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.
writing years challenges
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
pique ifs
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
careers comedy easier
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
way being-a-woman my-friends
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
brother stupid arms
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
play sick tvs
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
memories done vivid
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really.
trying grind comic
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
alive lawyer used
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
beard comedy
You can't do comedy with a beard.
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.
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.