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4 unusual facts about Alexei Sayle


Garibaldi biscuit

In the British TV comedy The Young Ones, Series 2, Episode 1, "Bambi" (1984), a train driver (Alexei Sayle) being held up by stereotypical Mexican bandits announces "It's quite interesting, you know, the number of biscuits that are named after revolutionaries. You've got your Garibaldi, of course, you've got your Bourbons, then of course you've got your Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment."

Oscar Zarate

He has also provided the illustrations for Alexei Sayle's Geoffrey the Tube Train and the Fat Comedian (1987, ISBN 0-413-59950-7), as well as Freud for Beginners (2003, ISBN 0-375-71460-X).

Soviet Weekly

The comedian and writer Alexei Sayle has described how this was the newspaper his Communist parents read during his upbringing in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s.

Stanley Park, Liverpool

Stanley Park featured in Alexei Sayle's short story The Last Woman Killed in the War.


Jon Doust

He has supported local and international comedy acts including Alexei Sayle, Hale and Pace, Richard Stubbs, Rachel Berger and illusionist Robert Gallop.


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