Alexei Sayle
Acting
1952-08-07 · Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Filmography
TheatersThey Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026 · Movie
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025 · Movie
Censoring Palestine
2024 · Movie
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024 · Series
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024 · Movie
Bottom: Exposed
2024 · Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Movie
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023 · Movie
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023 · Movie
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 · Movie
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022 · Movie
How to Build a Girl
2020 · Movie
Mandy
2020 · Series
Sometimes Always Never
2019 · Movie
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018 · Movie
Gloves Off
2017 · Movie
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 · Series
Red Top
2016 · Movie
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014 · Movie
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Series
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Movie
For the Love of Cars
2014 · Series
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 · Movie
The Story of Music Hall
2011 · Movie
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 · Movie
The Michael Ball Show
2010 · Series
Horrible Histories
2009 · Series
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 · Movie
Q&A
2008 · Series
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008 · Movie
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007 · Movie
Tapping the Wire
2007 · Movie
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · Movie
The Double Life of Saki
2007 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006 · Series
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006 · Movie
The Thief Lord
2006 · Movie
The Roots of Monty Python
2005 · Movie
A Bear's Tail
2005 · Series
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Movie
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Movie
Blood Matters
2004 · Series
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004 · Movie
Spine Chillers
2003 · Series
Keen Eddie
2003 · Series
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003 · Movie
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · Series
Richard & Judy
2001 · Series
Arabian Nights
2000 · Series
Don't Walk
2000 · Movie
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999 · Series
Swing
1999 · Movie
What's a Carry On?
1998 · Movie
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998 · Series
Parkinson
1998 · Series
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · Series
Two Minutes
1997 · Movie
Hospital!
1997 · Movie
Renford Rejects
1997 · Series
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997 · Movie
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · Series
Moonlighters
1996 · Movie
Sorry About Last Night
1995 · Movie
Paris
1994 · Series
Room 101
1994 · Series
The Greatest F***King Show on TV
1994 · Movie
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994 · Series
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994 · Series
I Was That Monster
1993 · Movie
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993 · Series
Curaçao
1993 · Movie
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993 · Movie
Selling Hitler
1993 · Movie
Reckless Kelly
1993 · Movie
Carry On Columbus
1992 · Movie
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · Movie
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991 · Movie
Meeting Venus
1991 · Movie
Selling Hitler
1991 · Series
'Itch
1991 · Movie
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Series
Les Dogs
1990 · Movie
Night Voice
1990 · Movie
The Gravy Train
1990 · Series
Spaghetti Hoops
1990 · Movie
4 Play
1989 · Series
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Movie
Just Like That!
1989 · Movie
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988 · Series
The Love Child
1988 · Movie
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988 · Movie
The Strike
1988 · Movie
Jake's Journey
1988 · Movie
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987 · Movie
Siesta
1987 · Movie
The Lenny Henry Show
1987 · Series
Up Line
1987 · Movie
Solarbabies
1986 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Whoops Apocalypse
1986 · Movie
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
The Supergrass
1985 · Movie
The Bride
1985 · Movie
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985 · Movie
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985 · Movie
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985 · Movie
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984 · Movie
Gorky Park
1983 · Movie
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983 · Movie
The Young Ones
1982 · Series
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Series
Whoops Apocalypse
1982 · Series
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · Movie
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982 · Movie
O.T.T.
1982 · Series
Wolcott
1981 · Series
The Comic Strip
1981 · Movie
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · Series
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980 · Series
Question Time
1979 · Series
Repeater
1979 · Movie
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · Series
Doctor Who
1963 · Series