There are two bands that go by the name The Horne Section:

1) The Ho… Read Full Bio ↴There are two bands that go by the name The Horne Section:

1) The Horne Section is a six-man comedy jazz band and accompanying radio, TV, podcast and live musical comedy show.
Led by frontman Alex Horne, the show mixes music with spoken-word comedy and spoof songs. The band consist of childhood friends, who first performed together in May 2010.

The Horne Section have performed regularly at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as touring the UK.

2) A US boogiefunk studio project, active from around 1983 to 1985. Henry Horne did all the rhythm tracks (live drums and drum machine, all keyboards and synth bass, guitar, percussion, and background vocals). Roger Garnette did the lead and background vocals and brought in 4 horns players which he knew and who used to work with the Trammps: Sly Smithers (trumpet), Gearald Chavis (trumpet), Harold Watkins (trombone) and Rubin Henderson (tenor saxophone).

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The Horne Section Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by The Horne Section:

Fiddly Christmas Life′s pretty fiddly There's all sorts of fiddly business So…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@Tamashi88

4y↑8

I have found that good musical comedians have a much greater chance of surviving material. A song like this is catchy and funny where as a joke is just funny.

Not every musical comedy is like that. A song like Axis of Awesome's Four Cords can be heard once and found funny, then maybe a few more times where you really start to notice all the songs featured... and then its done. Tim Minchin's Canvas Bags you probably can stop listening halfway through and not miss much.

But Tim Minchin's 3 minute song? Took me a few listens through to get all the references etc AND its catch and its funny.

I've heard some Horne Section songs that I'm fine with never listening to again, I got the joke and the song isn't a style I like. Then there are the ones like this one. It isn't going on my (non-existant) ipod but I might listen again at some point because its still funny and the music is fun.

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@youngwang97

3y↑991

I'm surprised Josh Widdicombe wasn't counting the peas

@Rokurokubi83

3y↑20

🤣 Where’s Gregg, when you need him?!

@JSideFx

3y↑9

That was almost funnier than the song 😂

@thesimpsons17

2y↑5

Bravo on this comment!!!

@josephl5128

1y↑7

He was too busy eating them like a crazed little mouse

@scottjudge5970

Thank God it's not beans if they had to know if juice counted

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@AllTheRooks

4y↑1.2K

A most juvenile joke delivered in a most exceptional way

@peterclarke7240

4y↑61

The wind up to it is gloriously childish, the deadpan delivery is what makes it genious- really taste the anus. So pathetic, and yet so fucking wonderful. Its the entire history of british comedy in a song.

@billyeveryteen7328

3y↑19

@Peter Clarke It's the sincerity of the song that really sells it. If it wasn't a song by the Horne Section making silly, cheeky puns, it would just be a really catchy, straightforward folk song.

@peterclarke7240

3y↑3

@Billy Everyteen True- pretty much every great comedy song, from whichever country, starts with the music and delivery being absolutely on-point - Tenacious D, The Darkness, even Monty Python or the criminally under-rated Red Dwarf theme tune (I still laugh whenever I think of the line "I'm all alone, more or less"), all lend themselves to being great tunes within their genre, with vocals delivered in the perfect style for that genre, until you then listen to the lyrics, and then they get even better :)

@DrZaius3141

4y↑1.7K

I can't get over how very simple yet utterly unpredictable this is.

@Umbra451

4y↑119

You could tell that they were leading up to something, and then it all just hits you in the face

@long-shotlouie

4y↑56

@DealerUmbra yup, the A-ness hit us, then the peaness. It was overwhelming

@dsimi415

4y↑25

@William Morris Her peas really had me scratching my head for a while

@peterclarke7240

4y↑37

Its a glorious piece of childish stupidity and i love it!

@peterclarke7240

4y↑12

@Daniel Simas a not uncommon phenomenon. Thankfully there's antibiotics to be had.

Grandmama had herpes! Grandmama had herpes,
In her mouth!

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@ConradMcBad

3y↑726

The story actually checks out - I worked in a pea processing plant for a summer holiday job. They are graded from A to D based on how tender they are. The ones that are worse than D-grade get made into pet food. One of our biggest customers were in Saudi Arabia, so we used to joke that we were instrumental in bringing peas to the middle east.

@dysomniak

3y↑37

It was a long roue to get there but you did it

@nathanmassam1301

3y↑28

If you know Alex Horne, you'll know he goes into extreme detail when researching something to ensure factual accuracy. Such as the Roman costume in Taskmaster series 12

@petgoose32

2y↑5

@Nathan Massam series 11*

@ILuvAyeAye

2y↑2

I think that's how it works for most vegetables and fruits.

@ZetaPyro

40w↑3

Captain Tenille: Tell me young man, what do you want out of life?
Homer Simpson: I want peas!
Tenille: Ah, we all want peace, but it's always just out of reach.
Homer: Ooh, uh-huh.
Tenille: So, what's the best way to get peace?
Homer: With a knife!
Tenille: Exactly! Not with the olive branch, but with the bayonette!

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@refinedrascal1

3y↑554

Came for the A-ness, stayed for the Pea-ness, ended up getting Her peas.

@user-co6ni7tz1z

38w↑78

The joy on Sue Perkins' face at the "her peas" section...

@traceystewart1404

2y↑143

Watching the joy on Sue Perkins face is priceless- the funniest thing I have seen and heard for some time. Thank you for making me laugh

@qwertyTRiG

Surprising to see a lesbian so happy to taste the peaness.

@MrSuperb

40w

She is painfully unfunny 😢

@smurfmaster90

28w↑3

The most joy a lesbian has ever had from a pea-ness

@keithpanton7486

25w↑2

@@MrSuperbshe's been wonderful on taskmaster, sort of the opposite of wholesome Mel.

@laserpanda94

14w

@@MrSuperb Doesn't mean you can't appreciate someone just genuinely enjoying themselves. Or are you one of these emotionally retarded people who can't bear anything even vaguely positive being said about somone whose comedy you don't like?

@MagicSwagget12

4y↑476

This is why Taskmaster is so good. Only Alex could keep coming up with utterly bizarre, off the wall tasks

@aaronkeane2336

4y↑8

He doesn't think up all the tasks. They have a full production crew like all TV shows, I'm sure they help

@feverpa

4y↑81

@Aaron Keane according to all of the interviews I've seen, Alex really does come up with all of the tasks. I mean, could there be a small contribution here or there from someone on their production staff - but it's pretty much all Alex's genius.

@natalies4751

4y↑56

His task consultant is Tim Key! He must have really enjoyed himself in the first series XD

@Tamashi88

4y↑32

@Aaron Keane Taskmaster is Alex Horne's creation. He wrote all the tasks for at least the first two series And all the tasks for the two years it was at Edinburgh. While they now have writers, including Tim Key, he very much did think up all the tasks.

@barryrowlings83

4y↑6

Horne dreams them up in his Hot Tub apparently

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@billyeveryteen7328

3y↑120

This is the best pea-related video I've ever seen. Take that, Orson Welles.

Edit: Having listened to this another couple of times, this is a phenomenal piece of comedy music writing. If it had no jokes or humor of any kind, it would work on its own as a catchy, straightforward folk song. As a comedy piece, it has proper set-ups and punchlines, it subverts audience expectations, it follows the comedy "rule of three;" just unbelievable work.

@kosherkitties5897

Do you happen to be referring to the joke that was in the show The Critic?

@billyeveryteen7328

29w↑1

@@kosherkitties5897 Yes, sort of. The bit in The Critic was based on a real thing that happened where a (possibly drunk) Orson Welles argued about the copy for a frozen pea commercial.

@kosherkitties5897

29w

@billyeveryteen7328 Oh cool! That's hilarious, I would have never guessed it was based on reality.

@anon0815de

4y↑294

Did he steal the letters from Countdown?

@secretforreddit

4y↑19

Oh my gosh, he totally did!

@jacobsaxby9468

4y↑5

Nah, they're too big to be Countdown cards

@DomenBremecXCVI

3y↑14

@Jacob Saxby Nah, he's just little Alex Horne

@jamiethomas18

4y↑106

Everyone needs some Horne Section in their life!

@tomtom21194

3y↑4

And some pea-ness in their mouth

@frankiefuckles

1y↑10

Not sure how I've only just stumbled across this.

I say with no exaggeration that this is the best song ever written.

@throughcolouredglasses9300

3y↑42

For an english pronounciation class i need to find clips of a celebrity of our choice. I picked Alex Horne. It's 3:30 am, my class is at 10am. Youtube is down and won't play any video. I try to decide between this video and an interview about taskmaster without having watched either.
It's the next day, youtube works again.

Fuck I'm glad I chose the interview. I cannot put into words how glad I am that I didn't sent in this one. Jesus.

@Saltywinterchild

3y↑55

I'm surprised nobody spat out their peas from laughing. I was genuinely convulsing with laughter when I first heard this song on the podcast. And they hadn't even added the Herpes verse back then

@weirdscience369

19w↑4

sue perkins is having the time of her life

@jessbargen

4y↑98

This song took me on such a journey. Every part was delightful and surprising. I was doubled over laughing while making supper while listening to this.

@danwiddon3854

4y↑262

Never seen Adam have so much trouble wrapping up a segment, than Alex and Co’s song about Peaness, Grandad takes the A-ness and that Grandmama has her peas in her mouth! Superb by all concerned!

@RFC-3514

3y↑3

It's not "takes", it's tastes.

@BlairdBlaird

2y↑7

@RFC3514 technically it's *checks*: Granddaddy checks the A-ness so you can taste the Pea-ness.

@RFC-3514

2y↑1

@Xavier Morel - I don't think he would confuse "checks" with "takes". At 1:54 in this video: "Grandaddy tastes the A-ness".

@elliott1346

@RFC3514 it’s you can taste the a-ness at 1:31 but it’s granddaddy checks the a-ness at 1:54 you can hear the k sound and they wouldn’t repeat you can’t taste the aness you can’t taste the peaness.

@RFC-3514

@Elliott - Mark sings "tastes". The OP clearly mixed up "tastes" and "takes" (which are similar words), not "tastes" and "checks".

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@MrBelongings

3y↑61

The dumb genius of this makes me love alex so much more. So much thought went into doing something so dumb so well. The fact that everyone had peas? Icing on the her-peas

@jessesutton7985

1y↑24

Still find this way too funny. Practically cheered at the screen when they played in on The Horne Section. Clever immaturity always gets me.

@IAmTheHound

3y↑27

Absolutely wonderful, joyously puerile silliness. No airs and graces yet beautifully delivered. Loved it and laughed my arse off like when I was a little kid.

@mollyjaneanderson9144

4y↑112

i am delighted by how surprised i was by this and by how absolutely side splittingly hilarious this was. excuse me, i'm ded now

@Pinario

4y↑1

RIP

@SamoScopom

3y↑15

I have listened to this approximately 15 times now. It's amazing!

@robawr

4y↑126

I absolutely love it.
Makes me want some peas.

@Pinario

4y↑5

Grace. Ruddick If you do eat some peas I hope you can really taste the a-ness!

@disruptah76

4y↑2

Just had some carrots but wish I had some p-ness with them.

@robawr

4y↑3

@Pinario I ate some today and the taste of a-ness really shone through!

@Pinario

4y↑3

I glad you could taste the a-ness in your mouth!

@loz5190

4y↑3

If you have a woman there..give her peas a go

@_davidlittle_

2y↑6

Brilliant banjo playing

@DanTheStripe

4y↑72

Anyone else had this in their head for a few days after first hearing it?

@Umbra451

4y↑5

It’s been a month and it’s still bouncing around in here

@Subangelis

I don't know. Let you know in a few days...

@vicodin36

Every night before I go to sleep, the most convenient time, of course.

@999CJ

4y↑21

Every time I've seen this I've had to watch. And it makes me smile and laugh every time. The banjo player has great voice for folk too.

@aaronwagstaff7978

2y↑21

Just discovered this song & I want to remarry my wife so I can have it played as she walks down the aisle

@JeddtheJedi

3y↑238

This should no longer be funny after you know what's coming, and yet, it holds up to repeated listens so well.

@chenshuen524

2y↑8

Honestly so much love for Alex horne

@JeddtheJedi

@Chen Shu en Hello you :)

@DyslecticAttack

23w

I'd say that's also true for some of their other stuff like their seasons song.

(Since it's now been 2 years since the original posting, it's high time for a second reply.)

@Ainennke

4y↑27

Haven't laughed that hard in a while. Utter perfection, only improved by Perkins' amazing reaction.

@exessex3522

4y↑17

Always admired/envied Bill Bailey for his comedy/musical ability. It must be even more fun to be part of a band like The Horne Section.

@afkaLoriVictoryDragon

1y↑8

I freaking love this song. I’m so glad The Horne Section TV show has happened.

@kiras924

52w↑4

We’ve sung this round campfires for like a year and I’ve only just discovered this is where it’s from 😂

@Hammerandhearth

3y↑11

They are masters of misdirection. I really needed this today, thank you horn section.

@alexjones7043

3y↑7

One of the greatest comedy songs written.

@KyleJRM

4y↑49

Ok as an American I found bad golf and was curious as to what Alex was like in his real job and this is not what I was expecting

@Udertheo

3y↑4

I'm a huge Alex Horne fan but I've never seen Bad Golf. All these panel shows, Taskmaster...so your route to Alex Horne is the exact opposite of mine.

@trishking6343

3y↑11

How anyone can sing or listen to this without laughing is beyond me. So completely brilliant - cracking tune too.

@NeilJ894

4y↑27

I nearly died laughing..I want this played at my funeral, pease..

@fourslottoaster65

3y↑4

You really can taste the pea-ness

@Zluka-Kluka

4y↑48

Finally, high quality content!

@0besityfc

3y↑6

How do I still laugh out loud when listening to this?

@amygareis6276

2y↑4

This song is an earworm now and I can't get it out of my head. Lol

@covrtdesign5279

4y↑9

The BEST song that i have ever heard. Even better coming from the best group in tele.

@betterinthe80s77

44w↑9

Of the current 632k views, I think I'm at least 50k

@kwjames87

2y↑5

This is still as funny as the first time I heard it. 😂🤣

@rbmacate5261

3y↑7

Thought this was gonna be a boring, serious song from the start...glad I stayed. 😂😂😂

@IbelongtoMUSE12

3y↑16

Sue Perkins needs to be on taskmaster

@raukuracave4714

4y↑5

This is excellent. I can hear the A-ness😏. Well done sirs.. 🤣🤣🤣💯👏👏👏👏👏👏

@ianbaron5044

4y↑18

I heard this on the Horne Section Podcast but holy crap it always gets funnier.

@ygnir1

4y↑1

What episode was it in

@xorsyst1

3y↑2

@Stephen Ring Al Murray was the guest, I love that version for Al's hoots of laughter over the performance.

@joebleasdale5557

4y↑49

I’d have thought all that A-ness and pea-ness would be too much for Billy- he looks about 10! He loves it though 😂

@sfoster.23

4y↑7

2:43 love how Alex is so invested in the song

@thebigspliffdaddy5470

1y↑2

This is brilliant, one of those jokes that is nearly so obvious I'm shocked no one else has already done it

@anthonymichael5078

1y↑1

This is the best thing I have ever heard!

@EnoVarma

1y↑2

2:54 Sara Pascoe choking on grandma and her peas.

@ixurlife8062

4y↑6

Nobody does like Alex and the horn section timing is perfect well thought out humour from the simplest words, geniuses 😂😂🤣🤣

@charlottewhite2270

4y↑19

Wasnt expecting that... 🤣

@catjohnston9748

2y↑2

It just kept getting better 😂

@Musical_Kook

1y↑2

Was awesome to hear this on new Horne section the other day! This tickled me the first time I heard it but even more so second time round. It is unsaid but Peas are comedy hold but this is just brilliant! 😂🤣😂🎶

@samgibbons5601

4y↑4

Deserved so much more. Absolutely incredible song.

@LynneHand

4y↑6

Thanks for sharing this one. Searched for it last week after the show. (Sadly I cannot share it with my English students, but so so tempted.)

@reuben4993

4y↑5

just bought this on bandcamp lmao

@simonpymon1959

3y↑3

Thank-you, Alex and Co. This song helped to finally get People People out of my head:)

@Ulleskelf

4y↑14

That is an amazing song!

@DragonslayerProd

3y↑14

"British humor is so much more sophisticated"
British humor:

@DanGolag

4y↑8

Rosie Jones adds so much value to this.

@joanneoliver89

4y↑4

I came here today as I really needed a smile on my face

@PresumablyTunes

4y↑7

Hands down the highlight of my year so far 😂

@davidpacker7602

4y↑5

I just keep watching this everyday

@derekpink

4y↑343

Isn’t there supposed to be some rule of diminishing returns in comedy?

It doesn’t seem to apply to this song.

@xaostek

4y↑38

It somehow gets funnier every time. Catchy melodies are too powerful!

@peterclarke7240

4y↑14

Its called british comedy- basically aim low, make it sexual and/or toilet related, and then hit someone in the head with a frying pan. It never gets old.

@hop-skip-ouch8798

4y↑7

Listen to "I've no more fucks to give"

@Tamashi88

4y↑8

@hop-skip-ouch8798

4y↑1

@Tamashi88 Bo Burnham is another example.

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@zebastinio

3y↑2

This is the best thing in a long time!

@loz5190

4y↑5

The uk ladies and gentlemen!

@MrCanadaben

3y↑6

I'm just waiting for The Horne Section to be in Taskmaster 😆

@James-vk6cu

4y↑7

When I saw the video title, I thought this was going to be a tribute to the legendary American band Grandaddy.

@thatoneadamguy

4y↑28

Please upload the rest of the songs they performed from the night!

@jaywjr2456

4y↑2

Incredible. Purely, incredible.

@dillontomyn2043

2y↑1

Absolutely brilliant

@TerryVibes

4y↑2

Great tune! Respect

@nicolajo666

4y↑5

I'm so glad ya's uploaded this; I missed half the song on broadcast night ;-;

@chanukaabeygunasekera3101

4y↑29

They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie

@MsPeachy3

4y↑6

Bloody brilliant! Have always loved Peaness

@gallifreyFNM

3y↑7

Josh can't even eat peas without looking awkward

@nathanmassam9102

4y↑1

How does this video have any dislikes. This is the funniest song I have heard in a LONG time

@SL-vd2dj

4y↑3

Would buy an album of all their jingles

@benmoore7990

You can buy several of their albums on bandcamp if you're genuinely interested.

@Aras012

11w

Little Alex Horne

@cnelsonlv99

14w

Better than 99% of the songs written in the last 20 years.

@olivejohn

2y↑2

I keep singing to myself "really taste the peeeeenesss" almost out loud half the time

@martinshillitoe4735

11w

The joy I get from this song is equally matched by the horror of watching Josh Widdicome’s inability to eat with his mouth closed

@christhomas1141

4y↑2

Can’t stop watching this :D

@matthewrandell5055

4y↑1

For some reason I didn't get this when I heard it on the podcast. I must have zoned out when they explained the rating system. This is great

@nathanmassam9102

4y↑1

I believe they also missed the whole bit about grandmama

@blackhoundrise8431

3y↑2

I’m dead. Just dead laughing out loud

@marklapena854

3y↑1

God, I love our comedy!

@emdentaylor1110

4y↑1

they never disappoint

@sfoster.23

4y↑1

Genius!

@charliespinoza1966

2y↑1

Goddamn brilliant

@fourslottoaster65

3y↑6

This song isn't on Spotify, and it needs to be

@TheHorneSectionOfficial

you can buy it on bandcamp.

@fourslottoaster65

@The Horne Section Well, I would, but all my other music is on spotify

@zacadams6792

4y↑1

Brilliant!

@Iroxinping

2y↑1

This made me cry laughing

@sfoster.23

4y↑20

I think we're all Sue Perkins watching this one

@hailey1371

4y↑35

I just want to know why Adam, Josh and Alex are eating peas with their hands when spoons are provided?

@E_y_a_l

4y↑34

I guess they also wanted to feel the A-Ness with their hand.

@brido97

4y↑3

Yes.

@Dampfish

3y↑4

I've been wanting to show this to my friends who don't watch British TV (we're not in the UK), but the visuals are just so damn bizarre out of context. I mean, how would you even begin to explain it to someone!?