Get The Coconut As Far Away As Possible | Full Task | Taskmaster
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- From series 5, Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar, and Sally Phillips compete to try and get the coconut as far away as possible without touching the ground.
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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.
Nish's throw couldn't have been more comedic if he tried.
First time he's ever done anything remotely funny
Yes, it seems he can only be funny by accident.
I also didn't find Nish funny at first (hadn't heard of him before TM), like the two others commenting here, but he really grew on me. In the strongest line-up ever (in my opinion), he was never going to be the funniest, but I learned to appreciate just how much fun he seemed to be having, and how much appreciation he showed for the other contestants.
@@edwardv1255 Yeah, that's all fake, guy. He despises all of them.
@@lLenn2 is there even a point in asking how you can possibly know that, or will you just refer to your impeccable ability to read people through the TV screen?
I still can’t believe the team let Bob try to throw the coconut directly into traffic haha
They knew malevolent force of Lord Greg was gonna stop him
That one of the least dangerous things they let people do
You. Cannot. Contain. Mortimer's. Madness.
Alex would have been ripped to shreds through concentrated verbal absurdity
Isn't it obvious that he butchered that throw on purpose?
I'm gonna break your heart here. It was all scripted, including the miss.
The best solution to this task would be to have a European swallow grasp the coconut by the husks, and migrate with it.
Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.
But African swallows are non migratory
A 6 ounce swallow could not carry a one pound coconut. In order to maintain air speed velocity a swallow must beat its wings...
Yess!!!
@@overanalyzed5258 but what if 2 swallows carried the coconut?
Nish's throw is one of the funniest moments in task master history
It's everything about his experience on the show in 10 seconds.
It's up there alright, but nothing bests Joe Wilkinson's potato hole in one.
@@bagdestein I tried to explain the controversy & then just made my ♡ watch. He was appropriately devastated.
Not even close
The moment he realises he could have thrown it again makes my heart sing
I like Sally's method of answering 'what's in it for me' which is to make the person asking realize that they DO NOT want any rewards as she's the chaotic embodiment of a monkey's paw.
Ngl I've never had much interest in getting a tattoo but I'm weirdly tempted by the prospect of a pastoral scene on my bum drawn and signed by her
What a beast. Carrying him and all the boom equipment. Mad respect for that guy.
I don't understand why he got disqualified. Shouldn't the measurement have been taken where he touched down?
@@lightster If the coconut had dropped to the ground before him, then I think it could have counted. However there was an explicit rule about them not touching the ground while transporting the coconut, so that's why he got disqualified.
They aren't always this strict on the contestants meeting all the conditions of a task, but in this case the rule about not touching the ground was an integral part of the challenge.
@@MegaVikingen "Get the coconut as far away as you can without stepping on the ground or on any object more than once."
I dunno, doesn't seem like a DQ offence to me when they could still pick up and rethrow the coconut. But everyone on stage was in agreement.
@@lightster They said you can’t touch the ground. Meaning if he had just dropped the coconut he would’ve been fine, but he specifically wanted to throw it, which means he still was performing the task, and violated the ground touching rule.
Confusing, but the task is completed when the contestant says where to end it, Mark wasn’t done before touching the ground.
He should have stepped off onto that concrete parking block and thrown off that lol
Alex would do anything for Sally, I'm convinced he has killed for her at least once.
She’s the same effect on me.
Sally was lucky the post office didn't let her mail it, or the coconut would've surely have been transported by car to an airport/harbor, resulting in her disqualification
I'm not sure about UK mail, but US Mail is transported by Truck/Lorry except for Last Mile delivery, which may be in a Grumman LLV (Commonly called a Mail Truck, but one may call it a car by some definitions) or a USPS minivan, which is also arguable.
Not within the 20 minutes. So she was safe
@@jjakjjak5231 True, it would have been at the post office either way.
Or returned to sender as it was illegal to ship it
*Sally* is not allowed to touch the ground. Someone else is, which is why she sent Alex to the post office for her
Aisling: "This old chestnut..."
Alex: "Coconut*"
Aisling: ¬_¬
chesnut. Man...
The funniest thing is that any of them could have just used the bike
YES if they knew where to find it.
I thought of that too. It would be tricky to get started while making you don't put your foot on the ground, depending on where you left it.
@Jordann typically one foot is on the ground keeping the bike standing, as you push off. Granted, you could put a pillow under that foot and be fine
@Jordann do you...know how to ride a bike?
funnier is that any of them could have just walked... their feet were always touching the inside of their socks; never the ground. they'd be arguing that clothes are part of the body... can't believe nobody pointed that out.
I love that this task is basically a bunch of adults playing the floor is lava.
"The coconut may not travel by car"- otherwise known as the Al Murray rule
Use a truck?
though by potentially paying someone to do the task for her, Sally Phillips may have done the other Al Murray rule
@Mike Sixx a 5ox bird could not carry a 1lb coconut
@@forest3823 balloons.
@@TheCaptainSplatter trucks are cars
Bob’s paper trail idea is pretty ingenious, ngl.
I always knew that he’s a mad genius!
yeah but sallys way was a lot smarter ngl
@@rainbowpuppet77 I feel like bob could've gone lot further if he wanted to, he had plenty of paper left
@@arthurcaron9453 yeah he could of gone further but I feel like technique wise sally did it very smart!
@@arthurcaron9453 There's a bridge over the Thames very near the taskmaster house. He probably could have gotten far enough to drop it in the river if he'd spaced the sheets out a bit more.
If he had tape, he could've taped one paper to each shoe
The sound of Nish's coconut hitting the pole is peak comedy.
I hysterically screamed "HE GAVE UP" out loud in the dead of night the second I saw Nish just go back in, spirit crushed
Your roommate that got waken up by that: @(ಠ_ಠ)-@
I love it when someone wins by such a huge margin.
Or loses - the zoom in for distributing items of clothing comes to mind (^ヮ^ )
How was Alex the only one to think of getting on a bicycle? "The coconut is not allowed to travel by car." It's a city; a bike would be faster anyway!
In a way Sally was lucky it couldn't be posted it would have been transported by car then.
@@marlenrichter2295 No, the time would be over before it even touched anyone.
A bike wouldn't be faster anywhere other than the centre of a very big city with bad congestion
However, if any of them would have gotten on the bike, they would have won easily.
@@jamesfletcher474 I dissagree. They've been making lot's of strange laws about driving where I live to discourage the use of cars in the city so it really is faster to just use a bike.
This entire season seems designed to crush Mark's spirit.
Mark seems to destroy his life quite often on this show
When I was a child, my paternal grandparents lived in Puerto Rico, while my grandfather worked on a dam. My grandmother mailed full coconuts (husk and all) to my brother and I, by simply writing our address on with a pen, and sticking the stamps right on the shell. Nobody thought about plant pests and invasive species back then.
My dad lived in Colombia with my graunt back in the early 70s.... When he traveled back and forth my gramma and her sister would just send fruits and vegetables (which back then were not available in both countries) and my dad would just carry them in his pockets.. Like, straight up carry mangoes and stuff like that in his pockets.
Also my exs dad would tell me how his parents just brought bags of pistacchios by just carrying them also around the same time
@@tomascalvert5669 Ah...the innocent days before we know about invasive species...
to my brother and me*
@@nevyen149 I mean we *did* know about invasive species, it's just nobody cared until they became multi-billion dollar damages that have to be mitigated by stupidly expensive mitigation efforts because of our mistakes. Environmentalism as a science came _way_ too bloody late for humanity, didn't it
It was written "You may not touch the ground".
"I'm not touching the ground. My shoes are."
Alex: what's in it for me?
Sally: I won't tattoo your ass
No no. She offered the tattoo as payment. I’d take that
Sometimes I wonder what's going on in Nish's head
If you wait, he’ll usually tell you and you still won’t understand (^ヮ^ )
I'm always seeing him (think cool stuff)
Piss and shit.
Bubbly f*ck!
The river idea was actually so smart cause it could just be carried by water which isnt the ground for miles
True but he chucked it right next to the shore so it probably didn't float very far.
I don't understand why him getting it to the point where he threw it didn't count
Without touching the ground, he got it most of the way to the river
Also why didn't he try to argue the grass isn't the ground? It's worth a shot right?
@@archerelms 1: Touching the ground at any point disqualifies his attempt, this making the distance irrelevant.
2: The grass was patchy where he was standing, making him clearly touch the ground.
@@CaptainDCap 1. The rules said get the coconut the furthest distance without touching the ground, he got it that far before touching the ground, no one ever said the coconut had to leave his person or that touching the ground disqualified them; everyone eventually touches the ground, most of them do it before the timer is up. 2. Yeah, definitely.
@@WoodlandDrake Every single task ever, with the same wording, has always resulted in a disqualification when something like this has happened.
What’s even better than Nish’s throw is when he realizes he could’ve thrown again. You can see the moment his smile implodes.
he forgot what the challenge was 😭
Bob's entire face, trying to decipher this task just sends me:
0:36
0:59
And his complete disregard for the chaos it would have caused if it hit someone car
I'm pretty sure that a member of the production staff was on hand to make sure he didn't risk hitting any vehicle or any person if he threw it over the fence/gate.
Was the coconut unburdened by what has been? 🤣
I would think it exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before. 🥥
you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? 🥥
I like how Alex takes the bike in the end showcasing what one of them should have done.
To be that clever and stupid at the same time must require enormous talent. I applaud every contestant!
Bob is like a mythical being
I would've done something in between Mark & Sally's attempts - paid a crewmember to bike away from the house for 20 minutes
I think you could make an argument that the distance Marks coconut travelled before he touched the ground should count. His coconut got this far away without him touching the ground. Bob and Nish also touched the ground before the 20 mins were over but their attempt counted. No where was mentioned that the attempt would end when the coconut touched the ground or that the final position of the coconut couldnt be in your hand.
His position on first ground contact should have counted, as it did for Bob and Nish, as their premature ground touching was rule wise the same.
But he was still holding the coconut when he touched the ground, Bob and Nish were not.
They finished their task before their allotted time, then stepped on the ground. Mark stepped on the ground while still in the middle of doing the task.
They also did show it as the bank of the River at the end on the map
I love how calm Sally is she's honestly the star of it all...and knows it
To this day, I imagine Mark Watson shouting, "Fling!!" whenever I throw something.
I have no recollection at all of any of this. I remember Sally mentioned you can't post coconuts to Fiji on another show.
She mentioned it on QI ☺️
Sally’s solution was “if you can’t do something, have someone do it for you” in a nutshell
Coconutshell.
3:27 Very comical, but he could've actually picked it back up again and tried again
Edit: Oh, it was mentioned 30 seconds later
The look on Nish's face as he realises it right then.
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen Aisling take off her pants for a Taskmaster challenge, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
Most surprised no one bothered to put pillow covers over their shoes and just walk away.
My first thought was "pay one of the camera crew to take the coconut and ride a bike as far as possible", so I was very excited to see that my idea was close to the winning one, because I'm usually wrong.
Am I the only one who thinks it ruins the game when contestants just have Alex/cameraman do the thing they’re not allowed to do and then easily win? Seems to happen way too often.
Yeah you're definitely in the minority there. Its part of the game..
You could break it up into pieces and flush it in the toilet. I imagine that’s going far.
"bear poop" "chestnut" do British people go outside?
The tasks become really lame when the 'best' answer is to get someone else to do the task for you.
yeah
Agreed. It's an easy and boring way to win a huge amount of the tasks.
I don't understand why Mark's attempt was a disqualification. He got the coconut a certain distance and then touched the ground. Just end the task where he touched the ground. Nish clearly stepped on the rug after throwing his coconut, and as he had 4 minutes left I imagine he touched the ground as well, yet it counted. I'd imagine the others finished early as well and touched the ground too before the end of the timer. Yet only mark was penalised because of it. Sure, he is holding the coconut, but he still got it that far while not touching the ground, just like everyone else.
So either his attempt is valid, or everyone who touched the ground before the end of the timer should be disqualified as well.
exactly what i was thinking
On top of that HE never touched ground. His shoes did. So long as he didn't take a step after touching ground he'd be fine.
@@NovaGuardian985 never played the floor is lava? In this case, the shoes are an extension of yourself, so if your shoes are touching the ground, you are as well.
And if you want to follow every little detail, what is ground? The carpet they were on at the beginning was not considered ground it seems, so what is it? Is it pavement? Asphalt? Concrete? Grass? One could argue that each of these thing is something that is above the ground, so touching it would not be against the rules. And maybe all of that could be discussed if one of them thought about it while doing the task. Unfortunately they did not, so common sense applies, and ground is ground, and touching the ground with your shoes counts.
Edit : just realised I'm very irritated right now for completely different reasons, I can't judge objectively if the tone of this comment reflects that or not, so if it does, don't take it personally, it's definitely not against you :)
Everything Nish did on this show was a modern tragedy other than the bread slicing and song, it's incredible
I would swim to Fiji if Sally Philips asked me to.
No question
Other thought: literally, the rule was "don't touch the ground" - once they got past the yard, they would have been on the road....which is likely concrete or macaddam or some sort of non-dirt material.
That’s extreme hairsplitting but might work
Technically they’re standing on their socks that are inside of shoes not touching the ground directly.
@@jacobb5484 - yeah, I figured the ruling would be "touching counts as what you're doing right now", which would be "your shoes, on the surface of the thing in question."
Basically, the idea was to take what rulings we can see - which is "when their shoes touch something different, Alex claims that they have stepped on something new" - but also "when there is something between their shoes and dirt, Alex claims that they're good", and use those rulings as precedent.
@@jacobb5484 I like that logic
But then they can only step on things once
Electromagnetism prevents atoms from ever truly touching each other, therefore, no I did not touch the ground.
Except that touch in that scenario is defined as things being close enough for things to interact via particles electromagnetic force.
@@gulgaffel just... just let me have this ok?
The arguement might would have worked
@@karatekid3233 easier argument would just be I'm not touching the ground, my shoes are.
@@gulgaffel
An I am not even touching them
The river one should have been counted as the furthest distance he got before touching the gound. Most of them threw the coconut then walked away, but the distance of the thrown coconut before they walked away(on the ground) was counted. In the same way, getting the coconut to the base of the river, THEN touching the ground should have been counted.
I would have asked if me touching my shoes touching the floor counts
What constitutes 'HE' though as, I don't think of my shoes or even socks as BEING A PART OF ME. So technically he didn't touch the ground.
I'm going to be that guy... whats the difference between scooting on a pillow, and walking on shoes? shoes are not 'you' nor are they specified in the rules.
Thanks. Atleast one person in the comments mentions it
Honestly, get the coconut to a window. At this time of year, a migrating gulp of Swallows will probably carry it all the way to the continent.
Out of curiosity- and I'm not complaining, mind you, quite the opposite- does Aisling have the record for most times having taken off their pants in a season? If Alex counts then he probably has her beat though.
Probably yes.
Pretty sure David Baddiel took his trousers off a couple of times
I have to be honest, if Sally Phillips asked me to do something, I probably would.
Mark should've argued he stood on the grass, not ground.
Did he actually stand on the ground before, or just the floor of the house?
@@defeqel6537 Rules say specifically no ground
He just touched his socks, so no problem.
On the contrary, he did not touch the ground. He was wearing shoes.
Arguably the closest thing to the ground he was touching the whole time were his socks.
Why does Bob always have a tangerine? It keeps popping up while he does tasks.
At least we don't see his pocket meat (as mentioned on WILTY)
Watson could have been a proper contender had he thought his moves through.
he always was just a blonde one away from doing something really impressive.
Would’ve been funnier if he rode back with the coconut
So none of them realised they could have argued that they didn't touch the ground, because they're wearing shoes? I meam theoratically they are touching their socks, then their shoes and then the ground.
The show is supposed to be funny though
@@m33r61 well it would have been fun if one of them realised it, while everyone else tried to be creative. Similarly to Richard Osman when they had to place excerise balls on the yoga mat on top of the hill.
They didn't even have to do that. Simply tie pillowcases/towels/etc to their feet and mobility issue solved.
well technically if they ruled that, then they would have had to take off their shoes on the first step since they could only step on something once
@@greatandmightykevin But that's not exactly how the rule works. Its once they leave the surface they cant go back onto it. That's why shuffling the cloth under the feet and the piggybacking was legit
Bob 😍😍😍
Just smash the coconut and flush it down the toilet. It’ll be out of city limits within an hour or so
Wait why didn't the coconut count where he touched the ground? Could they never be touching the coconut and the ground?
Actually you could have just walked out of the room normally because you’re wearing shoes…. You you’re already not touching the ground and not stepping in the same place twice
That moment with Nish was amazing. I need to watch more of this show.
Why is not cheating to ask Alex to do it ? Surely almost every task they get they can just ask Alex to do it to avoid the restrictions... ;)
I don't understand the rules of not touching the ground? If you are wearing shoes then you are not touching the ground, you're shoes are.
Noah’s throw makes me piss laugh every time, such great comedic timing when the realisation hits him that he could’ve done it again
One of them should've just taken a bike ride until they ran out of time 😂
Could’ve eaten the coconut, then wait for it to digest to shit it back out and flush it down the toilet.
And with this episode, everyone in the world knows where the Taskmaster house is.
Seven months later: The house is now marked as a tourist attraction on Google Maps with reviews.
When she was taking off her trousers, she could have used the trousers as a sling to throw the coconut further away... Probably still would have hit the fence and roll back
Having Alex do something for you in a task is such a copout, I don't like it.
I thought it was genius. I mean if it was really against the rules then he wouldn't have done it
Mark was cheated. He never touched the ground - His shoes did.
Hate the rules of the game, anything can happen just cause the one dude owns the show. Competed bull
The power of teamwork prevails again
couldnt bob of just walked down the driveway?
To be fair, your shoes aren't a part of you, so if your shoes touch the ground, then so what?
Only bob touched the ground though, with his hand. Mark touched his socks which touched his shoes which touched the ground.
The mildly dom-sub relationship between greg and alex is gold
Sally is the queen of delegation
But wait, did the coconut travel by post car?!
Well, technically he's touching his socks just once.
What if you strap something to your feet and walk on them? Technically you would of only stepped on the object once to tie it on. The rest of the time your foot never gets lifted off it therefore you hadn't taken a step on it a second time and have never touched the ground.
Easiest to do with a pillow case I imagine.
7:23 - That would have been my first question to Alex after the “No Travelling by car” rule haha. “Do you have a bike I can borrow”.
Now she just has to pay the post office to not use cars.
They usually use vans and trucks.... Cars can't hold as much mail...
That post office trick was great! It’s just too bad she got greedy and went for the PM of Fiji, when she could have just picked Angela Merkel or something.
Blend the coconut and flush it down the toilet.
can we make a playlist with title : Alex helping the contestant?
i think it will be fun
They could have just asked Alex
Edit: said this before the last one
Mark's should've counted. The spot of the coconut right before he landed should be his result.
Why didn't anyone use the bike
Me: Without step on the ground eh?
Also Me who have a wheelchair at home: well that easy
... ok I'm stepping on my shoes, and I haven't got off of them yet...
Or if you wanna play for real, paper technique to the garage, get on the bike. Bye.
is that martin freeman's dad wtf
Tht is one hell of a big brain play, why go through all the trouble of getting rid of it when someone else can do it
Sally is just so goddamn precious. I’m 28 and I’d marry her yesterday, today and probably tomorrow.
Seeing Mark standing on the ground was just soul shattering.