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    Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading...
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  • Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a British television comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991. Alexei Sayle's...
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  • The All New Alexei Sayle Show was a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC2 television for a total of twelve episodes, over two series in 1994 and 1995. The...
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  • starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC2 for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984....
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  • Jennifer Saunders, with appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle and others. Two double acts, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall under the...
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  • Edgar Wright directed the series. Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was almost identical in format to The All New Alexei Sayle Show except with yet another change...
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    Price in the serial drama Mansfield Park. In 1991, he co-starred with Alexei Sayle in 'Itch, which was broadcast on Channel 4 as part of the 4 Play strand...
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  • these clashes was, in Arthur Smith's words, "comedy's version of punk". Alexei Sayle, the Comedy Store's first MC, provided angry character comedy satirising...
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  • "'Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?" is a song written by British comedian Alexei Sayle, originally released as a single in the UK in 1982. The single eventually...
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  • Maureen Lipman as Countess Esmerelda Peter Richardson as Bart Columbus Alexei Sayle as Achmed Rik Mayall as The Sultan Sara Crowe as Fatima Julian Clary...
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  • Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Ronald Allen, and Robbie Coltrane. The Supergrass was the first feature-length...
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  • written, directed and starring Yahoo Serious. It co-stars Melora Hardin, Alexei Sayle and Hugo Weaving. The story is a satirical take on a modern-day Ned Kelly...
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  • led to Edmondson and Mayall, along with compere of the Comedy Store Alexei Sayle and other up-and-coming comedians, including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson...
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  • character of Alf, a comedy writer, in the second series of The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1995). Lewis died at the age of 88 on 12 August 2015, in a nursing...
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  • Panic is Alexei Sayle's third album, released in 1985. This was his final album; he would later record some audiobooks in the late 1990s. Panic spawned...
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  • Frain, John Leguizamo (in a dual role), Jason Scott Lee, Vanessa-Mae, Alexei Sayle, Jim Carter, James Callis, and Oded Fehr. The series starts in Baghdad...
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  • Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar is a stand up and storytelling BBC Radio 4 show hosted and written by Alexei Sayle. The show features Alexei delivering...
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  • Thames Television, ultimately ending up at the BBC, writing, with Alexei Sayle, Alexei Sayle's Stuff. Along the way they also wrote the screenplay for a film...
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  • performing on the alternative cabaret circuit with comedians such as Alexei Sayle, Jo Brand, Paul Merton, and Rik Mayall. Sparkes starred in the sketch...
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    normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting (e.g., Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Malcolm Hardee). As far as content is concerned, comedians...
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    London: Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1-78326-917-4. Alexei Sayle (8 October 2013). "Alexei Sayle: Bloomsbury by bike - video" (Video upload). The Guardian...
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  • a regular role in Psycho Ward 10, a soap opera parody in The All New Alexei Sayle Show. O'Brien took on the role of surgical registrar Mr. Cyril 'Scissors'...
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  • Jenny Agutter as Margaret Alice Lowe as Sue Tim McInnerny as Arthur Alexei Sayle as Bill Louis Healy as Jack On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes...
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    careers of French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and Alexei Sayle. Richardson approached Channel 4 to make a series of short, self-contained...
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  • a sorceress (played by pop star Grace Jones) and the angel of death (Alexei Sayle)." It also stars Martin Sheen and Isabella Rossellini. Claire, a young...
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  • figures at Stern secretly pay DM 9.3 million to a mysterious "Dr Fischer" (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of Hitler's diaries, covering the period from...
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    alternative comedians including Rik Mayall, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle and Adrian Edmondson, before they found wider recognition with the series...
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    The Blues Band, Talisman, A Certain Ratio, David Rappaport, Sad Cafe, Alexei Sayle, The Greatest Show on Legs, U2 billed, but cancelled. £8 7 1983 17–19...
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  • played Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark, cameos as Heinrich Himmler. Alexei Sayle played the fictional "sultan" of Hatay. (In fact, Hatay State was a republic...
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  • consistent and straightforward." They praised guest stars William Gaunt and Alexei Sayle, as well as how the Sixth Doctor "finally gets to be Doctorish, with...
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