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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 4 - How Heavy Is The Water?

Taskmaster. Image shows left to right: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Alex Horne
In the fourth episode, Kiell Smith-Bynoe finds himself playing bingo without any shoes on. Mae Martin plays an unusual but potentially brilliant drum solo. And all the comedians create boats to carry eggs in a race involving eggs (in boats).

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

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 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

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