Also, his poem was quite good, with the flow and rhymes. Reciting it while managing to also juggle, that is quite impressive. He should've won, hands down.
I think politician can be a very ingrate job. A lot of work and a lot of criticism. But, on that fateful day, when he saw the 42 god damn calypos, the Mayor knew it has all been worth it
I mean Jon and Doc just sang an existing song rather badly so going to buy something as ridiculous as 42 Calippos and 8 cans of beer is more than those two did.
If I am a mayor and I know the peeps coming in are supposed to impress me, I expect something impressive. If one has the balls to just chug out a whole summer worth of Calippos and beer, that would impress the hell out of me. Simply because it's so stupid that I'd never expect it, but taken to an extreme level.
I genuinely don't understand why Richard didn't win this. He wrote an incredible poem in a few minutes and performed it while juggling. I can't even remember things I've written down.
@@billbauer9795 I know you meant to throw shade at rap music, but music is factually more than just melody: Harmony, rhythm, lyrics. In ancient Greece is was defined as the union of lyrics, melody, and rhythm. Since around 1600 Western music became more and more polyphonic because new tempers (tunings) allowed for pieces to be composed in all keys and using several voices. We differentiate between pieces that are written horizontally (focusing on each of the voices' melodies) and vertically (focusing on the harmonies). Modern pop music is basically composed "horizontally" as it focuses on a main melody which you could theoretically accompany with various different sets of chords (as can be seen when you re-harmonize pieces like Jacob Collier does). Still, the factors rhythms and harmony are a huge factor in all kinds of music to this day.
idk katherine's hip hop anthem DESERVED that win i laughed so hard and it was genuinely catchy "he's got three kids but only one came from his balls THATS PETER HUDSON YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN TRUST HIM YYEAHH"
I have strong second-hand embarrassment for situations like this, so this video took me 37 minutes to muscle through, with all the pausing, cringing, and having to go get ice cream to take the edge off. Richard's was good though, and Katherine's clearly had effort put into it.
IMO the funniest attempt at this task was done in the first season of TM Norway where one of the contestants just wordlessly dropped his pants as soon as he read the task, and then explained that he was going to pull them back up without using his hands 😆
I would have given first place to Joe bc of the originality of the idea, the balls to do only that and the fact that he was the only one who didn't do anything like a performance
Joe: Good to meet you. Mayor (meeting people expert): And you. Joe (social niceties ninja): And you. I stopped the tape there, cos I could see where this was going.
Jon's obvious uncomfortableness and unwillingness and general awkwardness probably soured his otherwise lovely lil performance. Doc at least seemed committed. Let's not forget Peter having to watch Jon be beaten down into singing.
When I initially pictured how I'd handle this task, my first thought was exercise (like push-ups or something) which is why it was so relieving to hear people start singing, because yes, that is probably how I'd deal with that task and I would do about or only slightly less than okay. It'd certainly be less embarrassing than trying to impress a mayor with basic exercise (in bad form also; I never could figure out how to do a proper press-up). Alternatively, I'd just try to use my internet knowledge to pass as a hacker. "Tell me a question you want answered or a secret you want dug up, pass me your phone, and I'll sort it for you". That sort of thing. Because then you just gotta be able to bs well enough that he can't tell if you've actually answered his question or just made something up that sounds plausible enough, and both those things are at least mildly impressive.
Should've added to "that's all they had", that 42 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Coincidence I think not.
How big is Chesham, considering that Alex could convince its mayor to appear just in the second series? Edit: Then again he might be aware since the original Edinburgh Fringe special, there were 2 iterations there even before the first TV series, not that unlikely as Alex himself is from Chesham
People are so used to seeing senior citizens as politicians they always comment "wow, you look so young" and its really mind-boggling. We need more young politicians!
I'm sorry. Richard wrote AND MEMORIZED THAT POEM IN 20 MINUTES and then recited it flawlessly while juggling flawlessly??? IMPRESSIVE
10/10
Also, his poem was quite good, with the flow and rhymes. Reciting it while managing to also juggle, that is quite impressive. He should've won, hands down.
Id go for Richard as well
IKR LIKE WHAAAAAATTTTT
@@notthere83 please don’t use my comment as a platform for anti-feminist rants
"Didn't go unnoticed" Mayor got game
here's another quote "I'm made for pleasure not speed"
@@sm79165 lmao was NOT prepared for that when he said it
Game recognize game, Mr. Mayor
"Well done, you've been on Google."
- Bribing a politician ay?"
- Always works, doesn't it?
I think politician can be a very ingrate job. A lot of work and a lot of criticism. But, on that fateful day, when he saw the 42 god damn calypos, the Mayor knew it has all been worth it
as a french canadian who watches lots of UK programs: what the fk is a calypos?
Des glaces sorbets en formes de cônes allongés :)
@@madarauchiwas7 :)
Don't forget the 8 cans of strong beer.
@@madarauchiwas7 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Joe literally just went and bought out a shop's Calippos and still got 3rd place.
Should have juggled them
He has the most unexpected idea to be honest
its the calippos man... get me 42 and id do your bidding for a year
I mean Jon and Doc just sang an existing song rather badly so going to buy something as ridiculous as 42 Calippos and 8 cans of beer is more than those two did.
If I am a mayor and I know the peeps coming in are supposed to impress me, I expect something impressive. If one has the balls to just chug out a whole summer worth of Calippos and beer, that would impress the hell out of me. Simply because it's so stupid that I'd never expect it, but taken to an extreme level.
I guess I'm singing "that's Peter Hudson you know you can trust him" the rest of the day
Yyyyeaaahhhh *dancing*
*top notch twerking*
"3 kids and only one came from his balls" xd
Lol me too 😂😂
Yeah but you can't. In summing up he mentioned Joe's ice lollies and beer, said fuck-all about the fifteen quid. Typical.
Katherine and the Mayor's last exchange was basically
- "You saw my butt, right?"
- "Indeed, I did."
@@nemo-x because who doesn't love cakes
@@zeuxlaught2797 I mean...
You ain't wrong 😅
i like katherines feet
He's a great straight man though, Katherine is hilarious but he got the biggest laugh from her section.
Richard should have won that, his poem was great and he recited it by heart whilst juggling
Considering his visual condition, he does it all the time so whilst impressive not out of the ordinary.
@@JKLoans visual condition?
Gawd some people are basically just little kids. Look, mummy! The man can do two things at once!
Katherine wrote a catchy song and danced to it so technically she did two things too.
@@AlanHope2013 i highly doubt writing a poem in under 20 minutes, memorising it and reciting it while juggling is a common skill
the easiest way to a mayor's heart is with 42 calippos
rooker and £15
Don't forget the lagers.
Alex and Greg said this was one of their all-time favorite tasks because it was so open to interpretation
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How can this man sit in there with a straight face, that's the most impressive thing of all
Rosalind managed a straight face too, but that's because she's a fucking nightmare.
You have to remember, he's a politician. That means he's sitting in a room full of clowns all day
I like how none of these comedians decided to do like a quick set of jokes or whatever it is they do for a living to impress the mayor.
Creds to Richard for writing a poem that quickly
And the same goes to Katherine!
And memorizing it well enough to recite while juggling!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣he wrote that a long time ago
I love the "its all they had" answer
You are a bit young for a mayor?
'Yes, yes I am.'
Phineas and Ferb have entered the Chat
🤣
Jon’s saga and descent into singing kills me every time
I like that Doc Brown was doing his own task, 'seduce the Mayor of Chesham'
He also seduced Fred.
If only the store had 43 calippos
He ate one on the way.
43 would've ruined it because 42 is a number with great significance while 43 is just a prime number.
@@JSmellerM Pfft, prime numbers. When have Prime numbers anyone saved anyone?
@@jakethewolfie119 Some minister becoming a prime one, maybe?
Jon Richardson saying "Oh god" over and over while leaving was so fucking funny.
Alex Horne has said that the 42 Calipos is his all-time favorite TM moment.
His hair said calippos to me
Now that is the most impressive part of this vid
"Bribing a politician eh?" "Its always worked before"
I genuinely don't understand why Richard didn't win this. He wrote an incredible poem in a few minutes and performed it while juggling. I can't even remember things I've written down.
The last bit of singing done was actually surprisingly decent. I may not be the mayor, but I am indeed impressed
I know! It honestly was the most impressive thing in the whole video for me
One of my favorite tasks, just Doc singing when he could've just rapped. Lol
@@kdpflush yes, because melody is all there is to lyricism, you clearly know very much about music
@@dopaminecloud hes literally a rapper
@@dopaminecloud Melody is all there is to Music.
Of course there is more than that to Noise.
@@billbauer9795 I know you meant to throw shade at rap music, but music is factually more than just melody: Harmony, rhythm, lyrics. In ancient Greece is was defined as the union of lyrics, melody, and rhythm. Since around 1600 Western music became more and more polyphonic because new tempers (tunings) allowed for pieces to be composed in all keys and using several voices. We differentiate between pieces that are written horizontally (focusing on each of the voices' melodies) and vertically (focusing on the harmonies). Modern pop music is basically composed "horizontally" as it focuses on a main melody which you could theoretically accompany with various different sets of chords (as can be seen when you re-harmonize pieces like Jacob Collier does). Still, the factors rhythms and harmony are a huge factor in all kinds of music to this day.
Five comedians are asked to impress someone... Zero chose comedy!!
*Four comedians and television co-host Richard Osman
uh Joe chose comedy everything he does is comedy.
@@hexingale He's a producer/executive.
You telling me you didn't laugh at all of these?
uh oh. I think that was supposed to be comedy. Brits are different apparently
Katherine’s song is stuck in my head forever now
Yeaaaaaah 😊
🎶Thaaat's Peter Hudson🎶
@@maijapoppanen218 you know that you can trust him
@@Rhaphidophile yeahhhhh....
"Build for pleasure not for speed" - Chesham Mayor
built*
I got the feeling the Mayor just really liked Jon
That's Peter Hudson, you know that you can trust him, yeaaaah
idk katherine's hip hop anthem DESERVED that win i laughed so hard and it was genuinely catchy
"he's got three kids but only one came from his balls THATS PETER HUDSON YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN TRUST HIM YYEAHH"
jon's impression of a dolphin with strep haunts me in my darkest hours lmao
jon's part is honest to god one of the funniest moments in TV history. the fucking pistachio eclair
Hip Hop Trousers: did not go unnoticed
3:56 "Bribing a Politician, eh? Says the Politician while slipping the money away instead of returning it
I have strong second-hand embarrassment for situations like this, so this video took me 37 minutes to muscle through, with all the pausing, cringing, and having to go get ice cream to take the edge off.
Richard's was good though, and Katherine's clearly had effort put into it.
Oh my gosh, finally someone who gets it! I get this so bad and it takes me forever to get through things because of it
I spent less than 10 minutes, as I have to skip through difficult parts.
Was the ice cream a Calippo?
@@clashagstrom8840 They don't have that brand where I'm from but as I recall it was good Tillamook ice cream from a carton.
I'm kinda surprised Joe didn't just pull his pants down and go "here you go."
It was the mayor of Chesham not the priest.
jon’s voice is so good !
What song was Jon singing?
@@renforest desperado
RICHARD KILLED THE POEM AND THE JUGGLING. He should have won by a landslide damn :D well done my guy
Built for pleasure, not for speed
it’s gary brannan
“Are you hungry?”
“No thank you, I just ate 42 calippos.”
Great! Now Katherine's song will be stuck in my head for another month!
Just here to remind you that you need to sing it this month too.
reminder to sing it this month as well
@@uhhhbobo Nooooo, I'm back
IMO the funniest attempt at this task was done in the first season of TM Norway where one of the contestants just wordlessly dropped his pants as soon as he read the task, and then explained that he was going to pull them back up without using his hands 😆
I would have given first place to Joe bc of the originality of the idea, the balls to do only that and the fact that he was the only one who didn't do anything like a performance
Legend has it, he is still saying “oh god” to this very day.
Built for pleasure, not for speed 😉
This major must be very popular. Seemed like a cool dude.
Are you easily impressed Peter?
**Folds hands on bench**
No.
Katherine's research skills were on point!
Leave it to Jon Richardson to bore in a contest meant for impressing, and still make it hilarious 😂
Jon is a better singer than I expected him to be.
Joe: Good to meet you.
Mayor (meeting people expert): And you.
Joe (social niceties ninja): And you.
I stopped the tape there, cos I could see where this was going.
“Are you hungry?”
“I’ve just eaten”
42 Callipos….?
Joe just went out and bought the Mayor's daily lunch for him
Kinda screwed Jon with that one though :D
I am shocked nobody attempted to impress him with the sheer audacity.
I dont think any of my skills would give him good impression in 20 minutes,
so I quess I could give him bad impression in 20 seconds.
I would've done nothing and asked if he was impressed I didn't try anything to impress him.
I might have done a dissapearing act: leave and don't come back.
In all honestly I wouldn't know at all what to do.
Any significance to the 42 Calippos?
It's all they had
Alex’s lil face @ 9:24 😂
That poem was nice
Literally the best show in the world. Such a creative show
"Fifteen Quid."
Catherine's music for the song sounds a lot like the song from Hamilton she does in one of her acts LOL
that mayor's hair is like so over the top cliche its hilarious
Aright, hit them notes Jon
Props to Doc at 10:20 for having his mate's back.
i am SCREAMING at richard's poem
Doc sang off key more often than not. John could at least hold a tone. How the heck did this not weigh in? Is the mayor tone deaf?
I think Doc's confidence & commitment was a lot more impressive than Jon's hedging.
Jon's obvious uncomfortableness and unwillingness and general awkwardness probably soured his otherwise lovely lil performance. Doc at least seemed committed. Let's not forget Peter having to watch Jon be beaten down into singing.
@@alias3660 yeah it's not very impressive!
This is the best group of participants I've watched on Taskmaster so far😁
How much did it cost to rent the mayor for a couple hours of filming?
It's only the third biggest village in Bucks; I'm sure he had the time
The mayor was probably a huge fan of the show
42 calyppos
@@QueenOfBrokenStone and 15 quid plus a few lagers
The fact that Richard didn’t get first is almost upsetting
After the potato moment this is probably my favourite Joe Wilkinson task
This full episode is in the Taskmaster play list.
Katherine's song was brilliant. :D:D
42 calippos -- the family is sleeping while I'm trying to laugh the most silently I can that is suffering from hypoxia.
The real test of whether or not he's impressed is to ask him 5 years later which acts the mayor remembers.
Richard killed it!
I'm impressed Joe bought every last Calippo and the number ended up being 42
Jon has a pretty good voice tbh
3:31 the ending of Guns and Ships from Hamilton
Ooooh, I'm feeling Jon's singing!
When I initially pictured how I'd handle this task, my first thought was exercise (like push-ups or something) which is why it was so relieving to hear people start singing, because yes, that is probably how I'd deal with that task and I would do about or only slightly less than okay. It'd certainly be less embarrassing than trying to impress a mayor with basic exercise (in bad form also; I never could figure out how to do a proper press-up).
Alternatively, I'd just try to use my internet knowledge to pass as a hacker. "Tell me a question you want answered or a secret you want dug up, pass me your phone, and I'll sort it for you". That sort of thing. Because then you just gotta be able to bs well enough that he can't tell if you've actually answered his question or just made something up that sounds plausible enough, and both those things are at least mildly impressive.
The awkwardness on both sides for docs attempt
Joe is a comedic genius ngl
Doc absolutely dissing my hometown right now…Watching the singing immediately afterward did make me feel better though
Catherine is the most British-looking American I've ever seen
She’s Canadian ya goof
@@JuNkyMuNky60 Still technically American
@@Supergn0me fair point all the same :)
@@Supergn0me Technically not. Though Canada is part of North America, Canadian's aren't referred to as 'Americans.'
Should've added to "that's all they had", that 42 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Coincidence I think not.
How big is Chesham, considering that Alex could convince its mayor to appear just in the second series?
Edit: Then again he might be aware since the original Edinburgh Fringe special, there were 2 iterations there even before the first TV series, not that unlikely as Alex himself is from Chesham
Still less impressed than the picture of a fucking eclair. I fucking love john Richardson 😂😂
If it were me, I'd be impressed just by Osman being a million feet tall, to be honest.
*gets on one knee*
"MARRY ME"
Jon could sing just fine!
People are so used to seeing senior citizens as politicians they always comment "wow, you look so young" and its really mind-boggling. We need more young politicians!
Welp... I just finished setting up an event for a juggling festival and then started to watch this video...
*Sadly rides away on unicycle*
Are the jocking! Richard was impressive!
my solution to this.... take something simple, and push it into the mayors skin to leave an impression..... and by that , he has been impressed,,,,
I would have been impressed by Katherine on the moment she walked to the room😁
That thumbnail really shows off parts that Mrs. Ryan didn't actually have tho 😅
Jon has big 'Josh Widdicombe trying to make a Swede blush' energy
These earlier seasons are so obscure
John actually has a pretty good voice