Work With James Corden
Since working on the BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey, he has collaborated a number of times with its co-creator James Corden
Horne and Corden presented the Big Brother spin-off show Big Brother's Big Mouth as guests in 2007 and were then regulars for the run covering E4's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
Together they presented the NME Shockwaves Awards in 2008 and a section of Comic Relief in March 2009.
In 2008 Horne and Corden toured the UK with a stand-up show in preparation for their BBC sketch show Horne & Corden. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2009 shown on BBC Three. It was presented in front of a live audience, in a style reminiscent of Morecambe and Wise or The Two Ronnies. A variety of pre-filmed sketches and live performances were included.
2009 also saw the release of Lesbian Vampire Killers a comedy horror film written by Stewart Williams and Paul Hupfield and produced by Steve Clark-Hall and directed by Phil Claydon. Reviews of the film were largely negative. It holds a 29% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 4/10. James Christopher of The Times described Lesbian Vampire Killers as "profoundly awful" stating it is an "instantly forgettable lads' mag farce" and claimed the film was an "appalling waste of a perfectly decent title". Allan Hunter of the Daily Express called it "badly written and hastily executed" and "takes all the easy options of bad taste, bosoms and body fluids". Anthony Quin writing in The Independent gave the film 1 star out of 5, describing it as woeful and stating that Horne and Corden had "overstretched their appeal" and looked "in danger" of becoming today's Hale and Pace. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as "mostly pretty awful, but there are one or two crass laughs."
The Sun, however, gave it a positive review; Sun reviewer the Sneak gave Lesbian Vampire Killers (LVK) a rating of 3 out of 5 saying "other reviewers will undoubtedly say that LVK is another British comic flop but the Sneak won't be driving that stake into its heart." Similarly, Nicholas Yanes of Scifipulse.net found Lesbian Vampire Killers to be a great "B film" worth becoming a cult classic.
Whilst on the comedy panel show "The King is Dead" in September 2010, star James Corden commented that watching the film would be too harsh a punishment for prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay and that it was "a pile of shit."
Horne appeared alongside Corden in the CGI film Planet 51, with a minor part voicing a soldier, Vesklin.
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