Alex Horne

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.

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.

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.

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

I quite enjoy that, seeing people get tetchy.

I can't stand jazz.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

New shows do tend to be eaten up by Twitter.

Somebody said 'I've got a task here, can you give it to my girlfriend?' And in the task it said 'Marry me'. It was really emotional and really odd, but that sort of thing's happened a few times, weirdly.