The Taskmaster Tom Gleeson and his loyal assistant Tom Cashman are back; the new set of comedians Anisa Nandaula, Brett Blake, Celia Pacquola, Joel Creasey and Rove McManus are tested on their wit, wisdom, and willingness to look a little silly.

In this episode of Taskmaster Australia, the prize task sees attempts at trying to conceal the best thing in their mouth. The comedians debut their teams, and who will bring an Olympic level of cringe to the "be cringe" task.

This week's prize task has the comedians asking themselves what is the best thing that money can’t buy? Then, they come up against a dog they must call over, and attempt the most elegant “shoey.”

Brett Blake is driven to destruction by a task featuring roman numerals, the teams are back with their best reality shows and things get precarious with some dangling of precious items.

The comedians use music to direct Tom to a cushion in a grandstand. Some powerful slow zooms are revealed and Tom ends up in the lake when the contestants have to build the sturdiest boat and then sink it.

Many items are carried at speed, Then, who will forfeit the task and leave Tom trapped in a box? And things get tense in the pikelet tossing live task

A task with clocks has our contestants going cuckoo, the teams are back with a monument to the Taskmaster and a secret task. And we're back at the racecourse with some genre defying short films.

This week Tom Cashman is disturbed and then cheered on in a race against himself. Then the best catch with a pair of tongs proves to be quite difficult for some and incredible for others.

In the penultimate episode, Joel really needs a win, the comedians are fooled and then have to retrace their steps and Celia attempts to drug the Taskmaster.

It's the final episode; blindfolded comedians stumble around in the last team task, Brett finally gets to use explosives, and we find out who the winner of Season 5 is.