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: 117
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Series 13, Episode 9 - It Might Be Wind
Prize task: Best object with a handle.
- Ardal O'Hanlon: A queen chess piece which has taped a cup handle to. - 5
- Judi Love: A small bike. - 4
- Sophie Duker: A wheel of fortune, on which you can put things on each section, spin the wheel and make a random choice. - 3
- Bridget Christie: A door. - 2
- Chris Ramsey: A kettle. - 1
Task 1: Get the most surprising thing delivered to the Taskmaster house. You have six hours. Your times starts now. [Each contestant is given a £50 note to spend on their thing.]
- Chris: A baby. - 5
- Bridget: A man dressed in a way that gives facts about Greg Davies. - 4
- Judi: A box of fish heads on a skateboard. - 4
- Ardal: A wobbly-headed scarecrow owl. - 2
- Sophie: Live worms. - 2
Task 2: Make the longest cup snake and lie down next to it outside this building. You may only leave the building twice. You have ten minutes. Your time starts now.
- Judi: 11.21m - 5
- Chris: 9.66m - 4
- Sophie: 8.77m - 3
- Ardal: 8.56m - 2
- Bridget: 5m - 1
Task 3: Poke a part of your body out of the shower curtain and waggle it about for ten seconds. The Taskmaster will guess what part of the body it is. The biggest part of the body that the Taskmaster incorrectly indentifies wins. You must poke your body part out of the shower curtain and waggle it about within the next 15 minutes. Your time starts now.
- Chris: A foot and part of his shin that Greg wrongly guesses is a hand and part of the arm. - 5
- Sophie: Her hair which Greg wrongly guesses is a foot and part of her shin. - 5
- Judi: A hand that Greg wrongly guesses is a foot. - 4
- Ardal: A hand and part of the arm with pen on it, which Greg correctly identifies. - 0
- Bridget: Her whole body covered in a sheet, which Greg correctly identifies. - 0
Prize task: Write down how many tin cans you think can fit in your bag. The highest predicted number fitted in a zipped-up bag within one minute wins. If you don't zip up your bag or fit your predicted number of tin cans in your bag, you will be disqualified. After Alex blows his whistle, you will have ten seconds to write down your number.
- Ardal: 35, correctly fitted. - 5
- Chris: 30, correctly fitted. - 4
- Bridget: 54, bag not zipped up. - 0
- Judi: 30, but bag contains 32. - 0
- Sophie: 29, but bag contains 28. - 0
Final scores
- Chris - 19
- Judi - 17
- Ardal - 14
- Sophie - 13
- Bridget - 7
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 9th June 2022
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Recorded
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- Thursday 5th May 2022, 13:15 at Pinewood Studios
Cast & crew
Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
Ardal O'Hanlon | Self |
Bridget Christie | Self |
Chris Ramsey | Self |
Judi Love | Self |
Sophie Duker | 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 |
Vicky Winter | Line Producer |
Roberta Grady | Edit Producer |
Mark Sangster | Editor |
Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
Harfun Li | VT Editor |
Adam Marangos | VT Editor |
James Dillon | Production Designer |
Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
John Ford | Lighting Designer |
Dru Masters | Composer |
Tom Howe | Composer |
Martin Rosten | Graphics |
Video
Ardal O'Hanlon behind a shower curtain
Ardal has a bit of a breakdown in the shower waggling task.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Ardal O'Hanlon & Bridget Christie.