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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today, we welcome a comedian and TV host who has taken a brilliantly simple idea for a show - funny people trying to complete funny tasks - and turned it into a global phenomenon. And it’s all been thanks to not taking yourself, or life, too seriously: it’s comedian, TV host and author, Alex Horne!
Alex joins us from, you guessed it, the Taskmaster house for a chat about how the show’s gone from an idea at the Edinburgh Fringe to sold-out theatre shows, global adaptations and eighteen series of hilarious TV. Plus, we hear more about Alex’s life away from the funniest throne in TV - from the importance of making time for loved ones to men trying to be a bit more open and how plenty of life’s best lessons come from failure. Plus, we frantically work out a plan for his debut Glastonbury performance NEXT WEEK!
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0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Fevertree. |
0:03.3 | And did you know that Fevertree, the makers of amazing, exquisite tonics and mixers, also now do soft drinks? |
0:11.2 | Yeah, they've got all sorts of flavours. |
0:13.1 | There's a bold, spicy ginger beer, a cloudy Sicilian sparkling lemonade and a lovely, light, zesty, sparkling Mexican line. In fact, I've taken one for the |
0:23.0 | team. I've gone out, sourced the lot, drunk the lot and can report, chef's kiss, they're delicious. |
0:29.7 | And you can really tell that fever tree have taken the same quality approach to using the very |
0:34.2 | best ingredients that are naturally sourced for their soft drinks as they do with |
0:38.1 | their tonics and their mixers. Their ginger beer, for example, is made with three different |
0:42.6 | types of ginger and it's delicious, truly packs a punch. So it's also a great alternative |
0:48.8 | if you've got friends over that aren't drinking or who may be driving to offer them something |
0:53.1 | a bit tasty that's non-alcoholic. |
0:55.8 | And what is great is that these fever tree soft drinks are low in calories and they aren't overly sweet |
1:00.5 | like so many other busy drinks. Yet they still have plenty of flavour to them. And I always make |
1:05.8 | sure I've got a bottle or two or three in the fridge. I know that this summer they're going to |
1:10.1 | go down a storm whenever |
1:11.4 | someone's looking for a little lunchtime drink or an afternoon pick me up. So go on, go and pick |
1:16.5 | some up for yourself. Fever Tree soft drinks, available now in all major supermarkets. |
1:26.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
1:29.9 | As usual, I'm in the Taskmaster House. |
1:33.0 | I'm always here. |
1:34.2 | It's my second. |
1:35.1 | I wish it was my second house. |
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