Alex Horne

“I had a brief stint as 'People's Journalist' for the West Sussex Gazette; I'd do golden-wedding anniversaries and pet deaths. I was always looking for an angle; it wasn't great.”

“I'm sometimes skeptical about Netflix - for no reason that I can put my finger on - but when you stumble upon a series and it delights you for ten nights in a row, that's a good feeling for a week and a half and a bit.”

“Sharks - I'm sure they're going to get me one day.”

“The first year I was in Edinburgh in 1999 I got six parking tickets.”

“If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to fill.”

“And in real life, I'm actually quite authoritative and strict.”

“'Bring Me The Head of The Taskmaster' is a unique chance for one person to prove they are the ultimate Tasker. This interactive book is more than just a spin off, it provides a unique 'Taskmaster' experience into which you can dive and then swim around in search of treasure.”

“I haven't had nightmares for some time, but growing up 'Grotbags' certainly haunted my dreams.”

“I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.”

“I really love the BBC, and my wife works for them, and they've given me lots of work!”

“Eleven years ago, my wife and I had had a baby, so I didn't go to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in years. Tim Key won the comedy award and I was sat at home with the baby feeling very jealous, genuinely.”

“Australians are particularly competitive.”

“If somebody does a task really badly, then that's better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell people when they get back to the green room after doing a task that they've cocked up, 'You've actually really won that task, because people remember them more than the geniuses.' No one likes the clever people.”

“It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in the dictionary.”

“Greg never knows anything I'm going to say before the show, so when he's reacting to me it's completely off the cuff and we obviously never know what the contestants are going to say at any point.”

“Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.”

“I have pretty unsophisticated tastes; I enjoy the videos on 'You've Been Framed' a lot - I don't think there's much that's funnier than people falling over. I prefer that to Bill Hicks.”

“I used to work in 'Big Brother' in the third series, I was a logger, which was the worst of all jobs, you had to sit and watch what happens and type it into a computer.”

“We definitely don't do everyone's tasks in the same order and that's quite useful. On someone's first day they might do it somewhat differently to how they'd do it on their last day because they become a different person by the end - they don't trust us anymore.”

“I do like the word 'juggernaut.'”