Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster Podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, back again, with another

episode of the Taskmaster Podcast, and today of course we'll be talking about Taskmaster

Series 16 episode 7. Yes, it's the current series of Taskmaster and what a series it

is so far. Although episode 7 always starts to feel like we're coming towards the end. But

please don't think that. There's 7. There's 8. There's 9. There's 10. And episode 7 is

an absolute belter. Some amazing tasks in this one. Hope you've seen the episode because

we will be talking about it in detail with a brilliant guest. And the brilliant guest

this week is the wonderful Mark Watson. Yes, of course, Mark Watson, brilliant contestant

in series 5. An amazing comedian, all round, top guy. We'll be chatting to Mark about

episode 7 of this series. So stay up to date with Taskmaster 9 o'clock on channel 4 every

Thursday. You can go watch the episode on all four now if you have to. And come back

here and listen to the brilliant Mark Watson. This is series 16 episode 7, as discussed

by Mark Watson. Welcome, Mark, to the Taskmaster podcast. Nice to be back, Ed. How are you?

It's very well, thank you. And it's very nice to have you back to talk about this new

lineup, to talk about series 16 episode 7. You were saying just before we started recording.

You've had a chance to watch a few little bits of this series. And you've watched this

episode we're going to talk about. So you've got a flavor of the lineup. What do you think

of this new lineup, Mark? I mean, it's sort of often remarked upon, but it is amazing

how good the lineups always are. This looked good right off the bat. I had to say, Jim and

Clarey felt like a kind of a statement booking, so we say. I felt like, I mean, not having

seen Clarey perform very much for quite a while. I think I was sort of expecting him to

be the way I remember him from a bygone. IE, very high energy and camp and kind of tricksy.

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