Alex Horne Quotes

Alex Horne

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 10, 1978

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.

Alex Horne

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.

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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.

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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.

Alex Horne

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

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

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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.

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I've been sent somebody's heart in a jar. At that point, you're thinking, I'm not sure if I should be opening this!

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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TV is so expensive to make and these channels aren't necessarily rolling in money, that getting anything off the ground... they can't take that many risks.

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

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I don't know if you saw, in the first 'Celebrity Big Brother,' Jack Dee was in it, and tried to escape by digging a hole with a spoon. That just made me think: that approach would be perfect on 'Taskmaster' - trying to achieve something impossible with something mundane.

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I quite enjoy that, seeing people get tetchy.

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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.

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I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

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You know that film 'Tag' with Ed Helms? It's about these American friends who have this ongoing game of Tag. The movie's not brilliant but it's a really nice true story.

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There's lots of people I'd be keen to see doing things, someone like Jack Dee.

Alex Horne