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 15, Episode 4 - How Heavy Is The Water?
Prize task: The most fun thing to wear on your head that you aren't supposed to wear on your head.
- Frankie Boyle: A scene from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring the Child Catcher, using Sylvanian Families, on a mortarboard. - 5
- Jenny Eclair: A tea cosy made to look like a traffic cone. - 4
- Kiell Smith-Bynoe: A goldfish bowl. - 3
- Mae Martin: A blow-up doll of themselves. - 2
- Ivo Graham: A turkey. - 1
Task 1: Strike the most drum skins and cymbals with a single throw of a bouncy ball. You have a maximum of 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
- Mae: Score not given, but she tied the ball to a string to bounce the ball multiple times. - 5
- Frankie: 8 - 4
- Jenny: Score not given. - 3
- Kiell: 5 - 2
- Ivo: 3, or a murky 4. - 1
Task 2: Make the fastest egg boat. Your egg boat must look like a boat and transport an egg. If your egg boat sinks or loses its egg, you are disqualified. You have three minutes to order five materials, and then 15 minutes to make your egg boat. Also, all your materials must start with the same letter, and you can't order anything boaty. Your time starts now.
- Kiell: Ball (golf), basket, bacon, balloon and a blue hat. Time: 1:45 - 5
- Jenny: Bread, bungees, bras, brown paper and a bucket. Time: 1:46. - 4
- Ivo: Balls (ping pong), Blu Tack, balloons, a book and a banana. Time: 2:04. - 3
- Mae: Paper, a paper clip, polystyrene, precious tape and plastic inflatable water wings (armbands). Time: 3:25. - 2
- Frankie: Plant, paper, picks, plastic and Plasticine. Time: 1:33, but the egg fell out of the boat. - 0
Task 3: First to complete a line or four corners wins. Your time starts when someone shouts: "Bingo!" 4: Get fully into the sleeping bag, then get out of the sleeping bag and put the sleeping bag fully into the sleeping bag bag. 22: Throw each of your shows onto a different roof. 29: Scream: "I have been in all four rooms of the house," in all four rooms of the house. 30: Speak to John. 38: Put exactly four pints of water in the pot. 53: Get a banana down from the tree. 57: Sit in the shed for three minutes and think about what you have done. 60: Pop all but one bubble on the bubble wrap. 63: Make the bingo bin go out of the main gates.
- Jenny: 8:12, but deducted a point for bringing in a sign saying "banana" rather than an actual banana. - 4
- Frankie: 14:38, but deducted a point for bringing in a sign saying "banana" rather than an actual banana.
- Kiell: 20:30 - 3
- Ivo: 25:27 - 2
- Mae: 26:13 - 1
Live task: Pour your sand into the other bottle. Slowest to pour their sand into the other bottle wins. You must pour your sand from at least a foot above your other bottle. If there is a break in your sand stream, you are disqualified.
- Everyone breaks their sand stream. - 0
Final scores
- Jenny: 15
- Kiell: 13
- Frankie: 12
- Mae: 10
- Ivo: 7
Notes
This episode airs at a later time due to coverage of the final of the reality TV show Scared Of The Dark.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 20th April 2023
- Time
- 10:30pm
- 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 | Associate Producer |
Mark Lucey | Edit Producer |
Mark Sangster | Editor |
Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
Iain Chambers | VT 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 |