Presented by Greg Davies and Alex Horne (who also created the programme, originally as a show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), the first series of Taskmaster was broadcast in 2014 on comedy channel Dave, before expanding its audience after being poached by Channel 4 in 2020.
While there have only been 15 series proper, there have also been special one-off ‘Champion of Champion’ and ‘New Year Treat’ programmes, comprising one or two episodes.
The show sees (mainly) comedians take part in a range of challenges which are then marked by the hosts, usually (but not always) winning a maximum of five points per task.
There have been a total of 148 episodes of the show, but which ones are the best? We took a look at how they rated according to reviews on online entertainment bible IMDb.
Here are the top 13 – each named after a quote from the show – which will be updated to include any qualifying episodes from series 16 when it’s finished.
13. Fear Of Failure
The opening episode of series two completes our list and was first broadcast on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Fear Of Failure features Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan and Richard Osman. It's revered by Taskmaster fans for the moment when Wilkinson threw a potato into a hole, and the controversy that followed. Photo: Channel 4