Alex Horne

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.

'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.

It would be amazing if we got someone like Sarah Silverman on the show, not having a script and just being herself. That's the best part of doing this show: just having funny people being funny.

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.

'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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

I'm very bad when it comes to finances.

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

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

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

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'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.

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

I'm a quarter Scottish but that's not enough to warrant wearing a kilt at any point in my life.

I quite enjoy that, seeing people get tetchy.

Australians are particularly competitive.

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

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

I do like the word 'juggernaut.'

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm getting into single malt whisky.

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.

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

New shows do tend to be eaten up by Twitter.

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

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

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

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.