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
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.
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.
communism crap
I always thought communism was crap, really.
beard comedy
You can't do comedy with a beard.
people want memoir
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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.
buffets eras firsts
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
mean necks forget
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
dog opportunity bones
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
writing people belief
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
people heroic
People aren't universally heroic.
thinking people stuff
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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.
political parent constant
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.