Notes from CoC 2 recording that I snatched off Reddit (Credit to DaveManOfThePeople): - When Greg and Alex came out, Greg ran a wager that anyone who could guess the number of Mars Bars he ate during the first 3 month lockdown he would give them his gold pen. No one got it - it was 117. - Greg said he'd normally get Alex to do a dance but Alex had hurt his back at his first adult skateboarding lesson (I think) so instead we sang Happy Birthday to someone in the crowd. - Prize task takes much longer than is shown. They spent a little while talking about how Liza's picture was possibly worth more (not just monetarily) because David Bowie had died and then someone (I think Lou) asked if it would go up in value if Johnny Vaughan died. - Lou's prize task was bizarre, she said about initially wanting to have brought in David Blaine's/Damien Hirst's semen/spunk as it was a "sign of life" or something but was told she wasn't allowed to hence heart which seemed a little last minute. - The chat about Richard's Pompeii trip went on for a while and there was chat and running jokes that got partially cut about who people would take (Ed's joke about taking Alex was left in). - Liza's beard took about 5 minutes to recover from, no one heard the rest of that VT because everyone was laughing so much. - Richard winning the grape task was obvious but the other rankings took *ages* in the studio because Greg couldn't decide who to put in last and possibly took it a bit too far, because he kept saying about how Lou's "just went down a string" and it may have genuinely upset Lou because Ed suggested moving on and everyone did. - There was a funny moment when someone called Alex a dickhead (in the episode, just can't remember who rn) and Alex said "Could everyone get the mean nicknames out the way now please?" So Ed replied by calling him PC C*nt at the start of his next sentence. - Kerry sort of admitted that James had basically peer pressured her into including him in her tasks somehow and fully acknowledged it didn't make sense that it rolled off a chopping board onto being tied to the balloon. - Art task was fairly as seen on screen although it took a bit longer to score the middle ranks hence Richard just scoring it in the end because it was very obvious that he'd lost the task. - In Ed's VT of the duck task we actually saw the food delivery guy arrive with lunch (as per Ed's twitter) although this was cut out the final edit. (Also knowing that Ed had lost for almost a year whilst lots of people were predicting he would win was quite funny) - It took Greg a few goes in the retake to get the last link to adverts which was quite funny as he insisted on shouting between retakes about how many they had left, sometimes ruining good retakes in the process. - Live task took a while to set up, Mark Olver (warm up guy) had been talking with the audience about sandwiches throughout all the breaks basically because he was describing how when he makes a sandwich he'll only butter the bottom bread and didn't realise people buttered the top, so he then asked Greg during the wait how he made his sandwiches and Greg said he sometimes didn't butter them at all. (There's your headline Daily Express) - When Alex said how it all came down to the final task, Richard said "So everything up until now has been completely pointless!" Or something similar, which was funny in the context as Alex did seem a bit embarrassed. - Live task did take a while and was pretty much as seen on screen although shortened a bit as Kerry especially (although very funny) took a while. - Also it took a while to explain to everyone to turn their suitcases on the spot in a way that they would be opened towards camera as some contestants really didn't get that detail. - For the avoidance of doubt, had *The Champion* not successfully deceived Greg about their suitcase, they would have started again with everyone back in, hence I think Alex was a little glad it turned out the way it did because it would have taken even longer. - *The Champion* had to retake their walk up and all the rest of it because they initially tripped a bit on the stairs. - Also, as a general point, the advert transitions we saw in the studio were the cup stacking ones from S13 E9 but these got replaced with the ones you see in the final edit.

@benja1378

Ай бұрын

Wow woman with a beard, so funny haha. While there is a literal crackdown on trans rights in the UK and numerous killings of trans people. Gotta love transphobia 🤮

i think about "the only way i get out of this with any dignity is if i die right now" every day

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

Basically me going about my daily life lol

The tragic thing is, to this day I’m convinced his idea to get the duck in the pond *could* work, and I would also have spent ages trying to make it happen.

@g-forcemapping8454

Ай бұрын

It literally did, if only he cut the end pipe it would have gone in.

@matwavman7099

Ай бұрын

In the podcast for this episode they reveal that Alex and one of the Andy's (I believe) had previously tested this exact method, and I believe it took them 15 minutes, citation needed

@iliketrains3495

Ай бұрын

@@matwavman7099 it was posted on Reddit recently I think, it was a screenshot from Twitter

"Im all packed for pompeii baby" was SO james acaster

Alex following up with “so far” kills me everytime he does it 😂

"What's Ed ever done for us?" "That aqueduct."

By far my favourite Taskmaster contestant of all time, his desperation... sorry DEDICATION to the show is unparalleled. Competent and hilarious

I went to the record of CoC2 and honestly it's the most on edge I've seen Ed. He knew he absolutely bottled it.

The only thing that is needed to sum up how to have the worst f ing day of life is the clip of the drawing in David’s back. I know it was a completely different day but all together they make Ed so much funnier to watch

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

I was a slave to my own title unfortunately haha. Guess I'll need to make another compilation to include that bit... "Ed vs old people"? 😂

@RowingSwiftie25

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep maybe you could call it Ed Gamble getting mad. Perfectly sums it all up because there are definitely other clips that you could add

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

@@RowingSwiftie25 there's already a very good compilation someone made on reddit for that! www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/s/ZEDaQCyG36

@RowingSwiftie25

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep thanks for the recommendation

Honestly, I don't know how the camera crews could just stand by and watch this. It's truly tragic that we, as a society have become so desensitised to human emotion, that the need to "do their jobs" overwhelmed their basic human instinct to prevent what can only be described as a catastrophe. ❤️ My thoughts are with Ed Gamble and his family in this trying time.

This is my favourite moment in all the series, because, like me, that's my every second day, everything going wrong, so i was able to laugh at it from the outside rather than get angry. My favourite contestant, this & getting angry with David with the drawing om each others back

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

I relate so hard to Ed throwing tantrums for things that don't really matter haha The infamous Crystal Maze experience is another that springs to mind 😂

@RedAlien13

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep what’s the infamous crystal maze experience if you don’t mind me asking?

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

@RedAlien13 For Ed’s wife's birthday a group of them that included James Acaster and Nish Kumar went to the crystal maze experience in London. At one point Ed was on a bucking bronco wearing a velcro jacket that he had to catch and stick balls onto. According to him the velcro wasn't sticky enough so the balls kept falling off and he ended up throwing a tantrum and hitting the bronco "like a little boy". He's talked about it on his radio x podcast and on the off menu episode with Richard Ayoade. It's funny when he tells the story but you can tell he's genuinely embarrassed at his own behaviour 😂

@RedAlien13

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep thank you for explaining, that’s sooo funny🤣

@johanhalvarsson2148

Ай бұрын

You forgot the "draw on their back so they can interpret it onto paper" task?

Ed Gamble is definitely one of my faves ever! If you haven’t watched it, you should watch him “being a little shit” on mock the week 😂

i recently finally got into off menu podcast and been obsessed with ed, great timing 🙌😄

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

It's such a great podcast! Love how you get to hear him and James basically merge into the same brain throughout the years 😂 The podcast Ed does with Matthew Crosby is also one of my favourites but it is not for everyone as it is chaotic and nonsensical most of the time...

@kaput_hodge

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep i listened to that a couple days ago, matthews great edit: i might have misread?? hang on edit 2: shit i didnt know that existed thanks, i got parenting hell mixed up with off menu and thought you were talking about a single pod ep lmao, anyways im listening to ed and matthews podcast now thanks!

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

@@kaput_hodge you're welcome haha! Hope you enjoy it, apologies if you become an absolute thicko like the rest of us...

You'd think Ed Gamble's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day would've been the day he got voted out in 4th place on Love Island.

your videos are such a treat!!! i feel spoilt

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm just surprised I'm not getting hit by the copyright gods more often 😂

Should have included the outtake of the crew getting the river to work.

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

I heard about that but didn't know there was a clip!

@bbrockert

Ай бұрын

Hmm I replied but it disappeared, I guess you can't link to Twitter. Anyway, Andy posted a photo of it working, and I probably mentally made that into a video when combined with hearing about it on a podcast.

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

​@@bbrockert I was just on the subreddit and saw your cry for help 😂

@bbrockert

Ай бұрын

@@Isthisastep There's dozens of us!

I forgot how completely horrible that was. 😂

I’ve never watched champion of champions and though I was having a really concerning Mandela effect of which cast members were in the same season

what season is the bricks or ballons task from?

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

It's all Champion of Champions 2 except the very first clip

2:10 - Ed dressed as Misfits? 😂 (that’ll be punk though by the way, not metal !)

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

I just wanted to include that photo tbh 😂

What season is this?

@stormbyrd

Ай бұрын

This was the Champion of Champions 2!

I wish Champion of Champions was a full series instead of just one episode. Minus Lou.

@Isthisastep

Ай бұрын

I really like Lou! But I've seen her in a lot of stuff outside of Taskmaster where I think she shines a lot more. Never understand the hate her or some of the others get tho. But yeah, at least give us two eps again!

The only folks in the century who say "(heavy) metal", don't know metal