Alexei Sayle

Acting · Born 1952-08-07 · Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK

Biography

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.

Known for

• They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew (2026)
• Bottom: Exposed (2024)
• Censoring Palestine (2024)
• The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide (2024)
• Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie (2023)
• imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)
• The Rise of the Comic Strip (2023)
• Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry (2022)
• The Fringe, Fame and Me (2022)
• How to Build a Girl (2020)
• Sometimes Always Never (2019)
• How The Young Ones Changed Comedy (2018)
• Gloves Off (2017)
• Red Top (2016)
• Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule (2014)
• 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy (2014)
• 30 Years of Comic Strip (2012)
• The Story of Music Hall (2011)
• The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother (2008)
• My Dad Was a Communist (2008)
• Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
• The Double Life of Saki (2007)
• Tapping the Wire (2007)
• The Making of 'The Young Ones' (2007)