Alexei Sayle
Biography
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.
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Movies (32)
Censoring Palestine
as Self
2024
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Bottom: Exposed
as Self
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
as Self
2023
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
as Narrator
2023
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
as Self
2022
How to Build a Girl
as Karl Marx
2020
Sometimes Always Never
as Bill
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Gloves Off
as Algy
2017
Red Top
as Colin Goodman
2016
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Self
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
2014
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Story of Music Hall
as Self
2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Planet Jimmy (voice)
2011
My Dad Was a Communist
as Self
2008
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
as Narrator
2008
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
as Self
2007
Tapping the Wire
as Self
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
as D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
The Double Life of Saki
as Self
2007
When Comedy Changed Forever
as Self
2006
The Thief Lord
as Barbarossa
2006
The Roots of Monty Python
as Self
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as Self
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Newspaper Editor
2004
Don't Walk
as Uncle Henry
2000
TV Shows (18)
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
as Self - Guest
2024
Mandy
as Darren Dugdale
2020
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Panellist
2017
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
2014
For the Love of Cars
as Himself
2014
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
The Michael Ball Show
as Self
2010
Horrible Histories
as Dr. Ushma
2009
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
2008
The One Show
as Self
2006
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
A Bear's Tail
2005
Blood Matters
2004
Spine Chillers
as Graham
2003
Keen Eddie
2003
Tipping the Velvet
as Charles Frobisher
2002
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
Arabian Nights
as BacBac
2000