Taskmaster Series 4 (starts 25th April)

[Small Man Big Horse]

Travesty. If Hugh had won the dance task - WHICH HE SHOULD HAVE DONE - he'd have been right in with a fucking chance. Daylight robbery.

Is this how football fans feel when a fair shot from the three-point line gets discounted as offside (?)? I understand now!

Should have won the photo round as well, conceptually it was easily the most surprising of them all.

[Utter Shit]

Anyone else think the most recent episode was a bit shit? The sliding thing especially was just rubbish. Hopefully just a rare misstep. Hugh Dennis trying to throw toast into the toaster was good at least.

[AsparagusTrevor]

Although I wouldn't say it was shit and I did still enjoy it I do know what you mean. I liked the anti-climax of the sliding and I loved the team task but it seemed somewhat less creative than normal this week.

[TheManOne]

Oddly, I far preferred this week to last week. Still, a shit episode of Taskmaster pisses on most shows.
It's possible the 8 shows may be a little too much of a stretch and they can't ditch tasks which didn't work.
They also, possibly due to turnaround time on 16 episodes, seem to be straying less from the house.

[Gregory Torso]

I really enjoyed the team task. I saw someone comment on another website that the contestants have been given "secret tasks", such as Mel having to collect all of the seals, Joe kiss the picture of Grgeg and Hugh having to lose every first task. Seemed very obvious this week, with that shit meowing cat.

[JoeyBananaduck]

The team task was good fun indeed. Particularly Lolly's table being hurled about with extreme prejudice.

[BritishHobo]

I loved the pointless selfishness of it. Having objects in the bath didn't even impede him clingfilming, but he took em all back out anyway.

[SteveDave]

<tag> Joe Lycett's Tiny Teeth <tag>

[Small Man Big Horse]

Still enjoying this but for me there's too many physical tasks and not enough creative ones, which were always my favourite of the two.

[BritishHobo]

Yeah. Creative solutions are the fun of the show, but they don't often get the chance to come up with 'em.

Stuff like snipping the bunting.

Loved Lycett completing the tiebreaker without reading the task, even though it robbed Hugh of ANOTHER DESERVED WIN.

[Utter Shit]

Great episode. The in-studio bits are so good, Davies and Horne especially.

[TheManOne]

Hide and seek was great. Also Greg and Alex's banter* was top notch.

*please note, I'm using this in the sense comedians use it - not BANTZ!

[Wentworth Smith]

As mentioned Davies and Horne are great together, as shown in this amazing outtake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1YX7MfbaPM

The glee with which Davies brings the song into it is fantastic.

[BritishHobo]

Hugh was definitely robbed all series. That was a great sandwich! I'm happy Noel won, and I love Greg with all my heart, but JUSTICE FOR HUGH.

[Bad Ambassador]

Reveal at the end of the series 5 taskers.

Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips, Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea and Mark Watson.

[touchingcloth]

The bait and switch with Mel's sandwich was great, I guffawed when she opened that second envelope.

No secret tasks, then? Mel really was just collecting the wax seals to melt down later.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Hugh was definitely robbed all series. That was a great sandwich! I'm happy Noel won, and I love Greg with all my heart, but JUSTICE FOR HUGH.

Can't argue with that, he was definitely the series' MVP for me, though I have to say that I'm surprised by how funny Noel was, I can't say I particularly like him but he did make me laugh far more than I thought he would. Joe wasn't too bad either, but Mel and Lolly were the weakest for me sadly, Mel just wasn't funny (though I did get a big laugh out of the audience's almost angry response to her "Co-Median Duck" joke) and Lolly is far too happy and optimistic (and slightly bland) for my liking. Overall I thought it was definitely the weakest series so far, but fuck it, we've got Bob next time around so I can't wait for it to return.

[TheManOne]

Yeah. I could probably have watched the entire series without Lolly in it. Genuinely probably a lovely person, but absolutely nothing to her at all.
She's like someone who's seen the concept of irony once and assumed that it is achieved by saying platitudes in a emotionless voice.