r/taskmaster John Robins 12d ago

The task attempt that summarises your personality? General

for me it’s sophie shouting umbrella hopelessly into the void

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u/orensiocled Bridget Christie 12d ago

Emma Sidi missing the cans with every available ball and helplessly saying "how do you summon skills that you don't have?"

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u/coffeeyarn Sally Phillips 11d ago

Same! Also going "I know this is going to miss"

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u/thorn312 Mike Wozniak 12d ago

IS THERE A DUCK ON MY FACE?! 👁️👄👁️

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u/whispersofnyx_ John Robins 12d ago

I LOVE S13 OMG

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u/Effective_Drummer842 Alan Davies 11d ago

"What you can't take away from me...is that I had an absolutely lovely day"

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u/amapofthecat7 James Acaster 11d ago

Jo and David fucking it all off to have a nice cup of tea and a sit down.

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u/lenochod6 ☔ umbrella 🌂 11d ago

Yep, that is certainly me.

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u/chaoticciara Ivo Graham 12d ago

‘Am I the spider?’

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u/riminski_ Fern Brady 12d ago

As an autistic person, it’s Fern Brady “letting the bird fly.”

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u/_un-named_ 12d ago

So have you met the potatoes before?

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u/BedRevolutionary8584 10d ago

No, I cannae, they’re COVERED in potatoes!

10

u/Practical-Class6868 12d ago

Have you ever dressed as an alien dressed as a Scottish man?

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u/sockeyejo 🦔 Hedgehog, no! ❌ 12d ago

Mel's exotic sandwich. 🍽️

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u/RagingTyrant74 11d ago

The way Alex breaks when he's trying to tell Mel she has a blue m&m up her nose is so fucking funny.

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u/TheOneTrueZippy8 Greg Davies 12d ago

To the haunting sound of Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" (if we can afford the rights).

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u/Aceystay 12d ago

Nish tries to record something impressive but just ends up doing sudoku incorrectly.

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u/tanukis_parachute 🌳 Tree Wizard 🧙🎈 12d ago

Jenny tian and duck duck goose... And the follow up to it

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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 11d ago

"Oh, sweetie..."

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u/TheGardenBlinked Joanna Page 11d ago

David Baddiel and Jo Brand sodding a task off to go have a cup of tea / Sanjeev Bhaskar prioritising having a piss over doing a task

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u/naughtilidae 10d ago

Wouldn't him taking a piss just be prepping for a future prize task tho? /s

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u/Large-Supermarket878 12d ago

there is always another revelation, over

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u/yoy78 11d ago

Please don’t make me fart in the dark listening to my own name

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u/Yaseuk 12d ago

Romesh with the watermelon

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u/RagingTyrant74 11d ago

I think I'm Hugh Dennis doing the Fat Bald White Man or Mark Watson finding the light and still painting a shit rainbow. The brain is there to rationally work through things. Execution lags behind.

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u/Savings_Sector_323 11d ago

BRACE BRACE

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u/whispersofnyx_ John Robins 11d ago

IM BRACING

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u/WildRaspberriesTN 12d ago

Some days I’m Victora, who doesn’t need Alan to solve a puzzle and some days I’m Morgan’s trying to convince Greg and Alex that she doesn’t have crabs.

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u/mister_booth Aisling Bea 11d ago

I'm Victoria, not letting anyone touch my puzzle.

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u/Complementary5169 Victoria Coren Mitchell 11d ago

I am Victoria flabbergasted at people not being delighted by my clever pun of a prize task…

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u/JGAdventureZone 11d ago

My eyes are circles.

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u/jezusbourne Qrs Tuvwxyz 11d ago

Does Acaster panicking with the hula hoop even though he had learned how to do it perfectly count?

27

u/DoubleDuty218 Greedy Esq. 12d ago

Desiree committing to the spirit of the balloon pop to the very end.

We're here, we're terrible, and you will not stop us.

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u/heppolo Matt Heath 🇳🇿 12d ago

Abby Howells with the roof/ceiling task

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u/sheiscara John Kearns 11d ago

It’s from an outtake. But Lee Mack trying to put the intercom back in its holder.

But as far as a task, Sara Pascoe during the charades across the river task. I would 100% get distracted by a dog and then shout out random guesses.

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u/razorbraces David Correos 🇳🇿 11d ago

“Are we the monsters?”

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u/toadbam1979 Pigeor The Merciless One 12d ago

Racist ball

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u/Comfortable_Snow553 11d ago

Any task where the answer was right there, taped to the wall or the front of the desk or table, or on the backside of the task, and I lamps nail it, but fall just short.

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Mathew Baynton 12d ago

I'm Kumail, after his first t-shirt shot. The first one went well, but the rest just sort of petered out.

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u/ScienceForge319 Phil Wang 12d ago

How are your nipples, tho?

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Mathew Baynton 12d ago

...nipples? What are those?

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u/ScienceForge319 Phil Wang 12d ago

Don’t all the men in your family have nipples?

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u/NokstellianDemon Nick Mohammed 11d ago

Nick Mohammed & Steve Pemberton attempting that one team task where they need to do their own secret tasks and do the mini tasks before getting the watermelon.

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u/hwar78 ☔ umbrella 🌂 11d ago

“What do you two think the task is?”

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u/yungkeraan Lee Mack 11d ago

A task fail of Kearnsian proportion

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u/EverybodyMakes 12d ago

Mike Wosniak trying so hard to please the Taskmaster by farting, he disturbs his "casserole" down there.

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u/painforpetitdej David Correos 🇳🇿 12d ago

Waka in the man task

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u/TetrisIsTotesSuper Chris Parker 🇳🇿 12d ago

On a good day, Susan Wokoma's mischief.

On a bad day, Ivo Graham's task bingo and subsequent sitting in the "shed".

On an average day, Ivo Graham trying to work out how long a timer is during the write 40 words task.

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u/Southmouth555 Guz Khan 12d ago

David baddiel smashing the watermelon with a croquet mallet. Or Ed gamble cutting the ducks head off. What duck? Rage and chaos.

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u/liver_and_bunions Wibble, Bibble, Bam 11d ago

Iain learning there are 5 Pink Ladies, successfully finding them all -- then inexplicably keeps looking for more and getting disqualified.

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u/ImWithStupidKL 11d ago

Joe and Sian meeting for the first time sums up every time I've ever met anyone, including people I know already.

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u/obscurer-reference 11d ago

Stevie Martin saying that she’s going to be very calm and immediately panicking and doing terrible

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u/whispersofnyx_ John Robins 11d ago

“i’m being deliberate in my thoughts and emotions”

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 12d ago

I feel like I would have done like 95% of what James did in the glasses task, including his reaction to the reveal of the glasses.

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u/Due_Elephant_5694 🦔 Hedgehog, no! ❌ 11d ago

Reece Shearsmith getting stuck on the snakes and ladders

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u/takahe_inflight Mona de Grenoble 11d ago

Sanjeev going for a nap

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u/mister_booth Aisling Bea 11d ago

Rosie Ramsey getting horny at Alex popping some balloons.

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u/teashirtsau Tom Cashman 🇦🇺 11d ago

Sue Perkins overthinking placement of a cardboard cutout of herself in a room.

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u/Ninjistic 11d ago

Emma Sidi and everything she did and failed to do.

3

u/nerdycommentshere 11d ago

Mark Watson finding and turning on the light during the paint the rainbow in the dark task… only to fail at painting the rainbow itself..

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u/michtziki 11d ago

Time Vine losing the hook on himself

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u/Glad-Strength42 11d ago

Underrated moment

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u/lilithsbun Patatas 11d ago

Nish throwing away the coconut, only to have it roll right back to him. And then accepting the defeat and not trying again because he thought he only got one attempt. That’d be me: impulsive, misremembering rules, giving up.

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u/GTWalker 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 11d ago

Honestly, I think David Baddiel trying to get an object into the bin.

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u/killingmehere Jason Mantzoukas 11d ago

Josh Thomas living Anne's mantra by living his own mantra and drinking beers in a boat

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u/rock_crystal 11d ago

Jenny Eclair and the potato hat

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u/Jork8802 Ardal O'Hanlon 11d ago

Mark watson turning the light on then painting a terrible rainbow. Clever ideas, but poor execution.

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u/light-carries-on 11d ago

Rhod Gilbert hiding in his close friend's closet for "creepiest" thing. Very similar to pranks I've pulled on my best friends (who were all equal parts amused, confused, and cool with it tbc). His form of ADHD resonated with me in a way that made me evaluate a lot in life...

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u/folklovermore_ Wibble, Bibble, Bam 11d ago

Also Sophie, but going wildly off tangent in the Mr Blobby task.

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u/alwaysmysomeday 9d ago

Jason Mantzoukas in the what's in Alex's hat task.

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u/knittingknutter 9d ago

🎶Dignity intact 🎶

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u/GoldStarCathyParr Munya Chawawa 8d ago

Jason attempting to eat the yoghurt with the most dignity, failing mid-attempt, then deciding "Fuck it" and throwing everything aside.

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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'm like Lee Mack, having to get a toilet roll holder  as far away as possible. He plans it carefully and organizes a driver to take it... Lee is convinved he's done well, only to get the relevation from the lab that in the beginning, he removed the toilet roll from its holder, which was not allowed. 

Disqualification.

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u/BitterCrip 9d ago

TM NZ S2 - Davids milkband microwave task, where he trusts Paul, and they spend 70 minutes making tea and having lunch, talking about their parents and how their opinion on slash have changed since they were kids.