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 people belief
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
weather spain influence
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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 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.
sorry politician consistent
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
nice people nice-people
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
years cities house
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
men space firsts
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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.