r/taskmaster

Picked up Armando Iannucci's book Hear Me Out for £1 at the charity shop today. Anyone read his books? There's two others mentioned by him, Facts and Fancies, and The Audacity of Hype. Are there others? Which of them is your favourite?

I’m just wondering if anyone knows how past contestants have developed their friendships after the show. I can see Joel and Kumail working together in the future and everyone being best friends with Joanna

After the most recent TM podcast episode regarding episode titles and how Ed thinks they try to give every contestant one, I decided to go through every UK series to find out if there are any where all five contestants got an episode title, and there are indeed none - same for NZ, but I was very surprised to find out that so far, in Taskmaster Australia, only one contestant never had an episode title named after something they said ->! Jenny Tian!<. The rest are full houses.

Special mention to Australia season 4, where all five contestants named an episode as well as both of the Toms. (Also this doesn't account for the currently-ongoing season 5 as I haven't seen any of it yet)

I was thinking about this recently and realised that across 20+ seasons of UK Taskmaster, I’m sure we’ve not had a Northern Irish contestant yet.

It stood out to me because Alex and the show generally seem really good at bringing in comedians from different backgrounds, experiences, styles, ages, etc. It feels like the show actively tries to widen the net.

Which is why Northern Ireland being absent feels a bit surprising. Especially given there’s a strong comedy scene and plenty of people who would fit the Taskmaster chaos perfectly.

Not trying to make it a big criticism, more wondering if anyone else had noticed it or has thoughts on why?

Edit: been asked to provide some examples. Here’s a list of comedians who I think be good on the show.
Diona Doherty, Shane Todd, Colin Geddis, Vittorio Angelone, Patrick Kielty, Colin Murphy.. etc

We’ve a budding comedy community and I think it’s time we had a representative. And for those saying we’ve not had any breakout comedians big enough for the show. I had never heard of Fern Brady before but I didn’t question why she was there. One of the best part of the show is the variety of backgrounds - long established to newcomers.

Whilst slightly biased and focused on one person it does show some behind the scenes and many shots of the game

Your task is to make a new series, but everyone must have the same first name. Taskmaster, Taskmaster's assistant, and five comedians.

Shortened names are allowed. An example could be Mike/Michael, as long as it's the name they go by. No "Well she goes by Anne and but her legal first name is Jenn so she counts as Jenn".

They can be alive or dead.

They can be from any country.

Your time starts now.