Alex Horne

Alex Horne, comedian: Edinburgh festival Q&A

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

The Horne Section are Live at the Grand!

The Sun interviews The Horne Section and Alex Horne about their new Fringe show.

Interview: Alex Horne

An interview with Alex Horne, a man who likes a challenge.

Alex Horne on high-concept comedy

The comedian talks about his latest show, "Seven Years in the Bathroom".

Hosted by Clive Anderson, The Guessing Game is a brand new panel game on BBC Radio Scotland. Among those featured alongside Anderson were the show's (annoying) house band Gus and Fin plus One, and this week's contestants: Rory Bremner, Tom Allen and Alex Horne.

As the title implies, the object of the game is to guess the answers to difficult questions. The usual scoring system is two points if you get the answer right and one point for an amusing or good guess. Questions included: "What is the difference between Justin Bieber and banana?" and "Who gave away their music rights from beyond the grave?"

There were some amusing asides from one or two of the panellists, mainly Horne, but other than that there wasn't much going for it. The problem for me is that this format has been done before, and much better, by shows that are already on. QI on TV and The Unbelievable Truth on radio handle the subjects of trivia and unusual information in a much funnier manner.

Perhaps the issue's the scoring system. With QI and The Unbelievable Truth, you often end up with negative scores. In The Guessing Game this doesn't happen. Let's hope that the show will improve as the series goes along...

My secret life: Alex Horne, 33, comedian

An interview with comedian Alex Horne.

How we met: Mark Watson & Alex Horne

'He's the ideal person you'd want to be in the trenches with, as he's so calm'

Programmes that pull together a bunch of festival turns are often ragged and random - not this one. As your compere Arthur Smith explains at the top of the show, all the acts have at least a modicum of BBC4 sensibility about them. Alex Horne and his, um, Horne Section offer silly but dazzling musical comedy, while Tim Key does something similarly clever and stupid with his poems. David O'Doherty has a Bontempi organ and a unique way with words, while Nina Conti offers an ingenious and brilliantly improvised variation on her familiar ventriloquist routine.

Alex Horne: The boffins in search of the perfect gag

Can you learn to be funny? Can you study humour and unlock its scientific formula? Alex Horne swaps the comedy circuit for the lecture hall in search of the science of laughter. Plus, Greg Davies, Tim Minchin and Shazia Mirza tell us what really tickles them.

Interview with Alex Horne

Here we talk to fringe favourite Alex Horne, who has consistently been interesting (and perhaps more importantly, funny) throughout his career.