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Speaker 1: Task Master Australia starts on Thursday on ten at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty and the task Master himself, Tom Gleason is with us.

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Speaker 2: Oller, Tom oh, good morning, thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. For those unfamiliar with

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Speaker 1: the UK version, tell us the premise of task Master.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got five comedians and they're there for the

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Speaker 2: whole ten episode. I set them tedious task to complete

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Speaker 2: and then I get to score them and judge their

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Speaker 2: efforts and based on that pick a winner. So I'm

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Speaker 2: given a position of power which I completely abuse.

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Speaker 3: Well that's your job, Tom. How about those comedians, mate?

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Speaker 3: Give us the list.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's Julia Morris, everyone I would know, and the

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Speaker 2: thrill is she's normally, you know, doing I'm a celebrity,

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Speaker 2: get me out of and getting people to do terrible, terrible,

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Speaker 2: and now I get to put her through the ringer,

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Speaker 2: which is a joy.

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Speaker 1: Need this.

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Speaker 3: I bought Julia than Cockroach.

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Speaker 2: And so then we've got Luke McGregor as well, people

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Speaker 2: might know from rose Haven on the ABC. We've got

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Reese who used to be Jimmy Giggle with Giggle

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Speaker 2: and Hurt. He's a former children's presenter who reinvented himself

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Speaker 2: as an online.

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Speaker 1: Sense very popular yep, yep.

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Speaker 2: And then we've got Nina Yarmer, who people may have

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Speaker 2: seen in Utopia. She's been on plenty of show She's

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Speaker 2: probably a newer act yep. And Dannya Walker she won

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Speaker 2: the Raw Comedy competition at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. She's been doing a lot of festivals.

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Speaker 2: She's from North Queensland and she is I reckon she's

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Speaker 2: going to be everyone's favorite to be honest.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, you got to.

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Speaker 1: Have sent to him? Do you get to come up

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Speaker 1: with the task because they could be quite creative and

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Speaker 1: all downright obsurd.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well the production company they come up with all

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Speaker 2: that stuff. There are writers who look after that, which

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Speaker 2: I'm thankful for because this show, like if you have

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Speaker 2: seen the UK version, you know that the tasks are

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Speaker 2: quite involved. They they require problem solving and lateral thinking.

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Speaker 2: But all the task in the Australian version they're all new.

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Speaker 2: They've never been done before. And not only that, the comedians.

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Speaker 2: This is probably what amuses me the most. They actually

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Speaker 2: completed more than forty tasks and we only used thirty

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Speaker 2: on air. So they completed all these tasks that we

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Speaker 2: filmed and we didn't even use it's.

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Speaker 1: The director's cut. Yes, do you get to sneak in

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Speaker 1: any extras? Like your task is to wash my car,

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Speaker 1: do my tax, to.

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Speaker 2: Be self serving? Well, one of their task is just

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Speaker 2: to entertain me in the moment. It's pretty to do

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Speaker 2: because I'm not an easy laugh.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Tom, do you watch the UK show for you know,

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Speaker 3: just or do you avoid it so you're not copying

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Speaker 3: and you're doing your own thing, your own style.

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Speaker 2: I watched a few episodes just to get the hang

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Speaker 2: of it. I mean, within not too many. I mean

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Speaker 2: Greg Davies, who hosts the UK version, I met few

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Speaker 2: years ago and I'm well aware of his act. So

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Speaker 2: when I saw it, I'm like, oh, let's let me

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Speaker 2: get this straight. I have to sit in a chair,

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Speaker 2: rubbish my fellow comedians in front of a live audience.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I've got the covers. That's pretty easy

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 1: You're on television, But do you like to watch television

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Speaker 1: and if so, what are you watching at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, last night I actually watched Austrain Survivor. I

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Speaker 2: really enjoyed it. Okay, yeah, yeah, I watched. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: the Heroes Versus Villains. I watched all of that. I

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Speaker 2: even watched the projects. That's how Channel ten I AM

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Speaker 2: found the new project.

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Speaker 1: Well, one broke their collar bone on the first episode

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Speaker 1: of Survivor last night.

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Speaker 2: I know, it was very exciting. They got to the

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Speaker 2: side they were trying they'd all colluded to boot one

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Speaker 2: person out, and then two of them were injured so

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Speaker 2: they couldn't vote for them, and they decided to boot

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Speaker 2: someone out anyway. Wow, I was really impressed. I already

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Speaker 2: enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they got the mask been set broken, collar boats

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 3: Try not to do that, Tom, before you go, mate,

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Speaker 3: is it true the last time last time I saw

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Speaker 3: you on TV, I'm sure you were in a full

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Speaker 3: hazmat suit. Is that because you had COVID? What was

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Speaker 3: going on there? Is the Hogan thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was the roast of Poor Hogan and

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Speaker 2: it was on Channel seven, which is important to point out.

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Speaker 2: You know, I work at the ABC nine, seven and ten.

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Speaker 2: I'm free lance, I'm not tied to anyone, and that

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Speaker 2: that is absolutely true. At the roast of Paul Hogan's

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Speaker 2: the day of I tested positive to COVID, so I

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Speaker 2: couldn't be in the same room, which is really upsetting

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Speaker 2: because the only reason I did the show was to

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Speaker 2: meet Paul Hogan.

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Speaker 1: Of course, can we borrow that suit? You might have

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Speaker 1: heard we've had some radioactive wasteful off the back of.

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Speaker 3: The track trying to find it.

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Speaker 2: You've had a radioactive ticktack, haven't you flowing around out

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Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere?

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Speaker 1: So it's just a fifteen hundred kilometer it's so bizarre.

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Speaker 2: So funny. But the funny part is if you can't

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Speaker 2: find it, it's no danger in a weird way finding

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Speaker 2: a bear. We're happy that it's lost.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a seven foot high kangaroo company.

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Speaker 3: It's becoming famous as wag Spot at the Marm of Tommy.

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Speaker 1: Ja Master Australia starts seven thirty on ten on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Lovely to chat, Yeah, thank you, Tom.

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Speaker 3: Tom Blason not in full hairs mat this morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're all good.