Quotes from Alex Horne

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

New shows do tend to be eaten up by Twitter.

I used to work as a logger, which is the lowest of the low, you just had to type up what happens.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

When I created 'Taskmaster,' it was never meant to be suitable for family Christmases. The host, Greg Davies, is a sweary giant, the comedians are often uncouth and the show was on late-night TV.

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.

I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.

It's nice not to have to talk about children all the time.

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

'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.

There's a sort of unwritten rule that the more elaborate the task is, the less likely it is to work. If we spend a lot of money on a big prop, it almost certainly won't make it.

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

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!

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.

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

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 live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

I definitely think everyone's competitive on some level, there's virtually no-one who hasn't cared at some point about something they've done.