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Alexei Sayle

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I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.


— Alexei Sayle


#death #go #grind #i #look

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.


— Alexei Sayle


#been #bought #city #few #going

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.


— Alexei Sayle


#charity #city #family #fruit #hardware

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.


— Alexei Sayle


#good #good ones #lot #ones #sitcoms

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.


— Alexei Sayle


#become #else #i #like #me

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.


— Alexei Sayle


#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.


— Alexei Sayle


#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.


— Alexei Sayle


#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.


— Alexei Sayle


#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

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.


— Alexei Sayle


#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git






About Alexei Sayle






Did you know about Alexei Sayle?

The winning entry to Sayle's story Imitating Katherine Walker was written by freelance writer Arthur Allan. (1982). He has also provided the voice-over for animations including the character Rubbish the Cat in the children's TV series Rubbish King of the Jumble (1992–94).

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian actor and author. 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.

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