They way they cut that in later, I can't understand why they didn't do it earlier instead of making everyone wait 🙂 They just blended in the center bit over the live vid. There could have been piles of burning tires on either side, and it wouldn't have mattered.

@@R.Daneel Because they can't move the camera. As soon as the camera operator does that (or changes zoom, focus or lighting), it's almost impossible to get the exact perspective back and you could not blend the images together without being noticeable.

@@R.Daneel they weren’t waiting - they were watching the VT of the task. You can hear it in the background. This way, you don’t have to make the camera ops etc. wait behind to pick up the shot

Props to the studio audience tbf but I'm glad they stuck it on the web had me howling

That was the loveliest, oddest thing I had ever seen

@sᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ The Anecdote Inquisition, if you will...

@@peterclarke7240 nobody expects the anecdote inquisition

@sᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ that's very very true

@@BenCrucifix Lee certainly didn't... Anyway, back to the topic in hand: Their chief weapon is fear. Fear and surprise... their TWO main weapons... etc etc

​@@BenCrucifix do you think the anecdote inquisition are allowed to talk about people they've caught, how do they file their reports?

Boringly pointless, frankly

It was stop frame animation bit i thought they would play back a,spinning head video and use it to freak out greg

think it was a cute homage to old-timey horror movie effects - the head was spinning around in stop motion - but i never saw it in the actual episode :(((

@@a.carneirozhu8104 I have seen it In the video but thought that the table had some electric parts and that the white plate on it was spinning the head.

Yeah, that outtake without context does seem odd.

I guess that makes sense - Greg's probably seeing the tasks for the first time, and he's got to focus on the details so he can come up with meaningful and funny commentary on the spot.

@@Amaritudine exactly! everyone else is reacting but he's working.

That's just him being a teacher, evaluating you and coming up with self esteem crushing stuff.

It's great to watch Greg during that clip, just watching his mind whirr away. That clip is the birth of the whole big scary string bit that he has with Jemali.

pretty sure he planned for it

Watch him on “Would I Lie to You?”, he’s fantastic.

@@zincfellow *sips* he’s not even married

@k c I'd have loved to see the stand-up as well! And as a side-note, I wish people weren't so hard on Lee. I found it interesting and understandable how being a contestant at the mercy of Lord Greg Davies' judgment (and the lack of a studio audience) would make him more toned down than when he's team captain on WILTY. I like observing how interaction dynamics change depending on the nature of the show, who the "boss" is, and the space in which everything takes place. Personally, it's fun to see a different side of an entertainer's personality come out when he or she is put in a different environment. I enjoyed watching Lee on Taskmaster.

@@MrShenhai good observations. the man is undoubtedly funny, he's on at least two wildly succesful tv series and has nothing to prove. his particular brand of humour works best with an audience for sure, but I still very much enjoyed him as a contestant

I laughed until I wet my self. He is so quick with his wit that it seems almost artificial at times. Too quick to be thought of in a split second, though you do get better with practice. I have been told many times I am quick witted but really it is more like speaking without a filter. People who say " I thought of saying that after it was too late" really are just more cautious people. I also think that Lee has a nervous twitch ( too much pressure to be funny etc. with WILTY, NGO. He blinks a lot now and he never did. I wonder if he has had it checked out. He was quite subdued in TM, I thought.

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 he was diagnosed with ADHD in his book. Him lookin calm was probably because of the distance between the people present there. It established some sort of distant (awkwardness) between them. Letting Greg to lead the talk and letting other comedians tell their jokes. Listening to his podcast, him and Neil are constantly talking and laughing uncontrolably. He's much more active there. I'm guessing he was constantly laughing (and got cut) during the shoot of WILTY because he can't stop laughing in his podcast. He also said in an interview that often he could not stop laughing when they shoot NGO.

I am genuinely crying with laughter, I cannot believe how hard that made me laugh. When he was trying to sit back down and I KNEW he would knock the phone off again, but I still rolled over laughing when he did. My god 🤣🤣

real life mr bean moment

I feel as though he may be dangerously close to impinging on Tim “Last of the Summer” Vine’s copywrighted material.

first watched it thinking thats dumb over-acting. when i saw the "correct" position, i rewound to verify then proceeded to wet myself laughing as the hilarity ensues

Tick tock its Mike o'clock

@@DontKloppMeNow mike time is the right time

Sex sells?

Definitely the most entertaining and likable contestant(?) this series imho

Just starting listening to his 5-year old podcast Mr. Gameshow based on his appearance on Taskmaster. Absolutely hysterical. His sense of humor is just like mine.

He set that up so perfectly xD Love it.

😳🦔

the quick wit of Lee Mack is a wonderful thing

@@JackDManheim Tbh I'm pretty sure he started that joke with that ending in mind. You can see him waiting for someone to set it up for him, he's literally waiting on the edge of his seat. And once he gets it out he relaxes right away.

@@JackDManheim This was absurdly quick.

@@Fucisko He's been in the kind of situation where the jokes clearly go off the broadcast-able many times, and had that hook lined up and ready. Once cast he had them all - they just did not know about it until the punch-line!

It's finished 🥺

@@ruqayyahqadri8180 I know, but we're getting season 9 now, which many of us haven't seen, because we don't all live in the UK.

@@Meg_A_Byte ah ok. If you want to catch up, there's loads of complete Google drives on reddit.

@@ruqayyahqadri8180 ya but there is something about the joy of seeing a new thing every week. Open up youtube on a Thursday "fuck ya taskmaster!"

@@KingSaintClair I'm in admiration of your self control 😂

Always, especially with "And this is the bit you're not gonna believe" and/or "This genuinely happened..."

You should be more careful where you put your balloons

Rob: So Lee, is it a truth? Or is it a lie? Lee: Of course it's a lie *pushes button and purple LIE sign appears*

@@slppnjmmy 😂😂😂

The phrase “faffing about wonderfully” makes me disproportionately happy

When?

@@AlexandriaLibraryGame approx 8:10 I think

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thank you for pointing this out! it's the small things that really make things work visually, and Lee knows it!

It's Wozniak o' clock

@@Sabrina-jl4sp or even Wozniak o'cloaca... Edit: come on, people, don't you get the joke about The Sound? :(

we need him back for legendary contestants reunion

He's one of the best contestants

Forreal, im an American and i had no idea who he was before they released episodes on youtube. I love mike now, by far my favorite contestant on the show.

It's hilarious but it's way too long for broadcast.

That's what the hedgehog said

He was infringing on Tim "Last of the Summer" Vine's material.

@@sfshinz Yeah, it was a very Norman Wisdom/Frank Spencer-type moment of absolute bloody chaos; complete with superb facial expressions of quiet bewilderment from Lee, as he anxiously looked around for some sign of help from the crew…but unfortunately, it was not forthcoming, as they themselves were probably enjoying the spectacle as much as we do haha.

Just a mix up, not really weird, it happens to everyone.

So they could have been Awful Bill and Evil Bob

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She's so adorably gullible.

What in the hell was that dude doing?

@@butzmn7190 if you watch the episode, when they announce the haunted house task the head spins, so this is how they animated it

@@giziraleon6830 I thought he was going to spook Greg by having it move when he's not looking, but then he moved it a 360 so nope. Thx for explaining..

@@poesiforankor6349 same.

You can see the dedication in his eyes.

@@mlck24 and the joy! Best combination for any job

I was so confused about that....why not turn it and leave it in a different position to see if he noticed. Then come back later and move it again.

Or smuggled drugs abroad

And you can tell by the special twinkle in Greg's eyes that he knows exactly what's going on.

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New set of No More Jockeys on Friday though - another Alex Horne (+ friends') idea ^_^ Highly recommend :)

It's a hilrious bit, but really, what the hell is that design? Why do they have it sticking out like that?

@@DanGolag haha, it doesn't! He put it in wrong in the end! It clicks back into place so it's parallel with the wall.

I wish they included the face he made when he realised he needed to use the phone

Might have had something to do with clingfilm binding.

I had to go back and re-watch that bit. I never even noticed it was rotating in the episode! Weird, because I am normally very observant...

Where/when do they show the rotation? Was it only on a promo or on the actual episode?

@@BeccaB529 It was in the episode. I believe it was when they were introducing the haunted task.

It’s because he understands that people do embarrassing shit all the time and he’s trying to normalize being okay with it! Admitting your mistakes is freeing and honestly refreshing to see lol I love Greg

Inspirational

Apparently she swore a fair amount that didn't make it in the edit so she's not 100% children's presenter

@@Cruxador Swearing off-camera/in cuts? She's more children's presenter now than ever.

watch her on Ghosts in iview, she's great in that show 😎

Compilation for s10 is on UKposts somewhere

Who knows if it’s true but it’s on wikipedia and Knievel’s website!

@@whatevs00 I think I meant the Would I like to you is just about the definition of the "anecdote police"

And now we get to share the story as Lee foretold.

This kind of make-up story would be right in his wheelhouse, so I hope we can be forgiven for thinking that initially.

It's almost as if that's exactly what he said...

@@dudleyspringleaf.8321 It almost looks like you don't have the ability to read...

@@laserbuddha no I read it perfectly fine. You simply copied exactly what Lee said

I knew about Mike's sound effects but I wasn't expecting Greg's plop-plop.

Like the first joke about knowing what 1 hedgehog sounded like was not like to up Lee's standards, which I believe was on purpose. Lee set it up, because he knew Greg was going to say "none of this is gonna make it in" after all the swearing! Mastermind

i would pay good money to see the uncut studio recordings

It ain't

Ah yes Entertainment Tonight, the bastion of investigative journalism...

@@ruqayyahqadri8180 It was told by the man himself as well as his agent, so I'm not sure what additional proof you might be able to get for it.

@@stargate525 "Blair offered to provide the needed motorcycles, but he wanted the name changed from the Bobby Knievel and His Motorcycle Daredevils Thrill Show to Evil Knievel and His Motorcycle Daredevils"

I'm so excited, I've found the proof of this story with some sleuthing! I first tracked down the source of the Bob Blair/Bobby Knievel story - it was quoted from Knievel's biography, which came out the year after his death. Life of Evel: Evel Knievel by Stuart Barker. The story on his own website (which I won't link because it might block my comment - it's pretty easy to guess the URL, it's just his name...) contradicts that, it's the William Knofel story. I thought I should see if William Knofel even existed, and obituaries are public, so I checked them - nothing in the right timeframe. There was a William R Knoefel who died in 1980, but that was in Arkansas. Several people named William Knafel, none of them in Montana. There were a pair of Knofels who died in 1985 in Montana though - Clarence Knofel and Hannah Knofel. I Googled Clarence Knofel and BAM - a newspaper clipping from the Montana Standard, 29 October 1949: "A man giving the name of Clarence Knofel of Butte was arraigned in justice court Thursday on a charge of third degree assault." THAT'S THE GUY! 7 years before Evel Knievel got his name, but it's the right city and surname, and given the police knew him he had to be a repeat offender. It still could have been a coincidence, but the nail in the coffin is a second Montana Standard article, which also explains the name discrepancy. From 21 June 1960: "Clarence William Knofel, an individual widely-known to police and sheriff's officers here through a long chain of circumstances, was back in the county jail Monday." It's gotta be him. If any of you want to see those clippings, Google "Clarence Knofel" - searching William instead brings up articles written about Evel Knievel, but the only things that use Clarence are the clippings and obituaries.

These aren't in the episodes. That's what "outtakes" means

@@Cruxador, the title lies. Some of them are outtakes, but some were in the series.

@@petertaylor4980 Yepp. And they posted individual outtakes before as well.

@@petertaylor4980 No, they do all have at least some cut content.

It was not that bad

How wonderfully he baited them. And then the twinkle in his eye once they fell for it 😂

I don't remember the assignment we heard the audio from. Which episode was that?

@@MarceldeJong o think it was the haunted house

@@nataliamontelongo2781 I think i found it. Episode 2.

Though they didn't use the footage of the head spinning.

@@MarceldeJong they do, I think in the opening of explaining the task. If I remember someone asks if anyone noticed it and they suddenly realise it was turning in the clip