The Best and Worst Winners of ‘Taskmaster’

Any Taskmaster fan will tell you that the sixth season was kind of a struggle. Tarbuck was the least bad of the bunch.

Katherine Ryan has moxie–I’ll give her that. Ultimately, her style of comedy isn’t my cup of tea, but the accent really didn’t help.

Bob Mortimer would go on to win the first-ever Champion of Champions showdown, but for me, he still ranks near the bottom of the pack.

On rewatching the eighth season of Taskmaster, I found Lou Sanders to be really annoying. But not as annoying as Iain Stirling...

Sarah Kendall–aka Picnic Girl–would have been a fine winner on any other season. Kendall’s approach to Taskmaster was… to do the tasks. Which isn’t wrong, but it’s also not that funny.

Rob Beckett later mentioned that he’d just had a baby before filming the tasks, which might explain his deeply unhinged approach to the competition .He deserved to win–but more than that, Al Murray deserved to lose.

Sarah Kendall–aka Picnic Girl–would have been a fine winner on any other season. Kendall’s approach to Taskmaster was… to do the tasks. Which isn’t wrong, but it’s also not that funny.