The All New Alexei Sayle Show

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The All New Alexei Sayle Show
Genre Comedy
Written by
Directed by Metin Hüseyin
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes12
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network BBC
Release6 January 1994 (1994-01-06) 
1 July 1995 (1995-07-01)
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The All New Alexei Sayle Show was a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC2 television for a total of twelve episodes, over two series in 1994 and 1995. The title sequence featured Alexei Sayle as an innocent, newly arrived man in London singing cheerful lyrics and dancing around Trafalgar Square, in a spoof of American television shows such as the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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It was the successor to Alexei Sayle's Stuff , and predecessor of Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round . Sayle's co-star from Channel 4's The Gravy Train, future dual Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz appeared in a sketch during its run.

Recurring characters

The show differed from Alexei Sayle's Stuff mainly in its introduction of recurring characters who include:

Running sketches

Both series of the show included running sketches.

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