Alexei Sayle
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish comedian
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.
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[On his early "comic persona of an angry man in a too tight suit"] I do feel very proud of that, as we did banish racism and sexism from light entertainment.
"Still joking, but deadly serious about Corbyn" The Sunday Times (6 August 2017)
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
Comment during an interview with CAABU (15 July 2014), as cited in "Israel-Gaza conflict: 'Israel is Jimmy Savile of nation states', claims
[On Jeremy Corbyn] It is extraordinary. It is an amazing thing to have someone leading a major party who is personally a decent person.
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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.
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