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 Bloomsbury presents Thatcher Stole My Trousers, written and read by Alexei Sayle.

'Enlightening … Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' NEW STATESMAN

'Few standups have come close to capturing a fraction of this creative energy in a book … Alexei Sayle is an exception' GUARDIAN

"What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who’d kick your head in."

In 1971, comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they would be free to continue telling their tired, racist, misogynistic gags forever. But their nemesis, a nineteen-year-old Marxist art student, was slowly coming to meet them…

Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics united in electrifying ways. Recounting the founding of the Comedy Store, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and Alexei’s friendships with the comedians who – like him – would soon become household names, this is a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir. Fascinating, funny, angry and entertaining, it is a story of class and comedy, politics and love, fast cars and why it’s difficult to foul a dwarf in a game of football.©2016 Alexei Sayle (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Funny Comedy Witty Celebrity
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Simply a great listen from this loveable man absolutely loved it from start to finish

Alexei at his best

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Alexie performs the memoire as a comedy routine. It's genuinely funny and engaging. It takes you through his development as an artist/comedian and gives you an insight to his upbringing. He appears a unique character.

Funny and honest

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Alexei Sayle at his best. This is an engaging and entertaining book. I thoroughly recommend

Watching Rocky with Wally Jumblat

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One really funny guy. I always enjoyed Alexei Sayle and this does not disappoint.

An Intellectual Comedian

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There's some tittle-tattle but not that much really, it's a lot more than that. It's a feelgood recollection of experiences, I really enjoyed the telling of it.

There are nods to sad things, but what I like is that you have to go the extra mile and think about it, he doesn't spell it out. Anyway, there are far more laughs and tales that made me giggle, even out loud on the train, it's typical mellow Sayle. This is one I'll go back to as the narration is part of the fun.

Funny and extremely Alexi Sayle.

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