Alexei Sayle

Sayle, a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s, was voted 18th on a list of the 100 Greatest Stand Ups. Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on an absurd and surreal premise. His act is notable for cynicism, intelligence and political awareness, as well as physical comedy. Sayle's trademark appearance is a shaved head, five o'clock shadow, and a suit that is a size or two too small.
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Title	Comment	Year	Mins	MyID
O.T.T Starring... Alexei Sayle Sally James Chris Tarrent	O.T.T :Live Stand Up This is Alexi on the first episode of O.T.T (the TISWAS adult spin off) which was on late at night. It's only a very short clip so can be added to another DVD Picture quality is 8/10	1982	5
Kak Starring... Alexei Sayle	Kak :Live Stand Up Side 1 (original vinyl) Sausalito Happy Days Part 1 Dr. Marten's Boots Stoke Newington Calling The Ballad of Chris and Judith Some Stuff How Are You? Side 2 (original vinyl) Some More Stuff The Wine Bars of Old Hampstead Town Happy Days Part 2 CAK! Song for Len Commercial Break Radical Posture Long Distance Information Das Kap Rap Say Hello Mr. Sweary 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?	1982	60
Young Ones Starring... Alexei Sayle Rik Mayall Christopher Ryan Adrian Edmunson Nigel Planer Dawn French Jen Saunders Hale & Pace	Series 1 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Episodes Demolition [Nine Below Zero] Oil [Alexei Sayle] Boring [Madness] Bomb [Dexy's Midnite Runners] Interesting [Rip Rig & Panic] Flood [no band]	1982	180
Pirate Video Starring... Alexei Sayle	Pirate Video :Live Stand Up I think this is an audience recording as there are no credits at the end although it is listed on his page at Wikipedia. Picture quality is 7/10	1983	75
Young Ones Starring... Alexei Sayle Rik Mayall Christopher Ryan Adrian Edmunson Nigel Planer Tony Robinson Robbie Coltrane Stephen Fry Emma Thompson Ben Elton Mel Smith Griff Ryhs Jones	Series 2 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Episodes Bambi [Motorhead] cash Nasty Time Sick Summer Holiday	1984	180
The Fish People Tapes Starring... Alexei Sayle	The Fish People Tapes : Based on a Radio Show. The Fish People Tapes is a 1984 comedy album by Alexei Sayle. Subtitled "an Alexei Sayle mystery", the album comprises an episodic detective serial plus occasional musical interludes. The album is based on Alexei Sayle and the Fish People, an award-winning radio series originally broadcast by 95.8 Capital FM in 1979. Side 1 (original vinyl) Metro at the Disco It Ain't Hard to Be an Animal 20 Tom Waits and a Box of Swans That's Milton Springsteen Side 2 (original vinyl) That's Milton Springsteen (Conclusion) Song of the Revolutionary Stool Pigeon 'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?	1984	60
Stuff Starring... Alexei Sayle Angus Deayton MArk Williams	Series 1 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Episodes : Fun With Magnets FromAvogardo o Ava Gardner Cartesian Dualism for the Fuller Figure The Dobsey Twins Isolate Radium Liebnitz: Man or Biscuit? How to Point at Chickens	1988	180
Stuff Starring... Alexei Sayle	Series 2 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Episodes : Tinkering with Teeth Westward H20! My Pal Mozart Six Bodybuilders of the Italian Renaissance Whistling Calculus for Tax Purposes Margaret Drabble: The Hard Way	1989	180
Stuff Starring... Alexei Sayle	Series 3 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Episodes : Yellow the Follow Rick Broad Clam Nation Buckle My Chives Why Are They Now? Vanessa Goes Bonkers What's This Organ Doing in the Scullery?	1991	180
Paris Starring... Alexei Sayle Neil Morrissey James Dreyfus More	Paris - Series 1 : 6 episodes - 30 minutes each. Unreleased on DVD An imaginative look at Eurpoe in the 20s and 30s that is both pretty precise but also very funny. Blackadder was a kind of diluted version whereas this directly lampooned the political intrigues of the early 20th century instead of just laughing at fart jokes. Who can forget such unforgettable lines as "A German fascist? Well, I never!" What about the performance by Windsor Davis as the repressed homosexual Masquerading as a butch butcher and "Ernest Hemmingbeck" fan. Definitely his best cameo role. Not forgetting Neil Morrissey as his sidekick, Rochet and the hilarious Alan Corduner as the tortured music teacher suffering at the voice box of Mme Ovary. Episodes : L'Infamie Le Critique Les Gimmeques Les Musicians La Solitude Le Sanitie	1994	6 x 30	avi-dvd 231209
Great Train Journey Starring... Alexei Sayle	Great Train Journey :50 minutes Comedian Alexei Sayle attempts to travel from Aleppo in northern Syria to Aqaba in Jordan on the Red Sea, by a variety of trains. The first leg of the journey is Aleppo to Lattakia on the Mediterranean coast. On arrival at Lattakia, Alexei takes a taxi to al Siwar restaurant where he meets Syria's favourite comic Bashar Ismail. Then it's back on the train heading for the Syrian capital Damascus, but stopping off for a short break at Crac de Chevaliers where Khaled Mourad and his father show Alexei round the castle. On reaching Hejaz station, Alexei manages to catch the International Train to Deraa, and then takes a steam (actually diesel) train from Deraa to Bosra where he visits the Roman amphitheatre, but turns out to be two months early for the annual music and arts festival. He then passes through Amman, hitches a lift on a service trolley to Petra, and takes a freight train for the final leg of the journey to Wadi Rum and on to Aqaba where, at journey's end, he reflects on 'the explosive intimacy of the Middle East'.	2009	50	200310
Thatcher Stole My Trousers Starring... Alexei Sayle Stewart Lee	Thatcher Stole My Trousers :40 minutes Comedian Alexei Sayle is interviewed at London's Comedy Club by fellow comedian Stewart Lee about Alexsi's second autoboigraphy.	2016	40	-
Room 101	Room 101 Presenter(s) - Nick Nancock / Paul Merton There have been many guests on this show, but I record those I personally like... and most were interviewed by Paul Merton with some early editions by Nick Hanock. Make your own compilation for £5 (6 shows). Alexei Sayle Stepehen Fry Terry Chritian Sara Millican Julian Clary Bill Bailey Spike Milliagan Ulrika Jonnson Kathy Burke Tracy Emin John Peel Patrick Moore Richard E.Grant	Various	30 each
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