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Hello, and welcome. You're watching a show called Taskmaster
with a man called Greg Davies.
The battle for this tremendous trophy is really raging,
as we enter the third instalment of the series.
And our competitors are here to proudly represent their
homelands, hailing from such exotic kingdoms as Kettering,
Bradford, Carmarthen, Ealing and, of course, Stoke-on-Trent.
So, let's all give a red-hot welcome to our fearless five.
James Acaster...
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
..Jessica Knappet...
..Kerry Godliman...
..Phil Wang...
..and Rhod Gilbert.
CHEERING
And, here, balanced on top of a benevolent booster seat,
it's my pint-sized PA.
Oooh.
# What does everyone in the street shout at him?
# Little Alex Horne. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
What's in your pocket, Alex? Well, I've come up with a game.
I wanted to contribute to the format, so I thought if I
come up with a task...
..maybe I can affect the show more.
So, erm, it's a game called "Stone, Paperclip", OK?
So, in my hand, I've either got a stone or a paperclip.
Do you want to have a game? Yeah.
Ready? Yeah, OK.
Stone? Yes.
We'll do it again? Yep. OK.
Don't look. Yep.
Paper clip? Yes. Again?
Paper clip. Yes, you're good at this. Yep.
Paper clip. Yes.
OK.
Another go? Stone. Yes, very good.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
It's prize task time. Beep.
So, the prize category for this specific show,
is best thing from the '90s, OK.
Interesting.
So, Greg Davies will decide who he thinks has brought in the
best thing from the '90s, and gift that person five Taskmaster points.
At the end of the show, the winner won't take home any of the prizes...
Not.
The winner will, of course,
take home all five best things from the '90s.
Phil Wang, what's the best thing you've brought in?
I was born in Stoke-on-Trent, in January 1990,
so my best thing from the '90s is...
..It's me, Phil Wang.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
We make it clear that the prize is to be kept by the person who
wins, permanently.
Some people might not want you for the rest of their lives.
Me, for one. That one, there.
Well, it's a good thing Rhod's not going to win.
James, what have you brought in from the '90s?
So, I love the '90s. Because they were the end of me being a toddler.
My toddler years were the worst years of my life.
People used to grab me by the arms and swing me around,
so I've brought in a collage of Goodbye To My Toddler Years.
OK.
Fuck off!
Is there any part of you that wants me to hold you upside down now,
to make sure that you didn't have a good time, back then?
You couldn't hold me upside down. Yes, I could.
LAUGHTER
CHANTING: Hold him upside down! Hold him upside down!
How are you even doing this? Yes! Yes!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I loved it!
That's cast a different light on all this, hasn't it?
Next, Jessica. I've brought a book from the '90s. OK.
This man changed the course of cultural history.
It's Timmy Mallett.
That's one of the only books I've ever read.
I'm sure he's a perfectly nice man,
but I found his televisual presence quite unsettling in the '90s.
Was it because he hosted a game show and he punished his contestants?
LAUGHTER
It is a treasured possession. I can show you the inside cover.
It was actually from 1989.
AUDIENCE: Ooh.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
You've instantly been disqualified. No! Oh, that's really harsh.
Oh, not wide awake!
Rhod, what have you brought in from the '90s? I don't believe it.
I found this little gem, hiding...
Oh, my God.
So, is that from the '90s?
No, this is a photo from 2010. Yes. Ha-ha-ha.
But I have a back-up picture.
Here is a lovely picture of Spice Girls.
Kerry, tell me yours is from the actual '90s.
Mine is so firmly from the '90s. Here it is.
Friends. It's the whole boxset. Solid.
APPLAUSE
I think it defines the whole decade. I don't mind Friends.
We could sit like this, like they sit.
Like this and then like this. Lean in, James.
SHE SINGS FRIENDS THEME
# So no-one told you... #
Yes!
Solid.
They're all quite shit, the prizes, aren't they?
Very. Yeah. It's a weak round.
Very much so, but at least some people are going to get
points because they chose the right decade.
OK, let's get this over with. You ready?
Zero points to Jessica Knappet.
He brought in a picture of you from the Year 2000!
I brought in the Spice Girls. I haven't come to him yet. OK.
One point to Phil Wang, just because I would quite like to take
him home, but that's a private thing.
I'm going to give five points to the only person who brought
an actual decent prize in, and that's Kerry.
Who doesn't like a boxset of Friends?
Well done, Kerry. Well done, really happy for you.
Well done, mate.
I found James's genuinely touching. Four points.
Second place to James Acaster.
And then there's Rhod, who did show a picture of the Spice Girls
but, unfortunately, tainted it by adding a picture of me from 2010.
Therefore, neither image was from the 1990s.
Nil points!
I think Phil's been unlucky though. Why has Phil got..?
I mean, I agree, but five, four, one, zero, zero?
Yeah, actually. All right.
I'll bump you up from one point to three points.
If you can genuinely swear to me on the lives of all those dear to you,
that whoever wins the prize category can keep you in their house.
I knew what I was signing up for.
Three points to Phil Wang.
Good, so let's crack on. Can we have an actual, proper task, please?
OK, first task, here we go.
This looks like a scene from Saw.
Oh, my goodness.
You're having your blood pressure monitored. Yes.
I have no medical skills. Good.
Oh, my God. Excite Alex.
Oh, God.
Greatest increase from Alex's current heart-rate wins.
You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
This is going to be fun, isn't it?
Your time starts now.
OK. I'm just going to... Just going to think about this for a minute.
Just quietly, alone, OK?
So, I'm going to just...
Is this task...? Has it been phrased
in a deliberately provocatively saucy way?
Don't know.
Whatever you were hoping to get out of it, Rhod delivered early doors.
We're measuring my pulse,
so it's the bottom number on that machine. Right.
It takes 30 seconds to read it. Yeah.
And my starting rate was somewhere between 60 and 70 for all of them.
We're going to start with the two young dudes, Phil and James.
Come with me. Where are we going?
Well, if I told you it wouldn't be exciting, would it?
So, this is coffee. Black coffee. With four cubes of sugar.
It felt like five. Five cubes of sugar.
Would you drink this, please, if you will, Alex?
Where are we going, James? Just shout out "Alex Horne".
Alex Horne! Shout at these guys.
Alex Horne! Come on, baby.
63, still. Right.
HE GRUNTS WITH EFFORT
GRUNTING
Hmm. I actually don't think I'm going to be able to excite you,
it's quite difficult... Wha ha! Banana!
Still 63, James. OK.
CLATTERING
67. Where we started.
You're it! You're it.
Oh, he's so quick!
Alex! LAUGHS
You got me! Come here, Alex! I'm going to get you!
Oh, that was close. Oh, that was a near miss!
His hat fell off.
OK, so that was 61. 61.
What was the compilation called? Near Misses.
Yeah, they missed every time, didn't they? They missed every time.
151. That's good, isn't it?
151.
APPLAUSE
How quickly was it between pouring him a cup of coffee that you
went for the time-served technique of hitting a pan with a hammer?
LAUGHTER
To be fair to me,
I did try nearly kicking him in the face for about five minutes.
Yeah, yeah. I saw the karate stuff.
But I can't comment on that, cos all I can see is your genitalia!
LAUGHTER
A lot of what you did was relaxing. You gave me a hot drink...
That's what you do to relax, isn't it?
Yeah. At one point, he reclined my chair. That was nice.
And then he showed me these clips of a Russian dashcam.
But it said Near Misses, so I knew every time...everyone was OK.
So, how quickly into the video did you realise that no-one
was going to get hurt? Oh, immediately. Immediately.
It was the most relaxing video I've ever seen.
My heart rate dropped by six in the...
LAUGHTER ..in the time.
James, what was your thinking about getting Alex to shout his own
name at passing traffic? I thought about what would excite me in life.
Mmm. And I would be excited to wave at cars and shout "James Acaster".
You would?
What I discovered pretty quickly, if you are trying to excite Alex,
best not go down the route of emotions.
LAUGHTER
And it was better to play tig with him in the garden and just
get his heart rate up so that he was chasing me.
He's right! It's something I've never realised about you,
you're a cold fish. Yeah. Very efficient!
LAUGHTER
Well, we're glad that's over!
See you in part two for excited Horne action!
APPLAUSE
Hello! Welcome back to Taskmaster. Nice to see you all.
Alex, are you looking forward to this part of the show? Yes, I am.
I am excited because the current task is to excite Alex Horne.
And I am Alex Horne.
Next up, from the Valleys, weighing in around 140 lbs,
it's Rhod Gilbert.
Different idea. Do you want this off as well? Yes, please.
I'm just worried that they're all coming down. Yeah.
I'm going to excite you. Right.
It's quite tight, Rhod.
Well, there's no point doing it loose, is there? So, coffee.
Guaranteed to get your heart rate up. I'm going to go in this angle.
OK. Are you ready? Yeah.
How are you getting on?
Oh! I'm sorry. That's not bad. It's not going in my mouth. No. OK.
It's in. OK.
Yes, I've got a good line of sight now.
I'm going to go for a big hit now. I'm ready.
THEY GIGGLE
I just wanted to finish the pot, I don't like waste. How are we doing?
We're going to get the final reading now. Get the final reading. 78.
Is that your final reading?
I think we've learned a lot more about you than we have about
me, here. I've learnt a bit about you!
HE LAUGHS
APPLAUSE
Jesus Christ, what's wrong?! I...
With these tasks, you just panic!
You just panic, it's blind panic.
It didn't look like blind panic,
it looked like fairly structured torture!
LAUGHTER
I'm sorry! Well, did it raise your heart rate? By 11, yeah. Only by 11?
I'll tell you, it wasn't hot, it was lukewarm.
And it was coffee and hot chocolate, so it was basically a mocha. OK.
And I do like mochas.
Last to try to excite me are the two ladies,
Jessica Knappett and Kerry Godliman.
What do you find exciting?
It was quite exciting when my children were born.
Have you got video footage? Your wife might not want that.
No, we didn't film that one. You're in a shark cage...
You've been lowered into the water.
When you open your eyes, you're going to see a shark.
Oh, no!
The cage has broken! Oh.
But you're... The shark's coming into the cage, and it's eating you!
I could re-enact childbirth.
Not in a gynae way, but in a sort of...we could role play.
66.
It's gone up by six! Oh, we could get out of the chair.
Out, in. Up.
Does it feel secure? Yes.
Keep going! Keep going. Keep going!
Ah!
Oh, I hit the post.
Are you excited? Tired.
Keep going!
101! 101. Let's go! 101.
Ah, that's exciting! Just give me, give me 100 burpees. 100?
I... Oh, no! Really high.
115!
157. Yeah.
Are you OK? Well, no. Look. You nearly tripled my heart rate.
I think you need to go to hospital!
Why did that make you dribble when you said "Hospital"?
Tackle me! Oh, that's good.
I scored! That was exciting, wasn't it?
APPLAUSE
I do want to make sure it's on record than when Kerry
offered to re-enact childbirth for Alex,
she followed the offer with "Not in a gynae way."
Just to be clear!
There's a very iconic scene in the film Kes where the PE teacher plays
football with the kids, but really,
he was wanting to show off his own skills. Well...
OK, I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying, but football really excites him,
so we played football to excite him.
No, listen, I know that was the starting point.
What I'm suggesting to you is you got carried away and you
became goal hungry.
There was a moment at the end where you went, "I've scored!"
And I could see it in your eyes, it didn't matter who else was there!
And that was the least scary description of a shark attack
of all time.
It was... The shark tank had broken!
I think it was just your voice, Jess.
I don't think you're capable of describing something scary.
Of instilling fear? Yeah. You wanna bet? Yep!
And yet, once you started doing burpees,
there was a sort of twisted sense of pleasure came across your face.
Well, it was a role reversal, wasn't it? It was very pleasing.
Give us some statistics, then.
Well, Phil took me down, as we know, so he's in last place.
Rhod took me up by 11, so he's in second last.
My heart rate went up by 43 thanks to Kerry Godliman.
In second place, it's James, who took me up by 80.
But Jessica took my heart rate up by 97, so wins five points!
APPLAUSE
Yes! I'm happy now.
But it feels like we should have a scoreboard update, right? Yes. Yes.
It does. After two tasks, Rhod Gilbert has two points.
But there are two leaders, James and Kerry, both on eight points!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Which task is up next? OK, have a look at this. Ready? Oooh!
Ah! Hello.
What's this? What do you think it is? Hello! Hello.
Task, isn't it? Yep.
Hello, James. Yeah.
"Make the best noise."
"When you are ready to make your noise,
"you must say "This is my best noise"."
"After you have made your noise you must remain still and silent
"for at least ten seconds."
"You have 20 minutes, one attempt. Your time starts now."
DISTANT SHOUT
That wasn't me. LAUGHTER
Right. What noises do people like?
APPLAUSE
Best noise, eh? Best noise. Good. What noises do you like?
The rustling of... Do you like this?
WHOOOOOO! LAUGHTER
Who's up first? We're going to start with the outlaw, Jessie James!
Jess and James, Jess and James.
Whooo whoooo whooooo!
I found some stuff. SHE GIGGLES
I'm just going to do a little practice.
No noise at all, that. What if I filled this with water...
And then hit it really hard with something?
Whaaaarrr! How am I going to make this happen all at the same time?
Why don't you talk to me at the beginning of the tasks? What?
I always say, "Hello, James." Yeah. You never say hello back.
It's not in the task, is it?
LAUGHTER
The task isn't, "Say hello to Alex."
AUDIENCE: Aw! Be nice, though.
This is my best noise!
Whoooo ooooh ooooh!
Whoooo ooooh! Booooh!
Whoooo ooooh oh!
Whooooooooh!
Hhhheeew! Hhhheeew! Hhhheeew! Hhhheeew! Hhhheeew! Hhhheeew!
DINGS BELL
OK. Let's just do it now.
This is the best noise!
DULL CLUNK
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Two quick questions. Why were you wearing a hat?
Why were you on a bike? LAUGHTER
Erm, the answer to that is, I don't know, and I don't fucking know.
One could argue that was a series of noises, could one not?
Yeah, it was an elongated noise. It had components.
And they were connected by...? The same person doing them. Oh.
Oh, yeah. I'm the fool(!)
James. Dear, dear, dear God! Awful.
In my head, that was going to sound so incredible.
I thought, this is going to be that satisfying squelchy boing on
the galoshes, the ding of a bell... Ding of the bell!
The resonance of the acoustic guitar.
And it just sounded like... I may as well have stamped on the floor!
Yeah.
OK, time for a commercial break. See ya.
Hello! It's Taskmaster part three,
and everyone is playing for the chance to win Phil Wang.
Including Phil Wang. What did we hear before the break, Alex?
We heard some lovely noises, Greg.
We're going to see Rhod next. You don't need to!
Did Rhod have the same idea as Jess?
We don't need to see all of them, Alex.
Come on, let's see what the bell-end's done.
LAUGHTER
I need some things, Alex.
I need a very tall ladder and a picture of Greg, the Taskmaster.
LAUGHTER
CLEARS THROAT This is my best noise.
DULL THUD
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Good girl!
LAUGHTER
You know I give the points out on this show, don't you?
It was to make the best noise you can, and your instant reaction was,
"Great, this is an opportunity for me to drop dog shit
"onto the face of a friend I've had for 15 years."
This is how it ends.
I didn't even panic! LAUGHTER
Well, you're a very rude prick! Alex, who's next?
Last up, from Location, Location, Location, Kirstie and Phil!
Kerry and Phil! Yes, here we go.
OK, then. This is my best noise.
LAPS TONGUE WETLY
I'm going to do the best noise from my mouth.
BLOWS RASPBERRY Those are pleasing, aren't they?
Fart noises always bring a bit of pleasure.
BLOWS RASPBERRY
BLOWS RASPBERRY LOUDLY
If I did an actual fart, would that be pushing it, too...?
I don't know if I could control it.
LAPS TONGUE WETLY
Right. This is my best noise.
DEFLATES ECHOINGLY
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
I'm going to win this!
Ah, you're definitely not! LAUGHTER
Fart noise is a classic, but I very much enjoyed your presentation.
Thank you. It's all in the presentation.
Phil. I mean, Jesus Christ.
I'm sorry I didn't shit on your face, Greg!
I don't think that's the first time you've made that noise.
I make that noise every day. It's how I wake up.
So I'm sleeping... OK, so you're fully asleep now.
Oh, the sun's coming through the curtains now.
LAPS TONGUE
LAPS TONGUE
Aahhhh!
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
Do you want to hear the noises in isolation?
I do, cos then I can judge which is the best noise.
OK, here's the first noise.
DULL CLUNK
Second noise.
ECHOING DEFLATION
Third noise.
Whooooo ooooh ooooh!
BELL DINGS Oooooh! Hhheeew!
Fourth noise, Greg.
DULL THUD
And the final noise.
TONGUE LAPPING
There they all are, the five best noises in the world.
My least favourite noise... No, no, no, no. Come on.
No, no, no.
My least favourite noise was the sound of dog shit
being dropped onto my face.
I'm sorry, one point. One point to Rhod. Come on! Yeah.
And James Acaster, you thank your lucky stars, young man,
that you didn't drop poo on my face. You have two points. Yes.
It's a tight-run thing, but it's Kerry with three points.
Third place. Correct. Second place?
I'm giving it to the person I'm genuinely worried about, Jessica.
And therefore the winner, against all odds, is Phil Wang!
Five points to Phil Wang! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
We have time for another one, don't we? We do.
It's a lovely little tournament I've labelled The Task Masters.
Mmm! OK?
Hiya! Hello, Jess. Hello.
Hello, Rhod. Hiya.
Hi, James.
LAUGHTER
CLEARS THROAT
"Get this ball in that hole..."
"..In as few strokes as possible."
"The ball must only be struck..."
"The ball must never be carried."
"You have a maximum of 20 minutes. Your time starts now."
What hole? What hole?
Where's the hole?
Oh, that hole! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
But this is Taskmaster, of course, so they're not just going to
whack the ball, they're going to think about it for a while.
The time's not important, it's worth saying,
it's the fewest possible shots. It's the fewest possible shots.
They can take their time, set it up however they want. However you want.
We're going to see James and Kerry first. OK?
TINKLING
Not bad!
TINKLING Oh, I broke it. Oh, no!
Anyone under the caravan?!
One shot.
Ah, fuck you! It's a bit further away from the hole now, James.
Yeah.
Three!
Four!
LAUGHTER
LAUGHTER
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven. Croquet mallet, seven shots.
Posh. Posh. Well, thank you. Very quick. Thanks.
Aarghhhh!
APPLAUSE
That's a side we've not seen of you before, blind rage.
I was absolutely furious! Well, you broke a camera. Yeah, broke it.
How do you feel about that?
Pretty good, actually. Yeah? At the time.
Kerry, when you completed the task, you said, "Bosh." Yes.
And I'm increasingly thinking that's your approach to this whole game!
Yes. "Get in, do the job, bosh!"
They're very straightforward tasks.
Get the ball in the hole, bang.
Are you like that at home? Yes! Yeah?
"What do you want, dinner, kids? Bosh! There it is. Beans. Eat."
"Right, bed."
Let's see some others. OK, do you want to see... Oh, I've made a joke.
Do you want to see Nick Fildo and Jessica Tappit? They're golf jokes.
Fucking hell... No?
SHE LAUGHS
Have you struck it yet? No, I haven't struck it yet.
That's all right, isn't it! One.
Right, OK.
Come on!
Two shots. OK.
Oh!
Oh, why did I put the broom end there? Great!
I don't know why I didn't just do this the whole way down!
Oh, my God!
You missed the...you missed the tunnel.
Heeeee!
Seven. OK. You're on the green.
No, do you know what, this is fine now.
Hey!
Done.
Eight.
Oh, that is unfortunate!
Nine. You're off the green. Oooh!
Oh, God!
Thank you!
APPLAUSE
I put it to you, Jessica, once you started using construction
techniques, those actively hampered you.
Yeah, I complicated it. Phil's weren't a lot better. Oh, come on.
They at least guided the ball towards the hole
instead of blocked it.
On one occasion, they guided the ball towards the end of a broom.
Yeah. LAUGHTER
You created your own barrier! Yeah.
In retrospect, I should have turned the broom the other way around.
It's the fourth and final part of the show next.
Will Wang win, I wonder? Find out very soon. You see if we don't!
APPLAUSE
Hi and welcome back to the last part of Taskmaster and The Task Masters.
Yes, Greg, they're trying to get a ball into a hole.
It's a little bit like golf, but it's definitely not golf.
One man left to see. He's flying solo again. It's Rhod Gilbert again.
Here we go.
Just got to investigate the hole.
It doesn't say anything about me walking on here.
It doesn't say anything about me moving the hole.
So, technically, that hole is movable.
Oh, my God!
I mean this, people say my ADHD makes me shit at problem-solving.
No, sir.
Oh, God, look at that. It's a better hole than the original hole!
Have you got all the hole? Not quite.
I'm certainly going to get all the hole.
You're getting the whole hole? That's the whole hole!
Is that not the hole in the middle of that hole? No. What's that hole?
It's a different one.
OK. OK?
Oh, dragging a hole is a lot harder than it looks!
Oh, there it is. There it is.
Good luck.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
That is what you call a hole-in-one.
APPLAUSE
That was, loath as I am to admit it, fairly impressive.
Thank you very much. It's not like I need the points!
Oh, Jesus, you do, yeah.
It was nice to see something different than just whacking it,
wasn't it? Tell us how they all did, because it's a strikes-based system.
Jess took most strikes so gets the fewest points. One. Yeah. Thank you.
OK.
Kerry, seven strokes, two points. James, six strokes, three points.
Bosh. Phil, five strokes, four points.
Rhod, one stroke.
It's too impressive not to give him full marks. Five points for Rhod.
That's the end of it.
APPLAUSE
Can we quickly see the scoreboard before the final task, please?
Joint leaders all on 13 points,
James, Kerry and Phil.
APPLAUSE
OK, up you go to the stage for the final task of the show!
APPLAUSE
Alex, who will read the task out?
Rhod will read the first part of the task out.
AUDIENCE: Oooh!
Bloody hell! "Write down a ten-word fact. You have 100 seconds.
"There is a bonus point for the best fact."
That's the first part of the task.
You've got 100 seconds. Starting... WHISTLE BLOWS
I don't know if you can cheer on people writing facts.
AUDIENCE SHOUT ENCOURAGEMENT
Get in there! Do all ten words!
WHISTLE BLOWS OK, they've written their facts.
You are a very generous audience!
So, here we go. Oh.
The second half of the task,
mouth your fact to the Taskmaster without making any noise whatsoever.
Most words understood by the Taskmaster wins.
OK, we're going to start with Kerry Godliman.
OK.
Oh, keep it down! LAUGHTER
Getting it loud and clear over here!
This is sabotage.
LAUGHTER
Ready? OK, what is Kerry's fact? Greg?
I was born in Perivale in London, UK, Europe, Earth.
I was born in Perivale, Ealing, London, UK, Europe, Earth.
It's not bad, not bad. That was amazing! OK, you can sit down.
You can sit down.
James, please take your place on the spot. And mouth your fact.
There we go.
I didn't know I was going to have to mouth it when I wrote it! No.
What is the fact, Greg? Well, I've had to invent a word.
The second word I think is Youbats.
LAUGHTER
Only Youbats and armadillos can catch the awful disease leprosy.
It's everything right except for Youbats!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Oh, humans. Nine. You may have a seat. Nine.
Arguably, I could have used common-sense for "humans"!
Who's next? Phil is up next. Up you pop, Phil.
Oooh!
LAUGHTER
Greg, what is Phil Wang's fact?
Phil Wang's tool sacks, 12 blush, majesty two.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Can I tell them...? Yeah, what is your fact?
My fact was Phil Wang's shoe size is 12
- then I realised I had four words left -
that's plus two, minus two.
Oh. Close, wasn't it?
Penultimately, it's you, Jessica Knappett. Yeah.
Very nice. Very nice. Thank you. Ready?
Let's just do it, Greg!
Did you know that ants live to an average of 22 years?
He's chucked in two extra words, but he's got it exactly right! Yes!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
The final contestant is Rhod Gilbert. Up you come, Rhod.
Mwhhhh! Let's go.
I am trying, but it is worse than Phil.
And Phil looked like he was having a stroke.
I'm really bad at this.
You've got a very strong accent, that's the problem.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
OK. Here's what I've got.
And I genuinely have tried to get this right.
Greg brawls in dog jail, think bail, failing old dog death.
LAUGHTER
And that is genuinely what I think.
Bang on! LAUGHTER
Would you like to hear the original? Yeah, sure.
Greg broke a toilet seat by sitting on said toilet.
I'm quite hurt you don't remember. I do remember, it was my own toilet.
It wasn't actually, it was in the Edinburgh Festival.
I was trying to get a non-refundable deposit, but thank God I didn't!
In that case, it should have read, "Greg has broken two toilets!"
LAUGHTER
Bring everyone down, we'll work it all out when you're down here.
Come on down to the studio floor. APPLAUSE
Well translated. Thank you very much.
Do you want to dish out the bonus point for best fact first?
Yes, I do. OK. I enjoyed all of the facts. All of them.
But, for me, the most genuinely interesting, I had no idea
that it was only humans and armadillos that can get leprosy.
So, there goes the bonus point - James Acaster.
APPLAUSE
So, do you want the scores then, including the bonus point?
For God's sake, yes. OK.
You only got one of Rhod's words right, so he gets one point.
The word "Greg"!
After that, Phil was in fourth place with four words,
so he gets two points.
Yeah. Kerry and James joint second with nine words.
WHISTLES
But a bonus point to James, so James and Jess both get five points.
Whooo! OK, so joint winners of that task.
APPLAUSE
So the series scores? OK, James in last place with 45. Phil, 47.
Jess, 52. And then back down to Rhod with 50.
And then up again, Kerry in the lead with 60 points.
Eight points clear. Oooh!
APPLAUSE
Absolutely boshing it. Yes, she is. Smashing it.
However, despite being in last place, this episode has been
won by one point by the mighty Mr James Acaster with 18 points!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yes!
YES!
James Acaster, congratulations.
Go and collect your things from the '90s and take Phil Wang with you!
Because you've won Phil Wang!
APPLAUSE So, what have we learnt today?
We've learnt that Youbats can contract leprosy.
And we've learnt that tonight's paragon of task completion
is James Acaster!
Nighty-night, and byesy-bye! APPLAUSE
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