Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 25. Jamali Maddix - S11 Ep.2

Episode Date: March 25, 2021

On this week's podcast Ed is joined by comedian and Series 11 contestant, Jamali Maddix. The pair discuss the series so far including the plates in the papoose, pillow spinning gate and Jamali's run ins with Greg. As always they go through the latest episode task by task so be prepared for some string and towel chat!You can watch Series 11 of Taskmaster each Thursday on Channel 4 at 9pm.Watch Taskmaster Bleeped on All 4Get in touch with Ed and future guests:[e-mail] Visit the Taskmaster Youtube channelwww.youtube.com/taskmaster For all your Taskmaster goodies visit www.taskmasterstore.com  Taskmaster the podcast is produced by Daisy Knight for Avalon Television Ltd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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TMP, that's what all the cool kids say. Very excited to be back, of course. We are starting properly. We are digging in. Series 11, episode 2 um i love doing the old episodes and i also love doing it feels more immediate doing these episodes it feels almost like i'm commentating on a sport i don't i don't really like sports i don't know if you can tell the closest i get to sports is taskmaster uh so we're chatting about series 11 episode 2 of taskmaster today if you've not seen it for god God's sake, go and watch it now.

Then come back and listen to this fun chat and deconstruction and sports commentary about it. I'm well aware that with sports, you don't watch the game and then listen to the commentary afterwards. I may not know about sports, but I know that. And our special guest this week is Jamali Maddox I don't think we did this with series 10 where we had a contestant from the series on to talk about going out but we thought it might be a fun way of doing it uh so Jamali Maddox is going to be chatting through series 11 episode 2 with us today uh few bits to chat about Taskmaster bleeped which is the more family-friendly version of taskmaster is available on all four we had a lot of questions asking about that if you go on to all

four it's called taskmaster bleeps you will be able to watch those episodes uh without any of the rudies in uh and you know now and again there are rudies if you want more rudies they tend to put the really rude stuff in little extra deleted content on the YouTube channel, youtube.com forward slash Taskmaster. Go and check that out. Also, go and look at the Taskmaster store. Go back, watch old episodes. Do whatever you want. They're all available and all for.

So let's crack on. Let's have a chat to the wonderful Jamali Maddox of Series 11, Episode 2 of Taskmaster. See you on the other side. Welcome, Jamali, to the Taskmaster podcast. you on the other side. Welcome, Jamali, to the Taskmaster podcast. Hey, man. What's up, man? How you doing? Oh, I'm okay. I'm not bad.

You know, just living my life, just watching Taskmaster for a living, really. How are you? I'm good, man. It's a weird question to ask in these times, isn't it? Because it's kind of goes past the niceties of just like, yeah, you know, I'm good. It's it kind of goes past the kind of the niceties of just like yeah you know i'm good it's just kind of like yeah it really it really does fine means something different now i've noticed so before this someone would say i'm fine you'd be like oh they're fine

and now if someone says i'm fine you go is everything okay yeah yeah and i think it's it's much more normalized where back in the day before back in the day before this if someone's like you know what i'm feeling really shit you kind of go oh damn like you're right and if someone says they're feeling shit now you just go yeah no yeah yeah that's a reasonable way to feel right now yeah that's the baseline that is the baseline for everyone we feel shit but i think that's why people have people have really gone into taskmaster hard in the last year because it is it's so it's so silly and it's so sort of removed from anything serious did you find that doing it was it a nice was it a nice break from everything going on in the world? 100% yeah and you know what I'll be honest with

you because when I got offered it it wasn't I was hesitant to do it because I always was like yeah I would do it but yeah I had that thing in the back of my head I was like is it kind of what is it the right tone for something you know is it like is it kind of the thing I want to be doing right now and you know but I'll be honest with you man like it was such a blessing to just be silly because it's been such a long time since I've been able to be silly and just and have fun with that and not and not take yourself mad serious and you know and and so yeah because i guess it's a it's a different tone to stuff you've done in the past bearing in mind you know you've done documentaries where you've gone around talking to hate groups and stuff in america and this is this is not that

i mean alex has obviously got some awful awful hatred uh opinions but um i mean listen oh he told me don't get it twisted he showed me few YouTube documentaries, if you get what I'm saying. It's just a guy with a voice saying, have you ever won this? And you go, okay, this is going to be... But no, it's... Yeah, man, it was... And you know what?

Even just behind the scenes stuff, I don't know how much behind the scenes stuff you want to hear, but it's just a nice crew. It runs smooth. Yeah. It really does. And it was just generally a fun show to do like i

remember like being excited to go work again and that was you know but it was fun as fuck man i can't even front man it's a fun it's a fun show and i understand why people are so into it i think that was kind of the thing that threw me off a bit is i didn't realize i know of the show and stuff but i didn't realize how into it people were oh yeah i mean there's a podcast about it yeah that's how into it people are people people just hoover up any taskmaster content they're obsessive i did a joke on my twitter where i was like um i'll be on taskmaster tonight giving minimal effort because you know he said that's my character is i kind of i don't really care too cool for school like that's kind of the character i go for and then someone messaged me saying don't ruin this for me and i was like oh damn this is intense bro where people are like

do not ruin and it was so it was so much heart in that tweet just like please don't ruin this this is all we have at the moment please with your nonchalantness yeah but also i don't i think i think saying that you give minimal effort or that you're nonchalant is yeah but also i don't i think i think saying that you give minimal effort or that you're nonchalant is is a disservice to what you actually do because you do have a yeah you you are putting effort in but you are doing it in your own way and also like that thing of you saying you were worried about the tone of the show and whether it was the sort of thing you should be doing taskmaster's good in that you can bring your own tone to it right and that's that's what you do you've got that strong flavour right from the off,

and I absolutely love it. Yeah, I like that. And they give you time to be that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because, I mean, me and you have both done the panel shows, and they're good, and I've enjoyed doing them. But they're very much like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

You've got to get in there, get yourself across in economy awards. Yes. Where this time it gives you time to breathe. Because some of them tasks, it's like, yeah, you've got a year to complete this task. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? But it gives you such a long time, and then you can really think about it, and they give you a little, you know, and then you can sort of,

and Greg and Alex are good, and, you know, they sort of let you, you know, they sort of work out what you're doing and sort of play up to that and alex are good and you know they sort of let you you know they sort of work out what you're doing and sort of play up to that you know i'm saying like you know greg greg you know because my whole thing was like you know in supporting a student and greg kind of played up to that shit do you know what i'm saying which is fun you know i mean it's fun he did he very much he's very much going with it so far because right from right from the off you're quite antagonistic with greg and alex both of them it's not like you take sides you're during the tasks you're pretty rude to alex especially in this episode there's a great moment where you just go what is your job which is which i think i think everyone has wanted to ask alex that in the past what if you won't help me with

this why are you here yeah yeah because there is like some frustrating moments because the thing about alex is sometimes he'll help you and sometimes he won't and there's no rhyme or reason behind it and sometimes he'll help one of the other task members in the thing that you just asked him to do and it's just like so you just go what is your job here like i understand you the creator but other than being the creator of this what is your job here we're all we're all enjoying your standoffs with greg in the studio already because i think spinning that kind of oh mate the pillow people were loving that pillow spinning i gotta say i gotta say man we'll do some emails at the end uh at the end of the episode but uh safe to say when i put on twitter that uh we were having you on and to send in some email questions they were 90 about the pillow spinning do you know what that's the

funny thing i saw someone uh tweet underneath it they were like um get ready for the shutdown because everyone's just gonna be like how do you like, how do you spin pillows? How do you spin the pillow? I mean, yeah, let's talk about that quickly, actually, because I think it's one of the biggest scoring travesties in Taskmaster history. It's mental. I'm not taking Greg to task on it personally yet, but I think I will do, because I cannot believe that

that should have been five points straight away. It was so much more impressive than anything anybody else did. And what I did as well, when no one actually clocked, is I wasn't spinning the pillow on my finger i got one of those wooden mannequins yes spinning the pillow on a wooden mannequin yeah like that's high level you know if there was a high level pillow spinning oh i'm not i'm listening i'm not saying that i'm a pillow spinning world champion but do you know i'm saying like i think i should go for the title like

nobody has ever done that in the history of tv right and then what he and then lee just smashed together bananas and sandwiches and then it was unedible schlock and then he went and then greg sort of rubbed his chin and went yeah right four points i i think that was that was madness yeah how badly that i got pointed on that like and you know it's only when i re rewatched it and I was watching it with someone and they just went, that's bullshit.

And I'm like, God damn, yeah. No, it is bullshit, love. You're right. Look, you know, I think Greg knows how to get people talking. That's the only explanation I can think of. It was mad.

I definitely should have got more points for that. But you know. Did you watch, had you seen much of Taskmaster before you, before you did it? Or was it a total surprise? I've seen clips. Real talk, bro. I saw clips. Like, you know, it'smaster before you, before you did it? Or was it a total surprise? I've seen clips. Real talk, bro.

I saw clips. Like, you know, and it's like, because, you know, I mean, the thing is like, you know, all comedians pretty much know all comedians. There's a one degree of separation.

Like, you know, everybody knows everybody somehow. So I knew, I knew you did it. I knew, you know, and I know a bunch of people that did it. And I think we had spoke about it briefly and everyone seemed that they liked the show.

And I saw clips online, but to say I actually sat down and watched the show, nah. I don't think it was, you know, it's not really a show marketed for me. And you know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I'm saying? It's not really something that me and the mandem are watching, like, yo,

what's that Taskmaster doing still? You know what I'm saying, fam? What madness is in Alex's mind this week? Like, you know, it's just not really a mandem show, still. Do you know what I'm saying, fam? What madness is in Alex's mind this week? Like, you know, it's just not really a mandem show, but like, you know.

But do you think it could be? Do you think there's... 100%. Yeah, there's an option for it to spread? Oh, mate, 100%, mate. All you've got to get is like, you've got to get

Big Nasty as our new host. Yeah. Right? Repackage it. All right. Yeah. So there is an option for it to spread to a new audience you just have to fire greg and hire big nasty and yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm just you know i'm just saying isn't it but

like you know i'm saying like there's definitely a way of making that uh show up but um yeah man that uh i had never really seen it now like i so i've seen clips on youtube but it kind of doesn't um translate if you don't watch the whole show, like you have to kind of see experience the whole show to really know what's going down. So when I got there, it was a complete surprise. Like I was like,

I, I generally don't know what's going on. I think that's what, I think that's, what's good about the show as well in the, in the lineups they pick is that there's clearly some people who have seen every episode, name it,

no names me. But then there's people who are sort of a bit lost when they're dumped into the middle of it. And there's no right way of doing it. It's just fun to see how it all plays out. Let's, I mean, let's get straight into it then. Let's start with the prize task of best drinking vessel. Let's talk about you straight away,

because it was it was one point because you just brought you just brought in a plastic cup jamali what were you what were you thinking mate honestly um my thought process was is you know listen you know me and you both does the show it pays well but i don't think it pays well enough for homework and i i feel offended by that like i feel offended that you're making me do extra work outside of the actual filming. Like, I think once the filming block's done, the filming block's done,

and I just, you know, I just don't feel as if that I should be made to do extra work. So when they said, what's your best drinking vessel? I was like, a plastic cup. And it is kind of, and it is technically the best answer.

Like, plastic cups have been invented specifically around the world. cup and it is technically the best answer. Cups have been invented specifically around the world because even like cutlery, you can debate it. You know what I'm saying? You can debate chopsticks. You've got chopsticks. Yeah, exactly. And that's the only other one. But I wish I had more examples. You've got chopsticks, you've got hands. but a cup has been replicated throughout cultures where if you're answering the question what is the best cup that is the best cup and also i was trying to be um i was trying to be quite uh you know antagonistic to greg sure i mean that definitely came across but also that that argument you just gave there of the

cup being replicated across all cultures i really liked that yeah i don't know if you said that in the studio on the night it did not make the edit right yeah i didn't say in the studio it's more convincing jamali rather than your other argument which i believe was and i'm paraphrasing here i'm not playing your bullshit game anymore um which is incredible for episode two to come up and say i'm not doing it anymore in episode two i've just got i've just got a problem with authority so whenever i'm facing we can all see that yeah whenever i'm faced with it i just have to i have to combat it so it's like even though i feel like i was right you know i just i just can't do it so it's like yeah so for me it was just to antagonize it but

i you know and generally i just couldn't think of a better answer i guess if you are looking at it in terms of in terms of the best drinking vessel as in the most functional yours yours is probably should be up there really but i think it was the fact that you just went yeah just a plastic cup i'm not playing a bullshit game anymore that's never gonna work with yeah and i love my impression of the show is that was my impression so i'm like it's an ostrich wearing a hat and that's sort of like my g too whimsical yeah you're just talking about the whimsy of it yeah yeah i've the whimsy of it but yeah i don't know man i just i did yeah and also in fact i think your impression of it was just stroking your chin and going oh vessel but uh yeah it was kind of like uh you know and also also i thought we would and before just for

comical reasons i thought it'd be more funny just to cut down the line and just be sure and just be like it's a cup in it yeah look you've gone with you've gone with the with the comic potential rather than getting the points which is oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah even though even though you know i didn't realize how much i wanted to win the show until I was there. Oh, really? I swear down. I had no interest. Because if you ask me, if you say to me, you know, so how many panel shows have you done right now?

How many? What, in terms of individual filmings? Yeah, individual filmings. 100? How many have you won of shows, like panel shows? Oh, well, normally it doesn't really matter, does it? That's the point I'm making. Yeah, it doesn't normally matter.

I don't know. So I was going in there with that mentality of, you know, it's a panel show, why would I, I don't care about winning. Until I got there and I was like, no, this is different to any other thing I've done. I need to win. Do you know what I mean? Does that make sense though?

And you'd already filmed the task, so it's basically too late by that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always too late by that. But I realised once I got to the studio, I was like, oh no, I actually kind of want to win this and that. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I kind of actually want to, you know, I think I would like to be the season winner on this one. That would be fun to see that play out throughout the season of your increased competitive nature. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It definitely comes across, not to spoil it, but it definitely... Oh, good. the breakdown is coming lee uh lee brought in uh simon cowell's mug from britain's got talent you know also a functional drinking vessel but i'd say it's sort of it should mark

it down that simon cowell's used it yes a hundred percent thank you and i don't believe the story to be honest with you i think he's lying I think Lee's lying do you think he's bought a mug off the Britain's Got Talent website I think I think the runners have bought a mug off the Britain's Got Talent website

even worse yeah I think the production budget paid for the yeah and paid for that mug I think Lee's a liar man huge conspiracy theory did you see in episode one

yeah me and Lee started throwing buckets at each other yeah Lee Lee has this unsustainable level to win yeah he would like like 100 well there we go lee branded a liar um yeah sarah's uh cup was something her daughter made now this is the opposite of a functional cup right so it was a a cup from her daughter's pottery class there was

a great big hole in the side of it. It's still got three points. I would argue with that. Sympathy vote? Yeah. I'll go for the sympathy on that. I'll say sympathy vote. Sorry, let me re-say that. Even though I'm trying to play the mean character,

I really like Sarah and I don't want to be too mean. Yeah, of course. But no, yeah, I don't think actually they've got three. But, you know, Greg has a weird way of deciding these points sometimes. He just kind of tickles his whims and that. So, you know, I think, honestly, I think Plastic Cup should have got, I don't think I should have got five points. I think I should have got two or three points.

I came into this discussion with you thinking, like the notes I've made have said that it scored pretty correctly. I would have swapped Lee and Sarah, maybe. I have put sarah lower than lee um but i would have put you at one point but after you told me that argument about cups in different cultures and how it's the most functional cup i'm well on board with you jamali but unfortunately it was just the way you presented it that's that's half the key with the prize yeah i know i can't win in a bit i've got a bit headstrong in it oh you went in a bit headstrong uh mike's mike's was a whittles spoon so i think you always get extra points on taskmaster for

making something yourself yeah yeah yeah and but this is a very mike wozniak prize because he tosses around terms like love spoon as if everyone's heard of them well it turned into more of a love spoon. Like, we don't know what... I had to look a love spoon up, turns out, No one knew what that meant. It's a Welsh thing. Yeah, no one knows what that means,

except him. But he's got this weird way of saying things that you don't know what it is, but you kind of know once he's said it. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

He's got this weird way of saying things. You kind of go, I don't know what that word means, but I know that you're saying it completely correct. Yeah. Everything, weird stuff makes sense in completely correct. Yeah. Everything,

weird stuff makes sense in his persona. A hundred percent, man. He's like, you know, when you get sent to do like a standup gig and they'll put you up in a weird Airbnb because it's the cheapest. He's like someone who owns one of those. Like you turn up,

you know, come in. All right. Take your shoes off. We lock the doors at 10. And that's the wall of love spoons. Don't touch them. Yeah. And he really wants to chat to you a long time. And then he goes, I you're doing okay chameleon okay that's all right do you know this guy you've never heard of do you know him

but uh yeah no mike mike definitely man mike's got one of them minds where especially when it comes to like the prize toss i think he's always going to be a good one at that because he's just got that really he's just got such an interesting mind fascinating guy um charlotte's charlotte won the five points with her grandfather's tankard that has a glass bottom i was a big fan of this because there's a bit of backstory always helps i think do you think do you think that was better than the whittled spoon see i don't well it was a better drinking vessel if we're using your metric of it actually being a good drinking vessel because it's a cup and cups are used in all cultures jamali i don't know if you know that um and i it appealed to me because i uh i like sort of big heavy metal viking things and that's the sort of i think that's the sort of thing i would have brought in but maybe with a skull on

it or some flames or something yeah it would have the skull of some flames yeah definitely and you would have done the devil horns as you handed it. As I, yeah, exactly. I'm always, you know me, Jamali,

I'm always doing the devil horns. Doing them right now. Yeah. But no, I, yeah, so I think the, I think that,

yeah, all right, I'm not going to get too mad because again, you see, this is the competitive side. I was about to really debate you and then try and push my points up

even though you have no right to push them up. Well, if we're talking about that, then that means we're saying that the drinking vessel is the most important thing. So I should be bumped up to two points. And if anything, Mike Wozniak

should have been put down to one point. That's the thing. Yeah. I've got no domain here. I can't sort that out for you, Jamali. I'm so sorry. But after your argument, I think maybe bump you up a point.

I just think that there should be some type of after the fact. You know how there's a football game and there's something that's happened, you can kind of debate it and take it to the FIFA. I think there should be some type of protocol. Well, I suppose in the first episode, you did get that extra point when you proved to Greg that he couldn't spin the pillow. Maybe on this episode, later on in the show, you should have been able to prove that you could drink from a plastic cup.

That might have got you an extra point. Which was risky because if he just started spinning it, like, perfectly, I would have... Amazing, yeah, that would have... I would like a right mark. That would have been zero points. It's a good price. It's a good price.

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better tomorrow join us at yorku.ca slash write the future um task one proper uh make that balloon hover untethered for 20 seconds during the hovering the top of the balloon must not be higher than your chin and the bottom must not be lower than your waist also you must sneer throughout the 20 seconds fastest uh wins your time starts now how did how did you feel about tasks like this because this is the sort of one that always used to stress me out massively i i don't like these type of tasks like i generally don't like it's just such a because it kind of is because i think some of the tasks are there is no right answer yeah i think they're the ones that i do better at because there is no right answer it's just how you do it. Yeah. And there's like a way, you know, there's, there's a million ways to skin that cat.

But this one is, it felt like the whole time there was something I was missing. It felt like a trick question. Yeah. And I hate, I hate trick questions. Yeah. And the whole time I'm just stressing out.

I'm like, well, this feels like a trick question, but I don't know what the answer is. Do you know what I'm saying? No, it's all right. You know,

something's wet, but also dry. I don't know what that is. I don't know.'m saying though it's all right you know something's wet but also dry i don't know what that is i don't know and i know it's so easy because i thought like it was gonna be like all you had to do was place your finger on top of it and it would have do you know yeah and like yeah i do really draws me out man it makes you feel it makes you feel stupid it's only different i did than we yeah you're just like oh come on there must be a good way but having said that you got the five points because you did it quickly. You got the woolly jumper, which was good.

Alex did help you. You asked him a question about what sort of jumper would work. He told you a woolly jumper, even though later on in the task you're saying, what's your job to him? Yeah, he didn't help enough. You were slightly helped by the fact that Lee and Charlotte both lost their balloons almost immediately.

Of course. I mean, because the thing is, those balloons, especially like them, they were ready to fly off so quickly. likely helped by the fact that lee and charlotte both lost their balloons almost immediately of course i mean because the thing is is those balloons especially like them that they were ready to fly off so quickly man yeah those helium balloons do you know what i actually know what see again you're thinking about it no actually that wouldn't have worked because i'm saying what i could have done was release the balloon of the helium and blow it back up with normal air and that would have been easier for it to you know that's why let's see but but it's all in hindsight isn't it that's what you it's all in hindsight and when so I should have done when I watched it back well I'm watching it back when I watched it um my my instinct was when I had time when you're sitting on the sofa and you can think about it and you're not in that moment

I thought could you pop the you could pop the balloon would that make it easier to make it hover but then I think I was just being too clever because pop the balloon. Would that make it easier to make it hover? But then I think I was just being too clever because I don't think it would make it easier to make it hover. I think it would make it way harder. Yeah, it would actually make it very hard, didn't it? Because I mean, you just have a piece of plastic, you've got to kind of make it hover in the air.

Yeah, I think static was the right way to go. Such a dumb idea. Yeah, it was a terrible idea, really. I would have ended up popping it and putting it in water and trying to claim that water was hovering yeah yeah i mean but then you know is that but then that's that's that's that's the annoying thing about it is that wrong but then you got you had to keep it like a certain level as well just put it in a glass and then just hold it in between you yeah that's actually do you know i think i know that's floating that's not

hovering that's floating yeah but that would have been that's i would have got to the point where i've gone i don't know how to do this properly so i'm going to do it in a really annoying way and then argue in the studio with greg for ages yeah yeah yeah i think you i don't think you would have got zero i think someone was bound to make that balloon fly away like i think that was just inevitable like someone i didn't expect to i thought only one person would make it fly away but yeah it was definitely inevitable I think that's the thing you forget sometimes when you're doing them is as long as you complete the task you probably won't come bottom because there'll be someone who fucks it so badly that they get zero you're playing the laws of average yeah

yeah exactly Sarah went with the static what the edit was quite cruel to sarah here because everyone basically realized the static thing straight away apart from apart from mike um and then uh but they showed sarah's edit she was doing stuff for like half an hour before she went static electricity it just made her seem so slow yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean because the thing is it's just in that moment though man you just, like, it's just the pressure of being filmed and having to do it and the time constraint. And you really do just forget the basic logic. It made me have more respect for Bear Grylls than he can think under that much pressure. Do you know what I'm saying, though?

Like, I like to think that if I was stuck in the wilderness, I'd be like, yeah, man, you know, I'd sit down and think, but I'll just panic. Do you know what I mean? If I can't handle thinking about static, how am I going to handle like yeah man you know i'd sit down and think but i'll just panic if i can't handle if i can't handle like thinking about static how am i gonna handle like you know having to hunt and kill prey yeah but i'd be interested to see if bear grills could do what he does if alex horn was following him around with an ipad do you know i think he would crumble yeah i don't think he could handle that half the tasks i did i ended up within 10 minutes in the shed just going oh god what am i gonna get yeah and that's why i love that shed as well because you just for some reason

you always think there's something in the shed that's going to help and there's like so much shit in that shed that is just pointless yeah i mean it's just unhelpful stuff but then sometimes you find that one thing in the shed and you just go, this is, this is, this is, this is it. This is, this is the saving grace. But you're right. You know, I, in the back of my mind as a production, they,

they go, we're going to put the perfect thing to solve the task in the shed, but they're not doing that. They're just, they're, they're letting you do whatever you want. But in my mind, it's like,

there's got to be an answer. Yeah. There's a bunch of nothingness in that shit. Like it's literally like nothingness. Like I just thought there was one time I looked in that shed and it was literally just a pedal off a bike just one pedal off a bike and you've got what this is and it was there was no other bike there was no broken bike it was just a pedal off a bike like it's just it's just pointless shit and quite often there's just stuff left over from other series and other yeah like

you'll see you'll recognize i'll recognize something from a task you know in series seven or something it's like well that it looks like that would be helpful but i know just no one's cleared that up yet yeah literally that shed isn't really even made it's just people comedians just started going in there trying to help themselves it's just a storage cupboard yeah it's not actually made to help anyone it's just a storage cupboard. It's not actually made to help anyone. It's just a storage cupboard. We've got to talk about Mike because this is quite an incredible effort. So he loses the balloon.

We think he's done for. And then still he sees the balloon over the fence and he ran over the fence and went and got the balloon. That was true dedication from Mike Wozniak. Would you have done that, Jamali?

Yeah, I would have done that. Yeah? Honestly, I don't think I would have looked for it, though. You know what I'm saying, though? Like, the fact that he saw it. Like, I would have just, once that balloon's gone, I'd be like, all right, well, task done and gone inside. I'd like to throw it.

Even though my initial thinking, I would like to have said, I would have gone and thought I would have. Once that balloon's out of my hands, then yeah, I think I would have gave up pretty quickly. Yeah. Like, genuinely. I second thought it. I was like, yeah, I think I would have gave up pretty quickly. Like, genuinely. I second thought it. I was like, yeah, I'll probably just be like, well, alright. Well, you can't win them all.

So, it was 0 points for Lee and Charlotte because they lost the balloon. 3 points for Sarah Kendall. 4 points for Mike Wozniak. And 5 points for you, Jamali. Put your balloon back one sneery sneery

two sneery sneery four sneery sneery five sneery sneery sneery sneery nine sneery sneery ten sneery sneery twenty sneery sneery well thank you I'm very happy I got your balloon back Alex 20 sneery sneery.

Well, thank you. I'm very happy I got your balloon back, Alex. I don't want you to lose that, in case you need it. Thanks. Thank you, Mike. Task two. Have an argument. You must take it in turns to angrily make a point using no more than ten words,

and you must always end your point with a different four-letter word you must look at each other during the argument and the person speaking must angrily wag their finger during their speech the argument is over when there's 10 seconds of silence or when one of you looks away longest argument wins your argument must start three minutes from now i mean that's got to be up there with the one of the longest task descriptions ever i think yeah and there's so much information you've got to remember but then also funny enough uh just some about when that task because you're just standing on that podium right and we was there for i would stand on that podium by myself for ages and i thought that was part of the task yeah i know i'm sort of like arguing with alex and then i see sarah come and so me and sarah thought that when a Alex was like well I'll explain the task in

a bit and I'll explain the task in a bit so then we started trying to solve the task yeah that's how paranoid it makes you it really was I was so paranoid so I was like explaining so then when that happened I think I have only one shoe on doing that task yeah you do yeah because you tried to take your laces out to try and get the task. What I loved about that, Jamali, so this is the first team task of the series. So, I mean, this probably proves that you hadn't really watched it before. Because when I was in a team,

I was in a team of three. I was one of the people walking in and Katie Wicks was there. And then we said, can we open the task? And Alex said, no, you've got to wait. And then I immediately clicked, there's someone else coming. It's a team of three. Okay, yeah.

Right. So with you, you're waiting for ages. Sarah arrives. And both of you at no point thought there must be someone else coming. You thought the task was to get the task from another podium. And you never had the thought of Charlotte arriving. No, no. It never crossed my mind.

Never. Didn't even think about it that it was there was not even a possibility that it wasn't for me to take my shoes off tie the laces together to make some type of garage and swing it over and get the task that way absolutely no no love it it was mad so what when when you were thinking about that you thought i've got to get the task with my laces that that's the only option that must be what they want me to do did did you have any uh thing in mind as to what the task might be at that point what do you think was in the envelope if if you had to get it with your laces probably get off the podium as quick

as possible or something or switch podiums or say say your name you know i mean in a in a in an accent is it something stupid like i just i just i honestly don't even know man like you know but yes first team task did you did you know either of uh sarah or charlotte before going in never met charlotte and i've never met charlotte but i know of like i i had um no I never met her yeah and and I I know Sarah I actually did a week in Amsterdam with Sarah for Tumla oh cool yeah I did the summer festival with her so I had worked with Sarah before and it's like so I did a week with her in Amsterdam and then I'd never and I had never seen I hadn't seen her since then and that was maybe like a year and a half ago but uh yeah so I know Sarah Sarah andah and i mean sarah cool you know i'm saying yeah that's the thing about being a comic if you have to do

something like a week with someone or a festival you basically it's like you've known them at work for 20 years because you have to make friends with them really quickly yeah and you and you end up with friends with people that because i mean she you know she's a she's a she's a mom of two you know australian lady and i was a you know i was a 25 you know 27 year old comedian from london and then you just end up being like really good mates and it's just really weird like you know i'm saying in normal life with people that would never hang out with each other probably but you know when you sort of do a when you do a gig with someone abroad you kind of just become these sort of like you know holiday friends yeah and that's good i guess that that does help if you if you're in a team with someone on something like this i mean it

didn't necessarily didn't necessarily help here you guys didn't win this one um no i think it was unfair because there was only two in the other one so i think it makes it easier for you no i think they can bounce back a conversation way easier than us you know because it's just because then it's just two people so it's like yeah i think i think i think i think it was because then i've got a uh carry on a conversation from a two other people where it's easier for two people to sort of bounce back and forth so i think it was a i think i'm gonna call you on that one jamali i think you've got way longer to think of stuff if i mean and and look your first contribution to the conversation made me laugh so much you just got straight in there and use the word fuck even though it didn't really make sense

you're like i'm claiming that straight away i'm taking yeah because i knew someone else was going to take it because i don't mind losing the task i just didn't want to be the person that lost the task for them yeah you know what i mean charlotte was never gonna charlotte was never gonna use that she the first thing she did was work out was just like fuck. Charlotte was never going to use that. The first thing she did was work out how many letters hand had. She was never going to. Yeah, I'm just really bad with the number of letters in a word. I've actually got mad dyslexia in that so I can't spell.

Right, okay. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, so I can't spell. That's why I've never done AI 10 does countdown because it will literally be every round of me just saying four letters yeah my word is and and cat you know i mean so uh yeah so i can't spell so i really struggled like this one was the one that kind of gave me the most like i really don't think i'm going to be able to do this but you did like you say you did you said in the studio as well, at no point in the task, does it say that the conversation has to make sense?

So you just concentrated on getting the four letter words out there, even though it didn't really create a conversation, a coherent conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

Cause I think that's it. You just kind of, yeah. And it's always like, that's what I like to do sometimes, especially with like those tasks is what I learned is, it's just read it very literal. Yeah. And cause then you can always debate your point of like what you didn't say you had to make a full coherent

conversation you know if you ever been to any bus stop at 10 o'clock at night you know i'm saying you will hear these conversations so it is technically a conversation i really like that you use the word town and then when alex challenged on it, you said it's slang that he doesn't understand. Yeah, I've done that. I've done that a few times. It's a technique I use mostly on like sort of middle-classy people. I do it to my agent sometimes. I love it.

Yeah, just make people feel uncomfortable for not knowing it. That's perfect. Absolutely, man. Mike and Lee managed to argue for five minutes 35 seconds uh and it ended with it was a really good effort um but i would challenge that they were having an argument because at the end they were like the characters within the argument were showing each other their genitals and stuff it didn't it turned into a bit of a love-in to be honest uh and also lee started used the word use and it didn't it didn't quite

make sense for me i think there was some you could have picked them up on a couple of bits but other than that i think they did deserve the points it was pretty good yeah yeah yeah all jokes are they did i think they definitely they they won that task very clearly and it was you know and they did harder yeah they did yeah well you know it was it was harder for them i'm gonna say it but that i thought that until you you got that sob story about dyslexia and until you start doing them hearts i've put on the heartstrings yeah you can't this is war man you gotta use any technique you can right above your teeth it's too bare Below my belt is also. Below your belt should look like a bear.

It's what I mean. You're talking tosh. I'll show you my cock. I would love to see you wang. Task three, make the house haunted. Most haunted house wins. You have an hour. Your time starts now.

Now, this is the sort of task that I loved. I love stuff like this. I love anything where you have an hour. You starts now now this is the sort of task that i loved i love stuff like this i love anything where you have an hour you can go to the dressing room have a little think and ask there's a famous chickpea one yes the chickpea one thank you man yeah so that's the sort of thing that that style of task where you have a bit of time to think about it um now you did you asked me to remind you before we recorded this what what you did and i don't know how you could possibly forget what you did because I thought I honestly thought it was genius I thought it was a really fun idea I think it was like something from a haunted house a haunted house in like 1930s Disney or something or you know in a really early horror film your one problem was that you use string when you could have asked

them to get you fishing wire or something you could have asked to get something translucent and that might have worked better i forgot the wording of so in my head i was thinking fishing wire all right is this a dyslexic thing again no no it's not dyslexic just me this this is me being silly right this is actually me being stupid but i forgot uh fishing wire and you know when i said string i didn't think they were going to get me yarn string. I thought they were going to get me, like, thin string. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

So I should have been specific of thin string. They never, you know, they never said what's, it was just, you know, so I messed up on the string. Yeah, big string, I think you kept saying. Yeah, okay, yeah, but I meant big as in long, not big as in thick. Do you know what I'm saying? No, like, I didn't mean it as in girth. I meant it as in length. But it as in thick. Do you know what I'm saying? No, like I didn't mean it as in girth. I meant it as in length.

But it was a very funny, it's a very conversation, a very funny conversation. And those are the things that tend to live on in the minds of people with Taskmaster. So if you use fishing wire and done it that way, it might have looked fine on the night, looked quite impressive, but people aren't going to remember that.

What they will remember is your explanation of the scariest thing being if all the shops sold out of strength yeah yeah yeah man yeah it was i enjoyed i enjoyed that i did enjoy that sort of back when i enjoyed the time and i was really i thought i thought it came out looking funny you know i'm saying it did it came out looking really funny i think something i think you know because like you said you know something looking great and amazing it can be cool too but then somebody's like an absolute dog shit and this is like you could just blatantly see the string being pulled because i think that's the you know i think it's like especially like you know when you when you watch films yeah you can blatantly see the

string yeah i think i find that more entertaining than when it's done perfectly definitely no i completely agree that woman and i and i know for a fact that they would have really enjoyed doing that one as a team as well as soon as you came up with that one i bet like the andes especially would have been really excited to do that because you can tell they've labeled all the strings and stuff and they've got really into how it looks it's really fun because i wanted to change it and they were like no trust me this is funny and i went all right cool you know because they're like they're like you know go with your initial idea because i told them that idea initially and they're like that's funny as hell and i was kind of like okay

all right and then they then they came out and they said they all look good on the edit and it did they did look funny yeah it was great i have to give them props for that you know um charlotte's uh effort she had the mannequin in the chair that everyone thought was her and she was controlling objects from underneath the table. The only issue with hers was at the end for some reason she decided to reveal herself. Yeah, yeah. For no reason.

That was the scary part of the reveal was like actually it wasn't me the whole time. Like really? Yeah, that's not what you want from a horror film as greg says i think you don't want to you don't want to see how it's done yeah at the end particularly unless you can see how it's done from the beginning anyway because there's big thick ropes connecting everything this big string big string um although yeah no it was good and the mannequin did it fooled

me a bit as well um sarah recreated the shining um using alex as the little kid uh and herself as the twins which was quite i think that was quite i think that was quite that's quite that was quite a horrifying image the first time i saw it was alex yeah pretend to be a little kid i don't know why there's something about an old looking man on a little bicycle yeah look it's quite it's quite i don't know it is quite scary. It is scary. But I think with her as the twins, I think it proves that kids are scarier than adults because obviously The Shining is scarier than that.

But she did a really good job. Look, she had an idea. She stuck to it. I thought she pulled it off really well. Yeah, she was really fun. Lee told the story of the haunted caravan using the Ouija board. And I like the little twist in Lee's.

So he said, oh no, it's not real. Sorry, we're not really doing it. I'm doing all of this. Which explained within the story why it looked quite bad. And then the ghost came out and that was the twist. I thought it was good.

But my one point, and I would have argued this in the studio, he hadn't haunted the house, he haunted the caravan. That's not what the task was. That is a very good angle. I didn't even think of that angle. That is a very good angle. I think when they say the house,

I think they include the caravan in that. I think that's where you would have, I don't think you would have won that argument, but I would have. I would have torn into it, man. I would have won it, but I would have kicked off. Yeah, I would have enjoyed seeing it. And I would have said, you know what? He's got a good point have enjoyed seeing it and i would have said you know

what he's got a good point it's all when people say you know it's when people say tupac is the best of lives and i go i get why you say that right it's not right just i'm saying no like i get it and i think you will debate me to the end then you would even nearly convince me about it but it's not true and i think that's kind of where you would have gone with that argument that would have been that's a very good point though even though i don't agree with you it's a very good point it's the sort i mean uh last week uh we had richard herring on the podcast and he made the point that you tried to drop charlotte in it for the rat catching task by saying she she wasn't three meters away from the rat when she caught it even though you weren't

three meters away from the technically i was because technically there was no evidence to say i was because they blurred out your hand because they blurred out my hands and you know if we're talking about listen there's there's an old saying uh that i like to live by no face no case if you don't actually catch me doing the crime then it doesn't i think it doesn't hold up in court you could listen we all know oj did it but it didn't fit so you must have quit. You know what I'm saying? We've got to talk about it.

There has to be some law in it. And technically, I could see Charlotte wasn't that far away, but you didn't see my hands. Right, okay. So you're comparing your rat-catching task to the OJ case. Basically, I compare everything in my life to the OJ trial. I thought you'd know that about me. If there's one thing I want to be known for when I die is that he compared his life to the OJ trial. I thought you'd know that about me. If there's one thing I want to be known for when I die

is that he compared his life to the OJ trial. Every element of his life was comparable to the OJ trial. Yeah, I definitely would have argued. Yeah, I think you're probably right. I might have lost that. Because also, I'd imagine there was a point where Lee came up with a caravan idea that he said, oh, it's not the house, I can't do it. point where lee came up with a caravan idea that they said

that he said oh it's not the house i can't do it and they probably pushed him towards the caravan because it's it's a different location it just varies it up a bit yes but for i do you know i honestly i think that um it probably was a production maybe because it employs it kind of visually but then if we're looking on it i think as well i think picking a caravan so if we're not guys you know debating the idea but just in terms of visual i think a caravan for a horror looks better than the house because that's not a scary house yeah you know i'm saying but the caravan is quite there's something quite eerie about it i think caravans in general that aren't like really nice you know the ones that like you know really really nice ones like the ones that cost too much money for a caravan.

There's something quite weird about them. Something quite seventies and weird about it. Yeah, definitely. He picked a good choice. Normally like, yeah. In horror films,

if someone lives in a caravan, they're not, they're a bad egg, right? Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Finally,

Mike, he literally created a haunted house. The whole house was a haunted entity in itself that beckoned Alex in and then chewed him up and spat out his remains. Like you say about Mike, he's got a unique brain and I think this was a good example of that. Yeah, I think it was good editing though.

I think a lot of it was down to the editing. Interesting. So I've written this down as well. Right. That was my one issue with Mike. It was a lot of it was down to the editing. Interesting. So I've written this down as well. Right. That was my one issue with Mike. It was a lot of fix, right? Yeah. So you've got to think about what Mike actually had to do on the day.

It's very little. So he would have said, I've had this idea. And you know, Mike's great. Mike's directed short films before. I'm sure he was very clear with what he wanted. I'm sure he asked for all of it. But he didn't do a lot of it. I think you're right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with you. A very good idea. Yeah. And I think you always know you're onto a bit of a winner back in the studio when Greg says, let's drill down into the narrative. Greg loves drilling down into the narrative.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It looked great. Like, I think it looked like one of the better ones, but visually, but I think it's like, I think it kind of isn't what the time i think if anyone broke the rules i think that was breaking the rules the most it was maybe against the spirit of what they'd hoped for but it came out looking great and also like i prefer horror films with with proper practical effects you know i'd rather

watch you i'd rather watch yours yours is very much you know a sort of night of the living dead versus i'm a purist versus mike's avatar yeah you're a purist i'm a purist i'm a definitely um i agreed with greg that no one should have got low points i think everyone everyone did do a good job i would perhaps argue that you should not have got the same amount of points as charlotte i think charlotte should have maybe had two points for hers if we're comparing it to yours. Yours was three points. And then Lee and Mike got joint four points. I think you should have been bumped up in all honesty, Jamali. I think you should have had another point for yours.

Oh, really? I would have given the other two five. And then gave me three. And then gave... I would have given Charlotte three too. I think Charlotte won with... It's just the end reveal maybe. The end fucked it a bit, yeah. Yeah, yeah. think I think uh I wouldn't have been mad that uh me and Charlotte both getting three and then giving them to the the four or five or you know and and Sarah five as well

comparing Sarah's and Mike's I know yeah Mike's the editing and all of that but I think Mike had a truly original idea whereas Sarah was parodying a film already so i don't know whether they they should have made mike should have been bumped up potentially but yeah i thought they i thought they were all pretty good i think it's a rare example of no one fumbled it really no no they were yeah they're all fun in their own way i guess yeah i agree with you so there were lots of classic taboo key there. White Sheep was requested for the classic ghost by Lee, corpse. And then, of course, out on the biggest, the spookiest request of them all,

some big, scary string. So big. Yeah, yeah. My thing was to buy out all the string, cos there's nothing more scary than when you need string and there ain't none. They're like, oh, I'm Greg Davies, I need some string. There ain't none. Jamali's bought it all. All't none. Oh, I'm Greg Davis, I need some string. There ain't none. Jamali's boy.

All your thoughts start with, I'm Greg Davis, and then you have the thought. Always. Studio task. Correctly guess your standing in the group. The taskmaster will read out a category, and then you must hold a number that reflects your standing. Most correct answers wins.

Now, I like this because usually the studio tasks are quite fraught and tense yeah because you've got to do something or get something right and everyone's looking at you but this is quite this was quite a chill studio task i thought yeah but you know what it was chilled but it was more physically chilled but more psychological because they they just came up to me when i was in the getting ready like in the dressing room they were just can't yeah how many eggs can you hold and you go why do you want to know? Don't worry. It was just bare like,

it just annoyed me until we found out what it was. Do you know what I'm saying? So with the eggs, with the eggs, did they make you do it to prove it? Yeah, they made us hold the eggs. Some of them were just questions. Like how much milk do you drink? Hey Jumaane, actually,

and they'll ask you just bare like, they'll just knock on your door and say, hey, what do you want to eat later? And you go, oh, I want this. And they go, how much milk do you think you drink, Jumaane? And you want to eat later and you go oh i want this and they go how much how much drinking milk how much milk you think you drink and you go why and you go i'm just asking and you go well i don't know and it's just bare like it was just bare challenge i'm saying like so that part kind of messed me up a little bit but um yeah it was in terms of actually physicality it was quite chilled especially from the last episode

where we're throwing buckets at each other yeah the um the most tragic thing about this task i thought is you guessed that you had the second most amount of phone contacts uh but in reality you had by far the lowest amount of phone contacts yeah 100% actually no i think it's such a weird question because i don't know i think i have more than that how much should i say again it's well they said you had 150 phone contacts which is like i think half of the next person's yeah i, I think, honestly, I think it's kind of... You remember earlier when I said how many panel shows you've done and you just went, like, 100? 100, yeah.

You just kind of don't... You don't know the number, so you just kind of sound the number that sounds legit. Like, 150 contacts sounds like what I would have. I think I have more. Like, I generally could not know or remember. You must have more than that. I think so. You're a popular guy jamali come on you've got more than i mean i don't i don't have a gambles number but you know that's another that's another that's true

that's true actually you don't have mine so you know i'll say i'm happy to send happy to send it to you and then you can bump it up to 150 i'd say so i'll say if i don't have a gambles number do actually have any numbers worth having throw Throw your phone in the sea. You might as well, you might as well throw it away. You know what I mean? But yeah, no, I, yeah, it is, yeah, so I probably do have more than 150. So I, it was, that's why I like, I sort of said that number and I thought I would have the second amount of most numbers. Yes. Yeah. Oh yeah. I thought Charlotte would have the most numbers.

Yeah. I was surprised that Lee did. I don don't know what just because lee's like greg makes out that lee's the old the old man in the series so i assume he didn't even have a phone yeah yeah no real talk yeah he's like he's texting me you know like when old people have their text but the writing's real big yeah it's like it's like a whole like you know it's like a whole like it's like a size fucking 20. um the most frequent washing of towels made me feel like absolute scum to be honest because charlotte washes hers like once every three days i think i'm once a month like mike once a month really yeah that's common once a month i don't know i did i thought that was normal but apparently not. I have a lot of towels, though.

Yeah, you showed off about your towels on the show as well. Yeah, I have a lot of towels. So I just sort of use them, put them in the wash basket, use them, put them in the... Do you know what I'm saying? So I just have like... I think I've got 15 towels. But how are you drying your towels, Jamali?

Because towels take ages to dry don't they ironically um do you have a washing machine you just use a tumble dryer right yeah i've got a washing dryer yeah oh yeah so do we but the dryer is quite poor so we'd have to dry the dry the towels on the rack and then that takes you know two days and it does yeah towels do towels do for something that needs to be wet for its purpose it does take a long time to dry something that needs to be wet for its purpose of it needs to be wet yeah that's a that's a very that's a very interesting point and i think we me and you have just had a business idea of quick dry towels but i think we should have before someone else i think me and you uh gonna make a million pounds but no i uh also that's the sort of

thing i would do a stand-up and you absolutely would not do you know what i think we should both do the angle and see what each of us come up with mine will obviously become racial obviously mine would be about like you know it would be obviously turned into some racial debate it's like because you know i think the white people are holding towels white people are keeping all the good towels. Yeah, that's a real conspiracy. We're talking about slavery, but we should talk about the towels. Mike was a once-a-month man with the towels as well, which then made me feel sick, because he'd already admitted to drinking 37 pints of milk a month.

So I just imagine he sweats milk out of his body, so he's got stinky milk towels. That's 37 pints of milk a month yeah i think that's horrible that's very excessive are you you vegan i'm not vegan but i i was vegan for a bit weirdly i was vegan for like eight or nine months and i think i remember that time that's why i said you yeah and in that time i stopped drinking milk obviously and now i've never gone back to it so now i will have almond milk, really. I just don't have calories.

Yeah, no, I'm kind of the same way now as well. And it's, you know, I think, yeah, that's a lot of milk, man. Yeah. How much did you say it's all 37 gallons? 37 pints a month. It's a lot. It's a huge amount. Yeah, man.

Because how many is a pint of milk in your tea? Because if he's even just having, but then he's not drinking, like, he's not drinking 12 cups of tea a lot. It's a huge amount. Yeah, man. Because how many is a pint of milk in your tea? Because if he's even just having... But then he's not drinking, like... He's not drinking 12 cups of tea a day. No, that's too much milk. No, but he said he has it in tea and coffee and on cereal, and then he just drinks glasses of milk, like a 12-year-old boy.

Which I think is mental. Yeah, it's so weird. But a 12-year-old boy in the 1940s, where you think that, like, that's what was going to make you grow strong. Yeah, because of a government advert. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for real. Yeah, no, that's an was going to make you grow strong yeah because of a government advert yeah yeah yeah no for real yeah no that's an insane amount of milk um lee won that studio task uh because he knows himself which is i guess is something that comes with age as well

you know you know yourself and you know where you are in groups of people um which all means that mike actually won the the episode with 21 points, quite far ahead of everyone else. It was Sarah Kendall second, then Lee Mack, and then Your Good Self, and then Charlotte Ritchie below you. So series points, Mike is in the lead there. But it's only second episode, so it's all pretty close. It's all to play for.

It's all to play for. you know, it's, it's only second episode. So it's all pretty close. It's, it's all to play for. It's all to play for. Yeah.

But it's, yeah, I think, I think it, you know, honestly, like I, and like the ones that,

the things that gave Mike the points to win that episode, I'm not even that mad at to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah. I think, yeah, the film thing is debatable, but I think you can't deny the quality of it.

It's just the way he got to it. Yeah. I agree. I agree. it's just the way he got to it yeah i agree i agree we've got a few emails uh from listeners um hi ed lj here big taskmaster fan from surabaya indonesia surabaya i don't know if i'm pronouncing that right. Big up Indonesia, man. I love Indonesia. It's a great country. Love the show and have watched possibly all Taskmaster content on YouTube. Question

for Jamali. Does Greg really make you as angry as it seems or are you just trying to get under his skin? Thanks and keep up the good work on the podcast. Good question. Big up Indonesia and I would say I'm just trying to get under his skin, really. Do you know what? Greg does remind me of a lot of my teachers where they like me and because they

see i have potential they give me a hard time yeah that makes sense like i'm saying i see i definitely have that i definitely felt that with greg where greg's like you know he sees potential so he's kind of gives me a tougher time because it's like, you can do better than that. You know what I'm saying? But I think he does deep down believe in me. I completely agree. And also I would say what they're very good at in the edit of the studio stuff as well,

with you especially, is they leave in all your stuff of you being antagonistic, but then they also leave in you laughing as well. So it's clear it's not, you're not actually angry at Greg. It's all good fun. Yeah, it's all good. But but that first episode that first episode he was definitely taken aback by how you came out of the traps all guns blazing he was definitely like all right we've got we've got a live one here we've got a wild buck here yeah yeah um hi jamali what else can you spin on your finger and how did you learn to do it i started

this is from dave in miami and florida by the way um i started with a frisbee and worked my way up to laptops and ipads and then also books and cushions but i can't spin a basketball also you got totally screwed by greg that should have been five points so yeah question from dave in florida what else can you spin on your finger? Honestly, just pillows. And I cannot spin a basketball. I think I can do pizza though. Yes. I think that would translate,

but I can't do basketball. And how I learned was is, I used to do it to my mum's pillows. Like I think I was like, I think, do you know what? If I really think back to it, because I've been doing it for years, like it's kind of like a party trick. Of all the things you could have been doing to your mom's

pillows i think that's very funny um because i used to do that as well but i um that's that's how i found my love for pillows but what i would do is could you spin them yeah yeah yeah so what i do is i would what i would do is is i would actually um burn holes in it with uh the friction yes and my mom's all my mom's pillows growing up would have holes in them because well i'd be spinning them and i'd sit on the sofa and spin them for hours and it would create friction and actually make little burn holes and my mom used to get fucking livid with me my mom would be like stop fucking spinning these pillows and i would do it for hours and then i remember one time we went my mom my mom said to me uh she goes like why did you you spend so much time spinning

pillows like it's not a job like there's no career in spinning pillows and so i rang my mom that night and i said to her you said there was no career in spinning pillows and i look at your boy spinning pillows on national tv i hope you use some of your some of your fee from taskmaster to buy us some new pillows yeah i should actually in it i mean i spent all my i spent all the past master money already on my own pillows for spinning but um no yeah so i've been i've been doing it since i was like maybe like i don't know i've been doing since i was like 10 that's great but i can't do any other um i can't spin nothing else i can't spin a laptop i think a laptop um is is too much there's not enough weight distribution for me so i don't

know how and also you don't want you need to be pretty sure you can spin it properly right yeah yeah it's a bit heavy but i can do pillows i can yeah so i've been doing it i've been doing it for years and i don't i think it was me pretending i was spinning a basketball when i was like imagining in my head and then yeah came as pillows and I didn't realize no one else couldn't do it until other people saw me doing it and then tried to do it and they're going like how do you do it I didn't realize it wasn't easy for everyone to do it that's great I love that it's a really weird skill it's just a really strange skill yeah but comedy is one of the comedies one of I think the one of the only careers where you can pick up weird skills like that and eventually you might get a chance to use them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, isn't it? Like, it's definitely a good part. And I think that was one thing, like, when I did that taskmaster task,

I was happy. I was like, oh, I can spin a pillow. Like, it was my first thing. I was like, oh, I can spin, I can get this out of the way. Spin a pillow on my finger.

This is from Darren. Hi. Could you take Greg? Your attitude to him suggests you believe you can, but could you? In like a scrap? Yeah. Oh, do you know what?

I'll be honest with you. I think it would be a good scrap. I think the age thing might weigh in my favour. He's got a lot of height and weight on me. I would probably, in my technique, I would probably go for the kneecaps. He looks like one of them big guys with bad knees. I'd go

for the kneecap. I don't think I want to get into a grappling match with him. No. Because I think he's overbearing. Yeah, if he gets on top of you, that's the end, right? That's it. Do you know what I'm saying? If he gets on top of you, he could just hold you down and be like, relax! You know them ones there where you just, relax! Like, you know, as I worm out's it do you know what i'm saying if he gets on top he could just hold you down and be like relax you know then one day we just relax like you know as i worm out of it um yeah i don't know man i don't know i think i'd like to say i could but i don't know he'd give

me a good one i think i think it'll be it'll be a tasty scrap you know i think you'd have to you'd have to deal with him quickly because if he gets one if he gets one in yeah yeah yeah that's it you go you it's one of them brothers where you can't mess around. You've got to do that. You've got to fight dirty with him. You've got to be like, I don't want the bang. You know what I'm saying?

Like, you can't go in there and be like, all right, let's do it fair. You know what I'm saying? But I think kneecaps would be my technique. Kneecaps, yeah. And kneecaps are about head height as well, so you could just grab them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You could shit. That's it, man. Just shit. Yeah. Here we're going to elbow strike. This is from Olivia. Dear Jamali, did you regret the bum bag papoose on the plates task? No, I think I had a good idea.

I just didn't execute it well. Yeah, I'd say so. Like, I think the idea was solid. I just didn't tie it tight enough. And, you know, I think it just, you know, I think I messed up on that. And I think I picked the best mode of transport as well. Yeah, I think so. I think, yeah, you know, I think I messed up on that. And I think I picked the best mode of transport as well. Yeah, I think so. I think, yeah, all the ideas were right.

But yeah, it was so frustrating to watch those plates just spilling out. Because at some point you must have realized they were spilling out and just decided to just let them go, right? Yeah, I just gave up on that point, mate. I was like, well, they're gone. But I think the bike probably would have been, I think my, do you know, actually, I think if I would have done the bike and then wrap them around the handlebar i think it would

yeah work a lot better but you know in the moment in the moment it's gone i don't regret it though yep this is from connor in plymouth is our final email uh dear ed and jamali what was jamali's favorite task if it's a spoiler can he tease us with three words to sum it up many thanks connor It's a spoiler. Can he tease us with three words to sum it up? Many thanks, Connor. I mean, your favourite task might have been in one of the first two episodes, but if you've got one coming up that you really enjoyed,

do you have any words that could sum it up without spoiling it? I think it was the first one we filmed, and it's actually not out yet. But I'll give you a little clue, and it you a little clue and it's hiss okay that's the clue hiss hiss hot knives we always we always ask uh our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five points uh we've got a little table going so would would what would you give this podcast i'll give this a solid four points man i'm happy with that solid four points and the only and the only way and it's my fault

why it's not a five is just because it's uh it's just audio i can't see you because yeah that's the problem we had a crappy laptop and also issues with the setup yeah and it may and it's my fault so i'm giving my performance a four i don't think i've been on the point and it's just because it's like when i can't see you i feel like i'm speaking over you sometimes well yeah you've not been at all you've been great it's been great if it's so much if anything i think you know we've not been able to see each other but i would give it five points because i've had such a lovely time catching up. So well done.

I'm going to give you a bonus point, Jamali. Thank you so much, man. It was lovely being here. Thank you. Thanks very much for coming on. Peace. I'm loving this series so much. I think Jamali's such a good contestant.

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