Diary
15 November 2008
Alexei Sayle opens his diary
Today I noticed people seemed to be making noises as they passed me in the street. An Oriental man went ‘Gaak’ as we passed by each other and another man appeared to say something like, ‘Greamy munfunu eek’. This is reassuring: previously I’d thought it was just me who did this sort of thing — shouting out nonsense in public or making weird hand gestures at the opera. I often look up in a railway carriage or on the bus to find everybody looking at me and an odd gargling noise fading away in the air. Now I don’t want to claim, Stephen Fry-like, that I have some sort of illness: I’m just odd is all.
I’ve been commissioned to write the first volume of my memoirs and I’m thinking of calling it ‘What’s He Doing Now?’ This is a remark my wife’s mother made when we were in the centre of Liverpool and she noticed that while I was holding her daughter’s hand I was also walking with the bandy-legged gait of a chimpanzee.
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ian skidmore
November 13th, 2008 10:27am Report this commentgreater self love hath no man
robert
November 14th, 2008 8:35pm Report this commentAren't you getting a bit old for this kind of thing?
David Short
November 15th, 2008 3:45am Report this commentI never cease to be amazed at the kind of contributor the Spectator now invites.
JohnAnt
November 16th, 2008 1:08am Report this comment‘Greamy munfunu eek’
He was saying 'I agree my man, fun you aint.'
James Richardson
November 18th, 2008 10:15am Report this commentI think he's quite nice for a Communist. Come on you lot, be fair.
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