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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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Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
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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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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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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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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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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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People aren't universally heroic.
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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like Brothers in Arms and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
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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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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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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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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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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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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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