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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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Alexei Sayle
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 7
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City of Liverpool
Alexei David Sayle
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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
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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 don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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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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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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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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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
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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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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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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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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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People aren't universally heroic.
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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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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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You can't do comedy with a beard.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
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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.
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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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