Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2024
- 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.
- Due to return in January 2025
- Catch-up on Series 18, Episode 10
Streaming rank this week: 17
Episode menu
Series 5, Episode 8 - Their Water's So Delicious
Prize task: Most awkward item for somebody else to take home.
* Mark Watson: A full bathroom suite. - 5
* Nish Kumar: 14kg of curry. - 4
* Sally Phillips: Around 100 helium balloons. - 3
* Aisling Bea: A giant cardboard cut-out of herself. - 2
* Bob Mortimer: A "I love Katie Hopkins" hat and a "I love Donald Trump" shirt. - 1
Task 1: Get this coconut as far away from here as possible. You may not touch the ground. You may not step on anything more than once. The coconut may not travel by car. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
* Sally - 5
* Bob - 4
* Aisling - 3
* Nish - 2
* Mark: Disqualified for touching the ground. - 0
Task 2: Create the best graph [on a beach]. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now.
* Nish: A graph showing time with Nish against fun, with Nish as the vertical axis. - 5
* Bob: A bar graph showing the counties of Britain and how much urine they produce. - 4
* Mark: A 60m x 60m graph showing vote share across all time and people. - 3
* Sally: An omni-purpose "jaws of doom" graph. - 3
* Aisling: An inaccurate graph showing the difference in the number of men and women on Taskmaster. - 3
Bonus task: Make the most fish puns. Most fish puns wins. You have one minute. Your time starts now.
* Alex: 11 - Awards himself 5 points, but Greg refuses to give him the points.
* Sally: 8 - 0
Task 3 (Team Task): Write and perform a song about this woman. Best song wins. You have five minutes to talk to the woman, then 30 minutes to write her a song. Your time starts now.
* Mark and Nish - 3
* Aisling, Bob and Sally - 2
Live task: Throw your egg through the hoop and catch it as many times as possible. You may not touch the net or post. Most successful hoop-catch combo wins. You have 100 seconds and one egg.
* Bob: Once - 5
* Sally: Once, but not fully through the hoop. - 4
* Aisling, Mark and Nish: None - 0
Final scores
* Sally - 17
* Bob - 16
* Nish - 14
* Mark - 11
* Aisling - 10
Series scores
* Bob - 138
* Mark and Sally - 130
* Aisling - 126
* Nish - 107
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 1st November 2017
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- U&Dave
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Aisling Bea | Self |
| Nish Kumar | Self |
| Bob Mortimer | Self |
| Sally Phillips | Self |
| Mark Watson | 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 |
| Hilary Rosen | Executive Producer |
| Rob Aslett | Executive Producer |
| Andy Devonshire | Executive Producer |
| Alex Horne | Executive Producer |
| Dan Trelfer | Edit Producer |
| Thomas Perrett | Editor |
| Martin McEwan | Editor |
| Andi Meek | Editor |
| Barry Osment | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
| Martin Kempton | Lighting Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
Videos
Outtake: Alex Horne dancing
Greg makes Alex dance, and he has got the moves!
Featuring: Greg Davies & Alex Horne.
Aisling Bea and Bob Mortimer's graphs
Aisling Bea and Bob Mortimer show their graphs they had to design on a beach for Greg Davies and Alex Horne.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Aisling Bea, Nish Kumar, Bob Mortimer & Mark Watson.
Taskonbury: Nish & Mark's song for a stranger
Nish Kumar and Mark Watson's epic and legendary performance in front of a sell-out crowd at Taskonbury, October 2017, as they write and sing a song about a stranger.
Featuring: Alex Horne, Nish Kumar & Mark Watson.
Press
Taskmaster's Rosalind appears as Chase contestant
Rosalind, a woman always doing cool stuff / a f***ing nightmare who was the subject of two songs for a task on Taskmaster, appeared as a contestant on yesterday's episode of The Chase.
Lewis Knight, The Mirror, 25th November 2020Taskmaster: series 5, episode 8 review
It's the grand final!
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 1st November 2017