Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2024
- 170 episodes (18 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.
- Returns on Thursday 12th September on C4 at 9pm with Series 18, Episode 1
- Champion Of Champions, Episode 2 repeated Monday at 11pm on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 80
Episode menu
Series 6, Episode 9 - The Bubble Brothers
Prize task: Most pleasing thing the same size as a cat.
* Tim Vine: A cat skeleton toast rack. - 5
* Russell Howard: A "cat snack" - lots of snacks built into the shape of a cat. - 4
* Alice Levine: A cat-sized pavlova. - 3
* Asim Chaudhry: A cat-shaped pillow. - 2
* Liza Tarbuck: A cat-sized pile of poo. - 1
Task 1: Make the biggest bubble and then burst it with your nose. You have ten minutes. Your time starts now.
* Alice: 50cm - 5
* Liza: 8 inch - 4
* Asim: 4 inch - 3
* Tim: 3 inch - 2
* Russell: 4cm - 1
Task 2 (Team Task): Perform a scene from Taskmaster: The Musical. Best scene wins. You have one hour. Your time starts now.
* Team Funk - 3
* Asim, Liza and Tim - 2
Task 3: Part 1 [For Tim only] - Make an outfit of things bought in this stationary shop. You have ten minutes and £50 to do your shopping, and 20 minutes to make your outfit. Your time starts now. Part 2 [For everyone else] - Guess the pun Tim created to describe his outfit.
* Tim: Wins because no-one correctly guessed his pun. As he wore pictures of trains, he called his outfit a "track suit". - 2
Task 4: Make this plastic bag as heavy as possible. You have ten minutes, at the end of which the bag must hang unassisted on the scales for at least one minute. Heaviest bag at the end of that minute wins. Your time starts now.
* Liza: 27kg - 5
* Alice: 20.5kg - 4
* Asim: 16kg - 3
* Russell: 10kg - 2
* Tim: Less than 1kg because his bag broke, partly due to him losing the hook to the scales, after the hook was caught in the epaulettes of his safari suit jacket. - 1
Live task: Pick up as many points as possible [points written on different sized balls]. The person holding the most points after 100 seconds wins.
* Russell: 68 - 5
* Alice and Tim: 55 - 4
* Liza: 50 - 2
* Asim: 48 - 1
Final scores
* Alice - 18
* Tim - 16
* Russell - 15
* Liza - 14
* Asim - 12
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 27th June 2018
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- U&Dave
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Alice Levine | Self |
| Asim Chaudhry | Self |
| Liza Tarbuck | Self |
| Russell Howard | Self |
| Tim Vine | 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 |
| Hilary Rosen | Executive Producer |
| Rob Aslett | Executive Producer |
| Andy Devonshire | Executive Producer |
| Alex Horne | Executive Producer |
| Dan Trelfer | Edit Producer |
| Thomas Perrett | Editor |
| Joe Haughey | Editor |
| Steve Nayler | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
| Martin Kempton | Lighting Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
Videos
Taskmaster: The Musical
Alice Levine and Russell Howard perform a song from 'Taskmaster The Musical', with a cameo performance from Alex Horne, who reveals what he really things about Greg Davies...
Featuring: Alex Horne, Alice Levine & Russell Howard.
Make the plastic bag as heavy as possible
Alice Levine and Liza Tarbuck are trying to make a plastic bag as heavy as possible. They both have similar ideas but carry them out in slightly different ways...
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Alice Levine & Liza Tarbuck.
Outtakes: Alex Horne insults Alice Levine
Alex Horne manages to offend Alice Levine with a misunderstood compliment...
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne & Alice Levine.
Outtake: Alex Horne horse dance
Greg Davies volunteers Alex Horne (again) to perform one of his special dances for the audience. This time it's a special horse dressage dance.
Featuring: Greg Davies & Alex Horne.