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Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

66
Balasaur Score
Mixed

1998 · TV · 1 season · 6 episodes

The read

A Balasaur Score of 66 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10. The series ran 1 season across 6 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998. Alexei Sayle's final series was almost identical in format to The All New Alexei Sayle Show except with yet another change of writers.. Unusually, there was no studio audience. Sketches included the talents of Noel Fielding, Lee Hurst, Paul Putner, Gemma Rigg, Reece Shearsmith, Jessica Stevenson, David Walliams and Peter Serafinowicz The continuing adventures of Bobby Chariot were chronicled. Now free from any obligation to be Alexei's warm-up man, he traversed a series of other career cul-de-sacs under the appalling management of the repulsive "Edna" Denise Coffey. In one episode, the joke was turned on its head as Chariot performed for an audience of students, who enjoyed his act ironically and responded to his catchphrase "How ya diddling?" with an enthusiastic reply of "We're diddling fine!". Meanwhile Alexei Sayle himself was depicted as living in a Teletubbies-style burrow somewhere in the posh part of North London.

Ratings

IMDb6.6/10

3 audience votes

Seasons

1Season 16 ep1998

Cast

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