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I'm fascinated by comedy.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Alexei Sayle

I'm fascinated by comedy.

Alexei Sayle

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines.

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If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

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I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

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People aren't universally heroic.

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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

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I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

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If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

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First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

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Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

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I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

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The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

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I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

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I always thought communism was crap, really.

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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

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Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

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I am quite girly.

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I'm an intellectual.

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