Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round
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Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over 1 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 (This time they included Kevin Cecil, Dave Cummings, Kevin Gildea, Andy Riley and Edgar Wright). Unusually there was no studio audience which made it harder to watch.
Sketches included the talents of Lee Hurst, Gemma Rigg, Reece Shearsmith, Jessica Stevenson, David Walliams, Peter Serafinowicz
The continuing adventures of Bobby Chariot were chronicaled. 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.
Meanwhile Alexei Sayle himself was depicted as living in a Teletubbies style burrow located somewhere in the posh part of North London.
The series begins with Mr Sayle moaning how hard it is to come up with new material and while still funny and inventive the whole enterprise does have a tinge of his heart just not being in it any more...
Probably the most famous sketch was "The Ayatollah Of Dibley" an Islamic Fundamentalist version of The Vicar of Dibley
