Russell Howard screams into a drainpipe for five minutes to no effect. The task where the contestants have to blow out a candle from the longest distance. There’s something very satisfying about Richard Osman and Jon Richardson’s effort, where Horne is brutally murdered by zombie spuds. The task where the contestants have to create the best stop-motion movie with a potato. Beckett plops some red mush on a white tray and says: “Konnichiwa.” The gall. The task where contestants have to create a meal that looks like a flag. Tim Key takes a no-nonsense approach: watching Elliot’s audition from ET while cutting onions. The task where the contestants must fill an egg cup with their own tears.
Rose Matafeo ends up screaming loudly for about 20 seconds, and it’s genuinely harrowing. The task where the contestants have to provide the foley for Alex Horne’s silent film. Paul Sinha wins by smearing caviar on his top lip. The task where contestants have to put something on their face that looks like a moustache from a distance but isn’t. Whatever the reason, I decided at the end of last year to detach myself from the news of Covid and Brexit and instead methodically catalogue the top 100 tasks in Taskmaster history, and I really need you to get on board.
Or perhaps I just like watching Hugh Dennis carve a cake horizontally and arrange it like a serial killer in an episode of Hannibal. At a time when we are isolated from friends and family, and days meld into one, that kind of intellectual intimacy – getting inside someone’s head – is precious. Perhaps it’s the way that it provides an insight not just into what people think, but how they think. Perhaps it’s the way that it’s a funhouse mirror of lockdown – for most tasks contestants are stuck in a house, alone, where they are given a series of arbitrary rules to obey and steadily lose their minds. Call me when he’s had a Frasier-inspired breakdown and thinks he’s Eddie the dog.”īut there’s something magical about Taskmaster that elevates it above my usual substitute-for-therapy fare.
“Oh, Bernhardt’s become fixated on the tiniest details of a television show as a coping mechanism for the horrors of reality in the 2020s? Change the record. Regular readers will know this is entirely predictable.
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