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bit of a nuisance, really. Australian. “Clearly doesn’t have a whole lot going on,” — bsky followers rave || Taskmaster 💌 || NMJ 🐧 || The Horne Section 🎷🎺||

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 17d

alex horne really just a ragdoll physics kinda guy

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 1h

oh boy, up too late again - see you at 7am for Taskmaster 🤞🤞

Alex Horne squashed underneath a very small coffee table. He is peeking out between the legs and stretching his arms out the.

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The Horne Section @thehornesection.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks to everyone who came to the Palladium on Tuesday. Such an iconic venue to play, we really felt the history of so many comedy and musical heroes that have played there. (Ed didn’t listen to the subpoena instruction to wave at the camera) Next stop, Folkestone - TONIGHT! Final tickets in bio.

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 6h

does tend to happen an awful lot in these fandoms. 😮‍💨 on the frontier of novel sentence creation for sure

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 7h

Bit of a national pastime really 🦘

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 7h

bit of silliness on the evening constitutional 🦘

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Today In Hornestory @todayinhornestory.bsky.social · 10h

9 October 2003 - Some incredibly charming reporting about up-and-coming Sussex comedy king and "thoroughly nice boy" Alex Horne.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/5103025...

The great comedy experiment

The Sussex stand-up's latest show, Making Fish Laugh, is a recreation of a bizarre 1976 experiment to identify exactly what tickles us.

The mild discomfort of others, repetition and indeed tickling are on the list of hypotheses which he puts to the test in front of his audience.

The unusual show won plaudits and a Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. On Sunday, Brighton gets its own humour check-up.

But for Alex, 25, the road to stand-up stardom came about almost by accident. He had returned to his former school, Lancing College, to give a talk about the year he spent teaching English in China.

He said: "I was absolutely useless and awful. I didn't take the talk very seriously and afterwards one of the teachers said I should try comedy. That was it, really."

It took three years before he dared to go in front of another audience, this time at Cambridge University where he was studying.

He said: "I plucked up the courage to do the open mic night and once I'd done it I just had to do it again.

"I just did more and more and then started going to London doing pub nights, then got picked up by an agency and got bigger gigs."

Alex, from Midhurst, was a Perrier Award nominee this year and has written scripts for Craig Charles.

He has also appeared as a support act to another well-known Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn, aka Kryten the android, and his performance went down a storm.

He said: "That show was great because when I walked on stage everyone thought I was Robert, as loads of the crowd had only seen him in his mask. They soon found out I wasn't.

"I have had a few bad gigs, the worst is when people are just not interested. I try not to say anything too offensive or inflammatory."

But not everyone thought Alex, who crafts a neat line in puns one moment and confused, surreal babbling the next, would ever become a comedian.

Adrian Arnold, his former tutor at Lancing College, said: "The surprising thing is he never did any acting until his last term, when I persuaded him to act in a half-hour comedy. I think he enjoyed it but he said he didn't think he would do any more acting.

"He always had a very dry, droll sense of humour but he was also quite shy. He was very academic and I always thought he would end up being a solicitor, barrister or an accountant. Certainly not a stand-up comedian.

"But he was a thoroughly nice boy and we are surprised but delighted by what he is doing now."

Alex appears at the Pavilion Theatre in New Road, Brighton, on Sunday.

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 7h

alex gives off good boy vibes though I’m sure he does his chores diligently 🤞

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 9h

Clearly I only hang w the cool kids 😌 mumwife4life ✌️

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 10h

mumwife 🤝 dadgreg

Alex Horne, Rachel Horne and Greg Davies pose together at an awards ceremony

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 11h

because it’s Alex Horne throwing himself in the pillory once again for the benefit of comedy haha 🎀? (big fan of hogangate, me)

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 12h

(posted with great affection) #taskmaster

An image of Alex Horne waving. In mismatched text, the meme reads: sorry I don’t have a “wife”, I call her MUM (in pink handwriting font)

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 16h

100 percent same bud…it’s rough out there 🤞😮‍💨

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 16h

having a *day* need em back I fear

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 18d

lmao I need to be put down, actually. 😮‍💨🤞 (sorry the audio was trending…and I, well, er…)

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Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 17h

holiday edition with the dad shorts and cactus shirt please 🙏

Cole-amityville Horror @kim-tey.bsky.social · 1d

god id wiped so much of this from my mind. do love whatever’s wrong with him. 🙏

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Cheeky Texts @cheekytexts.bsky.social · 1d

Buckle up. Or should I say unbuckle?

An anonymous Wattho has created an extremely cheeky tribute to the dickbelt. It's funny, educational(?), and, in the words of its creator, "maybe a little too thirsty."

This film is rated NSFW: Not Safe For Watto

#Wattober