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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