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Start practicing the silliest way you can say “little Alex Horne,” because Taskmaster is coming back.
The series’ 22nd season premieres on September 3 in the U.K. and worldwide on the Taskmaster YouTube channel with episodes dropping each week at 5 p.m. Eastern. This season’s five contestants include the long-clamored-for Richard Ayoade (who’s on a bit of a recent tear, between nearly winning the first season of Last One Laughing and being booked for the upcoming sixth season of Only Murders in the Building), Matt Lucas (who hopefully won’t do the same punny schtick he did on The Great British Bake Off), Edinburgh Fringe mainstay Chloe Petts, comedian and writer Isy Suttie, and actor and ventriloquist Nina Conti.
Petts, Suttie, and Conti might be less well known to outside-the-U.K. audiences than Ayoade and Lucas, but we live in a time when getting acquainted with British comedians is easier than ever. Thank you, internet! Episodes of Petts’s soccer/comedy-mashup series, Comedians Taking Penalties with Chloe Petts, are available on YouTube. Early in her career, Suttie starred alongside Ludwig’s David Mitchell in the sitcom Peep Show; the series is streaming on Hulu and BritBox. And all episodes of Conti’s web series, Nina Conti, in Therapy, and her Live at the Apollo human-ventriloquism act, are on YouTube.
Who will please Taskmaster Greg Davies the most? (And who is the mysterious Oscar winner who’s already filmed a season of the show?) Only time will tell. According to the press release announcing this season, the contestants will have to “crawl through secret tunnels, look for faces on toast, go on holiday with shoes and make interesting use of their armpits.” Best of luck to them and whoever has to clean the Taskmaster house after that armpit challenge.
If you want more Taskmaster, check out this “Good One” episode with creators Greg Davies and Alex Horne.
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