Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2025
- 181 episodes (19 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 19, Episode 5
- Catch-up on Series 19, Episode 4
Streaming rank this week: 12
Press clippings Page 40
Taskmaster Series 2 preview
Fear not, because Dave have absolutely pulled it out the bag yet again and picked a terrific mix of people who are each so different, but unite in stupidity.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 17th June 2016Greg Davies interview
I was lucky enough to catch up with Greg Davies at the official press launch for the second series of Taskmaster.
Ben Drummond, TV Rage, 11th June 2016Taskmaster Series 3 line-up revealed
Rob Beckett, Paul Chowdhry, Dave Gorman, Al Murray and Sara Pascoe will take part in the third series of Taskmaster.
British Comedy Guide, 16th April 2016Taskmaster Series 2 contestants announced
Jon Richardson, Richard Osman, Joe Wilkinson, Katherine Ryan and Doc Brown will be the contestants joining Greg Davies and Alex Horne for Series 2 of Taskmaster.
British Comedy Guide, 11th March 2016Taskmaster to return for two new series
Greg Davies and Alex Horne will return to Dave for second and third series of hit comedy format Taskmaster.
British Comedy Guide, 24th September 2015Taskmaster, series one review
Greg Davies is fantastic; he's harsh, loud and ridiculous, completely giddy with power, and the relationship between Davies and Horne is clearly a long-lived one.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 8th September 2015Taskmaster is the kind of Dave thing that shouldn't quite work but is actually wildly stupid fun. Mainly thanks to Alex Horne, late of so much splendid radio, and Greg Davies, and regulars such as Frank Skinner and Romesh Ranganathan. And eating a watermelon in a minute, and having to paint a horse while riding a horse and other activities that would have been unsuited to, say, Queen Victoria's funeral. A winner.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 2nd August 2015TV review: Taskmaster, Dave
For some reason The Guardian has piled into this programme and said that for a UK comedian their ultimate ambition is to appear on a panel show. Patent bollocks. Though it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of them will be queuing up to appear on Taskmaster.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th July 2015Taskmaster: Nato should be informed of its banter
What the world needs is another comedy panel show, right? But wait... Dave's Taskmaster has added convoluted parlour games to the mix!
Filipa Jodelka, The Guardian, 28th July 2015Great comedians can make anything funny. Eric Morecambe bleeding a radiator or Les Dawson reading out AutoTrader would be hilarious by default, but could modern standups work that same magic when, say, eating an entire watermelon or emptying a bathtub? Dave's new panel show hinges precariously on that premise, with a quintet of comics - this week including Frank Skinner, Tim Key and Roisin Conaty - performing acts at the behest of titular taskmaster Greg Davies. In practice, a premise unlikely to tickle the titter glands of many.
Mark Jones, The Guardian, 28th July 2015