Richard Osman is an English television presenter, director, producer and author. He is best known for creating and co-presenting BBC One quiz show Pointless, and for presenting Two Tribes and Richard Osman's House of Games. He is also the author of mystery novel The Thursday Murder Club.
In 2016, Osman appeared in Series 2 of Taskmaster, finishing third with 86 points. He was the guest on episodes 8 and 23 of Taskmaster The Podcast.
Osman made a cameo appearance during Series 7 episode Lotta soup. during the Most Spectacular Task Delivery task.
Performance[]
| Task | Description | Richard Osman |
|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: Fear of failure. (21 June 2016) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Most important document. | 2 |
| 2 | Place these three exercise balls on the yoga mat on the top of that hill. The task is complete when all three balls sit fully inflated and stationary on the mat. | 5 |
| 3 | Get this potato into the golf hole. You may not touch the red green. | 4 |
| 4 | Find out the following information from this Swedish person. The Swedish person may not speak or write in English. | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Pack for your holiday. All items must either be packed in your hand luggage or worn on your body. | 5 |
| Total | 20 | |
| Episode 2: Pork is a sausage. (28 June 2016) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Trendiest item of clothing. | 1 |
| 2 | Eat me (an egg). Fastest wins. | 5 |
| 3 | Make the best music video for a nursery rhyme. | 3 |
| 4 | Using this camera, take a picture of an inanimate object that looks like you. | 5 |
| 5 | Order the following pizza for the Taskmaster: Extra large vegetarian pizza with pepperoni and bacon, and without tomato and cheese. You may not use the following words: EXTRA, LARGE, VEGETARIAN, PIZZA, PEPPERONI, BACON, TOMATO, CHEESE | 1 |
| Bonus: Make the pizza person say the word "bubbles". | 0 | |
| 6 | Live: Using these big chopsticks, get these potatoes into your basket. You must only hold the big chopsticks on the grips provided. The big chopsticks alone may touch the potatoes in turn. Whoever has the most potatoes. | DQ |
| Total | 15 | |
| Episode 3: A pistachio eclair. (5 July 2016) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best dinner party guest. | 2 |
| 2 | Impress this mayor. | 4 |
| 3 | Make the most unexpected silhouette on this screen. | 4 |
| 4 | Buy a gift for the Taskmaster. | 5 |
| 5 | Team: Retrieve a potato between various teammates who between them cannot see, hear or speak. | 5 |
| 6 | Live: Throw the rabbits into your hat. | 7 |
| Total | 27 | |
| Episode 4: Welcome to Rico Face. (12 July 2016) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Coolest blue thing. | 1 |
| 2 | Rescue the cat. | 0 |
| 3 | Conceal this pineapple on your person. No part of the pineapple may be thrown away. | 3 |
| 4 | Set a fun task. Your task must take no more than one minute. | 0 |
| 5 | Team: Using only the items on the rug, construct the best thing for the Taskmaster. | 1 |
| 6 | Live: Create the highest tower using only these potato-based items. Your potato tower must be self-standing. Your potato tower must be built on the table. Your potato tower will be measured from the tabletop to the highest potato point. | 0 |
| Total | 5 | |
| Episode 5: There's strength in arches. (19 July 2016) | ||
| 1 | Prize: Best piece of memorabilia. | 5 |
| 2 | Get all this shopping into the shopping trolley. | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Make the best stop-motion film starring this potato. | 3 |
| 4 | Make a bridge over the river using only items on this table. Highest self-supporting bridge wins. The bridge alone must support the potato. You must not touch the Taskmaster's house. | 2 |
| 5 | Live: Put on a pair of food handling gloves, eat a whole banana correctly, put on a tie, and clap as many times as possible. | 5 |
| Total | 19 | |
| Grand Total | 86 | |
Trivia[]
- Richard is one of the few contestants to make a cameo in the show after they appeared. He appeared in the Series 7 episode Lotta soup., as part of James Acaster's attempt at the task "Deliver this task to Alex in the most spectacular way", delivering the task after James had set off fieworks.
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