Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
Alexei David Sayleis an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. In the updated 2010 poll he came 72nd...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth7 August 1952
party nuance belief
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
summer nice winter
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
people want memoir
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
littles building huts
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
cities cobblers charity
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
beard comedy
You can't do comedy with a beard.
alive lawyer used
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
trying grind comic
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really.
political parent constant
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
spring thinking ideas
I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
thinking people stuff
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
people heroic
People aren't universally heroic.
men space firsts
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.