36 Times "Taskmaster" Made Me Laugh So, So, So, So, So Freaking Hard

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"Please don't take it away from me."

Taskmaster, probably the funniest thing on television, is a British game show/panel show where comedians* complete outlandish tasks and then get judged for the way they do it. I love this program more than I love my sister.

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*Mostly comedians.

Here are just a few of the show's best moments.

2. When the task was to get a stuffed camel "through the smallest gap," and Mel Giedroyc nailed it.

Mel Giedroyc says, "Get THIS camel, get this camel, GET this camel through the small, GET this camel through the smallest gap," and then she runs the camel through a Gap Kids slash Baby Gap

4. When Mark Watson, and only Mark Watson, had to do a task that involved months of dedication.

Mark Watson reads the task, Send the Taskmaster an anonymous cheeky text message every single day for the next five months, and then Greg reads, Hey, sexy, this is the first of 150 messages; you're in for a treat, and then Greg says, 12, I have a big dick

6. When Romesh Ranganathan did something that would look impressive in reverse. (All of the following is sung.)

Over footage of what he's singing, Romesh Ranganathan sings, "Tree Wizard, hands together, he creates a balloon, Tree Wizard, its another balloon, Tree Wizard, holy shit, another balloon, Tree Wizard, flies up to his tree and waves goodbye to you"

8. When Jessica Knappett asked a very important question.

Jessica Knappett says, "How much does water weigh?"

10. When Joe Lycett, and only Joe Lycett, had to "smile at the camera with increasing enthusiasm every 30 seconds" during a task.

Joe Lycett smiling at the camera three times

12. When Daisy May Cooper got so furious at Richard Herring for not guessing her drawing was a hippo.

Daisy May Cooper yells, "ONLY ELEPHANTS AND HIPPOS HAVE THAT KIND OF TAIL"

14. When Doc Brown wasn't an egg man.

Doc Brown tries to open an egg with his mouth and then says, "Not an egg man," and Greg says, "Do you know how I knew that you weren't an egg man? Because you opted to break into an egg with your mouth"

16. When a task involved keeping yourself from being seen by Alex, and Lou Sanders put herself in a bin.

Lou Sanders is inside a bin, and she says, "Will he notice me if I'm a bin," and then she runs

19. When everyone was supposed to bring in the best bag, and Rose Matafeo really did.

Rose Matafeo says, "I made a bag, crocheted a little bag, and it's the best bag cause I wrote best on it; took me a while; do you know how many social engagements I had to deny to make that bag? None"

21. When Josh Widdicombe, and only Josh Widdicombe, had to do some very tedious tasks.

Josh Widdicombe gets the tasks, "Count the beans in a baked bean tin; your time starts now; count the hoops in this tin of spaghetti hoops, and count the grains of rice in this bag of rice; your time starts now"

23. When David Baddiel had to hide three aubergines/eggplants.

The aubergine is obviously taped on top of a nose in a painting, Alex points at it, and it falls down

25. When Lolly Adefope put the words "friendship is truth" into a scene she created for a task.

Greg says, "What do you mean friendship is truth," and Lolly Adefope says, "Um, sort of, friendship is truth; truth is friendship"

27. And when Katherine Parkinson bagged herself like a Christmas tree.

Katherine Parkinson puts herself though a Christmas tree wrapping machine

30. When Rob Beckett created this "flag meal."

Rob Beckett says, "Hello, got your flag dinner, konnichiwa," and we see his meal is a cracker in the middle of a piece of paper, meant to look like the Japanese flag

31. And Paul Chowdhry created this one.

Alex says, "It's meant to feature an eagle holding a serpent in its talon, perched on top of a prickly pear cactus," and Greg says, "And what did you use to represent that," to Paul Chowdhry, and we look at his very inaccurate Mexican flag

33. When Liza Tarbuck made Alex sit on a cake.

Liza Tarbuck says, "What I need is a cake and then I'm going to ask you to take yourself somewhere private, and put your bare ass into it," and we see Alex's uncomfortable face while doing it, and then he says, "It was so in me"

35. When Noel Fielding interpreted the task, "Camouflage yourself."

A caravan with no clear Noel, and then Greg says, "Okay, I don't know, I don't know where Noel is," and Alex says, "Let's have a look at where Noel is," and we see Noel Fielding has been photoshopped into a fruit bowl and everyone laughs

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