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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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Something
People
Uninteresting
Showbiz
Memoir

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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
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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 don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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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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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.
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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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If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
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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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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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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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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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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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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.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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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.
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