While he generally deserves to lose a task, I feel like the "murder" task was one he at least deserved a bonus point on because he correctly called the double-bluff and predicted nobody else would actually use ketchup. He still would have lost overall, but I give Paul at least one bonus point for using ketchup during that task!
@David Garza "the difference between a brown nose and an ass kisser is an inch" I'd like to know what is supposed to happen first? I mean is it "you'll get the brown nose regardless, whether or not you move an extra inch to kiss an ass" or is it "you can kiss an ass without getting your nose brown, but if you go an extra inch, you will"? I guess this saying is heavily dependent on the etnical identity of the ass kisser, and thus the size of their nose. Asians with their small noses should be the most safe.
Also it's good you only care how you stack up against others... no sense trying to do it so you have skills, just as long as your that tiny bit better.. that teacher was just that, a teacher, not a do-er... a do-er wouldn't give such shit advice, because they'd have to work with you after.....
@@billdavis6238 a good teacher shouldnt give that kind of advice either conservation of effort is fine - there is no reason to invest an immense amount of effort to achieve a marginally improved result - but just doing the bare minimum on everything is just a bad idea
@@SharienGaming Yes, there is very good reason to put 'immense amount of effort into achieving marginal results', You have no idea what the results are until the effort is put in...
"You may not touch the sand. Well, I've done that." "You may not move the bucket. Done that." "You may not leave the room. Fuck it, let's do that as well." Iain's best moment, and for me, one of my favorite moments on this series of Taskmaster.
I love genuine surprise on Greg's face when he correctly guessed thing in Alex's pocket and how said face progressively became less impressed with more pockets unveiled. Also impressed how well Greg knows Alex and his sense of humore
A Hobbit yeah just the way he says " I genuinely didn't know" and how Alex was laughing makes me think he really didn't . Which makes the exchange so much better. Him even getting the play on words item.
Just to clarify on Joe "The Human Eeyore" Thomas' prize task, the blobfish doesn't look like that normally. It lives deep underwater where the pressure helps hold its body together, so that blobfish has been taken from its habitat and is slowly dying much like Joe Thomas.
@Amanda Burke A lot of the contestants on Taskmaster are relatively unknown in the UK. It is a show that introduces a lot of newcomers to a national audience, or gives them a broader platform. It is also a show that forces a revelation of something of the underlying person rather than merely a display of the stage persona, which is nice.
I think Paul's one of the very few contestants Greg would let get away with something like that. Imagine if James or Nish had the temerity to say something like that.
@@Robyamdam If only he hadn't had Parkinson's at the time and wasn't in a whole load of pain I mean, he admits that he wasn't great and wouldn't have won anyway, but still.
Joe Thomas always looks like he's extremely lost. I don't doubt that he wasn't invited to TaskMaster, rather, he wandered on stage one day and everyone is too polite to tell him he's lost.
I don't think Iain expected his special outfit to be Phil Wang'ing it so much and he is super self conscious of this fact for the entire rest of the episode.
paul being all "yer mum says yer fat" in such a soft, earnest way like he's only saying it because it's true is genuinely upsetting, absolutely merciless, i'm surprised greg didn't cry
@@HOTD108_ He mentions his weight a few times during the show's run. After the S7 donut live task he mentions that he's "knocking on the door of 30 stone," and I think in a later series he cites his weight again and it's significantly lower. Presumably his range for a healthy weight is higher than the rest of us peasants due to his height, of course. And I've never found him anything other than sexy. Eta: 30 stone is 400+ lbs/190 kg if anyone is wondering.
@@HOTD108_well he lifts his shirt in his stand up show 'you magnificent beast'. He could lose some weight, so to say. But you know, so could I. He's still magnificent.
I know Joe always has certain expressions, but during the injury task, he gives Lou a look like "What a psycho." And then we see his... I adore this man!
Nothing demonstrates the friendship between Greg and Alex more than the "What's in my pocket" game at the start. The fact that Greg was pretty much spot-on for all four was amazing.
There is a real sinister team dynamic between Joe and Sian. First the awkward meetup before the compass task, and now: "Do you want to do it at home with a pump?"
Alex is the best co-host to this show because he understands that sometimes the funniest thing you can do is have zero sense of humor. His deadpan replies to dumb questions really sell certain clips.
At 6:30, Alex says, "Two to Lou?" and I think he was making a joke on "toodle-oo," because he gave a quick look at Greg to see if he'd noticed, but quickly dropped the gaze when he realized Greg didn't give a darn.
Whoever timed the "In Homage to the Taskmaster" card to pop up right as Greg talked about his own death is a devious bastard, if I didn't already know that video isn't a memorial I'd have had a heart attack
No. Joe got cheated because Sian didn't even try. It was lazy and meant to be funny but just cost them the points. If she had had him there once and be done with it they might have gotten away with it.
@@xadielplasencia3674 yeah and I think ian should have been questioned as well bc he only carried two at the same time sometimes so they were herded in some cases and just carried in other
This kind of happened with the Boiler Suit thing. IIRC you can see Alex standing far clear of the door when James comes in and sure enough he swings the door open hard lol. For everybody else he was quite close.
Sian is totally right about the heightism thing. I notice several tasks every series where tall people have a clear advantage but very few (if any) where shorter people have the advantage. And most of these could have been adjusted for height with very little extra effort.
I can think of one task where being shorter was an advantage. There was a task where they had to build a bridge and there were materials taped underneath the table. A shorter person may have noticed the lights underneath the table lighting up hinting at the materials. Also, any task involving physically crawling underneath something would naturally give an advantage to shorter people with smaller body frames. I don't remember any tasks like that off the top of my head, though. In all fairness, there have been several tasks where height was absolutely an advantage so I think you're overall right though.
Not only is life unfair as well, but this is just a comedic show. And a non-American on at that. There's no need for there to be a fairness about it. They have fun and make everyone laugh so it is perfectly fine as is in my opinion.
Lolly did very well at hide and seek because she’s little and was able to fit in that spot in the shower. That is, however, the only example I’m coming up with at the moment.
Paul Sinha just, very casually and politely (and possibly without even meaning to do it), dropped a more savage fat jab at Greg than anything Rhod managed. I still don't think Greg is fat, poor Greg. But Paul's detached savagery is kind of beautiful. :3
The edit keeps highlighting it. IMO pretty hilarious. I dunno how Taskmaster does it but they always manage to make the contestants seem a little bit unhinged, thoroughly weird and at times very uncomfortable, but at the same time very endearing and relatable. On paper it seems like they're being mocked/humiliated by both the format of the show and the edits, but it never really feels that way when you're watching it. They just seem more like real people than the personas comics often adopt in these kinds of shows. Joe's little manneurisms (or whatever it is) is just part of that vibe this show goes for I think. Some of the cuts to him being that way are clearly very intentional, and totally unnecessary, but it helps the viewer feel for him in a way? I dunno.
If anyone doesn't believe there are different kinds of intelligence, i present to them: quiz show champion Paul Sinha doubled over and ponderously, laboriously herding(/chasing) a single ping pong ball by gently bumping it with a basketball.
Much the same here. Glad to have had this today of all days here in the US (though miraculously nothing horrible has *yet* happened). Thanks, Alex, for the early episode! I needed it! James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe's Hypothetical is pretty excellent at it, too, if harder to get full episodes of outside the UK, sadly.
I greatly admire Iain having one of the most awkward moments of the show last episode with the hammock team task, to immediately turning around and having one of the funniest performances both in tasks and in studio this episode.
37:31 considering they started this season with him getting winded by just walking across a field at a leisurely pace to get to the task, I'm honestly proud of him
despite knowing both of them primarily from the inbetweeners, it took me until the moment when greg shouted at alex for correcting him and joe laughed uncontrollably but nervously to realise that greg and joe know eachother (from the inbetweeners)
1:37 I really thought last episode's Nell was the most wholesome thing Taskmaster has put out but the beggining "banter" of this episode might have topped even that
I think considering Paul has Parkinsons and he couldn't really move his shoulder that well he did a very good job in these tasks. I think I would have just been trying to find some kind of loophole but he was very methodical. Slow af but methodical.
He wasn't diagnosed yet and what most people don't know: untreated Parkinsons has a severe effect also on your general brain functions. Like problem solving skills, awareness of your surroundings, reaction time, etc. So basically everything this show demands. It's really heartbreaking to watch.
@@philaeew4866 well imagine if an alien dragged you into space then named you after what you looked like after its pretty unfair but it's not the worst the fact we haven't renamed it yet is worse
It's crazy how anything can live under those pressures though, if you understand what can happen to us at those pressure differences you quickly see how that's not supposed to be the way a blobfish normally looks
@@makkashakka Yeah Greg is typically harsh on the person he's the closest to (i.e. Roisin Conaty, Hugh Dennis, Victoria Coren Mitchell), and I'd assume he knows Joe Thomas the most given they were co-stars on the Inbetweeners. The major exception to that is Rhod Gilbert, but Greg was understandably harsh towards his prize tasks
@@GNVS300 of course he was harsh towards his prize tasks, Rhod basically threw his chances away to fuck with Greg most of the time. Greg does pull off some real bullshit sometimes, but I don't think he could've in any way pull off giving Rhod more points for continuously using his face without it being obvious that he's biased.
Yeah strange it’s being uploaded on Wednesday. But the first task for hometasking season 2 ended on twitter, so they uploads probably got reshuffled for the montage upload
4:50 fun fact, blobfish doesnt look like that in its natural habitat, they live super deep in the ocean and they look like "normal" fish, but when they are taken to the shore, the change of pressure causes damage to the tissue on their body and they end up looking like this
I feel the need to assume that's how this happened. The person whose job it is to upload has entered the time-soup stage of lockdown, guessed at the day, and nobody else felt like correcting him
I feel sorry for the blob fish, because that's NOT what they look like when they're in their proper environment. The "blob" look forms from leaving the pressurized waters of the deep sea.
Wait a minute, why didn’t we get to see Iain in a kilt in Edinburgh?!?!? Yeah, the throwing chain was broken, whatever, I still want to see Iain in his kilt in Edinburgh!!! WTF?!?!?
Yeah IKR! I fully expected after it was mentioned and Alex was like well you dropped the ball no one could catch it that he would then be like but here's the clip anyway.
Can you even begin to comprehend how much I needed this today? I got flashbacks to when Kennedy took office, and the funeral cortege, and the Zapruder tapes, when Biden got out of the limo, walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, and approached people in the street on the way to the White House today. The hell of the last 4 years and 2.4 months is just starting to subside. My PTSD has wiped me out. And, then, this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and the apex of my fear.
Blobfish actually look like normal fish in their natural habitat deep under water. The high pressure in their normal habitat means blobfish have a higher internal pressure than fish that live closer to the surface so they don’t get crushed by the pressure from all the water above it. Because of this they pretty much explode when brought up to the surface.
I'm so used to these uploading on a thursday that seeing it in my notifs made me question everything. Didn't help that this week already feels messed up cos I'm working tuesday-saturday
I love how different Greg and Alex are. It makes their banter so much funnier 😂😂😂 Also, love Ian's "and that's the whole package" before sitting and showing us his package 😳😂😂😂
Genuinely love when Greg is delighted by Alex's "banter" section! I know it helps him get into character to be annoyed by the bits, but the delight on his face with the pocket was lovely!!
I love Paul's general strategy of "if I just barely accomplish the task, someone will probably get disqualified and I won't come last."
While he generally deserves to lose a task, I feel like the "murder" task was one he at least deserved a bonus point on because he correctly called the double-bluff and predicted nobody else would actually use ketchup. He still would have lost overall, but I give Paul at least one bonus point for using ketchup during that task!
@David Garza "the difference between a brown nose and an ass kisser is an inch"
I'd like to know what is supposed to happen first? I mean is it "you'll get the brown nose regardless, whether or not you move an extra inch to kiss an ass" or is it "you can kiss an ass without getting your nose brown, but if you go an extra inch, you will"?
I guess this saying is heavily dependent on the etnical identity of the ass kisser, and thus the size of their nose. Asians with their small noses should be the most safe.
Also it's good you only care how you stack up against others... no sense trying to do it so you have skills, just as long as your that tiny bit better.. that teacher was just that, a teacher, not a do-er... a do-er wouldn't give such shit advice, because they'd have to work with you after.....
@@billdavis6238 a good teacher shouldnt give that kind of advice either
conservation of effort is fine - there is no reason to invest an immense amount of effort to achieve a marginally improved result - but just doing the bare minimum on everything is just a bad idea
@@SharienGaming Yes, there is very good reason to put 'immense amount of effort into achieving marginal results',
You have no idea what the results are until the effort is put in...
"You may not touch the sand. Well, I've done that."
"You may not move the bucket. Done that."
"You may not leave the room. Fuck it, let's do that as well."
Iain's best moment, and for me, one of my favorite moments on this series of Taskmaster.
But didn't everybody touch the sand.
Iain just giving in to this failure after whinging so much was refreshing.
@@nicholasmenzel201 Generally speaking, I think the sand was touching them, rather than the other way around.
At a certain point, admitting that there is NO WAY Greg is going to give you a single point just seems like the sane solution.
Honestly sounds like something Jo brand would say
I love genuine surprise on Greg's face when he correctly guessed thing in Alex's pocket and how said face progressively became less impressed with more pockets unveiled. Also impressed how well Greg knows Alex and his sense of humore
I think a lot of their banter is scripted
I think that means they're legally married now ha ha.
@@shroomz11 I feel like Alex plans his bit and then Greg reacts to it naturally. I genuinely don’t think he knew what would be in the pocket.
A Hobbit yeah just the way he says " I genuinely didn't know" and how Alex was laughing makes me think he really didn't . Which makes the exchange so much better. Him even getting the play on words item.
@@shroomz11 Nope, Greg states in an early episode that Alex can do whatever he wants with those two minutes and he has no clue what's coming.
"Stay humble, whether you've had birthdays or not. Which... you... well, you would."
Joe is so adorably awkward.
Maybe he was thinking about Jehovah's Witnesses. Probably not, though.
@@misscryptoria haha i thought the same thing lol
Joe just doesn’t look like he’s having any fun.
I think it was a massive dig at Ian
Just to clarify on Joe "The Human Eeyore" Thomas' prize task, the blobfish doesn't look like that normally. It lives deep underwater where the pressure helps hold its body together, so that blobfish has been taken from its habitat and is slowly dying
much like Joe Thomas.
A fish out of water represented by a fish out of water.
@Amanda Burke I'm in the US, but I don't get it either.
@Amanda Burke She's blunt and a bit crazy. Seems like a good fit for Taskmaster.
@Amanda Burke A lot of the contestants on Taskmaster are relatively unknown in the UK. It is a show that introduces a lot of newcomers to a national audience, or gives them a broader platform. It is also a show that forces a revelation of something of the underlying person rather than merely a display of the stage persona, which is nice.
Excellent comment
The birthday party of nothing but Alex Hornes was legitimately creepier than most full budget horror movies.
I do like the fact that alex was forced to wear an alex horne mask at 18:50
Truly nightmarish and unsettling.
It was like an Aphex Twin music video
Yeah. I think Joe absolutely deserverd undisputed first place on that task
I can't stand Alex he's a passive aggressive asshole
"Stay humble, whether you have birthdays or not, which you would. Even if you never, literally never age; stay humble" - Joe Thomas
"That's how your mum sees you Greg."
Two episodes in a row, Paul is ON FIRE.
I think Paul's one of the very few contestants Greg would let get away with something like that. Imagine if James or Nish had the temerity to say something like that.
"Because some fckwit will disqualify himself"
Paul is absolutely hilarious. Everything he says is in sharp contrast to his calm and composed demeanor.
@@stephendavis6267 "You're not a bad guy, Nish."
If only he had that fire in the tasks
@@Robyamdam If only he hadn't had Parkinson's at the time and wasn't in a whole load of pain
I mean, he admits that he wasn't great and wouldn't have won anyway, but still.
I see the Tree Wizard has taught himself teleportation
I don’t see how he has the time between double checking balloons
I love this comment and the first reply so much.
Tree wizaaaaarrrrd.
Old but gold.
This is my favourite comment.
Oh my god, there's another baloon
Mate, when you're back from the dead, you don't need to teach yourself teleportation.
Joe Thomas always looks like he's extremely lost. I don't doubt that he wasn't invited to TaskMaster, rather, he wandered on stage one day and everyone is too polite to tell him he's lost.
😂😂
He's just high
You think the Taskmaster is polite?
@@tiedeman39 I believe Lord Greg Davies is nothing short of such a title. What a polite young man.
@@migsan7030 Yeah, he looks completely fucking out of it lmao
I don't think Iain expected his special outfit to be Phil Wang'ing it so much and he is super self conscious of this fact for the entire rest of the episode.
The pendulum draws the eye
That part cracked me up. “You’re really bobbling around in there huh” lmao
Having some Phil Wang flashbacks with Ian's outfit
at least until dancing on stage with Paul's face!
I mean, he introduced it with "the whole package," so I suspect he at least had an inkling.
I think Iain is the first person in Taskmaster History who realized they disqualified themselves, and just went all in.
Mel Giedroyc effectively did the same when she touched every object before discovering the bread glove.
@@PokerJoker811 That was a classic, ngl
lisa from series 6
1000th like for the above comment. Your welcome. It was satisfying.
Not exactly the same situation but the same energy as when Joe Wilkinson made himself a great big elaborate breakfast during the “Eat an Egg” task.
Greg: In the previous tasks I've thought you were spiralling into some kind of depression-
Joe: Yeah
Greg: and an existential crisis-
Joe: Yeah
paul being all "yer mum says yer fat" in such a soft, earnest way like he's only saying it because it's true is genuinely upsetting, absolutely merciless, i'm surprised greg didn't cry
Is it just me, or is Greg so NOT fat? He's just really tall, which is very different from being fat.
@@HOTD108_ He mentions his weight a few times during the show's run. After the S7 donut live task he mentions that he's "knocking on the door of 30 stone," and I think in a later series he cites his weight again and it's significantly lower. Presumably his range for a healthy weight is higher than the rest of us peasants due to his height, of course. And I've never found him anything other than sexy.
Eta: 30 stone is 400+ lbs/190 kg if anyone is wondering.
I think Greg's mum's been talking with Rhod.
@@HOTD108_ He isn't particularly fat compared to the average father, but he is certainly overweight.
Still beautiful though.
@@HOTD108_well he lifts his shirt in his stand up show 'you magnificent beast'. He could lose some weight, so to say.
But you know, so could I. He's still magnificent.
The chemistry between Paul and Iain is my highlight of the series. "Disfunctionally competitive" "fuckwit" and Iain just owns it. Two legends
"Don't tell me I herded that ball."
Would've been phenomenal though wouldn't it.
It wouldn't have affected the outcome, either, so it would just have been such an amazing coincidence.
That quip was so good 👏😂
That would have been just about as sad as Joe's potatoe but in a very different way
I know Joe always has certain expressions, but during the injury task, he gives Lou a look like "What a psycho." And then we see his...
I adore this man!
17:57
LOL
great catch.
He actually gave her and the camera that look several times this episode. I get the feeling he doesn't like how passive aggressive she is.
@@sometimessnarky1642
I do. Yow wow. I can change her! XD
@@BurnEdOutOne you got three red flags in 8 words, impressive
He is so supple
Nothing demonstrates the friendship between Greg and Alex more than the "What's in my pocket" game at the start. The fact that Greg was pretty much spot-on for all four was amazing.
And the joy from both of them after he guessed correctly 😂😂. Really precious
There is a real sinister team dynamic between Joe and Sian. First the awkward meetup before the compass task, and now: "Do you want to do it at home with a pump?"
The split second look of surprise and betrayal that Greg showed when Paul told him what his mom said is so satisfying.
Only slightly less satisfying than the finale prize task of Rhod
(not a prize task, if you mean the photo of his mum in the tub - that was for the fez task)
Joe's face after any task looks as if he's seen a ghost
I think of it like he's always trying to remember if he turned the stove off.
He was on the podcast, and they talked a bit about how it was hard to watch himself & you could see it on his face the whole time.
Seems like he has mental issues
@@cookie4049 I mean look at his face watching the others, it's not just himself... he really looks like he'd rather do anything but be there
I don't know how to explain it but Iain Stirling has the perfect accent for the mania that is him giving up on sand.
you ADEEYOT!
Joe constantly looks like someone told him a loved one has passed away
Or he just saw a loved one who had passed away
when he met sian for the teamtask he looked like someone had told him he himself had passed away
I feel like inbetweeners did that to him
I figured he had used ketchup and was dreading the reveal that Paul fucked him.
He’s constantly going through all 5 stages of grief
I love the extremes that are Iain and Joe.
Alex is the best co-host to this show because he understands that sometimes the funniest thing you can do is have zero sense of humor. His deadpan replies to dumb questions really sell certain clips.
Well, he created the entire show so of course he understands its format.
He's actually the Taskmaster, seeing as he is the show's creator and the designer of the challanges.
"wat a wayst of tiyem, ü E D I O T" is the best thing ive heard in a scottish brogue
the opening moment of Greg correctly guessing what Alex put in his pocket and then both of them looking incredibly excited about it is true friendship
So cute!
At 6:30, Alex says, "Two to Lou?" and I think he was making a joke on "toodle-oo," because he gave a quick look at Greg to see if he'd noticed, but quickly dropped the gaze when he realized Greg didn't give a darn.
Aww
Whoever timed the "In Homage to the Taskmaster" card to pop up right as Greg talked about his own death is a devious bastard, if I didn't already know that video isn't a memorial I'd have had a heart attack
when is that?
@@jankisi he started the sentence at about 00:58 and the card (at the top right corner) showed up at 01:06
it's not there?? somehow they seem to have taken it out...
@@just-tess I still can see it.
The duo got cheated on the beach ball task. It was whoever passes the ball the "most APPARENT distance" - they were playing smart!
Did it appear to you that Sian and Romesh were really in other countries?
They just needed to fake it a little bit better
Such little effort was put into the fake locations though lol.
No. Joe got cheated because Sian didn't even try. It was lazy and meant to be funny but just cost them the points. If she had had him there once and be done with it they might have gotten away with it.
@@sometimessnarky1642 The point is to have fun and be funny at the end of the day. You think anyone on Whose Line is it Anyway cared about points lol
I will forever be laughing at the Ball pass. "Well done, Sian for catching that here in .. Malaysia."
Joe constantly looks like he has absolutely no idea where he is and what's happening
..and who everyone around him is, and what's that smell, and who he is, and why did he teleport here..
just like during inbetweeners?
he's having a perpetual existential crisis
What is his problem?
My dude high. Large pupils, spasms, slow movements, slow and deep bresthing
Listen, let’s not complain about the early episode, little Alex Horne won’t notice and we’ll get episodes early 😌
I dunno, any time someone tries to keep something from him it turns out he had it recorded at 3 different camera angles.
Well this does screw up my plans for what I’m going to watch during my lunch break tomorrow.
Let's just hope he has a 7-day timer that he sets after he posts the videos
If we each send him a cake with profiteroles on it, that might rattle him enough to post a whole season at once!
Terrified me thinking I'd missed a whole day 😨
Paul was the ONLY one who did anything like “herding”. The rest of em just carried balls.
To move in group was the definition. In that sense his was the worst
@@xadielplasencia3674 yeah and I think ian should have been questioned as well bc he only carried two at the same time sometimes so they were herded in some cases and just carried in other
Damn, if Little Alex tried the door bluff on the season with James Acaster he woulda been right thumped
This kind of happened with the Boiler Suit thing. IIRC you can see Alex standing far clear of the door when James comes in and sure enough he swings the door open hard lol. For everybody else he was quite close.
I’ve never seen a man happier than when Alex was playing “what’s in my pocket”
Looking at Joe, I am reminded of the old idiom, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride"
I hope you win an episode soon, Joe. I really do
Sian is totally right about the heightism thing. I notice several tasks every series where tall people have a clear advantage but very few (if any) where shorter people have the advantage. And most of these could have been adjusted for height with very little extra effort.
I can think of one task where being shorter was an advantage. There was a task where they had to build a bridge and there were materials taped underneath the table. A shorter person may have noticed the lights underneath the table lighting up hinting at the materials.
Also, any task involving physically crawling underneath something would naturally give an advantage to shorter people with smaller body frames. I don't remember any tasks like that off the top of my head, though.
In all fairness, there have been several tasks where height was absolutely an advantage so I think you're overall right though.
I mean you say that as if the fact that certain people are at an inherent disadvantage isn't part of the fundamental design of the game
life in general is unfair to us the vertically challenged folk
Not only is life unfair as well, but this is just a comedic show. And a non-American on at that. There's no need for there to be a fairness about it. They have fun and make everyone laugh so it is perfectly fine as is in my opinion.
Lolly did very well at hide and seek because she’s little and was able to fit in that spot in the shower. That is, however, the only example I’m coming up with at the moment.
Paul Sinha just, very casually and politely (and possibly without even meaning to do it), dropped a more savage fat jab at Greg than anything Rhod managed.
I still don't think Greg is fat, poor Greg. But Paul's detached savagery is kind of beautiful. :3
17:57 I just can't look away from Joe.. he's just... WHAT IS HE?!
YES AND THIS 33:55 LMAO WHAT
you just gotta love him.
He's adorable.
He looks like he’s floating in space uncontrollably despite sitting still
@@DeepFriedCertified I love that hahahhaa
Why does Joe Thomas look like he's constantly on the edge of falling into a confusion-induced coma?
Perfect description
I always think he looks like Mike from Suits... But when he was smoking a lot of weed.
After Lu's noodle knee I thought he was going to pass out
Exhibit A: 17:57
Exhibit B: 19:13
Exhibit C: 33:55
The edit keeps highlighting it. IMO pretty hilarious.
I dunno how Taskmaster does it but they always manage to make the contestants seem a little bit unhinged, thoroughly weird and at times very uncomfortable, but at the same time very endearing and relatable.
On paper it seems like they're being mocked/humiliated by both the format of the show and the edits, but it never really feels that way when you're watching it. They just seem more like real people than the personas comics often adopt in these kinds of shows.
Joe's little manneurisms (or whatever it is) is just part of that vibe this show goes for I think. Some of the cuts to him being that way are clearly very intentional, and totally unnecessary, but it helps the viewer feel for him in a way? I dunno.
This "pocket" banter is great, because it simultaneously shows so much of Alex Horne the person vs Alex Horne the character. I love it!
If anyone doesn't believe there are different kinds of intelligence, i present to them: quiz show champion Paul Sinha doubled over and ponderously, laboriously herding(/chasing) a single ping pong ball by gently bumping it with a basketball.
lou’s “did i win?” made me love her even more, she is amazing at this show and she fucking knows it 15:31
She's so lovely on Taskmaster
She's so cool!
I love her 😂🤩
This channel is literally the only thing keeping me sane
Ironic isn’t it 😂
Gotta check out WILTY?Nope and Dave Gorman's MLIG
@@rewrose2838 yeah, you're right... Taskmaster isn't the only thing... British comedians are the only thing keeping me sane...
Much the same here. Glad to have had this today of all days here in the US (though miraculously nothing horrible has *yet* happened). Thanks, Alex, for the early episode! I needed it!
James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe's Hypothetical is pretty excellent at it, too, if harder to get full episodes of outside the UK, sadly.
wanna talk proto-renaissance philosophy and history?
Rather fitting that Romesh appears again with a watermelon of sorts
You racist.
@@HOTD108_ what? do you even know what they're talking about?
5:58 one could call them greggings
Underrated comment here XD
Joe's constant bewilderment gives me life.
I totally adore this man :) but that's an uncommon reaction - looking at the comments... unfortunately.
@@katarzynaborzecka6458 oh you just haven't found the right threads... the Thomas thirst is strong.
I rememberd this episode by the "Is it that sort of thing?" - said by a grown man holding an loo rol with an egg cup.
joe has the best one liners.
Love joes frowns and facial expressions. Its like he's constantly experiencing some powerful drugs starting to kick in
I greatly admire Iain having one of the most awkward moments of the show last episode with the hammock team task, to immediately turning around and having one of the funniest performances both in tasks and in studio this episode.
37:31 considering they started this season with him getting winded by just walking across a field at a leisurely pace to get to the task, I'm honestly proud of him
I just got to the twist I'm SO proud of him holy shit
"Can we all just sigh?"
Good god I'd love to be around a crowd sighing and not worrying about dying, lol
We all know what face Rhod Gilbert will show if he had been in this episode.
I feel like he did show a t-shirt in one of the episodes in that series
@@meetaverma8372 yeh, pic was upside down
@@stevie8271 it's been so long I've forgotten the context, now I'll watch this episode again
despite knowing both of them primarily
from the inbetweeners, it took me until the moment when greg shouted at alex for correcting him and joe laughed uncontrollably but nervously to realise that greg and joe know eachother (from the inbetweeners)
1:37 I really thought last episode's Nell was the most wholesome thing Taskmaster has put out but the beggining "banter" of this episode might have topped even that
an incredible moment for sure
You can tell Alex was genuinely delighted with his “What’s in my pocket” game. Especially the wee pocket at the end. ❤️
So happy for Iain when the special ball adjustment put him in first. It was like all his dreams came true.
if he made 11 trips with max 2 balls at a time, though, he couldn't have gotten more than 22...
I think considering Paul has Parkinsons and he couldn't really move his shoulder that well he did a very good job in these tasks. I think I would have just been trying to find some kind of loophole but he was very methodical. Slow af but methodical.
I felt so badly for him. I feel his frozen shoulder hampered a lot of his tasks. 😢
He wasn't diagnosed yet and what most people don't know: untreated Parkinsons has a severe effect also on your general brain functions. Like problem solving skills, awareness of your surroundings, reaction time, etc.
So basically everything this show demands.
It's really heartbreaking to watch.
You know the Taskmaster is really something when not even the Mighty Tree Wizard can deceive him.
“Do you like abstract art”
“I do when you do it”
I can’t tell if this was supportive or flirty, but very sweet and unexpected lol
I love the way the edited this and kept showing Joe in the studio bits looking like he's processing everything that's going on
blobfish actually look fairly normal when they are in the depths of the ocean where they belong due to the difference in pressure
that's genuinely horrifying
@@philaeew4866 well imagine if an alien dragged you into space then named you after what you looked like after its pretty unfair but it's not the worst the fact we haven't renamed it yet is worse
It's crazy how anything can live under those pressures though, if you understand what can happen to us at those pressure differences you quickly see how that's not supposed to be the way a blobfish normally looks
Still looks silly to me haha
That photo always makes me so sad that it's literally turned inside out. o.o Poor fish.
16:31 they really couldn't do that opening with James Acaster
HOW did Joe not win the injury task? HOW?
EXACTLY!!
His was definitely the best. I am guessing Sian won due to the primacy/recency effect
sometimes I think the point system is rigged, they've already decided before the show airs!
@@makkashakka Yeah Greg is typically harsh on the person he's the closest to (i.e. Roisin Conaty, Hugh Dennis, Victoria Coren Mitchell), and I'd assume he knows Joe Thomas the most given they were co-stars on the Inbetweeners. The major exception to that is Rhod Gilbert, but Greg was understandably harsh towards his prize tasks
@@GNVS300 of course he was harsh towards his prize tasks, Rhod basically threw his chances away to fuck with Greg most of the time. Greg does pull off some real bullshit sometimes, but I don't think he could've in any way pull off giving Rhod more points for continuously using his face without it being obvious that he's biased.
i love seeing alex and greg genuinely smile, theyre so sweet when they break character
17:22 joes face in this moment looks like he's having a profound realisation about the meaning of life
That’s the best playing of “What’s in my pocket?” I’ve ever seen! Alex’s facial expressions are hilarious, as always.
Alex laughing while Joe was giving a disasterous recount of his birthday message was hilarious
I love how Alex seems to delight in making bad jokes and seeing if he can make people laugh with them.
I'm just now realizing that they put Anime Greg's eyes on the windows by the door. 17:51
Posting on a Wednesday?! Intriguing
Today is Thursday... it has to be. They only post on Thursdays.... right? RIGHT?? My whole calendar is off now.
Was just thinking the same thing? 50 minutes ago?! Whaaaat!?
Yeah strange it’s being uploaded on Wednesday. But the first task for hometasking season 2 ended on twitter, so they uploads probably got reshuffled for the montage upload
Oh i didn't even realise
Where I live it's Thursday. Happy to start the day with tügtemester.
4:50 fun fact, blobfish doesnt look like that in its natural habitat, they live super deep in the ocean and they look like "normal" fish, but when they are taken to the shore, the change of pressure causes damage to the tissue on their body and they end up looking like this
aw :( that just makes it sadder 😭
Thanks to the lockdown, I totally forgot what say it is and thought "Taskmaster? That means it's Thursday!"
I feel the need to assume that's how this happened. The person whose job it is to upload has entered the time-soup stage of lockdown, guessed at the day, and nobody else felt like correcting him
@@jasonpost913 Judging by this week’s update, they’re still refraining. That guy’s sense of time has been abolished now, along with ours.
I feel sorry for the blob fish, because that's NOT what they look like when they're in their proper environment. The "blob" look forms from leaving the pressurized waters of the deep sea.
Wait a minute, why didn’t we get to see Iain in a kilt in Edinburgh?!?!? Yeah, the throwing chain was broken, whatever, I still want to see Iain in his kilt in Edinburgh!!! WTF?!?!?
Yeah IKR! I fully expected after it was mentioned and Alex was like well you dropped the ball no one could catch it that he would then be like but here's the clip anyway.
I want an “awkward off” between Joe and Alex.
Just found this show about 3 days ago, and I am doing a marathon watching all the videos. hahaha
I am genuinely INSANELY impressed at Greg guessing the pocket, pocket, thing like a pocket, pocket PERFECTLY IN THAT ORDER?????????
Nah Sian did NOT deserve 5 points for the injury task. He said the baked bean one wasn’t realistic but THAT utter garbage was????
Now Alex claims to have designed the game what’s in my pocket, but I think we all know it was Bilbo Baggins...
They’re both hobbits, does it really matter which of them came up with it first?
Who else noticed Joe's barely concealed flipping the bird to Greg at 11:22?
It's Wednesday??
What's happening tomorrow?
No idea what's happening tomorrow but it's ruined now that it isn'y going to be Friday.
champion of champions surprise?
Maybe the hometasking video
We are being part of a taskmaster task
Post a video most suprise
Probably hometasking season 2. Hometasking 1 also changed the upload schedule a bit
why is no one talking about joe at 11:24 flipping off greg while he isnt looking LMAO i love joe
I am not sure whether I should feel good about the fact that these videos so far have been THE highlight of my time spent at work this year.
Can you even begin to comprehend how much I needed this today? I got flashbacks to when Kennedy took office, and the funeral cortege, and the Zapruder tapes, when Biden got out of the limo, walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, and approached people in the street on the way to the White House today.
The hell of the last 4 years and 2.4 months is just starting to subside. My PTSD has wiped me out.
And, then, this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and the apex of my fear.
The way Joe claps is the funniest thing
Lou's "did I win?" was SO ADORABLE
-Oh god, I'm only 5'.
-Yes, me too.
Amazing.
The Joy followed by revelation and dissapointment that Gregg experiences of the course of the “Whats in my pocket segment” is glorious
Blobfish actually look like normal fish in their natural habitat deep under water. The high pressure in their normal habitat means blobfish have a higher internal pressure than fish that live closer to the surface so they don’t get crushed by the pressure from all the water above it. Because of this they pretty much explode when brought up to the surface.
I'm so used to these uploading on a thursday that seeing it in my notifs made me question everything. Didn't help that this week already feels messed up cos I'm working tuesday-saturday
The pure joy of Greg guessing what was in the pocket was immense
The bass line of this shows theme is an absolute banger.
I love how different Greg and Alex are. It makes their banter so much funnier 😂😂😂
Also, love Ian's "and that's the whole package" before sitting and showing us his package 😳😂😂😂
I think this is my favorite group so far, I love them all!!
watching Greg and Alex play "whats in my pocket?" should be a show by itself
"Don't tell me I herded that ball"
Legit one of the funniest lines ever in TM...
Wait, if Ian hadn't won, would he have had to strip off his clothes since they were part of the first task prize? xD
They weren't part of the prize. The prize was the outfit pictured, he just showed that he happened to be wearing other stuff underneath that outfit.
Genuinely love when Greg is delighted by Alex's "banter" section! I know it helps him get into character to be annoyed by the bits, but the delight on his face with the pocket was lovely!!