British - Comedian | August 7, 1952 -
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
Alexei Sayle
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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I am quite girly.
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People aren't universally heroic.
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I'm distinct, really.
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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.
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
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I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
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