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Alexei Sayle
Alexei David Sayle is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.
Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on often absurd and surreal premises. His act is known for its cynicism and political awareness, as well as physical comedy.
As actor
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
Bottom: Exposed
Censoring Palestine
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
The Fringe, Fame and Me
How to Build a Girl
Sometimes Always Never
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Gloves Off
Red Top
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
30 Years of Comic Strip
The Itch of the Golden Nit
The Story of Music Hall
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
My Dad Was a Communist
Hitler: The Comedy Years
The Double Life of Saki
Tapping the Wire
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
When Comedy Changed Forever
The Thief Lord
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
The Roots of Monty Python
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?