Alexei Sayle
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 128
Doctor Who
1963
Casualty
1986
Question Time
1979
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The One Show
2006
Have I Got News for You
1990
Richard & Judy
2001
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Parkinson
1998
Q&A
2008
Horrible Histories
2009
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
The Young Ones
1982
Room 101
1994
ScreenPlay
1986
Lovejoy
1986
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Mandy
2020
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Gorky Park
1983
Tipping the Velvet
2002
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Keen Eddie
2003
Arabian Nights
2000
Renford Rejects
1997
Repeater
1979
The Bride
1985
4 Play
1989
The Michael Ball Show
2010
Great Railway Journeys
1980
Spine Chillers
2003
The Thief Lord
2006
Paris
1994
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
Red Top
2016
Whoops Apocalypse
1982
Swing
1999
How to Build a Girl
2020
Sometimes Always Never
2019
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
Two Minutes
1997
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
Solarbabies
1986
For the Love of Cars
2014
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
A Bear's Tail
2005
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
Spaghetti Hoops
1990
Bottom: Exposed
2024
Selling Hitler
1991
O.T.T.
1982
The Gravy Train
1990
Censoring Palestine
2024
Carry On Columbus
1992
Up Line
1987
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
1998
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
'Itch
1991
Wolcott
1981
Reckless Kelly
1993
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982
Selling Hitler
1993
Jake's Journey
1988
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025
Don't Walk
2000
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
Les Dogs
1990
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Hospital!
1997
Siesta
1987
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
Curaçao
1993
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
The Comic Strip
1981
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Blood Matters
2004
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Mr. Corbett's Ghost
1987
I Was That Monster
1993
Amnesty International's Big 30
1991
The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother
2008
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
The Roots of Monty Python
2005
Strike: When Britain Went to War
2003
The Love Child
1988
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
The Supergrass
1985
Meeting Venus
1991
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Tapping the Wire
2007
Rubbish, King of the Jumble
1993
Red Nose of Courage
1992
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
1988
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
What's a Carry On?
1998
Gloves Off
2017
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
The Big Lie II: Starmer and the Genocide
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
The Greatest F***King Show on TV
1994
Just Like That!
1989
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
The Strike
1988
The Double Life of Saki
2007
When Comedy Changed Forever
2006
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
Queen of the Wild Frontier
1993
Sorry About Last Night
1995
My Dad Was a Communist
2008
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Night Voice
1990
The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video
1983
The Story of Music Hall
2011
Moonlighters
1996