Kumail Nanjiani to star on next season of U.K. panel show...

What’s Happening

So get this: Nanjiani will star on the panel shows 21st season with Amy Gledhill, Joel Dommett, Joanna Page, and Armando Iannucci.

Kumail Nanjiani to star on next season of U. Panel show fave Taskmaster Nanjiani will star on the panel show’s 21st season with Amy Gledhill, Joel Dommett, Joanna Page, and Armando Iannucci. (plot twist fr)

William Hughes — By William Hughes | | 7:03pm Kumail Nanjiani on Taskmaster, Screenshot: YouTube TV News Kumail Nanjiani Copy to clipboard × Copy Link Copy Link — Facebook X Reddit Bluesky Email 0 Having apparently gotten a taste for Los Angeles-based comedians with last years inclusion of Jason Mantzoukas on its roster , British panel show Taskmaster has now reportedly cast comic/actor/ reformed Kingo Kumail Nanjiani for its upcoming 21st season.

The Details

Nanjiani (whos fresh off a two-episode stint on Prime Videos Fallout TV show ) will appear on the season with a pretty stacked cast of talent, too: His fellow contestants, per Radio Times , will be comedian Amy Gledhill, TV presenter Joel Dommett, Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page, and, perhaps oddest of all, Armando Iannucci, the legendary Scottish comedy writer and director best known, Stateside, for creating Veep . (But who will always, in our mean little hearts, be the guy who brought us Malcolm Tucker and The Thick Of It.

) Among other things, that means this is the first Taskmaster season to feature not just one, but two Oscar nominees, with Iannucci and Nanjiani having both scored nods for their writing work on In The Loop and The Big Sick , respectively. None of which will presumably help them in preserving their dignity as they run through the tasks set for them /lackey Alex Horne, all to be judged himself, comedian Greg Davies.

Why This Matters

Part prank show, part panel show, and part high-impact lateral thinking challenge, Taskmaster has become a British (and Australian, and New Zealand) institution into the belief that if you put funny people in extreme circumstances, and then dangle a bunch of ultimately meaningless points over their head, something pretty funny is bound to happen.

The entertainment world moves fast, and this is a prime example.