Alexei Sayle
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.
122 acting credits
Acting · 122
Casualty
1986
Doctor Who
1963
The One Show
2006
Have I Got News for You
1990
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Q&A
2008
Horrible Histories
2009
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Question Time
1979
The Young Ones
1982
Lovejoy
1986
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Parkinson
1998
Room 101
1994
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Richard & Judy
2001
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
ScreenPlay
1986
Keen Eddie
2003
Mandy
2020
Arabian Nights
2000
Spine Chillers
2003
Renford Rejects
1997
Tipping the Velvet
2002
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Great Railway Journeys
1980
The Michael Ball Show
2010
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
Wolcott
1981
Gorky Park
1983
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Selling Hitler
1991
The Gravy Train
1990
How to Build a Girl
2020
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
A Bear's Tail
2005
The Bride
1985
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
The Thief Lord
2006
For the Love of Cars
2014
Carry On Columbus
1992
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
Solarbabies
1986
Reckless Kelly
1993
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
O.T.T.
1982
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Tapping the Wire
2007
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
Curaçao
1993
Selling Hitler
1993
Sometimes Always Never
2019
Siesta
1987
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
Hospital!
1997
Meeting Venus
1991
Up Line
1987
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
'Itch
1991
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
Les Dogs
1990
Paris
1994
Swing
1999
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
What's a Carry On?
1998
The Strike
1988
The Supergrass
1985
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
Bottom: Exposed
2024
Just Like That!
1989
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Red Nose of Courage
1992
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
Gloves Off
2017
Sorry About Last Night
1995
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
The Love Child
1988
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
The Roots of Monty Python
2005
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
Red Top
2016
The Comic Strip
1981
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
Blood Matters
2004
Don't Walk
2000
The Story of Music Hall
2011
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
Two Minutes
1997
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
Night Voice
1990
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Jake's Journey
1988
Censoring Palestine
2024
I Was That Monster
1993
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
The Double Life of Saki
2007
Moonlighters
1996
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
Repeater
1979