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Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle
British Comedian
Born: Aug 7, 1952
About Me People Think World You
Related authors: Eddie Izzard Eric Morecambe Jack Whitehall John Oliver Stephen Fry Tim Vine Tommy Cooper Tracey Ullman
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. Alexei Sayle
Saying Stupid President Say Ways Git Lift American Different They Say Different Ways Elevator Things
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. Alexei Sayle
Motorcycle Women People Rich Fur More Safer Because Leather Opposed Than Harass Gangs Violently
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' Alexei Sayle
You Travel Words Seriously President Say States Git Lift Instance Like Lot Than Different Curtains Deranged Use They Say Elevator
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done. Alexei Sayle
Memory Complicated Problems Further Recollection Vivid Fact However Very Any Done While Actually Things Loads
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. Alexei Sayle
Great You Stupid Band Immediately Tells Brothers Dire Someone Git Like Know Annoying Arms
People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. Alexei Sayle
People Think About Stuff Comic Doing Just Used Sartre
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. Alexei Sayle
Humour Charisma Magnetism Fired Failed Journalists Obviously Newspapers Capture Away Right Innate Right Away Need
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. Alexei Sayle
Woman Women Way Most Friends Quite Being Fancied
I'm distinct, really. Alexei Sayle
Distinct Really
I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that. Alexei Sayle
World Random Sense Think Humour Kind Cruel Ideas Springs Quite Really Therefore
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. Alexei Sayle
Death You Try Something Comic Go Grind Works
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't. Alexei Sayle
Good Good Ones Easy Write Were Lot Sitcoms
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. Alexei Sayle
Time Me Jokes People Meet Someone Hyper Idea Soon Suppose Cracking Going Common Notion Who
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. Alexei Sayle
Family Fruit Charity City Open Lottery Won Shops Stores Little Helped Start Hardware
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people. Alexei Sayle
People Nice Knew Most Were Communists Nice People
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. Alexei Sayle
Few City Outside Bought House Been Years Years Ago Going Miles Many
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. Alexei Sayle
Three Year Every Comedians Frequency Audience Years Off Optimum Literally Dying Which Should Series
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s. Alexei Sayle
People Think Most Doing Were Interested
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip. Alexei Sayle
Man Space First Considered Charms Had He Hip His May Really
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. Alexei Sayle
Me You People Tell Memoir About Something Know Want Uninteresting Showbiz
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. Alexei Sayle
Work Politics Me Winter Pretending Clothes Nice Summer Though Arabic My Friend Like Sophisticated Look Robert Make Around Go Lebanese Italian Lot Friend Experts Professor Right
I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. Alexei Sayle
Sorry Politicians Consistent Feel Expect Them Many

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