Anyway, it’s back with utter – but not yet deadening – familiarity, from Greg Davies’s ritualised introductory humiliation of “Little” Alex Horne (the real boss of the show, of course, so he can soak it up) to the mix of aspiring and established comedians.
As for the up-and-coming comics, this 10-week exposure is an invaluable career rocket. Forget the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or Cambridge’s Footlights troupe, Taskmaster is the real golden ticket. Indeed, Ania Magliano may be a Footlights alumna, while Phil Ellis is a former Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, but they probably won’t be familiar to general viewers. They will be soon.
This series line-up, from left, includes Ania Magliano, Maisie Adam, Phil Ellis, Reece Shearsmith and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Photo: Channel 4) square TV FEATURES The Taskmaster effect: How a gameshow became the comedian's golden ticket
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The tasks prove a mixed bag, the best involving the contestants chasing Horne around the Taskmaster garden to try and scan the QR code attached to his back. Other challenges involve doing “something disgusting and nice at the same time”, and rolling round objects at a target in what looks like a shopping centre car park (Shearsmith manages to take out a camera operator with a tyre).
Actually winning the tasks – or indeed the whole contest – is, of course, irrelevant and it’s often the most useless contestants who prove the most endearing. Adam, despite winning the first episode by accidently blowing a horn at the right moment, looks like she’ll follow the likes of Sophie Willan and Lucy Beaumont in the likeably clueless stakes.
The final task saw the comedians blindfolded (Photo: Channel 4)With two series already commissioned for 2026 and more no doubt to come, will Taskmaster carry on until Horne runs out of fresh ideas and the pool of comedians dries up? Or will we tire of the format and the Davies/Horne schtick first?
‘Taskmaster’ continues next Thursday at 9pm on Channel 4
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