Alex Horne

“I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.”

“I love 'Takeshi's Castle.'”

“I nearly always wear a boring suit but I do sometimes furnish the with long dangly earrings or belly button jewelry.”

“I was inspired by 'Bootylicious' being able to scale the dictionary walls thanks to just one individual, Beyonce. But Beyonce has the world's ears, so what I had to do was to work my word - which is 'honk', as slang for money, really really hard.”

“I've got children and I wanted to impress them and show them what I do for a living, do something that they understand and enjoy.”

“I'm a big fan of Greg's in that he just turns up and is the Taskmaster straight away. He really enjoys the role and is very natural at it.”

“There's a sort of unwritten rule that the more elaborate the task is, the less likely it is to work. If we spend a lot of money on a big prop, it almost certainly won't make it.”

“I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.”

“Peter Crouch has been my hero for fifteen years, Maya Jama is a superstar and I am a mild-mannered bandleader with a motley troupe of absurdly talented musicians at my disposal - if those aren't the ingredients for a delicious post-football entertainment dish then we're all doomed.”

“Comedy is getting more diverse - you can do anything on a stage now. It doesn't have to be just one man and a mic.”

“I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.”

“We had one task where we had a yoga mat on a big hill and told them to get three yoga balls at the bottom of the hill onto the mat. We didn't think that one of them would bring the yoga mat down to where the balls were, so that was a reminder that sometimes these comedians can be smarter than us.”

“The most successful people in comedy do seem to be the most funny.”

“Of course you can't go wrong with Daniel Kitson.”

“Mine is slightly ginger and patchy so it's not really a hipster beard.”

“I'm getting into single malt whisky.”

“I'm quite proud that my bird-feeders are always full.”

“I definitely think everyone's competitive on some level, there's virtually no-one who hasn't cared at some point about something they've done.”

“The Fringe is by far my favorite time of year; I like everything about it. But there are people I know who are much more successful than me who don't enjoy it.”

“I can't stand jazz.”