Quotes from Alex Horne

Australians are particularly competitive.

I really enjoyed Paul Sinha. He's from 'The Chase.' As you imagine, he's intelligent. But that doesn't mean he's got any common sense at all.

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

I love 'Takeshi's Castle.'

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

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

I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night. They say, 'Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?'

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.

Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way.

I am almost incredible at table football. It's nothing to be proud of.

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.

People are a lot less weird than they might seem.

We try not to think, 'right, we need someone who is a weirdo, someone who is competitive.' We definitely want five very different brains, but it normally starts with one person. For example, with series five, we asked Bob Mortimer because he is one of my absolute heroes and we sort of built it around him.

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.

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

Somebody said 'I've got a task here, can you give it to my girlfriend?' And in the task it said 'Marry me'. It was really emotional and really odd, but that sort of thing's happened a few times, weirdly.

One of the things we're really proud of is that every single task is different, even if there are similarities. You never know what's coming up next.

Kids make the best audiences. They're like drunk people - they don't mind telling you exactly what they think.

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

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

I'm very bad when it comes to finances.

I have children so I couldn't shave it off; my dad shaved his beard off once and we all disowned him. My wife's dad shaved his off and they freaked out. I think if you have kids, getting rid of a beard is bad.

I get asked, on a sort of daily basis, 'It's my wife's 30th birthday, can you set her a task?'

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.