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
stupid president way
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
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.