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.
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Films (80)
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026 · Self
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025 · Self
Censoring Palestine
2024 · Self
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024 · Narrator (voice)
Bottom: Exposed
2024 · Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023 · Self
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023 · Narrator
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 · Self
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022 · Self
Comment je suis devenue une jeune femme influente
2020 · Karl Marx
Sometimes Always Never
2019 · Bill
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
Gloves Off
2017 · Algy
Red Top
2016 · Colin Goodman
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014 · Self
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014 · Self
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
The Story of Music Hall
2011 · Self
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 · Planet Jimmy (voice)
My Dad Was a Communist
2008 · Self
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008 · Narrator
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007 · Self
Alternative Rebellion: The Beginning of Britain's Alternative Comedy Scene
2007 · Self
Tapping the Wire
2007 · Self
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · D.J. (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Double Life of Saki
2007 · Self
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006 · Self
The Thief Lord
2006 · Barbarossa
The Roots of Monty Python
2005 · Self
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005 · Self
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Self
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Billy Balowski / Jerzei Balowski / Brian Damage (archive footage)
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004 · Newspaper Editor
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
Don't Walk
2000 · Uncle Henry
Swing
1999 · Mighty Mac
What's a Carry On?
1998 · Achmed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Two Minutes
1997 · Bernie
Hospital!
1997 · X Ray Operator
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997 · Beluga
Moonlighters
1996 · Narrator (voice)
Sorry About Last Night
1995 · Andy Carolides, Writer
The Greatest F***King Show on TV
1994 · Self
I Was That Monster
1993 · Himself
Curaçao
1993 · Seemuller
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993 · Inspector
Selling Hitler
1993 · Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Reckless Kelly
1993 · Major Wib
Carry On Columbus
1992 · Achmed
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · Dad
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991 · Self
Meeting Venus
1991 · Von Schneider (dubbing - voice only) (uncredited)
'Itch
1991 · Rittblatt, Writer
Les Dogs
1990 · Bride's Father
Night Voice
1990 · Clarence Flamer
Spaghetti Hoops
1990 · Mog
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · Sultan
Just Like That!
1989 · Self
The Love Child
1988 · The Voices
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988 · Carl Moss/Sterling Moss, Writer
The Strike
1988 · Paul
Jake's Journey
1988 · Head torturer
Mister Corbett's Ghost
1987 · Toll Gate Keeper
Siesta
1987 · Cabbie
Up Line
1987 · Melvin Coombes
Solarbabies
1986 · Malice
Whoops Apocalypse
1986 · Alexei Sayle in a Hawaiian Shirt
The Supergrass
1985 · Motorbike Cop
The Bride
1985 · Magar
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985 · John Bull
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985 · DJ
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985 · Lavrenti
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984 · Frank
Gorky Park
1983 · Golodkin
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983 · Self, Writer
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · Self
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982 · Self - Presenter
The Comic Strip
1981 · Compere, Writer
Repeater
1979 · 2nd Detective
Séries (52)
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024 · Self - Guest
Mandy
2020 · Darren Dugdale
House of Games
2017 · Self - Panellist
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Self
Pour l'amour des voitures
2014 · Himself
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Self - Participant
The Michael Ball Show
2010 · Self
Horrible Histories
2009 · Dr. Ushma
Q&A
2008 · Self - Panellist
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
2007 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
A Bear's Tail
2005
Miss Marple
2004 · Dr Maverick
Blood Matters
2004
Spine Chillers
2003 · Graham
Eddie, el Entusiasta
2003
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · Charles Frobisher
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
Arabian Nights
2000 · BacBac
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999 · Pope John Paul II
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
Parkinson
1998 · Self
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · Puppeteer
Renford Rejects
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · Self
Paris
1994 · Alain Degout
Room 101
1994 · Self
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993 · Rubbish (voice)
Selling Hitler
1991 · Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
New Voices
1991 · Bernie
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self
The Gravy Train
1990 · Vlad Milcic
4 Play
1989 · Rittblatt, Writer
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
Up Line
1987 · Melvin Coombes
Casualty
1986 · Anton Malinovsky
ScreenPlay
1986 · Clarence Flamer
Lovejoy
1986 · Freddy Reeve
The Young Ones
1982 · The Balowski Family, Writer, Additional Writing, Creator
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Carl Moss/Sterling Moss, Paul, Mog, Bride's Father, Writer
Whoops Apocalypse
1982 · Commisar Solzhenitsyn
O.T.T.
1982
Wolcott
1981 · Speaker in Market
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · Self - Presenter
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Question Time
1979 · Himself - Panellist
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · Self
Doctor Who
1963 · D.J.