Tim Key is an English actor, writer and performance poet. He won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009. He is best known for his stand-up and regularly has shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He took part in the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show The Taskmaster, and the 2011 the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Taskmaster II.
In 2015, Key appeared on Series 1 of Taskmaster, finishing in fourth place with 88 points. He was the guest on episodes 14, 73 and 94 of Taskmaster The Podcast and episode 24 of Taskmaster: The People's Podcast.
Since series one, Key has worked with Alex Horne as a Task Consultant.
Performance[]
| Task | Description | Tim Key | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: Melon buffet. (28 July 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most unusual item. | 5 | ||||
| 2 | In the lab, there is a watermelon. Eat as much watermelon as possible. | 4 | ||||
| 3 | Paint the best picture of a horse whilst riding a horse. | 2 | ||||
| 4 | Completely empty this bathtub. You must not remove the plug, tip or damage the bath. | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Live: Pop up a tent. Get in the tent. Zip up the tent. Pop on a onesie in the tent. And emerge from the tent wearing the onesie. | 5 | ||||
| Total | 17 | |||||
| Episode 2: The pie whisperer. (4 August 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most impressive item. | 5 | ||||
| 2 | High-five a 55-year-old. | 3 | ||||
| 3 | Identify the contents of these pies. You may touch the pies, but may not breach their pastry. | 5 | ||||
| 4 | Do something that will look impressive in reverse. The Taskmaster will see whatever act you perform played backwards. You must therefore do something backwards that will look impressive when the footage is played in reverse. | 3 | ||||
| 5 | Live: Crack the code, unshackle yourself and sprint 1 metre. | 2 | ||||
| Total | 18 | |||||
| Episode 3: The poet and the egg. (11 August 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most meaningful item | 3 | ||||
| 2 | Throw a teabag into a mug from the farthest distance. | 5 | ||||
| 3 | Using this device to track your route, create the best image for the Taskmaster. Pop a balloon to signal you have finished your image. | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Buy the best present for the Taskmaster. Here is £20. | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Using only the items currently on this table, get this egg as high as possible. The egg must not break. | 0 | ||||
| 6 | Live: Stand up after 100 seconds. | 4 | ||||
| Total | 16 | |||||
| Episode 4: Down an octave. (18 August 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most beautiful item. | 5 | ||||
| 2 | Make this ice block disappear as fast as possible. | 1 | ||||
| 3 | Team: Get to 11 points as fast as possible. | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Fill an egg cup with as many tears as possible. | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Live: Memorise the names of an Australian rules football team. | 1 | ||||
| Total | 9 | |||||
| Episode 5: Little denim shorts. (25 August 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most valuable item. | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Get this boulder as far from this place as possible. | 3 | ||||
| 3 | Grow the longest nail. | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Team: Make this bed to a hotel standard whilst holding hands. Your time ends when you get in the bed. Hold hands now. | 2 | ||||
| 5 | Make this Swedish person blush as deeply as possible. | 2 | ||||
| 6 | Live: Blow up the biggest balloon whilst blindfolded. | DQ | ||||
| Total | 10 | |||||
| Episode 6: The last supper. (1 September 2015) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most satisfying item. | 5 | ||||
| 2 | Get the lowest golf score using eggs. You must complete the 5 holes using chicken eggs. You score will be calculated as follows: Shots x eggs x minutes. | 3 | ||||
| 3 | Team: Stage a realistic blooper from a home movie. | 2 | ||||
| 4 | Make the best meal for the Taskmaster using ingredients beginning with every letter of the alphabet. | 3 | ||||
| 5 | Live: Wearing boxing gloves, put the blue sweets in the empty bowl. Non-blue sweets will be subtracted from your total. | 5 | ||||
| Total | 18 | |||||
| Grand Total | 88 | |||||
Trivia[]
- In his series, Tim was the only contestant to win a task every single episode.
- Despite coming in fourth, Tim won the most amount of tasks alongside Josh Widdicombe, with 10 in total.
- Tim won the very first prize task and first live task.
- Tim is one of the few contestants to make a cameo in the show after they appeared. He appeared in the Series 4 episode Tony Three Pies., as part of Noel Fielding's attempt at the task "Do something surprising with this rubber duck", where he played the celebrant at Noel's wedding to the duck.
Video[]
Alex Horne Interviews the Series 1 Contestants (And Himself) - Taskmaster
Tim Key's Best Taskmaster Moments
