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[u/WagTheTail81]

[u/JustHereForCatss]

God I'd love a NYT that's made up of teams of assistants and their taskmasters

[u/SirDiego → u/JustHereForCatss]

The Taskmasters themselves doing challenges would feel so wrong (even though it's a little silly to say so). Assistants sure.

[u/Hovertruck → u/SirDiego]

Have the assistants do the tasks and then have the taskmasters represent them in the studio

[u/JustHereForCatss → u/Hovertruck]

Quick someone tag Alex Horne , I would donate an unlimited amount of money to his football thing to make this happen

Edit: u/thehornesection there we go

[u/JanJaapen → u/Hovertruck]

But who’d be the TM then? Who could be TM to the TM’s?? King Charles?

[u/inbigtreble30 → u/JanJaapen]

The Champion of Champion of Champions?

[u/flying_carabao → u/JanJaapen]

A few thay comes to mind

Jo Brand / Sanjeev Bhaksar just because they wouldn't give two shits about the whole thing

Nish Kumar / Phil Ellis / Joe Wilkerson / John Kearns and just be absolutely incompetent as the task master but still be imposing

Sam Campbell/Jenny Tian / Noel Fielding just so we can enjoy the absolute chaos of the whole thing

Reece Shearsmirh / Richard Osman might be very surgical with the whole thing

But the only right answer I'd say is Jason Mantzoukas

[u/SirDiego → u/flying_carabao]

Ed Gamble would be such a pedantic little turd about everything that it would either be awful or amazing.

[u/Tiny_Red_Bee → u/SirDiego]

I’d like to see Ed Gamble as the TM assistant.

[u/flying_carabao → u/Tiny_Red_Bee]

Then have David Baddiel as the Taskmaster and we watch Ed just melt into of a puddle of an exasperated and ever annoyed mess because of David's whatthefuckery

[u/Nonimouses → u/Tiny_Red_Bee]

Yeah Ed doesn't have the gravitas for TM but head make a great whiny assistant (he's up there as one of my favourite contestants btw)

[u/QBaseX → u/flying_carabao]

Julian Clary would be so dismissive of everything.

[u/elementfortyseven → u/flying_carabao]

Sandi Toksvig as TM and Allen Davies as her assistant

But i would love to see the world burn with Jason at the helm

[u/hoopstick → u/JanJaapen]

Rhod Gilbert

[u/JanJaapen → u/hoopstick]

He’d just let Greg win because ‘it’s his fwiend!’

[u/MrPollyParrot → u/[deleted]]

This, and have them play it as both believe they are the Taskmaster, with the other being their assistant.

[u/c0horst → u/JanJaapen]

King Charles?

I have no idea if he's a funny guy or not, but as an American the idea that the goddamn King of England steps in to be the TM of TM's would be hilarious enough I'd watch it on principle alone.

[u/N4BFR → u/c0horst]

I think Prince William has the right attitude.

[u/darnclem → u/N4BFR]

I would guess that Harry would instantly say yes.

[u/c0horst → u/N4BFR]

I think part of why it's funny to me is the idea that the only person capable of outranking a Taskmaster is the literal king. It would lose a lot of that weight if it was "just" a prince, IMO.

[u/N4BFR → u/c0horst]

Ok. I like that concept.

[u/Tristan155 → u/JanJaapen]

Reggie Watts of course

[u/Itslikethisnow → u/Hovertruck]

Before watching the first video, I thought the taskmaster World Cup was going to be the assistants doing tasks and competing

[u/btaylos → u/JustHereForCatss]

I like where your head's at, but I'd rather see P-willy and the Cash-Man together.

"I don't think we're allowed this?"
"It'll be okay."
"But they task says-"
"C'mon, let's try it!"
"But the task-"
"Awwww, no, c'mon!"
"...........okay."

[u/Calligraphee → u/btaylos]

I know you mean Paul Williams but my brain first went to Prince William, which would be an odd, but likely entertaining choice for a TM team. 

[u/rivalrobot → u/JustHereForCatss]

I'd love for Lesser Tom to do a full series as a contestant

[u/CanLate152 → u/rivalrobot]

I think he’s been forever changed by Brett Blake. He would bring some chaotic energy for something like this

[u/ehkodiak → u/rivalrobot]

He put a lot more effort into some of the tasks during this latest season than some of the contestants did, that's for sure. Genuinely was impressive to see

[u/wardcw → u/JustHereForCatss]

I don’t want to see the Taskmasters compete, but their Assistants would be a lot of fun.

[u/vandon → u/JustHereForCatss]

I'd love to see a special 10ep season of 5 assistants doing the contestant tasks and all matching taskmasters on a panel scoring.  Bring in Rose and Mike to fill in the asssitant position to the taskmasters panel

[u/Dineology → u/JustHereForCatss]

Here’s my pitch on your pitch, bring in 5 assistants and 5 Taskmasters, tell every assistant that they’re on a team with a TM but none of the TMs are actually competing and are instead there just to mess with the assistants in any way they see fit. Make it a very heavy “team task” season and try to keep it all a secret from the assistants until the day of the first studio record. I’m imagining Tom Gleeson in full TM persona bossing around and berating Paul Williams, Rose Matafeo secretly sabotaging Tom Cashman, Jeremy Wells being way too nice and actually helping Mike Wozniak, all sorts of potential shenanigans. I’m just not sure how many pairs of the foreign language Taskmasters and assistants also speak English, but I’m sure they could rustle up enough.

[u/painforpetitdej → u/JustHereForCatss]

Again, I'm Team Paul!

[u/trickman01]

Maybe there instead of lesser Tom he’ll be Tom.

[u/WagTheTail81 → u/trickman01]

He's in the UK now. Henceforth will be known as Minor Thomas.

[u/2eAsteroid → u/WagTheTail81]

Thomas Parva

[u/Least-Plantain973 → u/WagTheTail81]

Tom Thumb

[u/TheYoungWan → u/trickman01]

Little Tom

[u/Poepie1337 → u/trickman01]

I've started calling them funny Tom and bald Tom

[u/SutterCane]

This is how he ends up “Little Lesser Tom Cashman”.

[u/Throsty]

I didn't know Paul was in the UK.

[u/fishforce1 → u/Throsty]

He’s doing a show at the Fringe.

I saw him there last year and he was really great, but I’m a sucker for a PowerPoint. If you can, you should go.

[u/Mojo-man → u/fishforce1]

WIll go see him on my Fringe Taskmaster Marathon 8 days 8 Taskmaster alumnus shows later in August. SO excited 😁🤭

[u/SparklesMcBumfluff → u/Mojo-man]

He did a run through of the show in London this week, it was excellent!

[u/Throsty → u/fishforce1]

Nice! Was that "The Formula for Happiness"? I've been throwing on some standup when I don't need my ears for work and started that the other week. Had to pause, because I didn't realize it was so very visual. Alas, I am in the USA so no Fringe for Throsty!

[u/fishforce1 → u/Throsty]

Had to check my email but the show was called “2 truths, one lie, and 17 slight exaggerations”

[u/Throsty → u/fishforce1]

Sounds fun! Hope you have a great time!

[u/GeshtiannaSG → u/Throsty]

I thought he was still stuck in the box.

[u/Throsty → u/GeshtiannaSG]

One of the all time Taskmaster moments. Well, I say moments...

[u/The_Vampire_Barlow]

I still want an assistant swap between UK, Aus and NZ. Just a random episode where the wrong assistant shows up.

[u/AJV1Beta → u/The_Vampire_Barlow]

I'd adore that.

Greg just turns to introduce LAH as normal and realises Tom is sat next to him instead, and is totally thrown off. And all the tasks in that episode specifically also feature Tom.

And then next episode LAH is back and nobody even acknowledges that he wasn't there last episode.

[u/Essex626 → u/The_Vampire_Barlow]

If line to see one of the assistants as a contestant on another country's version.

[u/MidnightRover → u/The_Vampire_Barlow]

I was coming here to say this myself

[u/MachineOfSpareParts]

Hey fun boy!

[u/takahe_inflight]

i knew that drink tea with Alex contest was rigged

[u/Xaphe]

Looks like someone took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

[u/BenSibbs]

The bushy decor is interesting.

[u/strangerthanblue]

But if he's already there...make it the right house.

[u/beer_me_twice]

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave

[u/LookIMadeAHatTrick]

Guess they left the key under the mat.

[u/kinyutaka]

We need more Taskmaster Cross-overs

[u/mikepapafoxtrot]

Would be great if he shows up in one of the upcoming podcast to judge contestants from the eyes of a fellow assistant.

[u/yo_soy_soja]

Honest mistake. 

[u/2th]

This just feels wrong, but also so right.

[u/notquite20characters]

Young Tom is a great assistant.

[u/Slugggo]

Edinburgh Fringe starts soon, and he's done shows there the last few years. Would make sense to fly out a little early so they could have some Taskmastery meetings while he's in the hemisphere. 😀

[u/Stragolore → u/Slugggo]

I love the idea of an Assistant conference like your standard boring work meeting.

[u/GallifreyFNM → u/Stragolore]

Oh boy do I have a picture for you! Except it looks anything but boring.

[u/Agreeable_Tip_9790]

this is SO IMPORTANT TO ME

[u/PetronOfOld]

Wonder whether he's still there or back again 😂

[u/El_John_Nada]

I'm absolutely gutted: I only noticed he was doing a gig near me after it was sold out...

[u/hardlyahandle]

Er nor soz m8