Some of my students have got really into Taskmaster, and have asked me to be the teacher-sponsor for a Taskmaster lunch club. Basically, the idea is that we'll rotate groups of five contestants once a week at lunch, with the other members being audience when it's not their turn. Everyone will submit possible tasks for me to choose from, but I also want to have some basic tasks in my pocket if I don't get enough viable suggestions on a particular week.

I'm looking for things we can do spontaneously in a classroom, rather than take-home tasks to fulfill during the week (although we will have prize rounds). Maybe three a week? Things like write a haiku about a piece of stationary in their room, and stuff like that. Does anyone have any ideas?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nexus%20of%20Truth

Looks like they filmed that task for Andy on May 14!

So in todays prize task banter Alex showed an email for where he responds, which was FEG.JM.MB.RR.SM@alexhornemedia.com.

https://preview.redd.it/huinl8l4f6yd1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9a5b7dbdfb9be88fd2235117907232bcc9e19c5

Seems like a weird email, right? It clicked that there were 5 strings of letters, and I had a thought...

What if those are the initials for the cast of either the next NYT, or even S19? There are 5, which is the number of contestants in a series, and they are all very clearly in alphabetical, just like the seating orders in a series.

Am I reading WAY too into this? What do you guys think?

Who did you like best tonight?

View Poll

Evening all, I’d bought one of the 14 ticket blocks for Absolute Casserole this Sunday at 16:15.

Due to a problem I won’t go into, there’s now only 6 of us travelling to London to attend, so there’s some spare tickets for our session.

Face value was £60 each, but I’d rather see the tickets used than go to waste so reach out if you’re interested in a good deal and likely some terrible chat from the 6 of us, share as widely as you like 👍

**Mods, I wasn’t sure if this counts as selling, but had seen other posts offering spare tickets too. Apologies if not allowed & no hard feelings if this is removed.

I watched Not Going Out season 12 yesterday and realized episode Friend has three, Lee Mack, Joe Wilkinson and Hugh Dennis, which makes me think about this.

Obviously full series like Not Going Out or 8 out of 10 cats are on their own category because they could include a lot more TM contestants (maybe 8oo10 has not invited every single contestant yet). Not Going Out series has 5 I think (Tim Vine, Katy Wix)

Tonight at 9:00 PM GMT on Channel 4, join Greg Davies and Alex Horne as they put the newest batch of contestants through their paces as they compete to win Greg's golden head.

CONTESTANTS: Series 18 features Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones.

NEW HERE? Please familiarize yourself with the rules of the subreddit before posting. We don't tolerate any sexism or bigotry towards contestants or users – posts & comments of that nature could lead to a ban. Thanks!

--------------------------------------

DISCORD: Join our discord server for live episode discussion and a whole lot more: https://discord.gg/WuddpyZadE

--------------------------------------

PLEASE DO NOT POST LINKS TO UNOFFICIAL COPIES OF THE EPISODE

Turns out Taskmaster isn't as popular in our friend group as we thought! (And, let's be real, as it should be) Or, maybe the mom/dad bods in skin-tight bodysuits didn't quite hit the same vibe as the originals.

Either way, we had a great time!

https://preview.redd.it/zfy186ova4yd1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b53a0aea448e2eedef75966bb9f52597c4fb0b0c

Does anyone want to come to the taskmaster live event Saturday 16:00. I have a group of 6 people going (all male 25-35) but unfortunately someone dropped out last minute and I'm struggling to fill the space. DM me if you are interested. We're a friendly bunch.

to all you Taskmaster ghouls and goblins 👻😅!

Touch the cow, in Season 3 of TMNZ, and high five Alex, Series 13 of UK, are very similar. But they aired right after each other. Do we know how they got such a similar task?

I was tempted to include Paul Chowdry but I think that's just what he's really like.

View Poll

Here we go! https://youtu.be/ojyR1-Qlf-Y?si=WEqn-3kfoQmyk2OI

I just picked up the Secret Series game for our family of 4 to play. I'm curious how people would recommend doing the Taskmaster rotation and scoring with 4 people. With 5 tasks per game (not counting the final task that all play), one person would be the Taskmaster twice per game if we rotated per task, and therefore miss out on some opportunity for points compared to those that participate as players in 4 tasks per game.

I was thinking that the person who was the Taskmaster twice in the game could get an extra points for the 2nd task, put them in the middle of the scoring for the extra task they didn't play.

Any better thoughts?

It had everything. They show the first contestant earnestly attempting the task, and he was happy with his result, which we soon found out was mediocre. Then one contestant wasted a bunch of time on a red herring briefcase. One contestant found the secret fish that wasn't actually the best. Andy found the real workaround and went way overboard to win the task. And then Jack. Oh Jack. The grumpy old national treasure that couldn't give a flying fuck has a half-assed attempt and doesn't even check how dotty the fish is. One dot was the perfect result, the absolute funniest amount of dots there could have been. I had to pause the show for a few minutes until I stopped laughing.

For me, I particularly love when it’s a not-so-strong contestant finally having a win. I just watched Taskmaster Australia S2E10 when Will Anderson FINALLY got approval for one of his sketches, and everyone seemed so happy for him!

Greg presenting, Noel and Jamali, and Julian as a guest. Rather enjoying it to be honest.

Hii so I’m watching season 13 and this dress has bewitched me body and soul but I can’t find anything like it anywhere. Do you guys have a clue where it’s from? Apologies for crap photo had to take a pic of my TV