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: 118
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Series 2, Episode 5 - There's Strength In Arches
Prize task: Best piece of memorabilia.
* Richard Osman: A signed Jocky Wilson poster. - 5
* Katherine Ryan: A suffragette medal. - 4
* Jon Richardson: A Roman coin. - 3
* Doc Brown: A rap he wrote for Myleene Klass, which she laid out in metre and signed. - 2
* Joe Wilkinson: A map of the Grand Union Canal signed by lockkeeper Clive Hutt. - 1
Task 1: Get all of this shopping into the shopping trolley [which are separated by a stream]. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.
* Joe: 1:52 - 5
* Richard: 1:59 - 4
* Katherine: 2:44 - 3
* Doc and Jon: Disqualified for not putting all the shopping into the trolley. - 0
Task 2 (Team Task): Make the best stop-motion film starring this potato. You have one hour. Your time starts now.
* Jon and Richard - 3
* Doc, Joe and Katherine - 2
Task 3: Make a bridge over the river using only the items on this table. Highest self-supporting bridge wins. The bridge alone must support the potato. You must not touch the Taskmaster's house. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
* Jon: 11.4cm - 5
* Doc: 10cm - 4
* Joe: 9cm - 3
* Richard: 8cm - 2
* Katherine: 1mm - 1
Live task: (Originally): Put on a pair of food-handling gloves, eat a whole banana, correctly put on a tie and clap as many times as possible. All tasks must be completed in 100 seconds. Most claps wins.
Live task: (Changed to): Put on a pair of food-handling gloves, eat a whole banana correctly, put on a tie and clap as many times as possible. All tasks must be completed in 100 seconds. Most claps wins.
* Richard: 249 - 5
* Doc: 237 - 4
* Katherine: 221 - 3
* Jon: 192 - 2
* Joe: 234, but disqualified for not eating the banana correctly. - 0
Final scores
* Richard - 19
* Jon and Katherine - 13
* Doc - 12
* Joe - 11
Series scores
* Katherine - 94
* Jon - 90
* Richard - 86
* Doc - 78
* Joe - 69
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 19th July 2016
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- U&Dave
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Jon Richardson | Self |
| Katherine Ryan | Self |
| Joe Wilkinson | Self |
| Ben Bailey Smith (as Doc Brown) | Self |
| Richard Osman | Self |
| Alex Horne | Writer |
| Tim Key | Task Consultant |
| Andy Devonshire | Series Director |
| Peter Orton | Director |
| Andy Cartwright | Series Producer |
| Richard Allen-Turner | Executive Producer |
| James Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Jon Thoday | Executive Producer |
| Hilary Rosen | Executive Producer |
| Rob Aslett | Executive Producer |
| Andy Devonshire | Executive Producer |
| Alex Horne | Executive Producer |
| Thomas Perrett | Editor |
| Mark Sangster | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
Videos
Get All The Shopping Into The Trolley
Doc and Jon try and get some shopping into a trolley.
Featuring: Doc Brown & Jon Richardson.
Press
In the last in the series of Taskmaster, Greg Davies's taskees have all to play for, with an overall series winner set to be crowned out of contestants Doc Brown, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan, Joe Wilkinson and Richard Osman. Among this week's tasks are transporting a range of groceries over a small river and into a shopping trolley, and making a stop-motion film starring a potato. To the victor, the spoils, which includes a golden bust of Davies's head.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 19th July 2016Taskmaster: series two, episode 5 review
The final episode in this series witnesses the Taskmaster trophy finally presented, and a horror film starring, yes, a potato.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 19th July 2016