our eggs are refrigerated because they come from all over the US and are delivered to grocery stores in a refrigerated truck/plane. Once an egg has been refrigerated it has to stay refrigerated. Even if eggs in a store were from a local place the eggs are in refrigerators because that's what people are used to. If you buy them directly from the farm, or you have your own chickens you don't have to refrigerate them.
Romesh and Tim were my favorites this season. Tim was definitely the most creative, and I think Romesh low-key put a really earnest effort into every challenge, which I respect. If he weren't scored the most harshly out of everyone I think he would've won.
Had Josh not gotten the single bonus point awarded for his solo efforts counting such numerous legumes and pastas, there would've been a three way tie at the end. That's wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild!
He's probably a bit more used to how to game the system since Alex has been making his friends do things like this since at least 2010. Didn't help him win though lol
@@nommyyt In all fairness, if this was a later season when Greg had his persona down, Tim would've likely been graded a lot better. They were trying to figure out how much they could bend the rules for fun at this point.
Never seen or heard of it before, but now that UA-cam recommended Taskmastser to me I'll never be bored again. Still laughing at that one episode where that one guy smashes that watermelon on the floor...although I watched it 10 times yesterday.
Given Josh's history of lying about his prizes ( the magic eye image was that of a duck and he brought in an unsigned football), I wouldn't put it past him that the sticker album is actually empty.
In my heart romesh is the absolute winner. Getting second by 1 point after Greg being completely biased against him so many times for comedic purposes, he should clearly be in the three digits category by now.
You act like Romesh also didn’t come in last/close to last for a lot of objective tasks as well. Egg mini-golf, high-giving a 55 year old, etc. don’t act like “Romesh lost because Greg is biased.”
Me: "God I'm bad at names, thankfully they have the same people every episode of the season!" Tim and Frank: "Don't mind if we start calling ourselves Brad and Jeff"
When I first saw this series, I thought it was extremely crass and rude of Tim Key to feed Alex dogfood. Like what person does that? Then I found out they've been friends for 20 years and went yep, friends do shit like that. It's reminiscent of what Alex ruthlessly puts Mark Watson through in Series 5 lol.
A smutty gag was removed during Romesh's prize task, about how using the vape pen made him feel like he was 'giving RoboCop a blowie' which makes the gag immediately after when Roisin's prize is shown a little confusing.
They probably did 😮 Apparently, it's a thing these days: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/zebra-meat-exotic-and-lean-but-does-it-taste-good-9623700.html
@Kathleen Henson Places where they sell exotic meat are actually common around the whole world. In my country, there are several Markets and Butchers selling Monkey meat, Crocodile meat, Dog meat, Cat meat, Rat meat, Bat meat, and etc.
When I seen him take his shoes off I thought he knew what he was doing. He should have put the boxing glove on his foot and picked all blues out. "Wear a bowing glove"
I thought exactly the same. Or, worn one as a hat. The only defense I can imagine for this is that it might be difficult to transition from one manner of wear to another without there being a short period during which the glove is not being worn. The hat idea might be possible.
I kinda miss combatant contestants like Romesh in the current couple of series. Everyone's just so damn pleasant. Romesh's grumpty banter, I love it :)
I think we've used up all of the aggressive comics except Jack Dee, and I don't know if he would do Taskmaster. Romesh Ranganathan, Al Murray, Joe Wilkinson, Johnny Vegas and Jack Dee are who spring to mind when I think of shouty, annoyed British comedians and all but Jack have done the show already.
@@OpossumOnTheMoon xylon is Greek for wood, so xylophones consist of wooden bars. The instrument in the video is a metallophone, more specifically a glockenspiel.
Alex is a legend for actually eating the dog food. I love this show, it was such a great find that gave me tons of enjoyment during the pandemic. I just started rewatching the show and want to say thanks for uploading all these episodes on youtube :)
So the deciding point for the series winner is that he counted beans, spaghetti and rice while no one else did. - In the episode it didn't matter, but for the grand total it was the one point that made a difference. Brilliant.
Romesh is one of my all-time favourite contestants he had so many iconic moments on the show >>>> I wish they made an all-stars season and invited him again
There's something I really appreciate in this series (Which I only just got introduced to 2 days ago) that others might not bother to notice or compliment. I really really like the music! Especially when they segue from the stage to the setting of the next task. The montage is nice enough, but truly complimented by the fantastic music selection.
@@B3Band people have the right to comment the video, don't they? Just avoid reading the comments _before_ you've actually watched the episode if you really don't want any spoiler, that's dumb.
for the final challenge, “while wearing the gloves” doesn’t specify where on the body so putting them on your feet would probably work XD. so i would’ve just put them on my feet and used my hands.
Are all the seasons going to be posted?? I sooo hope so. I live in Spain and haven't been able to see the other episodes...... please don't take to long to upload each season!! Thanks
When Josh stands next to Greg, it looks like 'take your kid to work day'.
Or Frodo and Gandalf
I was shocked 😳
Sometimes I wee out my bum.
@@johannesbertilsson4856 with the the curly hair, I thought hobbit as well- well played sir
I had to look it up. Didn't realize Greg was 6'8". Wow. Quite literally over a foot taller than Josh at 5'7".
25:57 Romesh: "I love a bit of watermelon."
*flashback to Romesh vs the watermelon in ep 1*
Ah yes, who could forget the scene that started with Romesh walking in and obliterating a watermelon on the ground, and finished with him spurting a vaguely pink liquid from his mouth.
“If someone served this to you, you would not remain in contact with them.”
“I’ve served it to you.”
“And so it ends.”
Absolutely withering sentence
😊
when Josh went and received the trophy, I suddenly got an urge to rewatch Lord Of The Rings for some reason
i saw this comment before i watched the video, and when i got to it i started crying +1
GroovingPict We’re going on an adventure!
Just finished watching the whole trilogy and I saw the resemblance as well. It doesn’t help that josh is 5’7” and Greg is 6’8”
@@alyssafoster4765 yes, that is the joke...
i think that's a very rude thing to say considering he auditioned for that and didn't get it
Ramesh playing the xylophone while Alex eats is my last two brain cells trying to cope
@Matias Cora the existential dread of life and death
That's a glockenspiel. Xylo- means wood - a xylophone has wooden bars.
The bits when Romesh are (authentically) happy and smiling are the best bits
Lillie Wonka 27:01 for instant serotonin boost
Romesh be playin. He played it cool but you could tell he really put effort into every task.
17:42 is another
Him being angry is an act, in real life he is supposedly very charming
*is - but you are right
They really missed the oportunity to serve Alphabet-Soup
I'm slightly annoyed no one during the M&M sorting thought to wear the gloves on their feet and do it with their hands.
I was thinking just get a liquid dinner. Use the alphabet to name every alcoholic beverage you can think of. Mainly to watch Alex have to drink it.
misinformedmarti
Exactly. I can’t cook worth shit, but I can sit back and watch Alex destroy his liver.
@@brianmchaney7473 Hard to get Ductape gloves off without assistance. Probably would've taken 2 minutes doing that alone
Brilliant!
His wedding ring. His car. His morals. What the hell is next man?
his first born child
@@xgene7796 That would be too much, as that's the one that isn't a little shit.
Everything he has on his person at that moment I guess haha
Or his house
I mean, he brought his wedding ring, a motherhood statue that was a gift from his wife, and a car...that was also a gift from his wife.
...I get the feeling he was using the show as an excuse to get rid of his wife /s
@@ViktorErikFade Have you seen Champion of Champions special? He literally put his house up, haha
wait, so josh only won the whole series because of the bean/pasta/rise counting point
amazing, absolutely amazing.
omg, you're right lmfao!!!
it was allllllllllllll an elaborate conspiracy put together by Greg Davies himself to make sure his bud Josh Widdicome won lol
Otherwise it would have been a three-way tie... amazing!
If he'd remembered to mark down Key for the hair and dog food, Josh's pizza would have moved up in points for him anyway, so it's a wash.
Their reactions after their introductions EVERY TIME are:
Frank: looks down and smiles politely
Josh: looks up and opens his mouth in disbelief
Roisin: looks down in embarrassment them nods unapologetically
Ramesh: death glare
Tim: absolutely no response
"death glare" is a great way to put it lmao
Frank Skinner is one of the best on this season. "I'm gettin' four grand for this" bahaha
Was the show paying him that or did je mean the stress ball company??
@@bo_obylady7092 4 grand is definitely not enough payment for a big show like this, so im guessing hes joking that its sponsored.
@@meow-px6kk to be fair, it was the first season and nobody knew at that point that the show would be that big by now :D but yeah, 4 grand still seems a little low
@@cullermann2 probably was a wordplay cuz his ring he brought before was about 4 grand worth
Because the Stress Ball Co Paid Him lol
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm eagerly awaiting the Director's Cut of "Tree Wizard", where Romesh overdubs a xylophone score onto the sound track.
okay josh is 5'7", he's not THAT short, but can we talk about how greg davies is 6 FOOT 8 INCHES
That's what I was watching. Josh is like a kid next to Greg...
DAMN
Greg is one inch taller than my dad....
I'm Dutch. I'm 6 feet and surrounded by giants that dwarf greg. Can we please not talk about it? xD
after all of the short jokes at Josh and Jon Richardson, it is interesting to learn they are basically my height
Everyone else is talking about how Josh won from the beans, but I'm just glad Tim finally won an episode considering he consistently had the most creative solutions and was often punished for them.
Agreed. Tim and Frank were my favorites. A riot to watch.
He was also the biggest cheater lol
the letter to not grow a nail, was lame
Agreed, he was my favorite all season long.
David Smith it was funny. And it was a lame challenge
Just wanna take a moment to thank Frank Skinner for putting his name on this dumb idea and allowing it to become the amazing show it is.
He funded the show?
@@WatanabeNoTsuna. He just signed on to do season one when they had trouble finding contestants. Since he was a very respected comedian at the time that gave way to more people signing on to do the show
@@erikpeterson611 So in effect, yes, he funded the show. Just with people.
@@erikpeterson611 i mean I’d argue that every contestant was in the height of very prolific careers at the time this aired. They were all pretty highly regarded in their fields at this point that’s why they got their very famous friends to do the first season. Literally everyone here are friends of Alex and Greg and this is actually a game Alex had been playing with his friend for years before they decided to expand and monetize it
@@themanmrjones They were having trouble finding contestants to sign on, until frank did which opened the floodgates
When you realize Josh won the series by 1 point. The point he won counting beans, spaghettios and grains of rice all by himself
If he didn’t get that point he still would’ve tied and he could’ve won the tiebreaker too
So the BBC is just 20 comedians and they all host their own shows and then guest star on each other's shows? Honestly not a bad system
This is Dave, not the BBC
No, his name is Greg.
It’s DAVE not BBC
DRD mom no it’s Greg.....
crunch9876 no they mean the show ‘Taskmaster’ is aired on a TV channel called ‘Dave’
Completely unrelated, the host is named ‘Greg’
34:16 "Tastes like honest food ... but also if you got served it during the war, you'd understand." Great quote. Not sure whether it's a diss or a compliment though hahaha
Kinda the most elegant diss ever.
Reminds me of all the derogatory acronyms for military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), the best ones being 'Meals Rejected by the Enemy' and 'Meals Rarely Edible'.
If Josh wouldn't have gotten his extra point for counting, he would have been tied with Romesh and Frank - I'd have liked to see a three-way tiebreaker event of them having to race to find Alex in the studio
Wow. All that counting did account for something.
Came down here to point this out
first episode - 1st scene - Josh got 3rd place under huge bottle of champagne; so, fair anyway.
The poor man deserved it 😅
It's 2023 and I've just finished binging the series for the 7th or 8th time. I just want to send an enormously huge thanks to this 5 brave people who took the risk and participated in this "madness", and eventually helped Alex and his crew to convince the TV bosses that Taskmaster has a place in the panel show pantheon. :bow:
Tim and Frank are the most wholesome team
“If you got served it during the war, you’d understand” is somehow such a scathing way for Alex to describe Frank’s food 😂
Can we talk about how Alex has virtually 0 gag reflex from eating all the horrendous things this episode what a man
I think Romesh actually puts in 💯 effort on this show but he tries to act all chill and hide it. It’s why he always brings personal items that mean a lot to him for the trophy challenges.
He said on his reddit AMA that he enjoyed the show but was aggrieved by the injustices, so I think he did take it seriously.
@@connormartin1618 ....I still think it’s all part of his shtick. He’s good at being the angry shouty man. It works.
i think its a bit common to state that Series One's score layout was a bit more unfair than it is in later seasons, its kinda natural since its kind of balancing the line of "the points are pointless" and "traditional gameshow point system" with this series since it hasnt figured out what it wants to be yet. I much prefer the later seasons where the contestants have figured out that it doesnt matter and only really get competitive if its in their nature (my mind is thinking of Lou from S8 who seems to just be a pretty competitive person naturally).
I do think its probably just a bit of dry humor and he wasnt being serious serious, but i do think he (and the other four as well) might have taken their run on the show a bit more seriously than Alex and the other creatives really intended for them to simply because it was their first try at it, but no, i dont think Romesh actually feels slighted by the show.
Romesh was robbed 😭
@@rodanandmeBut they were five comedians on a game show with no valuable prize on a satellite channel based on an Edinburgh Comedy Fest show. Comedy excuse-game panel shows were already a thing on British TV.
I think any of them taking it too seriously is just making excuses for being awkward on the first go and not having a previous series to watch first.
My thumbs-up goes to Rosh for her Greg Davies' inner voice impression at around 11:11 :D
Also - 31:45... this ain't no Xylophone, it's clearly a Metallophone (xylo=wood -> meaning the keys have to made of wood) - defly not Romesh's, but the crew's fail!
@@anD-vf7ld glockenspiel
@@qwertyTRiG Christ, I always thought a glockenspiel was a type of harpsichord.
@@krashd Memorably described as sounding "like two skeletons copulating on a tin roof".
I cant believe no one picked up on Romesh's joke that "everyone loves a bit of watermelon" he literally puked up watermelon earlier in the show lol
Here's my alphabet recipe:
You need: Apple (one)
, Butter, Cucumber, Duck (a breast), Eggs (2 maybe?), Flour, Garlic, Hoisin sauce, Ice cream, Jackfruit (slightly unripe), Kale, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Nuts, Orange (two, maybe?), Pepper, Quinoa, Rocket, Salt, Tomato, Unpasteurized milk, Vinegar, Water, Xylitol, Yogurt, Zucchini
It's a 3 dish meal:
- A salad with a light yogurt dressing
- duck and vegetable-curry with quinoa
- Crepes with ice cream, nuts, and apple compote
For the salad, use: Cucumber, Lettuce, Rocket, Onion, Tomato, Vinegar, Yogurt, Garlic, Salt, Pepper.
- cut up your lettuce, onion, cucumber and tomatoes, plate with rocket.
- Combine spices, vinegar and yogurt for the dressing. Add on top.
For the main dish, use: Butter, Duck, flour, garlic, hoisin sauce, tomato, jackfruit, kale, mushrooms, onion, orange, quinoa, water, zucchini, salt, pepper
- season duck, roast in butter and put into the oven to cook through and crisp up.
- combine quinoa, salt and water, bring to a boil, let simmer.
- caramelize the onion in butter, add in the different veggies according to cooking times. Use pureed tomato as the sauce base. Add hoisin sauce and otherwise season to taste. Use orange juice to balance out the acidity and sweetness.
- Add the cooked quinoa onto a plate, put some vegetables next to it, and put the sliced duck on top of the vegetables.
For the dessert, use: Apple, butter, eggs, flour, ice cream, nuts, orange, salt, unpasteurized milk, xylitol
- peel and chop up the apple, add the juice of one orange and some xylitol (which is a sugar-alternative), set on the stove
- combine u-milk, flour, eggs, and a pinch of salt for the crepes.
- heat butter in a pan, make crepes.
- take each crepe, add a scoop of ice cream, and add your still-warm apple compote.
All this took me about half an hour to come up with and I have not yet tried my recipe, nor do I intend to do so. The letter U sucks balls.
@Human Resources more like a quarter-hour. But I was wasting time anyways I just temporarily changed the way how to.
Unsalted butter for U. You can exchange Butter to Bacon/Basil/Bread
@@crystalwz Thanks, yeah. That actually sounds like a great solution!
@@notAshildr
HA! I wanted to write the same and I crumbled up the note and forgot about it.
And now it turns out you wrote it down! I will too! :D
A-Apples, B-Bananas, C-Cinnamon, D-Dades, E-English tea F-French toast G-Grapes
H-honey I-Ice-Cream J-Jam, K-Kiwi, L-Lychee, M-Mandarines, N-Nibbles, O-Onions, P-Paprikas, Q-Quinoa, R-Raisins, S-Spaghetti, T-Tomatoes (Peeled) and U-Undersized Strawberries, V-Vegetarian meatballs, W-Whip Cream X-Xtra large cookie, Y-Yoghurt, Z -Zorro mask.
It's all very sweet, but you cut the Apples, Bananas, Grapes, Kiwi's, Lychees, Mandarines, Strawberries up and put yoghurt in as well. You can make it into a smoothie or serve it as a fruitsalade. And eat it with the French toast and put the jam into the mix ór on the toast.
Meanwhile, wear the Zorro-mask. Just because it's cool.
Then get the English tea, drink that as it is.
Get the peeled tomatoes, put those in a pan. Add spaghetti (cooked) and some Paprika-parts and some onion-bits and some raisins.
Also, add the vegetarian meatballs.
Then, the dessert. You take one last apple, put it in the oven.
You crunch up the nibbles (sweet nibbles) and cut the dades. Cinnamon into the nibbles-mixture.
Quinoa into the mixture. Honey into the mixture. Raisins into the mixture. X-tra large cookie will be crumbled into the mixture.
And then you stuff the mixture into the (removed) core-part of the apple and you 'bake' it in the oven. And serve it with Ice Cream and Whip Cream.
Tadah.
Umami seasoning for U
Tim making an incredible fish stew (and he even got bread to go with it) and the worst meal of the alphabet challenge is very on brand.
Alex was seriously MVP, I feel like he was lowkey bullied in every episode, but in a friendly way
アレックスAlexander - He's the creator, but in an interview said he is better as a beta to Greg's alpha.
Don’t you worry, Joe Wilkinson is quite a lot meaner
It's his show, after all
You're only saying this because he has your name!
2 years later and bullying Alex is the bread and butter of the show
I like how I’ve seen Roisin, Josh and Romesh’s blooper posted on its own with people going “this isn’t very funny he looks genuinely upset :(“ in the comments and fully believing it so clearly Greg was wrong about the convincingness of their acting
Yeah, I thought their acting was good! And the other group's acting was terrible ha. But the image of just half a body sticking straight up out of the ground I think was the deciding factor haha.
yes!! i'm so glad somebody said this because i also thought the roisin, romesh and josh's video looked so much more like a realistic home blooper video! the acting in the other video was so much worse!
I don't know if Romesh cracking from his own "whole hog" joke was real or pretend but I love him.
Frank skinner always looks like a down on his luck businessman
Especially in the egg task
I don't know why, but he looks like an older Barney Stinson
He's Gil from The Simpsons
Interesting seeing the ol' days before they lowered Alex chair and he became 'little Alex Horne'. He's actually quite tall. Just not as towering as Greg Davies, the "human Easter Island monument" as Rhod Gilbert called him in series 7, amongst many other things...
The biggest change is Greg remembering Tim fed him dogfood and suggesting he should have marked it him down for that. Today, he'd have got the trophy.
Jimmy Carr once joked Greg's hobby is attacking the city of Tokyo
One thing I've learned from watching Taskmaster -- Brits don't know how to hard boil eggs.
Josh knows how to "par"boil an egg.
Not really... it's like 10min from cold water, or 3min from when the water starts boiling. People mix up the 3min.
But also, and this will shock Americans... We eat SOFT boiled eggs. Dippy eggs. With little bread or toast 'soldiers' to dunk in them. It's amazing. But you can't do that in the USA coz American eggs are full of salmonella. We also DON'T put our eggs in the fridge.
@@juliemichellerobinson1841 We eat soft boiled eggs in the US.
Our eggs are refrigerated because they come from all over the US and are delivered to grocery stores in a refrigerated truck/plane. Once an egg has been refrigerated it has to stay refrigerated. Even if eggs in a store were from a local place the eggs are in refrigerators because that's what people are used to. If you buy them directly from the farm, or you have your own chickens you don't have to refrigerate them.
They are not egg people
It's not even soft boiled it's just wrong
Romesh and Tim were my favorites this season. Tim was definitely the most creative, and I think Romesh low-key put a really earnest effort into every challenge, which I respect. If he weren't scored the most harshly out of everyone I think he would've won.
I didn't realize this until the end... but Josh is a hobbit.
Greg is 6 foot 8!
I believe that he actually auditioned for one of the films
Very short, oddly big toenails. Checks out.
Nah. Greg is a giant. 🙃
he nearly was he did an audition
Had Josh not gotten the single bonus point awarded for his solo efforts counting such numerous legumes and pastas, there would've been a three way tie at the end. That's wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild!
Tim is actually really smart he is always coming up with the most innovative ideas
iirc Alex and Tim are original creators of the format as stage show. He probably did not expect TV version to be as serious.
He's probably a bit more used to how to game the system since Alex has been making his friends do things like this since at least 2010. Didn't help him win though lol
@@nommyyt In all fairness, if this was a later season when Greg had his persona down, Tim would've likely been graded a lot better. They were trying to figure out how much they could bend the rules for fun at this point.
Anyone else feel like we could use this shoe to Sort these guys?
How tf does Tim get a third place from DOG FOOD ravioli. 😂
Never seen or heard of it before, but now that UA-cam recommended Taskmastser to me I'll never be bored again.
Still laughing at that one episode where that one guy smashes that watermelon on the floor...although I watched it 10 times yesterday.
Given Josh's history of lying about his prizes ( the magic eye image was that of a duck and he brought in an unsigned football), I wouldn't put it past him that the sticker album is actually empty.
Romesh and Greg looking so pleased at that "Whole Hog" joke fills me with joy
In my heart romesh is the absolute winner. Getting second by 1 point after Greg being completely biased against him so many times for comedic purposes, he should clearly be in the three digits category by now.
Have you forgotten which show you're watching? It doesn't matter who wins, much like Mock the Week, the point system is utter nonsense on purpose.
You act like Romesh also didn’t come in last/close to last for a lot of objective tasks as well. Egg mini-golf, high-giving a 55 year old, etc. don’t act like “Romesh lost because Greg is biased.”
Me: "God I'm bad at names, thankfully they have the same people every episode of the season!"
Tim and Frank: "Don't mind if we start calling ourselves Brad and Jeff"
Roisin's "YEEEEES?" is one of the funniest moments of the show for me
It was brilliant, wasn't it?
I literally screamed with laughter, it took me completely off guard
Underrated af. And clearly she got Greg good, too!
Literally my favourite bit from series one.
(11:04 of this episode if anyone wants the timestamp)
Alex should've been awarded at least 5 points for having to eat dog food
When I first saw this series, I thought it was extremely crass and rude of Tim Key to feed Alex dogfood. Like what person does that? Then I found out they've been friends for 20 years and went yep, friends do shit like that. It's reminiscent of what Alex ruthlessly puts Mark Watson through in Series 5 lol.
Nic Q this makes me feel a lot better. In the ice disappearing episode, I felt like Tim was being a bit of an ass to Alex.
@Kathleen Henson its his show lmao
Kathleen Henson he’s the creator
I love the tasks where Alex gets to have a lot of involvement, the cooking task was so fun to watch Alex eating and critiquing all their meals
Imagine eating Tim's fish chowder after knowing what he did with the alphabet meal
A smutty gag was removed during Romesh's prize task, about how using the vape pen made him feel like he was 'giving RoboCop a blowie' which makes the gag immediately after when Roisin's prize is shown a little confusing.
Roisin's sweeping shots were perfect I can't imagine approaching that task any other way
Tim Key is the absolute definition of chaotic evil
Did Roisin say, "It's like the colour of a body you'd find in the woods"? Hahah! I love her mind.
I love how Greg's introductions of Roisin are always funny stories from when they've hung out because they're genuinely good mates
They probably did 😮 Apparently, it's a thing these days:
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/zebra-meat-exotic-and-lean-but-does-it-taste-good-9623700.html
You can actually buy Zebra meat on certain butchers
@Kathleen Henson I'm not from America myself, but from what I know, there's actually butchers selling exotic meat in New York.
@Kathleen Henson Places where they sell exotic meat are actually common around the whole world. In my country, there are several Markets and Butchers selling Monkey meat, Crocodile meat, Dog meat, Cat meat, Rat meat, Bat meat, and etc.
didn't they say it was a rabbit named zebra?
Roisin going YYYYEEEEEESSS ? is pure genius
When I seen him take his shoes off I thought he knew what he was doing. He should have put the boxing glove on his foot and picked all blues out. "Wear a bowing glove"
I thought for sure someone would have done that
I thought exactly the same. Or, worn one as a hat. The only defense I can imagine for this is that it might be difficult to transition from one manner of wear to another without there being a short period during which the glove is not being worn. The hat idea might be possible.
@@sabinrawr Or taking too much time to change.
Apparently the gloves were duct taped? to their hands? going by another comment, can't really see it clearly
"Je ne sais quoi as they say in Italy" **cries in french**
Well, it wasn't mentioned that the man was Italian lol
I mean, technically if there are two people in Italy that have said that line, then they aren't wrong.
Getting to watch the entire series was an absolutely fantastic surprise. I had no idea it even existed until recently. I'm forever hooked!
I like how they’ve taken a glockenspiel and simply written “xylophone” on it.
Boy, Josh standing next to Greg has a Lord of the Rings feel...
Romesh: “it’s so hard to think of vegan options”
[shows B]
Romesh: “Bacon”
BROCCOLI, BLUEBERRY, BEETROOT, BANANA, BEAN SPROUTS, BLACK RICE, BLACKBERRY, BERRIES, BEANS, BRUSSELS SPROUTS, BASIL, BARLEY, BLACK EYED PEES, AHHHHHHHHH
Basil, bread, brown sugar
yeah but... BESIDES THOSE...
Black pepper
Brown rice, bell pepper, butternut squash, bread
@@WYCD butt
Tim is the winner in the spirit of the show. Whenever I see other tasks I think what would Tim have done?
17:39 Ramesh genuinely smiling is the best part of this show. Like seeing the moments where he is genuinely having fun is nice
I kinda miss combatant contestants like Romesh in the current couple of series. Everyone's just so damn pleasant. Romesh's grumpty banter, I love it :)
I think we've used up all of the aggressive comics except Jack Dee, and I don't know if he would do Taskmaster. Romesh Ranganathan, Al Murray, Joe Wilkinson, Johnny Vegas and Jack Dee are who spring to mind when I think of shouty, annoyed British comedians and all but Jack have done the show already.
@@krashd Frankie Boyle, James Acaster, David Mitchell
@@5hadow5talker
James Acaster was on Taskmaster series 7.
Frank: “I got four grand for it” when he shows a stress ball with ad on it. Love his sense of humour
Tim is by far the smartest contestant in this game. His execution has always been the most efficient.
Coming back to rewatch the series and kind of strange to see Greg sticking up for Alex. Such a good crew.
To make things even worse for Romesh, that wasn't a xylophone.
Glockenspiel!
Is it not? It looks like one
@@OpossumOnTheMoon xylon is Greek for wood, so xylophones consist of wooden bars. The instrument in the video is a metallophone, more specifically a glockenspiel.
I was handling it until watercress down. Major props to Alex Horne for keeping a straight face through everything.
I mean this in the best possible way, but there's not a single person on this planet who looks more like a hobbit than Josh
He is absolutely one of Rosie and Sam's many many children.
@@donna_piranha I got all nostalgic for scruffy dolls there until I realised you didn't say Rosie and Jim 😐
Josh actually auditioned for the role of Bilbo in The Hobbit trilogy. He talked about it on the Graham Norton Show.
@@Brinta3 he would have been great
As someone dependent on recipes and takeks hours to finish cooking, that finale task is incredibly exciting yet daunting to me.
"If somebody served this to you, you would not remain in contact with them."
Alex has some of the best subtle lines.
I love how Tim got all funny with the ingredients but he cooked like a Masterchef participant, anxious with time and nervous to please Alex
If he was nervous to please Alex, he wouldn't have put dog food in it.
Xantham gum begins with X and is a simple, flavourless thickener. Just put a bit in the sauce.
And xylitol is an artificial sweetener, right? Just add a little of that to a dessert.
I’m glad Tim finally won, I always enjoyed his cheeky tactics
I thought Romesh was funny before Taskmaster but this is what really endeared me to him. It was nice to see him abandon the standup persona a little.
Alex is a legend for actually eating the dog food. I love this show, it was such a great find that gave me tons of enjoyment during the pandemic. I just started rewatching the show and want to say thanks for uploading all these episodes on youtube :)
00:32 Introductions and "banter"
02:12 Prize Task: Most Satisfying Item
07:05 Task 1: Egg Golf
11:56 Segment 2
16:09 Task 2: Home Bloopers
21:22 Segment 3
23:53 Task 3: Alphabet Meal
39:34 Segment 4
40:06 Task 4: Blue Sweets
42:14 Final Scores
RIP to Josh's perfectly timed "oh f*ck off" to Alex when he referred to his disaster as "nearly a pizza"
So the deciding point for the series winner is that he counted beans, spaghetti and rice while no one else did. - In the episode it didn't matter, but for the grand total it was the one point that made a difference. Brilliant.
Romesh is one of my all-time favourite contestants he had so many iconic moments on the show >>>> I wish they made an all-stars season and invited him again
I thought Josh was a cutie but standing next to Greg...that was adorable.
I can totally imagine Romesh Ranganathan yelling, "That FUCKIN' BEAN POINT!" when the final scores are revealed lol
There's something I really appreciate in this series (Which I only just got introduced to 2 days ago) that others might not bother to notice or compliment. I really really like the music! Especially when they segue from the stage to the setting of the next task. The montage is nice enough, but truly complimented by the fantastic music selection.
I think it's Alex Horne's band that made all the music
@@thevoiceofwisdom Nice! I wouldn't have known he had one.
@@Hawkeye26 late reply, they are called the Horne Section. Worth a look as it's a mix of music and comedy.
@@richardparker1490 Lovely, ty!
Especially the xylophone
Josh Whit: "I believe I should get a point for all my counting... and a trophy!"
ooh nice
HE WON FOR DOING THE COUNTING
And well-deserved, if you ask me.
Thanks for posting spoilers. People who read the comments before watching the last episode of a series fucking deserve it to be spoiled.
@@B3Band people have the right to comment the video, don't they? Just avoid reading the comments _before_ you've actually watched the episode if you really don't want any spoiler, that's dumb.
Jesus, that final shot of the Taskmaster handing the trophy to Josh was like Lord of the Rings.
I knew that Alex was a warrior, but the dog food ravioli really puts him in another level.
"Are u allowed to write the word Bacon"
lol
Watching this series after watching all the others makes me really appreciate how Greg and Alex developed their personas over the many series.
Lost it at "I couldn't show my best camera moves...I had to Blair Witch it."
You absolute legends! When will season 2 be up?
for the final challenge, “while wearing the gloves” doesn’t specify where on the body so putting them on your feet would probably work XD. so i would’ve just put them on my feet and used my hands.
Right! I thought that's why he wanted to hear the exact wording again. Really expected a few of them to do that after the second reading.
Easy to think of when you're watching from home, but in the moment on stage it's a lot harder
Good thinking! If I was there, I would have used my feet to separate the sweets, but your idea is much better!
Michaël Lacoursière take a closer look at the gloves mate. they’re not laced. velcroed gloves are quite easy to take off. just need your teeth
Assuming they weren't secured in a way that would take too long to remove whilst already wearing them.
If you told me that Josh had literally never cooked anything before this I would believe you based on his output
37:28 "I can see a bit of hair here"
This man is not phased by anything! Wow.
LOL
My jaw was on the floor when Josh stood next to Greg... 6’8!!!!
I love watching first seasons of shows that took off. You can see the endearing humble beginnings, and the awkward shit the fixed later on lmao
I'm glad Tim finally won. He had some of the most clever approaches to tasks at times.
As somone who previously worked as a cook for over 10 years. That alphabet cooking task looked like a lot of fun.
Are all the seasons going to be posted?? I sooo hope so. I live in Spain and haven't been able to see the other episodes...... please don't take to long to upload each season!! Thanks
Those fake blooper videos might just be one of my favourite challenges in this whole show so far