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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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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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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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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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.
Alexei Sayle
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
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.
Alexei Sayle
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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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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I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
Alexei Sayle
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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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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First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Alexei Sayle
People aren't universally heroic.
Alexei Sayle
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
Alexei Sayle
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
Alexei Sayle
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
Alexei Sayle
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.
Alexei Sayle
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
Alexei Sayle
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.
Alexei Sayle