Taskmaster Series 3, Episode 1 - 'A Pea In A Haystack'

A whole new series of contestants (Al Murray, Dave Gorman, Paul Chowdhry, Rob Beckett and Sara Pascoe) attempt a whole new range of tasks including propelling a pea as far as possible.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.

[@nomar5spaulding]

Greg asking if Dave cheated is peak school teacher energy.

[@gregoryhines7]

How did he cheat? What did they say he did? I didn't quite understand that.

[@nomar5spaulding]

​@gregoryhines7 He lost his pea, then got Alex to give him another one which he pretended to eat but really he stuck it into his tennis racket and pretended it was the ordinal pea. Replacement peas were not permitted.

[@Matti2ooo8]

wasn't Greg a school teacher before becoming a full time comedian?

[@nomar5spaulding]

@Matti2ooo8 Yes and you can really see it coming through here.

[@mirjanbouma]

​@@Matti2ooo8indeed! Drama teacher i think. 😂

[@Bleech606]

"I'm starting to think we shouldn't be laughing at Paul" is one of the best insults I've heard in a while. Literally cried laughing.

[@fernauld9494]

literallyy

[@actuallyapathy]

'...snowbear innit?'

[@ytisfulloffreaks4189]

@@fernauld9494 weirdo

[@as3609]

@@ytisfulloffreaks4189 Mate, if you think this place is full of freaks, wait 'til you go outside. You won't fuckin believe it.

[@weakw1ll]

14:04 >:( mannnnnn

[@jackta101]

The raisins gag at the start always goes overlooked - such a dark touch to offer the eyes and buttons of Sarah's melted snowman to Greg as a snack.

[@athenagreen5390]

Literally some of the best foreshadowing is the one you forget about until the payoff. After learning some of the Taskmaster lore, Alex the character turns into Alex the mastermind. He really is one of a kind.

[@riverseverywhere]

I literally GASPED out loud when he pulled out the raisins the 2nd time and I got the joke...HORRIFYING 😂

[@weakw1ll]

32:37 😭😭😭😭😭 lmaooo

[@RealBradMiller]

I once worked in forensics and came across what I thought to be a mass grave of snowmen. Turned out just to be a field of carrots. -Milton Jones

[@logosrule]

I laughed so hard I had to actually calm myself down. That was so incredible.

[@Smith.S.E.]

"Bastards crying, innit" lives in my best dreams

[@shortstuph123]

When I saw the step challenge I thought “yes! The first time in my life being in a wheelchair would be a massive advantage!” And then they reached the fence.

[@DeathnoteBB]

😔

[@berndarndt9924]

I am sure you could have moved around it, there was a way near the grass afterall. So most likely an opening. And yes wheelchairs can be quite nice to have. For example when you are at a con. And since most cities get more wheelchair frendy by the year, it will be better in the future.

[@tinnagigja3723]

@@berndarndt9924 There's currently a project here in Iceland, largely led by one man, to build at least 1500 ramps and do other things to improve wheelchair access all over the country. He just got tired of having to wait outside shops for his wife and kid, and now we have accessible self-serve gas stations and all sorts of things that should have been there years ago. And he made Elon Musk look like the twat he is. Amazing how one guy in a wheelchair can kick so much ass.

[@eyedeasneverdie3348]

"snow bear innit" "...Its a rabbit!" Paul was such an underrated guest on this show

[@katewilson7852]

Why is noone mentioning how amazing it was sara threw the pea and it landed on the carpet every time??!!!

[@grandthanks]

Fred is criminally underused….

[@leonhardable]

fr, she would be the final boss in beerpong

[@jasonhare8540]

If we were in the service I would give her all my hand grenades 🤣

[@lordtachanka903]

It makes me so happy that taskmaster listens to the fans. We said we wanted more full episodes and BAM. As a US viewer though I appreciate the full episodes a lot because KZbin is the only way I can watch the show in the USA.

[@imallfordabulls]

FYI they’ve been slowly uploading the newer seasons too. It doesn’t show on the feed because they’re not new uploads, they just become available!

[@wpwouters]

This was already a episode you could watch. They just uploaded it again.

[@EziosBladez]

Why don't people just learn to use a VPN and watch Channel 4?

[@antygod]

@@EziosBladez adverts

[@themonado5030]

@@antygod the horror...... seriously come on.

[@sharkofjoy]

Pascoe yeeting that pea onto the carpet with the professionalism of an Olympic shotputter took me by as much shock as when Noel demonstrated football skills and one-footed jumping like an injured yet still graceful gazelle. I just did not expect either of them to be sports people.

[@ShelbyPlatt]

The differences: Not censored, no throws to ad breaks, and the audio during the snowman task was cut due to copyright issues in the original upload.

[@isaiahf6442]

Thank you for taking the time to point out the differences. I was over here asking myself why they're uploading episodes they already had

[@KelpTheGreat]

Oh wow, I didn't even notice the lack of ad breaks, and I'm rewatching the episode after having watched the original version. In a way, that's something of a shame; I seem to recall some of the transitions to ad breaks being pretty funny, not to mention the little intro/outro for each break being unique and kinda interesting.

[@samanthabogen9639]

​@@KelpTheGreatThey included the transitions just not the actual ads

[@Pomodorosan]

@@KelpTheGreat I miss the ad break clips!

[@alexeverett308]

"Bastard's crying, innit" Is one of funniest lines in the show

[@rynabuns]

can't put into words how happy I was to see Fred again

[@joeryan7306]

Yeah saw him last year at a festival he was pretty decent

[@DJWidget]

From clean shaven to a beard to a mustache - Friedrich has character growth! lol

[@user-pj9ie4bs1z]

I was thinking the same thing

[@TyGently]

And hair growth!

[@weakw1ll]

Aw

[@heythisanimalcantalk]

@@weakw1ll riley hivemind profile pic. Nice

[@devinpelech]

I've finally started to listen to the Taskmaster Podcast (TMP!) and it's given me a whole new appreciation for Paul Chowdhry. I had never heard of him before, and I honestly couldn't tell if he was doing a bit during the series or if he was actually as confused as he seemed, and as Sara later put it, "I don't think we should be laughing at Paul anymore." Now, after listening to him on the TMP, I know it's a bit, and it's hilarious how committed he is in sticking to it.

[@JT-tt5il]

Good to know he’s just playing a character, I was genuinely concerned that he’s not very bright lol

[@weakw1ll]

U saved the episode

[@weakw1ll]

19:53 this moment 💀

[@weakw1ll]

Awesome comedians these dudes and ladies

[@monkey7431_]

They're comedians on a comedy show, they're all doing bits

[@daveyfunk]

The pea task was a real social study into how the mind works in individuals. Had everything!!! haha

[@beth12svist]

Taskmaster often is. It's part of what makes it so fun.

[@Bazinga.Punk.]

Alex genuinely laughing at Rob doing track and field made me laugh😂

[@Pandsu]

I wonder if they would have counted it if someone re-contextualized the word "step" and went like "How to get your soup out of the microwave - Step 1: Walk over to the microwave. Step 2: Open the microwave", making that two steps

[@anotherone5235]

At this point, they definitely wouldn't, as the task is "Get to the Microwave in as few steps as possible and open the door before the microwave dings" At that point in time Greg _might_ have given out points for the sheer audacity of calling that "completing the task" but it would take a huge effort to talk themselves into more than two points, I'd say.

[@sixjhontongalamar979]

@@anotherone5235 well it'll depend on your persuasion skills with the least physical effort. Although if their target is "a show" instead of "a competition", imo it'll be more efficient to just roll, crawl, etc.

[@anotherone5235]

@@sixjhontongalamar979 Definitely. If someone was crawling then there'd be a serious discussion what "a step" is (i.e. do you need to set your foot down flatly to take a step or is it a step to rest (a part or most of) your weight on part of your legs (i.e. knees), but I was just thinking if there was a way to contextualize the actual task with Pandsu's proposed solution of writing a "How To" - which is what my initial reply was about :)

[@Pandsu]

@@anotherone5235 I mean they never specifically said FOOTsteps so I thought maybe if someone provided their own definition of a "step" they would count that

[@anotherone5235]

@@Pandsu I get that. And I'd say you're on to something, if the wording was something like "Get to the Microwave and open the door in as few steps as possible" And during filming of Season 3 I feel there was a laxer approach to everything, so it _might_ have worked, but I can also see it could have gone down in flames immediately. And it would be fun either way. :D If they were doing this task in a current season and somebody did it, they'd definitely be DQ'ed because the "as few steps as possible" is very hard do spin to also include "and open the door" in this specific wording :) (See also the Yoga Mat task in Season 2)

[@rs8751]

I want to watch a conversation between Paul Chowdhry and Bridget Christie where they discuss the definition of a step.

[@sfshinz]

I’d love to watch any conversation between Paul Chowdhry and Bridget Christie, and add Katherine Parkinson. On any subject.

[@rs8751]

@@sfshinz Yes, Katherine should definitely take part, as the innovator behind tiny dance stepping.

[@kayoh1233]

This comment is underrated. Bridgett walking weird is still the most hilarious thing to me out if the entire 17 season released.

[@dilligaf73]

Use to watch these on TV with my dad when he was alive. Just started to watch the seasons I have missed since him dying. I didn't think I would be able to watch any past seasons again but it's been good

[@smeetsnoud1]

Good to hear. Take care and I hope you enjoy the remaining seasons!

[@Imberis]

I'm sorry for your loss. It's nice that you have this sort of connection to your dad still.

[@sirsluginston]

Condolences, hopefully TM will be a healthy way to keep the memory of him alive

[@jamesbw2]

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

Hey man hope you’re doing alright

[@jax422]

I love how Dave Gorman always forgets this show is filmed.

[@mrpepin]

As a non-brit with no access to British tv, I'm looking forward to seeing the upload of season 11.

[@Andjelka99]

It was there for me when they were releasing it live but it's since removed sadly. So I second this statement

[@kingbouncer1314]

Gonna have to wait for their weird streaming service to inevitably crash and burn.

[@probablynot879]

Is season 11 channel 4 onwards? Don’t think they’ll put their eps on here

[@gonk9204]

I think season 11 is exclusive to channel 4s streaming service (which is utter shit, theres more ads then show on there), so you might have to wait quite awhile until theyll be uploads on youtube unfortunately. Hopefully channel 4s service dies soon so they can claim the rights back to upload it on here but thats pretty unlikely as of now.

[@OwlRTA]

@@gonk9204 It's up in Canada, so it might be your region getting robbed of watching series 11 on youtube

[@jaykebird2go]

I've noticed that Friedrich and the other Swedes aren't credited at the end of the episode (at least up through this point). Either way, always nice to see Friedrich, I hope he's doing well.

[@beth12svist]

Since he's a Swede, I'm fairly certain his name is Fredrik, not Friedrich. 😉 (The latter, by the way, does not end in a "K" sound.)

[@iliketrains3495]

19:29 LMAO Sara going "Poor little Paul!" and him giving her a death glare 😂

[@Sunprism]

This is the first episode that KZbin suggested to me and I decided…. I’ll see what that’s all about… Huge fan now, thinking of getting Greg tattooed on my foot

[@becauseimjewish]

I have this tat. Do it. Join us.

[@rivermistfae]

​@@becauseimjewish oh........ new task unlocked

[@becauseimjewish]

@@rivermistfae I also have a smaller “Alex” on the other foot

[@merhona3472]

Sarah's amazing pea throwing skills.

[@miss-nomer]

I keep imagining how great Sean Lock would have been as a Taskmaster contestant. Miss him.

[@kyndramb7050]

I'm amazed by Sara's aim. I would have immediately lost it.

[@youremakingprogress144]

Scoopy's demise had me laughing so hard I had to cover my mouth, for fear of scaring the neighbors.

[@ArlanKels]

I'm impressed absolutely none of them looked up how to make snow, and instead went for mash potatoes and icecream and...slush puppies?

[@peacockfeathers7409]

I know ! just throw the ice in the blender!

[@lilmm7258]

@@peacockfeathers7409or a snow cone machine??? Like Alex got them anything they asked for!

[@apapataco]

My son was literally brought to tears by the snowman made with the stuffed bunny...

[@stinkbutt3168]

I've been binge watching these full episodes for a while, working my back through the seasons. Paul creating the snowman might be one of the most unhinged things I've ever witnessed

[@yoshikagespeedwagon8025]

I choked on my food on "Bastard's crying, innit?"

[@chandlersun3877]

Always nice to see Friedrich

[@XDin4D]

Man, Al had to win, guy was going to lose his stove.

[@kbsheldon]

It was a clock

[@leonhardable]

a flamboyant clock at that

[@halflink]

A very expensive stove (looks like AGA).

[@sfshinz]

“Bastard’s crying, innit.”

[@TheOffkilter]

When I was in the US Army as a private, I had a Sergeant who would punish us by making us roll across the green endlessly in front of the barracks. It actually is incredibly nauseating and exhausting. I vomited a couple of times and I wasnt the only one. Gets your clothes ruined with stains too.

[@AndrewJW]

So nice to know who's going to be this series laughingstock right away. Last in the first task. Disqualified from the second task lol

[@BiteMaster-dm8ip]

I love how they made Scoopy’s melting very harrowing 😂

[@DerekB99]

When you can get Alex to laugh hysterically, you know you've done something right. Maybe "right" is not the appropriate word.

[@evelynnvernaz]

Well that's a job prospect I didn't expect: being a Swede in Taskmaster.

[@davidmangle]

Every time Al Murray says the clock is "just to the left of the knob on the right." My brain follows with "and to the right of the knob on the left is Dave Gorman"😁

[@ShelbyZealand]

Oh... I genuinely thought Paul's blue "bear" with the Greg statue was a callback to Greg's sexual awakening with Blue Ted! 😂

[@mentalpasient6823]

Oh that’s brilliant

[@DerekWritesPlays]

I love how clear it is through the series that Paul's character is everything Greg finds hilarious

[@davesmith2194]

That laugh at 35:40

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"Well, if Davies' got a problem with it, I'll knock him out."

[@Jaqueli9er]

Sara's snowman was the cutest thing ever

[@whitwoodruff4334]

So much humor is in the bits going to and from the ad breaks - why are we being denied those sparks of joy 😫

[@Batters56]

I want to see some Taskmaster bailiffs ripping Al Murray’s oven out of his kitchen and giving it to Sarah!

[@Embergib3004]

Taskmaster bailiffs, I love that! 😂

[@spruhakurlekar261]

Does anyone else miss this era of taskmaster when Greg was still gleefully wondrous of all the ridiculous things that the participants did? He's a little jaded now.

[@jasonhare8540]

I love it when the prize task devolves into a tax scheme 🤣🤣🤣 Is Jimmy Carr a producer on this thing 🤣

[@rivermistfae]

lmfao

[@91debaser]

How is this episode not called 'Bastards cryin'? 🤣

[@andielamantia7658]

I'm endlessly impressed by the team who deals with the props. The stuff they are able to just produce out of thin air is mind blowing.

[@mymortalspectre]

I NEED a compilation of all the times Greg went into "teacher mode"

[@silversleeper1193]

I loved this season with Dave and his cheating 😂

[@fatesDeath]

thank you for allowing canada to view full episodes again.. or at least ontairo

[@gilldurf]

its so nice seeing the Swede from the last series back for the final task in this episode

[@sanddagger36]

Paul is so serious. He got hung up on the cold aspect of the snowman. He also seems to mishear quite a bit, like thinking stepping on the track was a problem not about number of steps. Later on he tried to surprise Alex by dressing up as a clown in a box when that was how the task was presented to him. He either lacks imagination or thinks to hard. He must've been trolling.

[@ButacuPpucatuB]

I wish all the series were available. Thanks for the repost. I loved the race to the microwave 🥰

[@ozanyoung2909]

"Bastard's crying, innit."

[@CapnSnackbeard]

The episode that convinced Noel to wear a halloween costume all of season 4

[@aramanon]

I can't believe five comedians brought four black and white things and a plain brass thing for 'flamboyant thing' contest

[@DaveYognaut]

"Regular Fred and the London Swedes" _needs_ to be a band

[@mohsin90ish]

I'm guessing the people who think Paul's being serious are also the people who think Mike Wozniak's picture got accidentally smashed

[@amydougies3852]

Tbh on my first watch I thought he was serious for a bit and then realised he must have been doing a bit. Coming back to it , It’s obvious, but idk he does really commit so I can see people genuinely believing Paul is serious

[@mangodude-nq6su]

Guess i just don't get this kind of humor. Romesh seemed serious too, but then did shit like tree wizard and broke character sometimes. Paul just feels like he's getting bullied left and right

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@mangodude-nq6suI’ve heard that in British humor being the one put-upon is the preferred angle. Idk how true that is though

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

So many funny moments in this episode, probably one of my favourites!

[@daynaanderson4896]

8:13 has got to be one of my most favorite physical moments in taskmaster 😭😭😭

[@VoiceSnacks]

"Don't disrespect me or I'll make you come last." Don't threaten Rob with a good time Greg.

[@randyastle3301]

From steps to snowmen to Swedes, this episode has been such a thrilling journey through language and meaning.

[@chaseQi]

The snowman don’t wanna come out of the freezer be like “I was born here, let me die here” 😂

[@ZeldaLover1031]

Okay but tortoise shoulda got second? We all agree? More flamboyant than a microwave or an oven?

[@joannadunda9322]

I wish they’d clarified that Al brought in a picture of his oven. If he brought the real oven that would be first place in my book, but a picture is worth less that the pocket watch for me.

[@Soturi92]

The monstrous snowman was disturbingly cute!!! LOLLLL 31:04

[@MissySimpleM]

The tortoise was obviously supposed to win the first round

[@ece2382]

i love this show bc i pick up on new things every time. “are we on broadchurch?” during the pea investigation… good stuff

[@user-ly4hm8uw5m]

The boyfriend Sara mentions when presenting her flamboyant clock isJohn Robbins who is in series 17 wearing a Freddy Mercury yellow jacket!

[@SameBasicRiff]

My God Paul is literally a fucking Gem!!

[@ceostudio]

Sometimes Paul has like a twinkle in his eye while keeping a straight face when he knows his joke landed 😂

[@dogchaser520]

The London Swedes... I love their second album

[@craZgirl1091]

Paul and Bridget need to go to a class about stepping lol 😂

[@IvanaV_]

amazing episode!

[@MeonLights]

Greg's face when Rob threatens to K.O. him 😂

[@joecastro9977]

When that man with the teeth jumps 😂

[@spencerraney4979]

I would have had Alex carry me to the microwave, and I would have cut off part of the red carpet, wrapped the pea in it, put it back in the box, and then I would have just walked around with it.

[@amishrobots]

I can't believe no one thought to cover Alex in whip cream and stick a carrot on his nose

[@matthewbarratt4935]

For the snowman task, or just in general?

[@amishrobots]

@@matthewbarratt4935 well, yeah. No kinkshaming!

[@soulistheanswer]

They did Paul bad with that clock. He was clearly refering to Flava Flave with that clock and they're all so uncultivated they don't get it

[@Ali-mv3jc]

Uncultivated?

[@vapinggaming]

I just wanted you to know... Every year when Hollywood goes on strike and there is nothing to watch, I always come here to watch the comedians- who will literally do ANYTHING for low pay. 😂 So make sure you thank a comedian near you. They are the REAL entertainers!

[@Aanapoda]

I need this like air and I love you so much

[@thefandomtraveler2082]

no but I have a similar clock to the one that Sarah brought and i immediately thought of it when alex announced the prize task xd

[@chriskaprys]

27:30 Thought Alex's bobble hat was a top knot and he was dressed as a craft brewer.

[@auntlynnie]

14:51 “Rob the Retching Roller”

[@nihaldagi]

it's like rob's swede had never hold anything in her hands before zero capability

[@weakw1ll]

Fire cast this one 🔥🫵🏽🙏🏾

[@GiotaRini.]

1:11 "my faithful servant and would-be friend, Alex Horn". 1:30 "they are always there". 2:27 "a clock with an oven attached". 2:57 "yeah, but i can cook 8 things at once with my clock". 3:35 'you define flamboyance ss something thst could be attached go a kilt". 4:51 "it was s gift from me, so technically i own it". 6:26 "didnt know those trees were generators". 9:03 "we all saw the forward reach over tumble with pike, which is a 6.2 difficulty level". 11:12 Chinese proverb "when is a step not a step? When it's on a fucking hurdle". 13:59 "can we ask the expert? Paul, was it a step?". 16:08 "if Davies' got a problem with it, I'll knock him down". 16:20 "I mean, there's a few things to address there..". 18:35 Pea stuck on the racket. 20:00 "You are not in trouble?" "Did you cheat?". 24:25 150 pounds take a pea to Slough. "Weirdly I know his niece. GP in Croydon". "I do like Croydon". 26:29 "It's not gonna snow, is it?" 30:52 "Watching Al making it was like watching a man in the middle of a breakdown". 31:00 "When I see that, I see a creature in pain". 31:30 "that would make my nieces cry". "Is their uncle a cab driver?". 35:21 "the expression and the tears reflect what I'm going through on the inside". "Bastard's crying, innit?".

[@MuscleFlexChris]

Underrated series in my view :)

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

No, I’ve checked, it’s correctly rated

[@math2222322]

This show really has something for Swedes.

[@iliketrains3495]

Looks like the upcoming series 17 is the second one in a row where one of the contestants was referenced in the prize task of a previous series; Sara’s boyfriend who owned the Queen clock was John Robins

[@tessarobins2451]

So surreal watching this knowing that Sara's boyfriend is a) now an ex b)winning his current series of Taskmaster in c)a Freddie Mercury jacket!

[@kischtrine]

Sarah complaining about the „pooey“ track. And then Alex telling her the soup was „pea“ soup was that another pun that didn’t get noticed? Why are they using the track with all the hurdles in the first task? It doesn’t say they needed to.. 🤔 they could have just go straight over the green?

[@lastbitofmashedpotato797]

Fred! Our favourite swedish man!

[@chloroformcowboy2162]

This is a favorite first episode for me (out of the 13 different seasons/series I've started)! - Oh no! I just noticed that this season that maybe had the most enjoyable opener (relieving myself with the promise that another 9 episodes with a good cast still remains for me to watch) only has ~5 episodes instead of the 10 that later seasons have! D'oh!!

[@ronnimonkcom8452]

You know, I wish Rachel parris would do taskmaster- she’d be a runner for the girls! Love all the lady contestants!

[@sanderschat]

"Tree-wizaaard"

[@andreagillette1652]

That was Romesh!