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Alexei Sayle


British
August 7, 1952
Comedian
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I'm distinct, really.


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I'm fascinated by comedy.


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I'm still fiercely ambitious.


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I am quite girly.


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You can't do comedy with a beard.


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I always thought communism was crap, really.


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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.


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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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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.


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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.


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For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
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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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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.


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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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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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The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
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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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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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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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