Comedian Alexei Sayle has joined Animal Defenders International (ADI) in calling for action on wild animal circuses, urging Government “to get a move on” and “bring their own bill in” as a backbench ...

Very, very well, I'm glad to say, although in Alexei Sayle Presents (a month-long Tuesday residency) he's not doing a full set, rather MC-ing to introduce a selection of younger acts from the circuit ...

Comedian and author, Alexei Sayle has joined with the BUAV as the organisation announces the delivery of its new report ‘What is happening to cats?’ The report, to be delivered to the Home Office, is ...

Comedian Alexei Sayle says it is a “privilege” to have inspired arena acts such as Michael McIntyre and Jack Whitehall through a tiny night he helped run in the early 1980s. The 68-year-old helped ...

Alexei Sayle has said that he is fascinated by the world of comedy again. The former Young Ones star gave up stand-up in the mid-1990s and has since written several novels. Of his return to the stage ...

Following huge success with 3 series of his incredibly popular recent Radio 4 show 'Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar', alternative comedy legend Alexei Sayle has just announced he'll be returning ...

Ben Elton’s inexpert version of his stand-up persona in a baggier suit in the Eighties, and the monstrous success his former writer on The Young Ones (cast pictured below), greedily grabbed, is a ...

THOMAS H GREEN: How did you go about choosing the photo on the front of your new autobiography? It's quite a shot! ALEXEI SAYLE: Despite my arts background I always leave the design of book covers to ...

Alexei Sayle is still angry about most things, but he finds the funny in them Peter Kay and Ant and Dec, comics he regards as money-obsessed, get it in the neck too, although his mate Lenny Henry has ...

In the second and final part of his exclusive interview with comic Alexei Sayle, chief feature writer Paddy Shennan hears his vision for Liverpool – and why he thinks Anfield deserves the support of ...

A combination of life experience and a changing political landscape could have blunted the edge of the 1980s firebrand and his avuncular look – heavily bearded, thicker around the waist these days – ...

THOMAS H GREEN: How did you go about choosing the photo on the front of your new autobiography? It's quite a shot! ALEXEI SAYLE: Despite my arts background I always leave the design of book covers to ...