Alexei Sayle
Known for: Acting
Born: August 7, 1952
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
79 movies · 49 TV shows, newest first
10.0
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
9.0
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025NR
Censoring Palestine
2024
4.2
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024NR
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
5.5
Bottom: Exposed
2024
7.0
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
NR
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
NR
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
NR
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
9.5
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
5.8
How to Build a Girl
2020
7.5
Mandy
2020
6.4
Sometimes Always Never
2019
7.0
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
4.9
Gloves Off
2017
6.1
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
5.3
Red Top
2016
7.5
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
7.1
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
8.0
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
9.0
For the Love of Cars
2014
5.0
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
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The Story of Music Hall
2011
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
7.7
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011NR
The Michael Ball Show
2010
8.0
Horrible Histories
2009
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My Dad Was a Communist
2008
3.2
Q&A
2008
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The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
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The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
8.0
Tapping the Wire
2007
5.0
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007NR
The Double Life of Saki
2007
4.4
The One Show
2006
7.0
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
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When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
6.0
The Thief Lord
2006
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The Roots of Monty Python
2005
7.6
A Bear's Tail
2005
7.5
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
4.8
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
10.0
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004NR
Blood Matters
2004
5.0
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
7.5
Spine Chillers
2003
8.0
Keen Eddie
2003NR
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
6.9
Tipping the Velvet
2002
3.4
Richard & Judy
2001
6.8
Arabian Nights
2000
7.0
Don't Walk
2000
7.5
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
5.8
Swing
1999
7.7
What's a Carry On?
1998
6.7
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
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Parkinson
1998
7.5
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
9.0
Two Minutes
1997
6.0
Hospital!
1997
7.0
Renford Rejects
1997
8.0
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
7.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
NR
Moonlighters
1996
8.0
Sorry About Last Night
1995
5.0
Paris
1994
6.6
Room 101
1994
NR
The Greatest F***King Show on TV
1994
7.5
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
6.3
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
NR
I Was That Monster
1993
NR
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
6.4
Curaçao
1993
NR
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
8.0
Selling Hitler
1993
4.6
Reckless Kelly
1993
3.9
Carry On Columbus
1992
8.0
Red Nose of Courage
1992
4.0
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
5.8
Meeting Venus
1991
7.0
Selling Hitler
1991
NR
'Itch
1991
7.2
Have I Got News for You
1990
NR
Les Dogs
199010.0
Night Voice
1990
8.3
The Gravy Train
1990
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Spaghetti Hoops
19907.0
4 Play
1989
7.9
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
NR
Just Like That!
1989
7.2
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
7.5
The Love Child
1988
NR
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
7.0
The Strike
1988
7.0
Jake's Journey
1988
6.3
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
5.3
Siesta
1987
7.2
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
NR
Up Line
1987
5.3
Solarbabies
1986
6.2
Casualty
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
5.6
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
7.4
Lovejoy
1986
6.1
The Supergrass
1985
5.4
The Bride
1985
9.0
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
8.7
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
NR
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
NR
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
6.3
Gorky Park
1983
NR
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983
7.9
The Young Ones
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
6.9
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
6.3
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
NR
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
NR
O.T.T.
1982
6.0
Wolcott
1981
8.0
The Comic Strip
1981
7.0
Great Railway Journeys
1980
6.5
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
5.9
Question Time
1979
NR
Repeater
1979
5.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
7.9
Doctor Who
1963