Stevie Martin - Series 20 Ep. 8

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Speaker 2 Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's it's a me, Ed Gamble.
Um, that's my new character, English Mario.

Speaker 2 Uh, I don't know what I'm doing today. Um, very excited because we're talking about series 20, episode 8, with the brilliant Stevie Martin, who is, of course, one of the stars of Series 19.

Speaker 2 Always lovely to see Stevie, getting her in the caravan, asking her about this series of Taskmaster, just having a nice old chat, really.

Speaker 2 Stevie has extended her tour, her critically acclaimed and sold-out debut UK tour, Clout.

Speaker 2 She's added 20 dates, more than 20 dates, in spring 2026, including two additional London shows at the Bloomsbury Theatre on Thursday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 25th of April.

Speaker 2 and you can find tickets for all of those dates at steviemartin.com.

Speaker 2 Stevie's brilliant. Stevie's brilliant.
She's been brilliant for ages.

Speaker 2 I'm delighted that Taskmaster has shown her to the rest of the nation and that her tour's selling out because that's where she deserves to be. So make sure you go and see that show, Klout.

Speaker 2 Let's get into it though. This is Taskmaster Series 20, episode 8.
We're nearly at the end of the series with Stevie Martin.

Speaker 2 Welcome back, Stevie, to the Taskmaster podcast. Thank you for having me.
Will you be sitting with your hands like you're praying for this?

Speaker 2 Yes, yes, and I'll bow. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you. And thank you, Sam.
Thank you to you. Welcome back.
Does it feel good to be back in the caravan? It now feels good. Yeah, the last time I was here, that was too fresh.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Whereas now I've had some time. I've had, you know, autumn to mull.

Speaker 2 That is a time of reflection. It's a time of mull.
Time of mull. Yeah, actually.
We're now coming into the mull season, actually, aren't we? And I've also been really enjoying the series.

Speaker 2 The first time I watched the first episode, I was like, oh, can't we just support my great book? This is hot. I want to do it again.

Speaker 2 And I was going to reach out, but I don't want to

Speaker 2 broach his privacy. But Jason said roughly the same thing.

Speaker 2 He was like, the newcast are great, but it just actually made me feel really sad. And I was like, yeah, we have to push through.
It is hype. And I have pushed through.
It is hype.

Speaker 2 Well, I don't think it ever gets anything. Oh, good.

Speaker 2 okay i'm lying because it's i'm still a bit sad you know we're we're now 11 series later than i i did it and every time i think it kills you just get me back in there look at you trapped here in like your lipsyphus of your own making yes and i'm always saying that is that the right analogy

Speaker 2 of my own making i say yes we are um you gave phil some advice going into this series i did give phil some advice i've forgotten what it is on my instagram should i get it up yeah get it up i dm'd him um i didn't dm him going can I give you some advice?

Speaker 2 Please take this advice, Phil, for God's sake. No, what I did was, it's probably actually very heartwarming.
Um, I found out that he was doing it, and I got I was just so excited.

Speaker 2 I don't, I've seen his shows, I didn't know him very, very well, but I knew him to say hi to, and I was just so excited that he was doing it.

Speaker 2 Um, and then he said, Do you have any yes, yes, I said, um, Patrick the Stylist is on the 14th of April. Patrick the Stylist is helping me with another job.

Speaker 2 I just got another job. I don't even worry about it.
In April.

Speaker 2 I'm available for more.

Speaker 2 Patrick the Stylist is helping me with another job and just told me the top secret. He said, I'm so happy for you.
I can't. I can't.
No, I actually said, I'm so happy for you. I can.

Speaker 2 I pressed then too early. I meant I can't.
But I'm so thrilled for you. And then he said, Do you have any advice? And I said, I'm presuming that's the question you're going to ask me.

Speaker 2 What was the advice? Yes. Okay, great.
Oh, no. I wanted to ask you about the new job.

Speaker 2 It's not out yet. And it's not House of Games.

Speaker 2 I haven't been announced, so I can't say that.

Speaker 2 Oh, God, it's so much. Okay, I gave, look at that.
That's too much advice. That's a lot of advice.

Speaker 2 Give us the key, the bullet points. Absolutely, I will.
I was petrified. That's not really advice.
Good advice, that. Good advice.
Oh, I did say,

Speaker 2 oh, yes. So, my agent, who is also John Kearns' agent,

Speaker 2 told me, having watched John do the first episode, and was like, I was genuinely concerned because the man hadn't said anything. He just laughed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 He said, you only really need to say three mildly amusing things per episode record, which is three hours long for it to look like you're flying in the edit. This is very doable, especially for you.

Speaker 2 And I said, oh, yeah, for my first thing, I literally said three things. And I also said, also, they offer this as my second piece of advice.
So first piece of advice for the comedy. Say three things.

Speaker 2 Three mildly amusing things. Mildly amusing things.
Only for the episode one, because for me, I was so scared. It was like, okay,

Speaker 2 just remove the idea that everything you say has to be funny yeah and then you will be funny or not i guess but fine um

Speaker 2 uh and then my second piece of advice is i started by saying sorry for the long message i just feel passionately about how fine you'll be in the studio

Speaker 2 and oh oh they offer you a drink in the breaks and you can absolutely have a beer this is what phil this is what phil remembered right this is what phil told us on the podcast and stevie said it was fine to drink yeah yeah yeah well it did help me a lot.

Speaker 2 And then, yeah, that was it. I think I'd, yeah, and then it's just

Speaker 2 me saying,

Speaker 2 you only need to say three things.

Speaker 2 And then I just start chanting it. I love that.
Nothing about the tasks. Nothing about...
Oh, no. No, no, no.
No, because you can't give advice for the tasks. Be mildly funny.

Speaker 2 Three times in three hours and have a drink. Have a bloody drink.
Have a beer, mate.

Speaker 2 And how do you think Phil's performing? Did you predict what his performance was going to be like? And is it matching up? Yes, I thought, because

Speaker 2 Phil is like that in real life like i was in he's sort of like um

Speaker 2 like a vic reeves character yes you know yeah and i love vic and bob and i and he's sort of he can't like he's just is yeah so he's just being genuinely himself yeah yeah totally which is really nice yeah in in a way that is so so different to i think different to like a lot how a lot of stand-ups would like approach it he's not trying to be a thing

Speaker 2 But he is one because that's what he is. He's very...

Speaker 2 Also, his outfits are class. They are.
The fringing. The fringing.
But he's been working with Patrick, clearly. Of course, he has.
Yeah, Patrick's a god.

Speaker 2 Patrick was not available to me when we were doing Series 9. Was it? Right, that's a surprise.
I had to put together all my outfits myself. Did you?

Speaker 2 That's why you looked so shit. Yeah, bad, bad stuff.

Speaker 2 I can't remember what you're wearing. That's maybe the point I should have.
I looked amazing.

Speaker 2 We need to talk about your tour. Oh, God.
Yes. Okay, I'm on tour.
There we go. Cool.
Thanks. Right.
The prize task.

Speaker 2 No, I have to say more. Glout.

Speaker 2 Yes, I am on tour. I'm having a great time because of

Speaker 2 Taskmaster. It does help.
It does help. People are coming to see the show.
And also, what's nice is people are coming to see the show. And I think it's what people expected.
I think. That's good.
Yes.

Speaker 2 It's not too much of an odd. It is odd, but I am odd.
So that's fine.

Speaker 2 Sorry to drag John Kearns through the mud again, but I think he did experience somewhat of a gear shift between what he does on stage and what he did on Taskmaster.

Speaker 2 Yes, I think he opened with his tour show with saying, like, oh, yeah, some Taskmaster people are in tonight.

Speaker 2 what happens when you're on taskmaster the numbers go up and the laughs go down

Speaker 2 what do you think he said but i've experienced um uh same amount of laughing uh but more people so the laughing does feel larger yes that's just lovely really nice you're doing spring 2026 doing so many dates I've never done a tour before.

Speaker 2 I said in April, around the time when I was talking to Phil, oh, I'll do maybe nine to ten dates. I'm doing 57 dates in total.
That's a tour. That's a real tour.
That's a tour.

Speaker 2 And I saw you the other week, and I said that

Speaker 2 I can't fill the Bloomsbury theatre. I'm doing another date of the Blue South.
Yeah, Thursday, the 16th, and Saturday, the 25th of April. I'm ending the tour with the Bloomsbury.

Speaker 2 So please don't let me end on a half-fall room. It won't be.

Speaker 2 This is what happened when we saw each other last week. I know.
You're like, I can't fill it once. I know.
You're doing another one. I know.
You're going to fill it. I'm going to bloody fill it.

Speaker 2 I think you're going to end up doing a third one. I won't be doing a third one.
I think you'd do a third one. I think that'll just be embarrassing.
I think you won't be staying.

Speaker 2 I saw Greg Davis at the Taskmaster season 29 finale, and I kept, I just got it into my head.

Speaker 2 29?

Speaker 2 Yeah. They're very far ahead.

Speaker 2 22, 21, 21,

Speaker 2 fine. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Season 21 finale.

Speaker 2 And he was saying, because he's doing big rooms now. And I was like, you know, he was like, yeah, they're doing it.
And I was like, big rooms, like, like, like the O2.

Speaker 2 And he was trying to say, no, I'm not doing the O2. And I kept being like, it's amazing you're doing the O2 because I had like seven wines and he left.
I'm like, good look at the O2.

Speaker 2 And he just shouted across the, I'm not doing the O2. It's like, okay, sorry.
He's doing Wembley, to be fair to us. I mean, that's basically the O2.

Speaker 2 Same thing, same thing.

Speaker 2 Let's talk about the prize task. Yes, yes, yes, let's.
The best thing that has a surprise aspect to it. This was a great classic Taskmaster prize task.

Speaker 2 It's these ones that keep popping up where I think, how have they not done this already? They will have done this one before, but with different wording. Yeah, most surprising thing.

Speaker 2 Thing that makes Greg go, oh, like should be one, you know. And then Alex will say that that's a different prize task, but it's not.
But I like this, the surprise aspect.

Speaker 2 Do you have anything that you... Oh, I didn't know how to prepare.
You know. You don't have to prepare.
You know, if you don't have anything, we don't have to put it in. I don't know.

Speaker 2 I've got nothing for it.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Well, the thing is that my prize task approach is to think about it for three months and then have a breakdown and pick something that I don't care about and is wrong and then and then I don't have yeah so no

Speaker 2 cool thank you Stevie I don't have anything let's talk about what other people brought in then yes please let's talk about Sanjeev I think I always like to talk about Sanjeev is a very intriguing intriguing guy yeah and this is not one of his finest prize tasks I would say Christmas crackers and one's got a banana in it And then in the banana, there's a picture of Greg.

Speaker 2 No, there's a little cracker inside the banana. You've forgotten the only good bit.
Sorry, the banana, little cracker in the banana picture of Greg.

Speaker 2 Right, so I was like, here's my face throughout that.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 And then, okay.

Speaker 2 Little cracker. And then, yeah, sure, finish off.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 To me, it seems very similar to Anya's bag task that she did earlier in the series. Yes, it's not.
And I think what's happened is Sanjeev's seen that. He's accidentally absorbed it.

Speaker 2 He's changed his prize tasks going forward, and he's just done the the same thing. Yeah, true.
That is correct. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But with Sanjeev, we're always very grateful that the final cracker did not contain a tube of his own piss.

Speaker 2 I was actually quite disappointed. I thought that would be fun.
I quite like the piss stuff. Yes, and we've had

Speaker 2 two pisses so far. Yeah.
But some episodes to go, I wouldn't put it past him.

Speaker 2 To bring in here's piss again.

Speaker 2 But it was one point for Sanjeev, sadly. Phil got the two points.

Speaker 2 He brought in a grandfather clock with a mini fridge in it. I think that's a great example of what I was saying before.
Just

Speaker 2 that's himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And yeah, he's put a fridge in it. And I thought Greg's scoring in this was very good.
Because that is, it's like, I was right on.

Speaker 2 Like, yeah, I'm not surprised he has a fridge in a grandfather's clock.

Speaker 2 This is where we're getting to with Phil, though, now. I think Phil, and nothing Phil does is surprising.
No. Because it's weird stuff and it's very funny.

Speaker 2 But of course, that's what he's like at home.

Speaker 2 I can imagine him waking up in the morning, going to the the grandfather clock, opening it up, taking out a white monster. Yeah, yeah, getting on with his day.

Speaker 2 I feel like he's got a fridge in everything in his house. You know what I mean? Yeah.
It's got a little fridge. He's got a mini fridge inside his fridge.
Inside his fridge.

Speaker 2 And there's a little bit of a drink. And a cracker in there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, I would like this. I would enjoy having a grandfather clock with a fridge in it.
Great.

Speaker 2 Every time someone comes to your house,

Speaker 2 what's in there? You're not expecting this.

Speaker 2 The person is asking what's in there. No, I think I...

Speaker 2 Because I wouldn't go in someone's house look at grandfather clock and go what's in there no no i it's like um when you're when you go to a uh when you go to a party and you're wearing like a new hat or something and you just go like look at a hat like and you just go i'd be like that but with the fridge i'd be like what's what's in this grandfather's clock you think and everyone would be like i don't know is it a fucking fridge or something what's very funny about you stevie is you're trying to pitch stuff as universal observational material whereas going to a party in a new hat and screaming hat

Speaker 2 no just being like look at that jimmy check this out or i'm sorry i'm wearing a hat. Like, that's, I do that.
I think if someone told, just wrote that down and said, who would do this,

Speaker 2 I'd say that's Stephen Martin. Oh, God, this is why I'm not a relatable stand-up.

Speaker 2 I can see that now. You know, when you go to a party with a hat and you scream, look at my hat.
What? No. No, we just wear a hat.
Yeah. But it's such an odd.
And see also

Speaker 2 bandana

Speaker 2 putting a headscarf on. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 Can't stop talking about it. Just can't stop thinking about it.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 I was thinking of employing the

Speaker 2 Daniel Craig bandana around the neck, sort of like Benoit Blanc style thing. But you'd have to say it.
I would. I'm just thinking about it.
I'd be like... Is it a Benoit Blanc thang thing?

Speaker 2 What do we think? Thang?

Speaker 2 Because walking around just with it on,

Speaker 2 people are either going to mention it, and if they don't mention it, that's the worst. Yes.
You see the eye flick. Do you like it? You see my.
And they go, how are you doing, Ed?

Speaker 2 And you look like, I can see it. I can see it.
I've got a hat on.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 See, it is relatable. It is relatable.
God.

Speaker 2 What a thrill.

Speaker 2 Reese brings in an improved patent magneto-electric machine for nervous diseases. Yes, that was.
Face is.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 And then, and then when he is electric at his child. Yeah.
Yes, okay. That's funny.
So I love that he didn't test it on himself. Just straight off to put your hands around that.
He's

Speaker 2 so funny. So funny.
But the thing is, this is obviously not a surprise that he has this thing. No, it's very inside number nine thing to have.
It's very inside number nine.

Speaker 2 And I think over the series, we've learned his house is just an absolute zoo of mad shit. Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 But the surprise is in the electric shock. So I think it wasn't scored.
Well, it was...

Speaker 2 Greg scored it on the basis of how surprised he was that Rhys had it, whereas he should have scored it on the surprise of the electric shock.

Speaker 2 Yes, he gave it more than he was going to because he shocked a child. Isn't that the thing? But still not.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I found it interesting about what came first and second, but I do think it wouldn't have ever won. It would have probably been maybe out, like...
Yes. Mid-table, I think, is sort of.

Speaker 2 Maybe fair, yeah. But I loved it.
It's the thing I want most out of all of these things.

Speaker 2 Really? What would you do with that? Just display it. Okay.

Speaker 2 When people come over and be like, what do they ask for that? Yeah,

Speaker 2 grasp that. I'd want everything that Rhys owns, basically, because I'd love people to come over and be like, look at all my things.
Yes, of course.

Speaker 2 Because I want things in things basically I'm just like a kid like just being like come over and have a look at my computer

Speaker 2 okay but do you do you have any of things do you have any

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 loads of stuff I've got loads of stuff but what's do you have anything comparable to no because also my I

Speaker 2 live with someone who doesn't want that well no I live with someone who has those more things than me okay right sure and now we're sort of we're lacking in display space I would say

Speaker 2 and there's no point buying an electromagnetic shock machine and just putting it in a corner upstairs in an office is there? No, no, there isn't. You want it out on display.
You want it for guests.

Speaker 2 Yes, in a glass cabinet. Yeah, yeah, I'd love a glass cabinet.
I'd like a glass cabinet.

Speaker 2 Maisie brings in a compilation album, and she's got surprising facts about the contestants from other people. Yeah, that's very interesting.

Speaker 2 Phil's mum saying that Phil went through a phase of only saying hedgehog no. That's very good.
Again, not a surprise

Speaker 2 at all.

Speaker 2 And we only heard two, actually. We only heard then Steve Pemberton saying that Reese would draw pornographic pictures of their tutors at college and would take requests and the requests were animals.

Speaker 2 Animals. And then Sanjeev, the best moment in the studio, I think, says Hedgehog Moe.

Speaker 2 Which I think is the best riff of the series so far. Yes, that was very good.
I'm surprised that wasn't the episode title. Yeah, should have been.

Speaker 2 But yeah, the

Speaker 2 animals requests. Very dark.
Really good, but also better that it's animals and not just porn. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think so, because if you think about like, oh, draw...

Speaker 2 Animal porn is obviously, I think, probably probably worse,

Speaker 2 quite bad. But I mean, like, oh, draw that, draw Mrs.
Barrow, but as a goat with a tit. That's slightly better.
Interesting. So you took Rhys saying the requests involved animals as

Speaker 2 the tutors were turned into animals and then put in a pornographic situation. Oh, I see why I've done that.
Whereas I assumed it was... They're boning animals.

Speaker 2 Okay, yeah, that is quite bad. Mrs.
Barrow's boning a goat. Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 So from my perspective, when you said it's better that it's animals.

Speaker 2 What a reveal. I think it's fine to have sex with animals, I've seen.
It's fine, it's more fun. I think it's just

Speaker 2 better, isn't it? Yeah, it's better. Funny and sexy.
It's funny noises and stuff.

Speaker 2 But this was a good idea. I would have liked to have heard the others.
I would have liked to hear the. I wonder why we didn't.
Maybe we'll get an extended clip at some point. Yes, hopefully.

Speaker 2 I'm assuming there are. There's been some very good, um, very good outtakes in this series, I would would say.
Some behind-the-scenes content.

Speaker 2 Anya wins, though, with a mixtape that she's never listened to from a boy

Speaker 2 who sounds like an old woman from the

Speaker 2 1820s. And I have checked.
It's definitely real. It's his voice.
Yeah, they've obviously... you know, checked to him, checked with him, they've checked.
They've managed to track him down. God.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's very good. It's very sweet, though.
I mean, the mixtape says wrap up warm on it.

Speaker 2 There's a mixtape, I imagine for you. Anya's like, like, what, 29 or something? 28, maybe? She's mid-20s.

Speaker 2 She's mid-20s.

Speaker 2 So that, that's a really weird thing to give somebody who's at school in like the 2010s. Because I got a CD from somebody.

Speaker 2 They'd copied the Keene album. Just the whole Keene album, straight up.
The Holkeen album.

Speaker 2 Not a lot of thoughts gone into that one. No.
I haven't asked for it either.

Speaker 2 But good for lovely Chris. I hope he's doing well.
Did he do an introduction? No,

Speaker 2 he wrote on it,

Speaker 2 this is for you, Stevie. It's Keen.

Speaker 2 Fuck it all.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Chris should go and hang out with Ray, who gave Anya the mixtapes.
Yeah, I don't think anyone should hang out with Ray.

Speaker 2 I don't know what he was. Well, Annia's got that cool vibe that I reckon when she was at school, she could be one of those kids that had like a tape player, you know, like in a retro cool way.

Speaker 2 But she didn't. She said she doesn't even know what she said.
No, she didn't. So I can see, but I mean, I can see why he did that.

Speaker 2 Maybe he thought, well, this girl's probably got, you know, a tape player. Well, what he probably thought was, at no point will this be shown and then my voice be played on Taskmaster.
Series 20.

Speaker 2 Series 20. Yeah.
No, this. But I thought it was very sweet.
Yeah, it was very sweet. And also a genuine, authentic piece of lore, you know.
Yeah. So I think fair enough for that one.

Speaker 2 It was five points for Anya because I think the voice did surprise Greg massively. Four points for Maisie, three points for Rhys, two points for Phil, and one point for Sanjeev.

Speaker 2 Now, I've made a compilation album. I reached out to various people connected to my fellow contestants and asked for surprising facts about you all.
And this is the album that she's produced?

Speaker 2 It's called, Now what's That About You?

Speaker 2 Do you want to hear Phil's one? This is from your mum. When Phil was four, he went through a phase of only saying the words hedgehog no.
Oh, fuck.

Speaker 2 Hedgehog, no. Hedgehog.
Hedgehog, no. Boy, we all go through that phase, don't we?

Speaker 2 Please, I reached out to your comedy partner, Steve Pemberton, for this one. Okay, this is what Steve said.
One surprising thing about Reese

Speaker 2 is that he used to draw pornographic pictures of all our tutors when we were at college, and he would take requests.

Speaker 2 Yep, that's true.

Speaker 2 The requests used to be animals. Oh, God!

Speaker 2 Hedgehog, no!

Speaker 2 Task one, go and this. I'm just going to say, this would have driven me mad and I think I would have burnt the house down.

Speaker 2 Go and sit in the entrance lobby on Alex's horn and return on Alex's whistle. Every time you return, you must answer Alex's question within 30 seconds.
You cannot change your answer.

Speaker 2 Alex will ask you 10 questions. Most correct answers wins.
Your time starts now. So this is, of course, you've got to see what the difference in the room is.

Speaker 2 You've got to see what's been added, what's been taken away. You don't know whether you should overthink or whether you're underthinking.

Speaker 2 We now know what the answer to that is.

Speaker 2 It's just all ducks. But yeah, no, that would have...

Speaker 2 But what I do think is this episode's a good example of actually is that the tasks are much more straightforward

Speaker 2 in terms of like you understand what they are quite quickly.

Speaker 2 Whereas in my series actually it was quite difficult to understand like the explanation would be so ridiculous and would take and that was how he was bamboozling you. Yes.

Speaker 2 Whereas this is the actual tasks are bamboozling themselves. Like they are quite

Speaker 2 so that it seems simple, but there's something else going on there.

Speaker 2 And all of the stuff, because obviously I would be looking in the entrance lobby. I'd be looking at the spaceship, at the farm thing.
It was amazing that Anya noticed the picture and the stuff.

Speaker 2 Like, I wish she wouldn't have noticed that at all. Yeah, but I think if you're trying to work out what's going on, then I think you would have, you know.
No, I know I wouldn't have done. That's fine.

Speaker 2 Would you have gone with ducks then? Would you have...

Speaker 2 That very much screams of me doing amazie and just being like, this is stupid. I'm just going to...
Oh, no, it was more Sanjeev, wasn't it? I think I would have done it. Well, Sanjeev won, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, Sanjeev won because he did just mainly go with Ducks. I mean, initially, yeah, enthusiasm.
Yeah. That was so real, that moment where Alex said, what's missing? My enthusiasm.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was real. And then he didn't go back out.
He was just like, I'll just answer the next one. More dogs.
I'll just answer.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I feel like that was the, there was one we did in my series, which was the sports day almost thing where we had to, and I just gave up. And I think I would have given up in this.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And been like, I'm probably so far ahead. We don't need to.
But yeah, he does very well.

Speaker 2 By not trying, essentially.

Speaker 2 That's very frustrating. Very frustrating.
For other people. Yeah.
But delicious. But Maisie doesn't really try and gets one point.
No, that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 2 God. They're all nothing.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Says it's a stupid task.
Yes. She does tend to do that.
She's having a couple of shocking episodes, Maisie. She is.
Like, really. Very entertaining to watch.
So entertaining.

Speaker 2 And I know the tasks are shown out of sequence, but it seems like she's getting angrier and angrier every episode. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I wonder if there was like two, I was going to say one day, but maybe two actually, where she just was not. Yeah.
She's just not dreaming. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Phil is typically throwing himself into it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But he guesses they're all things in his Nana's will.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's really good. I liked also the one that all of the ducks were suddenly facing the other way.
Creepy. It's kind of creepy.
Very creepy, yeah. I really liked that.
And

Speaker 2 the big duck.

Speaker 2 Well, of course, the big duck.

Speaker 2 And Sanjeev does not see the big duck. No.
But did any of them see the big duck come into the

Speaker 2 main room? No one really spotted it. I don't think it actually came in for everyone.
Right, so it was just for Sanjeev. I think it might have just been for Sanjeev, and it just walked past him.

Speaker 2 That was really good. It was like a Darren Brown thing, you know, like the Derren Brown thing where he goes, and did any of you spot the giant gorilla?

Speaker 2 And then he, like, plays back what had just happened, and there was a big gorilla behind him. Yes, like a Panto.
Just like that, yeah, but big, big duck. A big, but a massive duck.

Speaker 2 Maybe it was a gorilla dressed as a duck. But yeah, very, very frustrating task because it is just ducks.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and the temptation is to be like, is but you always want to, you don't want to do the obvious thing ever. And that was the obvious thing.

Speaker 2 And now he's, I like that the fact that Tasmas has been going for so long that now people are, now he's playing with what you're trying to bluff him with. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like, that's like, like with myself, don't, don't look under the table, because then you get distracted. Now it's like, don't go for the thing.
No, do go for the obvious thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I think that that's an not I wouldn't have been as annoyed doing it in the studio, but I sorry, in the actual Tasman, I would have been fuming in the studio, watching how simple it actually was.

Speaker 2 No one counted the ducks. I would have thought someone might count the ducks.
That is interesting. No one counted the ducks.
God, yeah. But I wouldn't have counted the ducks.
Yeah, no,

Speaker 2 I'm certain that I would have done, but no, no, of course not.

Speaker 2 Now I know that it was the ducks. I would have counted the ducks.
I would have counted the ducks. Oh, 100%, yeah.
And would have said it was the ducks and I would have won.

Speaker 2 Well, there's like a blue one, wasn't there? Yeah. And then did they ever remove the blue? No, they didn't.
No, the blue one stayed there all the time. What's the point of that? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maisie got one point. Phil got two points.
Anya got three points, Rhys got four points, and Sanjeev somehow bags the five points. Really good.
Rhys, Shear Smith. Yes.
Have a seat. Thank you.

Speaker 2 I'm going to ask you your question now. Yep.

Speaker 2 What's missing?

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 There's something that was in the room that is no longer in the room. My enthusiasm.

Speaker 2 Already? Yeah. Question one.
Yep. Would you mind writing enthusiasm

Speaker 2 on the board? I don't know if I can be asked.

Speaker 2 Great. Just nine more to go.

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Speaker 2 Let's talk about this art task. Paint the best picture of one animal sitting on top of another animal.
You must paint on the paper below and may not leave the balcony.

Speaker 2 You have 15 minutes, your time starts now.

Speaker 2 As soon as they're strapping them into a harness. I love that.
I love how Anya tried to run twice. She did a little cat noise.

Speaker 2 But then she also did it in another direction, just so I almost like to see what happened if she did it west rather than east.

Speaker 2 But only one of them caused the noise. Only one direction caused the...

Speaker 2 Very cute. Very funny.
I thought it was going to be some sort of bungee thing.

Speaker 2 And I like if someone's going to try and throw themselves, I'm glad they didn't. I'd imagine they were told they couldn't dangle over the balcony, but I'm sure one of them tried.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I imagine Phil would odd. Yeah, it's Phil.
I was thinking of Phil. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a difficult task, though.

Speaker 2 It is. One wrong move, and you've completely messed up the whole painting.
And that was very clear with the results, yeah. With all of them, I think.

Speaker 2 I think I would have gone straight in for that one with the

Speaker 2 tube, pouring it down the tube. Yeah.
That felt fun. And it was very funny when Rhys was like, stop pouring! And Alex was like, I don't.
And Alex looked genuinely scared as well. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 Stop pouring, I said. It's very funny, Rhys, isn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's just like how Sanjeev has the vibe of not caring, but he's amiable and personable so that you are like, you do care, but you're quite, I like that you're doing that. Rhys is

Speaker 2 mean, but in the best way. Totally.
It's really funny.

Speaker 2 It's really funny. But genuinely scary.
I is scary, you know, is it? But yeah, no, I would have gone straight for that tube thing, I think. I wouldn't have even bothered with the paint.

Speaker 2 But who's someone's paintbrush fell off, didn't it? Yeah, it just plopped straight on top of the painting. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you have any sense of what animal you would have sitting on top of what animal? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'd do tortoise because that I've got a tortoise, obviously, but that I think is just very

Speaker 2 recognisable silhouette to do. Yeah, that's nice.
And tortoises are always at the forefront of your brain as well.

Speaker 2 They always are. They have to be.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then I think

Speaker 2 I would have gone for, I would have done like a yellow duck because you could have just shot some

Speaker 2 yellow and then like just some orange and it's just a blob with a thing. Like it's just simple, just simple, simple beast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, simple beast.

Speaker 2 Not like a humpback whale or whatever. Yeah.
I know you're trying to do. Although it worked for Phil, because I would have said, don't go for a rangatan.
That's crazy. Yeah, it's a wild idea, but

Speaker 2 it's so good. It's a movie.
I'm looking at it right here now. I mean, what it's sitting on is up for debate.
It's like a bean bag or something, isn't it?

Speaker 2 Oh, no, no, he's just the one that's bleeding out of its face. Dragon, yeah, it's the fire.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's not a bean bag. That looks like a horse has had his head chopped off.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it really does. And that, the squiggle there, is his signature.
Interesting. Yeah.
Looks like a baby holding a bouquet of roses. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 But the orangutan is so good that whatever he did below it was going to was going to be good.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Actually, it sort of is irrelevant what's below it because it's just so good.
It's...

Speaker 2 Anya also goes for a monkey, even though she's forgotten that it's a monkey in the studio.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what does she think? It's a bird. Oh, she went as a bird.
Yeah, she went, it is a bird, actually. Yeah.
And Alex said, you said it was a monkey. It's bad.
Yeah. And then the sort of grey abyss.

Speaker 2 Yeah, which I can see that it's like a dolphin style. No, let me look at that again.
I feel like when you say that's a whale, you're like, okay.

Speaker 2 But if you didn't know that's a whale, you wouldn't be able to identify any animal, I think, in that. Well, I thought it was a dolphin before they said it because

Speaker 2 I can see like a bottlenose there. Oh, that bit.
Yeah, and then it's clearly on water.

Speaker 2 Yes, but if you didn't know what they were trying to draw at all, you would know that that was an orangutan, and you'd be like, I I guess it's animals.

Speaker 2 Whereas if you just looked at that, you'd be like, that's some sort of nightmare or, you know, or a kind of, you know, two ships that have crashed in the sea.

Speaker 2 The monkey, I agree, is not a good, that's not a good monkey. The monkey's terrible.
Yeah, she's not done well. I'm afraid, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, San Jeeves.

Speaker 2 What's San Jeeves again? I can't. A ginger cat sitting on the back of a hippo.

Speaker 2 From above.

Speaker 2 It was very specific that it's from above.

Speaker 2 I think that's my favorite one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe underneath, obviously Phil has to win, but like the, I think that's my favorite, second favourite, because I think the perspective is very creative, you know.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think he, it's a good idea to come up with from above, because he is, of course, above himself. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So I think that's good to get the shape there, but the hippo, it works. Very clearly a hippo shape from above.
Yeah. The cap, not so much.

Speaker 2 Depends what position the cat's in. And it's in this position.

Speaker 2 It's in the position that no cat could possibly ever get into yeah

Speaker 2 and you you have a cat so you you would know yeah i would know and my you know my cat gets in some weird positions you know but not that he was in a box this morning we left a card small cardboard box out and he packs him he likes being in a box that is just the right size for him to pack himself into that's very cute that's like when i

Speaker 2 should i say this yeah i ask my taller partner to just lie on top of me and squash me

Speaker 2 not in a sex way you went with that did you we are are sex way

Speaker 2 like just like so that I feel like I'm in a little tube you know but not in this is not in a sex way so not in a sex way no it's when I feel overwhelmed I'll just lie face down and say like you're gonna have to squash me

Speaker 2 just sort of like lasagna pieces lasagna pieces yeah I've just dropped my iPad

Speaker 2 because I've done with this now I just

Speaker 2 I just want to work out how long I can leave a stack of books yeah so you're the you're the stack of books I'm I'm this book and Adam's that book. Yeah, okay, he's gonna like it.

Speaker 2 And who's the egg timer?

Speaker 2 I don't know. The Lord,

Speaker 2 my regret at saying this on this podcast, I don't think that's an egg timer, is it really? No, I don't think it is. That's big eggs.

Speaker 2 Massive egg.

Speaker 2 Um, good. We'll make sure we leave all that in, please.

Speaker 2 I should have just let you speak more because when we got to lasagna pieces, I was like, she's on a spiral. She's on a Martin spiral.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 he has that. I don't think maybe he's speak less about me on podcasts.
I'd be like, yeah, Lord.

Speaker 2 Absolutely. Think more about anything.
So you come home, you've had a long day at work, maybe. Stressful, loads of emails.
You're on calls. You know my job.
Doing auditions and stuff. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 All emails. Yeah, yeah.
Crunching them numbers. Stocks and shares.
And you get in and you're like,

Speaker 2 I've had a really rough day. Come on.
Squash me like lasagna. Squash me like a lasagna piece, please.
And for God's sake, not in a sex way.

Speaker 2 I just want you to know

Speaker 2 this is leading to nothing sexual.

Speaker 2 I'm stressed. There couldn't be anything less sexual about it.

Speaker 2 You are not going to get anything. You face the ceiling.
I'll face the bed. And be quiet.
Ask to ask. Let's go.

Speaker 2 Just want to be squashed like lasagna. It is nice.
And occasionally just hold my foot. That's the other one.
Hold my foot. Just hold my foot.
Just hold it. Just hold it.
I have to do that for my wife.

Speaker 2 Right, okay.

Speaker 2 It's a wife thing. Hold my foot.

Speaker 2 Lift up the leg. Oh, that's a cramp thing.
No, it's not. She doesn't have cramps.
She just likes to fully relax the leg while I hold it. Just hold it up.
Sit in midair. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Gosh, and she just sort of lets the weight and you just kind of,

Speaker 2 that's good for you for doing that. I think the conclusion we can draw is...

Speaker 2 Women be crazy.

Speaker 2 Women be crazy. Women be crazy.

Speaker 2 No, sorry, about eight things went through my head there that I'm not going to say. Great.

Speaker 2 Rhys drew a crocodile and a panda. Oh, yeah.
Thank God we're back to this, right? But I don't know how this got four points. The crocodile, I can sort of see.
It got four points. It got four points.

Speaker 2 No. But the panda.
No, that's

Speaker 2 mad. That's crazy.
It looks like

Speaker 2 it doesn't look like a crocodile. Because I was halfway through the test.
They did a shot of it. I was like, oh, he's smashed it.

Speaker 2 And then he said.

Speaker 2 Oh, that was looking so good. And then they didn't show it again.
I was like, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 How badly is he? No, that was bad, yeah. Hang on.
No, but now I'm looking at it again. I don't know whether this is just what the brain does.
Like a Rorschach test or whatever. Now,

Speaker 2 look at that. Isn't that the most perfect panda face you've ever seen in your life? No, I can't see what you mean.
Where? So here, there's one ear hit there, one ear there.

Speaker 2 It's like looking in this direction. Oh, I see what you mean.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's what Greg says. It's going to be a panda doing this.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And it's where this?

Speaker 2 I think that's accidental. Yeah.
But isn't that what art is? No. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Isn't all art accidental? Yeah, come on.

Speaker 2 Fine. Now, I take it back, that's actually really good.
And I would say it's better than Maisie's Piggy with a Snake.

Speaker 2 Which is obsessed with the tail. Absolutely dreadful.
It is dreadful, but I think... So did she get more points than, say, Anya? Yes.

Speaker 2 Right, okay, because I was going to say, at least it is recognisably a pig. The pig I get.
It's obviously

Speaker 2 a pig. I'm not sure it came up, but it does have five legs.
Okay, is that not a...

Speaker 2 Interesting. That's not its penis.
No, because it's got a corkscrew penis. It It's a little bit penis and corkscrew tail.
Right, so it's got five legs.

Speaker 2 The tail's great. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Both eyes on one side of its head, but that's fine. How are we feeling about the snake? The snake is astounding.

Speaker 2 Like,

Speaker 2 the snake is...

Speaker 2 I honestly, confidently can say that's the worst rendition of a snake I've ever. A snake famously, very simple shape.
Yeah, so simple. Yeah.
That has no properties of any snake. No, it's green.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's it. It's a pillow.
Yeah, it's a pillow. She's done a pillow.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yes, I knew the

Speaker 2 corkscrew penis would come up. I didn't know that.
I thought it was junks that had corkscrew penis. Well, they might still have them as well.
They do. You can have more than one eye.

Speaker 2 But then I googled it when I watched the episode and they do. Corkscrew penises and they come for half an hour.

Speaker 2 That's too long. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, forgive me. So if when a pig is having, or a dog is having sex with a gock.

Speaker 2 Then you don't have to screw them in.

Speaker 2 Was that what you were about to ask?

Speaker 2 One goes one way and the other has to go the other way. You thought the pig would have to get sort of the tip in and then go

Speaker 2 all the way. What's it? Is it going to lift? Push it in, yeah, yeah.
What? Like a curly fry into a tumbler and something.

Speaker 2 Like a curly fry into a tumbler. Tumblr.

Speaker 2 What's this a tumbler? I was like, that's not the word for it. Yeah, yeah.
But it is.

Speaker 2 Oh, God. Right.
Why is it corkscrew then if it's just going in like a normal penis? I think it's difficult to ask why when it comes to what animals

Speaker 2 have. Because then

Speaker 2 you're thinking someone's designing it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I feel like a duck has an inverse corkscrew vagina. I think that's true.
Well, that would make sense. And it goes in like that.

Speaker 2 So it's just very flaccid the whole time.

Speaker 2 There's a lot to think about. There's a lot to think about.

Speaker 2 I'm going to do a lot of Googling tonight.

Speaker 2 Cats' dicks are the worst.

Speaker 2 that's what i'm gonna google

Speaker 2 cats dicks worst reddit the other worst is green what do you mean they've got spikes on them like a fox do they have a barb yeah they've got the barb so when they pull out the it like scrapes the walls so to increase the surface area for for insemination what's going on i know it's crazy we oh look thank god that that doesn't happen we've got off lightly Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I mean that in both sides of the word. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Look, the female animals have an absolutely terrible time with these

Speaker 2 big old spiky robot wars dicks. God.

Speaker 2 Anyway.

Speaker 2 Wow. Tortoises' penises.
Horrific. Yeah.
They're like

Speaker 2 the length. So I have a female tortoise.
Yeah. The length of...
the actual tortoise, it shoots out and it's purple. What?

Speaker 2 And sort of like wangs around like this, and the tortoise just screams the whole time.

Speaker 2 A tortoise's dick is the length of another tortoise. Yeah, it's like the length of the tortoise.
And it's the noise. They just go, ah! Like, it's horrible.
It's horrible.

Speaker 2 So it looks like, honestly, it looks like

Speaker 2 something like evil has leaked out of the bottom of the tortoise's shoes. Hang on, who's screaming then? Is the male? Me, of course.

Speaker 2 The male tortoise. The male tortoise is screaming, yeah.
When the dick sheets are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So what's the female tortoise up to? Oh, just female tortoise is just still and frozen.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Horrifying. I've not actually ever seen anyone in real life.
I googled it. It was.
Oh, there's videos of it all over the place. Awful.
And they like hump things as well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so they hump things and then their tortoise dick like shoots out when they're in the middle of humping something and just like comes everywhere.

Speaker 2 It's really funny. But when they're fucking another tortoise, yeah.

Speaker 2 Does it like, does it come out and then they start, or do they get in position and then it just shoots straight? No, it comes out and then they start. But then how far is it going up inside?

Speaker 2 I don't know. I haven't because you like see it in the eyes of the

Speaker 2 yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I've only seen two female tortoises bone. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 They just sort of... Good for them.
Yeah. They sort of.
Why wouldn't you?

Speaker 2 We all didn't really know what to do. And weirdly, it was a symptom that one of them was pregnant.
Interesting. So when tortoises are pregnant, they fuck their own sister.

Speaker 2 You know what? I don't say it often, but I'm glad I'm a human. Yeah, same.
God.

Speaker 2 Tell you what tortoises aren't doing. Tell you how developed they are.
They're not saying, can you come and squash me? I've had a bad day.

Speaker 2 No, that's true.

Speaker 2 They're not doing that. Well, I always expected that conversation to go like that, to be honest.
Yes, fair enough.

Speaker 2 What are we talking about?

Speaker 2 It was Taskmaster's show. It was two points for Anya, two points for Sanjeev, four points for both Rhys and Maisie, and five points for Phil's wonderful orangutan.
That's fair, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, stop pouring.

Speaker 2 Stop pouring, I say. I haven't.

Speaker 2 It's now a panda. That is striped ginger cat.

Speaker 2 It was good for a bit, this.

Speaker 2 15 seconds. Shut up.
I'm quite happy with that. Do you want to sign it? P-E.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 It's going on!

Speaker 2 Task three, please read and do the task immediately. Your time started when you walked through the door.
You must read one of these instructions out and do them immediately.

Speaker 2 Stand on one leg and keep standing on one leg. Put one finger in your ear and keep it there.
Put one hand on your head and keep it there.

Speaker 2 Pull an extreme facial expression and keep that expression on your face.

Speaker 2 Your time has started and will end if you move your hands, touch the ground with your foot, or change your facial expression. And the task is on the other side.
Yes, because it's an Apple turnover.

Speaker 2 Turnover, there was also PTO and one of the signs.

Speaker 2 Okay. Yeah, there are a couple of things.
I wouldn't have got that.

Speaker 2 Say the most five-letter words. If anyone uses the same five-letter words as you, five words will be lost from both of your totals.
You have 20 minutes. Very frustrating task.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Is the idea that you're hoping someone looks at the front, turns it over, reads the task and never... Because the task is on the back.
You don't actually have to read that first bit, do you? No.

Speaker 2 So you could be in a situation where you don't have to do any of the standing.

Speaker 2 yeah you could just do five letter words of course i didn't even think that but also it turns out you actually shouldn't because yeah that the way it's done is that like the more words you do the more likely someone else will have said those words the less points you get

Speaker 2 I don't think there's any well I mean there obviously is because someone won but I don't think there's any way of doing this task well even the person that won didn't really do like very well with no but it's Sanjeev he again yeah he didn't well he sort of tried but he just couldn't his hands moved immediately Alex almost gives him one opportunity to try again.

Speaker 2 Yeah. He messes it up.
He's foot down again.

Speaker 2 Doesn't do a face. Doesn't do a face.
Doesn't really say anything. He wins.
Yeah. But that's like, he wins, but he still gets like minus 39.
Minus 32.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So, like, you actually can't.
I don't think this is one that you can go, like, I actually genuinely smashed that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a very frustrating one. I don't think any of their facial expressions are extreme enough.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, Annie certainly wasn't. So there's.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 because she's focused on, you know, her business. Yes.
But yeah, no one did it enough, I don't think. I would have penalised all of them for that.
Yeah, I mean, Anya still got the four points.

Speaker 2 She did. But that's because she sort of couldn't keep still.
Yes. So she moved her hand.
Whereas the people who actually do manage to stay in that stress position are like sweating and in pain.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Rhys getting very annoyed was that I would, yeah, that's very annoying. He's there for 20 minutes.
20 minutes and he gets one point for this task. So bad.
Very, very frustrating.

Speaker 2 I mean, Phil stays in the position, but he gets three points, so not bad. Does Phil prop his leg up as well? And Rhys.
He's just sort of leaning on stuff. Yeah, so that he at least has that.

Speaker 2 You had a stress position task in your series. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I sort of couldn't walk properly for like a... like a day.
You threw yourself into it. Yeah.
But it also, what was very frustrating is

Speaker 2 it didn't look like it was a stressful position. I wish it looked more, but it really hurt my ankles.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't think I'd be good at any of those. I mean, especially not this.

Speaker 2 I have no balance. Do you not? Whatsoever.
No. So you couldn't really be a wrestler.

Speaker 2 We were talking about this before we started recording. Yeah, sorry.
I mean, don't just bring things up. No, I could be, you know, there's different styles of wrestling.

Speaker 2 Just falling over and almost balanced. That's my thing.
That's my gimmick. Right.
I'm called the Weeble.

Speaker 2 Ed the Weeble Gamble. Yeah, I fall over all the time.
Ed Weebled, Ed Weeble Gamble. That's great.
Yeah. There you go.
See? Okay, yeah, no, I mean,

Speaker 2 I've hoped to be aware of that. You'd come and watch that, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah, no, I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 I'd watch that more than you being like a good wrestler. And I tell you what happens a lot of the wrestling.
Yes. People squash other people.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but not in like, not in the way that I want to be squashed. But does it not watching the squashing, would that not relax you? No, because don't they like jump off the rope?

Speaker 2 Yeah, there'd be a bit of that. Adam doesn't jump on me.
Yeah. That's a big part of it.

Speaker 2 He has to come on very like gently. But it's not a sex thing.
But it's not a sex thing.

Speaker 2 adam come and squash me gently

Speaker 2 but so help me god if i feel anything in your pants you are out of this house

Speaker 2 like he's gonna want

Speaker 2 face down going

Speaker 2 oh don't squash me gently that's not

Speaker 2 i can't control myself like that

Speaker 2 oh my god say it again

Speaker 2 oh god

Speaker 2 um maisie maisie does not know what's going on. No, she doesn't.
And also, her facial expression is impeded her speech somewhat. So she can't really like.

Speaker 2 But I think

Speaker 2 that's the closest to what I related to. And also, she eats the turnover as well, which I love that.
I would have done that. Eats the turnover, doesn't spot that it's a clue.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Why did the chicken cross the road? She doesn't then think to get to the other side and put... It's a hard clue, but then decides to.
Why does it get that now? Why did the chicken.

Speaker 2 I've just got that now. Yeah.
Why? I was like, what is that chicken thing? Oh, well, apple turnover, I imagine. Well, yeah, well, that's what she says.
She says, why did the chicken cross the road

Speaker 2 to get to the apple turnover? Yes, that's.

Speaker 2 No wonder I related to Maisie's. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Christ. Okay.
Why did the chicken cross the bastard road? She says.

Speaker 2 She never turns over. She never realises that's what she's supposed to be doing, which I'm sure they were delighted with.

Speaker 2 But very, very funny, all the same. Just a very difficult task and incredibly frustrating for Rhys, but that's what we like.

Speaker 2 Rhys Reese gets one point, Maisie gets two points, Phil gets three points, Anya gets four points, and Sanjeev gets five points. Say the most five-letter word.

Speaker 2 Am I allowed to rest the leg on anything? I've tried to put all the information on the task.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's opened up a whole new world to me. Ticks, staff, tiger, horse.
Lovely. Here we go.
Animals. Rhodes.
Gangs. Crook.

Speaker 2 Crime.

Speaker 2 Pasty. Oh, no, but someone else has probably said that.
Pasty. Oh.

Speaker 2 I'm just confused about why that's there. You've got 16 minutes left.

Speaker 2 Oh, no.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 I know, I know. No, that's the end of the task.
What?

Speaker 2 Does it say that?

Speaker 2 Oh, shit.

Speaker 2 Oh, Anya.

Speaker 2 Oh

Speaker 2 studio task. This would have driven me crazy as well.
This is a very good question because Greg's awful assistant. Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 Demonstrate to the taskmaster the idiom demonstrated to you by your teammate. All team members must remain silent on their spots during a round.
Best team wins. Greg is normally good at...

Speaker 2 So any studio task where he's like guessing if someone's lying, he's amazing. He's unstoppable.
This,

Speaker 2 what's happened to him? Awful. Like, and also he doesn't, he doesn't doesn't admit, he doesn't, like, admit, oh, yeah, I'm quite bad at this.
No, no, no. And there's nothing said about it.

Speaker 2 It's like, no, that's very much on you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What was the once in a blue moon? No blue moon ah. Are you? That was his guess.
That is just wild to me. He gets blue moon, and then his guess is no blue moon, eh?

Speaker 2 All I've written is, come on, Greg. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That was astonishing. Yeah.
Seeing somebody just is not connecting. Oh, the worst one for me was cold feet.
And he went, cold foot. I can't.

Speaker 2 And looked annoyed.

Speaker 2 And looked annoyed at that. What's cold foot? Cold foot.
What's cold foot mean? Come on, Greg. Thank God that she took the other

Speaker 2 shoe off. Yeah.
She shouldn't. She shouldn't have to.
Shouldn't have had to do that.

Speaker 2 By the skin of your teeth as well. You thought it was a spider.

Speaker 2 And yeah, and then he's sort of like, well, if you hadn't done that, it's like, that wasn't the only clue. What other things? But yeah, the really interesting thing is he will not.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's not conceding back and down. He's not conceding.
No, no. He's like cold Foot.
They were saying Cold Foot. Yeah.
That's fascinating. He does go.
Never play Sherards with that man.

Speaker 2 Never play Sherards with him.

Speaker 2 I don't think he would even.

Speaker 2 And that's, I think, he's a busy guy. It's not his thing.
When I go over to his house, I just make him lie on top of me.

Speaker 2 And then Adam joins. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just slides in like a filing cabinet drawer. I've had a bad day, Greg.
Will you kill me?

Speaker 2 Come on, lie on top of me and pop and pop me.

Speaker 2 Burst me, Davies. Burst me, like a ready meal, ready for the microwave.

Speaker 2 Phil, Anya, and Sanjeev get naught points,

Speaker 2 which is a shame because it is Greg's fault.

Speaker 2 But they are, I like to see it, they were laughing their heads off. Yeah, they're affecting the head.
And that was good. You're having a nice time.
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 Reese and Maisie get the five points. Meaning that Rhys wins this episode with 17 points.
Maisie gets 16, Anya gets 14. Sanjeev on 13 and Phil on 12.
This is how close this series has been.

Speaker 2 I can't believe how close it is. You know, and they're still so...
I mean, Anya's on 124 Phil's only five points behind and Maisie Reese and Sanjeev are all very close there as well.

Speaker 2 So yeah, I feel like as well because they showed two filmed tasks. They obviously obviously can't dictate who will win each episode, but they can certainly help.

Speaker 2 And I think two of those tasks was Sanjeev like did quite well. Yeah.
And it was sort of like, well, maybe we can help that. And then maybe he could, no, no, he didn't.

Speaker 2 No. No.

Speaker 2 They didn't do well in any of the others, any of the others. So, that's the that's the that's what happened.
There, his price task was balls.

Speaker 2 That's what happened, Stevie. Thank you so much for coming back on the Taskmaster podcast.
You're welcome anytime, of course. I had a lovely time, thank you.

Speaker 2 We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five points. Yeah, please, an honest point score from you.

Speaker 2 Well, it would have been a five, but I think I've let myself down by talking about my non-sex life.

Speaker 2 Oh, so that makes it all like a time,

Speaker 2 Right, I've made that so much worse. That's a one.

Speaker 2 A one now for the whole podcast because of what you said.

Speaker 2 What I said just then makes it sound like I don't have.

Speaker 2 Can I leave now?

Speaker 2 We should cut out all the other stuff and just leave that in.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes. Well, I'll be divorced.
Um, I imagine by the end of the week, so it shouldn't matter.

Speaker 2 Shout out to Adam as well. Hi, Adam.
I'll be over soon. I'll be be over soon when I've had a bad day.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Stevie. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much to Stevie for coming into the caravan.

Speaker 2 Brilliant chat, as always. Don't forget to go and see Stevie's tour.
Clout added 20 dates in spring 2026.

Speaker 2 And if you're in London, go and see Stevie at the Bloomsbury Theatre on Thursday the 16th or Saturday the 25th of April. Tickets for all of that at stevymartin.com.

Speaker 2 Until next week, I'll see you next week. That's a good catchphrase.
I've been trying to work on a catchphrase. Until next week, I'll see you next week.
Not bad.

Speaker 2 We've got another brilliant special guest. Really good special guest.
I hope it comes off. I hope we get them into the caravan.
All right. Bye-bye.

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