horne on the show. >> yeah. >> seth: now, you are taller than alex, but alex is a tall gentleman too. >> big guy. >> he isn't. [ laughter ] the guy's 5'5" tops. [ laughter ] and i defy you to prove otherwise. >> yeah, it's annoying. my children call me little alex horne. [ laughter ] >> seth: do you have some other favorite insults you've had for alex over the years on the show? >> i don't really know where it comes from, but i've got this theory that alex irritates me on purpose. >> not true. >> because it suits the character on the show because i'm, you know, i'm quite gentle really, seth. but he needs me to be cross on the show, so he says bleak things to me that annoy me, and i don't find funny, and i find myself being cruel to him. [ light laughter ] >> you are mean. you are mean to me. >> i've said some fairly awful things to him. and your mother-in-law really hates me, doesn't she? >> um, yeah. well, recently he said -- [ laughter ] recently he said, "this is alex," he told me recently in confidence that he is sexually attracted to his next door neighbor's wife. [ laughter ] a