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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
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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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