Beard Liberation Front
19th May
Alexei Sayle gets Lifetime Achievement Award from Beard Liberation Front
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that ahead of National Beard Week in June it can announce that one of the founders of alternative comedy and long-time beard wearer Alexei Sayle is set to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sayle, 68, has one of the most iconic beards in British public life along with Brian Blessed and Michael Eavis.
Alexei Sayle was the first MC at the Comedy Store in London as far back as 1979 and has had five decades of radical and sometimes challenging comedy across a range of mediums
The campaigners say that the Lifetime Achievement Award is for the positive image that Sayle has presented of the hirsute in public life.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett, we are pleased to honour Alexei Sayle with a Lifetime Achievement Award. His beard proved sustainable through the dark days of pogonophobia in Britain and while he remains a controversial figure to some we are in doubt that he is a great ambassador for the hirsute.
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