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	Encyclopedia: Alexei Sayle
		Alexei David Sayle is a British comedian, actor, author and ex-Communist.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: No, not fear of failure, but really I suppose the aim of a comedian is to be alone really, to perform alone, and you know, in terms of television and stuff.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: Well they're socialist satires, and I think with most of the short stories, and with the novel I wanted to write about now really, I mean Britain now, and I supposed in a larger sense the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexei-Sayle (384 words)

	Alexei Sayle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexei Sayle grew up in Liverpool, the son of working-class Communist parents.
		Much of Sayle's humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python with riffs based on an absurd premise.
		In 1989, he was awarded an International Emmy for his series Alexei Sayle's Stuff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexei_Sayle (690 words)

	7.30 Report - 24/05/2004: Alexei Sayle talks about his darker side
		ALEXEI SAYLE: They couldn't distinguish between the fake working-class hard case, which I was, and a real one.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: No, I think that that's a decision that I've made because all entertainers are, to some extent, using their success like a kind of drug to make themselves feel better about themselves.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1114931.htm (1107 words)

	PM - Sounds of Summer: Alexei Sayle
		ALEXEI SAYLE: Well my parents were in the Communist Party and I used to do a lot of stand-up material about it.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: And one of the problems with being a writer is you don't make new friends really because you never meet anybody else.
		ALEXEI SAYLE: The one that comes around the country with me. She actually does a bit of editing; I show her my stuff as well.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1274238.htm (2936 words)

	BBC - Nottingham Culture - Alexei Sayle : The interview
		Alexei Sayle chats to Jeff Owen ahead of his visit to Nottingham about life, politics and revenge.
		Alexei Sayle is best known as a comic and for his his part in cult series The Young Ones - he's is still collecting the cheques.
		Alexei Sayle will be appearing at Waterstones on Bridlesmith Gate at 7.30pm.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/culture/2003/09/alexei_sayle_interview.shtml (253 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| The Westminster Hour \| Alexei Sayle on our Communists
		The comedian Alexei Sayle was once a member of the Communist Party's youth wing.
		There are memories of Stalin's death in 1953 - "the struggle continues," one young Communist was told by his grieving parents - and of the disillusionment that set in after the news of Stalin's purges, the crushing of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
		Alexei Sayle talks to one-time party leaders, including former Communist general secretary Gordon McLennan, as well as the son of veteran leader Harry Pollitt.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/programmes/the_westminster_hour/2830503.stm (276 words)

	Durham Literature Festival 2003: Alexei Sayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexei Sayle paused in mid-rant, and looked down from his outsize lectern at the child in the middle of the front row.
		The audience who packed the Studio at the Gala Theatre to see Alexei Sayle were treated to the best of both worlds: on the one hand, a dedicated and accomplished author reading from his work, and on the other a performer who knows all the tricks of stand-up comedy.
		Alexei Sayle the writer delivered a generous sample of his work.
	www.literaturefestival.co.uk /reports/sayle.html (311 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| A life in writing: Alexei Sayle
		Then, Sayle was a shouty stand-up in a too-tight suit, part of the same "alternative" generation as Ben Elton, Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall.
		Sayle's career as a TV and film actor was in gentle decline, and no one - including the man himself - had been much impressed with how the handful of TV movies he had written had turned out.
		Sayle's Bloomsbury home is in the street where Dickens once lived, and he has no qualms about identifying himself with his hero: "He was also somebody who'd had a life before being a writer," he says before attacking all those writers who can only write about writing.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,687245,00.html (971 words)

	Alexei Sayle presents 'Gumshoe' - Movie News - Time Out Film
		This Sunday (June 12) Alexei Sayle will be at the Curzon Soho cinema to present a very special screening of 'Gumshoe'.
		Sayle's TV credits include 'The Young Ones', 'Alexei Sayle's Stuff' and 'The All New Alexei Sayle Show' and he has written regularly for The Independent, The Observer and Esquire.
		Sayle has also appeared in numerous films, including 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' and 'Gorky Park', and his latest novel, 'Overtaken', was recently released to critical acclaim.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/474.html (239 words)

	Alexei Sayle CV at PFD
		Alexei Sayle is a comedian, actor, presenter and writer.
		The acclaimed Barcelona Plates revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way.
		The Dog Catcher will confirm Alexei Sayle's reputation as not only one of the great exponents of the short story genre, but also as a profound commentator on the way we live now.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/saylea/b-aut.html (290 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Overtaken: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sayle's particular achievement here is his wonderfully wry and quirky take on some demanding subject matter--this is a real novel, but the surface has all the corrosive wit and observation of the author's standup act.
		I used to thoroughly enjoy watching Alexei Sayle, and it was my memory of his intelligent humour that made me buy this book, thinking that it would probably translate well to paper.
		There is a cast of entertaining misfits who Kelvin (the central character that you cannot help imagine as Alexei Sayle himself) meets along the way, but they lack the sort of subtlety that would make the book more enjoyable by making the reader do some of the work.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340767693 (1122 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - The man who put an end to comic Alexei
		A BUDDING author is hoping for his big break after victory in a national competition to finish a short story by comedian Alexei Sayle.
		The 39-year-old freelance business writer was chosen by Sayle because of his "technical ability" and because he simply "used words better" in writing the 1200-word ending to the darkly comic tale Imitating Katherine Walker.
		The prize was not only a meeting with Sayle himself, along with two other finalists, but also a chat to Sayle’s agent, where authors get the chance to pitch ideas to them.
	news.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=1103632004 (760 words)

	TV Ark - Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The anarchic Alexei Sayle (of Comic Strip and Young Ones-fame) went on to have his own BBC2 series in 1988.
		In this series he was joined by Jan Ravens (of Dead Ringers) and Owen Brenman (Mr Swainey in One Foot In The Grave), replacing Felicity Montagu, Harriet Thorpe and Mark Williams.
		The third and final series of Alexei Sayle's Stuff was shown on BBC2 in October 1991.
	www.tv-ark.org.uk /comedy/comedy_a-f.html (672 words)

	The Richmond Review, Feature Article, A Quick Chat With Alexei Sayle
		Alexei Sayle is, in his own words, "a moody kind of northern oik." Having spent half an hour on the phone with him, you can't help but agree - he's dour, and extremely dry.
		In 'Who Died and Left You In Charge?' a cyclist finally gets mowed down by a vengeful motorist, although Alexei denies him pity by brutally adding that he "was a complete waste of fucking space and deserved to die".
		As you might have expected, Alexei still has one surprise left up his sleeve, which is a return to our screens.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /features/sayleint.html (477 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Overtaken by Alexei Sayle
		Alexei Sayle's first two books of short stories were variously compared to Maupassant and Roald Dahl.
		Overtaken, Sayle's first novel since his 1980s jeu d'esprit Train to Hell, confirms he has the gift and knows how to deploy it over the more demanding length of 200 pages.
		Sayle's satiric strategy, however, is to show, in the most unexpected and organic of ways, that even benign attempts to control the destiny of other people are bound for disillusionment.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,,1040808,00.html (585 words)

	BBC - End of Story - Authors - Alexei Sayle
		His television work as a writer and performer includes ‘The Young Ones,’, ‘Alexei Sayle’s Stuff’ and the ‘All New Alexei Sayle Show.’ He has written for the Observer, Independent, Time Out, Car Magazine and Esquire and has appeared in numerous films including ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ and ‘Gorky Park’.
		Find out who has made the shortlist for Alexei Sayle's story, read the entries and vote for your favourite.
		Watch what Alexei has to say about how he would finish his story.
	www.bbc.co.uk /endofstory/authors/authors.shtml?sayle (251 words)

	Funny.co.uk - Alexei Sayle apologises to Liverpool
		Comedian Alexei Sayle has apologised to the people of Liverpool after he made inappropriate remarks about the town.
		At his new book launch at the Edinburgh Festival, Sayle made the comment: "The sentimentality in Liverpool is compounded by both Heysel and Hillsborough, you know.
		Sayle apologised for the comment, but claimed that it was not intended as a joke, and instead was intended to demonstrate the suffering of one of the characters in his new book.
	funny.co.uk /news/art_77-1025-Alexei-Sayle-apologises-to-Liverpool.html (292 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - The All New Alexei Sayle Show
		Kitted out in his trademark tight suit, sketches were linked by Sayle in different locations, from the picturesque (woods, riverbanks, valleys, beaches) to the nondescript (B-roads, trains, shopping centres), where he would deliver rambling but well-crafted monologues.
		This was a device Sayle had toyed with in his previous TV work but one that he perfected here.
		Special mention must also be made of the brilliant credit sequence, which featured Sayle as an innocent, newly arrived man in London, in a series of humorous vignettes around town, shot in a stereotypical sitcom style most obviously reminiscent of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/allnewalexeisayl_66603000.shtml (340 words)

	Alexei Sayle's Great Bus Journeys of the World by Alexei Sayle, David Stafford
		Alexei Sayle's Great Bus Journeys of the World by Alexei Sayle, David Stafford
		Alexei Sayle's Great Bus Journeys of the World - a howlingly funny miscellany with surprisingly little to do with buses - first appeared as a regular column in Time Out.
		This is a startling tour of an endlessly inventive imagination - and a boon to eel-fanciers everywhere.
	www.methuen.co.uk /alexeisaylesgreatbusjourneys.html (206 words)

	BookkooB : Overtaken - Alexei Sayle : Compare Book Prices
		First off, let me say that I am a huge Alexei Sayle fan, have been for years, and I would urge you to buy this book whatever I may say about it - 'Overtaken' makes for a wonderful read.
		The narrative is beautifully put together, dark and at times hysterically funny and the story takes a number of Sayles trademark twists and turns so that you never fully know what's going to happen next, right up to the final reveal.
		The commentary on 21st century living is wonderfully observed, if sometimes a tad predictable, but the little details in the characters make even those with the briefest of appearances well rounded and believable.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0340767685.htm (1161 words)

	neverhappened: Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexei Sayle: A plague on the plague of street furniture
		Alexei Sayle: The key to success is not egg-shaped
		Alexei Sayle: The world is random, arbitrary and cruel
	www.neverhappened.org /neverhappened/writing/index.html (5693 words)

	Alexei Sayle : Comedian Profile
		Sayle has starred in many TV series and films, including The Comic Strip Presents, The Young Ones, and many stand-up comedy series.
		Sayle's humour is typically Milliganesque yet original; for example a memorable sketch in Alexei Sayle's Stuff featured Alexei playing the part of Godot, hitch-hiking across contemporary northern England but never managing to get a lift.
		Gotta New Motor?" and "Didn't You Kill My Brother?" In 1989, he was awarded an International Emmy for his series Alexei Sayle's Stuff.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/s/sayle-alexei.htm (413 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Comment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexei Sayle: Life really was like a sitcom on the buses
		He called from a phone box to say that he and his conductor had been seized by food poisoning
		Alexei Sayle: A Chrysler that changes you from within
	motoring.independent.co.uk /comment/article21521.ece (930 words)

	Alexei Sayle Unofficial Site - Bio Pictures Photos Movie Film
		"Alexei Sayle Opens Homeless Shelter 280901 Alexei Sayle was the special guest at the official opening of a new night shelter for.
		"Alexei Sayle is probably best known for his appearances on the BBC TV show The Young Ones, as the Bolofski Family.
		"Alexei Sayle has also appeared in an episode of Doctor Who and several editions of the topical news quiz Have I Got News For You.
	www.fuzzster.com /r/show/se/14035.html (1274 words)

	The Dog Catcher by Alexei Sayle, Published by Sceptre, Simply Hell Let Loose - Stories of Australians at War, Published ...
		Alexei Sayle is a funny man - as anyone who has seen his comedy on television will attest (The Young Ones and Alexei Sayle's Stuff).
		His humour is dark, frequently pointed and angry, and usually tinged with an undeniable and enviable intelligence.
		And, as Sayle would like it known, the book includes 'a group of ex-patriots, several cyclists, sundry television executives, an architect, a bunch of pirates, and Joseph Stalin'.
	www.echonews.com /834/book_reviews.html (515 words)

	Have I Got News for You: Kelvin MacKenzie, Alexei Sayle - TV.com
		We don't have allusions for Kelvin MacKenzie, Alexei Sayle.
		We don't have notes for Kelvin MacKenzie, Alexei Sayle.
		We don't have trivia for Kelvin MacKenzie, Alexei Sayle.
	tv.com /.../kelvin-mackenzie-alexei-sayle/episode/129757/summary.html (142 words)

	eBay.co.uk - alexei sayle, Fiction Books, Records, Magazines items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alexei Sayle's Stuff Series 1 DVD R2 *Brand New*
		ALEXEI SAYLE didn't you kill my brother 12" uk cbs 1985
		Alexei Sayle book Great Bus Journey's Of The World 1989
	search.ebay.co.uk /alexei-sayle (292 words)

	Sendit.com - Alexei Sayle's Stuff
		Yes, Alexei Sayle: alternative comedian, surrealist and former cerebral ganglion in the war of nerves with the Russians.
		Sole survivor of an aircrash, he was found and raised by a bunch of wild flowers and blossomed into a giant skinhead whose idea of a marathon is 93 pints of Struttocks Old Dirgible and a tortoise vindaloo.
		All this and very little more from the Archbishop of Bad Taste himself, The Right Irreverent Alexei Sayle.
	www.sendit.com /video/item/7000000018770 (289 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Only the recipient of the fish of the day had anything to complain about - the foot-long grilled plaice was served intact, and by the time she'd removed head, skin, bones, liver and lights she'd rather lost her appetite.
		Our charmingly accented French waitress was efficient and friendly to the point of coquettishness - to the obvious discomfort of one of my guests, Alexei Sayle.
		Informed that the devilled kidneys he fancied were off, and that "the only devil around here is me", he gazed Eeyorishly down at the menu.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /food_and_drink/reviews/article338095.ece (1005 words)

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