Taskmaster. Image shows from L to R: Greg Davies, Alex Horne. Copyright: Avalon Television
Taskmaster

Taskmaster

  • TV comedy
  • Channel 4 / Dave
  • 2015 - 2024
  • 160 episodes (17 series)

TV format in which Greg Davies and Alex Horne set a group of comedians various outlandish challenges. Also features Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner, Roisin Conaty, Josh Widdicombe, Tim Key and more.

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Series 1, Episode 2 - The Pie Whisperer

Taskmaster. Image shows from L to R: Frank Skinner, Josh Widdicombe, Roisin Conaty, Romesh Ranganathan, Tim Key. Copyright: Avalon Television / UKTV
Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner and Josh Widdicombe have to identify the contents of a table full of mystery pies, make a film backwards and high five a fifty five year old.

Preview clips

Prize task: Most impressive item.

* Tim Key: A London Marathon participants' medal. - 5
* Frank Skinner: A leather Christmas cracker hat. - 4
* Roisin Conaty: A Methuselah of champagne (8 standard bottles worth). - 3
* Josh Widdicombe: A Pointless Celebrities trophy. - 2
* Romesh Ranganathan: An Arsenal cap thrown from the Arsenal tour bus. - 1

Task 1: High-five a 55-year-old. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.

* Josh: 3:18 - 5
* Roisin: 6:12 - 4
* Tim: 4:29 (deducted a point for lying about filming a show for Comic Relief) - 3
* Frank: 12:44 to high-five two 27-year-olds and a 1-year-old. - 2
* Romesh: An hour to high-five a 50-year-old. - 1

Task 2: Identify the contents of these pies. You may touch the pies, but you may not breach their pastry. Most accurate wins. Your time starts now.

* Tim - 5
* Roisin - 4
* Romesh - 3
* Josh - 2
* Frank - 1

Task 3: Do something that will look impressive in reverse. The Taskmaster will see whatever act you perform played backwards. You must therefore do something backwards, that will look impressive when the footage is played in reverse. Your time starts now.

* Roisin and Romesh - 5
* Josh - 3
* Tim - 2
* Frank - 1

Live task: Crack the code, unshackle yourself and sprint one metre. Fastest wins.

* Roisin - 5
* Romesh - 4
* Josh - 3
* Tim - 2
* Frank - 1

Final scores

* Roisin - 21
* Tim - 18
* Josh - 16
* Romesh - 14
* Frank - 9

Broadcast details

Date
Tuesday 4th August 2015
Time
10pm
Channel
Dave
Length
60 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Wednesday 5th August 2015 10:20pm Dave
Friday 7th August 2015 12:00am Dave
Saturday 8th August 2015 10:00pm Dave
Sunday 6th September 2015 5:00pm Dave
Friday 1st January 2016 8:00pm Dave
Saturday 13th February 2016 10:00pm Dave
Sunday 14th February 2016 2:05am Dave
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 10:00pm Dave
Wednesday 3rd August 2016 2:00am Dave
Saturday 3rd December 2016 4:00pm Dave
Tuesday 3rd January 2017 10:00pm Dave
Saturday 14th January 2017 5:00pm Dave
Monday 15th May 2017 2:20am Dave
Friday 2nd February 2018 10:00pm Dave
Monday 19th March 2018 11:00pm Dave
Wednesday 15th August 2018 1:00am Dave
Wednesday 15th August 2018 12:00pm Dave
Sunday 28th July 2019 11:00pm Dave
Tuesday 30th July 2019 9:00pm Dave
Tuesday 31st March 2020 6:00pm Dave
Wednesday 1st April 2020 12:00am Dave
Tuesday 14th July 2020 11:00pm Dave
Wednesday 15th July 2020 6:00pm Dave
Saturday 29th August 2020 3:00pm Dave
Monday 7th September 2020 6:00pm Dave
Tuesday 20th October 2020 8:00pm E4
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 2:35am E4
Tuesday 16th February 2021 6:00pm Dave
Monday 14th June 2021 12:20am Dave
Tuesday 6th July 2021 11:00pm Dave
Wednesday 5th January 2022 6:00pm Dave
Wednesday 5th January 2022 11:00pm Dave
Monday 25th April 2022 6:00pm Dave
Tuesday 26th July 2022 6:00pm Dave
Wednesday 27th July 2022 3:10am Dave
Monday 21st November 2022 1:55am Dave
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 10:00pm Dave
Friday 3rd March 2023 11:00pm Dave
Wednesday 8th March 2023 6:00pm Dave
Tuesday 20th June 2023 12:40am Dave
Thursday 29th June 2023 6:00pm Dave
Friday 28th July 2023 12:00am Dave

Cast & crew

Cast
Greg Davies Host / Presenter
Alex Horne Host / Presenter
Romesh Ranganathan Self
Frank Skinner Self
Roisin Conaty Self
Josh Widdicombe Self
Tim Key Self
Writing team
Alex Horne Writer
Production team
Andy Devonshire Series Director
Andy Cartwright Series Producer
Alex Horne Producer
Richard Allen-Turner Executive Producer
James Taylor Executive Producer
Jon Thoday Executive Producer
Hilary Rosen Executive Producer
Rob Aslett Executive Producer
Richard Watsham Executive Producer
Thomas Perrett Editor
Mark Sangster Editor
James Dillon Production Designer
Dru Masters Composer

Videos

Backwards Task

The comedians have to create some backward films. Here's Romesh Ranganathan's Tree Wizard entry.

Featuring: Romesh Ranganathan & Josh Widdicombe.

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