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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

I'm an intellectual. — Alexei Sayle

I always thought communism was crap, really. — Alexei Sayle

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states, — Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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

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

I'm still fiercely ambitious. — Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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

People aren't universally heroic. — Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm fascinated by comedy. — Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm distinct, really. — Alexei Sayle

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

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

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

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