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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.
Alexei Sayle
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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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Film Actor
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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Dying
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Three
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Years
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Literally
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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 exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
Alexei Sayle
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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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
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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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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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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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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First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Alexei Sayle
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like Brothers in Arms and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
Alexei Sayle
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
Alexei Sayle
I always thought communism was crap, really.
Alexei Sayle
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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