The problem is those two key moments overshadow most of the rest of the series.
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Taskmaster’s second series has two of the most memorable moments of all time: Richard Osman outsmarting the Taskmaster with the ‘ Place these three exercise balls on the yoga mat at the top of that hill’ task (especially juxtaposed with Jon Richardson and Doc Brown’s hilariously exhausting attempts) and the legendary Taskmaster moment that is the Joe Wilkinson potatogate tragedy. EDĭoc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan, Richard Osman Top class entertainment from a bloody good group of lads.
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Who else could talk their way out of every sly dig from Greg Davies and keep him in check with a don’t mess with me stare? Tasked with showing off for twenty minutes there was some very British reluctance from the contestants until Judi decided to completely relish the opportunity (“I feel like I’m in the popular mums’ Whatsapp group”, “Lidl have sent me free stuff before”). If there was an award for Taskmaster’s best blagger, Judi Love would win by an absolute landslide. Sophie Dukar classed up the joint by actually being clever and logical, Bridget Christie (dressed as a very stylish lady Zorro) created the menacing stop-cock dance and Chris “no way!” Ramsey charmed even the most cynical of us by continually being surprised watching back every task he’d participated in. Series ThirteenĪrdal O’Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love, Sophie Dukerįor generations of people Ardal O’Hanlon will always be Father Dougal McGuire, and we all breathed a sigh of relief to know that the real man is apparently not that far off the beloved priest (bringing in his cool never-worn red leather jacket as the most surprising thing in his wardrobe and having a wonderfully daft glint in his eye throughout the series).
Not least the infectious mutual adoration between Daisy May Cooper and Johnny Vegas, the out-there genius of the ‘paint a picture of a howling wolf on a teapot while naming American states’ task and the return-with-a-twist of Series 1 classic: ‘ eat the most watermelon’. This was Taskmaster’s first series filmed during the pandemic, so the required social distancing and lack of a studio audience did change things (watch these outtakes without the added ‘live’ viewing audience laughs to see how), but it still worked and there was much fun among the strangeness. Would it look different? Would it feel different? Would the tasks be as good and the contestants as funny? The answers to those questions were: a bit (but only due to Covid), not really, yes and yes. The pressure was on for Series 10, as the first post-Dave run on Taskmaster’s new Channel 4 home. Series TwelveĪlan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson, Victoria Coren Mitchellĭaisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan, Richard Herring All in all, good fun but not one of the best. Even a surprising unplanned cameo from Ben Fogle can’t help improve this series’ ranking. The rest of the line-up included the self-styled ‘trio of dickheads’, an absolutely hapless but nonetheless incredibly entertaining Paul Chowdhry, cheater Dave Gorham and Al Murray who tried to throw money at every problem. Sleep-deprived new father Rob Beckett was on the edge the whole series – either maniacally laughing or absolutely kicking off but gave us truly one of Taskmaster’s best moments in the ‘surprise Alex’ task.Įven though both she and Al Murray considered kidnapping Alex’s children, Beckett’s ‘Aryan twin’ teammate Sara Pascoe knew the assignment and mostly just got on with it.
Series ThreeĪl Murray, Dave Gorman, Paul Chowdhry, Rob Beckett, Sara PascoeĪ mixed bag for Series 3 that swayed between completely hilarious to a bit meh. Or perhaps Iain Stirling’s ‘comedy’ rage was too uncomfortably convincing as just… rage. Catch the blue ball in something from the kitchen”, etc) more often than the freer creative category (“Make the best ventriloquist dummy and be chatted up by it”. Don’t let the green balls touch anything other than the grass. Perhaps the tasks fell into the ‘insane bureaucracy’ category (“Catch all the red balls in things from the shed. Perhaps it was a lack of bonding in the studio. There were real highlights too: Sanders in general, the apparent psychological unravelling of dry-humoured Joe Thomas who despite a long acting career appeared to be meeting himself for the first time on screen, the sight of five adults (one wearing a bin) attempting to sneak up on Alex Horne on a railway bridge… Overall though, 8 didn’t quite reach the heights of other series.
The outfits – Lou Sanders’ correctly predicting winner jumpsuit, Paul Sinha’s Arthur Dent-style dressing gown – were top for this one. Iain Stirling, Joe Thomas, Lou Sanders, Paul Sinha, Sian Gibson
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