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About the show
The Alexei Sayle Podcast crashes onto the Roundhouse stage for a freewheeling conversation with co-host Talal Karkouti and special guest - Diane Morgan!
Expect the unexpected - the show is completely unplanned, we'll be taking questions from the audience and things tend to get a bit more exciting in front of a crowd. As a Camden resident for many years, Alexei is chuffed to be bringing his podcast home at last!
Alexei Sayle is a comedian, writer, actor and presenter. In 1979 he became the first MC of the original Comedy Store in Soho and went on to be a central figure in the Alternative Comedy movement of the early 1980s. On TV he starred in and wrote for The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle's Stuff and The Comic Strip Presents. On radio Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar as well as being a great success has brought a fresh, younger audience to Radio 4 and the next series will be the sixth. He has written many books including two best selling volumes of memoir and in 2025 his Tik Tok videos which fuse interpretive dance with Marxism went viral and are now approaching thirteen million views worldwide.
Diane Morgan is a multi-BAFTA nominated actor, writer and director, best known for her incarnation of professional dim-wit Philomenia Cunk. She has just been seen on season 2 of Last One Laughing, and has recently wrapped filming her new BBC comedy Ann Droid.
Talal Karkouti grew up performing voiceover jobs and musicals. Not much has changed. Musical Comedy Awards runner up (2nd place!), improv comedy veteran and podcaster, Talal is proud to co-host and produce The Alexei Sayle Podcast. He has performed at The Royal Festival Hall, Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, Glastonbury Festival, Manchester Apollo, and he can't wait to perform for the first time at The Roundhouse.
Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change
Featuring
Alexei Sayle
Actor and scriptwriting for hit TV comedies such as 'The Comic Strip Presents' and
'Stuff'. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s and the first ever MC at The Comedy Store.
Now a highly regarded and unique writer across a range of topics and styles from the comic to the disturbing. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007.
'Modern Comedy? We owe it all to one man' (Chortle)
'Fearlessly funny... thrills and surprises at every turn' (Metro)
'Splenetic and splendid' (Guardian)
'Still gobby and engagingly self-deprecating' (Evening Standard)
'It's good to have the old Liverpudlian loudmouth back' (The Daily Telegraph)
'A true legend goes back to his roots' (Time Out).
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Diane Morgan
Originally from Bolton, Diane Morgan began stand up in 2004. Two years later she was runner up in the Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year and Funny Women Award.
Known for the character Philomena Cunk, from BBC2's Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe) as well as other TV, theatre and radio appearances, Diane is one half of acclaimed comedy sketch duo Two Episodes Of Mash.
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Also Appearing
Talal Karkouti
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