Armando Iannucci

I was concentrating.

Normally, there aren't seven others with cameras staring at me.

I think it's that.

And the fact that...

You know, there's a time pressure and whatever.

And also the other factors, I kind of want it to be funny.

Yeah, of course.

But now you can.

Now that is my game.

So did you find...

Do you mind if I ask you a question?

Please, please, please.

Like after doing it, there was a kind of period of about a week where you were in taskmaster mode.

Yeah.

Because I remember it was like a couple of days after one of the recordings and we were at a cafe and my wife wanted lots of milk in her tea, but the tea thing wasn't, you know, big enough to, it was so full of tea, there wasn't enough to put the milk.

And I immediately went, well, here's what we do.

Right.

the tea in there right the milk you can now put back in there and then you can and it was like she was like what are you doing stop the clock yeah i'll sort it you don't have to

After the first day of filming, I was staying overnight because I was doing two days in a row.

I was staying at a hotel nearby.