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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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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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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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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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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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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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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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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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