Alexei Sayle talks to Stewart Lee
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2016
- Stewart Lee discusses various topics with Alexei Sayle, including how he defined his act and helped launch The Comedy Store.
Alexei's new book 'Thatcher Stole My Trousers' is out now:
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/A... 
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These 2 brilliant comedians , both get better as they get older.
Growing up I really admired Alexei Sayle but I was slightly terrified at the same time.
What strikes me now watching this was what a kind man he is too. Such a generous warm spirit.
He's a very nice guy. Years ago I met him cycling through London. Charming and gracious.
There is something comforting about Stewart Lee.
Particularly when The Comedian Stewart Lee is wishing that Richard Hammond had been decapitated.
@@jimskea224 Not sure, but I think he was joking.
@Beeblebrox One You could save yourself valuable time by not going to see people you don't enjoy seeing.
@@johnsterizer What, like on Top Gear?
He's really learned to let himself go
Not to take anything away from Alexei (who I grew up watching), but Stewart Lee is an amazing interviewer. I wish he would do more.
Agreed, a great interviewer, and a great interviewee with interesting subject matter.
he actually researches and then has an intelligent conversation
What a lovely interview! If I had to be the centre of a human centipede, it might be this one
"Excuse me, are you.... Walid Jumblatt....?" Watching Rocky with the leader of the Druze militia at the Odeon Leicester Sq. in the late 70s! That is such an Alexei Sayle moment! Priceless! Alexei, such a genius. Love the man. Grew up watching the Young Ones, "Stuff" and the Alexei Sayle Show as well as his stand ups. Nothing like 'em. There's still nothing 'em.
How have I gone through these past 6yrs unaware of this video of two of my personal heroes chatting together? This has made my day so thanks to that mysterious entity that lives within the RUclipss, Al-Gore-Rythm 👍
Exactly this, only another two years on!!😂
I could watch these two in conversation all day. The Rocky story was hilarious.
It was alright
"you're always saying that' , 😂🤦🏻♂️ .. x
I would love to hear another interview with them all these years later about the further changes in society AND comedy…
12:48 "I'm lookin' at you, Ben Elton." Classic.
So I got curious about whatever happened to Elton and read this wiki entry:
"Ben Elton is a British businessman and fund-raiser for the Conservative Party who has served as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party..." and then realised I'd selected Ben ELLIOT. But really though, what's the difference?
Alexie looks better now in 2022 then he did then. Really enjoying his cycling tours.
Yeah but Stuart has clearly been at the cheese.
I loved Alexei’s Stuff series when I was about ten. I used to learn it in his accent and quote it to a confused family.
'ere's my calling card... WALLOP! 'ere's my calling card... WALLOP!
Dat's for dee invasion of Creeete
Alexi is one of the true pioneers
Two of my favourite comedians
I'm confused. Im a lifelong Tory. These are two of my very favourite performers.
Saw Lee recently.
I had a long chat with Alexei at the Mill Theatre in Banbury, as a punter and someone he'd never come across before. He was just as relaxed, funny and opened up as that. You couldn't help but warm to him. He did have a spell of living near Banbury and remembered the frequent pub brawls of that era.
As a Glaswegian, the pub brawls in Banbury sound absolutely terrifying. So glad I wasn't there.
I've never heard Stewart Lee laugh so hard in an interview.
I remember when the first cappuccino machine arrived in our town. It was like something from Jules Verne, steaming and spluttering and shaking the foundations of the café. Eventually this mug of froth arrive, which all us peasants would stand around and stare at in slack-jawed amazement.
6 months can fly by...
What year was that
@@aprilapril2 This was last week.
@Mickey Finn Putting the POW camps in Scotland worked out nicely for the local cuisine, aye? I've had some of the best (proper) Italian pizzas in Scotland!
@Mickey Finn Yeah man, and all the vinegar shops! I used to go into them as a child, and sample all the vinegar with the free bread offered at the end of the isle. Oh man I miss Scotland.
Nice one, Stewart. Alexei Sayle, The King of Comedy - consistently underrated. His two books: Stalin Ate My Homework & Thatcher Stole My Trousers are superb. RIP Molly: "It's all a pack of lies!" Fantastic.
THE King of Comedy? Really? He isn't even the King of Pseudo-Lefty English Stand-up Comedian Jews Who Got Famous Moaning About Margaret Thatcher.
(Ben Elton's terrible routines were slightly better than his, while still being massively shite.)
Came looking for the standard "underrated" comment as found on all film, music, art videos and thankfully you had posted it.
@@stephendaedalus6192 stephen deadarse
I’ve experienced Lee’s Brechtian alienation in person. He came out and said something like ‘I have material that I’m trying out for a show, it’s going to be x amount of time’. I remember it compressing the experience and thinking Hang on a minute, I’ve paid this man to use me a a guinea pig. I cried laughing for the entire show
They do say timeing is the secrect of comedy.
That was my experience, too. Bastard. 😂
"Never mind the Bulkans" Lol ffs this interview is so great
I remember going to a b n b in Inverness in the80s first question if you're an English tory u can f off...i loved the Scottish after that.
70s, I remember going for a weekend in Wales and the pubs were shut on Sunday, all day, we didn't know what to do.
If the rumors of Wales I've heard are true, you do what we did in the southern US: sex and explosives! Oh, and horror films/bands...
Good ol' Walid Jumblatt.
Keith Allen _was_ in an episode of The Young Ones, I'm pretty sure, as one of the Four Horsemen in 'Interesting'.
Travel Scrabble, anyone?
Thank you both very much for this.... really liked it....
Brilliant post. Thanks chum.
This is brilliant. Anyone who has an interest in comedy and what it is to be a comic really should ewatch this. Very funny too, ofg course.
Loved watching this, Alexi shows again how British comedians are the best along with the likes of Stewart Lee.
Alexi's a comedian?
They are certainly the best at being british comedians. I don't seem to recall a lot of world tours from Lee, I don't know anything about Sayle, being an american.
@@stizuart
Americans don't have the intellect to understand them or there cultural background, communism is a dirty word in America.
Love this
What an interview
I love the way Alexi just casually says as a throw away side point "no one's a comic who is not propelled by tremendous ego"
Great stuff
I wonder if 19 year old Stewart Lee had any inkling that he would be pals with Alexei Sayle when he was 49. That must be amazing.
So glad you mentioned John Dowie, he was great.
A pair of absolute legends. Cultural giants who probably won't be properly recognised for another decade or more.
Well five years later thats stood the test of time. Alexei has stayed true to his roots unlike another Leftie comedian that I once knew who suggested he might invite me to the Groucho club. Always considered myself to be a Leftie but definitely not now with the march of Woke on the move. Do I really need to listen to comedians who went to Oxford Living now in big flash house's telling me why life is so tough for many today because I had white privilege. Yeah right ! cannot remember having that on my council estate..
'Always considered myself to be a Leftie but definitely not now with the march of Woke on the move.' - I certainly wouldn't call work 'left'. It's self-righteous liberalism that finds capitalism quite acceptable.
Great interview,not convinced about the comedians cant be high bit , Richard Pryor made it work ..among others.
Growing a wilted ego , love and do what you want.
Half way through and just realised Lee is the interviewer and now interviewee.
That book needs to be gave to everyone
Would you be able to read it properly?
This book is fvcking brilliant!!! I laughed so hard, the Walid Jumblatt Druze Malitia story nearly took my life..........
It was alright.
Stuart Scott,
Yes. I totally agree with you. Superbly written.
My eldest daughter had a teddy bear called Walid Jumblatt! That's a great story. I fought with the PLO in Lebanon during this period, along with other wooly-backs.
Now we know where Stewart gets his suits from.
Not a huge fan of either but this is just a really good and interesting interview and great to see this side of both. Great stuff.
Alexei Sayle is the polar opposite of his stage persona: gentle and funny.
I thought he was going to say … starting with your stand up … and the birth of (pause) your baby 😂
13:23 It burns!! IT BURRRNNNSSS!!!!
stewart lee is so cute
Stew knows there’s not enough ants in this autobiography
Bring back Bobby Chariot
13:52 - Stew is talking about Ricky Gervais.
Thanks - I was wondering who he meant.
Sebastian Hill ... But I don’t think he’s ever played to as little as 500 people, he started off the back of the Office and went straight to stadiums
@@dmoney9285 He is talking about Ricky Gervais. It’s in one of Stewart lees books.
Wow I haven't heard the name "Walid Jumblatt" since I was a kid in the 70's. At the time I only knew the name because it was my next-door neighbour's euphemism for boobs.
It's now my euphemism for boobs
19:14 hilarious!!
Hello Stewart got a new motor?
Adore the "fat bastard"!❤️
21:18 - "Small world." - lmfao.
My two favourite comedians, okay Vic and Bob as well but these two and Vic and Bob.
The two men meet...Mussolini and Ratko Mladic. Both have let themselves go a bit.
Which comic is Lee talking about at 14:00 ?
You know what you want stu , the moon on a stick.
I was going to make a stupid comment about Walid Jumblatt, but reading his Wikipedia page yielded this gem:
"In 2018, his son Taymour W. Jumblatt replaced him (Walid Jumblatt) as a candidate for parliamentary elections."
And his Dad was the former president. Lefties are hereditary to
@@johncarlisle2755 A plague on both their houses...
12:42... ouch! Can't tell if Sayle is serious or not there....
These are very interesting guys and have some spot on stuff to say. Lee is right about the Young Ones. They are right about a lot of things. I wouldn't trust them with power though (maybe Alexi would be ok). I lost my faith in anarchists a long time ago. But on the sidelines as critics of how we do the world, they have their good moments. Keep the dream alive. Maybe one day we will figure out how to make it work. But you just can't trust people not to make things even worse.
That's the way it looks to me anyway.
The Young Ones,,,,used to hate it when Alexei came on!
Well there you go! The fruits of vanguard of proletariat was for Alexi to keep 'tropical fish in his underpants'.
Lenin has let himself go.
He's right about Dominic Sandbrook . Who's good at rewriting the history of the 1980s .
Stew is doing commercials now? Alexei must have some serious dirt on him.
John Dowie. A sort of Brummy Ivor Cutler.
I genuinely thought Alexis was a European performer cos he was so outside of what I understood .when he was on the young ones I was too young and i used to think " what the fuck is this " ...it was only when I got older that I got it .
Alexi's memory of the Lebanese person evoked my memory of a Punch cartoon set in a Lebanese Druz street in the 80's after NATO got involved. A Druz sniper had just shot an old lady crossing the street and he looks at his friend and says "I wish the NATO troops would all go home, so we can kill each other in peace.
No mention of Billy Connelly, apart from that OK.
I should have liked this interview but I found it annoyingly dismissive of so much that had gone before. Alexis had zero influence over Billy Connolly the best stand up who has ever lived. Jasper Carrot was ahead of most yet seems to be dismissed in this. Funny folk singer is a shocking way to describe these geniuses.
You can see why he ditched Richard Herring.
Shrek has really let himself go.
john dowie was funny. i looked him up. should have been more famous.
I commisserate with two gents reminiscing about a time when we were given stuff for free, I enjoyed it too but the world noticed and they wanted some as well. The reason bc Alexi wouldnt get a council flat now is because he is a white english male and doesnt get many “points” in fact that category has the fewest points possible. In Alexi’s day it was your right as a poor englishman.
Great interview. I did love Alexi's stuff when I was a kid growing up but seriously, the arrogance of the guy to be so cock sure that the whole scene would have flopped without him. He didn't even seem to entertain the notion that something better could have emerged in the space created by his absence. I guess you have to have ego to really succeed in comedy.
Christ Mel & Sue have let themselves go!
The comedy club wasn’t and isn’t the birth of stand up comedy as we know it. Alexa has never made me laugh unlike Mark Commode who is a joke
WHAT AN INSIGHT..I GREW UP WITH THE YOUNG ONES AND COMICE STRIP...LEGENDS LADS..BRILLIANT THAT MR SAYLE AND MR LEE XXX
Alexei is really cool but I don't agree when he says you can be abusing yourself with drugs as a musician but not as a comedian. That's plain ignorant.
That Michael Parkinson's let himself go.
Did Ben Elton betray the comedy revolution......
Blimey Michael Parkinson had let himself go
Let the man talk, Jesus.
Although Alexei Sayle's shouty comedy persona was by definition rather unpleasant, he could be funny. However, when he asserted that before alternative comedy came along, British comedy was primarily mother-in-law jokes, he committed the sin of disrespecting the great range of comedy that preceded it.
Someone kissed this guy off. Idk what going on but… it’s a good thing I guarantee.
28, struggling artist - this is fucking depressing
I'm not much older. I agree it's depressing to think how much harder things are now in some respects. But another thought occurs to me - and this may be useless to you - but I'm personally just getting into filmmaking, having done stuff in theatre for years. I just did a short course about making films on a shoestring and one thing that kept coming up was how much cheaper everything is now, specifically in shooting and editing. You couldn't make a feature for less than £100k not so long ago, because you had to spend that much just on film to go in the cameras. Now you just need an external hard drive. Then there's RUclips and Vimeo and everything else. So not everything is worse, and artists in the eighties would be deeply envious of the technology we have now, and what it enables you to create and distribute. So the optimistic approach surely has to be to make the most of what's available, and to align your creative endeavours with what's newly possible.
What's up with his ears?
theyre massiv
Did you spend the whole time concentrating on ears?
Mussolini and Roland Gift are looking a bit past it.
Alexei Sayle has let himself go
It shows how middle class stewart actually is that he thinks a sandwich has butter in it.
Alexei was never funny.
Morrissey started off following in his comic footsteps, by being not at all funny either.
Then he became very funny, and thus, he really let himself go.
Both love to think they know the REAL truth........which of course, no-one does.
Squared
Sad thing is somebody worked hard to pay for civil servants to do SFA.
My take on that is I wish I'd chosen the civil service as a career. Fuck working hard in some job you fucking hate. Better doing fuck all in a job you hate, surely? More time to think about things you'd rather be doing.
When giants meet.
My God - Parkinson's let himself go and lost all his interviewing skills. Didn't even ASK about "Pigeons in Flight" or "The A1111".
Sandi Toksvig has really let herself go
He still believes in all this communist, socialist crap!!
So the first 4 minutes are just about how it’s unfair that society expects you to work and everyone should just be given stuff for free? So you don’t really have anything against people who inherited wealth and become lazy layabouts pissing it all up the wall, you just wish you could do that too? Very working class and socialist.
Like a civil service where 4 people are paid by the taxpayer for doing the work of one person is supposed to be an ideal to strive for? No wonder socialist countries end up as grey, depressing, poverty stricken laughing stocks.
I like Stewart Lee and Alexei Sayle but they’re curiously politically stuck at the place most people are for a few years between 18-21. Like seeing an ageing wrinkled hippy who can’t let go of the 60s.