Horne, Alex

Humour, Matter into Imagination

http://www.alexhorne.com/

A hugely talented and diverse young comedian, 26 year-old Alex Horne has already established a remarkable reputation among critics, comics and audiences as a gifted gag-smith, prolific writer and one of the most creative solo performers at work today.

In August 2003 Alex took his innovative, interactive and hotly-tipped debut show Making Fish Laugh to the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival. The show saw Alex and his assistant Tim Key recreating experiments carried out by scientists in 1976 to find out exactly what it is that makes humans laugh.

By combining studious research, his own unique brand of twisted logic and some quite complicated puns with psychological theories and inappropriate science he managed to create one of the undisputed hits of the fringe.

"Extremely well-conceived and executed, this makes for a fine hour laughing about laughter" Steve Jelbert - The Independent.

"This delightfully daft lecture elevates him into a new league" Bruce Dessau - Evening Standard

"Being blinded by science has rarely seemed this fun" Nick Awde - The Stage "This is a hugely impressive debut.

"Conditions for laughter at the fringe? Alex Horne's gig" Alex O'Connell - The Times

After the festival Alex transferred his show to a season in the West End at the prestigious Soho Theatre where he sold out every date before moving on to various other exotic locations including the Singapore Comedy Festival and the Arts Theatre in Bangor, Northern Ireland. The following year he and Tim returned to Edinburgh with his new show Every Body Talks; an ambitious series of experimental lectures in which the audiences' body language was examined under his unique comedic microscope. Again the inventive approach, delicately crafted material and unusual style proved exceptionally successful with festival-goers and journalists alike and Alex is now working on developing the show for both radio and television.