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
people want memoir
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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.
nice people nice-people
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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.
thinking people
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
good people trying
I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
america british-comedian people sod telling
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
animals brain full poisoned sensitive
To know that these intelligent, sensitive animals are mocked, poisoned and even intentionally brain damaged, makes me full of shame.
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.