Alexei Sayle
Acting
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.
Filmography
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They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
Censoring Palestine
Censoring Palestine
2024
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
Bottom: Exposed
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
How to Build a Girl
2020
Mandy
2020
Sometimes Always Never
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Gloves Off
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Red Top
2016
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
For the Love of Cars
2014
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Story of Music Hall
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
The Michael Ball Show
The Michael Ball Show
2010
Horrible Histories
2009
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
Q&A
2008
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Tapping the Wire
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
The Double Life of Saki
The Double Life of Saki
2007
The One Show
2006
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
The Thief Lord
2006
The Roots of Monty Python
2005
A Bear's Tail
2005
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Blood Matters
Blood Matters
2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
Spine Chillers
2003
Keen Eddie
2003
Tipping the Velvet
2002
Richard & Judy
2001
Arabian Nights
2000
Don't Walk
2000
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Swing
1999
What's a Carry On?
1998
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
Parkinson
1998
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Two Minutes
1997
Hospital!
1997
Renford Rejects
1997
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Moonlighters
1996
Sorry About Last Night
1995
Paris
1994
Room 101
1994
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
I Was That Monster
1993
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
Curaçao
1993
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
Selling Hitler
1993
Reckless Kelly
1993
Carry On Columbus
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Meeting Venus
1991
Selling Hitler
1991
'Itch
1991