Alexei Sayle tells Stewart Lee about the comedy revolution

You know, nuttin nuttin emerges It's like every invention is an agglomeration of what came before, isn't that when I thought of you, you know, making everything about it? It was me, I invented everything that was nothing before me, but that is a selfish life. well, actually, the book, the books, an interesting mix, isn't it 99 percent modest, yes, with sudden flashes of incredible arrogance, yes, I mean, I love the chapter where it ends, quite rightly, saying that you say having talked very honestly about your fears when you're doing it. being in front of your anxiety is your nervousness about it, that you weren't good enough or whatever you do, he ends one of the first chapters by saying: I'm not saying that the massive business that is stand-up today with stadiums and tours and everything This wouldn't have happened without me, but it wouldn't have happened in the same way at the same time and, in fact, for me, the key to this seems to be that reading this book was simply written by Without this sale of selection, you know what it seems like, for better or worse, all these different people who wanted to do a different kind of thing in about 78 79 80 we came together, they were one of the people who gave it an ideology, yeah, and their ideology was: let's not do racism, let's not do sex and let's not do all those tropes and whether that was politically a right, the right thing to do or not, which is something other people can argue about. certainly meant that it had ground rules and it had a dogma as in and it had a manifesto and all great art movements need some kind of manifesto and the manifesto has what you wouldn't have now if you hadn't had something like that then, then, the young people, yeah , they betrayed the

revolution

, yeah, you know, I'm looking at you, you've been away.