Alexei Sayle

Known for ActingBorn 1952-08-07 (age 74)Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew

Bottom Mindless Violence

Night Voice

Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry

Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke

For the Love of Cars

Two Minutes

Up Line

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

Horrible Histories

Tapping the Wire

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

Sorry About Last Night

Keen Eddie

Selling Hitler

Red Nose of Courage

The Gravy Train

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Itch of the Golden Nit

The Comic Strip

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Young Ones

Mandy

What's a Carry On?

A Bear's Tail

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

Doctor Who

Spine Chillers

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

The Love Child

Lovejoy

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

The Comic Strip Presents...

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

The Lenny Henry Show

Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Have I Got News for You

Don't Walk

Renford Rejects

Tipping the Velvet