Taskmaster review – panel game that celebrates the bizarre and the mediocre

Comedians including Asim Chaudhry, Liza Tarbuck and Tim Vine throw themselves into Greg Davies’s allocated tasks with unabashed if resigned abandonTaskmaster is back for a sixth season. “We’re going to begin with the Prize Task, pause in case of a cheer … OK, so our new gang ...” begins Alex Horne. No cheer, but a laugh from the studio audience, at a gag that is self-aware and a little bit meta. It’s also quite good one, which is why they’re laughing.Al