#taskmaster 17

[bebiggerontheinside]

[bightmarks]

more feral husband taskmaster opinions! find the rest here!

series 17:

his favourite was Nick Mohammed (mine too!)

he liked John Robins more than i expected (and more than i do), but honestly i should have expected it because he likes competitive contestants as long as they’re very pathetic about it (eg. Ed Gamble)

he really liked a lot of the tasks this series, and almost always spotted the “trick” to them right away

he absolutely loved the Nick/Greg of it all, but was completely unsurprised because he immediately fancied Nick himself and was like ‘well, obviously Greg would too, look at him, he’s adorable’

series 18:

during episode 2 he said “I miss Nick. I’m gonna go pour myself a glass of white wine with a single ice cube.” and then he did

his favourite was Andy Zaltzman (??? baffling to me, mine is Emma Sidi, and I find Andy a bit annoying) but he thought this was a really solid cast with no duds, second favourite was Rosie Jones and he rates the other 3 highly as well

at one point he said “I don’t know why anyone has trouble with Rosie’s voice, I think she’s just Northern” AND HE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW SHE MADE THAT JOKE

he liked the hotdog costume wildcard thing a lot

he also really loved that Babatunde Aléshé was too unfamiliar with the show to know he was supposed to hate Alex and just befriended him instead, like it showed that Baba took Alex’s persona at face value and his response to it was “wow this boy needs love and encouragement”

halfway through he asked me if Jack Dee was Greg’s comedy hero because of how reluctant Greg was to go after him, when I said he was actually Alex’s hero and not Greg’s we had a whole long convo about how Greg’s authority is actually quite fragile but he’s so adept at reading the contestants that he rarely goes after someone who’s actually going to respond by stepping to him and shatter the illusion

series 18 is kind of oddly full of self-assured and naturally dominant characters, like all of them stood very firm in Greg’s presence

we also had a long convo about Greg’s career trajectory and teaching, bc my husband assumed since Greg was a drama teacher that he actually quite liked kids (and enjoyed being silly with them), but I explained that he seems to genuinely dislike children and mostly became a teacher because his father was one and he really saw his dad as a hero, and being a drama teacher was kind of a compromise between being a performer and practicing the family trade

my husband over-identifies with Greg and happens to see his own dad as a hero, but he never once considered going to uni for social work (he studied classics and intended to be an academic in moral philosophy), so that is a big difference between he and Greg (he also does like children)

series 19:

we just watched episode 1, but he’s sure Jason Mantzoukas will be his favourite because “I always love him in everything” but I think he’s going to really love Stevie Martin and Mathew Baynton too

[forestlion]

Taskmaster Tournament

What's your favorite Series/Season? Bracket style.

Part 9.

s17 VS s18

Series 17

Series 18

Voting ended onJun 29, 2025

s17

s18

[what-the-bally-hell]

lovely couple on bargain hunt 🥰 they're so sweet

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Oooh! Steve Pemberton (Glozier on Good Omens) is in the next season of Taskmaster (very funny british comedy game show)! :) WAHOO!

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Series 17 Outtakes - Part 2 | Taskmaster

“The Naughty Step didn’t work, did it? ... To be fair, I did very much misread the Naughty Step.”

[jenster21]

Crying laughing, the series 17 outtakes are SO GOOD

[tunameltd0wn]

also honestly I felt really sad for John when he was like "uhhh wait was that really rum cause I'm sober" because if it wasn't non alcoholic that would have been really frustrating and sad I think 😭 I was for real worried...