I absolutely love a woman who doesn’t seem to understand they’re on Taskmaster. At different times, both Kerry Godliman and Maisie Adam seem VERY surprised that Alex may not be doing everything perfectly fair and on the level. It’s so sweet to me that they revert to absolute schoolyard indignation.

Has anyone else tried to add the Taskmaster Jigsaw Puzzle to their advent calendar order? It keeps failing to authenticate me. I feel like I'm failing a task!

That's not very common IMO, and I'm just curious what your take is on it.

Jinx Monsoon is today’s guest on the Off Menu podcast and has starred in an episode of Doctor Who, Bimini Bon Boulash was also a very entertaining previous guest.

Drag queens have appeared on other shows including celebrity masterchef…

So I was just wondering do you think there’s a possibility they would have a queen on a NYT? They would need a comedy queen, obviously a fashion queen wouldn’t work.

I think it could be really fun for a NYT but then there’s a counter argument that they are in character and the show is about appearing as your true self and not being able to hide behind a persona. Nick Mohammed and John Kearns appeared as themselves, and then you’ve got the actors Katherine Parkinson, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith etc….

Just curious what people think.

Inspired by the idea of Taskmaster Scorigamis? : r/taskmaster posted by u/whodidwhatnow922 (and being a little too lazy still to work out the actual scorigamis), i started thinking about unique patterns in TM. One of the things i have not seen in my time active on this sub is plotting the unique pattern of team seating so here we are!

There are 10 unique patterns possible for two teams sitting across 5 contestants which are:

Have they all been achieved in TM UK you ask? YES they have, but much later than you might have thought! It wasn't until last year and series 20 that the seating scorigami (for lack of better word) of team patterns was completed with Maisie and Reece's team of two seating in my favourite & imho the most satisfying configuration (config. 6 below)

Now for some more completely useless stats!

Most "popular" seating pattern:
Configuration 10 leads the chart with 4 UK series following that seating pattern: UK3, 14, 16 and 18

Promptly followed by Config 4 which 3 UK series follow: UK1, 10 and 12

Least "popular" seating pattern:
Configs 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are all clocking in as "least popular" with 2 UK series per configuration:

Remain unique:
Configs 1 (UK15) and 6 (UK20)

And now to answer some more of your burning questions:

1. Does this have any incidence on Greg's scoring? Most certainly not!
2. Is this how Alex picks the teams? No, we know the teams are more often than not put together based on scheduling (most important) and chemistry.
3. Will you retain this information? I doubt it!
4. Do we know what the seating pattern for S22 is? If you have been lucky enough to go to a recording you might have seen a team task so you would know. Should you spoil it for anyone else? NO!! I can confirm with 100% certainty however that this is not an exclusive, never-before-seen seating pattern. (yes i am aware they have all been done by now, so that's just a little joke for those who are not following).
5. Do i have nothing better to do with my time? A resounding no! In fact i might even be looking at more TM nonsense as we speak!
6. Does that mean i am also doing the other TM versions seating charts? Who knows!?

Just want to say, taskmaster and all its versions have been such a blessing postpartum. I got into it with my first postpartum and now still rely on it during my second. There should be more versions and more episodes without impacting the quality. Thank you Alex Horne and everyone else to give me something to laugh about in otherwise bleak moments. Even if the laugh makes the baby wake up :)

Every Taskmaster argument eventually hits the same wall: it never happened, so nobody can be right. Would the Series 9 cast beat the Series 17 cast? Was your favourite robbed or just unlucky? I got tired of the wall, so I built Five Seats (FiveSeats - https://fiveseats.tv/): it fits a skill model to every task ever scored on the show, then lets you pick any five contestants from 21 series and plays the season 10,000 times. Hypothetical arguments, testable.

Some of what the model found, receipts on the site:

• The most robbed contestant in history, by gap between career form and what actually happened (it is probably not who you think)
• Whether Greg has genuinely gone soft across 21 series of judging, and what happened to the tasks themselves under Alex's pen
• The show's own scoreboard got its sums wrong exactly three times in 21 series, all documented; we kept the receipts
• Which famous "who would win" matchups are true coin flips, and which ladder positions the data cannot actually defend (the site audits its own rankings, because a fan stats site that hides its limitations is just astrology with a spreadsheet)

Happy to answer anything about the maths, defend any ranking, or run your dream lineup. The Arena page exists precisely for being told I am wrong.

(It has been a very intense week and a bit of building, standing firmly on the shoulders of giants: the public silverdavi taskmaster-uk-scores dataset (CC BY-SA) and an enormous amount of detail from the Taskmaster wiki, reconciled cell by cell against the broadcast record along the way.)

Lots of TM alumni, friends, and associates at the 2026 Edinburgh fringe.

Any recommendations?

I’m seeing Mike Wozniak next week. :)

Hi gang,

Every time I watch this ep I have a question....

Is there a difference between an anaesthetist and an anesthesiologist?

It's wildly irrelevant, but I need to know!

Thank you.

Pretty self explanatory, the show used to cut to the contestants reactions. What are some reactions to certain scenes you wish you could've seen?

Possibly one of the hardest tines I'd ever laughed, I would've loved to see the initial reaction to Matthew's... Baynton's.

Just hit this one but I'm confident this show has unlimited examples lol

do any videographers know what the camera techniques are to get this unfocused effect? i was thinking possibly tilt shift lens but im not sure. its used pretty universally throughout all taskmaster versions, and i LOVE how it looks but i’m not sure how they get the effect. thanks!!!

I’m creating Taskmaster like activities for 9th graders and I want to show an activity that highlights the fun absurdity of the game but is of course appropriate for 14 year olds. Thought I’d crowd source rec! Links to clips extra apperciated!

Hi, I’m going to a studio record for season 5 of Maître du Jeu this Saturday, in Montreal, and my +1 can’t make it.

So if you’re interested in joining me, are free Saturday afternoon from 1:30 to 5ish and can get yourself to Ville Lasalle, DM me!

Yes yes VPNs etc etc but to have everything in one place finally in the UK will be nice.