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Overview

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.

Series Cast

  1. Alexei Sayle as

    Alexei Sayle

    6 Episodes

  2. Peter Serafinowicz as

    Peter Serafinowicz

    6 Episodes

  3. Denise Coffey as

    Denise Coffey

    6 Episodes

  4. Andrew Bicknell as

    Andrew Bicknell

    2 Episodes

  5. Omid Djalili as

    Omid Djalili

    1 Episode

  6. Jessica Hynes as

    Jessica Hynes

    1 Episode

  7. Noel Fielding as

    Noel Fielding

    1 Episode

  8. Steve Furst as

    Steve Furst

    1 Episode

  9. Lee Hurst

    1 Episode

  10. View More

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Last Season

Season 1

1998 • 6 Episodes

Season 1 of Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round premiered on May 8, 1998.

Episode 6

(1x6, June 12, 1998) Season Finale

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Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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