Alex Horne

And I need probably four.

I applied.

No, well, I came up with the idea, I suppose, when my first son was born, where I was at home with my wife and this tiny thing and all my friends were up at the Edinburgh Festival being successful and I was kind of chomping at the bit to...

get what they got.

So I was doing it for years before that and was knocking on the door and we had some success but never enough to make any decent money.

And luckily I came up with this idea of setting comedians challenges which hit a nerve straight away because comedians are competitive and funny.

But they are really competitive.

And there were a lot of panel shows around, but nothing with a sort of genuine competition element.

So it just seemed to work.

And it wasn't like a cynical, it wasn't meant to be a TV show.

It was meant to be just an Edinburgh show.

But it seemed to work straight away.

So we, I mean, it took four or five years to get it on the telly.

And yeah, just very kind of feel very lucky and weird that it worked and that it's still going because it wasn't meant to be what it is now.

Yeah.

Well, we pitched it to everyone.

We pitched it to Channel 4, who gave us some money to develop it and then said no.

We pitched it to the BBC and ITV and Sky and everyone.

And they all said no.

And Dave, as was then, I think it's changed name now.