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Alex Horne

December 2023

  • Saturday Guardian MAgazine<br>Comedian Alex Horne/ The Taskmaster. C4 show.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Alex Horne’s cultural highlights

  • Bumbling charm … Alex Horne in The Horne Section’s Christmas Shindig at Indigo at the O2, London.

    The Horne Section’s Christmas Shindig review – peas and harmony from Taskmaster star

December 2022

  • A photograph of Alex Horne with cartoon pictures and writing all over it

    Christmas puzzles special
    Alex Horne on the secret to his cult show Taskmaster: ‘It must be offbeat but not wacky, off-kilter but not bonkers’

    How does the comedian and creative genius come up with the show’s endless stream of inventive challenges?

November 2022

  • Big Zuu, Alex Horne and Joe Auckland in The Horne Section TV show.

    TV review
    The Horne Section TV Show review – this riotously fun sitcom is an utter delight

    Taskmaster’s Little Alex Horne’s boundless energy and likability is captured in a charming show that sits somewhere between Flight of the Conchords and The Goodies

October 2022

  • Clockwise from top left: Mark Brown, Alex Horne, Will Collier, Ed Sheldrake, Joe Auckland and Ben Reynolds in The Horne Section.

    ‘The silliness levels have really topped out’: Britain’s funniest band blast into TV

    Known for their riotous comedy from backwards congas to raps about vacuum cleaners, Alex Horne and the Horne Section now have their own musical sitcom ... about being given a sitcom by mistake

April 2022

  • Frame game … Taskmaster contestants have to create a portrait – no paint, just lipstick kisses.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Greg Davies and Alex Horne continue the Taskmaster fun

    Taskmaster returns with a new cohort of celebrities. Plus: Gordon Ramsay tests his cooks’ mettle up a mountain. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2022

  • The Great Celebrity Bake Off is back! Which famous people will embarrass themselves in front of Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith this time?

    The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2022: episode one – as it happened

  • Alex Horne and Greg Davies receive the award for best comedy entertainment show for Taskmaster at the National Comedy awards on 2 March

    ‘We’ve no idea if it will work’: Taskmaster launches own streaming service

October 2021

  • Alex Horne

    Honest playlist
    ‘One of the few things that makes me angry is Abba’: Alex Horne’s honest playlist

    Taskmaster’s creator is happy to belt out a tune when fronting the Horne Section. But what’s on his stereo when there’s no one around to judge him?

March 2021

  • Alex Horne

    'Reinvent the macarena': Taskmaster's Alex Horne sets us four fiendish new challenges

    The smash Channel 4 show returns for its 11th season this week. To mark the occasion, the show’s assistant set our writer four challenges to fulfil – is he up to the task?

February 2021

  • Taskmaster’s 100 best bits.

    The 100 best Taskmaster tasks ranked - from watermelon gluttons to taxi-driven peas

    Over 400 tasks are whittled down, in our ranking of the best challenges set by Alex Horne and Greg Davies

June 2020

  • ‘The Last Dance is a good cop/bad cop scenario, except they’re both bad cop’ ... Alex Horne.

    My lockdown TV
    'Everyone is raving about The Last Dance': Alex Horne's lockdown TV

    The comedian and Taskmaster creator on the Michael Jordan documentary taking the world by storm, and cheesy yet inspirational YouTube stars

May 2019

  • Alex Horne and Joe Thomas in Taskmaster, series eight, episode one

    TV review
    Taskmaster review – a cheap, childish comedy miracle

    A gang of comics play silly games, then squabble about them. This is totally pointless comfort TV – but that’s precisely why it’s become a hit

September 2017

  • Alex Horne

    The funniest thing
    Alex Horne: ‘You’ve Been Framed is the funniest TV show I’ve ever seen’

    The comedian and Taskmaster creator on the things that make him laugh the most, from Tim Key to The Blues Brothers

July 2014

  • Comedian Alex Horne

    Alex Horne: Edinburgh comedy veteran who keeps upping the eccentricity

    Every year at the Edinburgh fringe festival, the comedian pushes his luck a bit further – and his latest show is outright folly, writes Paul Fleckney

November 2013

  • Comic Alex Horne on stage with microphone

    Alex Horne: Lies – review

    Truth, falsehood and talking autobiographies in a high-concept show whose cleverness only slightly outshines its jokes, writes Brian Logan

June 2013

  • Alex Horne, centre, and his band the Horne Section.

    Alex Horne: 'The band are all jazz musicians. I can't stand jazz'

    The comedian and Horne Section friends have made a hit show out of a riotous combination of music, improvisation and comedy, writes Laura Barnett

October 2012

  • The Horne Section – review

    Alex Horne's improbable musical-comedy act combines jazz, humour and variety with endearing eccentricity, writes Brian Logan

August 2012

  • Alex Horne

    Five minutes at the Edinburgh festival
    Alex Horne, comedian: Edinburgh festival Q&A

    Comedian Alex Horne tells Andrew Dickson about improvisation, Tellytubbies and the terrible dangers of Beyoncé dances

February 2011

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    The Horne Section – review

    Alex Horne, Mark Watson and Tim Key come together to glorious effect, writes Stephanie Merritt
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