Al Murray
The Pub Landlord
About Al Murray
Al Murray (born Alastair James Hay Murray, 10 May 1968) is an English comedian. After graduating from the University of Oxford, his comedy career began by working with Harry Hill for BBC Radio 4. He regularly performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before launching his "Pub Landlord" persona, which led to the Sky One sitcom Time Gentlemen Please and the chat show Al Murray's Happy Hour for ITV. In 2003 he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Murray was born in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, a descendant of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. He was educated at Bedford School, where he played percussion in the Bedfordshire County Youth Orchestra, and read Modern History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he performed in the comedy group the Oxford Revue in a show directed by Stewart Lee. He made his first TV appearance on Channel 4's The Word in November 1991, and in 1994-95 was the drummer in Evangelista, the house band at Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery's experimental Cluub Zarathustra. He won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1999, after being nominated in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Murray's principal character in performance is the Pub Landlord, an English publican with conservative values and an animosity towards Germans and the French, whom he has described as a "know-all know-nothing blowhard who knows the answer to every question even though he hasn't been asked any of them". The character first appeared in 1994 during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the show "Pub Internationale" with Harry Hill, and went on to become the central character in Time Gentlemen Please. His Pub Landlord theatre show My Gaff, My Rules was short-listed for an Olivier Award in 2002, and he hosted three series of Al Murray's Happy Hour for ITV in 2007-08.
Videos (516)
Videos 289 to 312 of 516.
2:01How To Fix The Kids
80.9K views
1:48Studying Drama At School | Al Murray's Happy Hour
80.8K views
23:29Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 8 | Full Episode
79K views
23:37Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 9 | Full Episode
77K views
16:59We Must BRING BACK SHAME! | Al Murray The Pub Landlord Stand Up
76.6K views
32:21Politics in Great Britain is a JOKE! | Al Murray The Pub Landlord Stand Up
75.9K views
0:25Pub Landlord Meets A Time Traveller
75.8K views
23:40Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 1 | Full Episode
75.2K views
2:39How Posh People Invented Rugby | Al Murray's Happy Hour
74.6K views
0:21That 'END OF TOUR' Feeling
74.2K views
23:40Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 7 | Full Episode
74.2K views
0:32Jobs... Al Murray Live at the Palladium
74K views
23:05Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2 | Episode 5 | Full Episode
73.5K views
0:30That's a Forklift Funeral!
72.8K views
23:24Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 4 | Full Episode
72.5K views
25:39The Pub Landlord Presents THE LUCKY LIST | Al Murray The Pub Landlord Stand Up
71.9K views
0:41Why British Thinking Is The BEST
71.8K views
8:01She Refuses to Call Herself a SECRETARY | Al Murray The Pub Landlord Crowd Work
71.6K views
0:31Happy Couples vs Unhappy Couples
71.5K views
23:46Al Murray's Time Gentlemen Please - Series 2, Episode 13 | Full Episode
71.4K views
0:44We Need To Fix The Kids
70.9K views
1:19Necessity is the Mother of Invention | Al Murray Stand Up
69.7K views
4:33Saving A Life | Al Murray's Happy Hour
68.6K views
0:28How Youngsters Start DATING
68.4K viewsGuest appearances (15)
Videos on other comedians' channels featuring Al Murray.
Guest appearances 1 to 15 of 15.
16:00Al Murray On The Invention Of The Pub Landlord
Robert Brydon Jones
492.7K views
9:29Al Murray on Bernard Montgomery and the Second World War STI outbreak - from RHLSTP 436
Richard Herring
299.1K views
1:46:19Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with Al Murray
Richard Herring
134.4K views
1:27:10Al Murray - Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
Richard Herring
60.9K views
13:35Al Murray's DEEP Love For History | Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things
Russell Howard
48.8K views
28:40TRASH TALK WITH COUNT BINFACE: Episode One - Al Murray
Jon Harvey
32.1K views
44:21Getting a pint with Al Murray and talking about D-Day | Please Keep Me Anonymous
Chris Ramsey
26.5K views
10:25The ONLY Meal Al Murray Is Ordering | Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things
Russell Howard
19.4K views
17:39Al Murray is MAD passionate about WW2 | Please Keep Me Anonymous
Chris Ramsey
15.3K views
0:48Al Murray's first impressions of Chris!!
Chris Ramsey
12.7K views
11:16Al Murray on going to boarding school in Bedford, and his first performances - from RHLSTP 533
Richard Herring
6.6K views
1:12:25Al Murray - RHLSTP 436
Richard Herring
4.6K views
2:00Al Murray on Why Don't You? - from RHLSTP 436
Richard Herring
4K views
17:05Al Murray describes one of the most INTENSE experiences of his life! | Please Keep Me Anonymous
Chris Ramsey
2.7K views
1:09:13The Maff Brown Podcast - Al Murray
Maff Brown
817 viewsChannels on this page: Robert Brydon Jones, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Jon Harvey, Chris Ramsey, Maff Brown
Frequently asked questions
Who is Al Murray?
Al Murray, born Alastair James Hay Murray on 10 May 1968 in Stewkley, is an English comedian best known for his "Pub Landlord" persona.
What is the Pub Landlord?
The Pub Landlord is Murray's principal character, an English publican with conservative values and an animosity towards Germans and the French, whom he describes as a "know-all know-nothing blowhard".
What award did Al Murray win at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
He won the Perrier Award in 1999, after being nominated in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Where did Al Murray study?
He was educated at Bedford School and read Modern History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he performed in the Oxford Revue.
What television shows has Al Murray's Pub Landlord appeared in?
The Pub Landlord is the central character in the Sky One sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, and Murray hosted the ITV chat show Al Murray's Happy Hour in 2007-08.
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