Fern Brady's Best Moments | Taskmaster

[@ashb7]

"Very English brand of passive-aggressive that makes me wanna be violent to him" - just one of the all-time classic Taskmaster quotes that Fern casually came up with

[@Narokkurai]

I don't think I've seen a Scottish contestant yet that I didn't like. My favorite line is from Series 8, where Iain is teasing Sian about her being a "northerner", and she goes "I'm Welsh, you're more northern than me!" And he cooly goes, "Ah yeah, that's right."

[@bearhustler]

Iain is one of very few contestants that I just didn't like. Fern on the other hand was a delight. I'd love to see a Fern, Kearns and Lucy Beaumont TV show where they just do things in their own strange ways.

[@Priestofbenism]

@@bearhustler add Bridget Moriarty and maybe Bob mortimer and you'd have the least efficient taskmaster show ever, and definitely the most riotous

[@kurtsudheim825]

Not the only time she's expressed her wish to be violent

[@kurtsudheim825]

​@@bearhustlerhe wasn't great at the start, but he mellowed at the end. He was good, just to competitive & got anger when it didn't go his way

[@RNS_Aurelius]

"You seem like you just eat roasts." Is one of the best insults ever on this show.

[@deaconblooze1]

Is it an insult though?

[@RNS_Aurelius]

@@deaconblooze1 seemed like it to me.

[@glockenrein]

I feel like Julian’s beat her with “yeah, you would have a barbecue”.

[@valerielevasseur8674]

​@@glockenreinJulian has multiple every show, but that was best. With Julian, it's 100% intention, 0% the actual words spoken. With Fern, it's exactly the opposite. Both are a treat.

[@rebeccatanner1794]

Idk because on the off menu podcast fern said she hates how everyone in the UK seems to love roasts because she thinks they're really bland. (Her off menu choices are top notch btw)

[@myguyry]

"Wait, did I meet these potatoes before?" is absolutely in the Taskmaster book of quotes.

[@elijahh2220]

Fern being too excited to sleep before every task day is so genuinely wholesome lol

[@aleandra3945]

like a kid before a field trip

[@wiredforstereo]

It's less wholesome when you find out it's because she has autism and lack of sleep leads to meltdowns. I mean, she's wholesome. It's legitimate. It's just often not good. You should read her book.

[@jess.singswithleaves6]

​@wiredforstereo Thanks for mentioning this. I haven't read her book yet but I'm eager to. It can be a very difficult world to navigate as an autistic adult.

[@wiredforstereo]

@@jess.singswithleaves6 Don't I know it.

[@frankshailes3205]

"I cannae, they're covered in potatoes." She has a point. If not a felt tip.

[@dornian_gray]

she may have come (joint) last in the series, but she is the rightful queen of our hearts. top tier contestant.

[@pooolB]

I really hope they do a losers special someday, I'd love to see her compete again (hopefully with more sleep)

[@gottarednose]

its fern brady its fern brady she's the rightful queen

[@amberdawn5372]

“The obvious thing was to let the bird fly” gets me every time 😂

[@danlw212]

You left out my favorite moment: Greg tries to do a Scottish accent, then beats himself up for doing such a bad accent. Fern, very reassuringly, says “that’s ok. I can understand you.”

[@dp-g5i]

They left it out because it wasn't actually in the show, it was an outtake

[@noneofyoubusiness4895]

18:20 They properly stitched Fern up for the final task! She asked for a big bag of potatoes, and they gave her a pile of loose ones. How much easier would it have been for her to cover the pens, if the potatoes had been in a sack, as she specified .... (Gaaahh! I've been holding on to this for ages, it's taken them this long to clip that task!!!)

[@starryxblue]

This is so true and may be the biggest TM injustice I can think of... they're usually good thinking of everything

[@justinlinville3]

I need a supercut of Fern Brady saying 'Oh No'

[@NT-lq3lq]

There is one actually 😅

[@iliketrains3495]

i literally got recommended that video right after this 😅

[@TheMarkoSeke]

It's like Chris Ramsey's "No way"

[@frostty1]

Taskmaster Series 14, but it's just Fern Brady saying "OH NO!"

[@gwts1171]

Damn, I love Fern!!! "Did I meet these potatoes before" is the best thing ever said by anyone in any circumstance.

[@shantayedincsoy1611]

Joe Wilkinson does not agree

[@lokephoenix1039]

Bob Mortimer: “Do.. do we strike you?”

[@jasperdevries1726]

@@shantayedincsoy1611 If you confronted Joe with a pile of potatoes courtesy of Taskmaster it would probably result in "Wilk Smash!"

[@jk9554]

To be fair: it's not Fern's fault that TM didn't provide her with enough potatoes.

[@bjam89]

or they gave her too many pens

[@ShinyHubCaps]

She also asked for a bag (of potatoes)

[@TarunoNafs]

She can slice the potatoes though.

[@BrianC1664]

she could have mashed them, would be easy to cover them then

[@johnlondonbimeetup7961]

She could have sliced (or, in absence of a knife), mash the potatoes with her hands or feet onto the pens (or mash separately then put on pens if the pens would get too broken/hinder the mashing process). She might have thought of that with more sleep / under less pressure.

[@LeornianCyng]

I absolutely adore Fern Brady. It was only after the series that I found out she was autistic. I thought she was excellent and the second time around, you can pick up on certain cues or things that she does/says. What she’s been doing since the show aired is absolutely phenomenal, raising awareness about autism.

[@Lizzo13]

Her memoir is soooo good. I work with children with special educational needs (well, mostly their parents), and it really helped me understand them more.

[@Lazarus-aap]

Ah, that's why she felt so "familiar"... I didn't know

[@datguiser]

She’s just like me frfr

[@wiredforstereo]

She wasn't "out" during the show but because the production asks if people have phobias or sensitivities before shooting, she was able to prevent many of her issues from cropping up. And she was able to be more herself than usual, which was met with laughs and not the normal weird looks.

[@johnlondonbimeetup7961]

@@wiredforstereo she's talked about how good the show was for her sensitivities (lighting, clothing, make-up too I think) in interviews she's done since. Normalising differences like this helps everyone be able to be themselves and be more forgiving of others; 👍 to the representation and her being allowed to be less "masked" there (she's also bi too, btw, which meant I paid a little more attention when discovered her a few years ago being adhd & a bi group organiser/activist myself, she's lovely).

[@judefreund703]

I love Fern Brady, definitely one of my favorite contestants!

[@tomaszhoekstra7357]

fern brady, james acaster, john wilkinson, rhod gilbert absolute legends!

[@sierrabetterley]

Me, Fern Brady! Me, Fern Brady! I’m the rightful queen!

[@FilbieTron]

To this day, that line still is stuck in my head 😂

[@bondfool]

Sarah pulled on my heartstrings, but Fern deserved 5 points, too.

[@helenamirian908]

She used all the words really well!

[@wiredforstereo]

That was the best song in my book.

[@johnlondonbimeetup7961]

Evidence: her show Autistic Bikini Queen.

[@pieapplebomb]

"If someone went 'oh, can you get me a green, felt tipped pen', you'd go 'I cannae, they're COVERED in potatoes'" is definitely one of my favorite taskmaster quotes.

[@TheMarkoSeke]

19:16 Fun fact: they actually hired an actor to play a genie that was waiting in the garage for John to rub the lamp, but he never did it

[@hystericalclerical]

I hope it was James Acaster

[@ClydeFog]

this was one of the best series all the contestants were so hilarious

[@NT-lq3lq]

Yes in comparison current series 16 is kind of mild

[@TurtleMyrtle12]

Anything is better than series 15. That was a snooze fest.

[@jackwang9536]

Every series of TM is special in its own way. And each series has its special personalities. But Series 14 easily is in my top 3 favorites. (My favorites are 5, 7, and 14)

[@NT-lq3lq]

@@jackwang9536 5 and 7 yes they're my favorite too

[@thelonelyegg3025]

@@TurtleMyrtle12 6 and 8 are easily worse than 15. 15 had some fun team dynamics

[@jackwang9536]

Other amazing Fern bits: 1) her snort, raspberry, whistle breakdown 2) her amazing self portrait 3) the dead chicken prize task 4) "where is it, where is it" while looking for the tiger's bum 5) laminator bifurcating poo Let's be real, there's enough material for another Fern best-of video. And you have to love her acting of Sarah's 1-minute play. That task was one of the best "performance" tasks ever, comparable to the song to Rosalind. It's a shared task with Sarah's playwriting, and it's a masterpiece. That entire task should have it's own video tribute someday.

[@somethingelse9176]

The play and the self portrait should really be on here - they were such brilliant performances! That plus the masterpiece that is Me Fern Brady - gal's got talent.

[@jackwang9536]

@@somethingelse9176 I can understand why the play was left off this "best-of Fern" compilation. It was a 2-person task - Fern performed it, but Sarah wrote it. The acting was magnificent, but the writing was equally magnificent, so you can't put it in Fern's greatest hits without also including Sarah. Eventually, the 1-minute plays will be released in a video of its own, I hope. I think the 1-minute play was one of the greatest tasks ever done on Taskmaster. Sarah's play with the cats was so beautifully written, and she explains on the TM podcast that the cats were the spirits of the people who had died in the old folks home. It must have been something that she's had personal experience with - maybe she's worked in one, or she has a loved one in an elderly home. It's such a powerful narrative of loneliness. And Fern treated this play beautifully - she knew it was such a good play and she put her heart into it. Masterpiece.

[@MedEvil1c]

my Fave fern-ism is: to me, the obvious thing is to let the bird fly.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"I'm an alien, dressed as a scottsman" *everybody has no idea what to expect*

[@adamplace1414]

I think Fern won a lot of fans from this series. The whole cast was marvelous and so different to each other - and yet Fern was just that little extra bit endearing. Just a delight on the show.

[@emmad4308]

Fern is so relatable as a fellow autistic, love how she's educating folk about it too

[@The_Farwall]

Her book is fantastic, really brutal at times but as raw as it needs to be to put the point across.

[@mysteriouscolours1532]

Fern immediately crawling into one of those tubes and getting distracted is very relatable to me

[@chayimweinstock443]

Every time Me Fern Brady Me Fern Brady leaves my head, it pops back up. It's like a hydra.

[@Lanai50]

OMG i loved Greg's little, "Dara youre not obsequious" and Dara's perfect reply of "Thanks Greg 🥰😊😊"

[@cazzabojangles]

Props to her for completing the series, she was very tired

[@dp-g5i]

Fern was completely robbed of the win for the song task. Undeniably the MVP of this season.

[@buckycore]

Dude, that song was a banger!!!

[@stupid4President]

I felt the same way!

[@thomasthomasson2319]

Fern has said publicly she’s annoyed she didn’t get five points on the songwriting task, I agree with Sarah getting five because of the context and it made for a nice moment, but really Fern has won for me because at least once a day my brain will start going “here we are again series 14 who will be the house’s queen…” etc ❤

[@ImmortalBroken]

Fern, John, and Sarah all deserved 5 points for their songs, I think. I was singing about a naughty satsuma in the shower this morning lol.

[@ithedragoon]

"i have no more sneezes for today" will forever be my favourite fern moment

[@KitagumaIgen]

Your comment is a good 100(?) comment's down the list, with very many giving their favourite Fernism that was left out - and so far I've agreed with all of them. So many more to include!

[@neithere]

...Crashes more...

[@brianmoore6724]

Fell in love with Fern during this series!!! She's in my top 5 for sure for contestants

[@jackwang9536]

I loved this series. This "best of Fern" did not include the 1-minute plays and Fern's magnificent acting of Sarah's play. I think I understand why. Someday that entire task should be a video of its own.

[@Tusuratopia]

10:14 - 10:20 Absolutely the best horn sound I've ever heard from a person.

[@IanAlexanderGriffiths]

Holy shit yes!

[@buskergirl]

Dara: "Which aircraft..." Fern: "... CRASHES MORE ..."

[@mario_actually]

Fern was an absolute legend on the show. Definitely a hall of famer.

[@Southmouth5]

I think my favorite fern moment is anytime she laughs and says “heee hee hee” kills me everytime

[@felinetherapy4782]

One of the best contestants ever! More Fern please.

[@FozzaCovers]

She is so random yet confident, I love her! That season was one of the best I must say.

[@_mickmccarthy]

I can already hear the "Oah nooo!" in my head

[@matthewlloyd3654]

I don't know what's more disturbing, how much pleasure Fern gets out of torturing Alex or how happy it makes me to see her enjoying that so much.

[@murdocnl]

If you have the chance to see her live, do so. She's brilliant

[@JackFlash23]

She was perfect for this show. One of the realest contestants ever.

[@f.y.8830]

I also appreciate how often she makes Alex laugh

[@MrBfiguero]

Her autobiography is just as glorious as her task performances.

[@wiredforstereo]

I'm nearly finished. It is so good, also so anger inducing for all the shit he's had to take her whole life.

[@WondrousPurple]

Another excellent compilation of an excellent contestant on one of my favorite series of Taskmaster. I think this video could be doubled in length because she had so many terrific moments. :) (Her laughter while semi-torturing Alex in those rubber tubes is pure joy.)

[@WillGeorgeRockett]

One of the most loveable contestants on the show. Hell, on UK TV even.

[@julialesperance2980]

You can't realistically make an abridged "Fern Brady's Best Moments" because you end up just having to rewatch every moment of the series. Also her song and the theme song lyrics task from series 9 get stuck in my head with unreasonable frequency

[@Em45567]

Fern was one of the greatest and funniest contestants. Loved her 😂

[@bobtahoma]

Fern Brady's energy on TM is so refreshing! One of the best contestants of all time!

[@EatinPaste]

A people's champion, for sure.

[@vonwux]

_Wait, did i meet these potatoes before?_ just seems like such a taskmaster sentence

[@homagetogorto]

How did she find the energy to star in a best-of?

[@nightsgrow6575]

I feel like “what use would he have been” is an underrated quote from Fern

[@TheNigel2010]

Fern is my favorite contestant ever and her song is so good.

[@svens8674]

Thank you TM for introducing me to Fern Brady. An all time fav contestant of mine!

[@shanegooding4839]

That Scottish man costume is one of my favourite things I've ever seen.

[@guyjackson132]

Her book - "Strong Female Character" - is an amazing read. It pushed me learn more about ASD...

[@Datamining101]

"I can't, they're **covered** in potatoes." omfg that gets me every time 🤣

[@Katie-hh9eu]

"Wait, did I meet these potatoes before?" Is one of the funniest Fern Brady quotes.

[@magnusbooth4719]

it has the "catch someone" monologue, so the best is there

[@morphunkown]

You, a simpleton: "I guess I'll catch a boring ol' ball." Fern Brady, an intellectual: "Everyone will think of catching a fish so we'll save that as plan B"

[@danmoar94]

I love Fern! She has a menacing but innocent vibe 😂

[@jaydee3216]

I totally agree with this. She is both adorably cute and mischievously filthy. I don't know how she manages it

[@danmoar94]

@@jaydee3216 yeah! She's like a tiger cub that is just on the edge of being old enough and big enough to be lethal, but is still adorable so you're like "i want to pat it but I'm scared to get any closer."

[@jaydee3216]

@@danmoar94 this is the best metaphor I have heard. Apart from the fact I don't find tiger cubs exceptionally sexy but I do Fern. Haha. I totally get the vibe though. It's spot on. Fancy discussing her more sometime?

[@Funkcoma]

One of the best guests in Taskmaster history!

[@SwInGeRsNuMeRo11]

I needed “who invented right and left and what’s it for?” to be in this compilation!!

[@kagesong]

I could spend my life watching the things that Fern's brain comes up with. It is one of the marvels of the universe.

[@jaydee3216]

Me too!! And I feel like we only get the half of it when she is on screen. I bet she has some really naughty crazy mischief in her brain when she is off screen.

[@marc-v7p]

Dara looks literally in so much pain when Fern discusses her alien/fancy dress idea

[@bouncingbuttons7441]

i love watching dara question his reality because of her

[@eggarino]

Alex looked so happy when Fern said she was so excited for the tasks aww

[@Bluesayshello1]

A friend pointed out that Alex enjoys the joy of others, and at 2:49 it’s really evident

[@Cairismel]

She is probably my favorite contestant of all time ❤

[@xant8344]

Me too

[@theyearwas1473]

Every fern moment is the best fern moment

[@tomg5119]

There’s a fair few best of videos but this is the one I keep coming back to, there’s something about Fern

[@styepen602]

Love Her! She’s definitely one of my favourite contestants that’s been on the show, I hope I see her live one day.

[@jamiemartin180]

Need a john being hilariously incompetent compilation

[@nickvaandrager4392]

“It is me Fern Brady, me Fern Brady, I’m the rightful queen!”

[@garethreesjournalism8877]

Every moment of Fern is just so special

[@marlinisgreat]

This is exactly what I've been waiting for

[@Lynd-xq1lx]

Fern made Alex crack in the studio more than any other contestant

[@MrOtistetrax]

Her laugh tickles my brain.

[@scottreast]

The fact that she found it obvious that the bird should fly over the caravan is just so sweet 😭😍

[@frankshailes3205]

Probably my favourite contestant, and definitely the best costume!

[@curbsideaudio]

I just love her so much. One of the all time great contestants.

[@sbrock6385]

I love the way Fern Brady thinks. 💗

[@dangerousbeans2907]

Fern Brady and Mike Wozniak. May be my top 2 contestants of all time.

[@rcyoung3388]

Fern seems to be a bit unhinged and I ducking love it.

[@alextaylor3015]

It’s amazing - I hadn’t heard of Fern until sunday where she magically appeared in my youtube feed, and now I love her

[@DerekB99]

John's football that he caught was thrown by his Dad's hands.

[@MrBobbyFreakout]

This show makes you fall in love with all the comedians/contestants. I just want to be friends with Fern, so awesome!

[@hikarikouno]

Taskmaster uploaded a video. Oh yes. *Fern's best moments.* Oh no. Love Fern! She's hilarious.

[@Mine4062]

Her laugh of pure joy at 3:49 forcing Alex to drink Ketchup. 😊😊

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Wait, did I meet these potatoes before?

[@dmeep]

airport costume envy is the worst

[@radical_ans]

This is missing my favorite Fern bit of the entire series. During the task where they had to write plays for the other contestant and she voiced the cat in Munya's play. The line "I SHOULD BE KILLING!!" gets me every time.

[@JStorkey6]

The whole final task was gold. "No! What use would he have been?"

[@bellatam_]

24:23 “I cannae they’re covered in potatoes”

[@aerialarboreal9005]

Love this girl, she should be a huge star by now....

[@andrewe2057]

That season was possibly the best lineup of the whole show.

[@dp-g5i]

Only bested by S7 and S5 imo

[@PatstarDeluxe]

How does this compilation not have "crashes more!" ?

[@GabrielKnightz]

Aaaw why would you not include her attempts at whistling, still going in my "rainy day" playlist though.

[@GuildensternTube]

I didn't know her before taskmaster but I love her now (like most candidates tbh)

[@icturner23]

Being shot because she wasn’t meant to be gathering cones in the forest never gets old.