I will always maintain that Josh counting the grains of rice was probably the first of that set that was recorded and his “you’re going to have to watch this 5 times” sparked the inspiration for Alex.
We can tell for a fact that that is not correct by how the task is worded. It just says “count the beans, your time starts now”; there is no “fastest wins” because only one person is doing it. Individual tasks in all series do not have victory conditions.
@@Robespierre-lI No, Josh has said that he knew what was happening after first one and went along with it knowing it would work better that way for the show.
As someone pointed out in the comments of Champion of Champions 3, by the time we get to Series 25 and have our lineup for Champion of Champions of Champions, there's a very real chance Josh Widdicombe wins the whole thing, in which case the bean point would have won him the whole thing, making all 25 seasons of Taskmaster utterly futile
Gonna be honest. Watching the new series (series 17) and noticing that there hasn’t been any secret individual tasks like the counting the beans in a can, or Joe Lycett’s smile task, has made me miss them a lot.
the ‘melt the ice’ task I believe was the first task I ever saw when it went out live and I’m so glad I tuned into -Dave- the appropriate channel when it did.
Should have read the word 'tears' not as in crying but as in tearing paper and made lots of tiny tears in a piece of paper and jammed it in the egg cup
"why do you hate chicken so much?!" hahahaha oh god Romesh... love his deadpan attitude! can't imagine him and Richard Ayoade on the same show (or heck same team.. like.. big fat quiz or something)
7:25 there is no regulatory limit on the maximum value of a cheque in the UK. However clearing a cheque would trigger security concerns over certain values that would no doubt trigger security checks and anti-money laundering procedures.
It's so weird to see how empty the living room used to be…and how not-grey Alex was 😄I still think of the show being relatively new, I forget how long it's been going - a testament to the team, managing to keep it feeling fresh after all these years
Yes. It would have been very unsatisfying but perfectly reasonable of them to just throw it over the fence... Or drape a towel over it. I HATE when contestants employ unsatisfying loopholes, but it would have been completely fair to the wording.
I would rather watch Lucy Beaumont again. She at least tried to do the tasks & was hilarious in her attempts. Roisin Conaty on the other hand, came across like a spoiled child who wanted (& sometimes received) preferential treatment. She just seemed lazy.
To answer in a more sincere way, it is called "common usage". It is considered perfectly fair, outside of the industries and professions where these instruments are actually used and manufactured, to call all such instruments "xylophones". Literally all such toys (they are fairly popular as toys and are usually plastic and metal) that are sold, no matter what they are made of, are called "xylophones". So, the first, best answer is, "Who cares? It doesn't matter. " But the other answer might be more satisfying if you do think it matters. It is accepted in casual usage.
@@TroubleToby3040 Common usage is just an excuse for ignorance. Let's not encourage that kind of nonsense. An organ is not a piano and a French horn is not a trumpet. It bloody well matters.
Sweet innocent trusting Josh. I gather he's married now. Presumably to a very calm and wise woman who has been competent in setting safety nets around him - them - their home and their bank accounts. Between these and his boundless trust in "the essential goodness of human nature!" Otherwise we might see a rapid descent into anxiety, benzo's addiction and longer term asylum accommodation!
From this fantastic beginning series to horribly unfunny and dull "stars" such as Rosie Jones, Lenny Rush, Jon Richardson,, Lucy Beaumont, Sarah Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips, Tim Vine, Liza Tarbuck, Joe Thomas, Jo Brand, Mike Wozniak, Mae Martin, Julian Clary, and Andy Zaltzman. It's really a shame that most of the participants now are uninteresting, not creative, and have deadened personalities.
You're watching TH-cam which has a MUCH higher percentage of crap. There are good things but they are LITERALLY 1in a billion on TH-cam. Worse odds than television by a lot.
Why don't you ever have any new episodes? Just the same old shit every time you upload? It's like watching Dave! Same repeated bullshit every day!! Replaying old stuff no one cares about is the kind of thing people do when they are desperate for views?
Cool thing about youtube is the ability to choose what we watch. There's clips from the new series been uploaded, so go watch em, and stop acting like an entitled twat.
I will always maintain that Josh counting the grains of rice was probably the first of that set that was recorded and his “you’re going to have to watch this 5 times” sparked the inspiration for Alex.
Inspired for what?
Probably the inspiration for not having the others do it.
We can tell for a fact that that is not correct by how the task is worded. It just says “count the beans, your time starts now”; there is no “fastest wins” because only one person is doing it. Individual tasks in all series do not have victory conditions.
@@adh0c468 that still fits if they decided to only have him do it after the rice and they filmed the beans later
@@adh0c468 Mike's individual task had the brief 'Fart. Fartest wins'.
Every time I watch Josh see the baked beans, I have to applaud his restraint against revealing that it happened two more times. What a legend.
I always thought they were filmed on different days (and therefore different tasks), so he might not connect that he was the only one for all of them.
Oh, he knew.
There's this thing in film and tv called "editing."...
@@Robespierre-lI No, Josh has said that he knew what was happening after first one and went along with it knowing it would work better that way for the show.
As someone pointed out in the comments of Champion of Champions 3, by the time we get to Series 25 and have our lineup for Champion of Champions of Champions, there's a very real chance Josh Widdicombe wins the whole thing, in which case the bean point would have won him the whole thing, making all 25 seasons of Taskmaster utterly futile
"It's a brilliant cardigan if you need to hide in a church" 😆😆😆
I think Series 1 has more savage moments than any other series. Partly because the show was still raw and Greg was always ruthless.
How did the crowd size in that theatre compare to the studio? I wonder if the crowd element spurned them on in that regard.
And I suspect the contestants knew each other prior to doing this so they could banter ruthlessly without crossing the line
@@timothycahalan1540 yeah, all of them know each other well except for Frank Skinner, who I think didn't really know the group that well.
@@TerryPhillips you're probably right.
@@timothycahalan1540 yeah in the series they mentioned that Roisin and Greg had been friends for decades at that point
Josh's counting tasks were the funniest thing that season, and were suitably epic.
That tattoo though
4:22 I can't hear that music without seeing Jessica falling off the stage.
😂
Falling off the knappett😂
Same for the sad piano music being the ‘Bastard’s cryin innit’ theme
Me too!
Seeing Little Alex Horne looking the same height as Greg in the original thrones is blowing my mind!
Gonna be honest. Watching the new series (series 17) and noticing that there hasn’t been any secret individual tasks like the counting the beans in a can, or Joe Lycett’s smile task, has made me miss them a lot.
I love all the seasons but this season has my heart! The whole gang was just so fun with each task❤
the ‘melt the ice’ task I believe was the first task I ever saw when it went out live and I’m so glad I tuned into -Dave- the appropriate channel when it did.
I love the team of 3 used the Josh's special tasks as the blooper. Making it that Josh thinks he wasn't the only one😂
Should have read the word 'tears' not as in crying but as in tearing paper and made lots of tiny tears in a piece of paper and jammed it in the egg cup
“I couldn’t give my best camera moves. I had to Blair Witch it” 😂
Roisin deserves another series just for that "yes!?" at 14:59 alone
I love how much shit his oldest friends give him. Like Rhod Gilbert.
"why do you hate chicken so much?!"
hahahaha oh god Romesh... love his deadpan attitude! can't imagine him and Richard Ayoade on the same show (or heck same team.. like.. big fat quiz or something)
it was such a strong first series of comedians !
I'd forgot how chopsy these lot got in the first series, great stuff :)
I think makes season 1 brilliant is it's obvious they all were friends prior to doing this which makes their banter all the more funny
Look at Greg with his slim shaven face.
7:25 there is no regulatory limit on the maximum value of a cheque in the UK. However clearing a cheque would trigger security concerns over certain values that would no doubt trigger security checks and anti-money laundering procedures.
On Rhod Gilbert's podcast, he said they get the prizes back. They broke one of his and the show repaired and returned it.
I like that the Wikipedia article for Camber Sands actually mentions Roisin wanting to take the boulder there
It's so weird to see how empty the living room used to be…and how not-grey Alex was 😄I still think of the show being relatively new, I forget how long it's been going - a testament to the team, managing to keep it feeling fresh after all these years
I reckon the cast of Season 1 should come back for Season 20!
Yes please!
The unforgettable glee on Romesh's face at 6:49 when Josh started talking smack about Alex maybe being a bigger loser than Josh was.
Roisin's cardigan is amazing.
4:10 Romesh breaking out in laughter, was the best part :)
You should definitely have more of the pointless tasks, like these that Josh did, in the show!
0:16 that cardigan is hideous and i want to buy one for my girl
Uncharacteristically competent is such a devastating insult. 😂😂😂
Count the hundreds and thousands haha. Surprised Alex didn't actually make him do it.
Tim won this season with wit and timing. 100% worthy
He is one of my least liked contestants
@crystaloelke298 he really is like marmite lol. I think he's funny
Fred the Swede is so handsome!
The rawness of the first season❤
Josh was 21 when he did that sticker album and i genuinely dont know how i feel about that.
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@@backelie Are you saying you did one at 31 years old?
@@combatwomble5584 Josh is 41, and that sticker album is from 2014.
@@backelie Christ i had to rewatch this to see if your right, and you are. Not sure my brain can handle the extra ten years........
@@combatwomble5584
Don’t worry, when your old enough 10 yrs ago feels like last week.
I ADORE the bits where the task is set for only one contestant and they only find out on stage.
Definition of Disappear is: cease to be visible. "he disappeared into the trees"
Yes. It would have been very unsatisfying but perfectly reasonable of them to just throw it over the fence... Or drape a towel over it. I HATE when contestants employ unsatisfying loopholes, but it would have been completely fair to the wording.
Josh must regret the quip after counting the rice
This one was epic!!! 😂😂😂
All the worst contestants should get a show
You'd give Lucy Beaumont her own show? Terrifying
they are considering a loser of loser's episode
I would rather watch Lucy Beaumont again. She at least tried to do the tasks & was hilarious in her attempts. Roisin Conaty on the other hand, came across like a spoiled child who wanted (& sometimes received) preferential treatment. She just seemed lazy.
It's called series 10
I like the idea, the team tasks would be absolute chaos.
I guess after bingin 8 out of 10 cats I must have seen all British tv characters
Young task master gets my heart racing. Hello.
see a doctor about that is my suggestion.
Hiding something is absolutely a way to make it disappear. They did not banish the ice from existance, they just made it change state.
I don't think Josh went hard enough. As far as I'm concerned, he did three extra tasks and came first in each - that's worth 15 points, not 1
Fine. I'll rewatch the first one
Oh god I just realized we can no longer see the audience in the background in recent seasons, and Alex lost his tablet holder!
FCP now starts 18:15
2025 and we have "strong language" warnings scrolling at the start of the video? There's little hope for the internet :(
Romesh’s watch strap hurts my OCD 😮😮
elton johns cardigan
WHY doesn't Alex do the tasks for only one contestant any more?
Is Josh Widdicombe related to former MP Ann Widdecombe?
No...different spelling.
It's a horrible piece of tat, init? 😂
Now watch the season with Jamali...he is by far the worst contestant.
Romesh'es most beautiful item is a statue of a mother and child So beautiful he's willing to give it away
19:27 Why do English speakers not understand the difference between "xylo" (wood) and "metallo" (metal) phones?
I stay up nights wondering about that deeply pertinent question.
To answer in a more sincere way, it is called "common usage". It is considered perfectly fair, outside of the industries and professions where these instruments are actually used and manufactured, to call all such instruments "xylophones". Literally all such toys (they are fairly popular as toys and are usually plastic and metal) that are sold, no matter what they are made of, are called "xylophones".
So, the first, best answer is, "Who cares? It doesn't matter. "
But the other answer might be more satisfying if you do think it matters. It is accepted in casual usage.
In English it’s metal, not metall
@@jamesj.mccombie5031 Thx -- still, even in English, it's Metallophone
@@TroubleToby3040 Common usage is just an excuse for ignorance. Let's not encourage that kind of nonsense. An organ is not a piano and a French horn is not a trumpet. It bloody well matters.
Who the hell still uses cheques?
Sweet innocent trusting Josh. I gather he's married now. Presumably to a very calm and wise woman who has been competent in setting safety nets around him - them - their home and their bank accounts. Between these and his boundless trust in "the essential goodness of human nature!" Otherwise we might see a rapid descent into anxiety, benzo's addiction and longer term asylum accommodation!
Everything is better without Josh Widdicombe
The only good thing about Josh Widdicome is pissing him off. The voice is still irritating but at least it's funny he's upset.
A bunch of men shitting on Roisin's cardigan never sat right with me
It's a piece of clothing, calm down it's not that serious. They're literally all friends off screen
i'm not sure their gender is relevant since anyone with eyes can have an opinion on it
Maybe if she had a less shit cardigan? It looks like the Rainbow Fish.
To make it even worse the majority were white men!
go and get a job with sweet baby inc
From this fantastic beginning series to horribly unfunny and dull "stars" such as Rosie Jones, Lenny Rush, Jon Richardson,, Lucy Beaumont, Sarah Pascoe, Joe Lycett, Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips, Tim Vine, Liza Tarbuck, Joe Thomas, Jo Brand, Mike Wozniak, Mae Martin, Julian Clary, and Andy Zaltzman. It's really a shame that most of the participants now are uninteresting, not creative, and have deadened personalities.
Now I remember why I stopped watching tv . . .
Only to come watch TV on TH-cam. Welcome back.
You're watching TH-cam which has a MUCH higher percentage of crap. There are good things but they are LITERALLY 1in a billion on TH-cam. Worse odds than television by a lot.
Jesus, is the dentistry so unaffordable there? I can see Josh's caries from the different continent!
Why don't you ever have any new episodes? Just the same old shit every time you upload?
It's like watching Dave! Same repeated bullshit every day!! Replaying old stuff no one cares about is the kind of thing people do when they are desperate for views?
Cool thing about youtube is the ability to choose what we watch. There's clips from the new series been uploaded, so go watch em, and stop acting like an entitled twat.
What are you talking about, they are literally releasing one episode per week right now. Just be thankful you are getting them all for free on TH-cam
You do know youtube is practically limitless? You don't have to watch things you don't like. Try not being so angry