Armando Iannucci

suggesting things yeah and getting things made and you know it was i just thought i'm quite enjoying this so were you changing your prizes as you went through the series no no i went in they were already done before we started shooting but uh i just uh because you get given the once you've finished all the task filming the outdoor ones you then get given the list of tasks and you've got about seven or eight weeks yeah after about two or three weeks of i suddenly got into it yeah it became a kind of a

a family talking point.

Suggestions were being thrown in and stuff like that.

Do your family all watch the show as well?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they're all scattered now, but we're all viewers.

So were they pretty excited to find out you were doing it?

Very, very.

In fact, my eldest brother in Glasgow, I had no idea it was a huge taskmaster.

Oh, great.

As soon as he heard, he came down.

He was at two or three of the recordings.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, he was so excited.

And as he left, he gave Greg £10.

I don't know why.

It's a Glasgow thing.

I'm like, yeah, go and enjoy yourself.

Don't spend it all in one shop.

Yeah.