Taskmaster The Podcast
Taskmaster The People's Podcast - The Whole Hilt With a Kilt - S21, Ep.10 *GRAND FINAL*
18 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the series 21 grand final?
I wouldn't know it if I tripped over it.
I'm doing the jazz version.
Well done. Well done, Jack. I didn't recognize that whatsoever. But hopefully the viewers will know that we're here. It's Taskmaster, the people's podcast. And what is it, Jack? What is today's recording?
It's the grand finale. Yay! Oh, very exciting. It's very exciting. It's happened.
We got to the end. It has. And I'll tell you what happened as well. Armando, for the first time in this series, fought Marx for sartorial dread.
Oh, well, we should, I mean, we can, there are lots of things to discuss, even before the whole, before Greg says a single word, there are lots of things to discuss, because God, everyone looks great at the start of this episode. Yeah. I like, so they, I don't, they, they, they say later on, oh, we've all come dressed as a 90s film, which was a lot of fun, but I don't, or like a wedding.
A bit like Four Wedding Snoop.
kind of vibe but i think what's happened here and i love it when this happens is everyone's dressed up fancy and it's just by accident creates a theme it's not like in series 20 when we had um them all dressed up as pirates it's not like in series 15 when you're dressed up like the beatles um it it is it nobody's had to go to a higher shop Yes, it's just do something fancy.
Put something fancy on. And Armando is dressed up in a gorgeous kilt. Oh, what an outfit.
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Chapter 2: How do the contestants style out their cringe moments?
They're like, oh, you know, I'm vaguely from that area. I think you have to be. I think you have to be Scottish.
Oh, yeah, you have to be Scottish and you have to go the whole hilt way. Yes. With a kilt. Absolutely. Go the whole hill with a kilt. I just thought, now there, he looks absolutely splendid. He does. Well, they all look splendid. And Joel can carry a white tie.
He can. I mean, Joel looked terrific. Oh, yeah. It was his wedding day. Next to Joanna, who dressed in a sort of, I really liked Joanna's dress as well.
I thought it was a pretty off-white satin number. And it did look like it's the kind of thing that you could mistakenly buy for your friend's wedding and turn up as a guest. and everyone would tut behind your back. Yeah, and you'd be like, I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. And then you'd sort of wish that you dyed it pink before you went to the wedding.
Yeah, it's only in the context of the wedding that I've now realised that it looks... Because it could be like a cool wedding dress is how I feel, yeah.
Yeah, it could easily have been a bridal frock for a nowadays young gal. Nowadays young gal.
Yeah, yeah. And Kumail was dressed in sort of, you know, like a very smart sort of, you know, no tie, but it was a nice suit. Gangster. Gangster, yeah. Slippery gangster. It really felt like everyone was bringing a different like smart energy to this wedding, which I enjoyed. And of course, Amy was the asshole brother doing Coke in the toilet. Brilliant.
Love it. But all in stripes, pinstripe to up to her chin. Marvelous. She looked terrific as well. Very good. Yes, they all brushed up very nicely indeed.
The other fun thing to notice is, if you go back and watch this episode again, because I feel like this is worth seeing, the opening credits in honour of, because obviously Joel doesn't gain any extra points, spoiler alert, for his egg trauma throughout the whole series, but they do a nice little nod to him. They add in extra egg moments in the opening credits.
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Chapter 3: What unique challenges arise in the egg cup task?
It was really nice. I really like the way he lays himself bare here.
Yes, I think. And he's done that a few times. He's done it with the diary. He did it with the old picture of himself. Like he he's he for someone who is very who has like a sort of a polished version of himself and a sort of, you know, like living in the present attitude. And I said this before. I do.
I do like the fact that he's able to go back and look at his alter ego where he wasn't quite so like comfortable with himself. And I enjoyed that. And I think actually, I mean, I'm really I'm really enamored by Joel. I think he's terrific. I think, yeah, I thought this was wonderful. Well, this is great. And I thought he had a great episode. And I think he's done very, very well on this series.
I'm very happy for him.
Yes, and I also think he will be giving a lot of hope to a lot of teenage boys who go, oh, so I could turn into that.
Yes, I definitely, so I, yeah, I agree. I feel like there are, you kind of, he's a very good role model in the sense where, like, he was, he's quite, he seems to have been quite an embarrassing teenager in a way that I think quite a lot of us were. Oh yeah, his walking cringe. His walking cringe, but the fact that he can then, like, Because I think he's still retained that.
It's not as if he's completely changed who he is. He's still retained a lot of that cringe, but he's turned it in a very fun way. He's styling out his cringe. Yeah. And I think, you know, quite a few things happen in this episode and across the whole series. I think you could argue that Joel has, you know, he's done a lot of puns. A lot of them are terrible, but they are...
They're authentically him. And I think that's the thing that's very sweet about Joel. And yeah, I think that's very true. I think he's a good role model.
I'm going to say it right now. King of styling out your cringe. So he did that. Amy brought in some quality Hornsey pottery where she went to school. Now... I think that it was, I think it was a good effort. I think this is going to happen as well. But the male can't stop laughing.
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Chapter 4: How does each contestant perform in the paint balloon task?
I think Dave is a mug connoisseur. I want Greg to do an entire tour. As Dave. As Dave. As toilet.
everything toilet um it was a shame yeah but um she didn't defend it as well as joanna defended her tom jones album i will say that amy fell down here i mean she was sort of undermined by camille but she her response to camille was what it could have been like i know you're thinking camille it's just a cut but let me tell you it's like the the birth but instead it was more just that she she just resorted to going stop laughing which makes it much more pathetic
I did really enjoy it, but yeah.
Joanna brought in her Tom Jones does country and western record and Dave's verdict was fair play he's a Welsh stallion I mean you know I think it was interesting they were right again in that sense where it's like Joanna's gone sexual and you know and that is interesting in this decision to sort of you know oh yeah that is quality doesn't necessarily make you think that but equally like it's a quality picture
And I can imagine that it's, you do look at that and go, and also like when Joanna says, oh yeah, that's quality. You know what she means by that. And I think that, I think that's fair.
I mean, and it's just like all credits to Tom Jones as well, who genuinely in that moment when that photo was taken, I think thought he was a cowboy. Yeah. Oh, definitely.
I think there's, I think there's a, there's also a weird thing. I feel like in the seventies and that kind of area where you kind of embody, I don't know. I feel like, yeah, there's a, there's a, I feel like if someone did that now, you'd be like, oh, he's pretending to be a cowboy. That's a bit naff.
Whereas I think there's a, there's a sort of believability to Tom Jones and a believability to like people from that era where you're like, you are that person. You are fully.
I mean, why wouldn't Tom Jones go horse riding in a Stetson? And also there's quite a lot of cowboy stuff around at the time. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What were the highlights of the final film task?
I think I would have been absolutely furious because all series long, Greg has been saying he hates puns and he's not going to give any puns. And then Kamail comes in with a terrible pun. A terrible pun. Let's be honest right now. A quality. It works.
It kind of works in American. It does work better in American than it does. A quality. Yeah. Yeah. Quality. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, he couldn't get no points. He beat Amy, which I thought was a little mean.
I thought it was a little mean as well. Poor Hornsey. But he had, the thing is, Dave had already called it toilet. So he had an out. Yeah. And I let go of that. And also I will say that the theater of Kumail taking off his shirt to reveal the shirt underneath, that I think probably gave him a few more points as well, I would say.
You have to remember my vagina is made of lint. Oh, no, no, I'm not. You must remember that at all times.
I like when we get the episode title in, like very, very early on.
My next tour, my vagina. I'm just writing it down. I'm really sorry.
I think it needs that you have to remember though, like, like, come on, we've all, this is not new information. You have to remember my vagina is made of lint. It was more, it was more not, not necessarily that I was thinking, oh boy, I get to see Kamal's, you know, chest. It was more that where's he going with this? What on earth is happening?
I think whenever people do that, a little bit like, um, A moment of panic. What's he doing?
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What emotions do the contestants express during the final moments?
And Armando, the full five points for his fabulous tape dispenser. Oh, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And we come now to our lint moment. Yes. Fill this egg cup with lint. This is task one. You have 10 minutes and the egg cup must stay in the lab. Also, you must stop the clock at exactly 10 seconds at some point during the second half of your attempt. Otherwise, you are disqualified.
Most lint wins.
Yes. So at the start of this, Alex says, oh, it's the return of the egg cup. And I and everyone, as Greg said, 12 people cheered. Hooray. And I was one of those people because we've had the egg cup has appeared in a few other tasks early, early on.
Chapter 7: How does the new cast for series 22 compare to the previous one?
In the first series, there was a Phyllis egg cup with tears. Yeah. And in series three, there was a sweat.
yes it was sweat so we fill this egg cup with I think it was your sweat which I think is where the which is a lot of contestants then yes sweated into a jar but also Sarah Pascoe bought sweat off other members of the cast oh sorry of the crew the crew and Al Murray famously tried to argue that urine was sweat and peed into a saucepan and then poured that in it was disgusting he got disqualified hooray so
I believe this is the first time we've had the egg cup since then. I don't think there have been any other egg cup. I mean, there have been tasks involving egg cups. I think the eats this egg fastest wins was in that same egg cup, the red and white egg cup, but we haven't had a fill the egg cup task since then. Hooray!
Obviously in series one and three, there was something you could do to make yourself produce tears and sweat. You can run or you can cry. Here, there's a little bit of a thing where you're like, well, how am I going to make lint? You can't, I mean, you could, but I suppose, could you create lint? No one really tried, did they?
You need a shreddable fabric, like a linen, a loose linen shirt or something. You could cut a square and sort of fray it.
Which is effectively what Amy did, didn't she, with her sock?
Yes.
Her gummy sock.
Yeah, really, really rather grubby sock. It was... It was quite... She must have thought, shit, I've got those socks on. It's a grubby old... It looked like a boyfriend's tennis sock. But anyway, it was not the kind of sock you want to see Amy wearing.
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Chapter 8: What feedback do listeners provide about Kumail's nipples?
I feel like if Amy had more... If she was a bit more like a Rod Gilbert character... uh or or maybe even a judy love she would have uh said to alex give me your sock i'm gonna shred it or rosie ramsey also did that she she like took alex's suits and poured water over them um which which i think so that that way she wouldn't but she's not that kind of person she will sacrifice her own sock
Amy is DIY. Do it yourself.
Do it yourself and is not afraid of showing off her sock on TV and destroying it, really. I suppose what I mean is, could you wear a shirt and then rub? Because I feel like there was an element to this where I was like, everyone did a great job and everyone did their own version of lint. I would argue proper lint needs to be belly button. That's my own personal argument.
It's impossible to fill an egg cup with your... Unless you are a complete pig, you cannot fill a belly button. My time to shine, baby! Well, obviously I could empty the contents of my vagina, but that's beside the point. No. Hey, that's another show title right there. I think the person who did this best was Joel.
Yes, Joel. And I think Joel also...
joel got into the spirit of it in a way because i think also saying lint rather than dust i think other people would have gone for the vacuum if they'd said dust but i got like i think he he worked out that actually dust and lint sort of interchangeable yeah that means you can go straight into the lint is one of those confusing things i mean armando got i mean his brain crashed into a wall over this one yeah i mean it's you start to if he
It's one of those words, if you say it too many times, it just makes no sense. Lint, lint. And then you just think of those chocolate bunnies, don't you?
Yes. Yeah. And I think I would have, maybe I would have gone down that route and then found myself like in that world. And you're like, well, it's not particularly satisfying to put a chocolate bunny in or like to go out and get that. And yeah, then it's a brand name. There's a whole thing that doesn't work about it.
It all goes wrong, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, you can get lint off a shirt, but it would have to be a flannel shirt. And would you have to rub it into your belly button and then pull it out? No, you can't, Jack. You've really confused this. You've gone down enough.
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