Comedian Alexei Sayle got heckled by his 90-year-old mother, who calls his memoirs 'a pack of lies', so it's no mystery where he gets his tireless revolutionary fury from
Alexei Sayle was always the scariest alternative comedian. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson called themselves the Dangerous Brothers, but they were safe as houses next to this scouse skinhead. On The Young Ones, at the Comedy Store and in his own series Stuff, all those tirades about Thatcher, Oxbridge and Enver Hoxha rang not just funny, but insurrectionist. Now we know why. Sayle – according to his new memoir, Stalin Ate My Homework – was brought up believing in the violent overthrow of capitalism and mass murder as a political tool. His parents were doctrinaire communists, and young Lexi was raised to smash the bourgeois-fascist status quo.
Now 59, he's speaking about the memoir at the Edinburgh book festival and – while he's long left...
Alexei Sayle was always the scariest alternative comedian. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson called themselves the Dangerous Brothers, but they were safe as houses next to this scouse skinhead. On The Young Ones, at the Comedy Store and in his own series Stuff, all those tirades about Thatcher, Oxbridge and Enver Hoxha rang not just funny, but insurrectionist. Now we know why. Sayle – according to his new memoir, Stalin Ate My Homework – was brought up believing in the violent overthrow of capitalism and mass murder as a political tool. His parents were doctrinaire communists, and young Lexi was raised to smash the bourgeois-fascist status quo.
Now 59, he's speaking about the memoir at the Edinburgh book festival and – while he's long left...
- 8/12/2011
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
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