Taskmaster Champions: Here are all 16 previous season winners of the Alex Horne and Greg Davies game show - from Josh Widdicombe to Dara Ó Briain
Presented by Greg Davies and Alex Horne (who also created the programme, originally as a show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), the first series of Taskmaster was broadcast in 2014 on comedy channel Dave, before expanding its audience after being poached by Channel 4 in 2020.
Since then there have been 16 full series, along with three Champion of Champions shows (won by Josh Widdicombe, Richard Herring, and Dara Ó Briain) and four single-episode New Year Treats (won by Shirley Ballas, Adrain Chiles, Sir Mo Farah and Lenny Rush).
Later this year five more celebs – John Robins, Nick Mohammed, Joanne McNally, Sophie Willan and Steve Pemberton – will start their quest become the 17th person to raise aloft the gold Taskmaster’s head trophy.
Here are the first 16.
1. Josh Widdicombe
Josh Widdicombe was the inaugural Taskmaster champion with a total of 94 points. He ended up just one point ahead of Frank Skinner and Romesh Ranganathan in joint second place. Photo: Tim P. Whitby
2. Katherine Ryan
Season 2 champ was Katherine Ryan. She finished four points clear of Jon Richardson. Photo: John Phillips
3. Rob Beckett
Season 3 wasn't such a close contest. Rob Beckett was victorious on 87 points - six clear of Dave Gorman. Photo: Alex Livesey
4. Noel Fielding
It was an easy win for Noel Fielding in series 4 too - a full 9 points clear of second placed Joe Lycett. Photo: Eamonn M. McCormack