#w

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

— Alexei Sayle

#bbc #been #challenging #did #enough

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

— Alexei Sayle

#i #interested #most #people #think

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

— Alexei Sayle

#bit #building #down #down the road #exist

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

— Alexei Sayle

#ambiguous #feel #good #i #i feel

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. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#around #clothes #experts #friend #go

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#cracking #going #hyper #i #idea

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. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#humour #i #i think #ideas #kind

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#death #go #grind #i #look

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

— Alexei Sayle

#been #bought #city #few #going