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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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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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Showbiz
Memoir
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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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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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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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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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