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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
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… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
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… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
