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Taskmaster. Image shows left to right: Greg Davies, Alex Horne
Taskmaster

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
  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 117

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Series 15, Episode 3 - I Love To Squander Promise

Taskmaster. Image shows left to right: Alex Horne, Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair has a lovely time sitting on chair, new potatoes cascading onto her head - while Ivo Graham thinks it's stupid. In a bid to impress the Taskmaster and amass the most points, emotions are always going to ride high. But who can keep it together for the sausage quiz?

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

Cast
Greg Davies Host / Presenter
Alex Horne Host / Presenter
Frankie Boyle Self
Ivo Graham Self
Jenny Eclair Self
Kiell Smith-Bynoe Self
Mae Martin Self
Writing team
Alex Horne Writer
Tim Key Task Consultant
Production team
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

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

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