Three of the worst contestants in Taskmaster history.Three of the worst contestants in Taskmaster history.
Three of the worst contestants in Taskmaster history.

Worst Taskmaster Contestants Ever: These are the 10 lowest scoring Taskmaster contestants of all time - including Victoria Coren Mitchell

Series 18 of the show that sees comedians challenged to complete a host of strange tasks is about to get underway – but will any of the five new faces join the ranks of the all-time worst contestants?

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.

Along with the 17 series proper, there have also been special one-off ‘Champion of Champion’ and ‘New Year Treat’ programmes, comprising one or two episodes.

The show sees (mainly) comedians take part in a range of challenges which are then marked by the hosts, usually (but not always) winning a maximum of five points per task.

In order to judge which Taskmaster alumini have been least successful, and to take into account the often convoluted rules, we’ve taken the maximum amount of points available in each series and worked out what percentage each contestant has won – so if there were 20 points available in an episode and a contestant won 10 points, they would have a 50 per cent success rate.

For the purposes of this list we have restricted it to the 85 celebrities who have appeared on the 17 completed full series of the show – one-off special episodes don’t count.

We will update it (if anybody is bad enough) with the series 18 contestants after the final episode has aired.

So, here are – currently – the worst 14 Taskmasters of all time.

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