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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

108: My First Lesbian Wedding (with Sami Abu Wardeh)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti welcome back everybody's favourite revolutionary, Palestinian comedian Sami Abu Wardeh for a meandering journey through a plethora of pertinent topics. From P Diddy to Ken Dod's Diddy Men, Pimp My Ride to pitta bread, meatballs to the intangibility of objective truth in this post-social media, MAGA nightmare Hellscape we call modern existence.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
Photograph from the Andy Hollingworth Archive 

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Okay, welcome to episode on

0:32.0

natively, LexiSel podcast, and we've got a special guest to join in with the banter with the Alexis

0:38.8

Al-Morning crew afternoon evening.

0:44.5

It's Sammy Abuade.

0:46.5

Hello.

0:47.4

How are we doing, guys?

0:48.8

Chalul.

0:49.3

Thank you.

0:50.1

Arabs, two, Jews one.

0:51.8

In the league tables.

0:54.0

Yeah. Yeah. Welcome, Sammy. What? What? What? Just that. What? No, Abu Warda. That's my surname. Aba Wada. Sabi I'm Wada. That's what I said, wasn't it? Sammy, Aba, what? No, what's...'s... I've had Abu Ward round.

1:13.3

I've had it misspelled as Ab's warden.

1:16.0

I've had everything.

1:18.0

I've a wardrobe.

1:19.6

Wardrobe, that's a good one.

1:21.3

Yeah.

1:22.5

So what's...

1:23.2

I used to get, because I'm Talal Kharkuti.

1:24.8

They used to say Karbuti, halal a lot.

1:27.9

And then one guy really cleverly went Talal, and he kept saying my name.

1:31.1

He went Talal.

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