Ep 208. Chris Ramsey - Series 19 Ep.8

Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast with me, Ed Gamble.

We are going to be talking about Taskmaster Series 19.

Of course we are, but specifically episode 8.

And we have a fantastic guest here with me to talk about episode 8.

It's the wonderful Chris Ramsey.

Chris Ramsey, of course, an alumni, alumnus, whatever that word is.

He's been on Taskmaster before, is what I'm saying.

And, of course, the husband of current Taskmaster contestant, Rosie Ramsey.

So we will get unprecedented insight into one of this series's players.

Not good at words today, but I'm sat in the caravan.

And as you can imagine, it's we've got a little temperature gauge in here.

It's 29 degrees in here.

So let's get on with it.

Let's chat to Chris Ramsey about Taskmaster Series 19, 19, episode 8.

Welcome, Chris Ramsey, to the Taskmaster podcast.

Hello, hello, hello.

Delighted to have you back on the pod.

Me, thank you.

Thank you for having me.

And in the flesh as well.

I'm sorry.

We are back in the.

This is the first time I've been back in the Taskmaster

compound.

Since.

Sorry, Ed.

We didn't all get to do Champion to Champions.

Sorry, mate.

Someone got absolutely fucking robbed by someone.

Not that I think about it every week, Ed.

But yes, lovely to be back.

Yeah, look, I pop back all the time, of course.

You don't come back for a barbecue or anything?

I don't get the invite.

No, no, no.

No, that's a shame.

What a shame you came back.

Too far away.

I'm in the north.

Live in the north.

That'll be why.

Well, thank you for coming from the north for this today.

And do you want to quickly complain about how warm it is in the Caribbean?

It's really warm.

Or, Ed, what you don't understand is when I'm coming down to the south, I have to dress for three climates.

I have to dress for whatever it is when I'm leaving my house and going to the train station.

I have to dress for whatever the climate be on the train itself, and then I have to dress for whatever it'll be.

I got changing the toilets on the train.

I had an under t-shirt under this shirt, which I took off and put in my bag.

There is a coat in my bag that I took off when I got on the train, and there's a space shirt just in case anyone spills anything on us.

This whole thing feels very Chris Ramsey to me.

It's really difficult to describe that you are a man who is so aware of how his body's feeling at all times.

Yellow!

And you're actively annoyed if it's not the exact thing that you want.

Furious.

You've started to sweat a tiny little bit already, and I'm really, really angry about that.

Down the back?

Is it down the back here?

Might just be you.

You're really fit now.

You've got shorts on and you're tattooed.

I'm getting confused feelings.

Good.

If at any point they really sort of start to bubble up during the episode, let me know.

Yeah, we'll do.

We'll do.

We are, of course, talking about Taskmaster Series 19, episode 8.

And it's exciting to talk to you about this series, Chris, because, of course, your wife Rosie is on the series.

Oh, it's so weird watching it with my wife on it.

Yeah, it's so odd.

So, I've experienced it from both angles.

So, when you do Taskmaster, there was only a couple of people I told that I was doing it because you've got to keep it very secret.

I told our collective tour manager, Paul, I told him, and I would text him and phone him in between tasks.

I was texting you a lot because I was so worried about it.

And I would phone Rosie at the end of the day and I would try and explain what had happened.

And it would just be impossible.

And now I'm on the other end of it.

Well, I was when she did it.

And even when,

even when she was explaining what it was, even though I'd done it, it's still so difficult to put into words what you've been doing.

And all of the tasks go into one.

And then we're sitting watching it together now, which is amazing.

And you're just like...

It's weird because I'm rooting for her, but I'm really not rooting for her at the same time because I know that being funny and coming across well is just as good as winning and getting the points.

And obviously, everyone pretends that they don't care yeah yeah although stevie martin's probably the worst i've seen it pretending that she doesn't care

she really it's coming out of her paws she's like oh my god um but yeah it's uh it's really really odd watching my wife on it and i i feel jealous that she's getting to do it but i'm also really proud and again i'm also proud when she does well and i'm also loving it when she feels well you say that she was having a hard time describing to you what was going on when she was filming it do you think that has something to do with the fact that she didn't have a clue what was going on?

What was going on?

Mate, mate.

Especially this episode, actually.

Mate.

Like, so she's gone, like, she's had a real sort of roller coaster journey in it.

Like, she's had some absolute stinkers.

And then we're, as we're watching it now, we're up to episode, I think, we've just watched episode five as it's running on TV.

And she's absolutely smashed a couple of episodes and just like it went rolling into the one that we're watching, just setting in the leaderboard for the series.

And I'm like, how the hell did that happen?

It's amazing.

Proud, but yeah, like

concerned.

But even Alex says in this episode, somehow, yeah, you're your second

series, yeah, because she does.

There's a couple of moments here where she has no clue.

Did you spot the moments where he gets genuinely annoyed at her?

He gets genuinely pissed off at her.

It's really gotta do those moments.

Well, when we get to the bits, it's mainly on the painting task, but we'll get to it.

But yeah, he gets you hear him, and I'm like, you don't hear him get annoyed often.

He's only getting annoyed at a few people because he's great, he's brilliant, and he loves the carnage.

but when someone doesn't understand his rules yeah repeatedly he gets irked

because she really takes everything in her stride as well so it's not like she's getting angry that she doesn't understand it or she's you know she's you know aggressively pursuing the wrong thing she's just like she gives it a go and she sort of has no idea

what it's like living with her like it's it's ridiculous like rosie does a thing where if she doesn't understand or she wants to explain something to her she'll ask, Chris, what's this?

And if the answer is more than the allotted words that she thought the answer would be, gone.

Just switches off.

Like, have you got any idea how many times I've had to tell her how to use things around the house?

Like, the coffee machine, the alarm, dishwasher, oven, just things.

Like, genuinely, just bad with technology, right?

And she'll go, like, how do I do this?

The alarm, how do I set this?

And I go, right, and I start.

And four, five, six words in, her face just goes black.

And I go, I've lost you.

My mom does the same.

I go, I've lost you.

This is gone.

I might as well just be

banging a table because there's nothing, right?

Do you know what she, do you know about the toothbrush?

So she's a proper Luddite, right?

So she, I got her, I got her a toothbrush once for Christmas, like

an electric toothbrush.

And it's got a little screen on it.

And

she got it out of the box and she turned it on.

And it said, select your language.

And she went, oh, I don't want it.

She gives it back.

And I went, what's wrong with you?

She went, oh, no,

what's it doing?

Why's it doing that?

Oh, I don't want that.

No.

I went, it's just asking for your language.

She went, and this is a direct quote.

I swear to you, I'm not making this up.

And she said, why does it need to know if my teeth are foreign or not?

She's a sago.

And I saw it.

I saw it in these tasks in this episode.

I saw it specifically.

And I thought, she hasn't...

And it's not that she doesn't understand and then she's too proud to ask.

It's that she can't be asked to ask.

And then it goes down.

She doesn't give a shit.

I would say in this series, I think there are more slightly complicated tasks than normal.

I think there are a lot with you know a lot of things to think about, yeah, which is actually played to the series' strengths because it just creates total chaos in this series.

And everyone in this series is chaotic in their own way, especially Jason, especially Jason.

But I think because Jason's so chaotic, we're not giving everyone else credit for how chaotic they are, especially Rosie, who is all over the place a lot of the time.

I will say that at this point in the series, episode eight, you had 130 points, and Rosie finishes this up with 125.

So, really, not that far off.

How does that make you feel as someone who understood all of the tasks and really threw themselves into it?

And Rosie is mainly has her eyes shut for most of this.

Yes,

well, that sums up the essence of Taskmaster for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's why, because she goes, she doesn't like going on quiz shows.

She doesn't go on, you know, she gets asked to do all these different quiz shows, and she won't do them.

And she's like, because I'm not clever enough.

that's when she said yes to Taskmaster.

Because I said, It's not about being clever.

Because we famously, um, one of the cleverest comedians, probably, in the world, Doro Brayen, was stumped at some of the tasks, yeah, and because they're not, it's not about being clever.

He did win his series and champion of champions, yes, but he was still stumped sometimes by some of it, by some of them.

Like, I'm looking out, I'm looking past you now at the garage, the one where the grapes were all in the fit.

Like, there is sometimes little Easter eggs that they miss, and you can find them, and it doesn't mean being clever or being you know quick.

Sometimes you can just get it.

It's the look of the draw.

But there is a Ramsey Taskmaster leaderboard in our house and I am very much aware of the scores.

She is doing great.

I don't think she knows how she's doing great, but she's doing very well in the series so far.

Let's crack on with this episode.

The prize task is the best object that you've borrowed from a fairly close friend.

Let's talk about Rosie's, first of all,

because

I do think that she utters the worst sentence that's ever been on Taskmaster in 19 series, which is, of course, we've got the same juice.

She brings in a pelvic floor exerciser from her sister, who she's calling a fairly close friend.

Yep.

Just playing

hard and fast and loose with the rules of the game.

I mean, truly, this is disgusting, Chris.

Yes.

Well, I mean, you don't realize that that sat on the desk in our podcast studio for a good year and a half.

Yeah.

And I had to constantly ask her to move it.

It was disgusting.

I was like, that is here.

I know for a fact you and your sister have both had that inside yourselves, and it's on the desk.

And I'm trying,

this is a place of work.

Yeah.

Rosie.

Yeah.

Well,

so you must have been delighted when she decided to take it to Taskmaster, right?

Yeah, I mean, genuinely, I still don't know how it works.

I imagine, I think you put it in and clench.

Yeah, I guess so, man.

Is it like a grip strength thing?

Oh God, are we going to get in trouble?

Two

guys trying to explain it.

I don't know if we're going to get in trouble.

I think more likely people will just be like, fucking hell, guys.

Come on.

It looks like a hair straightener to me.

It did.

She genuinely borrowed that off her sister.

That is 100% true.

I'm like, we're doing all right.

Yeah.

You can buy one.

If there's one thing you should buy fresh.

You don't need second.

What's next?

Second hand earbuds?

Do you know what I mean?

Like, what's happened?

What what we're doing rinsing condoms letting them dry out using them again it's disgusting but she's like that with some things the other day she bought a um she bought a mattress we talked about in our podcast yeah she bought a new mattress and i was like oh someone like was in the spare room and they said oh that's a really expensive mattress and i went oh is it and rosie went oh no no i got money off because it's post 60 day sleep trial what So it's a mattress that someone's had for six.

You know, in the sea, you can try this mattress for 60 days.

If you don't like it, send it back.

Someone sent it back and she bought it.

So we've got a mattress in the spare room.

And And that's not someone with the same juice.

That's someone with very different juice.

I think...

Could be multiple juices.

I do think that I'd rather pop something inside me

from someone who doesn't have the same juice.

Oh, would you write?

Yeah, I want different juice, I think.

Right, okay.

Little cocktail.

That's just me.

That's just me.

I don't want to think about it having been in someone who's got the same juice.

Also, I don't know the science behind having the same juice as your sister.

I do believe she's just guessed that.

Uh, and I'm honestly, I'm all right if we never find out the actual facts there.

Yeah, well, look, she gets one point

quite right because it's not even from a fairly close friend, it's from her sister, who I'd imagine she is close with.

Certainly, if she's borrowing, yeah, yeah, yeah, very close.

Browing a hair

hair straightener.

Um,

so it deserved one point, absolutely.

Yeah, um, I would argue it deserves zero.

I've seen it do a zero, I would argue it deserves a zero, yeah, yeah, but you know, it is what it is.

It got a laugh, that's the thing, though, in it, comedically, it got a laugh and And the line, we've got the same juice.

It's, you know, it's memorable.

That's the points in itself, really.

It's memorable, but it's not.

She gets one.

Yeah.

It was two points for Matt, which is a rare, low score for Matt in this series.

Yeah.

Brings in Jim Howe's two-man kayak.

What I love about this is he's done this before this series, where he's imposed rules that don't exist on himself.

So he's like, yeah,

I had to lie about where I was taking it, why I was borrowing it.

You didn't.

You didn't at all.

What a little nerd he's gone.

Well, I should stick to some more rules that I've invented already.

Well, the whispering one he did with the finger.

Yeah, he kept his finger on his mouth.

Instead of going, shh, he kept his finger on his mouth the entire task.

It was the mannequins.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the white stuff.

And then whispered the whole way through.

Yeah.

And ruined it for himself.

Yeah.

He keeps thinking of extra ones.

He's neurotic as shit.

It's insane.

Yeah, I love him.

I love watching him.

But yeah, his price tasks have been exceptional.

Yeah, this is the series.

So this is a rare misstep.

And Greg thinks kayaks are boring, which I didn't know that about, Greg.

It's never come up.

You know, Greg's, he's often, I remember in my series, I brought it, it was something that something in your wardrobe that's surprising.

And I brought a wetsuit because I'd never worn it.

It was like, oh, he was like, I've got a wetsuit.

And he's done loads.

I think he did.

I'm sure he told me he'd done that thing where it's like a jet ski, but it's for your hands.

It makes you swim faster.

Oh, yeah, that's, yeah, that's very Greg, though.

He loves gadgets and stuff.

Yeah, so I was surprised he didn't like the kayak.

I thought he'd be all over that.

If it was, no, because it's not gadgety enough.

Right, so if it was like a solar-powered

automatic jet ski, it's too manual.

It involves exercise and stuff.

So I think he'd rather

it was a round of spit-speed boat.

Let's talk about Jason, of course, the chaos monster himself.

I think this is a great idea.

So he brings in Matt's pop-up book that got five points from last week that Fatia won because it's borrowed from a fairly close friend and it's already got five points.

To me,

that should be a guaranteed five points.

But sometimes Greg gets irritated when you try and be a bit meta and break the fourth.

When it's too clever.

Yeah, when it's a bit too clever, he's like, fuck off.

Do you know what he's trying to do?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and I think I have written down here that it's too clever for its own good.

Yes.

But I think if another contestant had done that in the past,

I think if Matt had done something like this, everyone would have been like, that's so clever, Matt.

Well done, five points.

Or if Steve Pemberton had done it, everyone would have been like, you're a major.

Exactly.

This is the cheeky Yank who's not done anything clever on this series so far.

So why are we going to start rewarding him for that?

He just smashes stuff up.

He should have just smashed some stuff up um

stevie gets four points uh for the borrowed foam sword uh that she took to a wedding uh tessa coates' wedding where she dressed up as the witch king of anmar yeah i mean what a costume unbelievable like but i mean you've got to commit to that all night yeah that costume yeah it was the proper it was incredible it was like a comic-con level costume yeah so the the the bride doesn't like lord of the rings no she does or the bride does, but the groom doesn't.

The groom doesn't.

So that, right, so she's a little bit more.

So for a few friends, she said, you can come in Lord of the Rings stuff, but don't.

Half a hundred people came in Lord of the Rings stuff and the rest of the guests were bewildered.

Yeah, but I think the rest of the guests just came in, you know, a cloak or some elf ears or something.

Yeah.

And Stevie went all out

with that gigantic costume.

It is good, but sometimes I feel like...

People use the prize task to represent something that they want to talk about or to show a picture or to tell an anecdote, which is fine.

You know, we're talking comedy, it's entertainment, it's a great story, it's a great photo.

The Taskmaster purist in me thinks, but what is the prize itself?

And the prize itself is a foam sword, and I do not think that's a good prize, Chris.

But it depends what mood Greg's in.

He's like, oh, yeah, I'd love a foam sword.

Yeah.

You know, what noises it made when you hit someone.

Oh, I'd love that.

I'd love to hit Alex with that.

And he'd give her five points.

It depends what it's totally on his whim, and that's why it's beautiful.

Well, it's why I would be a really awful Taskmaster because I'd go, yeah, there's a very amusing story.

It's done very well in the studio, but it's a foam sword, zero points.

And the internet will come for me when they see this as well.

Yeah, I know.

I don't care if it's funny or not.

I want people to play the game properly.

You've got to impress the taskmaster.

That's what it's for.

We've talked about the way you say taskmaster.

It's crazy, Chris.

I can't help it.

Make your mind up in that word.

I know.

I know.

We'll see Master, we'll see Plaster, and we'll sound posh.

We're anything but.

Yeah.

And there's nothing else I can say on the matter.

Taskmaster.

Crazy.

But I can't say Taskmaster.

It sounds weird.

I doubt that.

No, to me, that absolutely sounds like

I'll change it from now on.

Yeah.

And you can really throw yourself into it.

Taskmaster, the way he does.

Yeah.

Taskmaster.

Yeah.

You say it how you want, Chris.

Sorry.

Thanks.

Sorry, I got excited.

It was five points for Fatia.

Fatia brings in a prayer mat that helps her regain her faith that she borrowed from a friend.

Fatia has learned in the last two episodes that if she's genuine and shows a bit of heart and is

a little bit more herself, then she gets points for it.

Yeah, she just drops a card and he likes it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And this is a beautiful story.

Yeah.

And what else is Greg going to do?

Even though he makes that, frankly, amazing joke about giving a foam sword five points above an Islamic prayer mat.

He's never going to do that.

No chance.

Yeah.

It was a guaranteed five.

It was a very, very well played by Fatia.

And it's a lovely story, and it's a beautiful thing.

And I think she.

I did say that it was given to her, not borrowed.

Which I am.

Yeah, she needs to be, you know, giving that back, really.

Yeah, for sure.

She'll have to give her back for it to work, otherwise points.

Yeah, the points are coming off retrospectively.

Oh, dear.

Fatia's been disqualified.

No one's been disqualified post-broadcast before.

Imagine that.

Just an email years later.

It was one point for Rosie, two points for Matt, three points for Jason, four points for Stevie, and five points for Fatia.

I've brought in a pelvic floor exerciser.

Sorry, somebody wants that back.

You borrowed it.

I did, yeah.

Who did you borrow it from?

My fairly close sister.

Should have lied, she's being honest, which is good.

I know, yeah, no, but we've got the same juice.

Everyone's got their hands on their face.

Everyone.

Like, I washed it in that obviously coffee.

It's like having prayer.

Should pop back to the prayer mat for a middle.

Task one, knock over all ten Skittles in ten minutes.

The final Skittle should fall exactly when the whistle sounds.

If any Skittle is left standing after 10 minutes, you have failed.

You must stay behind the rope at all times, times, closest to 10 minutes wins.

But then, of course, we see that before this task, they were given the hidden task.

Fail the next task in the most heartbreakingly spectacular way.

If you succeed in the next task, you will lose one point.

Just when I think they've found every different way of doing the tasks, there's a little

cheeky twist on it, and I loved this idea.

I loved it.

I loved it and I hated it.

And I'll tell you why.

First of all, you know what's weird?

Even though I've done Task Master and I'm on the telly,

i'm freaking out a little bit because we're talking about it and i'm looking out and they did it just there outside yeah yeah yeah

oh my god

it's like we're inside the telly yeah it's ridiculous um uh what happened was when i was watching this i was as you do i was thinking of all the ways i would do it yeah and what i thought was i was like i would nail this i was like right i would make some kind of obviously you know in your head it always works yeah i'd make some kind of lasso yeah right and i'd get it round one of them right and then i'd knock the rest down and then i'd wait for his whistle and I would just pull the last one on the whistle.

And then it revealed that it's failing spectacularly.

And I was like, oh man, I devised all that for nothing.

Do you think,

as someone who is, to be fair, competitive?

Yeah.

Do you think you would have been able to fail spectacularly?

Or do you think something would have kicked in and you would have just done the task properly?

Don't know.

I don't know.

But it was, again, it was clever.

And every time, whenever anyone taught in the build-up, when I was doing the show and I was doing press, and anytime anyone talks about it afterwards, it's just a testament how good the guys are who did the show.

They are just, I can't talk enough about how incredible they are.

And the fact that that extra Leo was added, but

for me, the moment when I was watching it and I saw Alex explaining it to Rosie in the hallway, and I thought, she hasn't got a clue what he's just said.

This is the first moment

where you're just like, she's gone.

She's gone.

I saw the face.

Yeah.

Ed, it's the face she makes when I tell her how to do anything.

It's the face when she opened that toothbrush and it said, What language?

It's the I'm gone.

I'm not telling you, I'm gone, and I'm just gonna trundle ahead and do this.

And I knew she was gonna, and I was like, She's gonna do it, she's gonna, she's gonna do the task.

In the only time she was told not to do the task, she does the task.

She can't think meta, she can't think outside the box, she can't.

But in a way, isn't she failing it better than everyone else?

Because she's failing

both things.

Yes, she's failed it, yeah, spectacularly even more.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I just knew straight away.

And like I say, she doesn't ask.

It's not out of any kind of pride.

She can't be asked.

She goes, I'm done with this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Powered down.

Stevie had me hooked line and singer.

Stevie's effort here was amazing, I thought.

Hook, line, and singer.

And it plays into the fact that she, like I said earlier on, it's coming out of a pause how much she wants it.

You hide it, don't you?

Yeah.

When you're there, you're on that stage.

And he's, you know, he's deciding, you know,

no, but he's giving that, you know, like a Roman Emerald.

Shall I give you this?

Shall I give you that?

And you're like, oh, it's just a comedy show where inside you go, ah!

She doesn't hide it.

But what was weird was I watched her run off and cry.

And then my immediate thing was, why did Rosie not tell me that she burst out crying at one of the tasks?

I was like, why has Rosie not reported this back to me when she was doing the show?

And then I was like, oh my God, the whole thing was...

The whole thing was.

At that point, I was a little bit, I was like, there's no way they'd leave this in the edit.

But the initial thing of her in the studio saying, oh, she was bullied when she went bowling yeah i was like well that's quite funny the way she said it there and revealed it and then she says it again in the actual film task and i was like right okay there's and you've already seen our dress up as a lord of the rings currently when you saw the narrative yeah checks out defo's bullied um

and then yeah when all that came out that's great i was like it's brilliant it's just screw it to sow the seed of the bullying

before you've even started doing the thing i think is just total genius oh you actually said in the studio before

really good.

Yeah, nails, nails this.

And also, just the fact that she got it down to the one Skittled and then

missed.

Yeah.

Same with Jason.

He finds a different way of doing it, and it really made me laugh.

The fall is so funny.

Yeah, I mean, it was reminiscent of Rosie's fall with the pillows.

Sure, but he did it deliberately.

Yeah.

And somehow Rosie's was even more slapstick.

Slipping on a pillow and landing in some pillows is so funny.

Still getting bruised.

And still bruising unbelievable.

Yes, I'm well aware.

It was sent to me via you.

I've got a close-up medical, like almost like a post-mortem photo.

I remember sending it in Gorner, really.

I probably shouldn't have sent him that.

It's like quite an intimate for all of you, but we're over share as we're all there.

Yeah, no, fair enough.

But yeah, really funny.

But yeah, great from Jason.

And this seems like a task that is up his street as well, just like chucking stuff.

Oh, 100%.

100%, smashing stuff up.

Yeah, I care nothing for your cameras, is a wonderful quote from him.

Don't say cameramen as people was fantastic, yeah, yeah.

I don't think he does.

He's my favorite by far, and it's really awkward in the house.

When we watch it together, Rosie's like, You love him.

I'm like, I love him so much.

So you're watching him and like really laughing and getting into it.

And then Rosie does something, you're like, Come on, Rosie.

I'm like, Well done, but come and go back to Jason's.

Yeah, let's watch Jason's again.

Um, a good effort from Matt as well.

The throwing the stuff, missing, somehow missing the last schizole just as well, which is really impressive.

Bald tactic, yeah, because you know, it's hard to throw stuff like that, the bricks and thing, the things that you get to throw.

And you think you're a better, everyone thinks they're a better thrower than the other.

Yeah, of course.

You could have accidentally hit that, but he did it really well.

And then the look on his face.

But there was something

in the look on his face and how devastated he was.

There was something that then said to me before the reveal that I was like, this is weird that they're getting, why are they getting so upset?

Yeah, yeah.

And then the reveal came.

Yeah.

But obviously, he's a great actor.

So the scooting away was wonderful.

Um but I know what would happen with me is that as soon as I try to miss stuff that's when I'm knocking everything over yeah, like an assassin just taking everything out.

You should play golf.

Yeah.

As soon as you think you've guffed it, it's an absolute banger and you don't know how you've done it.

I bet that sort of language is popular on the course.

I think I just made all them words up.

Oh yeah, I think I'd have guffed it.

Could we remove Mr.

Ramsey from the course, please?

This is a gentleman's game.

I don't think I'm at golf yet.

I don't think I'm there yet.

You'll get there.

I will.

Fatia,

I mean, you ask Fatia to fail at something, she will...

She was in heaven.

She was just like, I'm not even going to try.

The stuff she was thrown at it.

It's unbelievable.

There was no, like, absolutely no weight behind anything she threw.

No.

Pool noodles.

Pool noodles, yeah.

Little tiny balls.

the baton ball the first one watch out and then just hit a like a ping pong ball milestone totally off to the side

spinning around without looking and just chucking stuff not even trying to act as if she was

she was trying to get the thing but it was very similar how she tackles most tackles exactly yeah so i didn't i didn't think it was weird at all i was like yeah that's that's the way she does stuff just spectacular um yeah i've written this is the way she would have done it anyway

yeah totally um

i mean of course Rosie gets minus one point.

This is one of my favorite moments in the episode when Alex is, and of course, you get minus one point from the series.

And she's like, what?

Yeah.

She didn't even take that in.

So again, just to bring it back to my Rosie's personal life, that is up there with when I tell her I have any kind of plans.

Yeah.

And I say, next Tuesday, I'm doing this.

She goes, right.

And I go, have you written it down?

Next Tuesday, I'm doing that.

She goes, yeah.

And then Monday night, she goes, so it's tomorrow will come.

And I I go, No, I'm doing that thing.

And she goes, Eh?

When did you see it?

Told you numerous times.

And then she goes, Well, I forgot.

As if that's my problem.

It's unbelievable, man.

What you have to take into account is I forgot about that.

Yeah, well, I forgot, and it's your fault, Chris.

So what you're seeing is you're seeing bits of what I have to deal with in everyday life coming to life in Taskmaster.

When I'm like going away or I've got work or something, and I tell Charlie maybe like a month in advance, and I'll tell her two weeks before and all of this as we're getting closer, I'm like, and remember I'm going away if I'm away for like two weeks for work.

She'll be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I know it's not being taken in.

And then the day before, I'll be like, well, I'm leaving at about six tomorrow morning.

And she'll go, what, where are you, where are you going?

What's going on?

But here's, here's where she's good, right?

So rather than going, I forgot.

I'll say, well, I told you, I've told you so many times what's happening.

She'll go, yeah, but I block it out in my head because I just know I'm going to miss you so much.

I'm like, oh,

that's like ninja wife stuff.

That is top draw gaslighting.

So it was minus one point for Rosie, two points for Fatia, three points for Matthew Baynton, four points for Jason, five points for Stevie.

12 seconds left, three Skittles still.

They need to all go down.

Pass me the bricks.

Yes!

The four seconds.

Five.

My hands are shaking.

No, come on.

What?

I mean, that was.

I'm really sorry, I'm just bit upset.

I'm really sorry.

I'm really sorry.

Sorry, this is so cheap.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

There must have been an easier way, Matthew.

Stupid.

Jason?

Let's talk team task.

This is task two.

Each person must write down three words to describe a memorable scene.

You must be silent throughout, and your teammate must not see what you've written.

You have one minute, your time starts now.

And part two, paint your memorable scene so that your teammate can guess your three words.

You must not give any clues about your three words in the scene except by painting the scene.

You must not write any words.

Fastest wins, your time starts when the turntable turns.

I'm laughing just reading it out, mate, because it is harder in a team of three, but especially

the word scene seemed to confuse a few people that it had to be from a film.

Rosie, like Greg said, Rosie thought she was playing Sherard.

It was unbelievable.

It was ridiculous.

Like, again, she doesn't listen.

This is the one where Alex, you can hear him getting, go and watch it back.

And there's a moment she's going, well, shall I just tell him then?

And he's going, nope, nope, don't do that.

That was an amazing moment.

She's

lunatic.

Where she's saying,

shall I tell them?

And then saying, shall I draw something so they can get

to get the action?

You've already been told to do that.

Probably, mate.

That's what the other two have been doing for 10 minutes.

Again,

she thrives on short, sharp instructions.

Short, sharp, direct instructions.

Anything too long, any kind of pullback or reveal of, you know, pull the rug out, or said this, but now it's that.

Gone.

Gone.

Gone.

I mean, it's incredible.

They do get there.

I mean, they eventually get there.

What's going on?

So she thinks Titanic.

She immediately thinks, I'll do a scene from Titanic.

So she interprets scene as being a scene from a film, which is fair enough.

I mean, it's a good starting point.

And she went with French, sexy, and charcoal.

Madness.

Madness.

French, sexy, charcoal.

That's the thing.

When you've done the show and they go write a word down and there's paints in front of you, you go,

don't write a concept.

Don't write anything like that.

Yeah, of course.

The fact that Stevie got glance

from Jason was ridiculous about how she got that.

I mean, well played.

Yeah.

Yeah, and even Jason says, Jason says to CD,

we're going to have to paint whatever these words are and still.

Still raw glance.

Yeah.

Still raw glance.

Yeah, it was

with three people, it must be a lot harder.

Like you say, it was quite chaotic.

It was quite.

And the fact that they were spinning around as well.

Yeah.

But again,

I just have to.

Every time I watch it, I go, how have they come up with this?

How?

And I know I say it over and over again, but it's mind-boggling.

It's incredible.

I do feel for Matt slightly in this team.

Right.

Because Fatih is just doing her own thing.

Oh, I mean, they're dragging him down, big deal.

Yeah, they are dragging him.

They are dragging him in the depths of their shitness.

It's when, like, Fatia's just like doing whatever, and Rosie starts going, oh, I don't, how am I going to tell them?

and starts dancing.

Yeah, yeah, starts doing like dancing for

Fatia does that thing of where she doesn't know what she's doing, but while claiming she's brilliant at it and she's going to smash it because she's great at art, and then while dropping all of her paint on the floor, and then Rosie hasn't missed her at all, and Matt's just there, no wonder he's having a breakdown because she's in a team with these people.

So, I mean, I think they all go film sort of way, don't they?

I mean,

Fatia goes with Cafe, Harry, and Sally.

Yeah, brilliant.

Cafe.

I would not get Cafe.

I wouldn't have got Cafe.

No.

I wouldn't have got any of them.

I got a car.

When Stevie drew a card, I got a car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Rabbit, I would have got Rabbit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

That's good.

That's good.

It's just a rabbit getting hit by a car.

Rabbit, dead car.

Brilliant.

Rabbit killing a car.

Yeah.

It's quite revealing, really, isn't it?

It's really dark.

It's just

dark moments.

Rabbit, Rabbit dead car.

Oh, dear.

Off to hospital.

And glance, kiss, and slap for Jason.

So what was his?

I don't know what the.

Maybe I missed it, but yeah, I don't know what the basis of his was.

It was never explained.

Glance, kiss, and slap.

There was a lovely moment in the studio where Greg says that Jason is on his way to becoming British because he's had some self-doubt.

So good.

But this is episode eight.

Yeah.

And he's had some self-doubt.

And then Jason says, oh, daddy.

Which really

was very lazy.

Yeah, it really made me laugh.

Super creepy.

But yes, a lot of dancing from Rosie.

So the guesses were figurative masturbation.

Yeah.

But was that her doing sex?

That's her sexy.

She was doing sexy.

She was doing sexy.

That's what Watcher drew for sexy.

It was Carnage.

And he came up with figurative masturbation.

He was close.

Yeah.

Close, I suppose.

It did look like a lot of fun, but like you say, I think Alex was on the edge.

He was really annoyed at Rosie, and I felt for him because sometimes she's really annoying when she doesn't get it you should have told him that he was welcome to call you during the filming process

yeah it's just to say mate try and teach her how to set the alarm the difference between when you go to bed or when you're leaving the house carnage

obviously this one means that the landing sensors aren't on so it's oh I'm gone no it doesn't matter Chris you just do it

so then I get texts going put the alarm on and I've got to do it on the app because it doesn't know what to do but if you're out you've got you've got to do it on the app yeah I used to she's just on it now she's on it now but it was can do the alarm bedtime it's bed Do you have one of the things next to the next the bed?

Do you have like a remote panel that you could do it from?

No, no, there's one down, there's one, they're in different parts of the house, but you can do it on the app, but it's just, yeah, and when her mom stays trying to get her, oh man, it's unbelievable.

Well, it was three points for Matt, Rosie, and Fatia,

and five points for Jason and Stevie, which is a huge moment for JV Martzoo because they've been regularly the worst team.

You hate JV Martzoo.

I'm a people give the team's names, I can't bear it.

I said it, and I remember, so I said it.

This is a quote that I use.

It's a quote of myself, which is a bit ridiculous, but I use it quite a lot when I'm describing things.

On my series, when me and it was the only time I lost my temper, when me and Ardle had to do like a rap song or something, and I was getting really flustered about it, and Alex went, What's wrong?

And I turned to him and I said, I hate drama school shit.

And that's when people are like, We should have a team name.

I'm like, all right, yeah, great.

Yeah.

I hate it.

I hate it.

So JV Motzukas is upset about it.

It's not clever.

It's not fun.

It's not quirky.

You've just wasted time on it.

Is it too enthusiastic for you, do you think?

It's just, it's a team building exercise at an HR retreat, isn't it?

Like, it's just annoying.

It's just annoying.

I think Greg agrees with you.

I don't think he likes it either.

Well, it's, yeah, five points for JV Martzookas.

That's not having it.

Oh, for God's sake.

Right, that's yours then?

Right, this is mine.

Oh, sugar.

Do you know what?

I like this, yeah, because I used to do art.

So I'm going to smash this right up.

Guess what the others are?

Lightning.

No.

Storm.

That is one of the words.

Joe's Geors.

Not Jaws.

It's three words.

Captain Phillips?

No, no, it's three words.

Is it love?

Love is one of the words, correct?

No.

Are we guessing the film of this?

Ocean.

No, you're just guessing the three words that you've eaten at.

Oh.

Giraffe?

No.

Is it drowning?

Correct.

We're looking for six more words.

Wow.

You've added details.

Is it a sex scene?

Romeo and Juliet.

Is it from Titanic?

Is it?

Weirdly, the Titanic was what was in my mind for this.

Can I tell him?

Definitely not.

No.

That would give it away.

Could I quickly draw some things that you may guess the words?

Well, I think you should have done that a while ago.

Oh.

Task three.

This is a great task.

Obey the auto-cue.

The most authoritative delivery with the fewest mistakes wins.

Your time starts when the auto-cue starts.

This is great fun.

It reminds me of, did you ever do the horn section thing?

It was an Alex and the Horn Section idea where they'd have a guest comedian come in to host the show, but they'd have to read everything off the auto-cue and they didn't know what was coming up.

Oh, no, but that sounds amazing.

That sounds like something we'll absolutely love.

What did they do at the fringe?

I've only done it.

I did it in London with them, but I was a guest on it, and Al Murray.

Don't get invited to stuff in London, just

north of the border or nothing um no i and al murray al murray was the host so yeah he was basically just had to read everything out on the auto queue and

interview me and yeah sounds awesome yeah i don't think he he liked not being in control of it though i can imagine that would have yeah that would have really irritated him because at one point i went why have you said why have you said that al well why have you said that you've not really done your research on your guests

got a laugh because everyone knows what was going on and he went because i'm just doing what it says

no al it's all right yeah

yeah that very much takes the powers away from

that was he in the pop landlord carrying i was no i don't think so well if if he was it slips very quickly um but no i love this this idea of obeying the auto-cue is really is really really fun um yeah it was nice rosie smashes this man yeah she has a good presenter we've done tv shows together yeah she's really good she doesn't think she is and you can see how when greg goes i just think you're really good presenter yeah she's so proud of you yeah because she doesn't think she is and she is well she's just the total natural right?

Yeah, and yeah, and obviously, is good at reading auto-cue.

And he nailed it.

The look she walked in when she looked around it is the look of what's going on in here when there's toys and stuff.

And when we've made a fort with the sofa, she walks in and it's like, oh, God.

Yeah, exactly.

The rate that her head was snapping back on her neck there just loads of colours.

There was loads of colours.

Yeah.

That's what it was.

There was loads of colours.

And I guarantee she picked up that drone ball and went, We've got one of these in the house.

Yes, we've got one in the house.

Yeah.

It is amazing.

She was really taking everything in like Terminator.

It was was great.

Yes, very, very good effort.

My favourite moment,

her cool scientist name was just saying Dr.

Rosie slash Ramsey.

Why the slash?

Because that's cool.

How?

So that's Rosie or Ramsay, not both.

Yeah.

Mr.

Doctor.

I think she said Mr.

Dr.

Ramsey.

Mr.

Dr.

Rosie slash Ramsey.

Yeah.

What an idiot.

Yeah.

But that's the thing, though, when you're put on the spot.

Yeah, that's cool.

Especially when the autocu's rolling, it's a great task.

Really, really funny.

Yeah, I mean, we had some great doctor names.

Jason was Dr.

Jackson Mickey, brilliant, which is so close to Michael Jackson.

Dr.

Dark Stuff from Matthew Baynton.

Dr.

Darth Lightfinger was Stevie's, which I think is the best one.

It's very cleverly skirting a lot of copyright issues.

Yeah.

It just dances in and out of three or four Star Wars names.

But I think Stevie does a fair amount of improv, so that sort of made sense that she could just

center herself and then deliver something that made sense and was good.

Whereas Fatia, her name is for

because she clearly started saying her own name, realised that wasn't good enough, and then just

used the sound

of her name.

A lot of good tragic backstories as well that they had to give.

Rosie's was the one that made me laugh.

Do you remember what Rosie's tragic backstory was?

She said she was dropped from a height.

Even better, dropped from a very high high height.

So she's got this thing, which is so she's not scared of heights.

Yeah.

She's scared of specifically falling off stuff.

Right.

So I know that sounds weird.

So, because I always say it to her, so when we're getting on a plane,

steps on the plane,

absolutely terrified.

Steps at the top, ready to get in, absolutely terrified, holding on, shaking.

Once she's on the plane, 35,000 feet, looks out the window, no problem at all.

Because there's no chance of her falling off.

Yeah, in her brain, there's no chance of falling off.

So it's falling off stuff yeah so it's so on brand that so if the whole plane went down she'd be fine with that because everyone's still on kind of yeah i mean i doubt she'd be fine with it but yeah but more than if the door opened and she fell out yeah so if it suddenly became just a big platform with a railing absolute hell on but a plane no problem whatsoever that's funny isn't it it's odd innit yeah um some other great uh backstory jason's made us laugh

at sea i was lost at sea it's just so funny what people's brains do if they're they're backed into a corner when i was watching one of the earlier episodes and apologies if you've talked about this before but i laughed so much i had to pause it which is very rare for me

when him and stevie lay on the floor in the studio and he said what do you think is going to happen when we graduate yeah it's so good it was just so unbroken it was just it was i've said it in my head so many times since like it was just he's just i just love him so good he's a funny man um

Matthew hit someone with his car that was just horrible he is he is just like that was odd because he did everything quite well in this

Dr.

Dark stuff, but was so creepy in the way he did stuff.

For the rest of your life.

For the rest of your life.

Science for today and the rest of your life.

Yeah.

And it was a hit and run as well, it wasn't.

It was a hit and run.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was so great.

Yeah, way darker than being dropped from a very high height.

Because nothing was added to

it.

There was no consequences.

It was just dropped from a very high height.

Weirdly, I think he might have actually hit someone with his car.

and he's just used it.

He's like, oh my god, I can finally tell people in the guise of a joke.

Well, we'll look into that.

Yeah.

Stevie's just then just went cleaning the elephant's tusks, weird noises.

Yeah, brilliant.

I think Fatih was the one that made me laugh the most in the end because she's genuinely scared of balloons popping.

We've already established that this series.

It's weird because she's quite

rough and ready.

Yeah, yeah.

She's just quite, you know, calling everyone bro, saying she'll knock people out.

Yeah.

So balloons popping is her one weakness.

She She squealed like a little child when it was so odd.

So, trying to fill the balloons with liquid when there's a funnel right there, that was annoying me.

She was pouring, using the jug straight into the balloon.

I'm like, Come on, there's a funnel right there, you can do it.

But then, someone being bad, she is bad at auto cue as well.

Yeah, she's reading everything like the next word is coming, and you can see her reading it off the screen.

And then, when she's just stopping to have a go at the crew as well, she's not accurate.

She's going, I'm not farting into a balloon, bruv.

Mad, she read it, she got it wrong, got angry about it, and attacked everyone else.

Yeah.

Ending with David Attenbury, you can suck it.

Yeah.

Why?

Like, he doesn't do science experiments.

There were so many other people you could pick.

Like, do you know what I mean?

Bill Nye.

Yeah.

Who's ours?

Brian Cox.

Brian Cox.

Yeah.

Anyone.

David Attorney.

Buchanan.

Anyone.

Give anyone a call.

The balloon thing.

Do you know anyone who's scared of balloons?

No, apart from Fatty.

I think there's been other people on Taskmaster who are scared of balloons popular.

A mate of mine's really scared of balloons, but he told us while we're filming something, and there were loads of balloons.

And I thought he was just taking a piss.

And I popped a balloon in his face.

In his face.

And he chased us and threw us through a door.

You're scared of doors.

Terrified.

I'd rather that was.

I'd gone through stuff.

Yeah,

the rest of the filming day was

edgy.

Yeah.

So

it's a real fear.

I didn't believe him.

He went absolutely ballistic.

There's only one way to test it, isn't there?

Well, you know, go hard, I go home.

All in blind.

It's like Angela Barnes is really afraid of fish.

In what context?

Any context.

Really?

Alive, dead?

Yeah, and I think maybe on a Mott of the Week once they put up a big picture of a fish, and she was like, no, I'm serious.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah.

So even just a picture.

Yeah, yeah.

What about like a battered cod?

I don't know.

You'd have to ask her.

Yeah.

Angela, no context.

context.

Yeah, you're right, Angela.

What about battered cod?

So, like, can you like walk past an aquarium or do you have to cross the street?

What if you're doing the marathon and someone was dressed as a big fish?

That's a good one.

Yeah, that's a good point, actually.

I'll have to call her later.

We need answers.

This is very, very entertaining.

I mean, I think the perfect way to end it was Jason saying, I will kill you.

Brilliant.

That sums up his whole taskmaster.

He'll bring them back.

We'll bring them back in the next episode.

Yeah.

He'll kill you.

Yeah.

Again, he's just chaotic.

But he's not chaotic in an irritating way.

He's weirdly just right.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just measured just right.

I don't know if he's done it on purpose or it's just him, but it's just right.

He hits the balance well.

Yeah.

The colour he invents is called James.

That was brilliant.

That was beautiful.

Yeah.

James.

Because everyone goes for made-up name, made-up win.

He just goes for a man's name.

It's brilliant.

And a lovely callback paints boobs again.

So from the first challenge, the first task, challenge, the first task, he accidentally paints boobs against the ball.

And they're all boobs again.

And they're all filmed in.

I mean, you know yourself they're filmed in ridiculous order.

They're all just crammed in.

You can't remember them.

So yeah, he's been to be able to get that.

Yeah.

I mean, he obviously just painted boobs every single time.

Yeah.

I mean, you're throwing off shit.

Yeah.

It was three points for Jason, Fatia, and Matt, four points for Stevie, and a well-deserved five points for Rosie.

Yeah.

She understood the task.

She executed it perfectly.

Brilliant.

But what happens if I mix these two together?

It'll make a brand new colour.

That colour is called blalo.

And that colour is called

James.

Once they're mixed together, I can use my thumb as a paintbrush on this.

It looks like a brown colour, isn't it?

What's brown?

A piece of turd.

Cool.

And hey, Presto, I've made a Blalo car.

Boobs.

I've got to go now.

But not before I sing the thieve tune again, exactly the same as I sang it first time round.

Let's dance together.

Goodbye, everyone.

Science today.

Science today.

Dr.

Rosie.

Ramsey, science today.

Science today.

Not science tomorrow.

Science today.

I will kill you!

Let's let's talk about the live task say whether the next person will have a higher or lower number of things than the previous person the category of things will change each time if you make two mistakes you're eliminated last player standing wins pretty straightforward

fun game yes

how did rosie do in this one she got three points yeah she yeah she came second last it was sorry she came no third third she went out yeah she went out second last um

it was uh

it was one of them things where i didn't didn't realise it was going to be the cast

until the first picture comes up.

So it's Alex and I'm like, well, who can this person be?

And then I'm like, okay, that's it.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean?

That makes more sense.

It's all the people from the cast.

Yeah, it was good.

It was one of the things where you think it's going to be easy, but it's absolutely not.

Well, it's impossible if you don't know what's coming up.

I guess you do it based on your knowledge of if it's

you, if your picture's up there.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's how Stevie wins, right?

By knowing she's never.

But we know that she's had like 150 hours of lessons and still went round and round about the wrong way, which is terrifying, genuinely terrifying.

She's given up now, she's given up driving.

Right, I think that's for the best, yeah.

Um, but yeah, you imagine Osha's had loads, yeah, because I had a mate who failed his theory 12 times.

Please tell me he's not driving now, yeah, yeah.

He wrote, uh, I think he wrote three cars off when he first, of course, he did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How do you fail your theory once?

12 times, yeah, that's his test first time.

That's crazy.

Do you not think after, i don't i don't want to be horrible yeah but do you not think after a while it should go right no books closed yeah you can't oh definitely this club's not for you yeah yeah yeah i mean i i passed my test first time i shouldn't have done same but my i think the examiner was hung over brilliant because she kept winding down the window and go

out the window

and i think she knew that if if I'd gone back and told them that,

then she'd be in trouble.

So I think she just passed me.

I don't think she's.

I don't know if I told you my story.

No.

So I did

the test, and then we went back to

the testing center.

And I had a reverse beer park.

Yeah.

And my instructor, instead of just teaching us how to reverse beer park, he'd put like a white sticker on the window.

And he was like, so go back.

And when you look left, when that white sticker's in the middle of a B,

if you go full lock, you'll park a B and a half perfectly.

It was a ridiculous system, it was a ridiculous system.

Anyway, the um, the instructor had his arm across the thing, yeah, and I couldn't see the white mark, yeah, I forgot he'd put one at the top as well, yeah, so I couldn't see it.

So, I reverse B parked, and um,

the examiner, sorry, he got out and he looked around the car and he got back in and he said, Um, are you seriously telling me you'd leave a car parked like this?

Uh, and I said, No, I would probably try again, but I'm just nervous.

And he said, uh, exact quote, hmm, a very limp pass now give me your papers before I change my mind a limp pass

wow give me your papers before I change my mind that's terrifying that's terrifying that he passed you really I shouldn't have but I did both first time yeah but yeah I didn't think I was gonna pass because when you know when you're waiting I was with my instructor and you're waiting for the examiners to come out and they pick up the thing and go you know say your name or whatever the instructor came out and she was quite a short uh woman with uh short blonde hair.

And

my instructor obviously knew all the examiners.

And really loudly, he went, oh, no, you got Barney Rubble.

I was like, right, well, if she's heard that, then I'm definitely not passing.

Luckily.

Luckily, Barney Rubble had been out on the lash with Fred.

Oh, God.

That's great.

There you go.

I mean, look.

We've had a lovely chat.

We've not really talked about the live tasks.

It's pretty straightforward.

Fatia got one point, Jason got two points, Rosie got three points, Matthew got four points, and Stevie got the five points, meaning a solid victory for Stevie, 23 points.

And I was so happy for her.

Yeah, she wanted it.

She really, really wanted it.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And it's really, really good.

She was in the lead going into that live task and then gets the five points.

It was great performance.

And now she is the proud owner of a pelvic floor exerciser with two sisters, juices.

Yeah, well, no, well, technically.

One juice.

Yeah, one juice.

So, you know, nice to be introducing a third juice to it.

I'm sure that's what the pelvic flow exercise I would have wanted.

One juice, two sisters.

Circle of life.

17 points for Jason, 15 points for Matthew, 14 points for Fatia, and 11 points for Rosie.

We didn't deliberately bring you in on an episode where your wife comes last, by the way.

Oh, that's great, the one, wasn't we?

Yeah, so I get to see it.

When we review it on the podcast, I get to go dead last again.

Yeah.

Meaning, Matthew is still in the lead with 138.

Rosie's still in second place with 125.

Fatia on 120.

Stevie on 113.

And Jason rock bottom.

She's still in second place after

she's that easy.

Yeah.

Man.

Really?

She only got the presenting one right.

Everything else she lost.

And didn't understand.

And didn't understand?

It's sort of a better way to be, really.

Because, you know, you've not had a great episode and then you can go, well, I don't know why.

Yeah.

fair enough.

She won't have

any sleepless nights over it.

She'd be like, didn't understand that.

Unlike waking up again and again and again, when she'd said, Are we the monsters?

Oh my god, are we the monsters?

Is one of my favourite quotes ever.

I think.

Honestly, yeah.

Because she's again, that's so.

That's her trying to be too clever.

Yeah.

That's her trying to be too clever.

Oh, 100%.

Are we the clever?

Oh, it's a metaphor where there, no, no, there was genuinely a person dressed as a monster that you had to draw.

It reminds me of Catherine Parkinson when she did the show.

There was a thing where they had to find a big spider, and Catherine never left the set.

If the thing was in that front room, she would never leave the room.

She hadn't worked out that other stuff would happen outside of the room.

And she's like for ages trying to work out where the spider is.

And then at one point, looks down the camera and goes, Am I the spider?

And that's, are we the monsters?

Beautiful.

It's like, are we the monsters?

It's just like someone studying like First World War poetry.

Yeah, yeah.

Flanders feels and all that.

Yeah.

Yeah, still in second.

Absolutely incredible.

And you know what?

I hope something happens and she wins the whole series.

No.

No, let's not have that.

Not on my house.

You don't want that.

Thank you very much.

No.

I beat her on Big Off.

I'm beating her on this.

Okay.

Chris, thank you so much for coming back on the Taskmaster podcast.

Absolute pleasure.

We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five points in the style of the Taskmaster.

We hope you've had a good time, but please give us an honest point score.

You know what?

Always a five because I love Tournament and I love the show.

It's been dropped to a four because it's so hot in here.

Yes.

My testicles are just liquid.

Yeah.

It's just so warm.

I've got to get the train home in this state.

I like being at hot yoga.

I'm good.

Well, we're still happy with it.

It's freezing at home.

You can't wait to get back, can you?

Oh, that'd be great, man.

From the cold north.

Oh, yes.

Thank you very much, Chris.

Thank you.

Thank you so much to Chris for coming in.

Wonderful.

Look,

he talked about Rosie a lot.

A lot of allegations flying around.

A lot of accusations about how she takes in information.

We will be able to put that to the test and get it straight from the horse's mouth next week because we will be joined by the brilliant Rosie Ramsey next week on the Taskmaster podcast.

Make sure you watch Taskmaster channel 4, 9 p.m.

on Thursday.

Then come straight back here for Taskmaster Series 19, episode 9, as discussed by Rosie Ramsey.

But for now, thank you so much to Chris.

We will see you again next week.

Bye-bye.