Alexei Sayle

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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? ”