EndedBBC Two1998-05-08

Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round

Name: Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-05-08
Rating: 6.667
Cast: Alexei Sayle, Peter Serafinowicz, Denise Coffey

Comedy~30 min

1

Episodes

6

Networks

BBC Two

Countries

GB

First aired

1998-05-08

Last aired

1998-06-12

Language

en

Rating

6.7 / 10

Synopsis and details

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.