Blow Out the Candle From the Furthest Away | Full Task | Taskmaster
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- čas přidán 21. 12. 2021
- From series 6, this task includes Russell Howard blowing out a candle like a sad, stiffed nosed elephant.
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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. - Komedie
So much gold with, "it was a tug not a blow."
Should really make it to "Taskmaster book of quotes" 🤣
I enjoy Alice talking about tugging and blowing as much as the next guy. But it's far from the most creative or funny pun to be honest. 🤷♂️
I honestly don't think she understood her own pun when she said it haha
@@FlynnAlek oh yes she did. Did you see her in "Sex Actually with Alice Levine".
@@kidneystone53 Yep, she's seen/heard much worse than a basic pun like this.
still trying to figure out why alice and alex swapped ends of the hose, couldnt he have just blown down that end??? lmao
Comedy, that's why.
One-way hose. :)
I loved it that they had so much trouble testing the hose, while that one other guy tested it by himself in 2 seconds. I mean its a goddamn hose just put one end on your mouth and point the other end at your face and blow
@@englandcalling9721 Tesla Valve?
@@DidierLoiseau Could be. They're made by the same company that designed the right-handed screwdriver and tartan paint.
I’m genuinely losing it over Lisa running away and HIDING?!?!
I think her idea of blowing it out from as far away as possible was to run away from the candle. Problem was that no one turned the hoover on and it didn’t go out lmao
@@umey3445 no it was on it just didn't do anything
@@umey3445 when air is blown it all goes toward a single general direction, like a spotlight
but when air is sucked it sucks air in from all directions, like an ambient light, making it too weak to blow out a candle.
the vacuum was on, it just didn't do anything.
Obviously, she had a sudden flashback to Alex sitting his naked arse into a cake.
What I want to see is someone never win a challenge but scores top 2-3 every episode and in the end becomes the overall winner. That would be Legendary.
Even with the likes of Joe, they would eventually win one challenge accidentally.
Romesh almost did that... One point between him and Greg's gold head
CZcams is finding this comment hateful and asking for it to be rated. That I find funny
Josh Widdicombe nearly did this in Champion of Champions. He won the second episode despite not winning a single task and won the overall special, although he did win a couple of tasks in the first episode
"It was a tug, not a blow"
"The difference between second and third base, should mean the difference between first and last place".
I saw the garbage bin and my first thought was to build a vortex cannon... I don't think I could actually DO that in 10 minutes with no instructions. Asking Alex to hold the other end of the garden hose up to the flame seems like it would have been the best "in the spirit of the rules" solution.
i thought the same! maybe the bottom of the bin was already removed and all you had to to was to put a membrane on the top
Due to russel's athletic ability, i was sort of hoping that he'd knock the candle out with the shuttlecocks.
Just imagine what would happen if Alex would either stop being helpful or work against contestants once they call him a liar or similar.
Considering he only ever does what's directly asked of him, I don't think that'd be in the spirit. HIs persona is that he's doing Greg's bidding, which means it's Greg's ego you're meant to please, not Alex's.
I always wonder - since Alex never seems to say no to helping the contestants with whatever crazy thing they ask of him (sit on a cake, get in a car boot, simulate being given birth to etc.) - could they just ask him to blow it out at 9:50 seconds and they get in a car and drive away? Would Greg allow it? Is it cheating? I feel like each contestant might have one unofficial "ask Alex for something insane" card up their sleeves per season.
Nah I don't think Alex would allow himself to basically do the task for a contestant. Also, imagine Greg's rage if he did do that!
Oh, sorry I forgot what time it was so you ran out of time
I feel like Greg wouldn't accept having Alex simply blow the candle out while the contestant is far away, because Alex would be performing the entire task instead of just assisting.
@@JoeQing lol, you didn't watch too much of this show, no??? plenty of times he did that because the task prohibited the contestant, but not alex, and was validated
@@ElGoogKO I watched a lot of this show lol, he never really just DOES the task for them iirc, he helps some people a lot, like when Al Murray paid him to move the bucket, but never just does the full task
"it was a tug, not a blow" deserved a point at least.
Heart breaking we will never see Sean lock on this show
I REALLY wanted to see someone make a vortex cannon out of that bucket and surprise everyone else
Just bring Nish and just tell him to shout, "Bubbly fuck!"
Christ can’t believe I’ve finally met a Nish Kumar fan.
Nice to see Nish not being shat on in the comments for once.
Nish is a treasure!
The straws didn't work because the connectors aren't airtight, especially so at the bend
Every episode with Alice is such a delight.
I blown my brother's mind with this before, just blew accurately from like across the room while he had a lighter on. And did it consistently too
The string method was fully valid.
A stationary candly and moving air is the same as a moving candle and stationary air.
my thought is the meaning of the term blow out the candle generally means extinguish the flame, like hanging up the phone no longer means hanging up the phone literally.
What I liked most about this season is the confidence
She was right for stuffing the pipe with the bag you need to keep suction otherwise you lose your vacuum. Should decrease the air flow through the back side of the pipe therefore increasing the section in the front.
Oh really you don't say. Even a child knows this
No shit, Sherlock.
nobody came here for a science theory
The science behind why the straws didn't work, is he plugged them the wrong way. Much like the Tesla Valve Straw. It creates pockets of resistance.
And every extra straw added magnifies the interference, creating a stronger blockage.
@@jeffwells641 yep, absolutely correct
The path of the air is not shaped like a tesla valve at all. The flow through the center of the straws never has to make a sharp turn. Friction increases when more straws are added and there are also more leakage points. The straws still would not be effective if they were turned around.
It also looks like he thought "small hole, high velocity" which is completely wrong with what basically amounts to a flow from a constant pressure reservoir. Having a smaller hole increases the velocity when there is a constant mass flow rate, not when there is a constant pressure source.
When Alex asked Alice did she want to swap...they physically swapped...why didn't he just blow in the end he had?
because the flame was at a specific end
The simple answer is because that’s what she asked for
Covid
@@oliverc432 that makes no sense? Surely blowing in the same end that someone just had their mouth at is worse from a covid perspective?
@@jameskennelly136 Was just a joke bruh
1:29
He turns into an elephant! Funniest shit I've ever seen!
what I wanted was for someone to set up a counterweight with the bucket and run away as it slowly fell to snuff the candle
Such a great show! Thank you from the USA!
I wish the US version even had remotely done it justice. Bad casting choices for contestants and host (the one in place of Greg)
@@KarinIris123 I didn't even know the US had a version... I can't imagine they could even dream to be on a level that this show is
They had an insult comic as one of the contestants. The guy they casted to replace Greg didn't have the presence for it (Jeremy in the New Zealand one has the presence). Alex was in the US one in the same role but didn't have the same dynamic.
It looks like you could've made a vortex gun with some of those materials.
I'm surprised nobody just put a bucket on top of the candle with a camera inside to catch the moment the flame went out and just ran. Would've made the top distance easily. The candle would've slowly starved itself of oxygen and snuffed itself out, then however far you can get by the time it goes out is your distance for the challenge.
That's not blowing though.
@@poilboiler Neither was that tug, and it still won...
@@Phelixc Well a tug and not a blow, but a choke?
See idk if the amount of oxygen in the bucket would’ve been used up in 10 minutes…..
Edit: Just checked it out and yeah that size of candle should burn through the oxygen in that bucket in under 5 minutes.
@@poilboiler I think the tug was allowed due to the wording of the task. "The furthest person from the candle when it goes out wins"
There were all the parts to make a vortex cannon on the table
I'd argue with this one. The task was to blow out the candle - so if I hadn't done the string thing, I'd argue that the person who had done the string thing had knocked the candle out, not blown it out. However, if I'd done the string thing, which I would have, and someone tried to argue it was knocking it over not blowing it out, I'd argue that the wind created by pulling it over blew it out. Genius :)
In the end the taskmaster was happy that as long as the candle went out then it counts. Maybe they should have written "Extinguish the candle" in the instructions because "blow out the candle" does imply that you use your mouth.
Relativity: Since no frame of reference is more correct than another, the flame was blown out in all case, including the tug
I would have accepted the tug method with the String IF the impetus for knocking the candle over was a blow. Say he tied the string to a brick, balanced precariously on the edge of a table, and then he blew on the brick, tipping over, pulling the string, knocking the candle. I would accept that
@@scottmclean5997 no one can blow a brick over
@@fluffigverbimmelt The correct 'frame of reference' , to use the same words, is implied in the instructions. Blow out the candle. That statement is not to be read by the wind. It's telling the player to blow out the candle.
I would have inserted the candle inside the bottom of that blue barrel together with the hose (at an angle where the hose wouldnt hit the flame). Next, pluged the other end of the hose onto a water tap. Then I would of slightly opened the water tap and ran away as far as I could. In 3-6 minutes the barrel would of been partially filled up with water and the flame would be extinguished.
"Where is the candle?" hahaha
I like how at 6:17 he asks if she wants to swap, and they swap... when he could've just blown into his end xD
Ahhhhhh I was waiting so patiently for someone to get Alex’s number and drove as far as they can in 5 minutes then call and ask him to blow it out 😂
but the task was "blow the candle out from the furthest distance" if Alex does it then it doesn't matter how far the contestant is when the distance would be measured from where Alex is in relation to the candle. There's a lot of loopholes in taskmaster but that's probably one that wouldn't skate by.
@@dontakami they did state that " the furthest player from the candle when it goes out wins" so they can call Alex presumably.
Should have just asked Alex to blow it out at 1 second left and booked it as far away as they could run.
I just had to rewatch what the envelope says all it says is “to blow it out from the furthest distance then further from the candle when it’s blown out win” they could have gotten Alex to stand next to the candle and then they could have been far away and the ask Alex to blow it out, they envelop doesn’t say they have to blow the candle out, boom done x
Yes but the point of the show is comedy, and the most effective answer is not the funniest. I'd imagine that those comedians are essentially also "auditioning" for other shows. If you're a comedian and a stick in the mud with the most effective way, yes you'll "win" but your career will lose.
A happy medium between comedy and effectiveness could be "tie the string to Alex and when Alex feels three tugs, Alex would blow it out."
Set phone to vibrate, tie it to the candle and put it on the edge of the table. Borrow a phone, call when you're near the time limit.
100% agree with that call!
@5:51 Back pressure scales with tubing’s diameter and length.
Put a container over the top of it and run away and it’ll eventually blow out. Easy peasy.
Set up the vac so the exhaust is aimed at the candle. Turn off the breaker. Aim at candle... go back to breaker and flip on.... win
Card didn't say you couldnt use Alex. I'd tell Alex right before the timer goes out, blow it out for me.
And then I'd walk as far away from the location as possible.
Asim definitely deserved the win. The task said "furthest away from the candle when it goes out", that's the really important bit, it doesn't specify how to put out the candle within the rules of the task
blow out
be extinguished by an air current.
"the candles blew out"
...
The air current formed when the candle was falling down. Valid attempt.
Now if you'd used water to extinguish the flame or powder or anything that didn't involve air currents, then invalid.
I beg to differ. The impact with the floor separated the flame from the wick.
@@NomadUniverse you can beg to differ all you want without having any truth to your idea.
Take a a similar candle support and be sure to lock it into a very stable base that will not move as all when an objects hits it hard.
Be sure you do not make any air currents with the objects hitting the candle assembly.
You will see the candle doesn't blow out because is not the impact with the floor is the air currents that quickly extinguish it...the air currents from the motion of thecandle assembly that was pulled down.
@@ElGoogKO so you're saying there's no way a flame cant be separated enough to stop the chemical reaction happening and every other force is weaker than a light blow of air? What about starving it of oxygen. That's not blowing it out and yet it goes out. There's no way you can test it without the flame moving through the air. Maybe with a high speed camera. To see what takes it out first. I still think it's possible. Of course it wont go out in your hypothetical setup. You need momentum to create separation.
@@NomadUniverse Burning needs 3 things. Heat, oxygen and fuel.
Impact won't take out none of them.
Blow will take out the parafin wapor for a moment and that time rest will cool down just enough so it won't ignite again.
@@XtreeM_FaiL I stand by what I said.
[about plastic straws] "these are the future"
"what about you hoover ?" *draws on cigarette* "you're on your own mate" Killed me xD
0:49
You can see tears in his eyes
The thumbnail made me think it was a pitch for the Dragons Den
I legit thought that the candle was drilled to the table and that’s why it was stuck
I'm with them, he didn't blow it out!
Is he not the one who caused air to blow past the wick?
@@RAndrewNeal He caused the wick to move through the air
@@Hazzar595 The air which blew out the candle. It's no different than if one of them tried to pick it up and whirl it around at arms' length.
@@Hazzar595 let's not start getting relativistic over here
@@RAndrewNeal and yet he didn't blow out the candle. curious
really it was movement of flame over still air
6:20 they didn't have to swap lol
Oh wow! I was expecting them to disqualify the tug, not understanding that the candle moving relative to still air is equivalent to there being wind, thus, the wind caused by the candle moving relative to the air blew it out.
Exactly. I'd argue with this one. The task was to blow out the candle - so if I hadn't done the string thing, I'd argue that the person who had done the string thing had knocked the candle out, not blown it out. However, if I'd done the string thing, which I would have, and someone tried to argue it was knocking it over not blowing it out, I'd argue that the wind created by pulling it over blew it out. Genius :)
@@rogueuniversities6866 so what you’re saying is, you’re a hypocrite
@@lazytreecko Wrong, what I'm saying is, I'd use logic to win the game. People are free to use counter logic.
"equivalent to there being wind" =/= blowing it out
@@Thykothaken I mean there is indeed no functional difference between the air moving or the object moving
Actually there's a certain way of blowing air from your mouth that let's it go pretty damn far (a few meters) can't really explain it though. However you do need decent lung power to actually get the candle out from that distance.
Put the large bucket over it and run like a bat out of hell. It'll take a bit of time for the candle to go out.
I thought one was going to put the bucket on then run
Get the man in the room to set his phone on vibrate angle the candle to the point that a vibration of a phone could knock it off, and drive away for a long as you have time for and call him :P
Wind is relative, I'd give him full points
My immediate thought was to pick up a table and violently hurl it at the candle.
I would have thought to get as far away as possible and call Alex to tell HIM to blow it out for them
Why on earth would anyone not expect blowing into q hose to work?
Schrodinger's candle leave it by an open window and walk away/ drive away.
Lmfao. There's an app that you can download that uses sound to blow out candles. They could have downloaded it and took a walk then called their phone.
What's the app called?
i wonder, was it furthest from the candle or furthest from where the candle was placed originally? No one tried to drive off with it or anything, but I wonder if they could have
I would have balanced it on my phone and traveled a good distance away and called my phone which was set to vibrate, thus knocking the candle off. I may have put a bucket of water under the candle if I had the time to make sure it went out
I’m disappointed nobody thought of telling Alex to blow the candle.
chubuddy was tryna find aldonna im suprised he won
I haven't even finished watching the video but I'm so stressed out worrying that no one is gonna use the fire extinguisher that's right there.
you don't reach too far with a fire extinguisher
@@qutini Have you used a fire extinguisher before? Especially in a confined space like that, one squirt from 30-40 feet away would fill that entire room with white dust, depending on the type of extinguisher. A full spray could be used from even farther away and it would still probably put the candle out.
@bad1dobby eh, semantics. That’s really the same thing that blowing does I think.
@@evaahh9584 This entire show is about semantics, of course they'd care.
@bad1dobby I mean they counted the rug from the twine, so they probably just wanted the candle out
Im suprised no one used the fire extinguisher you can see
That was not fantasia they were helping clean in, the mop was refilling the water from the well in fantasia.
9:11 look at da dude on the far right end
I’m surprised Liza didn’t argue for the win: She was very far away when the candle was *blown out*. She could have argued that that was her plan, or that her plan didn’t matter because she met the criteria of being far away and the candle being blown out.
The problem was that she didn’t do it in the 10 minutes given
@@MOZZQUESTVANYALI Yep. Forgot about that bit. Ok, she lost fair and square lol
By that logic there is somewhere a candle on the other side blown out, but I am not sure I can take credit for it
Task Master is what school should be.
That was a tug not a blow.. yup.. 🤣
The air blew the candle out. It doesn't matter if you move the candle through the air or the air over the candle. It's just the frame of reference that changes. Both actions are equivalent.
Also, if someone tells you to blow out the candles before going to bed and you use one of those cap things, do you think they'd argue with how it was done? What is the term for blowing out a candle without blowing at the flame in english anyway?
@@johanhalvarsson2148 putting the candle out, or extinguishing the flame of the candle
Guys.. It was an innuendo..
It’s weird seeing them so close to each other
It's normal. We've lost our minds.
@@unclem7816 This is normal, thank you for noticing. So many sheep are among us and must be sent to the slaughter before we're all doomed.
@@timo4938 among us? 😳
@@Thematic2177 purple sus 😳😳😳
@@skylardeslypere9909 Classic blue making such an early accusation...
Do I spy all of the materials to make an air cannon?
Surprised none of them put it in a bucket and rigged the hose to a faucet, started filling the bucket/candle with a trickle and then run like mad away
Thats not "blowing" at that point. You'd need more rigging to have the water trigger a flat object to fall and blow it out, or just pull the candle off with the weight of water
I agree... The rules said *BLOW* the candle out, not make the candle go out. The string method would be invalid.
I would have grabbed the garden hose, had the witness hold one end right by the candle, stretch the hose out all the way and blow out the candle.
but it said "the farthest away when the candle goes out" not "is blown out"
just throw the vacuum at it
I wanted a fan and a long extension cord or better yet a smart plug for the fan
Was the big blue drum thing on the table an air-cannon?
Could they tell Alex to blow the candle out with a few seconds to go and then just run away as far as possible?
"the contestant has to "
Please make season 12 available in Canada I can’t watch it :(
There is a way, the way I watch them here in Australia. if I told you here though they could put an end to it.
Wonder if I could’ve taken a car as far as possible then called Alex and asked him to blow out the candle?
They should have got a big bowl and put over the top of the candle then ran away and waited for the candle to run out of oxygen and go out
fking love lisa tarbuck shes so "rare" xD
"I could do that without using any of these items" _proceeds to go to the straws_
He really tried to- 🤣
He was saying the pipes are useless so he's "as likely to do it from here", I doubt he had any illusion
What taskmaster does on his spare time
If the string was okay then you could cover the candle with a bucket and run. Or maybe cut the top of the candle and run.
Surprised the string method didn't start a fire
Tell the timer guy to blow the candle right before the time runs out.
Run.
I can't get over the stupidity of "wanna swap", and swapping, when he could have just blown in the other end, or she could have just kept the two ends near each other and checked herself.
Edit: Thank god the dude after her did that.
From the thumbnail it looked like an episode of dragons den
Oh! Going into this:
Long ago, part of my young, dumb but fun, days I was infatuated with martial arts.
Just this morning I put out an incense flame with a punch. Like 4 inches away. I did better when I was younger. Just start close, with a candle or incense stick, and slowly move back.
Nert alerd.
I’d honestly just chuck the tube at it until it went out. I’m certain I could get it from across the room before it went out
Next time it's my birthday i'll throw the cake off the table because apparently that's what "blowing out a candle" means now.
If the goal of your birthday is to put the candles out and nothing else, then mission accomplished
Also the mechanism of the flame dying is the same. The sudden, fast movement of air relative to the candle is what puts the flame out in all the solutions presented.
This is what I've done for every birthday since covid
From the viewpoint of the candle it's the same: sudden wind comes up, candle goes out, (cake smashes on the floor, optional)
Put the vac hose on the exhaust side so it blows. Then put it on the long pipe. Then go as far as you could away when you plug it in
That's just the wrong winner. That was not a blow.
I think you'll find that Greg Davies is the taskmaster and what the taskmaster says is final
A fire extinguisher would though?
task should have been "extinguish" the candle not "blow it out" and the straws didnt work because each time you pinch the straw to fit in the other, it creats a flow stop and turbluance, for the air moving making it harder for the air to move, each time a straw is added
I'd just chop the top of the candle off then go for a drive
Could they not have asked Alex to hold the end of the hose next to the candle?
Not that it would have won, but I wish someone could have made a vortex cannon with the bucket.
Would have been interesting to see how far it would work from.
that would have been great but thet could have also put the bucket over the candle (to let the oxygen run out) und run like hel to get as far away as possible since the didnt really have to blow it out
@@Mjnoobcrafter that would have been my suggestion… but only after confirmation that extinguishing the candle by burning out the O2 would count as ‘blowing it out’
@bad1dobby you are correct however I don't see why pulling a cord is any different since you didn't blow the candle out, and you could als make a construction where the bucket falls if you blow at an object that should count as blowing