Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2024
- 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.
- Due to return in January 2025
- Catch-up on Series 18, Episode 10
- Streaming rank this week: 19
Episode menu
Series 15, Episode 3 - I Love To Squander Promise
Prize task: Most heroic thing.
- Jenny Eclair: Her late father's hair. - 5
- Ivo Graham: Greg Davies's face crafted out of the Cadbury's Heroes chocolates. - 4
- Frankie Boyle: A piece of homoerotic fanart depicting Wolverine and Captain America. - 3
- Mae Martin: "Coward's glasses", a pair of glasses that when you pair of special lenses show someone else's eyes. - 2
- Kiell Smith-Bynoe: A cape made out of a sheep, depicting the face of Enrique Iglesias, who sang the song: "Hero". - 1
Task 1: Exit the caravan exactly 20 minutes after you entered the caravan. Also, to complete the task, you must write down and say 40 words. Each word must either be the same length or shorter than the previous word. Closest to exactly 20 minutes wins.
- Ivo: 23:17 - 5
- Frankie: 23:21 - 4
- Jenny: 10:57 - 3
- Kiell and Mae: Disqualified because some of their words were longer than previous ones. Also, Kiell only wrote 39 words. - 0
Task 2: Catch the potatoes in the potato hat. You must be sitting on the catching stool wearing your potato hat, and you must not touch anything at any point. Anything in your hat that is not a potato will be subtracted from your potato total. Highest potato total wins. The conveyor belt will start moving in three minutes from now.
- Mae: 15 - 5
- Jenny: 4 - 4
- Kiell: 3 - 3
- Ivo: 1 - 2
- Frankie: -2 - 1
Task 3 (Team Task): Choreograph the most elaborate and enthralling fight scene, then perform it in slow motion. Your fight scene must take five minutes, and will then be sped up so that it lasts one minute. You have a total of 30 minutes. Your time starts now.
- Frankie and Ivo - 5
- Jenny, Kiell and Mae - 4
Live task: Know the most facts about sausages. You have 100 seconds to learn some facts about sausages. Best score in the sausage exam wins.
- Ivo: 5/5 - 5
- Jenny: 3/5 - 4
- Frankie and Mae: 2/5 - 3
- Kiell: 1/5 - 1
Final scores
- Ivo - 21
- Jenny - 20
- Frankie - 16
- Mae - 14
- Kiell - 9
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 13th April 2023
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
Frankie Boyle | Self |
Ivo Graham | Self |
Jenny Eclair | Self |
Kiell Smith-Bynoe | Self |
Mae Martin | 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 |
Amy Tuckwell | Edit Producer |
Amy Tuckwell | Associate Producer |
Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
Iain Chambers | VT Editor |
Ally Morgan | Editor |
Joe Swanson | 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
Get the most potatoes into the potato hat
A potato-catching task splits opinions of Jenny Eclair and Ivo Graham.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Frankie Boyle, Jenny Eclair, Ivo Graham, Mae Martin & Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
Press
Taskmaster viewers are opening up about how Mae Martin helped them to use they/them pronouns
Mae Martin has sent a sweet message to a fan who tweeted about how the comedian's appearance on Channel 4 gameshow Taskmaster helped them understand they/them pronouns.
Marcus Wratten, Pink News, 14th April 2023