Taskmaster

Haha!

No way!

Uh... Gosh!

Where's the hole?

Urgh! Argh!

Uh...

Are you having a laugh?

Hello, I'm Greg Davies and this is Taskmaster.

At its heart Taskmaster is a warm show

which shines a playful light on the strengths and weaknesses

of our comedian friends.

Ultimately it's just feel-good fun

that celebrates what it is to be human,

what it is to be fallible.

That's the introduction that Channel 4 signed off.

This is what I WAS gonna go with.

Come and laugh at the stupid clowns!

They can't do anything!

Laugh at them, make them feel sorry for being bad at things!

Drive them from their homes!

Form an angry mob and drive them from their actual homes!

Here they are now, please welcome Ardal O'Hanlon!

Bridget Christie!

Chris Ramsey!

Judi Love!

And Sophie Duker!

And next to me, a man who bravely confided in me recently

that he doesn't think the NHS is very good,

and that some nurses are "lazy."

It's little Alex Horne.

Hello. All right.

I see, uh, from one glance

that you've taken my criticisms of this banter section to heart.

Yes, I've made an effort, I've put my gloves on, taking it serious.

Got one, got the other.

There we are.

Everything all right with this hand?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I've got another arm,

I've got another arm!

Yeah. Do it again.

Uh, uh... Ooh!

Yeah, thank you.

I'm sort of annoyed it is quite funny.

Would you please tell me what the prize category is?

I would like to do that, Mr Handsome.

Today they've been asked to bring in

the most surprising thing from their wardrobes. Hmm.

Yes, Greg will graciously bestow five points upon the person

who's brought in the most surprising thing,

and then the person who wins the episode will take home five things

that'll make their wardrobe even more surprising

than the one that had the lion, witch and the wardrobe,

but not the wardrobe in it.

Yes, stick to the false hand thing, probably.

Chris, you're up first. What did you bring in?

A wetsuit.

OK, here it is.

And that's surprising...?

Cos I've never used it.

I too have got a wetsuit, you might be surprised to learn.

I look over nine months pregnant.

Chris, I've gotta be honest,

I'm not that surprised you've got a wetsuit. Really?

Oh, you're a young strapping lad.

I would expect you to be, uh, jumping in and out of...

I've never been in water with it. Why did you buy it?

I drove over a bridge and saw someone paddleboarding,

I went, "I'll do that,"

and I bought all the gear, and couldn't get it on,

and I got frightened, and I never did it.

Chris, I think you're doing yourself down.

A, out of points, and B...

..and B, out of your capacity to be a water baby.

I think you'd be delightful. Ardal. Ha! Water baby!

More surprising than a wetsuit?

Yeah, I think it is, actually.

I brought a red leather jacket...

..that's very squeaky.

Here is the squeaky red leather jacket. Is it your leather jacket?

It is, I bought it about ten years ago. Uh...

I was not expecting that.

I am quite surprised! Have you ever worn it out, Ardal?

No, no. I've never even tried it on.

Oh, it's an act of madness, is what it is.

Yeah, and at the time I didn't know it squeaked.

And I, I really don't like squeaky clothes.

He is famous for that.

Some day I'm going to get to wear it.

I mean, if I'm elected... mayor.

Why don't you wear it for the finale of this series?

Ardal, quite surprising.

Sophie, surprise me.

I brought in biscuits.

Biscuits.

This is hard for me to say.

I don't own a wardrobe.

Some of us are struggling.

I'm struggling to buy,

so, I moved into my room, it was unfurnished.

And you can't afford a wardrobe?

I can now afford a wardrobe, but I haven't yet made the purchase.

- OK. - I'm a millennial.

We don't rush into... I've had to buy a lot of brunch. I haven't.

If you don't have a wardrobe, where did you get the biscuits out of?

I think you may have misunderstood the task.

OK, so, I don't have wardrobe but I have a sort of like, drawer.

- A drawer? - It's like a window seat.

You know when you're in a room and you're like,

there's no storage in here?

A chest. No, it's not a chest, it's built into the window.

Oh, my God, I'm so bored.

It's amazing!

For someone who's struggling,

they look like very expensive biscuits.

They ARE expensive biscuits!

Yeah. You're surprised there are nice biscuits in my fascinating...

I'm surprised, but not for the right reasons.

Two left. Judi.

In my wardrobe, my surprising thing was a nurse's outfit.

The thing is, obviously I do videos and all kinds of stuff, so...

What do you mean?

Just to be clear, cos Alex is quite naive.

No, like, sometime I dress up in my, you know, little outfit,

and I play to myself, and look in the mirror, and pump,

and save someone's life in my imagination.

And, you know, create this whole world of ER,

and all those kind of places.

It's like she's speaking in tongues, isn't it? I don't know what to say.

I mean, you'd wanna come and play, honestly.

It's... it's a beautiful...

Bridget, can you beat Judi's surprising nurse outfit?

Well, I have brought in an antique Japanese kimono.

I bought it specifically for you.

About 17 years ago I saw it in a charity shop window,

and I thought there's only one person I know

who's big enough to wear that.

So, I looked it up it's actually worth thousands. I didn't realise.

And I think if you wore this, this beautiful piece...

Yeah. You've had multiple opportunities

to find me and give me my gift.

You tell me, tell me then, when I could've given you this.

You, you tell. At any point in the last 17 years.

"Oh, hi, Greg..."

I'm not the Scarlet Pimpernel. I live in London.

"Oh, remember me, from...?" I put it to you...

No, I put it to you! I put it to you.

Not only do I put it... I, put it back to you,

that you bought that kimono not realising it was expensive.

You were going to give it to me,

then you found out it was worth something,

and you kept it for yourself!

I am horrified!

Don't clap! Don't clap him.

You're not surprised I got you a kimono? I cannot believe it.

No, I am surprised. I'm more surprised

that you haven't given it to me.

So, you're getting big surprise points, for the wrong reasons.

Well, it didn't say in the task,

"Surprise him for the right reason."

True again, true. She makes a good point.

Yeah. Well do you wanna hand out some points? Yes, I do.

I'm sorry, Chris, I must give you one point.

OK, one point to Chris Ramsey. Oh!

You can thank me for two points, for your weird biscuits.

Two to Sophie.

I'm not surprised you've got a nurse's outfit.

You and I can talk that out later. OK, you see?

Did you hear that, yeah? Three points.

I am desperate to see you in that red jacket,

I'm gonna give it four points.

And I think this is a hollow victory,

because you surprised me for the wrong reasons.

Nonetheless I'm surprised, I'll give you the five.

There we go. Well, thank you. Five points to Bridget Christie.

I'd like to have a new task, please.

OK, well, we have a little taster of a task, first of all.

An hor d'oeuvre, or a canape,

a titbit to get the juices flowing,

an appetiser, perhaps, or an aperitif.

It's a... Do you wanna shut up?!

Hello, Alex.

There's something moving in there.

Oh.

"Make this key difficult but possible to retrieve."

"You have ten minutes."

"And your time starts now."

Well, who's retrieving it?

Who do you think's gonna retrieve it?

Well, I don't think you'd pay for animals

to come and retrieve it, cos they're expensive.

Is it difficult for someone else to retrieve,

or difficult for me to get it back?

All the information's on the task.

There's no more information.

I'd like to go outside.

You'd like to go outside? I think so. OK.

I mean, I could swallow it, but that wouldn't be much fun. For anyone.

It would be fun for quite a lot of us.

Hmm. The retrieving part wouldn't be much fun for you.

- That's true. - Trust me.