Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2025
- 171 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 Sunday 29th December on C4 at 9pm with New Year Special
- Streaming rank this week: 118
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Series 11, Episode 2 - The Lure Of The Treacle Puppies
Prize task: Best drinking vessel.
* Charlotte Ritchie: Her granddad's glass-bottomed tankard. - 5
* Mike Wozniak: A hand-whittled wooden cup he made himself and stained with his own blood. - 4
* Sarah Kendall: A mug made by her then seven-year-old daughter. - 3
* Lee Mack: Simon Cowell's mug from the set of Britain's Got Talent. - 2
* Jamali Maddix: A plastic cup. - 1
Task 1: Make that balloon hover untethered for 20 seconds. During the hovering, the top of the balloon must not be higher than your chin, and the bottom of the balloon must not be lower than your waist. Also, you must sneer throughout the 20 seconds. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.
* Jamali: 4:50 - 5
* Mike: 8:00 - 4
* Sarah: 21:18 - 3
* Charlotte and Lee: Disqualified as the balloon, which is filled with helium, flies away. - 0
Task 2 (Team Task): Have an argument. You must take it in turns to angrily make a point using no more than ten words, and you must always end your point with a different four-letter word. You must look at each other throughout the argument and the person speaking must angrily wag their finger during their speech. The argument is over when there is ten second of silence, or when one of you looks away. Longest argument wins. Your argument must being three minutes from now.
* Mike, Lee: 5:35 - 5
* Charlotte, Jamali and Sarah: 3:08 - 2
Task 3: Make the house haunted. Most haunted house wins. You have one hour. Your time starts now.
* Sarah: Parodies The Shining, with her playing the Grady Twins. - 5
* Mike: The house lures Alex into it by offering him puppies covered in treacle, and then he is hemisected (cut in two). - 4
* Lee: Pretends to hold a séance in the caravan, then admits he doesn't, but as he does a ghost of a girl appears which he claims he can't see but Alex can. - 4
* Charlotte: Hides under a table while a dummy of her is in a room with spookily moving objects. - 3
* Jamali: Uses a lot of string to make things fly across the house, including two cabbages and a white sheet. - 3
Live task: Correctly guess your standing in the group. The Taskmaster will read out a category, then you must hold the number that reflects your standing in the group. Most correct answers wins.
* Lee: 4 correct answers. - 5
* Mike and Sarah: 2 correct answers. - 4
* Charlotte and Jamali: 1 correct answer. - 2
Final scores
* Mike - 21
* Sarah - 17
* Lee - 16
* Jamali - 13
* Charlotte - 12
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 25th March 2021
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
Sarah Kendall | Self |
Lee Mack | Self |
Jamali Maddix | Self |
Charlotte Ritchie | Self |
Mike Wozniak | 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 |
Thomas Perrett | Editor |
Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
James Dillon | Production Designer |
Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
Will Charles | Lighting Designer |
Dru Masters | Composer |
Tom Howe | Composer |
Martin Rosten | Graphics |
Videos
Outtake: The Mysterious Spinning Head
Here is how the head moved, in reality.
Featuring: Greg Davies & Alex Horne.
Outtake: Charlotte Ritchie being incredibly gullible
Charlotte Ritchie is believing anything that Lee Mack says.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Lee Mack, Charlotte Ritchie & Mike Wozniak.
The most haunted house wins
Alex Horne gets creeped out.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Jamali Maddix & Charlotte Ritchie.
Trying to outsmart gravity
Featuring: Alex Horne, Sarah Kendall, Lee Mack, Jamali Maddix & Mike Wozniak.