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What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Ep 160 with Alexei Sayle (Part 1)

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Mike J Benwell

Comedy, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mark is joined by legendary comedian Alexei Sayle as they discuss the world of comedy in the 80s, Working class comedians,  The problem with Labour - and what we can do to sort it all out.  You can hear the second part of the interview in next week's episode – but if you can't wait, why not join us on Patreon? For £4 a month you can listen to the whole interview straight away – and you'll also be able to watch it! https://www.patreon.com/wtfisgoingonpod  I you enjoyed this episode then be sure to check out Alexei’s podcast and patreon page here:  www.audioboom.com/channels/5038428-the-alexei-sayle-podcast www.patreon.com/AlexeiSaylePodcast For media, press & guest enquiries please email [email protected] Follow What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel on Twitter @wtfisgoingonpod  Follow Mark Steel @mrmarksteel   Follow Alexei’s Podcast @alexeisaylepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We risk becoming an island of strangers.

0:04.0

We will strive for the denopsification of Ukraine.

0:07.0

Because you can't grow, can't grow, can't grow.

0:10.0

Yes, you can.

0:11.0

They're eating the dogs.

0:12.0

They're eating the dinosaurs.

0:14.0

Under the EU, we weren't allowed to eat grits.

0:17.0

I just don't get it.

0:19.0

What the fuck is going on?

0:22.9

Hello, I'm Mark Steele.

0:24.5

Welcome to this new series of my podcast where each week I ask the question that is on everybody's minds because we're living in a world.

0:33.8

Well, it's all going so wonderfully well.

0:36.1

We're run by all the people that you would want to. If you were to scale the world, well, it's all going so wonderfully well. We're run by all the people that you would

0:38.4

want to. If you were to scale the world, could you find any better people to run the major

0:44.3

countries than people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, who if anything, if they have a

0:50.0

fault, it's that they care too much. Now, people over the centuries have written books and

0:55.7

ask questions and done philosophy degrees and sat in caves contemplating the nature of the world,

1:02.4

but the question they've all really been asking is, what the fuck is going on?

1:10.5

There are so many aspects of working out what the fuck is going on that require someone who is not like the person that I'm talking to this week, but is the person that I'm talking to this week.

1:23.6

I just think if you're under a certain age, you might see comics and think, well,

1:27.9

yeah, they are comics. But there's a reason why comedy is the way it is now that most people

1:34.8

think it is, rather than how it used to be when I was growing up, which was just people telling

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