The deeply daft pleasures of Taskmaster

Taskmaster is a British series that gives a diverse gang of comedians daft things to do. It's glorious.

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A new series of Taskmaster began, which has every promise to match the highs of the last. Chief among the promiseers in series 11 is Sarah Kendall, the driest of Aussies, yet we also have grumpy Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack and the like, and the mix works (again) wonderfully well, crushing together those who will solve an impossible problem in methodical fashion and those who will throw proven natural laws to all 13 winds. Trapping a giant motorised rat in a net from three metres away, conveying 24 unbroken dinner plates on a hoverboard through a hangar, inviting a helium balloon to behave - never mind Taskmaster, this should be the primary task for all diplomats and wannabe 007s. As ever, creator Alex Horne and Taskmaster Greg Davies fashion great humour from abject failure. I think Greg's resolutely kind demolition of Charlotte Ritchie - "you didn't think your left hand was for anything?" - represents a touchstone in anthropology.

TV review: Taskmaster, Series 11, Episode 1

This opening episode was one of the strongest out of all of them, and I'd be amazed if by the end this wasn't seen as one of the best, right up their with series 5 and 7.

Taskmaster review

As easy as keeping a cushion spinning on a finger.

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Alex Horne interview

Taskmaster creator Alex Horne on filming the socially distanced 11th series of the Channel 4 hit.

More Taskmaster for New Zealand

Alex Horne's BAFTA winning format Taskmaster has been picked up for a second original series in New Zealand for TVNZ following ratings success.