Sabotage Your Team | Series 14 | Taskmaster
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- Unspeakable treachery in a team task from series 14.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.
The little 'oooh no' when fern says the bucket has a hole
Is pure gold imo
Genuinely think it's the hardest I've ever laughed at this show
All of her "ohhh nooooo"s during the series were legendary. Best part of that series, in fact.
@@DocFunkenstein - 7:27 They were referring to John there
Sometimes when I’m laying in bed trying to sleep, I just hear John softly saying ‘oh noo’
This is like Rhod building an extension, but he didn’t have a secret task.
That might well be where Alex got the idea for this from!
He train of thought was so bizarre, the first time I saw it I thought there was a written in reason for the sabotage, another classic moment.
@@MikeDCWeld No this was originally a task from TMNZ which original TM has borrowed for this series. There seems to be a few other NZ tasks that they’re using this time.
Or when Sian Gibson cheated on "Catch the balls" team task she was doing with Joe Thomas.
Also David Baddiel on stage drawing task with Ed Gamble.
did he not actually win?
“Divide and conga” such a legendary line from Munya
Hes been such a quote machine so far this series!
I still think Divide and Conga deserved to be the episode title!!
Didn’t get it… can somebody explain ?
I understood Divided Congo when hearing it at the beginning
@@BluesSkins it’s a play on “divide and conquer”
John desperately trying to figure out how to kick over a bucket while everyone is yelling at him to not kick over the bucket but still making it look like an accident hahahaha
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"Dafty in the middle" 💀
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He almost succeeds but Dara makes a last minute save and pushes it back to safety
John mentioned on the TM podcast that this was one of the first tasks they filmed so they thought he was an idiot and were pissed with him for the whole day XD
He also said that the first part about the hands on hips was also not him sabotaging, but he was actually a bit daft.
@@SennaAugustus YEAH LMAO that was amazing, he’s so goofy
Oh that's evil from the crew
I kinda felt really sorry for him re this. They should have made it clearer that he didn’t have an option… He already knew Fern but it must have been hard thinking Dara thought he was an idiot.
@@Shelsight it's good they showed it after a few eps (where he is a bit dumb), but also not too late (so now Dara knows he's not a total idiot).
I just love Dara saying "at the time I thought he was an idiot" Lol. Sabotage your new friendship your time starts now.
And when it's about to get to the ad break Dara says "by the next part there'll be only 4 chairs left" 😂
I'm not saying that he took it well but I went to see episode 5 being recorded and Dara made at least 2/3 references to a "Great Betrayal" of episode 3 by John, which was this chaos. Was so stoked it lived up to the hype haha
@@chlcrk That must have been confusing not knowing what happened in episode 3 until it came out on TV
@@PianoKwanManA little but I thought John accidentally ruined a task, not that he was told to do that on purpose. I will also note that at one point John told him to let it go and that somebody who went to a following episode said it was still being brought up
It takes about 3 or 4 months to film a season according to Alex, that's a long time for them to think that John was an utter moron.
There’s so much genuine sadness in this video. “I can’t believe you threw out all the sand” and the big one, “you had such a go at me…”
I think that’s why I really didn’t enjoy it. This is usually a fun and silly show and wasn’t supposed to be mean spirited. I can’t understand why everyone gushed so hard about this being so hilarious and wonderful. It’s frustrating for all three of them and just ends up with everyone sad. How is that fun or funny?
@@marielavalon Because it IS hilarious. Once everyone knows, there's no hard feelings. It's also just a comedy show. There were no stakes that matter. It's just a bunch of comedians having a go at stuff. Not everything that results in momentary sadness is an affront to humanity.
@@marielavalon It's because this task really connected with the character Kearns was portraying, the fumbling bafoon. It's why no coat hanger will support his jacket and why he messes up so much with doing tasks.
fern's reaction after the task ended is so depressing "john just don't.. please"
@@marielavalon its a fun and silly show, but made specifically to poke fun at all of the comedians. after 14 series, everyone knows what they are getting into. right down to almost every season having a specific contestant that is made fun of the most.
giving it to John was brilliant. Dara and Fern would've made natural saboteurs, and wouldn't have resulted in the same amazing train wreck of awkwardness.
Agree that was a genius call. The way he 'bumbled' into that was simulatiously briliant and so silly 😋
John was perfect for this because it was so in character. Absolutely marvelous.
I think dara or fern would be too obvious that they were sabotaging deliberately. But John was the only one who could play it off as genuine mistakes.
you know...i really wish that had been johnny vegas - can you imagine the sheer innocent chaos? XD
@@SharienGaming 100% agree but they have similar energy.
The only difference is I feel like John struggles so hard at succeeding in this show he messed up almost all of his sabotage opportunities. It was hilariously adorable.
Now I want a task where *everyone* is secretly a saboteur, but with the same clause that if you're accused of sabotage you get no points
So they still can't work together even if someone figures out the trick because explaining the trick means losing
The chaos with Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope and Noel Fielding in the bathtub task from s4e5 but up a notch haha.
@@theowoo Exactly :D
How would that work? If everyone is a saboteur and your team loses everyone in the losing team gets 5 points for sabotage but then the winning team also gets 5 points for winning the task, kind of renders the task pointless
Someone tag Alex Horne in this right now.
@@shinbios The task also has the "if your team wins you get no points, if your team loses you get five points" clause as well.
I don't know how it works for the two-person team, I haven't put that much thought into it. (There has to be some kind of balancing factor, because if only the three-person team is self-sabotaging they have a much more complicated task with more ways to fail.)
6:21 when he tipped the hat over to make the sandcastle and then pointed at it to make sure Alex saw cracked me up
I think the fact that John has a perpetual "Being called out by mum" face throughout the video makes it sadder *and* funnier
Tbf he kind of has that exact same look for all the tasks, even the ones he does well at. It's partly what endeared him to me so much, and even though he took on the role of the "bad" contestant, it still helped me root for him
I love how to this day you can still see the hole Rhod Gilbert put in the side of the caravan with the javelin in Series 7.
Nobody ever fully recovers from Rhod.
It’s the “OoOoOh NoOoO…” that kills me.
For the record, the results were:
Sarah and Munya: 21kg
Dara, John and Fern: 20.9kg
Oh damn.
so the saboteur actually did need to spill every last drop of that sand spilled in the last few seconds? I didn't think it made that much difference, can't believe it.
THANK YOU!! Why the hell did they leave off the damn result!!!??!
That makes every grain John wasted absolutely necessary!
@@benejenebProbably to get you to go watch the full episode
I love that John started his sabotage right from the hands on hips task by continually putting 2 hands on Fern's hips. It really helped set the stage for his teammates to just think "John is an idiot" leading into the sand.
According to the podcast, that wasn’t John trying to sabotage. That was genuine.
Yeah you're 100% wrong
It was definitely helped by John being in the middle. I'm not sure what he could have done if he was in Dara's position
Couldn't he have removed the other hand from Fern and cancelled the whole task early?
@@joevictor53No. Dara was holding John so they would have stayed within the rules.
I was shocked it took 14 series to throw a task like this out there but I hope they're here to stay now, absolutely hysterical
Its a one and done sadly, now the concept is out there it’d be too easy fir future contestants to guess its another sabotage task. They need to let it rest for a while then BAM, throw it out in season 28.
@@jonsmith5058 they took the idea from Taskmaster NZ. I don't think it being done before is a problem. This is already not the first time its happened.
Technically Taskmaster New Zealand did a sabotage task in their 2nd season....
The bathtub task in series 4 is sort of in this vein as well, and is an all-time great.
@@greasyphilip arguably, but I only watched the UK series, I think its reasonable UK contestants may similarly have only watched their local series.
Fern yelling “WHAT?!” when she realised what John had done is such a vibe
One of my favorite things about the team of three was Fern constantly upset that John couldn't clarify things she didn't understand. "I don't understand, but John really doesn't understand."
The hat sandcastle is just so funny, I can’t explain why
When Fern notices it, hahaha! 🤣
When he just points at it 😂
It looked so much like a sand hat, accidentally it had a little brim and all! It was perfect! 😂
@@kahvipaputyyppi It's a sand hatsle!
In the Swedish version they did a saboteur task too, except *everyone* was told to secretly sabotage their team without getting caught by their teammates. It was hilarious
This is hilarious! What episode is it?:
Please tell us the episode
@@badwifi931 Season 6 episode 2!
@@Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa we got 6 seasons? :O only watched some sporadic episodes of it but didnt love it. The chemistry between the taskmaster and his assistant wasnt great for me lol.
@@andreaskarlsson5251 It's just very different, but when the contestants are good it is actually really funny! There's just second to no banter, the amusement comes from the tasks themselves. Just don't expect a carbon copy of the original and you might be pleasantly surprised
Watching this knowing this was the second task John, Dara and Fern had filmed together makes this all the better. And this was their only day of filming too for team tasks.
They really filmed all the team tasks for the season in one day?
@@thebigquiet4758 It's plausible ,apparently Josh Widdicombe filmed all his Champion of Champions tasks in a day
@@thebigquiet4758 as far as I can remember team tasks are usually all filmed in one day every season.
@@thebigquiet4758Gotta, hard to keep busy people together for a whole day. Just like how all the contestants do their tasks on different days/weeks/times, busy people are busy.
Man can you imagine how much fun it must be to write for this show.
@@Ffinity creep
@@Ffinity No one wants or needs to hear you say you want to hold her hips. That's what's weird.
@@Ffinity I mean not that attractive. I mean I'm not digging on her or anything. Just maybe get higher goals? No one's super into touching the hips last I checked... That's actually a very proper hand placement nothing sexual about it... Also she at one point screamed at him to grab her ass. I mean she's a beautiful sexy woman, I believe that about all women... Except my mom... It's weird being a satyrmaniac... But she's not unobtainably hot... So drooling over touching her hips is creepy just cause it seems super awkward and weird. Not even because it's some sort of sexual thing. Also... Her in tm has not been her best looks...
@@Ffinity Yeah, you're one of the 'admirers' like the guys sending her creepy messages since seeing her in that outfit.
@@Ffinity Yea how bout keep it to yourself? This is weird
I love how he could've just pretended to trip and remove his hand to make them instantly lose in a not obvious way, but chose to sabotage it in a way more complicated and obvious way
5:13 Dara’s tone saying “Idiot” 😂 this was a sneaky but great task
This will go down as one of the all time greatest Taskmaster moments I think. Up there with Joe Wilkinson's potato throw and Liza Tarbuck forcing Alex to sit on a cake.
I'd forgotten the cake thing, didn't he say one of the things on the cake, er, found its way inside?
Robs water fountain was right up there too
@@gatherer818 His exact words were, "Because of the angle of the squatting I was... 'open.'" And "There were fewer profiteroles than there were at the start." 🤣
i agree precisely
7:05 John tried really hard to "accidently" knock one of the things over, but sadly couldnt get it :D
In hindsight I think he drew too much attention to not wanting to kick it over, which meant Dara was watching the hat like a hawk ready to come save it.
@@junbh2 yeah but that made it so funny
Best task ever. Gold upon gold. I love Fern losing it and John's weezing throughout.
man i have to wonder if john brought up the 'conga line' idea and specifically asked to be in the middle so he could force dara to sit in the back doing nothing. So not only did Kearns spread sand and waste it, he neutralized a team mate from being able to collect any sand at all.
Dara is statistically the best contestant Taskmaster has had in 14 seasons so I would also like to think John was being incredibly smart here and purposely put him in the back. However, if you watch the rest of the task you'll notice how shit a job John did at sabotaging and realize it was just a fluke.
@@waldo109 Remeber he could not be accused of sabotage either, I think he did pretty well
@@waldo109 I'm not sure what more you expected him to do without it being reeeeeeaaaaaally obvious that he was sabotaging the task.
I agree with the OP, it was good strategy to put Dara at the back.
He said on the podcast that he would've assumed they had to be in a conga line even if he wasn't sabotaging.
This is pure genius. For real, amazing that you're still getting these brutal ideas after 14 seasons. Absolutely wonderful.
the taskmaster nz team came up with it, actually
@@isthatrubble kudos to them :D
“Can I just say, this was somewhat of a relief for me because up till this point I just thought John was an IDIOT!” Dara O‘Brein.
Notice the tinkly TM theme music when Alex reveals the sabotage! It's so subtle, yet sinister! Alex, if you're reading these comments, please give your production crew a bonus. They did an excellent job and the theme music really captured the essence of evil there.
FYI my other favorite bit of music enhancement by TM production crew was Aisling Bea's sexy cuddle robot which was set to a wocka-wocka 70s adult-film theme. So good.
I think it was meant to sound like the music from the Godfather.
@@krashd I don't know if it's meant to be a Godfather reference, but it's the TM theme tune that played on the jack-in-the-box from the pop up live task in S12.
There's another episode from this same series where they had to play with a bunch of giant exercise balls, and I pointed out that the sound department went in an foleyed the sound of billiard balls clacking whenever the exercise balls hit each other. Between them and the fantastic b-roll and editing, Alex has a great crew working on his show.
@@billyeveryteen7328 The production team is superb. On the TM podcast, the contestants often talk about how the staff are so nice and so fun to work with. It makes a difference, because the contestants could easily get frustrated on a task and have a bad experience. It's happened on earlier series, where Doc Brown in Season 2 apparently didn't enjoy his time on Taskmaster. Even though it's now such a big hit show and everyone wants to get on it, the production crew still does its best to make everything look and feel just right.
Oh man for this bit you have to show the scoring segment as well. That bit of sand he threw away made a difference and they lost if I remember correctly. One of the best tasks they've ever done. And Munya's legendary line.
Thank you
What was the line?
@@marcjasper9432 Divide and conga, I assume?
Like many said, this task was a variant of another task used in the New Zealand version, but I think what makes this one excell is the tragic incompetence of Kearns and how genuinely gutted he looked after reading the task
You’re so right, John’s this season’s David Baddiel but with a wholesome twist. He was perfect for this task because it’s so in character.
I think the fact that Laura Daniel was so good at it was extra funny because it was it was like watching a master manipulator who nonetheless would rather do anything else
Where can I watch the NZ version?
@@tbatz6574 it's unofficially on youtube i believe, some episodes are at least
@@tbatz6574There are 2 seasons of NZ on the official TM TH-cam channel now. Season 2 of NZ has a number of tasks that were replicated in this Series 14: the eat the grape task and the sabotage task were most memorable. Both NZ versions were excellent in their own way.
3:39 The reaction from Fern and Dara even before they know about the sabotage is priceless 😂
8:30
Ferns “johnnnn!” Actually made me feel bad 😂
Ah, I felt for John all the way through this, BUT he never did get accused of being a saboteur, just a dafty
by far my favourite task of all time :D (that I can remember), John so poorly faking his sabotages and the rest just completely believing he is an absolute idiot, it's brilliant. I loved this series so much
Dara’s enunciation of ‘idiot’ is one of my favourite taskmaster moments ever.
It's so brilliant that not only did they come up with this idea, but they found just the right person to execute it. There are so many past contestants who would have tipped their hand immediately.
its hard to sneakily sabotage your team without looking like an idiot. and if you're able to do it without looking like an idiot then you're a tactical genius
He could have just let go of Fern’s hip to make them disqualified
Watching this during the show was one of the best experiences I’ve had with this show. Couldn’t stop laughing!
John is and now will always be one of my all time favourite contestants
It’s totally worth just going back to 3:40 a few times to study those three faces for the few seconds after. It really shows the lengths the TM team go to are worth it, to keep things like this secret to get the real reactions.
If you liked this and haven't already watched TM-NZ and their put-balloons-in-car task you have a treat waiting for you!
@@KitagumaIgen what episode is that from?
@@sm79165 I recommend just watching all of series 2 of NZ TM! So good, and one of the best TM series full stop!
Fern: ‘I’m not really a team player’
John: ‘Hold my pot of sand’…
"there's a hole in the bucket!"
"oh nooooo"
Freaking hilarious
"THERE IS A HOLE IN THE BUCKET!"
"oh nooo"
"For some reason we thougt we could human centipede it"
That's a quote for the history books right there.
0:30
John's reaction is hilarious here when you know what's going through his mind
7:30 His "Oh nooo" When she said there's a hole in the pot lol
Honestly in the rest of the series in most of the team tasks I was wondering whether he was sabotaging again but no those times it was just John being John
5:24 i had to slow down and zoom in just to make sure but they really just did a mask to hide the bleep-cover-thingy behind his hands. bless the editors for doing that🙏
This is just like trapped that CBBC show 'john do not react you are the saboteur it is your job to ensure your team fails this challenge '
I love John yelling "We've been fucking robbed!" as he's dumping the sand.
“Divide and conga” is gonna live in my head forever 😂
One of my new favorite moments! Every season I get worried "is this going to be as good as the last seasons" and this one moment elevated the whole series for me.
This is when I became a John Kearns fan, his team never suspected he was sabotaging 😂
I just love Fern's voice when she gets mad, hilarious!
I feel like Fern needs to be on a season with Phil Wang - They are both on point with the jumpsuits
Munya has absolutely been sitting on that "divide and conga" line for at least three months
Sarah: maybe the task wasn't that well written.
Alex: we were hoping one of the teams was stupid enough
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was one of the best tasks ever
John misunderstood the task apparently: He thought he had to sabotage himself and his team in *every* task in this series.
I will not be surprised if they actually told him to sabotage the whole series. :P
Bast i Test (TM Sweden) also did a sabotage team task, for a task that involved a synchronized dance. However, on that version, EVERY contestant got the secret sabotage task. Really fun to watch!
14 season in and they still can come up with ideas like this! Excellent job, one of the best tasks on the show so far!
"Divide and conga" is a pretty good pun.
It’s funny because if John had realized that they can put their hands on their own hips, he could’ve just volunteered to be the one person who put two hands on his own hip, and then just taken them off while Dara and Fern were off doing the rest of the task. Immediate disqualification.
Loved the task on NZ, and love that Laura's approach vs. John's approach were so dramatically different
What was Laura’s approach?
@@XOmangoXO mostly pretending to have hurt herself
What episode is that from?
props to john because i probably would have broken down crying with everyone yelling at me like that haha
The absolute easiest thing for John to do would've been to "trip" and take his hand off of Fern right at the end of the task, disqualifying them. I'm beyond delighted that he didn't think of that.
Or pretended to forget about the moving the cart thing at the very beginning and moving it slightly with his free hand so he can work together with his team for the rest of the task knowing he already got them disqualified
I was thinking the same but I'm also so glad he didn't. Would've ended it way too early and ruined
@@joevictor53I think they would have edited it so the audience didn't see what he did until the end
Love how she said she thought half of each hand on half of each hip and demonstrated her own hips. Then they all decided your own hips won't work, put it on someone else's.
honestly one of the best solo tasks ever
Fern's confused frustration is cracking me up. She's so fucking annoyed with John but trying to be understanding😂
I'm in the US and these clips are the only way I get to watch taskmaster. And I'm slightly obsessed =) thank you!!!!
There are other channels you can use to watch full episode
they literally uploaded the entire series full episodes n all wdym
@@waddy3985some of the latest series are not accessible in some countries
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Full episodes of the UK series are, for the most part, only visible on this channel in the UK.
Sorry yeah I meant the newest season but thanks for the help friends ;)
Alex is a proper mastermind genius with this task. Especially chosing John to do it.
This is one of a few tasks this season borrowed from Taskmaster NZ S2
@@flamingSSJ4 ahh thanks!
Well done them then!
This has got to be one of the funniest tasks ever!
One of the greatest moments in taskmaster history
The most insincere "oh no" I've ever heard 🤣
the "john please" from fern sounded genuinely heartbroken
I just keep coming back to this, it's genius!! And he does it so well.
7:04 that image will stay with me for life
This was honestly one of the funniest moments on TM, probably top pick. John was the perfect choice, his 'oh no' response to the bucket having a hole gets me every time.
This was one of the tasks of all time
It sure is...
It definitely is a task that's for sure
This makes me think of an awful team building exercise we had in one of my speech path grad classes. I think there were four of us, and I was tasked with getting several pieces of paper that each had a word I needed to describe without using speech to the rest of the group. Now, I am not good under pressure. I tried acting the words out, signing them (in the program everyone has to take some American Sign), and so forth. No one was getting it, and I started panicking. After the fact, I found out that one person had been told to only guess wrong answers, another couldn’t participate at all, and the third could guess correctly but she didn’t remember much sign language. It was horrible.
One day they should all tell them to sabotage the task without knowing each other is trying to sabotage
One of the other countries has done this, wanna say Sweden?
Years later it occurs to me that the easiest winning strategy would have been for him to figure out the “hands on own hips”, then every time his teammates weren’t looking had them off his hips so that the team got disqualified.
I really hope there are more sabotages to come from John, if only to see Dara lose it.
3:39 The betrayal faces before the doom xD i love the confused expressions from the betrayed xD
I love how each “hold on John!” gets more and more exasperated.
This is where the perfect task meets the perfect cast 😂
Just the JOHN YOU IDIOT is officially my favorite line in the world
I think there never has been a more angry person on TM before than Fern. Even James wasn't that angry
"Sabotage your team" is easily the BEST individual task ever. XD
1:19 🤣 I love her! Fantastic how they just keep coming up with these absolutely sadistic ideas
edit: also love how Dara doubted himself near the end there brilliant
John sounded like he had PTSD over this in the Taskmaster podcast
7:18 the music nod to the Heat soundtrack for John's sneaky shenanigans is god-tier!
John's stare at the camera while manically laughing at 6:59 completely broke me
I can't stop watching that part
At that point, it also looks like Dara’s head is up John’s arse.
14 seasons and I'm still in stitches crying with laughter :)
That was a hard task to sabotage, as well. Being put in the middle your options are quite limited to following the train
Genuinely one of my favourite taskmaster moments of all time
What’s crazy is that Fern thought the hole would make it so the sand couldn’t stay in the pot 😭