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
Streaming rank this week: 9
Episode menu
Series 14, Episode 8 - The One That Bats Do
Prize task: The best fancy dress.
- Fern Brady: An alien dressed as a Scottish man. - 5
- Dara O Briain: A plague doctor's mask. - 3
- Munya Chawawa: A space suit. - 3
- Sarah Millican: Some bad taste clothes borrowed from her friend's mum for a fancy dress when she worked at WHSmith, which no-one noticed was fancy dress. - 2
- John Kearns: A inflatable walking stick. - 1
Task 1 (Team Task), Part 1: Come up with a secret language that doesn't use words. You have ten minutes, after which one of you must go to the lab. Your time starts now. Part 2: Secretly give this instruction to your team mate. You may not say or write any other words in the instruction. Fastest wins. Your time starts as soon as you walk through the door, and stops when the instruction is carried out by your team mate. Instruction: Feed three giraffes and an elephant to the clown.
- Munya and Sarah: Completed the task. - 5
- Dara, Fern and John: Wrongly fed three elephants and a giraffe to the clown. - 0
Task 2: Pin an alluring tail on the alluring animal while blindfolded. You have 15 minutes to find the alluring animal, make an alluring tail, put your alluring tail on the tail station, and prepare to pin your alluring tail on the alluring animal blindfolded, starting from here. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.
- Munya: 2:06 - 5
- Dara: 3:00 - 4
- John: 8:12 - 3
- Sarah: 9:40 - 2
- Fern: 13:53 - 1
Task 3: Find the back of your hand. Fewest wrong guesses wins. You have a maximum of 20 minutes. Your time starts when Alex does a hand pun.
- Munya and Sarah: Correct first time. - 5
- Fern: 504 guesses taken. - 4
- Dara and John: Fail to find the photo of the back of their hand in the allotted time. - 0
Live task (Team Task): Guess the fully-extended length of the extendible item. Closest to the fully-extended length wins.
- Munya and Sarah: 3
- Dara, Fern and John: 2
Final scores
- Munya - 21
- Sarah - 17
- Fern - 12
- Dara - 9
- John - 6
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 17th November 2022
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Dara O Briain | Self |
| Fern Brady | Self |
| John Kearns | Self |
| Munya Chawawa | Self |
| Sarah Millican | 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 |
| Amy Tuckwell | Associate Producer |
| Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
| Iain Chambers | VT Editor |
| Malcolm Finch | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
| John Ford | Lighting Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
| Martin Rosten | Graphics |
Videos
Hit one trolley with another trolley
The Series 14 contestants are back at Gatwick to throw luggage trolleys around.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Fern Brady, Munya Chawawa, John Kearns, Sarah Millican & Dara O Briain.
Find the Back of Your Hand
How well do the contestants know the back of their hand?
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Fern Brady, Munya Chawawa, John Kearns, Sarah Millican & Dara O Briain.