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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
Uninteresting
Showbiz
Memoir
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People

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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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I always thought communism was crap, really.
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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
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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 used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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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.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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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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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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.
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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.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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