Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle began as a ground-breaking stand-up comedian in a tight suit and brought his act to rich fruition in a unique television series with his name in the title. Meanwhile he had also established himself as an actor in the movies and laid the foundations for his later career as one of our most adventurous writers. His particular gift in all fields is to bring his radical background into the foreground. Here he talks about growing up as a Marxist in modern Britain, about honesty in comedy, and about squaring his rebel status with the glow of celebrity. An enemy of the old order but no friend of New Labour, he draws a resonant connection between the Millennium Dome and the interior of Tony Blair’s brain.