Alex Horne

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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.
- Alex Horne
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Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.
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Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.
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'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.
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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.
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'Hometasking' was genuinely a team effort. Because we were all in lockdown and didn't have anything to do, the team watched lots of videos and passed them on to me. It was a really nice way to spend a few months and feel like you're actually helping other people.
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Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do like the word 'juggernaut.'
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The first year I was in Edinburgh in 1999 I got six parking tickets.
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Of course you can't go wrong with Daniel Kitson.
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Australians are particularly competitive.
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I am almost incredible at table football. It's nothing to be proud of.
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I'm a quarter Scottish but that's not enough to warrant wearing a kilt at any point in my life.
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I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.
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I've got two brothers and there was a male dog and two male cats and every family we knew had three boys. Great for us, slightly less great for my mum.
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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.
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I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.
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I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.
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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'm getting into single malt whisky.
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I'm very bad when it comes to finances.
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Sharks - I'm sure they're going to get me one day.
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