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.
- Continues on Thursday on C4 at 9pm with Series 17, Episode 6
- Catch-up on Series 17, Episode 5
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Series 12, Episode 1 - An Imbalance In The Poppability
Prize task: The thing that, if you put it in a bag and sit on it, it would feel the nicest.
* Desiree Burch: Chicken fillets, as a substitute for human breasts. - 5
* Alan Davies: An inflatable car cushion and an electric toothbrush. - 4
* Victoria Coren Mitchell: (Fake) Diamonds. - 3
* Morgana Robinson: A spinning washing machine. - 2
* Guz Khan: A chair from the Taskmaster set. - 1
Task 1: Strike Alex with a ball. Alex may not run, hide or leave the Taskmaster grounds. Fastest wins. Your time starts now. (The contestants are wearing video cameras, and Alex can see the camera feed.)
* Morgana: 2:04, plus a bonus point for calling Alex Horne: "a little fucker." - 6
* Desiree: 6:03 - 4
* Victoria: 7:24 - 3
* Guz: 7:29 - 2
* Alan: 10:22 - 1
Task 2: Paint the most flattering picture of the Taskmaster in action on the canvas in the lab. The canvas will either be six inches or six feet above you. You must lie flat on your back on the creeper at all times. You have ten minutes. Your time starts now and you must tell Alex if you want the canvas to be six inches or six feet above you within the next ten seconds.
* Guz - 5
* Alan - 4
* Desiree - 3
* Morgana - 2
* Victoria - 1
Task 3: Pop the balloon. You must stay behind the rope at all times. You must not move the rope. You may buy the tools you need with time. Fastest wins. Your time starts when Alex has shown you his tool shop. (Tools for sale - Slingshot and bucket of stones: 1:00, Pebbles: 1:30 each, Forks: 2:00 each, Darts: 2:30 each, Rubber ducks: Free, Portcullis scissors: 8:00.)
* Alan: 9:00 - 5
* Victoria: 25:30 - 4
* Guz: 36:58 - 3
* Morgana: 56:00 - 2
* Desiree: 2:57:00 - 1
Live task, Part 1: Write down a cool hobby, a fun animal and a famous person. You have 30 seconds. Part 2: Strike a pose to represent first your cool hobby, then your fun animal, then your famous person. You will have ten seconds to strike a pose and must then hold the pose until the end of the round. The Taskmaster will attempt to guess what each pose represents. You may not make a noise or movement when posed. Most accurate guesses wins.
* Morgana: 1.5 correct guesses - 5
* Desiree and Guz: 1 correct guess - 3
* Alan and Victoria: No correct guesses - 1
Final scores
* Morgana - 17
* Desiree - 16
* Alan - 15
* Guz - 14
* Victoria - 12
Notes
Channel 4 initially broadcast a censored version of this episode in error.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 23rd September 2021
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Repeats
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Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Alan Davies | Self |
| Desiree Burch | Self |
| Guz Khan | Self |
| Morgana Robinson | Self |
| Victoria Coren Mitchell | Self |
| Alex Horne | Writer |
| Tim Key | Task Consultant |
| Andy Devonshire | Series Director |
| Andy Cartwright | Series Producer |
| Richard Allen-Turner | Executive Producer |
| James Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Jon Thoday | Executive Producer |
| Rob Aslett | Executive Producer |
| Andy Devonshire | Executive Producer |
| Alex Horne | Executive Producer |
| Dan Trelfer | Edit Producer |
| Vicky Winter | Line Producer |
| Roberta Grady | Edit Producer |
| Thomas Perrett | Editor |
| Mark Sangster | Editor |
| Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
| John Ford | Lighting Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
| Martin Rosten | Graphics |
Videos
Series 12 official trailer
Series 12 of Taskmaster is coming soon to Channel 4, featuring Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Morgana Robinson.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson & Victoria Coren Mitchell.
Pop a balloon
Desiree Burch receives the questionable accolade of 'the worst attempt we've ever seen at any task'.
Featuring: Greg Davies & Desiree Burch.
Press
Complaints over lack of swearing in Taskmaster
Producer Andy Cartwright tweeted a brief explanation towards the end of the broadcast: "Wrong version of Taskmaster played I'm afraid. Oops. Ding happens."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd September 2021