What’s the key to the success of the TV show Taskmaster? Is it the batty challenges devised by its creator “Little” Alex Horne? Or is it the pleasure of watching half a dozen top comedians struggle with them? Judging by the centrality of Taskmaster to current live comedy (UK tours are now routinely booked off the back of an appearance on the show), the latter is not insignificant. But Taskmaster: the Live Experience is banking on the former.
In a repurposed warehouse in Canada Water, London, the show’s world has been recreated so you too can be involved – undertaking a series of gimcrack tasks, in contest against friends or strangers, with not a professional joker in sight. (Well, OK, a few were in sight at the launch event, hitting the free bar. But I don’t think they’re a fixture.)
