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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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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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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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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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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.
Alexei Sayle
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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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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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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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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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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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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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
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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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
Alexei Sayle
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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.
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