Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle

  • 71 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and producer

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Laugharne Weekend line-up looks like strongest yet

On the comedy side the guests for the 2024 festival will include alternative stand-up legend Alexei Sayle, Confessions star Robin Askwith, Welsh comic Kiri Pritchard-McLean and festival regulars Isy Suttie and Robin Ince.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th October 2023

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: 26 photos looking back at the Fringe in the 1980s

So many memories from August in Edinburgh in the 1980s.

Kevin Quinn, Edinburgh Evening News, 23rd July 2023

Lenny Henry lands two Channel 4 shows

Lenny Henry is making two new television shows for Channel 4. In Legends Of Comedy, he interviews Paul Whitehouse, Alexei Sayle, Sally Phillips and Romesh Ranganathan. He is also writing a dark comedy drama pilot for the channel called Kriss Kross.

British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2023

Comic Strip stars to celebrate series at BFI

Three screenings at the BFI this month will celebrate more than 40 years of the influential Comic Strip Presents series.

British Comedy Guide, 9th May 2023

Alexei Sayle: 'When Corbyn came close to winning it was a glorious day'

The long-serving comic on disastrous gigs, childhood train journeys and the problem with traffic lights.

Rob Crossan, The Telegraph, 30th March 2023

How The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show's creators how they pulled it off.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 12th November 2022

Bonus-packed The Young Ones coming to Blu-ray

Iconic early "alternative comedy" sitcom The Young Ones has been comprehensively restored for a new Blu-ray release, which is to be packed with new and never-seen extra features.

British Comedy Guide, 28th October 2022

What does 'alternative comedy' mean in 2022?

A scene that started as a counter to straight stand-up at the end of the 1970s is still hard to peg - but it's much more than just weird stuff that doesn't work on telly.

Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 29th June 2022

BBC film The Fringe in 12 Jokes tells the story of Edinburgh in gags

The BBC is making documentary The Fringe In 12 Jokes, featuring Eddie Izzard, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Frankie Boyle, Lucy Porter and Henning Wehn, among others, reflecting on the impact of Edinburgh festival on their careers.

British Comedy Guide, 6th May 2022

Radio 4 orders Jen Brister, Josie Long and Kiri Pritchard-McLean shows

Radio 4 has commissioned stand-up specials from Jen Brister and Josie Long, a medicine-based panel show fronted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and a train-based interview series from Alexei Sayle.

British Comedy Guide, 3rd May 2022

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