Taskmaster Series 10, Episode 1 - God's Haemorrhoid - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
Hoping to impress the Taskmaster and be crowned the next champion are: Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring. Wax seals will open, dreams will be made and/or broken, and Little Alex Horne will be wrapped around his master's little finger providing stats and moral support in the most ridiculous and ferociously fought game show on television.
Prize task: The nicest thing to put in your mouth.
* Daisy May Cooper: White wine - 5
* Richard Herring: Halloumi cheese with chilli in it - 4
* Johnny Vegas: Anti-reflux medicine - 3
* Katherine Parkinson: Braces - 2
* Mawaan Rizwan: A rubber teething toy shaped like a chicken wing. - 1
Task 1: Part 1 - Knock the coconut off its perch. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.
* Daisy, Katherine, Mawaan and Richard: All in less than 10 seconds. Each wins a gigantic teddy bear.
* Johnny: 25 seconds. Wins a small teddy bear.
Task 1: Part 2 - Put all these drinks on the table in the caravan without spilling a single drop. Also, you must be clutching this teddy at all times. Also, you must not walk on the grass while holding drinks. Fastest wins. Your time starts now.
* Everyone spills some of the drinks. - 0
Task 2: Make the largest object properly vanish. Largest object to properly vanish wins. You may not use any editing trickery. You have one hour. Your time starts now.
* Mawaan: Makes a cow that looks large disappear, but it is a small cow close to the camera that is moved out of shot. - 5
* Johnny: Performs a play in which Jeremy Corbyn summons a 200ft mutant chicken destroying London, where in reality a normal-sized prop chicken destroys a model version of London, and the chicken disappears behind a piece of blue paper being put in front of it. - 4
* Richard: Makes Little Alex Horne disappear using a mirror. - 2
* Katherine: Makes a sofa disappear by moving a partition in front of it. - 2
* Daisy: Makes a large cow disappear by moving into some bushes. - 1
Task 3: Land the most egg in the frying pan. You may not throw any egg. You must stay on this balcony and you may only use the contents of one of the boxes. You have twenty minutes or until you run out of egg. Your time starts now.
* Daisy: Bonus point for getting an egg closest to the pan.
* Johnny, Katherine, Mawaan and Richard: All landed eggs further away from the pan than Daisy. - 0
Live task: Get the most balls in your bucket. At the end of the task, all the balls in your bucket must be the same colour as each other. You will lose five points for every different coloured ball in your bucket. You may only touch your litter pickers and you must stay on your spot at all times. You have 100 seconds.
* Richard: 12 points - 5
* Daisy: 8 points - 4
* Johnny: 6 points - 3
* Mawaan: 5 points - 2
* Katherine: 4 points minus one penalty, totalling -1 point - 1
Final scores
* Richard - 12
* Daisy - 11
* Johnny - 10
* Mawaan - 8
* Katherine - 6
Broadcast details
Date
Thursday 15th October 2020
Time
9pm
Channel
Length
60 minutes
Cast & crew
Cast
| Greg Davies | Host / Presenter |
|---|---|
| Alex Horne | Host / Presenter |
| Daisy May Cooper | Self |
| Johnny Vegas | Self |
| Katherine Parkinson | Self |
| Mawaan Rizwan | Self |
| Richard Herring | Self |
Writing team
| Alex Horne | Writer |
|---|---|
| Tim Key | Task Consultant |
Production team
| Andy Devonshire | Series Director |
|---|---|
| Andy Cartwright | Series Producer |
| Richard Allen-Turner | Executive Producer |
| James Taylor | Executive Producer |
| Jon Thoday | Executive Producer |
| Rob Aslett | Executive Producer |
| Andy Devonshire | Executive Producer |
| Alex Horne | Executive Producer |
| Dan Trelfer | Edit Producer |
| Vicky Winter | Line Producer |
| Thomas Perrett | Editor |
| Mark Sangster | Editor |
| Rebecca Bowker | Editor |
| James Dillon | Production Designer |
| Sam Montague | Director of Photography |
| John Ford | Lighting Designer |
| Dru Masters | Composer |
| Tom Howe | Composer |
| Martin Rosten | Graphics |
Videos
Vanish a large object
The contestants must vanish a large object. Here's Mawaan Rizwan's attempt.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne & Mawaan Rizwan.
Daisy May Cooper carrying drinks
The contestants must carry some drinks, whilst holding a big teddy. Here's Daisy May Cooper giving it a go.
Featuring: Alex Horne & Daisy May Cooper.
Outtake - Katherine Parkinson's accidentally crude task idea
Everyone is left in fits of laughter after Greg Davies points out something crude about Katherine Parkinson's task attempt.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan & Richard Herring.
Task: Land the most egg in the frying pan
The contestants have to land an egg in a frying pan. Simple? No.
Featuring: Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan & Richard Herring.
Press
Review: Taskmaster
Taskmaster dumps Dave for C4.... and - hooray - is as silly as ever!
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 16th October 2020
Taskmaster wins 1.7million viewers for Channel 4
That figure is roughly in line with what the show scored on Dave when catch-up viewing was also counted - which means the show is sure to grow its audience with the change in broadcaster, once on-demand requests are also counted. Channel 4 has also hailed the fact that the show won its 9pm slot among the key 16-34 year-old demographic.
Chortle, 16th October 2020
Taskmaster series 10 review
Channel 4's task in poaching Dave's best programme was simple: don't screw it up. And by barely changing a single thing for Taskmaster's tenth series, they passed with flying colours.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th October 2020
Taskmaster podcast reaches No. 2 in charts
Ahead of the BAFTA winning tv show making it's Channel 4 debut on Thursday 15th October at 9pm, it was announced today that the brand-new official Taskmaster Podcast has reached number two in the iTunes charts only two days following the trailer release and before any episodes have aired.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th October 2020
Taskmaster Series 10 review
Taskmaster may have changed channels but it's still just as side-splittingly silly as before.
Lauren Morris, Radio Times, 6th October 2020