I'd love to see Greg told what "old man yaoi" is on the show XD

I wonder how many people send Alex Horne socks - perhaps more now.

Just thought this was a cool little crossover of an internet person I follow and a show I still get surprised by Americans watching.

For some reason the YouTube channel re-uploaded it.

I saw the upload date being yesterday so I just assumed it to be new but then I started asking myself if they'd run out of comedians in NZ and had to invite people back for another go-around.

edit: This is the series that started in August '24, so I’ve seen it but thanks for sharing.

For some reason the YouTube channel re-uploaded it.

Actually makes sense, I think a lot of English speaking foreigners started watching because of Jason, re-uploading a recent NZ season isn't that shading to get people to keep watching.

Nice, with the UK S19 finishing up a wee while ago, it almost feels like the english speaking series are alternating so there's always a series running or one about to start.

edit: This is the series that started in August '24, so I've seen it but thanks for sharing.

Ah that's Abby down the bottom left! I was in the Dunedin Capping Show with her, she was recently on Conan - and Conan said they had to delete like, 15 minutes of A-Roll material because she was just so funny. Neat!

unpopular opinion: i do not like TMNZ.

don't get me wrong, some of the contestants are great fun to watch, indeed. but their Assistant and their Taskmaster are too weak a glue to hold the whole thing together.

even TMAU is preferable to me, personally, to TMNZ mainly because the chemistry between the two Toms is so much better.

It's great, I wish Tofiga could have been in the studio, but they handled it well.

But you have to be subscribed to whatever it’s played on.

It's playing on YouTube and playing back TM NZ episodes off YouTube with a VPN is not illegal. Google any the TM distributors may not like it but that's about it.

But you have to be subscribed to whatever it's played on. On the other hand using *arr apps to download the videos is piracy.

For some reason I keep thinking there have been 4 series of TMNZ, so for a second I thought this was a brand new one.

VPNs are legal and not piracy.

Good thing piracy exists for those of us that are fans and want to watch.

FYI: At least series 4 is geoblocked in some countries. Likely it'll be the same again.

https://www.polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?agreed=on&ytid=Osk_XQFVgcg

This was as tamed down a Jason as I've ever seen.

And Matthew sacrificed all dignity for it. Also the winner and 4th contestant of the next champion of champions.

Stevie was good too. Had incredible synergy with Jason.

Rosie I know bc of her podcast with her husband, ex tm contestant Chris Ramsay. She was very much herself. This woman genuinely has no boundaries or limits.

Jason was a constant agent of chaos and destruction.

Fatima would either do absolutely rubbish at a task or be a superhuman genius at it with no in-betweens.

Both were extremely entertaining.

But I think Mathew was extremely underrated. He was the master of plot twists wherever he could create one.

A very close series overall. Will check the stats but 141 fatiha to 169 Matthew isn't that wide a gap

Good to know. Even more excited for it.

Reece's persona is barely contained anger, and it feels like that's not at all far from his personality...

Reece Shearsmith and Sanjeev Bhaskar are pretty much UK comedy royalty. Looking forward to Sanjeev in particular, as I think he's gonna really throw himself at it.

Cool, looking forward to it although the only one I recognise from that lineup is Maisie.

Rosie's R jumper - R for Rosie and/or Ramsey?

I'd thought it would be Jason putting something on the roof since he's been trying to get up there all series. Instead, he completely blindsided us with the Nish reveal - and on the same ep as the Aisling, um, cameo.
Also, I can't be alone in being fooled into thinking the crow was going to play a part in Fatiha's placement.

Raging Horne looked like Humpty Dumpty.

Great episode! This series has been absolutely brilliant, I’m pretty sad that it’s the last episode next week!

"We've got the same juice" - yes, just so awful they had to move on (or we've got some great deleted footage coming).

There was nothing about sabotaging the turntable - I reckon shoving a paint bottle underneath would stop it turning and then pull it out to show the other person.