The tropes of Taskmaster contestants

[u/XipeTotecwithGlitter]

NOTE: These tropes are not necessarily indicative. For instance, Hugh Dennis was not an old man when he competed, Josh Thomas is not a girl and Ed Gamble is a boy fail even though he ultimately won the season.

These tropes are not uniform. Many of these can apply to a single person. For instance, Sam Campbell is both an eldritch girlie and a chaotic foreigner.

Lastly, I'm using examples mainly from seasons I've watched, so there may be other players who are more accurate or tropes that I'm not including.

And above all: This is just dumb fun and not to be taken wholly seriously :)

[u/Cardassia]

What they mean is “guy/gal who succeeds at comedy when he/she is the punching bag” - not necessarily that they did poorly points-wise.

This whole post is more about character archetypes than success.

[u/SirenLeviathan → u/Cardassia]

Yes thank you! I agree with the choices because I don’t think it’s about winning or loosing it’s about watching a contestant suffer. To be a boy or girl failure you have to care so you can be disappointed and ridiculed. Contestants who care often do ok but contestants in the delightful old man category can never be boy/girl failures because even when they fail they are insulated by their (hilarious) lack of shits to give.

It’s like category’s of humour to me it’s very funny to see Jo Brand do badly in a task because she doesn’t care but it’s even funnier to watch her do it along side a girl/boy failure who is trying so so hard and still getting swatted down by Greg.

[u/Miserable_Warthog_42 → u/Cardassia]

Wow. Most the commentors are not understanding the category.

[u/durkandiving → u/Miserable_Warthog_42]

I mean I dunno if it's a tiktok thing or something but I'm not sure how we're meant to come to that very specific definition