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Alexei Sayle

Alexei 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 is act is known for its cynicism and political awareness, as well as physical comedy.


Aliases
  • Alexei David Sayle
English

Sorry About Last Night

1995
as Andy Carolides

Repeater

1979
as 2nd Detective

Reckless Kelly

1994
as Major Wib

Solarbabies

1986
as Malice

Tipping the Velvet

2002
as Charles Frobisher

The Comic Strip

1981
as Compere

Red Top

2016
as Colin Goodman

Night Voice

1990
as Clarence Flamer

Gloves Off

2017
as Algy

The Young Ones

1982
as The Balowski Family

Whoops Apocalypse

1986
as Himself

The Love Child

1987
as The Voices

Selling Hitler

1991
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

2004
as Newspaper Editor

Keen Eddie

2003
as Rudy Alexander

Jake's Journey

1988
as Head torturer

The Thief Lord

2006
as Barbarossa

Swing

1999
as Mighty Mac

The Gravy Train

1990
as Milcic

Siesta

1987
as Cabbie

Whoops Apocalypse

1982
as rtured by Commissar Alexei Solzhenitsyn

Hospital!

1997
as X Ray Operator

Writer

Movie Sorry About Last Night 1995
Movie The Comic Strip 1981
Episode A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Fry And Laurie Host A Christmas Night with the Stars
1994
Episode The Comic Strip Presents...
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988

Host

Series Britain's Greatest Obsessions 2022

Guest Star

Episode Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
Episode 1
1999
Episode The Project (2009)
Thursday 01 Sep
2016
Episode Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Lisa Maffia, Alexei Sayle, Stine Bramwell Anna Richardson
2008
Episode Q+A
Alexei Sayle Joins Q and A
2009
Episode A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Fry And Laurie Host A Christmas Night with the Stars
1994
Episode Stars In Their Cars
Alexei Sayle
2016
Episode Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Just Pop a Knife Near Your Penis
2016
Episode Genius
Tim Minchin and Alexei Sayle
2010
Episode The Comic Strip Presents...
Red Top
2016
Episode Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
RHLSTP 38 - Alexei Sayle
2014
Episode BBC Documentaries
Festival Tales: Edinburgh At 70
2017
Episode Have I Got News for You
Alexei Sayle, Gerald Kaufman
1993
Episode Great Railway Journeys
Aleppo to Aqaba
1996
Episode Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
Alexei Sayle
2024
Episode Sky Documentaries
Animated Soviet Propaganda
2007
Episode Agatha Christie's Marple
They Do It with Mirrors
2009
Episode The Unpleasant World of Penn and Teller
Alexei Sayle
1994
Episode The ONE Show
Alex Jones, Alexei Sayle, Sarah Millican
2016
Episode Annually Retentive
Episode 5
2006
Episode Doctor Who
Revelation of the Daleks (1)
1985
Episode Have I Got News for You
Christmas Special - Kelvin MacKenzie, Alexei Sayle
1994
Episode The Comic Strip Presents...
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Episode Room 101
Alexei Sayle
2002
Episode The Comic Strip Presents...
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
Episode Doctor Who
Revelation of the Daleks (2)
1985
Episode The Comic Strip Presents...
The Strike
1988