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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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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.
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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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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
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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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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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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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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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I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
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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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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.
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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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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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