“We try not to think, 'right, we need someone who is a weirdo, someone ...” — Alex Horne Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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 quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.”

“I'm so excited I got to co-write with Bob Dylan. It was very special.”

“My mom was a big music person. She was that ol' white trash woman that would be singing Bob Seger in the kitchen smokin' a cigarette in her nightgown with curlers in her hair? That's my mom. Everybody's seen that mom before and that was mine. I grew up like that.”