Matt Lucas cuts Greg Davies down to screen size on Taskmaster

Pendleton Ward animates the contestants' dilemmas, while Alex Horne turns a lime task into a breach of trust.

Channel: Taskmaster Story of October 31, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 405,758 views.

Taskmaster Season 22, Episode 9 - 'A very televisual torso.' | Full Episode

Greg Davies is too tall for the screen, and Matt Lucas has an animated solution: remove the bits that don't fit. The resulting cartoon supplies the title of Taskmaster's penultimate episode, "A very televisual torso." Davies's authority survives the edit, even if his cartoon limbs don't.

The episode has drawn about 406,000 views since yesterday. Its first-day comment section was five times busier than usual, with viewers discussing a disguised citrus fruit, Richard Ayoade's increasingly competitive approach and a notable name behind the animation.

That name is Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time. Alex Horne gives the contestants half an hour to storyboard and voice a dilemma, with Ward helping bring their ideas to life. Chloe Petts supplies a biscuit factory and referee Howard Webb; Nina Conti imagines Horne running out of task ideas and needing a replacement brain. Ayoade considers shoes and altruism, while Isy Suttie insists on setting her dungeon escape in 1991.

Horne's own contribution to the day's moral dilemmas comes later. A task asks contestants to transfer a lime from a water-filled vase into an egg cup without spilling too much. Lucas spots an alternative fruit overhead, but Horne has painted a lemon green. "You've broken the social contract, Alex," Ayoade tells him.

The sandcastle challenge offers another opportunity to question the assignment. Contestants must copy a castle they can inspect only while holding a lit match, with extra chores required before they can light one. Ayoade's eventual use of a bucket is a particular talking point among viewers.

Even the prize task produces a dispute worth having: Petts brings what she calls the rarest thing, "a home printer that works." Ayoade points out that it's currently an office printer. Petts's answer is practical: "When you take it home, Richard."

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The numbers

The full episode drew a substantial audience, while its first-day comments stood out more sharply against the channel's usual response.

subscribers

2,380,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,828,228,818

views per day

3,658,196

typical day: 2,859,999

the video

views

608,145

likes

12,727

comments

1,152

days online

2

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