Greg Davies and Alex Horne.
Photo: Taskmaster
If you’re an American Taskmaster fan who watches the five competitors on the British comedy series struggle onstage to come up with a steady stream of five-letter words, humanize drawings of sausages with their own doodles, or pop balloons with darts — no, not that balloon, the other balloon — and think you can do better, your time has come. The increasingly inescapable panel show with a cultlike following (guilty) is traveling to the U.S. in January 2026 for a tour, during which audience members can prostrate themselves before Taskmaster Greg Davies and his loyal assistant, Alex Horne (the series’ creator), as one of the evening’s five competitors.
Taskmaster has traveled to the U.S. before, most recently in January 2025 to promote the premiere of the series’ 19th season, which featured American comedian Jason Mantzoukas. This tour will hit not just New York City on January 22 and 23 but also Chicago on January 15, Boston on January 17, Philadelphia on January 19, and Washington, D.C., on January 21. Each tour date will feature different celebrity guests as well as having space available for attendees to compete. There will also be stage tasks designed by Horne for the whole audience, a Q&A session with Davies and Horne, and behind-the-scenes footage of the series.
Tickets go on sale on December 9 with a presale for mailing-list members on December 8. The next season of Taskmaster, season 21, has already been filmed. The fourth Champion of Champions IV episode featuring season-20 winner Maisie Adam premieres on YouTube on December 22, and two Taskmaster’s New Year Treat episodes will air on January 2 and 3. If you win the bust of the Taskmaster’s head, start thinking about where you want to store it — perhaps, like season-seven winner Kerry Godliman, in a dusty corner of your garage?
