Worst Taskmaster Contestants: These are the 10 lowest scoring Taskmaster contestants of all time
Series 16 of the show that sees comedians challenged to complete a host of strange tasks is about to get underway – but will any of them 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 15 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 75 celebrities who have appeared on the 15 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 16 contestants after the final episode has aired.
So, here are – currently – the worst 14 Taskmasters of all time.
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.
9. Charlotte Ritchie
Ghosts actress Charlotte Ritchie appeared in series 11. She came in last with a 50.61 strike rate meaning she scored a total of 125 points, 12 worse than fourth placed Jamali Maddix. Photo: John Phillips
10. Paul Sinha
The Chase quiz king Paul Sinha converted 51.13 per cent of his points chances in series eight. It put him on 136 points - 28 behind winner Lou Saunders. Photo: Tristan Fewings
11. Doc Brown
Completing our list is Doc Brown, also kown as Ben Bailey Smith, who is the only one not to have come bottom of his series. His hit rate of 51.32 per cent put him in fourth place in series two - beating Joe Wilkinson by nine points. Photo: Alex Davidson