Alexei Sayle on his days as a drug dealer
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Alexei Sayle's new memoir, Thatcher Stole My Trousers, is out 10 March. Buy the book: bit.ly/alexei-s...
"What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who’d kick your head in." Buy the book: bit.ly/alexei-s...
In 1971 comedians on the working men’s club circuit imagined that they would be free to go on telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever but their nemesis, a 19 year old Marxist art student with a bizarre concern for the health of British manufacturing was slowly coming to meet them.
Through the next decade Alexei Sayle would be a student at Chelsea Art School, a clerk in a DHSS office (where nobody did any work), one of London’s bottom ten freelance illustrators, a school dinner lady and a college lecturer (who kidnapped his students), before he became the original MC of London’s first modern comedy club, the Comedy Store, and the landscape of British comedy was altered forever.
Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying ways. Recounting the opening season of the Comedy Store, Alexei’s experiences with Alternative Cabaret, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and his friendships with the comedians who, like him would soon become household names, this is a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir.
Fascinating, funny, angry and entertaining, it is a story of class and comedy, politics and love, fast cars and why it’s difficult to foul a dwarf in a game of football.
Buy the book: bit.ly/alexei-s...
Best one he did on drugs was the observation that "when you're young, you take drugs to get out of your head: when you're old, you take them to try and get back in."
Hehehe
shame there's no audio book version of this yet.
An audio book version by the man himself would be marvelous.
If you're going to become addicted to anything, become addicted to Haagan Dazs....... !!!!
Thanks for posting.
If you close your eyes you'd think it was Book at Bedtime on Radio 4
Is that an Ampelmann on his t shirt?
right I'm off to the Bourgeois Book Store to grab a copy (I wonder if they do Five Fingered Discount?)
Brilliant.
Alexei, if it isn't you yourself. Thank
You.
Brilliant Alexei. Love your work.
Sad to think Alexei was a fan of Mao Zedong, the man Hitler would have looked at and thought "Now THAT guy knows how to commit genocide."
He was??
So a bit like the dope Robin Hood.
😊
Poinient.
Who cares.
(Intentional abandonment of question mark just to grind your gears some more).
Muawaharhar !
@MichaelKingsfordGray is actually an anagram of fascist baarstard.
Low level , Sayle has had more than enough help to get his comedy career off the tarmac over the years......a totally failed comic who pathologically begrudges the successes of the talented.
Then why did you click on this video if you are'nt a fan ?
Or, depending on your point of view, a successful author who, in his previous career as a comedian, sold out venues all over the country for decades; appeared performing his own material in every episode of an iconic, groundbreaking comedy show; and starred in his own BBC TV and radio shows, all without compromising his humour or political standpoint. AND WHO THE F*** ARE YOU?
Thanks for coming.
Where does someone get the stupid idea he's a 'failed ' comedian? I mean, seriously
Oo- get you- that is hilarious 😂
What a pathetic story.
🤣🤣😂