Alexei Sayle
English comedian · United Kingdom · On the map · Comedians · Born 1952 · age 74
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.
Alexei Sayle is read about 405 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 112 days, one point a day.
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Nigel Planer Also in Carry On Columbus and The Supergrass
Daniel Peacock Also in The Supergrass and Jake's Journey
Richard Pryor Influenced Alexei
Adrian Edmondson Also in The Young Ones and The Supergrass- Steven O'Donnell Also in The Love Child, The Strike and Red Top
- Rik Mayall Wrote The Young Ones
Richard Wilson Also in Carry On Columbus and Selling Hitler
Julian Clary Also in Carry On Columbus and Hospital!
Steven Spielberg Directed Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
George Lucas Produced Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Maurice Jarre Wrote The Bride and Solarbabies
Michael Apted Directed Gorky Park (1984)
Dawn French Also in The Supergrass and The Strike
Alison Doody Also in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Jim Carter Also in Arabian Nights and The Thief Lord
Mary Lambert Directed Siesta (1988)
Johnny Vegas Also in Tipping the Velvet and Red Top- Ronald Allen Also in The Supergrass and The Strike
Harry Enfield Also in The Itch of the Golden Nit and Red Top
Hawk Koch Produced Gorky Park (1984)- Michael Elphick Also in Gorky Park and The Supergrass
Robert Watts Produced Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Chris Langham Also in Carry On Columbus (1992)- Peter Rogers Produced Carry On Columbus (1993)
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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.
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.
[On Jeremy Corbyn] It is extraordinary. It is an amazing thing to have someone leading a major party who is personally a decent person.
About this person
In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.
