330 - Alexei Sayle

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The godfather of British alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle is always at the edge of catastrophe. The star of The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, The Comic Strip Presents, many more and now his Imaginary Sandwich Bar, gets stuck into why inauthenticity is his bugbear, how to make the most of creative discomfort, the earliest days of the Comedy Store, and the transition from counterculture to national treasure.

In 30 mins of extras available only to the Insiders Club, Alexei talks about his real feelings towards Ben Elton, and the current crop of arena comics; how he re-fit his show about political optimism when the wind changed; and identifies a link between standup and martial arts regarding the energy of the audience and his own… Available now only at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders

See Alexei on tour now! Details at www.alexeisayle.me

Thanks to Ellen Frost at Bloomsbury Theatre @bloomstheatre

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0:00.0	Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?
0:04.6	Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,
0:09.7	including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. Hello. Hello and
0:35.0	welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith and today it is with enormous pride that I bring you this interview
0:41.0	with Alexi Sale. If you're British you'll know who
0:44.5	Alexi Sale is I'm sure you will and if you're not it's hard to overstate his
0:49.5	importance to British comedy. He was the very first compare at the British comedy store when it first started and ran
0:56.4	the gong show there.
0:57.6	He was sort of alone in being the only person who'd arrived and auditioned who was actually
1:02.0	funny. Certainly in the first few weeks until the
1:05.6	rest of the people as he will tell you started to drift in and create what we now
1:10.0	know to have been the real birthplace, the melting pot that created alternative
1:14.0	comedy in the UK. He has a fabulous radio series currently called the
1:17.9	Imaginary Sandwich Bar and he's on tour with his stand-up show and we're going to
1:22.0	talk a little bit about how his character has with his
1:24.4	character, persona has developed from the early days of the likes of
1:28.8	Chertzy Bolofsky from the young ones and also the who's that fat bastard of Alexi sale stuff.
1:35.2	If all of this is meaningless to you just sit back listen and enjoy this conversation
1:40.9	with someone who is really has always been at the forefront for the whole of his life of a really genuinely political, absurd and angry, rightously angry and very exciting comedy force.
1:58.1	There is about 30 minutes of extras available to the insiders club in which Alexi will talk about his real feelings
2:03.9	towards Ben Elton and the current crop of arena comics. We'll discuss how we
2:07.8	refit his show about political optimism when the political win changed and we hear a strange and wonderful link between
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