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You can't do comedy with a beard.
Alexei Sayle
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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
Beard
Comedy
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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.
Alexei Sayle
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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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.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
Alexei Sayle
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.
Alexei Sayle
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
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People aren't universally heroic.
Alexei Sayle
My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?
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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
Alexei Sayle
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Alexei Sayle
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
Alexei Sayle
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
Alexei Sayle
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
Alexei Sayle
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.
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