{"id":84477,"date":"2025-08-22T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84477\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:24:11","slug":"prime-videos-beloved-taskmaster-packed-series-that-broke-records-confirms-new-cast-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84477\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video’s beloved Taskmaster-packed series that ‘broke records’ confirms new cast for season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Video<\/a>‘s comedy series LOL: Last One Laughing UK has announced its cast for season 2, and you’ll recognise a few faces from Taskmaster.<\/p>\n

The UK version of the laugh-filled show will return for a second chapter, with Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty on hosting duties, as well as a brand new bunch of contestants trying their hardest not to burst into laughter.<\/p>\n

Season 2 is set to star Taskmaster season 2 runner-up Romesh Ranganathan, season 4’s Mel Giedroyc, season 16 winner Sam Campbell, and future Taskmaster season 20 star Maisie Adam. <\/p>\n

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Ludwig’s David Mitchell and Cunk on Earth star Diane Morgan also star, as well as Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Gbemisola Ikumelo and inaugural series 1 winner Bob Mortimer, who returns to defend his crown.<\/p>\n

Packed with cameos, twists on the format viewers have come to know and surprises to make the contestants lose their composure, Last One Laughing promises to top the success of the first series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In April this year, the series became the most watched on Prime Video’s top 10 chart in the UK, besting action series Reacher, which had been on number one for over six months.<\/p>\n

Won by Mortimer, season 1 starred other Taskmaster stars in Lou Sanders, Daisy May Cooper<\/a>, Joe Lycett<\/a>, Judi Love, Rob Beckett and Sara Pascoe. Rounding out the ten-strong cast were Richard Ayoade and Harriet Kemsley. <\/p>\n

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Prime Video<\/p>\n

Related: Stacked British cast with multiple Taskmaster fan-favourites star in new show<\/a><\/p>\n

The series is the latest adaptation of a Japanese format called Documental, seeing ten contestants challenge each other not to laugh in a series of ludicrous skits.<\/p>\n

LOL: Last One Laughing UK streams on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video‘s comedy series LOL: Last One Laughing UK has announced its cast for season 2, and you’ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[379,42577,381,96,1156,42576,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-b886f70e-9942-4316-8465-0e960591c613","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-new-cast-for-prime-videos-taskmaster-heavy-series","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}