How to describe a show like Taskmaster? Springing from the inventive mind of Alex Horne, Taskmaster is part panel show, part game show and part sitcom. It sees a group of five comedians and celebrity personalities take on a series of increasingly absurd and dignitycompromising tasks, often against a timer and always competing for precious points from the most arbitrary of judges, the Taskmaster himself, Greg Davies.

It’s one of the most delightful, entertaining and straightup funniest shows to grace British television screens in recent years and unique in its ability to peel away the layers of performance of its contestants. Getting a bunch of celebrities to complete silly tasks can provide enough comedy on its own, but Taskmaster is set up to bring out more from that seemingly simple premise.

It’s one thing to watch someone failing at an outlandish challenge, but then put them in front of a studio audience and their fellow competitors, ask them to justify their actions before a tyrannical judge in charge of their fate, and you get something far more entertaining. So how does Taskmaster draw out that desperate need to win from its competitors, how did it create its own sub genre of comedy and why does that all make it one of the funniest things on television?



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00:00 Taskmaster: Crafting Pure Comedy From Perfect Chaos
01:10 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
03:43 A SetUp Without a Punchlnie
08:38 A Taskmaster’s Role
14:21 The Sitcom Gameshow
17:04 So What Did We Learn Today?



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Links and Further Reading:

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https://inews.co.uk/essentials/cultur...
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/11...
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