Taskmaster (Greg Davies sets some comedians daft challenges!)

Back on May 1st for Series 19!

Looking forward to this season.

No matter what show I seen her on, she's always unfunny. Drab without any humour.

I've barely seen her on anything, maybe a clip or two from Outsiders, but isn't the whole "geezer" side of things not the same as the likes of Guz Khan & Jamali Maddox (and a few others like Big Zuu) in that a lot of Muslim youth from London just really do talk like that? Or does she just really lean into it on purpose?

how funny someone is outside of taskmaster doesn’t always equate to how they are on the show. Jamali was one of the worst contestants ever on it IMO

Happy to wait and see what this cast is like on the show too

I’m happy to wait and see, nearly every season there’s been someone who made my heart sink on announcement that was at worst fine and in some cases quite good.
the format sometimes works for people that on a normal panel show might not

I enjoyed it, some good laughs in there. Love Mathew and Jason, not a great fan of Fatiha and I don’t know Stevie at all but I thought they were all good in fairness. I didn’t mind that Fatiha didn’t do the stage task, it went with her personality really.

Very fun first episode.

Jason I knew would be good value, Stevie I didn't know at all but excellent. Rosie was fine, Fatiha meh, but the MVP was Matthew.

It helps when tasks are good! The in studio one was great.

Only two I've heard of before are Jason and Fatiha. That said the others were pretty good and love Rosie's accent.

Brilliant first episode, one of the strongest openers in years with some really good tasks.

Unfortunately Fatiha is so far living up to my expectations of just 'not being bovvered bruv'. Hopefully she improves.

Am loving the other four too. Wasn't sure how good Rosie would be but really enjoyed her first outing.

Roll on the rest of the series.

That live commentary task was awful but that's more to do with the task than the contestants

I didn't mind the live task too much, mostly because it was saved by Jason's issues with the safe. I get why they had to do the swapping part as someone might have been able to figure out (or to a relatively close degree) what you'd have to do, but as can often happen with some of the additional caveats they add to tasks, that can stifle creativity and foresight.

The rest of the episode was good though. They're a great bunch this year, I don't think there are any real weak links. Thought Jason would have fought harder on the commentary task to try justify that it was Alex's fault he couldn't do his RTT and therefore he shouldn't be punished for it, but I don't think it would have mattered much. The attempt itself and crew dressing as him was great. Even Rosie's maths bit was a bit off, but then just randomly vomiting was something I really didn't expect from her. Stevie setting the bucket on fire during the liquids task was amazing too.

That makes sense for previous in studio task but not this one...she had to pop balloons and put them in some tubing not exactly a physical impossibility for her. I am not finding her entertaining at all it seems like the same schtick all the time, the others are very good fun Matthew Baynton is stand out for me so far closely followed by Jason, Stevie is also really fun, Rosie is grand.