Alexei Sayle

And on a Saturday night, they'd stop the strip shows and put comics on.

And Alexei Sayle was hosting.

I remember it very well.

And they were booing.

Yeah.

It just reminded me, there's a bit in The Young Ones, the horror episode called Nasty, where they're being chased by a vampire played by Alexei Sayle.

The son comes in and he does this big dying thing and he lands on the sofa and they fold it up and it's a coffin.

And Mike goes, oh, thank heavens for Habitat sofa coffins.

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Alexi Sayle.

I didn't like Alexi Sayle.

I liked him.

I didn't like any guests.

She warmed up for her degree in medicine with a BSc in anatomy and went on to get a PhD in paleopathology.

And while Alexei Sayle might not be quite so well endowed in the degree department, he is considered the godfather of alternative comedy, which is something of which we're all very much in awe.

John Bradford in Bournemouth chose this week's opening music for us.

It takes him right back to when he was a teenager on his first trip abroad to Paris in 1980.

And I'd speak to older English comedians and they'd use the term, oh, that joke was a bit chicken in the basket.

And I'd ask him, what the fuck does that mean? Who was it? Alexei Sayle.

Absolutely lovely fella.

An English comedian.