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Alexei Sayle

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August, 1952) is an English

England

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical "fourth wall". A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or more informally stand up....
, actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and author

Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. In a poll for Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
, Sayle, a central part of the alternative comedy

Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a style of comedy that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and 1980s which would eventually go on to become mainstream in the 1990s and up to the present day....
circuit in the early 1980s, was voted 18th on a list of the 100 Greatest Stand Ups.

Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Se?n Milligan KBE , known as Spike Milligan, was an England-Ireland comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright....
and Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969....
, with riffs based on an absurd and surreal

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
premise. His act is notable for cynicism, intelligence and political awareness, as well as physical comedy

Physical comedy

Physical comedy, also known as slapstick is a comedic performance relying mostly on the use of the body to convey humour.Whether a pratfall , a silly face, or by walking into walls, physical comedy is a common and rarely subtle form of comedy....
.

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Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August, 1952) is an English

England

Stand-up comedy

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
and author

Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. In a poll for Channel 4

Channel 4

Alternative comedy

Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Se?n Milligan KBE , known as Spike Milligan, was an England-Ireland comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright....
and Monty Python

Monty Python

Surrealism

Physical comedy

Five O'Clock Shadow

Five O'Clock Shadow was an a cappella group from Boston, Massachusetts, existing from 1991 to 2003. The band had performed on Fox News Channel, A&E Network, American Broadcasting Company, ESPN and VH1's "breakthrough" series....
, and a suit that's a size or two too small.

Personal life

Sayle was born and raised in Anfield, Liverpool

Anfield, Liverpool

Anfield is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward ....
, the son of an English railway worker and a Lithuanian pools clerk., both of whom were members of the Communist Party of Great Britain

Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the Communist parties of France and Italy....
. In his stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy

Lithuanian Jews

Lithuanian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .Lithuania was historically home to a large and influential Jewish community that was almost entirely eliminated during the Holocaust: see Holocaust in Lithuania....
extraction. In the aftermath of the May 1968 French uprising, he joined the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

The Communist Party of Britain is a British communist political party. The small party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a split from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China....
. He went to The Alsop High School

Alsop High School

Alsop High School is a community secondary school in Walton, Merseyside, Liverpool, England. It holds specialist certification in both Technology College and Applied Learning ....
in Walton. After leaving school, Sayle took a foundation course in art at Southport, before attending Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers further education and higher education courses in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Interior Design and Textile Design up to Doctor of Philosophy level....
in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. He has been married to Linda Rawsthorn since 1974.

On 3 January, 2009, Sayle took part in a protest in London along with thousands of others in opposition to Israel's ground attack on Gaza.

In February 2009, Sayle, along with British entertainers David Baddiel

David Baddiel

David Baddiel is an English comedian, novelist and television presenter....
, Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

Mark Bailey , Stage name as Bill Bailey, is an England stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books....
, Morwenna Banks

Morwenna Banks

Morwenna Banks is a United Kingdom actress and comedian.Banks is best known in the UK as a cast member of the British Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely , where her best-known character was a schoolgirl who sat on the edge of a scaled up desk to give the effect of making her look small....
, Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar

'Sanjeev Bhaskar,' Order of the British Empire is a British comedian and actor, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No....
, Jo Brand

Jo Brand

Josephine "Jo" Grace Brand is an England comedienne....
, Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Russell Edward Brand is an England comedian, actor, columnist and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter.Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK for presenting a Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth, and for his The Russell Brand Show , among other television series and award ceremonies....
, Rob Brydon

Rob Brydon

Rob Brydon is a Wales actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive....
, Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr

James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr, Jr. is an England comedian, author, actor and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter, known for his deadpan, satire and often very Black comedy....
, Jack Dee

Jack Dee

Jack Dee is an English people stand-up comedian, actor and writer, best known for his sardonic, deadpan style.BiographyEarly life...
, Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili is a British stand-up comedy and actor....
, Sean Lock

Sean Lock

Sean Lock is an England writer and comedian. Born in Woking, Surrey, he began his career in comedy as a stand up comedian.He won the British Comedy Awards in 2000 in the category of British Comedy Awards 2000#Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award....
, Lee Mack

Lee Mack

Lee Gordon McKillop is an England stand-up comedy and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the British sitcom Not Going Out, and for being a team captain on Would I Lie To You? ....
, Meera Syal

Meera Syal

Meera Syal Order of the British Empire is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actor, rising to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and becoming one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities....
and Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Mark Clifford Thomas is an England comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s....
, wrote in an open letter printed in the The Times

The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
of London, regarding the Bahá'í leaders to be on trial in Iran: "In reality, their only “crime”, which the current regime finds intolerable, is that they hold a religious belief that is different from the majority…. we register our solidarity with all those in Iran who are being persecuted for promoting the best development of society …(and) with the governments, human rights organisations and people of goodwill throughout the world who have so far raised their voices calling for a fair trial, if not the complete release of the Baha’i leaders in Iran." Echoing the comments earlier in the month made by two hundred and sixty seven non-Bahá'í Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists and activists from some 21 countries including Iran who signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com

Iranian.com

Iranian.com, also known as The Iranian and The Iranian Times, is an online English language magazine.Founded in July 1995 by entrepreneur/journalist Jahanshah Javid, Iranian.com has the largest online following among Iranians residing in North America, with more than 660,000 unique visitors and nearly 6 million page views per mo...
and stating they were "ashamed" and pledging their support in Bahá'ís achieving the rights detailed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly . The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the "Most Translated Document" in the world....
for the Bahá'ís in Iran. (See Persecution of Bahá'ís

Persecution of Bahá'ís

The persecution of Bah?'?s is the religious persecution of Bah?'?s in various countries, especially in Iran, where the Bah?'? Faith originated and the location of one of the largest Bah?'? populations in the world....
).

Career

When the Comedy Store

The Comedy Store, London

The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England that was opened in 1979 by Don Ward and Peter Rosengard.It was named after The Comedy Store club in the United States, which Rosengard visited the previous year....
opened in London in 1979, Sayle responded to an advert for "would-be comedians" and became its first master of ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

A Master or Mistress of Ceremonies or MC , sometimes called a comp?re or an MJ for "microphone jockey," is the Host of an official public or private staged event or other performance....
. In 1980, he was seen performing at the Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world?s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place in Scotland's capital during three weeks every August alongside several other arts and cultural festivals, collectively known as the Edinburgh Festival....
by comedy producer Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis

Martin Neil Lewis is a United States-based England humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer and Marketing strategy. He is known for his participation in a variety of projects in the arts and entertainment worlds including his work as the co-creator and co-producer of the The Secret Policeman's Balls benefit shows for Amnesty Internatio...
(producer of The Secret Policeman's Balls
The Secret Policeman's Balls

The shows have yielded movies, TV specials, home-videos, albums and books that have been distributed worldwide and had a considerable international impact....
), who became his manager. Sayle became the leading performer at the new club The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents.... The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson and Jennifer Saunders, with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane, Daniel Peacock and Alexei Sayle....
. He also secured a radio series for London's Capital Radio

Capital Radio

95.8 Capital FM is a London radio station owned by Global Radio....
, Alexei Sayle And The Fish People (1981), for which he won a Sony Radio Award. Sayle later released an album based on the show, The Fish People Tapes. He appeared on The Comic Strip Album (1981) and recorded Cak!
Cak!

Cak! was an album by comedian Alexei Sayle....
(1982). He also appeared in the stage show, film and comedy album of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

The show took place in London in September 1981. It was a successor to the 1979 show The Secret Policeman's Ball .The show was directed by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and produced by Martin Lewis & Peter Walker ....
(1981-82). In 1982, Sayle joined Central Television's late-night alternative cabaret show O.T.T.
O.T.T.

O.T.T. was a late-night adult version of the anarchic Associated TeleVision children's show Tiswas, but made by its ITV franchise#1982 franchise round successor Central Television....
He left nine weeks into the show's run, in order to tour Australia with The Comic Strip

The Comic Strip

Bernard Manning

Bernard John Manning was an England Stand-up comedy. He was born and brought up in Manchester in North West England.Manning courted controversy because his act often contained material involving ethnic stereotypes and minority groups....
.

The height of his early fame was with the single Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?, produced by Clive Langer
Clive Langer

Clive Langer is a United Kingdom record producer active from the mid-1970s onwards. He usually works with Alan Winstanley. He also composed the music for the films Still Crazy and Brothers of the Head....
and Alan Winstanley
Alan Winstanley

Alan Kenneth Winstanley is a United Kingdom record producer active from the mid-1970s onwards. He usually works with Clive Langer....
(who also produced for Madness
Madness (band)

Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
and Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
). The 12" version of the single achieved notoriety due to its extensive use of profanity. The record's success changed Sayle's comedy career from cult status into the mainstream. He went on to star in many television series and films and also became one of the UK's highest paid voiceover talents. He released two more singles: Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

"Didn't You Kill My Brother?" was an episode of the satire The Comic Strip TV comedy series in which Alexei Sayle plays both halves of a pair of gangster twins, not so loosely modelled on the Kray twins, the notorious Moss brothers , Carl and Sterling....
, which was accompanied by a popular music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
, and Meanwhile, both from the album Panic, the cover of which parodies the cover of the Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
album Off The Wall. Sayle was a cast member of the situation comedy The Young Ones

The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones was a popular United Kingdom situation comedy, first seen in 1982, on BBC Two. Its anarchy, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers....
, in which he was credited with providing "additional material". He often portrayed the students' landlord Mr. Balowski, but also played the roles of other Balowski family members. In the episode titled Oil, he sings and performs a song called Doctor Martens' Boots. In 1985, he appeared in the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
serial Revelation of the Daleks

Revelation of the Daleks

Revelation of the Daleks is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on March 23 and March 30 1985....
. In a column for a British tabloid newspaper around the same time, he indicated that he wanted to become the "first Socialist Doctor
Doctor (Doctor Who)

The Doctor is the central fictional character in the long-running BBC Science fiction on television series Doctor Who, and also features in a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
." In 1988, Sayle played the role of Trinculo in Shakespeare's The Tempest

The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
, directed by Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom comedian, neurologist, theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor....
at The Old Vic theatre in London.

Sayle has co-written many programmes, including one episode of The Comic Strip Presents..., also entitled Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.It stars stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle, with a recurring cast including Angus Deayton, Mark Williams , Arabella Weir, Tony Millan, Jan Ravens, Owen Brenman, Harriet Thorpe, and Felicity Montagu....
(1988-91), two series of The All New Alexei Sayle Show

The All New Alexei Sayle Show

The All New Alexei Sayle Show was a comedy sketch show that ran on BBC Two for a total of 12 episodes over 2 series from 1994 to 1995. The title sequence featured Alexei Sayle as an innocent, newly arrived man in London singing cheerful lyrics and dancing around Trafalgar Square in an obvious parody of The Mary Tyler Moore Show....
(1994-95) and one series of Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998.Alexei Sayle's final series was almost identical in format to The All New Alexei Sayle Show...
(1998). In 1989, Sayle was awarded an International Emmy for Stuff. In conversation with Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas

Mark Clifford Thomas is an England comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s....
on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
's informal chat-show Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction (radio)

Chain Reaction is a hostless Talk show first broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991, and then revived on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Each week an individual from the world of entertainment selects someone that they would like to interview....
, Sayle revealed that the first he knew of the award was when he watched Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News is the news division of British TV broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982....
and saw, to his amazement, Benny Hill
Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill , was an England comedian, actor and singer, best known for his television programme The Benny Hill Show....
collecting the award on his behalf. Sayle alternates his comedic work with performances as a character actor
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
ranging from serious (Gorky Park

Gorky Park (film)

Gorky Park, the 1983 film based on the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, was directed by Michael Apted from the screenplay by Dennis Potter ....
) to humorous (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas....
).

In 1994 he presented the miniseries Drive, which gave advice for safe driving through Alexei's signature form of humour interspersed with some serious pieces. Examples include ending a piece on the likelihood of certain behaviour causing fatal accidents with "...but it's not gonna be me, so it must be one of you", and on the subject of alertness; "You not only have to expect the unexpected, you also have to expect the utterly impossible", followed by jumping into a car with two lobsters. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary professorship at Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University

Thames Valley University is a United Kingdom New Universities based on campuses in Slough, Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire, and Ealing in west London....
.

Sayle has written two short story collections and five novels, including a graphic novel
Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series ....
, as well as columns for various publications. His book Great Bus Journeys Of The World, co-written with David Stafford
David Stafford

David Stafford is a writer, broadcaster, and occasional musician born in Birmingham, England.Stafford began his career in Fringe theatre and community theatre in the 1970s....
, is mostly a collection of his columns for Time Out

Time out

The word time out, time-out, timeout may refer to:* Time-out , a break in a sport play that may be called by a side* Timeout , the costumed mascot of California State University, Fresno...
and the Sunday Mirror. In 2004, Sayle was one of eight contributory authors to the BBC Three
BBC Three

BBC Three is a television channel from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, Freeview , IPTV and Satellite television platforms. The channel is described by the BBC as an outlet for 'New drama, talent, comedy, films, and accessible news'....
competition End Of Story, in which members of the public completed the second half of stories written by established authors. The winning entry to Sayle's story, Imitating Katherine Walker, was written by Arthur Allan.

On 3 November 2006 he presented Chopwell Soviet, a 30-minute programme on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
that reviewed the Chopwell
Chopwell

Chopwell is a village in Tyne and Wear, located approximately three miles west of Rowlands Gill and one mile north of Hamsterley, Consett.Traditionally an area of coal mining, Chopwell was nicknamed "Little Moscow" because of the strong support for the Communist Party of Great Britain....
miners 80 years after the village of Chopwell became known as Little Moscow.

In 2008, Sayle wrote and presented Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, a three-part television series in which he reconnected with his hometown. He stated in the programmes that on first hearing that Liverpool was to be awarded the European Capital of Culture
European Capital of Culture

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it is given a chance to showcase its culture life and cultural development....
, he received much criticism for describing the city as 'philistine'. He now feels that he doesn't know whether or not his original statement was true, but as a result of making the series he does now consider Liverpool to be his home, and he has vowed to go back there more often in the future.
Television series

Alexei Sayle's Liverpool (2008)
End Of Story
End of Story

End of Story is an upcoming comic, created by Virgin Comics, loosely based on the Panchatantra....
(2004)
Keen Eddie
Keen Eddie

Keen Eddie is an action genre/comedy-drama television series, first aired in 2003, about a brash United States police detective who is sent to help solve crimes in London....
(2003)
Tipping The Velvet
Tipping the Velvet (TV serial)

Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama Serial based on the Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters of the same name. It originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Sally Head Productions....
(2002)
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998.Alexei Sayle's final series was almost identical in format to The All New Alexei Sayle Show...
(1998)
Alexei Sayle's Comedy Hour (1997)
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
The All New Alexei Sayle Show

The All New Alexei Sayle Show was a comedy sketch show that ran on BBC Two for a total of 12 episodes over 2 series from 1994 to 1995. The title sequence featured Alexei Sayle as an innocent, newly arrived man in London singing cheerful lyrics and dancing around Trafalgar Square in an obvious parody of The Mary Tyler Moore Show....
(1994 - 1995)
Paris (1994)
Drive (1994)
Sex, Drugs & Dinner (1993)
Rubbish, King of the Jumble (1993)
Selling Hitler (1991)
The Gravy Train (1990)
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.It stars stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle, with a recurring cast including Angus Deayton, Mark Williams , Arabella Weir, Tony Millan, Jan Ravens, Owen Brenman, Harriet Thorpe, and Felicity Montagu....
(1988 - 1991)
Up Line (1987)
Revelation Of The Daleks
Revelation of the Daleks

Revelation of the Daleks is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on March 23 and March 30 1985....
(Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
) (1985)
The Comic Strip Presents... (1982 - 2005)
Comic Roots
Comic Roots

Comic Roots was a television series from the early 1980s, documenting the biographies and influences of a number of popular comedians of the era....
(1982)
The Private Life Of The Ford Cortina (1982)
Whoops Apocalypse
Whoops Apocalypse

Whoops Apocalypse was originally a six-part 1982 sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 Film with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles....
(1982)
The Young Ones
The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones was a popular United Kingdom situation comedy, first seen in 1982, on BBC Two. Its anarchy, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers....
(1982 & 1984)
O.T.T.
O.T.T.

O.T.T. was a late-night adult version of the anarchic Associated TeleVision children's show Tiswas, but made by its ITV franchise#1982 franchise round successor Central Television....
(1982)
Wolcott (1981)
Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights (1980 - 1981)

Screen plays

Lose Weight...Ask Me How (2001)
Sorry About Last Night (1995)
'Itch (1990)
Night Voice (1990)

Radio

Where Did All The Money Go? (2008)
Migrant Music (2008)
Alexei Sayle's Alternative Take (2007)
Chopwell Soviet (2006)
Lenin of the Rovers
Lenin of the Rovers

Lenin of the Rovers was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series from 1988 written by Marcus Berkmann and Harry Thompson, and starring Alexei Sayle as Ricky Lenin, a player for Felchester Rovers - UK's only Communism football team....
(1988)
Capital 95.8 (1979-1980) (various performances)

Movies

The Thief Lord
The Thief Lord (film)

The Thief Lord is a 2006 in film family movie directed by Richard Claus. It is a joint production of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Future Films Limited, Comet Film, and Thema Production....
(2006)
Upstaged (2005)
The Tale of Tarquin Slant (2004)
Don't Walk (2001)
Arabian Nights (2000)
Swing (1999)
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1997)
Reckless Kelly
Reckless Kelly

.Reckless Kelly is a 1993 Australian comedy film written, directed and starring Yahoo Serious. The story is a satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land, robbing banks....
(1993)
Carry On Columbus
Carry On Columbus

Carry On Columbus was a 1992 film, and the most recent in the Carry On films series. It was the first Carry On film to have been made since 1978's Carry On Emmannuelle....
(1992)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas....
(1989)
Siesta (1987)
The Love Child (1987)
Solarbabies
Solarbabies

Solarbabies, also known as Solarwarriors, was released in November 1986. It was released on DVD on March 6, 2007.Synopsis ...
(1986)
Whoops Apocalypse
Whoops Apocalypse

Whoops Apocalypse was originally a six-part 1982 sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 Film with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles....
(1986)
The Supergrass (1985)
The Bride
The Bride (film)

The Bride is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, released in 1985 in film and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous Frankenstein's monster....
(1985)
Gorky Park (1983)
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

The show took place in London in September 1981. It was a successor to the 1979 show The Secret Policeman's Ball .The show was directed by Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and produced by Martin Lewis & Peter Walker ....
(1982)
Repeater (1980)

Records

Meanwhile (single, CBS, 1986)
Panic (album, CBS, 1985)
Didn't You Kill My Brother? (single, CBS, 1985) (7" A6553, 12" TA6553)
The Fish People Tapes (album, Island, 1984)
'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor? (single, Springtime/Island, 1982) (7" IS162, 12" 12IS162)
Cak!
Cak!

Cak! was an album by comedian Alexei Sayle....
(album, Springtime/Island, 1982)
Pop-Up Toasters (single, Springtime/Island, 1981) (as Alexei's Midnight Runners)

Videos

The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video (Springtime, 1982)

Books

Mister Roberts (Sceptre, 16 October 2008; hardcover ISBN 0-340-96155-1) — Sayle's latest novel
The Weeping Women Hotel (Sceptre, 27 February 2006; hardcover ISBN 0-340-83121-9)
Overtaken (Sceptre, 1 September 2003; hardcover ISBN 0-340-76768-5) — despite Train To Hell, this was publicised as being Sayle's first novel
The Dog Catcher (Sceptre, 19 July 2001; hardcover ISBN 0-340-81868-9, paperback ISBN 0-340-81944-8) — short story collection
Barcelona Plates (Sceptre, 17 February 2000; hardback ISBN 0-340-76752-9, paperback ISBN 0-340-76753-7) — short story collection
Alexei Sayle's Great Bus Journeys Of The World (Methuen, October 1989; paperback ISBN 0-413-62670-9) — collected columns from Time Out
Time out

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and the Sunday Mirror
Geoffrey The Tube Train And The Fat Comedian (Methuen, 1987; paperback) - graphic novel
Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series ....
Train To Hell (Methuen, 9 February 1984; hardcover ISBN 0-413-52460-4, paperback ISBN 0-413-52470-1) — novel co-written by David Stafford
David Stafford

David Stafford is a writer, broadcaster, and occasional musician born in Birmingham, England.Stafford began his career in Fringe theatre and community theatre in the 1970s....

External links

on BBC One
BBC One

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