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Alexei Sayle quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I'm an intellectual.

I'm an intellectual.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I always thought communism was crap, really.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,

Alexei Sayle quotes: Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Alexei Sayle quotes: It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle quotes: If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

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 quotes: I'm still fiercely ambitious.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

Alexei Sayle quotes: First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I feel sorry for many politicians ... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I feel sorry for many politicians ... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Alexei Sayle quotes: If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

Alexei Sayle quotes: People aren't universally heroic.

People aren't universally heroic.

Alexei Sayle quotes: 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 you.

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 you.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

Alexei Sayle quotes: For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

Alexei Sayle quotes: ...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Alexei Sayle quotes: It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I'm fascinated by comedy.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

Alexei Sayle quotes: People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

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 quotes: If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't ... You can't live your life for your routines.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't ... You can't live your life for your routines.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Alexei Sayle quotes: People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Alexei Sayle quotes: There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

Alexei Sayle quotes: Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

Alexei Sayle quotes: Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I'm distinct, really.

I'm distinct, really.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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 quotes: Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Alexei Sayle quotes: You can't do comedy with a beard.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

Alexei Sayle quotes: I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.