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
ideas people common
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
weather spain influence
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
character age stuff
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
thinking live-your-life should
I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.
thinking people
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
years comedian dying
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
america president different
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
sleep performing gags
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
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 easy sitcom
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
men space firsts
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
hate dark views
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
israel states nations
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,
dad mean years
This is the band Radical Posture, and my name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?