Quotes from Alex Horne

I do quite often thank Frank Skinner because he agreed to do the very first series and that was a real stamp of approval.

People are very quick to go, 'What is this nonsense?' if they've not seen something before and it's a bit different.

I quite enjoy that, seeing people get tetchy.

I never watched 'The Godfather' and it seems too late now. The same happened with 'The Sopranos,' 'The Wire' and 'Peaky Blinders.' I don't know if they can be compared but they feel to me like they had a lot of male violence that I'm not massively into.

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

I love seeing Mark Steel or Mark Thomas, but I'm not that sort of person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My wife works odd hours as a journalist for breakfast radio.

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

I've always felt more scrutinized. It's definitely not bullying, because you can see how much I enjoy it.

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.

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.

We're not ashamed of the old stuff, but when you look back at the posters it does make you think: 'My God, six men and one woman.' Weirdly we didn't say 'that's wrong' and no one else did, either. It's been a really quick shift in the landscape of telly, which is brilliant.

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

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.

I'm getting into single malt whisky.

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

I can't stand jazz.

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.

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.

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