The cut between Hugh saying the cue's very long and Noel snapping it in half is one of the funniest things i've ever seen, I want whoever edited that to get an award
I seem to remember on one of the Big Fat Quiz episodes (i think it was paired with Russel), he said he was actually pretty decent at football. But yeah, he just seems natural.
It occurred to me now that it's a matter of eye-to-hand-to-tool-to-object coordination and that it actually rather makes sense that an artist is good at that. :-)
Noel being secretly sporty (he's very good at football as well) is part of what makes him so powerful a being, as this is a skillset not usually seen in most goths. Mans has an Infinity Gauntlet of skills.
Noel was really the person that really proved the point - and might be the poster child - that some contestants are just *good* at things. Just super well rounded and win tasks by being good at whatever they need to do.
Noel is that arty kid in school who the athletic kids don't pay attention to and then he just does something insane during a P.E. lesson and the entire school year loses their fucking minds
Me during some sort of dodge baseball game in the sports hall (hit the ball and then run to the other side - safe zone - run back when the next person hits - people throw the ball at you to get you out). Never put in effort in PE (was probably actually one of the fastest in the year though). Pulled out some moves from the matrix, threw myself backwards to dodge the ball, dodged a few more times etc and made it back safe. Wasn't one of the ''arty kids'' though. I was horrible at art, teacher gave me a C out of pity due to all the effort I put in at the end to actually finish the work.
i entered the modern english comedy scene by randomly discovering the mighty boosh on tv late one night while i was in college. it genuinely warms my heart that not only did noel win this whole series but he also legitimately surprised and impressed greg by coming clean out of nowhere to gain an insane amount of momentum to win.
i'd also like to add that not only did noel break the cue which gave him more control over the actual striking motion, in addition he turned the cheese on its side to guarantee more surface area while hugh hit it more like a hockey puck.
Jimmy "He sounds like a cool guy" Tommy "He is a cool guy he can hook you up with the 4 star, the 3 star, the 1 star, the 5 star, diesel, eco-friendly engine, Maximum power, Tommy petrol call me."
I think before that Noel had won the thing were they had to carry a tray of milk and sandwiches while hoping on one leg and he did it without a break and faster and ate the least sandwiches
Pool cues aren't exactly rare antiques. Hitting on one the ground or the seats behind them could damage it so someone else couldn't use it, I bet they had spares. They do handle some pretty strange people on the show!
To be fair @@GNVS300 they could have gotten a new blender, they do not record the same task with different peple on the same day. During the different series we see the weather change a good deal between the different contestants
@@bazzakrakfrom what I understand it's filmed over the course of about 2 months. I'm guessing partly so they're not too tied down and can still do other projects.
So there are a lot of cases where people confuse talent with practice. But Noel also broke the snooker cue and that made it an individual length. Because no matter how many times you try it, every snooker cue breaks at an individual length. Point is, Noel couldnt have had much practice in any case yet he ...achieved this. Thats where Im inclined to say he is talented.
@@grantsnake I think he probably took lessons or played when he was younger, he has a swing like Jack Nicklaus with the foot lift, the high hand leaning back follow through, and the way his body is compact throughout. Most golf coaches won't teach that anymore and has fallen out of fashion. But they would've when Noel was a teen.
he also increased the surface area that he was hitting, which not only allowed for less chance at missing with a swing but also allowed for greater control over the trajectory it took.
I thought I'd watched EVERY episode of Taskmaster and can't for the life of me remember watching this episode... I should really pay more attention, as my History teacher told me so many years ago.
I swear they've been uploading a few tasks that were previously unaired, I KNOW I've watched every single episode at least twice over and don't remember this task or a couple others that they've uploaded. Maybe we're just going crazy 🤷
Wow. Poor Hugh. His strongest point on the show was probably his natural athleticism, and then silly old arty-farty Noel Fielding comes along and SMASHES it! He really was unbeatable in that series.
I feel like "you've got no chutzpah" and "you are incredible at whacking cheese with a snooker cue" are the two ends of a spectrum. what that spectrum is, im not entirely sure tho
I’m surprised that no one argued that the said three STRIKES, not three ATTEMPTS. An attempted strike and a strike are not the same thing. And I love that Noel showed that he is who he has chosen to be. He grew up with the lads and can totally hang with them, but he’s chosen to walk his own path. Kind of like those kids in high school who played sports, and sang in choir and did plus, and then hung out with the skaters at lunch. Kind of a Ferris Beuller who’s cool with everyone.
never in my whole life have i had the name tony 3pies that high on the list of things i might possibly say if given an opportunity. in fact, give me the opportunity right now, we'll be waiting decades for me to say it. or one of us could just die first. such is the life-saving power of the taskmaster, namer of names, pointer of points, tasker of tasks
It frustrates me that no one attempted my initial thinking and now I am clueless as to whether it would be any good...to the point where I am thinking I need to buy a coconut just to try it (using the umbrella as a kind of trebuchet)
Was thinking a similar thing with the swimming noodle, they can be tied in a knot and would probably make a big enough surface that you could do a lacrosse style scoop/strike with. Pretty sure I could get the coconut past that Babybel distance.
i have a distinct feeling Noel would have done this show for free and probably would have paid well to do it... even if it never went to air. its that 'think out side the box' mentality that comes from being a natural nutter... and encouraging it with pharmaceuticals
As an American, I'm trying to translate the video description "Tony Three-Pies reveals his inner lad as he absolutely leathers a babybel". Tony Three-Pies (I'm totally lost) reveals his inner lad (so young kids that are into sports are lads?) as he absolutely leathers (I'm guessing this is reference to knocking the leather off a ball, kind of like "going yard" in baseball) a babybel (cheese brand).
Tony 3 pies is just the sort of nickname you could give a lad so long as they did something noteworthy with 3 pies. A lad is basically just a bro or frat boi. The leathers bit I don’t about but I assume you’re right and the babybell you’re also right.
Idk how much is BBC? Some TV channel or site? Subscription. You can watch bunch of stuff on it not just Taskmaster. I'm too lazy to fact check any of this haha
I’d have cut up the foam noodle, put some in my shoe (for protection), and then taped some foam noodle around the outside of the shoe, then just dropped kicked the coconut. Because the outside of the shoe would technically be the foam noodle striking the ball, and surely you’d get some reasonable distance doing that too?
If Lolly had hit the coconut with that pencil it would have gone miles!.....of course there was a better chance of her breaking a finger than wiffing 3 times. Lol
Whar kind of handle did the umbrella have? If it was that old school bendy handle I would have used the umbrella as a golf clup. Question is what object I would hit. :)
My first instinct was to do the opposite - to hit the pen or snooker cue with the coconut and send it off like a javelin. Or even hit the duck or cheese with the coconut.
So, Noel hit it 5m further than Hugh, and looked to have caught it just right. From that it is hard to tell whether snapping the cue helped or not (although it was funny obviously).
If it's any consolation for Lolly, even if she scored a perfect hit it would still have been pretty shit. The coconut is simply too heavy relative to the pencil. It would have gone like three meters at most and hitting it would probably have felt very unpleasant.
isn't a strike actually striking the object so if they miss that's technically not a strike... and yeah baseball is different but also thats subjective
I’m surprised nobody argued that Noel failed to use one of the provided objects. He used half a snooker cue whereas the provided object was a full cue. Anyway I would have placed the floaty thing next to the cheese and just put my boot through it. 😁
Well, they didn't argue it because it's needlessly pedantic. The cue doesn't become a different cue after snapping it, and they didn't say the object had to stay in their provided state.
The cut between Hugh saying the cue's very long and Noel snapping it in half is one of the funniest things i've ever seen, I want whoever edited that to get an award
Similar to the great teabag throwing incident of 2015 😊
“That’s a very very very long thing isn’t it?”
*snap*
Pure beauty.
It remains one of my favorite moments of the whole show. The wet teabag edit is also a great bit.
Can I have an award? You're the person to talk to about awards, right?
@@1480-b5g that’s not even what they said dude
I love how Noel looks almost embarrassed to be good at sporty things. Like a don't tell my arty fashion friends vibe haha
I seem to remember on one of the Big Fat Quiz episodes (i think it was paired with Russel), he said he was actually pretty decent at football. But yeah, he just seems natural.
It occurred to me now that it's a matter of eye-to-hand-to-tool-to-object coordination and that it actually rather makes sense that an artist is good at that. :-)
2:06 the most British moment ever: a genuine audience cry of sadness and horror at a wasted cup of tea
honestly, such a bloody waste of a good cuppa
lol they literally went to war over this back in the day
The groan was for the pun, it’s a golf tee
Noel being secretly sporty (he's very good at football as well) is part of what makes him so powerful a being, as this is a skillset not usually seen in most goths. Mans has an Infinity Gauntlet of skills.
Exactly, I feel like the dude could shoot hoops in heels
No wonder he's a big advocate of Goth2Boss
Noel was really the person that really proved the point - and might be the poster child - that some contestants are just *good* at things. Just super well rounded and win tasks by being good at whatever they need to do.
Noel is one of very few people who would pull something like this off while wearing a yellow skeleton jumpsuit, heels and still look cool doing it.
I forget he wears heels, even when I notice. Just looks like how it's s'posed to be.
Noel is that arty kid in school who the athletic kids don't pay attention to and then he just does something insane during a P.E. lesson and the entire school year loses their fucking minds
I love it when years lose their minds
@@mip4422 2020
I was the arty nerd.
@@mip4422 Brits refer to “grades” as years, eg year 6 instead of 5th grade
Me during some sort of dodge baseball game in the sports hall (hit the ball and then run to the other side - safe zone - run back when the next person hits - people throw the ball at you to get you out). Never put in effort in PE (was probably actually one of the fastest in the year though). Pulled out some moves from the matrix, threw myself backwards to dodge the ball, dodged a few more times etc and made it back safe.
Wasn't one of the ''arty kids'' though. I was horrible at art, teacher gave me a C out of pity due to all the effort I put in at the end to actually finish the work.
I love how offended the studio audience was by Joe tipping out his tea
So inspiring to see someone like Lolly, be not just one of us normal people, but WORSE
i entered the modern english comedy scene by randomly discovering the mighty boosh on tv late one night while i was in college. it genuinely warms my heart that not only did noel win this whole series but he also legitimately surprised and impressed greg by coming clean out of nowhere to gain an insane amount of momentum to win.
i'd also like to add that not only did noel break the cue which gave him more control over the actual striking motion, in addition he turned the cheese on its side to guarantee more surface area while hugh hit it more like a hockey puck.
Noel's reveal as Tony Three-Pies is even more surprising than Jonathon Ross being revealed as Tommy Petrol on the big fat quiz of 2021.
Jimmy "He sounds like a cool guy"
Tommy "He is a cool guy he can hook you up with the 4 star, the 3 star, the 1 star, the 5 star, diesel, eco-friendly engine, Maximum power, Tommy petrol call me."
Or Victoria 'old goosebump arm' Coren Mitchell
I think before that Noel had won the thing were they had to carry a tray of milk and sandwiches while hoping on one leg and he did it without a break and faster and ate the least sandwiches
I just know Noel was that kid in high school who never studied and goofed around for the whole year and still got straight A's
Several times over the years, I’ve seen Noel talk about the fact that he’s actually quite good at sports…no one ever believes him!
I seen him play soccer in heels lol
Hugh and Noel both acknowledged how long the snooker cue was. Hugh laments Noel solved the problem.
Noel is a national treasure to the UK and I hope you all treat him as such.
This makes me wonder if they sometimes make decisions on who to film the tasks with first based on who is most likely to destroy the equipment
Pool cues aren't exactly rare antiques. Hitting on one the ground or the seats behind them could damage it so someone else couldn't use it, I bet they had spares. They do handle some pretty strange people on the show!
@@Ocker3 To be fair they didn't have a spare blender for the camel gap task, so Joe Lycett got conned (well not really as the blender sucked anyway)
To be fair @@GNVS300 they could have gotten a new blender, they do not record the same task with different peple on the same day.
During the different series we see the weather change a good deal between the different contestants
@@bazzakrakfrom what I understand it's filmed over the course of about 2 months. I'm guessing partly so they're not too tied down and can still do other projects.
WAUV@@Pagliacci_Rex so you prove my point, thank you Mr Obvious
Alex has played golf for years, and Noel is naturally better at it with a snooker cue and some cheese
So there are a lot of cases where people confuse talent with practice.
But Noel also broke the snooker cue and that made it an individual length. Because no matter how many times you try it, every snooker cue breaks at an individual length.
Point is, Noel couldnt have had much practice in any case yet he ...achieved this.
Thats where Im inclined to say he is talented.
There is only 1 situation where a sentence like that makes sense
Noel played football when he was younger, he just hides his athleticism with whimsy and winklepickers
I have a feeling Noel plays golf casually but doesnt draw attention to it coz it doesnt fit the indi boy image
@@grantsnake I think he probably took lessons or played when he was younger, he has a swing like Jack Nicklaus with the foot lift, the high hand leaning back follow through, and the way his body is compact throughout. Most golf coaches won't teach that anymore and has fallen out of fashion. But they would've when Noel was a teen.
The way he said your just a lad killed me.
Tony three-pies is such a perfectly Noel character name too 🤣
Sounds like a Mighty Boosh character, for sure.
Noel was smart to set the cheese on it's edge, gave it a great spin likely.
he also increased the surface area that he was hitting, which not only allowed for less chance at missing with a swing but also allowed for greater control over the trajectory it took.
2:08 the audible disappointment when joe turned the tea over
Lolly's attempt is one of my favourite studio moments with Greg's description
Tony 3-Pies is a bona fide cheese golf legend!
Based on how the task was written, I believed that the contestants would be allowed to hit the object three times, not just take three swings.
I thought I'd watched EVERY episode of Taskmaster and can't for the life of me remember watching this episode... I should really pay more attention, as my History teacher told me so many years ago.
I swear they've been uploading a few tasks that were previously unaired, I KNOW I've watched every single episode at least twice over and don't remember this task or a couple others that they've uploaded. Maybe we're just going crazy 🤷
Series 4, Episode 8 :)
@@gusey1397 cheers, must watch the rest of the episode to see if I've forgotten all that too :')
@@gusey1397 Thank you - I'm definitely going to have to watch the full episode... again.
AND he did it in HEELS, 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've only just noticed Mel was wearing Alan Partridge style string back driving gloves during this series.
Wow. Poor Hugh. His strongest point on the show was probably his natural athleticism, and then silly old arty-farty Noel Fielding comes along and SMASHES it! He really was unbeatable in that series.
Hugh's strongest point was absolutely his out of the box thinking. Something he was occasionally unfairly penalised for
I feel like "you've got no chutzpah" and "you are incredible at whacking cheese with a snooker cue" are the two ends of a spectrum. what that spectrum is, im not entirely sure tho
I think it's the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Butch to lad spectrum
Noel- Britain's new babybell-cue champion
I’m surprised that no one argued that the said three STRIKES, not three ATTEMPTS. An attempted strike and a strike are not the same thing.
And I love that Noel showed that he is who he has chosen to be. He grew up with the lads and can totally hang with them, but he’s chosen to walk his own path. Kind of like those kids in high school who played sports, and sang in choir and did plus, and then hung out with the skaters at lunch. Kind of a Ferris Beuller who’s cool with everyone.
Can we please get a series 4+7 show? It'd be okay if they all were just doin one task
My two favorite series. I'd live for this.
Hugh's smile at 5:47 is so cute. 😭
Hugh Dennis has such chill. Gotta love the man.
Lol Noel very often breaks things in his tasks
Putting it on its edge to increase the striking surface was what did it for him. Nicely done
"Very, very straight" from Mel's go cuts to Joe making a noise that's camp even by his standards, wonderful.
never in my whole life have i had the name tony 3pies that high on the list of things i might possibly say if given an opportunity.
in fact, give me the opportunity right now, we'll be waiting decades for me to say it. or one of us could just die first.
such is the life-saving power of the taskmaster, namer of names, pointer of points, tasker of tasks
Fun Fact: Hugh’s real name is Peter. Hugh is his middle name.
Yeah exactly, don't take him for a one syllable name kind of person.
I feel like Mel has been attractive at every stage of her life. Something uniquely beautiful going on with her.
(Hell yeah, let’s go Noel)
It frustrates me that no one attempted my initial thinking and now I am clueless as to whether it would be any good...to the point where I am thinking I need to buy a coconut just to try it (using the umbrella as a kind of trebuchet)
Sorta like lacrosse?
@@Killakatnage89 Yeah!
Was thinking a similar thing with the swimming noodle, they can be tied in a knot and would probably make a big enough surface that you could do a lacrosse style scoop/strike with. Pretty sure I could get the coconut past that Babybel distance.
Sure wish they'd post full episodes again.
The groan of the audience when he dumps the tea was so fucking British
I groaned and I don't even like tea.
A task is always better when Noel is involved 🥴
The way he knew it would swing better if he broke the pool cue 😂😂 love Noel
I'd genuinely be so pissed to have come all this way to hit it as far as Lolly did
wow, i completely forgot about this task! thanks for uploading
i have a distinct feeling Noel would have done this show for free and probably would have paid well to do it... even if it never went to air. its that 'think out side the box' mentality that comes from being a natural nutter... and encouraging it with pharmaceuticals
Contact the Guinness book of records we have a new world record
The more I see him, the more I’m convinced he’s Ray Davies’s not-so-secret love-child.
This season will remain my favorite unless we ever get david mitchell and richard ayoade
at 0:47 after joe says 'that's a coconut' in my head i hear bob mortimer saying 'coconut, the biggest of all nuts'
Priceless
Surprised none hit it from where it landed on the previous swing.
As an American, I'm trying to translate the video description "Tony Three-Pies reveals his inner lad as he absolutely leathers a babybel". Tony Three-Pies (I'm totally lost) reveals his inner lad (so young kids that are into sports are lads?) as he absolutely leathers (I'm guessing this is reference to knocking the leather off a ball, kind of like "going yard" in baseball) a babybel (cheese brand).
I could explain but it would be like Arthur Dent trying to explain how to make a cup of tea to the Heart of Gold's computer.
@@jrd33 haha! I got that reference. Fair enough. The cultural gap is part of why I love this show
"lad" is the British equivelant of "bro". Greg is essentially calling Noel a secret jock.
Tony 3 pies is just the sort of nickname you could give a lad so long as they did something noteworthy with 3 pies. A lad is basically just a bro or frat boi.
The leathers bit I don’t about but I assume you’re right and the babybell you’re also right.
This is exactly what I was searching the comments for, thanks to everyone who contributed...& I got the Arthur Dent ref, too :)
I actually expected Noel to walk over to the other side of the field and there gently tap the cheese.
No shot that they're actually calling it a snooker cue
Noel breaking the stick is like Will Smith's character in 'Men in Black' loudly dragging a table over. 🤦♀️ He ptoblem-solves differently. 🤷🏻♀️‼
No ones getting the idea of using the bag?
Noel rules!
I should not eat and watch Taskmaster. The home of golf almost killed me. Haha
Thank you for this show... I would pay to get all the episodes in full! How can I?
They are all on youtube
they're all uploaded on this channel!
Idk how much is BBC? Some TV channel or site? Subscription. You can watch bunch of stuff on it not just Taskmaster. I'm too lazy to fact check any of this haha
If you’re in the UK you can get them all through channel 4’s subscription service. I wouldn’t know about how to watch it outside the UK though, sorry.
@@samuelturner6076 4oD isn’t a subscription service, it’s free.
Love Noel in this episode
Marry me Noel. Just… make it happen. 💃🏽💕
I’d have cut up the foam noodle, put some in my shoe (for protection), and then taped some foam noodle around the outside of the shoe, then just dropped kicked the coconut. Because the outside of the shoe would technically be the foam noodle striking the ball, and surely you’d get some reasonable distance doing that too?
2:08 so British hearing the audience groan because a tea went to waste
Anyone who read Alice in wonderland would acquire the umbrella in the first instance as a golf club
Hugh hates losing. Same on Mock the Week, not happy if he's not getting the biggest laugh
they had golf ball yet they choose cheese and coconut
Seems a good idea would be to strike it off of a high thing, or onto a moving thing. Nothing in the rules said it had to be struck from the touchline.
I feel like the umbrella would have worked well for this task
Noel got some lovely draw on that shot 🤣
Now I want to see them play 18 holes with a snooker cue and some cheese.
The best title
If Lolly had hit the coconut with that pencil it would have gone miles!.....of course there was a better chance of her breaking a finger than wiffing 3 times. Lol
Noel Fielding is surprisingly adept at sports...
I love the amount of shit that they give each other and everyone just laughs it off. Seems like a British thing.
Alex saying it's the best thing Noel's ever done in his life as if he wasn't in The Mighty Boosh 😒
10/10 video title
Whar kind of handle did the umbrella have? If it was that old school bendy handle I would have used the umbrella as a golf clup. Question is what object I would hit. :)
I thought it was 3 pints, makes more sense:P
Probably didn't want to put that in the title
Use the coconut as a loaded fist to bunt the duck or the ping pong ball?
Ask Alex to turn around hit it backwards and say it went around the 🌎 and fell just short of the line. Alex start measuring.
wonder if you could have wrapped the pool noodle around your foot and then kicked the coconut>
My first instinct was to do the opposite - to hit the pen or snooker cue with the coconut and send it off like a javelin. Or even hit the duck or cheese with the coconut.
I surprised none of them picked up the object, run a ways off, then hit it.
So, Noel hit it 5m further than Hugh, and looked to have caught it just right. From that it is hard to tell whether snapping the cue helped or not (although it was funny obviously).
Blessed are the cheese wackers
If it's any consolation for Lolly, even if she scored a perfect hit it would still have been pretty shit. The coconut is simply too heavy relative to the pencil. It would have gone like three meters at most and hitting it would probably have felt very unpleasant.
As an American, I just don't get what Tony Three Pies is supposed to mean. What am I missing?
I don’t think it has any defined meaning, it’s just a Lad nickname you would give someone for doing something unusual with 3 pies.
Awesome fun
isn't a strike actually striking the object so if they miss that's technically not a strike... and yeah baseball is different but also thats subjective
I would choose the floatation device, put it in front of the coconut and kick it.
Could they not place the first item behind the object and smack it with their foot like a football ? That counts as a strike with the object no?
What series is this
series 4
What season is this
4
I’m surprised nobody argued that Noel failed to use one of the provided objects. He used half a snooker cue whereas the provided object was a full cue.
Anyway I would have placed the floaty thing next to the cheese and just put my boot through it. 😁
Well, they didn't argue it because it's needlessly pedantic. The cue doesn't become a different cue after snapping it, and they didn't say the object had to stay in their provided state.
I would have wrapped the pool floaty round my foot and the kicked the coconut as far as I could with it
misses shouldnt count
Pingk pong ball? 😂
*ping pong ball. That is how most people in the UK would refer to a table tennis ball.
@@YvonneWilson312 Yeah, I just think it sounds like he says "pingk pong"
I don't remember this task at all