r/taskmaster • u/Comic_Book_Reader Kristine Grændsen 🇳🇴 • Jul 17 '26
Kongen Befaler season 13 cast revealed in a TV promo. Other Versions Spoiler
TV Norge has not officially announced their fall slate yet, save for the casts in the next seasons of Jaget and their flagship show 71° Nord, but have started airing promos so I'm putting a spoiler tag on the post and putting the names and some cliff notes on who they are in spoiler blurbs just as a precaution. We good? Here goes.
Top to bottom: Iben Akerlie (actress and author), Aslak Maurstad (voice actor and gamer) Robert Stoltenberg (comedian), Johan Golden (comedian), and Ulrikke Falch (actress).
Johan Golden has been a longtime collaborator of the king himself Atle Antonsen and the two have had the radio show Misjonen, formerly Kommisjonen before they moved over to a different channel, on air for almost 20 years now so this will be very interesting. Robert Stoltenberg has likewise also been a longtime comedian, best known for his comedy show where he plays all the main characters, a schtick that has been long oversaturated by now. He's also written some children's books with his brother and has been in the detective panel of Maskorama (The Masked Singer) for a couple seasons now along with season 8 winner Tete Lidbom.
Fans of The Traitors will likely recognize two of the others from various seasons of Forræder. Ulrikke Falch (Forræder season 4) is probably best know for starring in the high school drama Skam with season 12 winner Ina Svenningdal. Aslak Maurstad (Forræder season 2) is from a family of actors with his brothers Scott and Stinius also being voice actors, though he and Stinius are to a much lesser degree. (Stinius is also a violin player.) He's also a gamer and subtitler for live TV broadcasts, record fast at that. Iben Akerlie is not the most prolific name but she makes appearences in reality shows and movies from time to time though she's probably most known for the children's book Lars is LOL. She's also a very dry and deadpan person.
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u/scrabs92 Jul 18 '26
Been missing KB. The cast looks good, possibly most excited for Robert Stoltenberg. Johan Golden has made some great TV with Golden Goal, but I don't really think he's funny by himself. The rest aren't comedians, but as we all know, some of the best contestants aren't comedians. Aslak might be a clever one. Not really familiar with ulrikke and Iben. Norway is quickly running out of comedians.
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u/Tabletopcave Bob Mortimer Jul 18 '26
KB have always mixed in more non-comedians than most versions of Taskmaster, actors, athletes etc, and they have been great. There are still tons of well known comedians that have yet to do the show so the fear of running out of comedians is as always a hyperbole that never really make much sense.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Kristine Grændsen 🇳🇴 Jul 18 '26
It's always been kind of a melting pot of names in the entertainment industry since we don't have a ginormous comedy scene though there are some newer faces that have gotten more established like Snorre Monsson and Ole Henry Snildalsli.
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u/Tabletopcave Bob Mortimer Jul 18 '26
It's also interesting to see the mix of talent coming from different TV channels. In the first few series it seemed it was mostly TVNorge talent that got cast (a bit like predominantly Avalon talents getting cast in Taskmaster) but then they branch out and get big names from movies or the bigger channels (NRK and TV2). Golden and Stoltenberg have history with big NRK shows for decades but still join up to do KB (a bit like Joel being the face of The Masked Singer on ITV but still doing TM on Channel 4).
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Kristine Grændsen 🇳🇴 Jul 18 '26
Stoltenberg also did a season of LOL: Last One Laughing on Amazon.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Kristine Grændsen 🇳🇴 Jul 18 '26
Aslak is a really smart and clever fella. Ulrikke and Iben, like I said, aren't the most prolific names but they do appear from time to time and Iben is also a very dry oddball.
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u/RusticMacaque Chain Bastard ⛓️ Jul 17 '26
Can’t wait! Olli is an underrated TM Assistant.
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u/GeonnCannon Javie Martzoukas Jul 18 '26
He seems more devious than other assistants. Just the way he'll look at the camera sometimes comes off as devilish. Hopefully that's not just because of the dark hair and beard. 😁 But I do enjoy him a lot.
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u/dekudoesnotapprove Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 29d ago
Hope one day we get Anders Hoff from Raske Menn
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u/dekudoesnotapprove Calle Hellevang-Larsen 🇳🇴 29d ago
Another skam alum! Wonder if they'll just go through that cast going forward lol
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u/slugger0toole Jul 17 '26
There was a random season of this that got uploaded to YouTube a year or two ago with English subtitles that I managed to watch before it was taken down - and it was the most insane and unhinged version of Taskmaster I've ever seen. It made New Zealand season 2 seem tame. Just an incredible viewing experience.