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The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Alexei and Talal are back after a brief hiatus. They discuss the reason for the break, Letter to Brezhnev and violence on TV.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode on to 6 of the Alexi Sale podcast, and we've been a bit intermittent of later. |
| 0:37.2 | I mean, it's largely to Lal's fault. |
| 0:39.0 | Tell us what you've been doing. Apologies all. God. Well, look, I'm a, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, don't get much work. Well, I don't. Anyway. I don't know if you've been in that position, |
| 0:54.9 | Alexi, because you started as a comedian and then got flung into the spotlight with the young ones, |
| 1:00.4 | and I'm sure the offers just came flying in after that. It did. I mean, even before that, really, |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, from when I, as soon as the comedy store opened, really, we, we started, oh i started getting other people you know started to get not really only it was only like 30 quid 40 quids you know to performing somebody's pub but um you know the offers started to and i always think that's a sign really of you know when people ask me about you you know, continuing with their careers. I was saying, well, if you, if you get started to get offers, no matter, you know, incremental offers, no matter how small, then it means you're doing something right. If you're, if you're not getting those offers, then you need to have another thing about what you're doing. Right right. All right. I get it. I get it. |
| 1:46.0 | So, yeah. |
| 1:46.1 | Always. |
| 1:50.2 | Always, always in demand. |
| 1:53.7 | And obviously had the comic strip as well. |
| 1:56.2 | So you guys were kind of doing it for yourselves as well. Yeah. |
| 1:56.4 | I mean, that was a few years later. |
| 1:57.8 | But yeah. |
| 1:58.2 | Oh, that was a few. |
| 2:05.6 | Well, you know, I get pretty good work as voiceover stuff, you know. You're very much in demand. |
| 2:07.6 | I'm in the new James Bond game as well. |
| 2:09.6 | If anyone's playing that, it's like my biggest voiceover job yet. |
| 2:13.6 | And I'm, it's very exciting. |
| 2:14.6 | I'm playing it at the moment. |
| 2:15.6 | It's good game. Um, but so, but screen acting, it doesn't come very exciting. I'm playing it at the moment. It's a good game. But screen acting, it doesn't come very often. |
| 2:21.6 | You know, I've done an advert here and a big bit part in a series or something, |
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