TASKMASTER comedians are known for pulling your leg, but Dara Ó Briain took things to the next level by literally giving a part of their own.
Channel 4’s series of comedy duties continued on Thursday night with the quintessential prize task, with task leader Greg Davies giving contestants a mission to donate ‘the best thing you almost always throw away but can’t bring yourself to’.
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Munya Chawawa earned points for most impressive thing and brought in his first ever houseplant (named the young Pablo who died after a week), which failed to impress the task master.
Enter Dara with something to level up.
“I can give you something that should be alive, but now dead…and that’s part of my leg,” he declared. “Part of my leg broke off during a football game and had to be removed, and then they give it to you.”
While his co-stars looked on in horror, especially Fern Brady, he later added, “It broke off and because I’m nails, I pushed it back in and continued playing.”
Greg looked shocked, then told co-host Alex Horne, “It’s made my balls go up inside myself.”
He wasn’t the only one who felt this way, viewers also felt nauseous when they heard the story and even saw the bone in a test tube.
One viewer wrote: “Varen’s face during Dara’s prize task was EVERYONE when I describe breaking my leg in half last year.”
“Is it just me or is Dara on a different level with these tasks?” added another fan.
“[Dara]the leg bone story made me shudder,” admitted a third.
However, it turned out to be worth it – Dara got the maximum five points available in the challenge for his donation.
Greg said of his decision: “If someone takes a part of their body that just fell off them, they get five points for more sympathy than anything else.”
Sarah Millican donated a zombie her husband has in the house, Fern Brady gave the group a dirty tanker for her boyfriend to keep his toothbrushes in, and John Kearns brought in a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
John only got one point for his efforts, Sarah and Fern got three each, and Munya got four (mainly because he manages to make up enough story to keep Greg interested.
But by a twist of fate, Dara ended up winning the episode, and as a result, he got to keep all donated prizes from the task, meaning he got to keep his piece of bone… in addition to everything else that was handed in for the episode.
Maybe it’s luck somehow…?
Taskmaster airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on channel 4.
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