Taskmaster season 18 cast have been announced – see the new line-up

Are you prepared for the following forged of Taskmaster? As one other sequence attracts to a detailed, Greg Davies and Alex Horne are already waiting for season 18, which is ready to air later this 12 months. So who shall be collaborating? Discover out right here…

Taking up the function of Taskmaster this 12 months, the listing of good comedians contains The Information Quiz host Andy Zaltzman, actor Babatunde Aleshe, star

Followers will be capable of expertise the present instantly when Taskmaster: The Dwell Expertise launches in September 2021. Happening at DockX at Canada Water in London, the expertise will give followers the possibility to tackle the function of their favorite comic and enter the enduring Taskmaster home – while finishing ridiculous duties, after all.

The vastly in style present sees comic Gregg star because the 'Taskmaster' who units out to check the wit, intelligence and information of 5 comedians by means of a sequence of weird and unrealistic challenges. The sequence is one in every of Channel 4's hottest exhibits lately and was the third most streamed present in 2023.

It has additionally received a number of awards, together with Greatest Comedy Leisure Present on the Nationwide Comedy Awards 2022 and 2023, Greatest Comedy Leisure on the Bafta 2020, and Greatest Leisure Programme on the Broadcast Awards 2018.

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The present has acquired widespread acclaim from critics, with Radio Occasions saying the present “has not one of the inventiveness and pleasure of Taskmaster”, whereas The Guardian mentioned it was “probably the most spontaneous and dependable entertainments TV has ever supplied”.

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Talking about how he got here up with the concept for the present, Alex beforehand instructed Channel 4: “Eleven years in the past, my spouse and I had our child, so I didn’t go to the Edinburgh Fringe for the primary time in years.

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“Tim Key received a comedy award and I used to be sitting at residence with the infant and I used to be so jealous, actually. So, I created a present for the following 12 months and invited 20 comedians. I despatched all of them emails in secret, not telling them who they had been, and mentioned, ‘I’m beginning a brand new competitors you possibly can enter, I’m going to offer you a unique act each month.’ Mike Wozniak received it and Tim didn’t, so I used to be delighted. And not one of the comedians had been Greg Davies.”

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Greg joked: “I'd like to inform you it wasn't seen on the time, nevertheless it was seen on the time. I used to be in a sketch group, We Are Klang, and one of many members had been invited by Alex, so I used to be conscious of it… it felt like there was an actual Edinburgh gang occurring and I used to be on the very starting of my profession, being put out by somebody who I assumed was a monster.”