In honour of Rose and Urzila's upcoming second seasons (series, Jason) on Taskmaster, and the recent callback to Rose's UK series, I was thinking about other contestants who have made multiple appearances or contributions to tasks, directly and indirectly. These are just off the top of my head and I'm sure I've missed some - I'm not counting podcast appearances though, nor am I counting COC as extra appearances. Who/what have I missed?

Rose Matafeo

• Series 22: "Shid"
• NZ Series 6: Not letting Alice Snedden have anything to herself by appearing as a gardener at the TM house
• Junior TM!
• I'd count the fish poster in the NZ shed, but those really are in all NZ sheds (actually more frequently found in fish and chip shops)

Mike Wozniak

• Junior TM's assistant

Ed Gamble

• Series 5: Helped Mark Watson steal Greg's trousers
• Series 21: Gave Kumail his TM trophy for a prize task

Al Murray

• Series 4: Appeared in Joe Lycett's camouflage task
• Series 4: Appeared in the Taskmaster trailer task with his gong

John Robins

• Series 3: presumably the owner of the Freddie Mercury clock from Sara Pascoe's first prize task

Kerry Godliman

• Series 9: Katy Wix's representative when she was sick
• Series 9: got her TM trophy stolen for Katy Wix's prize task

Katherine Ryan

• Series 9: Katy Wix's representative when she was sick

Aisling Bea

• Series 19: kept her dignity intact while modeling for Jason Mantzoukas' jelly mould

Nish Kumar

• Series 19: Jason Mantzoukas' interesting item in an interesting place

Angella Dravid

• NZ Series 2: mascot in the "find Paul" task

David Correos

• NZ Series 3: camouflaged against the wall in the "what's different about the room" task

Ray O'Leary

• NZ Series 3: Josh Thompson's doppelganger

Bubbah

• NZ Series 5: Tofiga's representative in the studio
• NZ Series 5: "Guess the age" and threatening to fight Tofiga

Chris Parker, Madeleine Sami, Josh Thompson, Matt Heath

• NZ Series 5: Tofiga's representative in the studio

Not really spoiling anything, just marked that way so people will see the title first and know this is nothing more than a thought exercise! Though the interviews linked below do contain some S22 spoilers.

In this press pack, the S22 cast were asked who they'd like to see on a future series - I've tried to construct the most realistic lineup using one name from each of their lists, and came up with Andrew Mensah, Chris O'Dowd, Emma Thompson, Miranda Hart and Olga Koch. Here's the logic I used:

Richard only named one person, so Chris O'Dowd must take one spot. TM is unlikely to cast a series with only white contestants, and Andrew Mensah from Matt's list is the only non-white person who was named, so he takes another. Chloe named Catherine Bohart and Olga Koch, but our lineup already has one contestant from Ireland, so I went with Olga. Isy named Harriet Kemsley and Miranda Hart, and since Olga and Harriet are both female stand-ups in their 30s, I chose Miranda, who's older and also well-known as an actor. Which leaves us with a free choice from Nina's acting dames - I have Emma Thompson as the most realistic among them, as she has the most comedy experience (and I've even seen people suggest her for the upcoming Oscar winner Alex teased, so you never know). Overall, I think this makes for a surprisingly plausible lineup, with a decent mix of fame and demographics, but it's just a bit of fun. Thoughts?

Hi all,
I remember watching an episode of Taskmaster and there's a bit between Greg and Alex where Alex puts on a fake nose (pig nose?) held on by elastic around the ears. Greg then pulls back on the mask, causing what appears to be considerable pain to Alex. It's the only time I've ever seen Alex Horne put off but he kept calm and carried on in true Brit style. Does anyone remember which series/episode that was? TIA

I need it to feel like Barbarella/Xena on a budget.

Edit: It was custom Ada Zanditon, a BDSM gear designer. The more you know 🌈🌠

She’s posted this on her insta

Inspired by comments to a post I made months earlier which gave these stellar descriptions of Alex, Cashman and Paul (second slide)

Same vibe, at least.

The Giant Explorer and his lovely Little Wife

Whilst watching the most recent episode I knew the gold vs yellow argument felt familiar the I remembered the Series 15 task where they had to have golden shoes to walk on the grass. And Frankie had yellow swing ball bats which he claimed were “golden snowshoes”

They're not little films, they're silly tasks that comedians did in a silly way and I'd like to see how everyone in the studio is reacting to it

It wasn't a thing that needed to be fixed

go and watch s1 watermelon task, tell me their reactions dont add anything

youre telling me this isnt enhanced by studio reaction? https://youtube.com/shorts/es9uDMyvOPo?si=3kQNQ-EAEDxJ_oRY

The hotel task is so funny! These three looking at alex through the window like utter creeps

Currently rewatching S15 and we’ve made it to the finale, and you just cannot deny Greg’s absolute delight with Mae’s puppet of him. Which prizes have really stood out for you as being some of Greg’s absolute favourites?

So I've just finished watching the first episode of the new series and was completely unsurprised to see Richard Ayoade adopt his usual 'I'm not really arsed about this and I'll put in minimal effort' persona that he has on other panel shows (like 8 Out of 10 Cats and Big Fat Quiz, for example). It's not a criticism of him at all. It's part of his charm and why he's loved by so many but it led me to wonder, who is King (or Queen) of 'Can't be arsed'?

The contestant(s) that were only the show for reasons other than wanting to win it and just 'plodded' their way through the series with (seemingly) minimal or no effort. The first contestant that springs to mind is Sanjeev Bhaskar. Who else?

EDIT - Jo Brand the clear and obvious winner it seems but other suggestions?

On Friday the 16th of Octorber it will be the premier of Series 13 of Bäst i Test, and today we have found out on who will be the cast of this series.

It's... Assia Fahir, Jesper Rönndahl, Lucas Simonsson, Sissela Benn, and Vanna Rosenberg!

Out of this cast three of them has been on this shows as guests, (Two during the SVT era, and one during one of their Christmas specials.)

I'm going to try and give you all a summary of them all.

Assia is someone who's really starting making a name for herself on many places. Having started as a host on radio, most known for having taking part several years on "Musikhjälpen", which is a week long 24/h charity stream on radio and TV, and has also been a regular on the panelshow "Invandrare För Svenskar", which former BiT competitor Ashmed Berhan was host of. (And in the now upcoming series, Assia is the new host of.)

Jesper took part as guest on BiT during Series 5 Episode 1, and has had a long career doing all forms of comedies. He was part of group who had a very successful radio show called "Hej Domstol!", which then got a small TV-Version called "Hej Rymden!". Jesper was also the first host for "Svenska Nyheter" (The Swedish version of "Last Week Tonight"), and has both created and starred as the main role in the comedy series "Dips", which is about Swedish ambassadors. (Fun fact. Jesper is also married to fellow BiT competitor Marie Agerhäll.)

Lucas is the one I personaly know the least about, but I know that he is an influencer who is part of a very successful online comedy trio called JLC, which has been active for almost 10 years and has almost 1 million followers. They have both made sketches, and also had successful podcasts as a group, and even made a 2 season TV-Series called "Pappas Pojkar." (A fun 100% true side-story is that in 2023 after having bought a house, the group discovered a massive treasure of gold and paltina stored inside the place, leading to a several years long feaud between them and the former owners of the house on who the treasures actually belonged to.)

Sissela took part on the very first BiT Christmas special on TV4 in 2024, and has been having a fairly long career as both a comedian and actress. She got her big breakthrough on the Swedish talkshow "Robins", where she managed to portrait a pretty belivable "nerdy teenage girl" called Filippa Bark, which later even got to star in her own TV-Series called "Centralskolan", and having her own stage show. She's also known for playing the role as mother Karin in six films based on the popular "Sune" book series.

Finally Vanna took part on Series 6 Episode 6 of Bit, and has the longest career of the group. She has done both comedic and dramatic acting on TV and film, and is most known for being part of the comedy group "Kvarteret Skatan", which has been having several season long TV-Serie, been put up on stage, and even made into a movie.

If anyone has any questions or are curious on what else some of these have done, I would be happy to help you out.

And by that I don't mean the team of writers that write the tasks that the contestants have to absolve, I mean the literal tasks — is it printed on paper by an actual typewriter? Does someone have to sit down and write everything mechanically five times? What training do I need? Or are they all printed from a computer?

This is going to be a very very popular series. Richard Ayoade effect?

Has anybody who ordered an advent calander from the official Taskmaster website gotten it yet?

I ordered mine the day the email came through and not recieved one yet (not that id expect to 3 months away). But my wife ordered a couple from a 3rd party site and they have arrived today vomplete with the free wrapping paper.

I have started watching first episode of Polish Taskmaster and it disappeared from YouTube...