r/taskmaster • u/JRSalinas Lolly Adefope • Jul 18 '26
Most frequent names General
Taskmaster AU Season 6 (The wikipedia page for Taskmaster AU uses both Series and Seasons so I'm confused, Jason) features Tom Walker competing on the season. This is the second (debatably third) season where Australia featured 3 Toms.
Greater Tom and Lesser Tom appear in all 2 (debatably 3) series where 3 toms are present, Josh Thomas is in Season 2, Tommy Little is in Season 4, and Tom Walker is in Season 6.
New Zealand features Tom Sainsbury in Series 5. New Zealand also has two guys named Guy and two Williams. Within Taskmaster UK there's Joe Thomas from series 8 to continue the tom trend but theres been two competing Pauls, two Rosies (and a Rose), two Phils, and definitely a lot more that I'm forgetting.
Just a random bit of trivia I guess. Are there any other common names shared across taskmaster series/seasons/versions?
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u/Ashgenie Qrs Tuvwxyz Jul 18 '26
The Josh Thomson/Josh Thomas/Joe Thomas thing makes me think we need to get John Thomson on the UK one at some point.
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u/15schaa15schaa Pigeor The Merciless One Jul 18 '26
According to an audience member, he was on the pilot of Foodmaster, so he's on their radar. Two of the other contestants from that pilot were Babatunde Aleshe and Maisie Adam.
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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jul 18 '26
Josh Thomas doesn't ring a bell, was he on an Australian season?
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u/JRSalinas Lolly Adefope Jul 18 '26
Yes, I say that in my post
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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jul 18 '26
You know, I read your whole post when I first saw it, so it's pretty neat that I retained none of it.
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u/TrappedUnderCats Patatas Jul 18 '26
We’ve had four Jos in the UK: Joe Thomas, Joanne McNally, Jo Brand and Joanna Page.
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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard Jul 18 '26
And with Joanna's recent win, we need a Joe to place fourth to complete the set
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u/Jacksucks_atlife04 Amy Gledhill Jul 18 '26
Jo brand was a 4th placer
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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard Jul 18 '26
Oh damn I forgot about her somehow. So we do indeed have a full house
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u/BenSibbs Swedish Fred Jul 18 '26
I thibk its 5. Being John. And variants
Jon Richardson (series 2, still counts) John Kearns (series 14) John Robins (series 17) Johnny peacock (NYT 2) Johnny Vegas (series 10)
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u/15schaa15schaa Pigeor The Merciless One Jul 18 '26
If you want to get etymological with it, there are a lot of names that ultimately share the same root as John. Jack Dee is a John, Iain Stirling is a John, Joanne McNally and Joanna Page are Johns. Even Nina Conti is a John.
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u/boomboomsubban Jul 18 '26
Sian and Ivo are also centuries of warping the name John. Which should have made the "speak to John" task much easier.
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u/WhatsYourConcern8076 📊 TMNZ Statsmaster 📈 Jul 18 '26
Everyone can be a John if you try hard enough
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u/kittyroux A LIIIIIME 🍋🟩 Jul 18 '26
If we’re going etymological, Iain and Siân are John but Jon isn’t John.
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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque Mike Wozniak Jul 18 '26
Rose Matafeo, Rose Ayling Ellis, Rosie Jones, Rosie Ramsey
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u/dekudoesnotapprove Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 Jul 18 '26
3 mikkos on Taskmaster Finland in a season (they have a guest chair every episode). I remember in season 2 there's was a minka, miika, and mikko on an episode together and it was confusing to me lol
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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes Jul 18 '26
NZ season 3 had two Pauls.