How do you describe it to people?

Taskmaster is a TV show where five comedians compete in a bunch of insane challenges cooked up for the approval of Jeremy Wells.

the notoriously unflappable man while Paul Williams watches so we do all these tasks out at the Taskmaster house months ago we did that in February and then we get to watch them all in the studio and we have no idea how each other have done

How far does competitiveness get you through something like this? Or is it just sheer bonkers creativity that takes you to the win?

It's a combination of both.

It's the dumbest thing to be competitive over because it comes down to Jeremy Wells' whims.

Yeah.

Apart from like the tasks that are empirical, you know, you've got first, second, third, you know, because of distance or time or whatever.

Mm.

So there's...

You don't have the time to think, "Okay, if I was writing the task, what would I do and how would I mess them up?" You just go, "Oh, God, I have to do this thing," and get supreme tunnel vision So yeah, it was, it was a really different experience.

Um, it's like when you're watching like a quiz show on, on telly and you're nailing it, and then everyone goes, "It's much harder in the studio."

[laughs]

Um, yeah, I didn't mind that.

There was one that I was...

I, I don't mind watching myself fail.

it,

Rhys? No, I have absolutely no responsibility to you two.

I have a responsibility to the audience.

Right.

Oh, shit.

I'm going to make sure that they feel good as the show goes on, but I will be piling on you guys as much as everyone else.

Oh, great.

Who do you think is the dark horse, in your opinion, that we need to just be wary of?

We've just watched them on TV.

No, I haven't actually.

There hasn't been a lot of New Zealand roasts.

I don't think it's a huge part of our culture because we're normally too polite.

Yes.

I feel like the New Zealand thing is to be very nice to people's face and talk shit about them behind their back.

Wow.

Because the thing with what Hayley did, that was, you know, she'd had, what, a couple of days to think of some? Yeah.